ChildLine Children's charity ChildLine has launched an emergency appeal for funds. As a wee favourite of There's Yer Dinner we're asking people to support the appeal. Donations can be made via ChildLine's website: www.childline.org.uk or by phoning 0800 876 6000. Check out www.wehearscaredpeople.com if you need convincing.

And now about us ... We've been busy researching the world's cities so that footie fans across the globe can have a safe and fun journey when they support their team abroad. This work has been undertaken for Team Talk International Ltd. See www.teamtalkinternational.com for details. To keep you amused and to fill your head with useless facts with which to amuse your mates find some interesting snippets of info about countries or cities below. Facts reproduced courtesy of the Scottish Football Association.

In Belarus ..

• Whistling indoors is frowned upon. Many believe that the whistler thinks the room is dirty. 
• Eastern Europe's earliest bibles were printed in Belarus. 
• Father Frost, the Belarus equivalent of Santa, lives in the Belavezhskaja Pushcha Nature Reserve. The reserve also has the tallest Christmas tree in Europe – a 40 metre high fir. 

In Italy ...

• The dreaded Colpo d'aria is a draft of cold air blamed for everything from head colds to paralysis. 
• Since 1945, Italy has been through 57 governments and 22 Prime Ministers.
• The Olympics in ancient Rome once featured a 27-a-side, 50 minute game of football. 

In Norway ...

• In 1998, during his first term as Prime Minister, current premier Kjell Magne Bondevik was the first world leader ever to admit publicly that he was suffering from a mental illness. He allowed Anne Engerlahnsten to take over for three weeks while he combated depression.
• Germany invaded Norway in 1940 and set up a puppet government under Vidkun Quisling, whose name became a synonym for traitor.
• When a household suffers bad luck it's blamed on the troll living beneath their house.

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