Sweden pays students

US$187 per month

to attend

high school.

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Sweden banned spanking and other corporal punishments of children in 1979.

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Sweden had a Charles VII

but no Charles I to VI.

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There's a Golf Club on the border of Sweden and Finland: half the holes are in one country and half in the other.

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89%

of people in Sweden speak English.

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Advertising to children under the age of 12 is illegal in Norway and Sweden.

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Aborting a child because of its gender is legal in Sweden.

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From the Middle Ages up to 1809,

Finland was part of Sweden.

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Sweden has run out of trash

so it's importing garbage from Norway

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The band Abba wore ridiculous outfits to avoid Sweden's taxes, which allowed deductions for clothing if it wasn't meant to be used every day.

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Swedish wasn't made the official language of Sweden until 2009.

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Every year since 1966, the town of Gavle, Sweden, erects a giant straw goat for Christmas, and almost every year, vandals burn it.

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Passports from Sweden, UK and Finland offer visa-free travel to more countries than any other.

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In Sweden, parents are entitled to 480 days of paid parental leave when a child is born or adopted.

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The official Twitter account of @Sweden is given to a random citizen every week to manage.

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To study the health effects of coffee, King Gustav III of Sweden commuted the death sentences of a pair of twins on the condition that one drank 3 pots of coffee and the other tea for the rest of their lives.

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File-sharing is an official religion in Sweden. It holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols.

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King Charles XIV of Sweden had a tattoo that read "Death to Kings"

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There's a cruise ship that runs between Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki, Finland, just to purchase cheap alcohol.

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Sweden's Volvo made the three-point seatbelt design patent open and available to other car manufacturers for free, in the interest of safety. It saves one life every 6 minutes.

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In Brazil, just 43% of adults have a high-school degree. In Sweden, it's 87%.

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Sweden and Norway formed a United Kingdom from 1814 to 1905.

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There are tuition-free Universities in Finland, Austria, Norway, Germany, and Sweden with careers in English for international students.

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A man rode his bike from Sweden to Mount Everest and then tried to summit. He turned around 300 feet from the top.

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Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is built on 14 islands, and the city centre is virtually situated on the water.

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99% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust because the Danish organized a massive evacuation to neutral Sweden.

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You can't name your child "Ikea" or "Elvis" in Sweden.

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In 2011, a man was arrested in Sweden for splitting an atom in his kitchen.

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Ikea names sofas, coffee tables and bookshelves after places in Sweden; beds, wardrobes and hall furniture after places in Norway; carpets after places in Denmark and dining tables and chairs after places in Finland.

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In 1954, archaeologists excavating an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden found a Buddha statuette from India.

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Absolut Vodka used to belong to Sweden's government, until they sold it in 2008 for US$8.3 Billion to Pernod Ricard.

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A former king of Sweden, Eric of Pomerania, became a pirate after he lost the throne.

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Sweden has the largest scale model of the solar system in the world. It is in the scale of 1:20 million and stretches 950 km across the country.

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Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they "felt gay".

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Swedish blood donors first recieve a 'Thank you' text when they initially donate blood, but they also recieve a text whenever their blood is used to help someone.

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Only one of Sweden's

top 20 surnames

doesn't end in “son”:

Lindberg.

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Sweden has a bigger share of

foreign-born residents than the U.S.

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In September 3, 1967, traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right.

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In 1974, Kim Il-sung took 1,000 Volvo sedans from Sweden to North Korea and never paid for them.

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In 1766, Sweden became the first country in the world to introduce a constitutional law to abolish censorship.

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In 19th-century Sweden, 380 kids were strangled by their mothers or nurses every year, according to the Swedish Statistical Bureau.

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Sweden makes biofuel from dead rabbits.

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In 2015, Apple Inc. was worth more than Switzerland, Sweden or Nigeria.

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The static on TV is referred to as "myrornas krig" in Sweden, meaning "war of the ants."

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Sweden has tax breaks on repairs to clothes, bicycles, fridges and washing machines.

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Sweden has their own national font, Sweden Sans, to "unambiguously represent Sweden in the world."

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More than 300 people from Sweden went to fight for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, making it a big exporter of jihadists in Europe.

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Switzerland, Sweden and The Netherlands were the UN's most innovative countries in the world in 2017.

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In Sweden, you can buy toilet paper called Kräpp.

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More than 6,000 Swedish men have the first name "Love."

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In Sweden, there's a shopping centre dedicated entirely to repaired and up-cycled goods.

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In Sweden, up to 63,000 people, mostly women, were sterilised under a state-approved racial purity programme until 1976.

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