{"id":65368,"date":"2025-06-21T05:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=65368"},"modified":"2025-06-21T05:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:13:43","slug":"40-strange-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=65368","title":{"rendered":"40+ Strange Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tinynews22.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/202506130245158814744.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite being a communist country, Cuba is also improving its diplomatic ties with the US, which hopes that very soon all Americans will be able to travel to Cuba as freely as they want. The world believes that Cuba is a mixture of different cultures and influences with a most extensive past. Some strange facts about the country you\u2019ve probably never seen are here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1705404\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Hitchhiking Is The Norm<\/h2>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"hbagency_space_190893\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Passengers in Cuba can hitch a ride in government vehicles, if there\u2019s space. It is encouraged to hitchhike because the country doesn\u2019t have so many cars, and hitchhikers use designated areas. Drivers pick riders up on a first come, first serve basis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inarticle\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inner\">\n<div id=\"hbagency_space_190890\" class=\"hbagency_cls\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hitchhiking is simply getting into somebody\u2019s car (or some other vehicle) and asking him to take you as far as he or she can. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, hitchhiking was necessary.<\/p>\n<h2>Ballet Is Big Here<\/h2>\n<p>For the most part, the dance scene in Cuba has always revolved around salsa, son, and rumba. However, according to those in the know, the Caribbean Island is one of the main stages of the world\u2019s best ballet.<\/p>\n<p>Ballet here took off after legendary ballerina Alicia Alonso founded the Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1948, which is now one of the world\u2019s most prestigious dance companies. Despite some early difficulties, the company received crucial assistance from Fidel Castro and his revolutionary movement in 1959, after Alonso lent him her support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=65313\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being a communist country, Cuba is also improving its diplomatic ties with the US, which hopes that very soon all Americans will be able to travel&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65370,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65368\/revisions\/65370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}