➤ Mother Teresa, Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, is the only Albanian who is celebrated to be the only Albania to win a Nobel Prize. However her origin is in fact Skopje, in Macedonia, but her parents are of Albanian decent.
➤ The Tirana International airport was named after Mother Teresa in 2001, a woman who was a messenger of god, a wide known prophet of Albanian decent.
➤ Albania, Armenia, and Vatican City are the only European countries that do not consist of a McDonald's branch, quite odd since Albania is influenced greatly by America.
➤ In 1995, drivers in the Albanian city of Shkodra refused to pay a new traffic-light tax on the grounds that their city had no traffic lights.
➤ Albanians nod their head up and down to mean ‘no’, and shake it from side to side for ‘yes’.
➤ Albania has never won a medal at the Olympics, to much disappointment.
➤ King Zog of Albania was the only national leader in modern times to return fire during an assassination attempt.
➤ Even though Albania gained independence in 1912, it was not correctly recognized by most countries until the year after, Romania being the first to recognize the country.
➤ After the communist regime, Albania consisted of three million people, however there were only three thousand cars in total. This is due to the fact owning a private car was banned. Another part, is that most Albanians do not wear seat belts, including Kujtime herself.
➤ For ten years straight, Albania's only ally was China, and even after China had no allies and was even more isolated then the European North Korea.
➤ For nearly four centuries, Albania was one of the longest who remained in the Ottoman Empire, and the longest lasting to exist there.
➤ Albania had actually been a Christian religious country since the second century, and only converted to Islam in the fifteen century by Ottoman Turks.
➤ Out of all the countries in Europe, Albania is one of the most poor and least developed countries in all of the continent. Currently, they are moving on and developing more, even though they are one of the oldest in Europe.