# The Netherlands has spawned many world-class painters, such as Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Jan Steen, Vincent van Gogh or Piet Mondriaan. # The microscope, the telescope, pendulum clock and the mercury thermometer are all 16th or 17th century Dutch inventions.
# The Dutch company 'Philips' invented the audio tape (in 1967), the video tape (in 1972), the Compact Disk (in 1982) and the CD-ROM (in 1985).
# There are 1180 windmills in the Netherlands.
# Tulips were imported from the Ottoman Empire and became very popular in Holland in the early 17th century. Nowadays, the Netherlands is the world's first producer and exporter of tulips.
# Keukenhof Park is the largest flower garden in the world.
# Smith & Jones in Amsterdam is Europe's first and only addiction clinic, treating everyting from compulsive gambling to alcoholism, and from eating disorders to video game addiction.