Things You DIDN'T Know About SWEDEN
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- There are quite a few surprising facts about Sweden. I decided to look up some strange and interesting facts about this little Scandinavian country!
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Most people have probably heard some facts about Sweden, such as how it's a creative nation with many bands like ABBA, Roxette, Avicii and so on. And you've probably heard about some Swedish inventions, like dynamite, or the spanner. And I'm sure that you've heard about Swedish companies, like IKEA, Spotify and H&M. But there's a lot more to know about Sweden.
Did you know that Sweden has the most islands in the world, for example? Or that Sweden and Denmark has fought the most amount of wars between two nations, in the world? Or that Sweden has more moose per square kilometer than any other country?
This video is filled with interesting...and slightly strange facts about Sweden. I talk about everything from ziplines to lakes, to a Swedish king who became a pirate. And if course, I also give a lot of attention to one of the most famous Swedish pastimes: fika, and the associated pastries.
Watch the video for the full list of things you didn't know about Sweden!
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Your war segment reminded me of something i heard when I lived in Sweden. It's that all the churches ring the bells during war or a kings death. Not sure of the facts of this. But the distance from one church to the next was roughly the distance one could hear the bells. A way of ringing information across the length of the country.
Yeah the bells were absolutely used to give warnings at least like that. And it would make sense that they use it for a king's death too
Interesting vlog . Keep it up. Just discovered your channel. I have visited sverige 4 times and the weather is definitely what puts me off 😂
Haha yeah it can be pretty cold and miserable sometimes - and great at other times. But thank you, and I hope you've gotten to see the good side of Sweden too :)
Your Swedish is really improving!
Jag tror den bara blir sämre och sämre med åren, personligen :D
Love your videos - make me smile every time! Tack!
So happy to hear that! Now you made me smile as well 😀
You forgot to mention that the “small rural town” with a JB 007 museum is call Nybro (from where I originate). I hinted you in a comment elsewhere about that town’s “national day” - 25th of March, a day you mentioned in this video. Check ‘trandagen’ (crane day).😊
Will definitely check it out! And incidentally, I'm heading to Nybro this weekend (well, just driving by to visit the JB museum, on the way south). I used to live close to Växjö, but I never explored the area around Nybro / Kalmar much. About time to check it out a bit now :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond Damn! I hade almost planned to go to Kalmar this week to see my grandkids and my brother, but decided to stay in Vänersborg and plan an Easter party on Monday.
@@Soundbrigade That sounds like a lot of fun either way :D I'll be driving around like a madman, trying to see a bunch of different things anyway!
Love the interesting facts you gave us in the video. I must say when my wife and I were there last year I absolutely loved Fika, we’d get together with there friends or parents and have a snack and coffee along with great conversation, I must say I wish we had your cinnamon buns here there delicious. Well the King becoming a pirate is really not much different than OUR politicians here now😅.
I would love to see a politician actually start attacking rich yachts in the Caribbean or something :D Thank you! And yeah, I think fika is the best invention that Sweden ever has come up with.... Ooh... That's actually a nice idea. Swedish inventions... I need to make a note now
Congrats very good video, lots of infomations
Much appreciated! Thank you :D
Even I didn't know some of these! Great video!
Always happy to spread some strange and useless information :D Thank you!
Pretty cool. I knew about half of them but that is only because I have already watched every other "things you didn't know about Sweden" video on RUclips. I have visited Sweden 3 times in the last 6 months, from warm to freezing cold. It was really nice though, because the only snow I have seen all year was in Sweden because of where I live in the US. I love snow so being here it just gets cold but without snow it is just a big inconvenience and kind of depressing in my opinion.
I can imagine that that's the best way to see Sweden, actually - experience both summer and winter, without spending too much time in either season. The snow is lovely and it's really nice...for a while. The issue is just when it's been three months of darkness and cold and snow. Then it really starts to feel miserable :D
Thanks Miro - fun video! I love the information about Falu Koppargruva! I will be back in Sweden in August 2024! 😃
Niice! That's a perfect time to visit the mine as well, if you'd like to. Haha, I still haven't visited it myself but I'm planning on doing it later this year :D
Really informative and interesting Miro! Can’t wait to try a cinnamon bun when I am there in June - pity I will miss out on the Semlor though - it look amazing - cardamon flavoured from what I am told.
And a shout out to all the other Facebook groupies or what did you refer to us? as really strange 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh you might still get a semla at for example Cafe Vete-katten! So don't give up hope yet 😁
No no I was just talking about...other...groups... I'd never refer to any of us as strange! 😅😅😅
@@ThreeStarVagabond i don’t mind being thought of as slightly strange - makes for interesting conversations 😂
@@donnamortensen959 Personally I wear my strangeness as a badge of honor :D So it was definitely not intended in a bad way ^_^
@@ThreeStarVagabond didn’t take it in a bad way either - proud to be one of the strange and weirdly wonderful among us 😝
@@donnamortensen959 Well put :D Weirdly wonderful is a great phrase, I need to steal that ^_^
I didn't know about the pirate king -- or most of those things. (And the things I DID know were likely from other videos you've made...although you did a great job not repeating things from previous videos.) Also, I know it was cold, but it was nice seeing all the snow and ice!
Yay, mission successful in other words! And yeah it was cold but it was a really nice day out. I think it was like 5 degrees F out there, so it took some time to thaw out afterwards :D
Nice video! I stayed in Sweden in 2020, now I'm coming back to Linköping for one more year. It's a lovely country, fool of things to explore.
Thank you! :D I lived in Linköping for 12 years or so, so good choice of town to go back to! ^_^
Your statement about the Swedish definition of Islands is wrong. The exact definition of an island that was used to count 267,000 islands in Sweden is based on the real estate map of Lantmäteriet, the national land survey office of Sweden. According to this map, an island is a piece of land that is:
* surrounded by water
* at least 9 square metres in area
Thanks for the correction! I must admit that I added that line because it sounded a bit funny. A colleague of mine used it at work, and I just felt like it fit in so well in the overall feeling :)
Another fine inclusion of information and pretty stylish as well ❤
Thank you so much! Really happy to hear that :D
@3:04 isn't the great company "Nokia" itslef named after a lake in finland how could they left Finland in that list so sad
Exactly! I really don't understand why - Finland is really famous for it
It’s true that people often confuse Sweden with Switzerland. When I visited Sweden in 2021 most oft my friends kept asking me how I liked Switzerland. I told them I didn’t know since I wasn’t there. When I told them how excited I was to be practicing my Swedish language skills, they would ask why I was speaking Swedish in Switzerland? Sigh! Even when I sent them photos via my smartphone of me in Sweden it would only confuse them.
The only friends that knew I was in Sweden were former classmates of my Swedish cooking and language classe! They asked me to bring home Knorr fish cubes and a Swedish coffee. Even in Sweden I met a guy in my hostel who freaked everyone out because he was a conservative who hated socialism. He asked me why my t-shirt said Sverige and argued with me that it didn’t mean Sweden in Swedish. In the end he said I was the nicest socialist he ever met when I told him it was strange that he picked an interesting place to visit his dislike of anything that remotely resembled socialism. I said that democratic socialism is not the same as communism, etc. He was so annoying that I decided to put him to good use by having him carry my heavy stuff when I went shopping for food and souvenirs that I was mailing home, much to the amusement of the others in the hostel. I always attract the loonies whenever I travel.😮
When I returned home and I was asked if I planned on returning to Switzerland after I told them I had been to Sweden, I told them that in fact I had been in Swaziland, a country in Africa. What I visited Iceland many years ago people kept telling me to watch out for leprechauns and not fall asleep near mounds. Sigh! Never a dull moment in my life!
That's amazing! I get the Sweden - Switzerland confusion but I started laughing at the Iceland - Ireland bit as well :D
And what an...interesting...fellow! Sounds like you did the best you could out of the situation. Sometimes loonies can be useful after all. Did you get earplugs so you could ignore any further ramblings? ;D
Thanks for a lovely story - I was sitting here grinning like a madman while reading it!
You're very articulate, I wish I can visit Sweden love ya!
Thank you! :D Yeah Sweden is quite nice - but I think I prefer it in summer than right now at least!
@@ThreeStarVagabond it's beautiful, it's a good thing they made a U-Turn on multiculturalism, but in a way it also makes me sad. I genuinely wish I can visit someday, I would like to be the good migrant.
@@CollinsTweakrealestatefi-lu3ex We have plenty of good immigrants as well, so I hope that we can just find a good middle ground for all of this! No extremes are good, in my view...
1:51 my favorite part 😂
Haha I was a bit afraid! We had a few days of thawing before that day :D
That cinnamon bun was huge! 😍
Biggest one I've ever seen! I had more than half left in the evening
Braveheart Iceman Vagabond, you made a great sacrifice for us while walking on frozen water. You put your life in dangerous positions for the sake of giving knowledge to your audience. But you know some people occasionally drop themselves into frozen water and then run into saunas in Finland and also Sweden. I am glad not to see that on your videos. Utube might consider that extremely violent :D Joking aside, another fantastic video about facts and general knowledge. The hilarious part was I saw a Horny Satyr Vagabond in Ice Hotel :D I wish to know the name of the video. Do you have it in your channel?
Also, I wish to know how Swedes are quite fit when thinking about there are many McDo and most importantly the best pastries in the world. I think the coffee supply is important for the country. I hope there will be no shortage of coffee otherwise Winter depression effect can be doubled.
Interestingly, I encountered many videos about Gustavus Adolphus this week. The legendary king of Sweden and an innovative military genius. I would like to know more about the history of Gustavus. I know he is an important figure when considering the history of Sweden. The lion from the North - Sabaton :)
Ah, additionally I know you are a geeky cheeky nerd like me :D There is a new cinematic from Riot for League of Legends. I don't play the game anymore but the cinematic was a mouth-dropping masterpiece. I wanted to recommend it to you if you missed that. After many great Blizzard cinematics, they got 12 gamer's badges out of 10 from me.
The cinematic: League of Legends - Still Here ( You know I can not send links thanks to Utube deletes them)
I hope you will find out exciting and have a great day to less slippery ice walking :)
I survived the horrible freezing weather, and I didn't plunge into a watery grave despite my brave crossing of the ice! Phew...
Thanks for the tip about the cinematic! Don't worry, I can definitely find it without a link :D I haven't played LoL for aaages, but it's still fun to see everything that's happening.
Ooh, Gustavus Adolphus might be a really fun thing to make a video about... I need to find a good historic place or something to connect with him, to have an excuse to make a video about him :D Otherwise I've been thinking that I'd love to do a video about Karl XII who invaded Russia...but I think I have to wait with going to Russia to film anything ^^
Oh, and yeah I have a video from the Icebar in Stockholm where I was dressed as a wintery satyr thingie :D ruclips.net/video/Nk0Bs58LFiU/видео.html
@@ThreeStarVagabond Hahaha thanks for the video link. :D It was very funny. Also, I got the horns. Probably there is a connection between goats and Gävle. Hmm let me think about it, Goat Similator is also a Swedish invention. :D
By the way, a video about Gustavus Adolphus will be very interesting and exciting. Can't wait for your next adventures. Have a great day. :)
@@doguskoyuncu5177 Haha, I wish I had a story that connected Gävle, Goat Simulator and my horns. But I just stole...I mean, borrowed them earlier from the girl in the video :D
Awesome! I'll make a note of that :D Cheers, and hope you have a great week!
2:40 - I guess "The Land of 180.000 Lakes" didn't go down too well with the marketing team.
4:54 - Back when you couldn't just buy anything online, I heard that shops in Sweden started selling moose signs in the hope that Germans would stop stealing them from the roads. Any truth to that?
8:52 - *"Kayakomat"* 😂
Not the catchiest title ever eh :D
And oh absolutely! I lived in Småland in the south of Sweden as a kid and I definitely remember moose signs on sale there. Only Germans bought them ever!
Yes! I didn't really feel spontaneously popping into a kayak right then :P
In my ancestry DNA account.. they say a lot of Denmarks DNA comes from Sweden 😁😁😁
Muahaha, our infiltration has worked in other words! ;D
@@ThreeStarVagabond 🤣 ...a win for Sweden 🇸🇪
I think Italy invaded Britten
Hmm I can't find any indication of that. Just that 16 Italian planes participated in a raid during the Battle of Britain.
Max > McDonald's
Well, the quality has been going down on Max lately...
I still claim that Britain invaded and occupied a part of Sweden in the Anglo-Swedish war of 1810-1812.
Oof... Don't ruin my attempts to be clever with your facts :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond It's a fact you see in many, many videos about the British Empire. Next time you travel south, visit the British War cemetary from that war and make a debunking video. I am sure that if this is in it, there's other errors too!
Good plan! That could actually be pretty funny - I'll see what I have time for now 😊
The size of Finland is not as large as Canada or US so compared to the size Finland has got more lakes.
Fair point. Finland represents!