31. Suvarnabhumi also holds the record for 'longest airport project in history!' First planning of the new Bangkok airport dates back to 1960.

32. The original name for the new airport, before it was changed to Suvarnbhumi, was 'Nong Ngoo Hao'. The name was changed as the original
1. Didn't have a very good meaning (superstition) and 2. No foreigner would ever be able to pronounce it properly!Say that again - Nong Ngoo Hao - what a tongue twister!

33. Thailand is the only country in the world where Scouting was directly founded by a monarch.

34. In 2005, Bumrungrad Hospital treated 400,000 foreign patients—the highest of any hospital in the world—from more than 150 countries.

35. Just one kilometre north of Ko Tao is the beautiful island of Ko Nang Yuan, the only place in the world where three islands are joined together by a sandbar.

36. 'Victory Monument' in Bangkok was built in 1941 by PM Phibulsongkran to celebrate a brief defeat of the French in Indochina the previous year. The name of the monument however, does not live up to much of a victory. Just four years later and with the defeat of the Japanese, Thailand was forced to hand, what it had won - back to the French!

37. Ancient City (Muang Boran), south of Bangkok, is billed as the largest open-air museum in the world.

38. In 1939 the country changed its name from Siam to Thailand. In 1945 the country changed its name from Thailand back to Siam. In 1949 the country changed its name again from Siam to Thailand. It is the only country in the world to change its name 3 times in 10 years.

39. Thailand is the largest producer of pineapples in the world.

40. In 1955, it supposedly snowed in Chiang Rai!

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