What's something that's mundane in your country, but foreigners think is incredible?

For me: Raccoons. Some of my co-workers are from Japan, and one was quizzing me about the best way for his sons to get to see a raccoon when they got there. “Visit a restaurant dumpster just before dawn? Tear open a box of kitten chow on the back patio?” “They like cat food?” “Yes, the like cat food and if you actually do that you will see 6 raccoons the following evening…”

I understand that Japan later developed an invasive raccoon problem….so not quite the novelty.

Six months later my co-worker asked “where do skunks live?” “In the woods.” “Exactly where in the woods?” “I think they dig burrows at the base of….wait a minute, are you going to take your sons skunk-watching?”