26Fennoscandia
Norway, Sweden, and Finland together are not Scandinavia, but are Fennoscandia. Scandinavia actually comprises Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, not Finland.
27. In 2008, Doritos beamed a 30-second advertisement into a planetary system 42 light years away, in collaboration with EISCAT Space Center in Norway.
28. Norway owns an uninhabited frozen island (Bouvet Island) located halfway between Africa and Antarctica.
29. In Iceland, the belief in Elves is so pervasive that it can determine government action. From roads avoiding large rocks (where the Elves "live") to construction permits sometimes requiring the aide of a mystic who can ask the elves to move.
30. In Iceland, criminals are put on a waiting list to serve their time in prison because there aren't enough available jail cells. Many people who are on this list pay fines or do community service as an alternative to prison.
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31Helgö Buddha
In 1954, archaeologists excavating an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden (Helgö) found a Buddha statuette from India.
32. Norway has very strict rules on advertising cars as "green" saying, "cars can do nothing good for the environment except less damage than others".
33. Finland's president (Sauli Niinisto) was in Thailand during the 2004 tsunami. He survived by climbing up a utility pole with his son.
