HAPPY NEW YEAR! I wanted to kick off 2022 with some positivity (we could all use a little more of that, don’t you think?) so we’re starting a theme week: Good Things That Happened in 2021! Believe it or not, there was some good news last year! In 2021, we FINALLY got to watch the much-anticipated Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Something you might have missed during the games was the country of San Marino winning their very first ever Olympic medals! They won 3, actually – a bronze in Women’s Trap shooting, a silver in the Mixed Trap Team event, and a bronze in wrestling.
Some fun facts about San Marino:
- It’s one of three countries in the world to be completely enclosed by another country (the others are Vatican City and Lesotho)
- It has the world’s highest rate of car ownership, and is the only country with more vehicles than people
- Abraham Lincoln became an honorary citizen in 1861
- It is the smallest country to ever win an Olympic medal (beating out Bermuda and Liechtenstein)