Almost exactly nine months ago, on June 28, 2016, Iceland did the impossible.
Their tiny country of 300,000 overcame tea-sipping footballing Goliath, England at the Euro 2016.
Here is the freakout:
“You can leave Europe! You can go wherever the hell you want!”
— Gissur Simonarson (@GissiSim) June 27, 2016
Icelandic commentator after win. Voice of #Euro2016 pic.twitter.com/7EaLD3kV3t
And here are the celebrations:
But did you ever wonder what all these screaming fans, inevitably jacked up on adrenaline, did at night?
Well, wonder no more.
Ice ice, baby
According to Visir, an Icelandic paper, Iceland is reportedly seeing a record-breaking number of births, nine months after their countrymen's historic footballing heroics.
The news of this seems to have come from this tweet from a doctor at a local hospital:
hehehe dagsins:
— Ásgeir Pétur (@asgeirpetur) 27 March 2017
sett var met í fjölda mænudeyfinga á fæðingarvakt um helgina - níu mánuðum eftir 2-1 sigurinn á Englandi
;)
Which translates to:
"Hehehe today:
set a record for the number of epidurals in the maternity duty this weekend - nine months after the 2-1 win over England
;)"
Now certainly, it makes sense for a country to celebrate with such reckless abandon after a historic achievement.
Guess we have to wait till May to see if an Olympic medal prompted the same results here.
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