Sweden, known for its breathtaking landscapes and rich historical tapestry, holds secrets and stories that will surprise and delight. From unique cultural traditions to royal tales that seem sprung from fairy tales, each fact will take you closer to understanding the enchanting allure of Sweden. Sweden champions the right to nature, embodied in the constitutional … Continue reading 6 Fun Facts about Sweden
The Lawspeaker: Sweden’s Keeper of the Law a Thousand Years Ago
Sweden’s Lawspeaker, also known as “Lagman,” held the responsibility of memorizing and reciting every law during public assemblies a thousand years ago, and this tradition was also followed in other Scandinavian countries.
Swedes have a national weekly eating plan…
Swedes have a national weekly eating plan. Thursdays are traditionally pancakes and split pea soup.
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During the Vietnam war, many American…
During the Vietnam war, many American soldiers stationed in Japan went AWOL and fled to Sweden. Swedish PM Palme was vehemently against the war and promised that he would grant asylum to deserters.
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Guy Takes Hilarious Photos of Squirrels Interacting With Props
If you didn’t think life in Sweden looked delightful before, I think this article might change your mind. I’m sure this isn’t what it’s really like, but I picture it to be friendly, calm, cold, and with animals just frolicking everywhere…
And the photos that a guy named Geert Weggen takes do nothing to dispel those myths for me.
Weggen creates little scenes on his balcony for squirrels to interact with so he can photograph them and the results are awesome. Sometimes, he combines two photos into one for effect and he said he also sometimes Photoshops out wires, pins, and other things that he uses to keep props in place.
Let’s take a look at his great work!
1. Doing some acrobatics, are we?
I like this little fella!
2. Looks pretty refreshing.
Go ahead, help yourself.
3. Wake up and smell the roses.
Is that working for you?
4. It looks like a party to me.
Also, that camper is pretty awesome.
5. Looks like we have some artistic types on our hands.
You’re doing it all wrong!
6. Big fan of the mushrooms.
Hey, so are we!
7. Time for some deep-sea diving.
What did you find down there?
8. This belongs to me now.
Don’t even think about coming up here…
9. Reach for the sky.
And keep on moving forward, friends!
10. It’s your move.
You better choose carefully.
I’m not gonna lie…I kind of want this guy’s life…
But enough of that, now we want to hear from you!
In the comments, please share some links with us of other folks on social media who interact with animals in unique and funny ways.
Thanks a lot!
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Guy Takes Hilarious Photos of Squirrels Interacting With Props
If you didn’t think life in Sweden looked delightful before, I think this article might change your mind. I’m sure this isn’t what it’s really like, but I picture it to be friendly, calm, cold, and with animals just frolicking everywhere…
And the photos that a guy named Geert Weggen takes do nothing to dispel those myths for me.
Weggen creates little scenes on his balcony for squirrels to interact with so he can photograph them and the results are awesome. Sometimes, he combines two photos into one for effect and he said he also sometimes Photoshops out wires, pins, and other things that he uses to keep props in place.
Let’s take a look at his great work!
1. Doing some acrobatics, are we?
I like this little fella!
2. Looks pretty refreshing.
Go ahead, help yourself.
3. Wake up and smell the roses.
Is that working for you?
4. It looks like a party to me.
Also, that camper is pretty awesome.
5. Looks like we have some artistic types on our hands.
You’re doing it all wrong!
6. Big fan of the mushrooms.
Hey, so are we!
7. Time for some deep-sea diving.
What did you find down there?
8. This belongs to me now.
Don’t even think about coming up here…
9. Reach for the sky.
And keep on moving forward, friends!
10. It’s your move.
You better choose carefully.
I’m not gonna lie…I kind of want this guy’s life…
But enough of that, now we want to hear from you!
In the comments, please share some links with us of other folks on social media who interact with animals in unique and funny ways.
Thanks a lot!
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Buffets are called “vikings” in Japan…
Buffets are called “vikings” in Japan. This is because a Japanese restaurant manager went to Sweden and liked smörgåsbords so much he copied the idea at his restaurant. This Swedish word was too hard to pronounce in Japanese, so the word “vikings” was used instead after a employee suggested it.
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Helga de la Brache grew up in lower class circumstances…
Helga de la Brache, a Swedish con artist, grew up in lower class circumstances but successfully posed as a Swedish princess for years. Convincing even the Swedish royal family who gave her a pension and “furniture befitting a princess.”
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Dagen H
The most logistically complex event in Sweden’s history was when Sweden switched their entire traffic system from the left side of the road to the right side in a single day in 1967 called “Dagen H”.
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A Fisherman Caught a Strange, Alien-Like Fish off the Coast of Norway
A young man named Oscar Lundahl was working on a fishing boat recently when he got the catch—and the surprise—of a lifetime. He was reeling in his catch when he noticed something very unusual on the end of his line: an alien-like fish with bulbous eyes that looked like something from a science-fiction movie.
The weird creature is actually called a ratfish. It is a 300-million-year-old relative of the shark that lives in very deep water and is rarely ever caught. Their eyes are so enormous to help them see in the dark, deep depths where they roam.
Lundahl, who is 19 years old and works for Nordic Sea Angling in Sweden, was fishing for halibut off the island of Andoya in northern Norway when he reeled in the ratfish in 2,600-feet deep waters.
The young fisherman described his experience:
“We were looking for blue halibut which is a rare species about five miles (8km) off shore. I had four hooks on one line and felt something quite big on the end of it. It took me about 30 minutes to reel it in because it was 800 metres deep. There were two halibut on two of the hooks and I was really happy about that and then I saw there was something else. It was pretty amazing. I have never seen anything like it before. It just looked weird, a bit dinosaur-like. I didn’t know what it was but my colleague did.”
Lundahl ended up eating the ratfish because the creature did not survive the pressure change when it was reeled in. He said, “It is a bit like cod but tastier.”
I’ll take his word for it.
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