Interesting Facts about Turkey

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16 curious facts about Turkey.

• When a child loses a tooth, if their parents want to them to grow up to graduate from school, they might bury my tooth in the garden of the university. If the parents hope they will become a doctor, they bury it in the garden of a hospital, or they could bury it in a soccer field so the child will be a good soccer player.
• There is a first tooth ceremony. Whoever finds the first tooth becomes one's Godmother. After finding the tooth she buys the child a new outfit to celebrate.
• There is a tradition that when babies start to have first teeth a kind of pilaf consisting of wheat is prepared and delivered to neighborhoods.
• Istanbul is the only city in the world that lies across two continents. The larger part of Istanbul lies in Europe, while Istanbul's suburbs are in Asia, across the Bosphorus Straits.