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Interesting Facts about Sweden

Trivia, oddities, and curious tidbits about Sweden.

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19 curious facts about Sweden.

They put their tooth in a glass of water. In the morning their tooth will be gone and a coin will be in the glass.
Every year, the Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. Alfred Nobel, who founded the prizes, was a Swedish manufacturer of armaments and explosives.
In July 2000, a bridge linking Sweden and Denmark was opened by Sweden's King Carl Gustav xvi and Denmark's Queen Margrethe II. The 16-kilometre Öresund Link spans the water between Lernacken, near Malmö, and Kastrup, near Copenhagen.
One-seventh of Sweden lies north of the Arctic Circle. This region is called the Land of the Midnight Sun because the sun shines almost 24 hours a day for several weeks in late June and early July. In December and January, the sun barely rises above the horizon.

During Sweden's great expansion in the 17th century, the country founded a short-lived colony in what is now Delaware in North America.
The heir to King Carl Gustaf XV is his daughter Princess Victoria. In Sweden, the heir to the throne is the first-born child, not the first-born son.
Saab, the Swedish company that produces cars, was originally an aircraft manufacturer.
IKEA, the furniture manufacturing and retail company, was founded in Sweden in 1943. The name IKEA comes from the initials of the founder, Ingvar Kamprad, and the first letters of Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, the farm and village where he grew up.
The popularity of tennis in Sweden increased dramatically in the 1970s when Swedish player Björn Borg won his first Wimbledon title. He won the Wimbledon championship five times in a row.
Every March, thousands of Swedes take part in an 86-kilometre cross-country ski race called the Vasaloppet (Vasa Race). This race commemorates an event in 1523, when Gustav Vasa, who rallied the Swedes against the Danes, was forced to flee for his life on skis.