100 Interesting Facts About Sweden
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Welcome to Countries Facts so Today I'd talk to you all about the Scandinavian sensation the Nordic nonpareil the freezing phenomenon that is Sweden Sweden has going to be did so much good to the world much of its spherical confused how well I guess you'll have to keep watching to find out what I mean won't you but why do swedish people regularly scream out of their windows wider sweden import rubbish from norway and it's the swedish chef the king or president of sweden i should really learn more about international politics anyway 200 who those questions are going to be answered so get comfortable on your stocks and armchair grab yourself some sir stone arming and salt liquorice and prepared to be sweden mated right up the jacksie with 100 facts about sweden meat.
1 Sweden known officially as the kingdom of Sweden is a Scandinavian country northern Europe are you with me so far yes good the rest of the video would be a bit of a slog if you want frankly.
2 Sweden it's nicely sandwiched between Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east Sweden is also connected to Denmark to the southwest by a bridge tunnel across a super narrow strip of water known as the Rs sand.
3 Sweden is generally divided into three distinct regions which are stacked on top of one another vertically like the sections of a fab ah remember those the southernmost region is yacht land via land is found in the middle and nor land sits atop the north so if I'm mispronouncing anything like that because they're [ __ ] Perrineau I mispronounce things all the bloody time according to the comments section.
4 Adds a hefty four hundred fifty thousand two hundred ninety five square kilometers Sweden is the third largest country in the European Union by area behind Spain in second place and France which takes the gold medal.
5 Sweden has a total population of roughly 10 million people interestingly around 2.3 million of those people have a foreign background meaning that always the quarter of all Swedes have recent ancestry from outside the country.
6 Sweden has a pretty low population density of only twenty-two inhabitants per square kilometer the highest concentration of people is in the southern half the country ie most of yacht land and sea island furthermore roughly 85% of the population of Sweden lives in urban areas.
7 The modern Swedish word for Sweden is Varya Varya which simply means realm of the Swedes pretty simple unlike IKEA instructions Oh zing got you there oh it's probably races for me to mention IKEA but there we go.
8 There is evidence to suggest that people have been living in what is now known as Sweden since its earliest 12,000 BC but Sweden first emerged as an independent state much later on during the early 12th century in the year 1280 king Magnus Lauda Lewis issued a statute which established a nobility and granted them numerous rights and privileges including freedom from taxation typical posh boy.
9 A couple of centuries later the population of Sweden was decimated by the Black Death classic Black Death which killed two-thirds of the Swedish population at this point Scandinavia sculpture finances and languages came under threat from a powerful merchants association called the German hössi attic League in response the kingdoms of Sweden Norway and Denmark joined together under a single monarch in 1397 creating what was known as the Kalmar Union the Kalmar Union lasted almost 130 years until Sweden rage quit in 1523 becoming a strong independent country that don't need no man in a crown.
10 In 1630 Sweden decided to get involved in the religious conflict known as the 30 Years War which had already been raging for years the swedish involvement snatched the Protestant side a victory from the Catholic jaws of defeat and resulted in a significant decline of Catholicism in Northern Europe at this point sweetness.
11 Allah defied his positions from the great powers of Europe which lasted for hundreds of years after sifri Elva in the year 1658 1/2 remember that what a great year was the sea between sweden and denmark froze over so completely that 9,000 swedish soldiers and their horses literally walked across frozen water and besieged copenhagen.
12 Unfortunately for the Swedes during the 18th and 19th centuries Sweden began to lose many of their territories outside the Navan peninsula culminating in the annexation of what is now finland by russia in 1809.
13 The last war in which sweden was directly involved flared up in 1814 when denmark was forced to cough up norway which was forced into a union with Sweden which lasted until 1905 at which point it was peacefully dissolved the the union not the country since 1841 Sweden maintained an official policy of neutrality in foreign affairs meaning that it's been at peace for over 200 years even throughout both world wars.
14 That being said although Sweden was officially neutral in both World War one and two the country did engage in humanitarian efforts during the Second World War Sweden took in refugees from German occupied Europe including almost all of Denmark's Jews who Hitler and hunger say it that dick had ordered to be arrested and deported to concentration camps however Sweden also allowed the Nazis to use there railways to transport arms and troops and trade with Germany throughout World War two so it's a bit of a mixed bag of should we help the Nazis.
15 Between the 1850s to the 1930s roughly 1.5 million Swedish people emigrated to North America the population of Sweden in that period was never more than 3.5 million so that's really saying something most America bound Swedes ended up in Minnesota where the American Swedish Institute is located in the state capital of Minneapolis.
16 After the Cold War ended Sweden joined the European Union on the 1st of January 1995 but also chose not to adopt the euro and also declined NATO membership those rebels.
17 Sweden is home to over 95 thousand lakes large at the 100 square metres that's over nine and a half a million square meters of lake people I'm trying to make this sound impressive but I genuinely have no idea how much lake is a lot of lake like.
18 The oil and islands an archipelago located at the entrance of the Gulf of Bothnia are officially part of Finland but are home to a Swedish speaking minority who have their own government to flag and culture.
19 Because of its proximity to the Arctic Circle Sweden regularly experiences long dark winters which can lead to some of its citizens to suffer from seasonal affective disorder as such some bus stops in Sweden have been fitted with phototherapy lights to combat the effect of barely seeing the Sun for months on end.
20 Sweden's northernmost town is Karuna and is located well within the Arctic Circle the town is so far north in fact it does this really mental thing where the Sun does not set at all certain times of the year and subsequently doesn't rise at all for Motor December.
21 Nowadays Sweden is renowned for its Nordic social welfare system Swedish citizens enjoy universal health care and university education entirely free of charge at point of use wow that is that's good I like that a lot suppose you got war or however this comes at the price of high taxes and with a tax rate of over 50 percent of GDP.
22 Swedish people are among the most highly taxed in the world however most Swedes seem to be fairly happy with the situation in fact the swedish word for tax is scat which doesn't mean anything filthy it means treasure.
23 Since 1901 the Nobel Prizes have been awarded every year in Sweden to honor excellence in various fields with modern categories including physics medicine literature peace and YouTube fad videos I hope to collect my statue at this year out of last year almost 585 prizes have been awarded to 923 people and organizations.
24 In case you didn't know the Nobel Prizes are the legacy of Alfred Nobel who left a massive amount of money in his world to the establishment of the Nobel Prize oh it also he invented dynamite in 1866 so well done Alfred I don't know what that quarry Oh tea from Looney Tunes would do without you.
25 Sweden has managed to accrue seven Nobel prizes for Literature including the first woman to win the prize Selma lagerlof who won in 1909 more ibaka a large mansion in west central sweden has a national shrine and memorial - like a loss.
26 But it's not just writing that Swedes have done good at a number of important dimensions and innovations of Swedish in origin the pacemaker the refrigerator the ultrasound the astronomical lens and computer mouse were invented in Sweden or by Swedes living abroad so about the Swedes you wouldn't be able to see your baby and paste it all over Facebook all having a baby.
27 Today Sweden has one six hundred thirty six point five Olympic medals in total the half a medal which you may be thinking Oh about it's due to the fact that at the 1900 Olympics in Paris Sweden competed alongside Denmark in a tug of war with France and Sweden Marc won the gold.
28 Of course no discussion about Sweden would be complete without mentioning everyone's favorite international sensation that is Ikea did you know the Devron favourite purveyor of scandi design also sells roughly 1 million eight hundred thirty six thousand meatballs across the globe every single day no well you do now do with that information as you wish eat it up like a meatball.
29 In 2006 IKEA opened up a store in haparanda a municipality in Sweden in the most northerly county of nor bottom making it the northernmost IKEA in the world temperatures there regularly dropped to minus double digits during the winter so I think I'll just go to the one in Croydon thanks very much.
30 Speaking of haparanda the town is so close to the finish town of Tornillo that they share the same post office with two separate phone lines one for calls to Sweden and one for calls to Finland.
31 Similarly there's a golf club on the border of Sweden and Finland with half the holes in one country and half in the other you probably have to bring a passport to go or well security would be awful wouldn't it.
32 The three-point seatbelt is also a Swedish invention - and is said to have saved 1 million lives it was first introduced in 1959 by Volvo and today I found in billions of vehicles worldwide.
33 The world's largest scale model of the solar system can be found in Sweden the Sun is represented by the Ericsson globe with the models of various planets celestial bodies and so features dotted around the country at a maximum distance of 950 kilometers across and yet the model has a scale roughly 1 to 20 million all space really is huge we could have a video about space what we already do what a coincidence watching after this one.
34 Possibly Sweden's most celebrated scientist is Carl Linnaeus who was born in the countryside of small island in southern Sweden in 1707 Linnaeus is best known for creating the formal system of naming organisms known to by a normal classification which enables all plants and animals to be consistently named and classified which you know is helpful in science the Mayor's himself created the term Homo Sapien so in a way he named all of us he also called you a homo so you take.
35 Sweden's Uppsala University has in his possession a famous 4th century Bible known as the silver Bible which is considered by many to be one of the world's most valuable books the silver Bible is an incomplete version of the New Testament written in ancient gothic language using silver and gold ink it's pretty much the most blinged and pimped-out Bible you'll ever come across blood wonder that's a plot at the end of ruined it.
36 One of history's most popular video games world building simulator minecraft was created by Swedish programmer Markus notch Persson as a one-man passion project first released in 2011 the game is since sold with 144 million copies making it the second best-selling game of all time after Tetris tax Sweden.
37 The Swedes are also behind the uber popular freemium mobile game candy crush Swedish games development company King has had their game downloaded almost 500 million times and in 2013 the game generated a staggering 1.5 billion dollars in sales that's eleven point eight billion Swedish Krona.
38 You can also think Sweden for its massive contribution to the world of music in the form of one band Basshunter old nope sorry I mean ABBA the group has sold over 375 million records worldwide which depending on who you ask makes them the third or fourth best selling music act in history what an interesting fact that is does your mother.
39 Amber are remembered even stayed for not only their extensive catalogue of bangers but also the ridiculous outfits they wore during their spectacular live performances the members of our bure have since revealed they wore these wacky costumes primarily to avoid Sweden's taxes which allow deductions for clothes if it wasn't meant for everyday use that's the name of the game two abbesses motto.
40 The capital of Sweden is Stockholm a city built on twelve islands and over 50 bridges leading it to being given the nickname the Venice of the north to be very basically anywhere with enough water gets that nickname to you all people from Birmingham saying oh we have more canals in Venice not one cares Birmingham right.
41 Stockholm is also home to scant sin the world's first open-air museum opened all the way back in 1891 skansen depicts examples of Swedish rural life from various time periods between 16th century and 20th century and attracts more than 1.3 million visitors each year meaning n-ned leave it in an attempt to make obeying the speed limit thumb which is possibly the most boring string of words I could have ever uttered.
42 Stockholm tested a speed camera lottery which automatically entered speed limit abiding drivers into a prize pool funded by the fines paid by those caught speeding Karma's gonna get chair.
43 One interesting stockholm phenomenon is the tradition of the flocks to scream in which the denizens are flogged stir a residential area in Stockholm stick their heads out of windows at 10 p.m. every Tuesday and scream their little swedish lungs out for several minutes this is done to relieve the stress caused by university exams although that sounds like it causes more stress than it solves.
44 Stockholm is renowned for its colorful art cupboard metro stations more than 90 of the 100 stations have been covered in mosaics paintings sculptures and carvings meaning it's been dubbed the world's longest art gallery.
45 Greta Garbo you know the legendary Hollywood actress and Swede which is why we mention her and her first job as a sales assistant in the Hat section of the pub department store at the hata ket city square in Stockholm she later starred in over 30 films and spent most of her life in the US before dying in New York City in 1990 like one classy B I hope I dine in my safe or Norwich whichever is easiest.
46 Stockholm also boasts the largest hemispherical building in the world known as the Ericsson Globe which we mentioned earlier the building sounds proudly at 85 meters high with a diameter of 110 meters.
47 Stockholm also has an entire museum dedicated to ABBA which I've been to actually which allows visitors to gaze upon all manner of opera memorabilia such as the band's numerous gold records and aforementioned Watty wardrobe pieces the stated goal of the museum is to let the patrons experience the feeling of being the fifth member of ABBA which it facilitates by allowing you to get on stage with sophisticated Holograms of the band I nearly did that as well put my girlfr topic onto.
48 Northern Sweden is home to the indigenous Sami people whose ancestral homeland sapmi known in english as Lapland stretches over the top of the Scandinavian Peninsula across Norway Sweden Finland and even Russia Sweden specifically has around 20,000 Sami people who even have had their own Parliament.
49 Famous people the sami ancestry include actress renee zellweger and singer Joni Mitchell they're a talented Bunch apparently.
50 Sami people are also known for their jokes no I didn't just slip on something when I said that last word jokes are a form of traditional Sami song that are meant to evoke the essence of something such as a person a place or event though the tradition has existed for a very long time nowadays jokes have been brought to the mainstream with them even being performed on Sweden's Got Talent.
51 Country - our puny four seasons the summer year traditionally has a total of eight each connected to the annual cycle involving the process of reindeer herding.
52 The majestic moose is widely considered to be the most dangerous animal in Sweden likely because they caused approximately 6,000 road accidents in Sweden every single year.
53 Between 30,000 and 400,000 moose roamed the Swedish countryside during the annual hunt in which around 250,000 people participate and is said to have almost a religious status in Sweden as many as 100,000 moose are shot every year god no wonder they cause car accidents up be angry if I was them as well.
54 The danger of moose related car crashes is so severe that Sweden even requires cars to pass a moose test cars must be able to swerve very quickly around a hypothetical moose without flipping over in the apparently very likely event that a moose should appear suddenly in the middle of the road.
55 In reality however moose are far from being the deadliest animal in Sweden there go to the evil little literal pricks known as wasps wasps kill more people directly rather than causing car accidents than any other animal in Sweden slaughtering roughly one highly allergic person a year.
56 They're also roughly 250 wolves roaming around in rural Sweden Swedish wolves mainly chow down on moose and one family of Swedish wolves can kill as many as 120 moose per year there are protected species though and it's against the law to kill them unless they repeated the attack humans or property so just to be cool wolves just be cool and no one has to get hurt and once they go liam neeson on the grade - yeah.
57 There are approximately 260,000 reindeer in Sweden and our traditional source of meat from any communities especially in the very north of the country reindeer milk apparentiy tastes sweet and is said to look like melted ice cream I'll be the judge of that perhaps one day when I visit again this year.
58 Swedish is the official language of Sweden but the country officially protects five other minority languages Finnish spoken by the Finnish minority Sweden Mian kulli a separate dialect of Finnish spoken mostly in Sweden Sami the language of the Sami people Romani the language of the Romani people and Yiddish a Jewish language originating in Germany.
59 The Swedish language is known for its notable similarity to no Asian and Danish owing to their common history many people consider the three languages to be more relaxed pecked room as each one is at least somewhat mutually intelligible with the others as such is often said by learning either Swedish Norwegian or Danish one is actually learning all three.
60 In many ways the Swedish tongue is the zooey deschanel of languages in that it's adorably yet irritatingly quirky one Swedish word that's about the same as the English is gift but is pronounced it left and as two separate meanings the first of which means married ah the second definition is poison not only that the Swedish word for good is bra the word kiss means urine and their word for end is salute creating an unfortunate situation in which the swedish term for the final stop of a bus or train route is a [ __ ] station cupping on the website before actually.
61 The swedish term legume doesn't have a direct equivalent in english the word refers to things that are just right like Goldilocks I think Goldilocks set just right Goldilocks wasn't just fry Oh God the term can be used for just about anything and has even captured the imagination of outsiders with the same tedious inevitability that brought the Danish notion of picky high ghee piggy hichy to our shores.
62 A number of Swedish words have made it to the English language possibly the most well-known is moped a portmanteau of motor and pedal other examples include Ombudsman orienteering and tungsten which literally means heavy stone.
63 According to the Swedish Academy the longest word in the Swedish language is our God here we go we are Lisa Hong's servants bus cutting which translates to capital gains tax Oh Sweden you've got nothing on Germany my friends nintendo.
64 There is a remote valley in sweden where people still speak an ancient dialect of Old Norse called elf dalian it's considered by many to be the conscious language that spoken hundreds of years ago by the Vikings and upper to the nineteen hundreds it was still written using runes.
65 Almost 90% of people in Sweden speak English which is good for us British Philistines abroad British people by and large do not speak Swedish but guess what Sweden we don't have to although I am trying to learn cuz I do have relatives over there I want to speak to them.
66 One of the most internationally renowned Swedish dishes consists of Swedish meatballs served with mashed potato gravy and lingonberry jam you can get it at every IKEA restaurants and frankly it's the main reason I go to Ikea.
67 An interesting aspect of Swedish culture is dr feet gap VK essentially refers to taking a coffee break and is usually accompanied with pastries and light conversation it's such an important part of Swedish life that many companies give employees to daily feature breaks a day that was that's what daily means after Nora said that twice.
68 Absolut Vodka currently owned by Panera car used to belong to the Swedish government it was sold to the French company in 2008 for eight point three billion dollars.
69 Slaughter station when the Yuletide season swings around in Sweden coca-cola sales can drop sometimes more than 50% due to the tradition of drinking Joel must a Swedish Christmas soft drink created as an alternative to beer.
70 Another traditional Swedish Christmas drink is glue ik which is 100% the most unappetizing name for a beverage ever conceived glue egg is mulled wine poured over aquavit a clear caraway flavored liqueur and then set on fire cuz why not it's traditional by the way to make sure the flame is out before drinking it before you go singeing your eyebrows or burning a face off.
71 If you were wondering what the swingers Heil is aquavit you're in luck because I'm about to tell you aquavit is a strong Scandinavian liqueur of about 40 percent alcohol its name is derived from the Latin aqua vitae which means water of life which shows how troubling the alcoholism epidemic wedding.
72 The famous Swedish smorgasbord which involved a meal made up of many different individual dishes laid out on a table ie a Scandinavian buffet originated as a peasant custom where whole villages would collectively celebrate the harvest with roast game as well as bald potatoes and turnips fresh smoked or pickled fish meatballs pancakes and soups.
73 Swedish cuisine is also notable for a particular infamous dish known as surstromming which is Swedish for sour herring so Strom Ming consists of Baltic herring that has been fermented in tins for weeks on end resulting in an odor so pungently fowl the restaurants refused to open the tins indoors if that's not an indicator that shows what shouldnt be served as food I don't know what is those crazy swedes.
74 In 2016 the Swedish tourist Association created the Swedish number a phone number which randomly connects callers to Swedish people who have signed up to be the ambassadors for their country participants have deliberately given no training or instructions on how to behave with the idea that the random nature of the hotline dubbed caller Swede provides callers with an unfiltered view of Swedish life funnily enough I know this because Jennifer Lawrence gave me this phone number as her own thanks Jen.
75 Similarly Sweden has an official Twitter account which is managed on a week-to-week basis by Swedish citizen with the aim of promoting Sweden to the world the project has inspired a number of similar such as at we are Australia and act people of Leeds.
76 Sweden even has a national font Sweden sans the design of the snazzy song sorry Swedish typeface were designed to unambiguously represents Sweden in the wild well that's what Sweden looks like apparently.
77 Another slightly odd but intriguing Swedish tradition is that of the crayfish party in which large groups of people get together and as a name suggests eat a crapload of crayfish sounds Cray get doesn't matter this is because the harvesting of crayfish used to be restricted to a certain part of year around August and September so seafood loving Swedes will take advantage of the opportunity to eat a crapload of crayfish and did just that resulting in a fun Swedish tradition that must be fun if you're not I don't know a logic to seafood in which case just don't do it.
78 In the Swedish town of ya're a decades-long battle continues to rage a christmas time where many of the residents get together to build a giant straw goat symbolizing the goats that pull Santa's sleigh oh yeah sorry but though I should have said in Sweden goats pull Santa's sleigh not reindeer just go with it anyway other residents who identify more with Sweden's pagan history view the large goat as akin to the two goats that pulled the chariot of the Norse god Thor who had burn and eat them every night only for them to be resurrected the next morning don't see that the movies do yet as such half the town builds the goats and the other tries to burn it down unsurprisingly the goat burns most years.
79 One iconic symbol of Sweden is that of the Darla Kalyan or Dharma horse which are carved wooden horses this originated sheron's toys from the Swedish province of Dalarna they have since become a widespread cultural icon and too often given as gifts to visiting celebrities such as Bill Clinton Bob Hope and Hovis Presley they are produced in a wide variety of designs but the most common form is painted in a distinctive bright red.
80 Sweden legalized homosexuality in 1944 and in 1972 became the first country in the world to allow transgender people to change their legal gender the Swedes appear to be a fairly loving and accepting Bunch as of 2013 a whopping eighty one percent of people in Sweden supported the rights for gay lesbian and bisexual people to marry haha yeah go sweden.
81 In 1979 sweden became the first country in the world to ban the smacking of children since then over 30 other countries have done the same personally I don't see what all the fuss is about my parents smacked me and I turned out fine I mean actress Jennifer Lawrence has taken out multiple restraining orders against me but that's normal right everyone's been sued by Jennifer Lawrence at some point right.
82 Sweden is also home to the second highest number of McDonald's restaurants per capita in all of Europe with a mouth-watering 227 restaurants that by the way is 23 restaurants per million people which doesn't sound a lot but it's absolutely loads.
83 The world's first ice hotel was built in the 1980s in as jukkasjärvi which is only a few miles away from the aforementioned northernmost swedish town of Karuna the now famous Ice Hotel was designed by architect in give berg list and boasts 60 rooms that are available for bookings between December and April guests are given thermal jumpsuits to wear and sleep underneath several layers of super insulated bedding so that you know they don't die overnight in the -8 degrees fahrenheit frozen held that is their bedroom.
84 Hilariously the Ice Hotel is now required by local authorities to include fire alarms despite almost entirely being made of ice like it's in the name of the place it all called the dry grass and lighter fluid hotel maybe they'd have a point but surely if there was a fire you'd notice cuz the [ __ ] place is belting.
85 The S range space center again located only a few hours away from Karuna is a space and climate research centre and who's also Europe's only civilian rocket base rocket launches balloon ascents and the testing of unmanned aircraft have all been carried out at this Swedish base.
86 A genuinely impressive Swedish feat regards the nation's incredible recycling habits Sweden is so good at recycling that it's actually run out and as such imports around 80 thousand tonnes a year from Norway to give their neighbours a hand labret.
87 When the classic Monty Python film life O'Brien was released in 1979 Norway found its contents objectionable that it banned the movie accusing the Croatia's of blasphemy they're not blasphemous they're just very naughty boys Norway's name is in Sweden who are apparently much more chill about the whole blasphemy thing ran ads for the film which exclaimed the film that's so funny it was banned in Norway hearts it burned Swedes good one.
88 In the early 70s Sweden decided to capitalize on the economic growth of the up-and-coming best country into world North Korea by sending them 1,000 Volvo one for force expecting then leader Kim il-sung for them shocker North Korea never paid for them since then it's become somewhat of a tradition in Sweden to send North Korea a reminder every six months asking for the 300 million euro they are owed knowing full well that picks will soon a fly.
89 Everyone loves Donald Duck I mean look at him but for some reason the people of Sweden really love Donald Duck probably due to Donald's provocative semi nudist fashion sense in fact Swedes love Donald Duck so much that the country had to make voting for him illegal as his name would often be used when voters wanted to issue a protest vote or just simply didn't care what could go wrong with having a Donald in Pat.
90 Sweden has instituted a countrywide opt-in SMS system which sends citizens a text message when someone nearby has a heart attack allowing assistance to reach them as soon as possible to provide CPR in 40% of cases ambulances were beaten to the scene of a heart attack by text message receivers.
91 Speaking of health related texts in Sweden Blunt donors receive a text message every time their blood is used to save a life how pilate lovely get it get it ice pack 91 give me a break.
92 When I fell over the name of Erika Pomerania was disposed after draining his king of Sweden as well as Norway and Denmark between 1389 and 1442 he apparently just said get and became a pirate in the Baltic Sea for 10 years ball and move.
93 Sweden was the first country to detected nuclear disaster at Chernobyl which the Soviet Union was desperately trying to keep points when a worker set off radiation detectors at the force mark power plant he had been contaminated while walking through grass that had been showered by radioactive rain picked up from Chernobyl over 800 miles away.
94 Sweden is the proud owner of one of the world's only taxidermied blue whales located at its Natural History Museum the public was previously allowed to walk inside it up until a couple was caught having sex inside it ruining whale entering privileges for everyone but probably getting a great anecdote in the process.
95 In 2011 a man in southern Sweden was arrested on charges of unauthorized possession of nuclear material which he did actually have simply because he wanted to see if it were possible to split an atom in his kitchen.
96 Let's come back to the 1980s the Swedish Navy detected underwater I suspected to be hostile Russian submarines the suspicions escalated to such a degree that it eventually began a full-blown diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia it later turns out the sound to her of all things fish farts.
97 In 1967 Sweden switched from driving on the Left to driving on the right which must have confused literate everyone and probably caused hundreds of car accidents on the 3rd of September 1967 all vehicles came to a complete stop at 4:50 a.m. before switching lanes then stopped again before proceeding at 5:00 p.m.
98 Bizarrely in Sweden drivers must have their headlights on at all times while driving even in broad daylight.
99 Sweden's top 20 surnames only one of them Lindbergh doesn't end in Sun in 2015 a Swedish man managed to convince the government to give him disability benefits by claiming that he was addicted to heavy metal Roger told grin said that his love of the genre which had compelled him to attend around 300 heavy metal concerts in the space of one year had left him unable to work a full-time job wow that is some truly brazen bullsh bid work ROG.
100 For decades in Sweden bars and clubs required an expensive license to allow their patrons to dance in their establishments on a number of occasions businesses had their licenses to sell alcohol revoked for hosting unlicensed dance parties and many people were literally arrested the frankly embarrassing law was finally repealed in 2016 and it's a good thing that was 100 fact of Sweden which country or indeed not country anything else what do you don't see next let me know in the comments below and also give this Article like and subscribe of our website.
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