Things to know about Prague

So, I've been in Prague, Czech Republic since August 2009, about 5 or so months now and here is a list of things I've learned about the country.

• There are no toilet seat covers in the bathroom
• some grocery stores, when you buy a fruit or a vegetable you are supposed to weigh it first on a machine and it pops out a sticker that you put on the produce, and then you buy it.
• most people only buy groceries for what they need that night, unlike Americans who stock up like it's the end of the world.
• when a man and a woman walk into a restaurant, he is supposed to go first as to protect the woman from the leering eyes of other men
• there are only sweet pickles in this country, I have only come across dill ones at McDonald's.
• McDonald's is better in the Czech Republic, all my buddies here from America agree with me.
• even if you speak a little Czech, all the people here who actually speak English would prefer for you to speak English because you are more likely to mess up the language than they are.
• tipping is optional, but it is growing into a more regular thing in this country.
• they love 80's and 90's music.
• Prague is 2 hours away from the German city of Dresden.
• the coldest month of the year is February.
• there really was a great King Wenceslaus (like in the Christmas song)
• Communism ended in 1989 but a small percentage of voters still vote for the communist party, most of those people didn't even live during it.
• 18 krowns = 1 us dollar.
• Gulas is actually a Hungarian dish, adopted by the Czechs, but it is a traditional Czech meal.
• Prague is the largest city in the Czech Republic, followed by Brno. When Slovakia was once a part of Czechoslovakia, Bratislava was the second largest city. The two countries split around 1991 or 1992.
• Charles University on Prague (the one I'm attending) is the oldest university in Europe.
• Czechs are very proud of their "culture".
• American hygiene is a joke to most Europeans.
• 59% of Czechs are agnostic or atheist.
• Czechs are the world's heaviest consumers of beer.
• I have yet to see a squirrel the entire time I've been here, but there are pigeons everywhere.

More to come later, this is just to start you off.