6. Italy
So, as Monty Python taught us in the “Life of Brian”, when asking ourselves: “What have the Romans ever done for us?” The answer is: A lot.
Along with Greece, Italy, the number 6 on our list of countries that have invented the most things in all human history has been the foundation of western society, and the proof is right there, in the city of Rome. Let me present you with a fun fact: the reason why Rome has only two metro lines, which took over a 100 years to build, is that every time they dug a hole, they found a god-damn ruin. See, when I say foundation, I mean it literally. Now, even though they are not the subway kings, Italians have been the founders of much else. Here’s a small list:
Jeans, Newspapers, Jacuzzi, original telephone, Battery, piano, banks, espresso machine, liposuction, ballet, ballistics, botanical gardens, carbon paper, dentures, cologne, eyeglasses, film festival, galleon, herbarium, Latin alphabet, mafia, microscopic anatomy, nitroglycerin, Nutella, opera, ocarina, paddle boat, parachute, pistol, pizzeria, Polypropylene, radio, stiletto, typewriter, Vespa, violin, roman law, watermark.
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