Other quirkiness:
- Finland has 45 firearms per 100 people (3rd highest in the world) yet is was ranked the safest country in the world.
- Enough saunas that the whole population could do it at the same time.
- Most heavy metal bands, per population.
- Annual championships in wife-carrying, air-guitar, boot and phone throwing, sauna, cattle calling, swamp soccer, mosquito swatting, ant nest sitting, etc.
- Mämmi: food that looks like diarrhea.
- Candies made of tar.
- Birch branches are used to whip yourself with in sauna.
- New years tradition of throwing melted tin in water. The shape tells of the future.
- Easter tradition of kids dressing up as witches and going trick-or-treating.
- No trespassing laws, so you can roam and camp anywhere (although not too close to anyone's home).
- Finland is a 3rd world country by the original cold war definition (politically non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist block).
- Finland has 45 firearms per 100 people (3rd highest in the world) yet is was ranked the safest country in the world.
- Enough saunas that the whole population could do it at the same time.
- Most heavy metal bands, per population.
- Annual championships in wife-carrying, air-guitar, boot and phone throwing, sauna, cattle calling, swamp soccer, mosquito swatting, ant nest sitting, etc.
- Mämmi: food that looks like diarrhea.
- Candies made of tar.
- Birch branches are used to whip yourself with in sauna.
- New years tradition of throwing melted tin in water. The shape tells of the future.
- Easter tradition of kids dressing up as witches and going trick-or-treating.
- No trespassing laws, so you can roam and camp anywhere (although not too close to anyone's home).
- Finland is a 3rd world country by the original cold war definition (politically non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist block).