User blog comment:NefkaAlice/Has anyone actually read a history book for fun thanks to Hetalia?/@comment-2219433-20101003210221/@comment-222.127.223.77-20101115104247

...Prussia had a short-lived relationship with Spain, and a love-hate relationship with parts of France, I might add. Thus, the Bad Friends became *the* BAD Friends Trio, not only because of the Austrian Succession.

Besides, they fathered major languages, by that I mean, languages spoken by a wide range of nations (namely French, Spanish, and German - besides English, of course).

Sauce? The Public Library's HISTORY section - and tons of hours "fan-girling" over strange factoids. XD