Finland has a huge collection of quirky things, really:
- the allegedly worst musicians: Elekäläiset
- Literature that starts with glorification of collective suicide only to be attempted, failed, called off some pages later. Then rescheduled, and called off again, lather, rinse, repeat.
- the most quirky looking blues-harpists: Sväng
- allegedly Finland remains the only nation without weaponizable satellites
- Finnish music, from classical through to folk, rock, metal and Avant-Garde there's literally everything and anything. Did you know they invented Tango?
- Finland is kind of the opposite of Japan with its many islands when it comes to lakes. There are too many of them to count.
- The language is amazingly versatile and abstract. The Finns also don't like borrowing words from other languages. If there's a word, there's probably a Finnish construct for it that sounds nothing like what you've heard of.
- Home to a certain author famous for pissing off translators for her frivolous approach at above language.
- Finland is, together with Scandinavia, home to an amazing bunch of Eurasian indigenous people
- Finland is home to the creepiest Santa Claus there is. No dispute there.
- Oh, and whatever started on that comp.os.minix newsgroup in 1991 is currently running my entire IT infratructure as well as that of my workplace's.
I could provide sources to all of these claims, but that would be no fun at all, right?
- the allegedly worst musicians: Elekäläiset
- Literature that starts with glorification of collective suicide only to be attempted, failed, called off some pages later. Then rescheduled, and called off again, lather, rinse, repeat.
- the most quirky looking blues-harpists: Sväng
- allegedly Finland remains the only nation without weaponizable satellites
- Finnish music, from classical through to folk, rock, metal and Avant-Garde there's literally everything and anything. Did you know they invented Tango?
- Finland is kind of the opposite of Japan with its many islands when it comes to lakes. There are too many of them to count.
- The language is amazingly versatile and abstract. The Finns also don't like borrowing words from other languages. If there's a word, there's probably a Finnish construct for it that sounds nothing like what you've heard of.
- Home to a certain author famous for pissing off translators for her frivolous approach at above language.
- Finland is, together with Scandinavia, home to an amazing bunch of Eurasian indigenous people
- Finland is home to the creepiest Santa Claus there is. No dispute there.
- Oh, and whatever started on that comp.os.minix newsgroup in 1991 is currently running my entire IT infratructure as well as that of my workplace's.
I could provide sources to all of these claims, but that would be no fun at all, right?