Thank you for these facts, Gregg. I actually have heard them before, so here are five new ones: 1. Sweden used to be a superpower. The Swedish Empire was at its height in 1658. 2. The Swedish Diplomat Raul Wallenberg saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis during WWII. Based in Budapest he gave them Swedish citizenship and flew them to Sweden. 3. 60 years ago, Swedish car manufacturer Volvo gave up the patent for their invention of the three-point safety belt, making it available to all vehicle manufacturers to use for free. It´s regarded to have saved millions of lives. 4. Developing computer games has become one of Sweden’s largest industries. Exporting equally as Swedish iron ore and Swedish paper pulp industries. Approx. 25 billion kronor in 2020. 5. Swedish furniture company IKEAs catalogue used to be the most widely circulated books on the planet. With 203 million copies distributed at its peak in 2017, Ikea's yearly catalogue sits beside the Bible, the Quran, and the "Harry Potter" series as the most popular books in the world. Now they are going digital.
There is seven elements of the periodic table that is only found in the Stockholm archipelago. Yttrium (Y), Ytterbium (Yb), Terbium (Tb), Erbium (Er), Skandium (SC), Holmium (Ho) and Thulium (Tm) was found in the Ytterby mine in Resarö. It's where most elements been found in the entire world. Does it counts as seven things you didn't know? 😉
Not exactly true. While they were first discovered in the Ytterby mine, they can all be found globally and a few of them are actually quite abundant! It is cool however that four of the elements are named after the mine and the other three named after Scandinavia, Stockholm and Thule (northern lands in mythology).
aww that's fun Freeman! I'm glad I could contribute to your love of Sweden😋🙌🏻 did you see the first trivia video I did by the way? th-cam.com/video/2MoDCb7dq4k/w-d-xo.html have a great Sunday!
Super interesting vid Gregg! Finding out that Sweden imports waste from the UK is like a rite of passage for a Brit in Sweden, couldn't wait to share that fact with folks back home!
Thank you!! it means a lot coming from a fellow Östgötskan-based creator ;) but you're so right - I used to do this all the time when I first arrived, point out things like the awesome parental leave entitlements to folks back home just to make the point again about what a great place Sweden was haha
A fact that I don’t think is very known is that Sweden has been very involved in crash safety for children, working to get high safety requirements that currently apply to children in cars in Sweden and many other countries. The Swedish research institute VTI together with NTF, SIS, Folksam and Volvo is the creators of the complimentary ”Plus test”, which test car seats a few tests extra than the current EU standards (ECE R 44). The Plus test is used in the Swedish market. The test measures the forces subjected to a child's neck in a frontal collision.
I'm swedish and I must admit I only knew two of the facts in this one (number 1 and 4). The other three were new to me. But that means I must provide you with two new facts. 1. There are between 300-400k mooses in Sweden. That makes one moose in every 25-35 swede. 2. The most published book in Sweden, apart from the bible, is the IKEA catalogue.
The phone book? It was printed between 1880 and 2016 and every household, every company and every phone booth had one or several current copies. In 1880 it was just a few hundred copies for the Stockholm area, since the phone was a new invention (patented by Bell in 1876) but already in 1909 there were 260.000 copies handed out. The number of copies increased every year, for more than 100 years, until 2012 when it was being phased out. The phone book was handed out for free to your door once every year. For some areas, like Stockholm, there were several versions handed out since every phone number didn’t fit to one book.
@@Jonsson474Du får fråga alla källor som rapporterar denna fakta på internet. För övrigt hade min familj den allra sista telefonboken runt 2005 kanske. Absolut inte till 2016.
Speaking about Volvo i believe they were the first, or one of the first, car brands to introduce seatbelts. Don´t know wich year exactly but i´m pretty sure it was the Volvo 120-series or "amazon" as it´s commonly known, produced from 1956 to 1970. Still one of the best looking Volvo models imo.
And cars were using seatbelts before Volvo, but volvon invented the there point belt that we're used to today. Also Volvo decided to not put a permissive patent on the technique as they argued that they didn't want other car manufacturers to skip out on the technique because of patent costs, as safety should be for everyone.
Knew the first four but not the fifth, which is actually my favourite! Sorry I don't have a new fact to contribute...although I'm living in Ireland with my Belgian husband, I'm Scottish. (Yes that IS my reason :D) But, we are retiring to Sweden in early Spring next year, hopefully to the Vasternorrlands Lan. Just subbed to keep up to date with all things Swedish :)
Ah cool! Well I'm glad I was able to impart at least one new one for you today! Thanks for subbing and following along though, I've been creating videos about my adventures in Sweden for 6 months now, so it'll be super fun to have a new viewer along for the journey. Hopefully I'll be able to help you get prepped and excited for the big move next Spring!!
I think you should check who pay who for the garbage. I'm pretty shure Norway and UK (and I beleive there are a few others as well) that pays the Swedish waste management companies to take the garbage away.
Hi, wanted to tell you that Swedish companies get money for the debris we take for burning, company in Helsingborg get 500kr for every 1000kg and the sending contry also have to pay for the shipment.
I knew the one about the recycling and the Volvo cars we sold to North Korea. One thing you didnt know about Sweden. The pacemaker is a swedish invention.
Hur ska man kunna förändra om inte man visar förtroende? Om jag inte missminner mig så har Sverige har varit det enda land i världen som har kunnat/fått medla mellan USA västvärlden och Nordkorea.
Late to the game but knew 3 of the facts so my 3 facts about sweden that you probably dont know: - during the viking era while norwegians and danes tended to travel westward and southwards and thus are oftentimes the wellknown vikings, swedes tended to travel eastwards and southeast with trade connections going so far east as central asia, they set up tradeposts in modernday western russia, and because of the swedish vikings and tradeposts is actually where russia gets its name from today from an old word meaning roughly "the ones who row". - Staying in a historical line one of the first kings in sweden we have historical evidence for was "Magnus ladulås" who got his nickname ladulås (barn lock) because he instated a law that said that while the swedish kings (and possibly aristocracy, cant 100% remember) had previously been entitled to nightroom and food for them their servants, soldiers, and mounts, from whoever he chose to visit in the country, which could bancrupt unfortunate peasants, now the farmers had a right to refuse. Practically putting a lock on their barn. - the diffrence in time between all men being allowed to vote in sweden and all women (so everyone) being allowed to vote in sweden was only 2 years, tho because of the length of election cycles this was practically a 4 year gap or a 6 year gap if you count between when all men were legislated right to vote and when women could vote in a government election. This is because pretty much as soon as the men of the common class gained majority in the government, so after the first election where all men were allowed to vote they also instated a right to vote for women. The whole story is quite fascinating tho as the right for all men to vote actually happened after some liberal younger men of the voting class elected in a few men into the government who wouldnt even have been allowed to vote in the election themselves. A couple of bonus facts cause I cant help myself: - at one point in history moose almost went extinct in sweden due to a rise in poaching caused by famine coinciding with guns becomming commonly used in hunting. - while sweden is a kingdom it has atleast one "republic" that operates within it as part of the country. The "republic of jämtland" was started in the late 20th century as a cultural project and protest in response to some controversial legislature going on at the time, while the "republic" holds no political power it has its own flag, crest, anthem, president, and a yearly celebration/music festival in Östersund where the president holds a yearly speech. A couple of years ago the president wven named the trainer of the local fotball team minister of sports and made an anouncement of a "national slogan" based of of the trainer and fotballteams motto of "we never give up" (tho ofc that was phrased in jamtlandish, the dialect/regional language of jämtland). And alot of Jamtlandish people lean hard into the republic thing and hold alot of national pride towards the region itself rather than or compared to sweden as a whole. This "republic" might arguably mean sweden should be termed an empire, the argument against that however is that the republic holds no particular political power of its own if one dicounts the fact the the republic itself does line up prefectly with jämtlands (och härjedalens) län.
Jag hörde om Nordkorea volvo affären från en annan källa och fann det hela fascinerande, bara räntan på fördröjnings kostnaden pga obetalda bilar borde vid detta laget ge oss en bra summa! Ha en trevlig kommande vecka!
Sweden has the most islands in the world (over 250000) Sweden have so much Forest that it could cover the whole of UK (and Ireland) with it, or rather 2 times the size of UK.
wow that forest fact is kinda incredible really! I actually thought about using the island one in this video, but I was worried too many people already knew it haha
@@JustaBritAbroad made a mistake too. Sweden has 280000 sqkm of forest. UK is 242000sqkm. The last word I wrote before should be ENGLAND, not UK. England is 130000sqkm. Less than half of Swedens forestland :)
Born and raised in Stockholm 🇸🇪 but I never heard THE part about 1000 cars and Korea!? Magdalena Andersson Will never see them again. En fråga: hur lång tid tar det för att redigera varje video? Antal timmar gissar jag
Really?! hehe how fun!! I'm soo pleased I was able to teach you something new in this video, it certainly was my intention after all! bra fråga! det kar ungefär 3-4 timmar redigering för varje video skulle jag säga - men sen så klart 1,5t för att spela in, lite tid med att skapa något thumbnail osv så per video skulle jag hävda att jag spendera 8 timmar kanske?
Did not know the one about North Korea! Fun fact. But did you know that a lot of the swedish Hollywood stars went to the same school and even in the same class in some cases? Skarsgårds boys, Rapace siblings, Joel Kinnerman, Alicia Vikander - same school.
Thank you!! I'm pleased that I could at least squeeze one new one in there then haha. Nope, I had no idea!! which school is that? is it a big school for performing arts and acting? we have a similar school in England for music called the BRIT academy, where the likes of Amy Winehouse, Adele and Jessie J studied! Fun fact though, thanks for sharing!!
@@JustaBritAbroad - Do please, I'm old with a selective memory, but I just LOVE these guys so it stuck - however bad. And I know it wasn't acting school because some of them never went. (If you've ever seen an intervju with any of them, you gottta love being swedish. Alex Skarsgård is such a great ambassador for us all!)
Knew all except the one about the donation %. Did you know that: Botanic classification of flora and fauna with latin names was invented by a swedish ,botanist, Carl von Linné in the 18th century (17 hundreds). Celcius degrees was invented by the swede Anders Celsius also in the 18th century (17 hundreds). Swedes say hundreds when the english talk about centurys and easily gets confused around this (its now the 21st century but swedes say the 20 hundreds). The now peaceful countries of Sweden and Denmark have a vast history of conflicts in the 13 wars between 1468 and 1814.
The land rise is NOT unigue for Sweden. It is exactly the same in Finland. Generally when supposedly unique features of Sweden, like e.g. Allemanrätten, are discussed people, swedes included, tend to forget that the same almost always applies to Finland due to the common history.
Hey Christer, I didn't actually say that it was unique to Sweden :) just that its one of the only places in the world where its happening. But you're quite right about it being true for Finland too :) fun fact about Allemansrätten was that I believe it was actually created by a Norwegian if I remember correctly?
@@JustaBritAbroad Fair enough, I tought you did. About the Norwegian. Need to check that up. My impression is that Sweden and Finland have Allemansrätt, whereas Norway and Denmark do not.
ooh interesting question! I actually don't know that much about them to be honest,b but it sure reminds me of country America when I see them out and about haha
Ha! Knew about everything except North Korea and the Volvos. But I am a Swede. I know it is debated, but most often it is a Swede that is credited with the invention of the propeller, Ericsson. Most folks do not know that. Then we have Linné, that started naming stuff, also unknown to many foreigners. Then of course Nobel, that did much with a bang. Lindgren and Pippi Långstrump is famous all over the world. Some Americans know about the Swedish exodus, caused by starvation and hardship. Swedes emigrated to the US on mass, and many died on the road. The Irish story is much more well known, but the Swedes suffered too (no shadow on the Irish!). Most folks don´t know about that.
ah you did?😱 glad I could bring at least one new thing to the table!! I didn't know that Ericsson fact though, thanks for sharing! how interesting :) I didn't know either about the similarities between the Irish and Swedish migration - I'd often wondered how so many Swedes ended up in America!
heres 2 new facts 1. we havent been to war in 200 years bc we was not in ww2. 2.we dont use dolars pounds or euros, we use crowns and 1 dollar is like 10 crowns.
Just a heads-up. Some of the so called Swedish things depends on where in Sweden you live. Some of the Swedish stuff you bring up I haven't even heard about here in south Sweden
interesting, because I'm actually living in the south too haha. which "swedish" things are you referring to from this video in particular though? thanks!
@@JustaBritAbroad lol I jumped the gun on this one and only reacted to the title. So it wasn't nothing in this video. I took for granted you where in Stockholm. 😂
@@JustaBritAbroad Jag tittar på varje video du lägger upp 😁 Jag lär mig ofta något nytt, men också hur det kan vara för en icke svensk att flytta till det avlånga landet 🙏
Yes knew them all, sorry 😅 but I'm Swedish so.... maybe I can something new then, we celebrate names days every day has names in our calendar and im lucky because both of my names has a place in the calendar so I celebrate both of them and my birthday every year 😂 and there is a lot of inventions made by swedes that have a place in every day life, like the ATM machines or tags on clothes in stores that make it difficult to steal them. And so on
well done Maria! you beat me, this time!!😉😆 I'll have to try even harder in the next video haha yeah, I knew about the name days funnily enough (mainly because every year I'm jealous I dont have one hehe), but I didn't know the ATM was a Swedish invention?! cool!
Sweden may be good at recycling but Swedes consume far too much in the first place! One look at a communal recycling station is depressing. All sorts of usable stuff!
I never claimed to have made them up as totally new facts Stefan - I can only work with the facts that actually exist out there😅 and hey, it was just supposed to be a bit of fun! Glad you picked up something new though!
Never herd of that nordkorea thing .... it is beter to maby stay in the past. Sweden will not see that money again. Did you know that skype and spotify come from sweden.
Thank you for these facts, Gregg. I actually have heard them before, so here are five new ones:
1. Sweden used to be a superpower. The Swedish Empire was at its height in 1658.
2. The Swedish Diplomat Raul Wallenberg saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis during WWII. Based in Budapest he gave them Swedish citizenship and flew them to Sweden.
3. 60 years ago, Swedish car manufacturer Volvo gave up the patent for their invention of the three-point safety belt, making it available to all vehicle manufacturers to use for free. It´s regarded to have saved millions of lives.
4. Developing computer games has become one of Sweden’s largest industries. Exporting equally as Swedish iron ore and Swedish paper pulp industries. Approx. 25 billion kronor in 2020.
5. Swedish furniture company IKEAs catalogue used to be the most widely circulated books on the planet. With 203 million copies distributed at its peak in 2017, Ikea's yearly catalogue sits beside the Bible, the Quran, and the "Harry Potter" series as the most popular books in the world. Now they are going digital.
I’ve learned so much about Sweden since living here!!
ahhh awesome! and so fun that I got to help be a small part of that too!
Another great video! I did know most things but not as in-depth as this, so thanks for that!
Thanks Helen! so fun to hear that you enjoyed!
There is seven elements of the periodic table that is only found in the Stockholm archipelago. Yttrium (Y), Ytterbium (Yb), Terbium (Tb), Erbium (Er), Skandium (SC), Holmium (Ho) and Thulium (Tm) was found in the Ytterby mine in Resarö. It's where most elements been found in the entire world. Does it counts as seven things you didn't know? 😉
now THIS is a cool fact!! thanks for sharing! and I'll meet you in the middle and call it three and a half things I didn't know?! ;)
Not exactly true. While they were first discovered in the Ytterby mine, they can all be found globally and a few of them are actually quite abundant! It is cool however that four of the elements are named after the mine and the other three named after Scandinavia, Stockholm and Thule (northern lands in mythology).
there was a swedish man who created pherriodic table
This video made me love Sweden even more!!!! Thanks for all the new information. Once I win the lottery.... (;
aww that's fun Freeman! I'm glad I could contribute to your love of Sweden😋🙌🏻 did you see the first trivia video I did by the way? th-cam.com/video/2MoDCb7dq4k/w-d-xo.html have a great Sunday!
Super interesting vid Gregg! Finding out that Sweden imports waste from the UK is like a rite of passage for a Brit in Sweden, couldn't wait to share that fact with folks back home!
Thank you!! it means a lot coming from a fellow Östgötskan-based creator ;) but you're so right - I used to do this all the time when I first arrived, point out things like the awesome parental leave entitlements to folks back home just to make the point again about what a great place Sweden was haha
A fact that I don’t think is very known is that Sweden has been very involved in crash safety for children, working to get high safety requirements that currently apply to children in cars in Sweden and many other countries. The Swedish research institute VTI together with NTF, SIS, Folksam and Volvo is the creators of the complimentary ”Plus test”, which test car seats a few tests extra than the current EU standards (ECE R 44). The Plus test is used in the Swedish market. The test measures the forces subjected to a child's neck in a frontal collision.
oooh that's a good one! There we go, Sweden making the world one step safer once again!
I'm swedish and I must admit I only knew two of the facts in this one (number 1 and 4). The other three were new to me. But that means I must provide you with two new facts.
1. There are between 300-400k mooses in Sweden. That makes one moose in every 25-35 swede.
2. The most published book in Sweden, apart from the bible, is the IKEA catalogue.
What about the phone book, before it was discontinued? Perhaps not. 🤷♀️ 🙂
wow great facts Josefine! how have I seen so many Swedes then and noot so many moose😆 and that book one cracked me up, too good!!
was that super popular here then?
The phone book? It was printed between 1880 and 2016 and every household, every company and every phone booth had one or several current copies. In 1880 it was just a few hundred copies for the Stockholm area, since the phone was a new invention (patented by Bell in 1876) but already in 1909 there were 260.000 copies handed out. The number of copies increased every year, for more than 100 years, until 2012 when it was being phased out. The phone book was handed out for free to your door once every year. For some areas, like Stockholm, there were several versions handed out since every phone number didn’t fit to one book.
@@Jonsson474Du får fråga alla källor som rapporterar denna fakta på internet. För övrigt hade min familj den allra sista telefonboken runt 2005 kanske. Absolut inte till 2016.
Speaking about Volvo i believe they were the first, or one of the first, car brands to introduce seatbelts. Don´t know wich year exactly but i´m pretty sure it was the Volvo 120-series or "amazon" as it´s commonly known, produced from 1956 to 1970. Still one of the best looking Volvo models imo.
were they? how interesting! what an impact that has gone on to have!!
@@kenjohan cool :D
And cars were using seatbelts before Volvo, but volvon invented the there point belt that we're used to today.
Also Volvo decided to not put a permissive patent on the technique as they argued that they didn't want other car manufacturers to skip out on the technique because of patent costs, as safety should be for everyone.
@@linco95 oh yes the 3 points belt, that's right i forgot that.
Yes Volvo Amazon was The first car with SEAT belt that are 3.0 in The 60,s
Knew the first four but not the fifth, which is actually my favourite! Sorry I don't have a new fact to contribute...although I'm living in Ireland with my Belgian husband, I'm Scottish. (Yes that IS my reason :D)
But, we are retiring to Sweden in early Spring next year, hopefully to the Vasternorrlands Lan. Just subbed to keep up to date with all things Swedish :)
Ah cool! Well I'm glad I was able to impart at least one new one for you today! Thanks for subbing and following along though, I've been creating videos about my adventures in Sweden for 6 months now, so it'll be super fun to have a new viewer along for the journey. Hopefully I'll be able to help you get prepped and excited for the big move next Spring!!
I think you should check who pay who for the garbage.
I'm pretty shure Norway and UK (and I beleive there are a few others as well) that pays the Swedish waste management companies to take the garbage away.
The more I hear about this place called Sweden, the more I want to live there. ;-)
Hi, wanted to tell you that Swedish companies get money for the debris we take for burning, company in Helsingborg get 500kr for every 1000kg and the sending contry also have to pay for the shipment.
interesting, thanks Henrik!
Great video Sweden seems the place to be
Sure is!🤩
I've never heard of the Korea- thing! Probably best forgotten! 😅 Great video! Thanks!
haha yeeep, I think we've got more chance of it snowing in July! thanks so much, fun to hear you enjoyed it!
I remember being so happy back in the day, new in Sweden, when the law against smacking children was introduced.
I knew the one about the recycling and the Volvo cars we sold to North Korea.
One thing you didnt know about Sweden. The pacemaker is a swedish invention.
Honestly, I have heard of all before except the one about North Korea, never imagined it Sweden would actually trust to sell them so many volvos
yaaay, at least there was one that was new to you😅 yeah, I'm not really sure how that sale came to happen either to be honest!
Not Sweden. The Social Democrats never fail to support a socialist dictatorship, by using the taxpayers money.
Hur ska man kunna förändra om inte man visar förtroende? Om jag inte missminner mig så har Sverige har varit det enda land i världen som har kunnat/fått medla mellan USA västvärlden och Nordkorea.
Late to the game but knew 3 of the facts so my 3 facts about sweden that you probably dont know:
- during the viking era while norwegians and danes tended to travel westward and southwards and thus are oftentimes the wellknown vikings, swedes tended to travel eastwards and southeast with trade connections going so far east as central asia, they set up tradeposts in modernday western russia, and because of the swedish vikings and tradeposts is actually where russia gets its name from today from an old word meaning roughly "the ones who row".
- Staying in a historical line one of the first kings in sweden we have historical evidence for was "Magnus ladulås" who got his nickname ladulås (barn lock) because he instated a law that said that while the swedish kings (and possibly aristocracy, cant 100% remember) had previously been entitled to nightroom and food for them their servants, soldiers, and mounts, from whoever he chose to visit in the country, which could bancrupt unfortunate peasants, now the farmers had a right to refuse. Practically putting a lock on their barn.
- the diffrence in time between all men being allowed to vote in sweden and all women (so everyone) being allowed to vote in sweden was only 2 years, tho because of the length of election cycles this was practically a 4 year gap or a 6 year gap if you count between when all men were legislated right to vote and when women could vote in a government election. This is because pretty much as soon as the men of the common class gained majority in the government, so after the first election where all men were allowed to vote they also instated a right to vote for women. The whole story is quite fascinating tho as the right for all men to vote actually happened after some liberal younger men of the voting class elected in a few men into the government who wouldnt even have been allowed to vote in the election themselves.
A couple of bonus facts cause I cant help myself:
- at one point in history moose almost went extinct in sweden due to a rise in poaching caused by famine coinciding with guns becomming commonly used in hunting.
- while sweden is a kingdom it has atleast one "republic" that operates within it as part of the country. The "republic of jämtland" was started in the late 20th century as a cultural project and protest in response to some controversial legislature going on at the time, while the "republic" holds no political power it has its own flag, crest, anthem, president, and a yearly celebration/music festival in Östersund where the president holds a yearly speech. A couple of years ago the president wven named the trainer of the local fotball team minister of sports and made an anouncement of a "national slogan" based of of the trainer and fotballteams motto of "we never give up" (tho ofc that was phrased in jamtlandish, the dialect/regional language of jämtland). And alot of Jamtlandish people lean hard into the republic thing and hold alot of national pride towards the region itself rather than or compared to sweden as a whole. This "republic" might arguably mean sweden should be termed an empire, the argument against that however is that the republic holds no particular political power of its own if one dicounts the fact the the republic itself does line up prefectly with jämtlands (och härjedalens) län.
Jag hörde om Nordkorea volvo affären från en annan källa och fann det hela fascinerande, bara räntan på fördröjnings kostnaden pga obetalda bilar borde vid detta laget ge oss en bra summa!
Ha en trevlig kommande vecka!
vilken otur att jag var inte först Sina😆 better luck for me next time haha det samma Sina!
Good ones! Didn't know about Volvo
thanks Johan!! I'm going to have to up my game even more for the next one haha
Sweden has the most islands in the world (over 250000)
Sweden have so much Forest that it could cover the whole of UK (and Ireland) with it, or rather 2 times the size of UK.
wow that forest fact is kinda incredible really! I actually thought about using the island one in this video, but I was worried too many people already knew it haha
@@JustaBritAbroad made a mistake too. Sweden has 280000 sqkm of forest. UK is 242000sqkm. The last word I wrote before should be ENGLAND, not UK. England is 130000sqkm. Less than half of Swedens forestland :)
Born and raised in Stockholm 🇸🇪 but I never heard THE part about 1000 cars and Korea!? Magdalena Andersson Will never see them again. En fråga: hur lång tid tar det för att redigera varje video? Antal timmar gissar jag
Really?! hehe how fun!! I'm soo pleased I was able to teach you something new in this video, it certainly was my intention after all! bra fråga! det kar ungefär 3-4 timmar redigering för varje video skulle jag säga - men sen så klart 1,5t för att spela in, lite tid med att skapa något thumbnail osv så per video skulle jag hävda att jag spendera 8 timmar kanske?
Did not know the one about North Korea! Fun fact.
But did you know that a lot of the swedish Hollywood stars went to the same school and even in the same class in some cases? Skarsgårds boys, Rapace siblings, Joel Kinnerman, Alicia Vikander - same school.
Thank you!! I'm pleased that I could at least squeeze one new one in there then haha. Nope, I had no idea!! which school is that? is it a big school for performing arts and acting? we have a similar school in England for music called the BRIT academy, where the likes of Amy Winehouse, Adele and Jessie J studied! Fun fact though, thanks for sharing!!
@@JustaBritAbroad - No, I think its högstadiet actually. One of them said it on a talkshow. Joel perhaps? Somewere on Söder in Stockholm.
@@familyupgrade uh-huh? interesting! I'm going to look into that!
@@JustaBritAbroad - Do please, I'm old with a selective memory, but I just LOVE these guys so it stuck - however bad. And I know it wasn't acting school because some of them never went.
(If you've ever seen an intervju with any of them, you gottta love being swedish. Alex Skarsgård is such a great ambassador for us all!)
What is your vlogging tool kit??
Hey! I'm not sure if I understand the question I'm afraid, are you wondering about my editing software? If so, I use final cut!
Ok, which device are you using for capturing video?
Maybe we could just buy North Korea with that debt, finally break the stalemate. Awesome.
haha the start of the new Swedish empire haha
Knew all except the one about the donation %.
Did you know that:
Botanic classification of flora and fauna with latin names was invented by a swedish ,botanist, Carl von Linné in the 18th century (17 hundreds).
Celcius degrees was invented by the swede Anders Celsius also in the 18th century (17 hundreds).
Swedes say hundreds when the english talk about centurys and easily gets confused around this (its now the 21st century but swedes say the 20 hundreds).
The now peaceful countries of Sweden and Denmark have a vast history of conflicts in the 13 wars between 1468 and 1814.
Great comments, I just have to say that Linné ( Linnaeus) was no king, he was a botanist, doctor, geologist and zoologist.
Funnily enough I used the celsius one in the first video in this series, but the others were fun to learn! thanks for sharing!!
@@bik7083 Omg facepalm, ofc he wasnt, thx for correcting.
The land rise is NOT unigue for Sweden. It is exactly the same in Finland. Generally when supposedly unique features of Sweden, like e.g. Allemanrätten, are discussed people, swedes included, tend to forget that the same almost always applies to Finland due to the common history.
Hey Christer, I didn't actually say that it was unique to Sweden :) just that its one of the only places in the world where its happening. But you're quite right about it being true for Finland too :) fun fact about Allemansrätten was that I believe it was actually created by a Norwegian if I remember correctly?
Oh djust shut Up this is absolut Sweden.
@@JustaBritAbroad Fair enough, I tought you did. About the Norwegian. Need to check that up. My impression is that Sweden and Finland have Allemansrätt, whereas Norway and Denmark do not.
Once again knew all of them. Not surprising being a Swede😁
ahh no Benny, rats!! now you need to leave some new ones for us!! hehe
The fact (?) that North Korea own us a large bunch of money was new to me. And I am 52 years old, and I am as swedish as one can possible can be 😅
What do you think of epa traktorer?
ooh interesting question! I actually don't know that much about them to be honest,b but it sure reminds me of country America when I see them out and about haha
@@JustaBritAbroad Oh alright. Its a really unice topic and related to sweden. Just asked cause it would be fun to see your opinion on them
Ha! Knew about everything except North Korea and the Volvos. But I am a Swede.
I know it is debated, but most often it is a Swede that is credited with the invention of the propeller, Ericsson. Most folks do not know that. Then we have Linné, that started naming stuff, also unknown to many foreigners. Then of course Nobel, that did much with a bang. Lindgren and Pippi Långstrump is famous all over the world.
Some Americans know about the Swedish exodus, caused by starvation and hardship. Swedes emigrated to the US on mass, and many died on the road. The Irish story is much more well known, but the Swedes suffered too (no shadow on the Irish!). Most folks don´t know about that.
ah you did?😱 glad I could bring at least one new thing to the table!! I didn't know that Ericsson fact though, thanks for sharing! how interesting :) I didn't know either about the similarities between the Irish and Swedish migration - I'd often wondered how so many Swedes ended up in America!
You already know my additions hahaha
ohhhh yeah hehe thanks for watching Herk!
heres 2 new facts
1. we havent been to war in 200 years bc we was not in ww2.
2.we dont use dolars pounds or euros, we use crowns and 1 dollar is like 10 crowns.
Just a heads-up. Some of the so called Swedish things depends on where in Sweden you live.
Some of the Swedish stuff you bring up I haven't even heard about here in south Sweden
interesting, because I'm actually living in the south too haha. which "swedish" things are you referring to from this video in particular though? thanks!
@@JustaBritAbroad lol I jumped the gun on this one and only reacted to the title. So it wasn't nothing in this video. I took for granted you where in Stockholm. 😂
Jag hade faktiskt ingen aning om att Kvarken kommer att torrläggas så småningom! Så du lyckades :D Jag är lite i chock xD
hahaha men vad bra😅 tack för att du tittade!
@@JustaBritAbroad Jag tittar på varje video du lägger upp 😁 Jag lär mig ofta något nytt, men också hur det kan vara för en icke svensk att flytta till det avlånga landet 🙏
Yes knew them all, sorry 😅 but I'm Swedish so.... maybe I can something new then, we celebrate names days every day has names in our calendar and im lucky because both of my names has a place in the calendar so I celebrate both of them and my birthday every year 😂 and there is a lot of inventions made by swedes that have a place in every day life, like the ATM machines or tags on clothes in stores that make it difficult to steal them. And so on
It comes from the catholic saints days. The name-days.
@@hannavictoriamorck5313 yes I know 😄👍
well done Maria! you beat me, this time!!😉😆 I'll have to try even harder in the next video haha yeah, I knew about the name days funnily enough (mainly because every year I'm jealous I dont have one hehe), but I didn't know the ATM was a Swedish invention?! cool!
oh it does? I didn't know that!!
Hej jag är från sverige✋
The debt to South Korea was news to me but definitely a fun fact. 😄
it was actually North Korea😅 but yeah, I had no idea either until I was preparing for this video! thanks for watching :)
@@JustaBritAbroad Oh, I meant North, just wrote wrong. 😁
Since I'm Swedish I knew...
Lucky you! Getting to be Swedish!!!! (:
nice Annica, well done! are there any new facts you can share for next time??
haha true!
@@JustaBritAbroad I'll try to think of something. You're doing a great job so far and I might have missed a few of your shared facts...😉
Thanks Annica! Looking forward to your input🤩😋
I didn't know about the korean sent
Many celebs espec in the u.s.a. use babybjörn, did you know It is Swedish
yes you're right, they do! I don't know if its so common these days but it certainly was!
1. Yes I did know that. 2. Yes I did know that. 3. No I didn't know that. 4. Yes I did know that. 5. Yes I did know that.
wow, you're doing quite well for someone that's not even made it over here yet!! you're basically ready for the citizenship test right now haha
@@JustaBritAbroad Per says I'm already Swedish, I just never knew it LOL.
Lasting energy - have you looked at Denmark? :-)
nope! but maybe I should :D
How are Britain?
In general? I guess I should ask you, I've not visited in a while😆
Did you know that is now forbidden for one parents to abuse the other in front of the kids?
no I didn't actually, but good job too!! when was this first introduced as an official law?
You mean verbal abuse?
@@JustaBritAbroad it came the first of July
@@linusfotograf den gäller all typ. Och det är för att skydda barnen från dessa relationer.
@@SannizDet är hårdare straff om det är inför barnen nu menar du? För olagligt har det ju varit länge.
Actually Norway and UK do NOT make money in us taking their waste. Norway and UK pays for Sweden to take it. So Sweden gets money and waste :)
Yeah, that's what I've heard before.
win win for Sweden then!
oops my bad!
II think you have it backwards, I think Norway pays Sweden to handle their waste.
yep, i think you're right, oopsie!
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thanks!
I knew about all of them except the Korean car debt. Allthough, as I understand it, Norway, U.K. and Ireland are paying Sweden to take their trash.
that's right, they do! bit of a slip up from me there, thanks!
With the highest tax’s in the world that they don’t mind paying …. Hmmmm 🤔 is that true??
Nothing new to me ;)
Oh.. but I'm swedish :p
where's your new ones then Andreas?! ;)
mjölbypartiet 2022
is this a fact? haha
@@JustaBritAbroad Ye ik haha
Sweden may be good at recycling but Swedes consume far too much in the first place! One look at a communal recycling station is depressing. All sorts of usable stuff!
These fakts are not New you can find it on Wikipedia so I know Them four of The five.
I never claimed to have made them up as totally new facts Stefan - I can only work with the facts that actually exist out there😅 and hey, it was just supposed to be a bit of fun! Glad you picked up something new though!
@@JustaBritAbroad It,s ok i do like your consept take care! 😀 👍 🤝
Of course they are not new facts. They are lesser known facts
Never herd of that nordkorea thing .... it is beter to maby stay in the past. Sweden will not see that money again.
Did you know that skype and spotify come from sweden.
Greg, you are horrible!😁
what did I do this time😱😱😅
The country Finland was never a part of Sweden!
Yes, Russia tolk Finland 1809
The region was
True. The country Finland didn't come into existance until Dec 6th 1917, more than a century after Sweden lost its eastern half to Russia.
@@evabjorkman7541 the region but not a country!!!
interesting!
Nothing new for me.
where's your new facts then Gaude?! ;)