26Sauna
There are about two million saunas in Finland, enough for the entire Finnish population to take a sauna at the same time.
27. Only one person has been killed by armed police in Iceland since it became an independent republic in 1944.
28. In a remote valley in Sweden, people still speak an ancient dialect of Old Norse, the language of the Vikings. It's called Elfdalian and they still used runes (ancient writing system) up until the 1900s.
29. Norway will allow any student from anywhere in the world for free to study at their public universities.
30. It takes 3 years of higher education to become a police officer in Norway. The training takes place at a university college and each graduate gets a bachelor's degree in "Police Studies".
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31Anti-incest app
Iceland has such a small population that they have an anti-incest app so you don't end up hooking up with a family member on a night out.
32. Due to high-tech automation at the Lego factory in Denmark, when you open a set of LEGO, you are the first human to look at the bricks.
33. Sweden is so good at recycling that it does not have enough rubbish to recycle and therefore imports 80,000 tons of trash a year from Norway.
34. In 2017, Norway became the first country in the world to shut down FM radio and go digital instead. Norway switched to DAB (which stands for ‘Digital Audio Broadcasting’) since FM is eight times more expensive.
35. In 2004, a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk, and despite there being 100 staff on the same floor in the same department, no-one realized he was dead for 2 days.
