7 Facts about Finland

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Winters are depressing, and Finland has long winters. Despite this, the finns have created one the most interesting countries of the world and you want to spend your holyday in Finland, be sure to check out this video. Learn, Share, Subscribe ------------------------------------------------ Watch the entire series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbZJ71IJGFRTa_XMM9a4hDh2Yo9CsZzOR Follow: https://plus.google.com/+blinder00 https://twitter.com/Sebastian2Go https://www.facebook.com/official7facts ------------------------------------------------ In this brief video you can find seven little known facts about Finland. Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is one of Northern Europe’s cosy and tranquil capitals. Where is Finland? It is a Baltic state, although geographically part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, with a language that’s related to both Estonian and Hungarian. More information about the video content bellow: 1. In Finland, traffic violation fines are based on the drivers’ incomes. In 2002, a Nokia executive was fined $103,000 for going 45 in a 30 zone. Another person was given 60,000$ for going 65 in a 50 zone. They know how to make people slow down over there. 2. Finns are the people with the highest consumption of coffee in the world, at 12 kilos per person per year. Across all age demographics, an impressive 14% of men and 6% of women reported consuming more than 10 cups of coffee per day! 3. Finns are the unquestioned champions of sauna!Think about it: 3.3 million saunas for 5.3 million people. More than one sauna for every other citizen. There are saunas everywhere in Finland: Every newer apartment is equipped with a sauna, all hotels, gyms and office buildings have them. 4. Finland has the most heavy metal bands per capita in the world. While Sweden and Norway have only 27 heavy metal bands per 100.000 inhabitants, Finland boasts double as much, 54 bands per 100.000. 5. Finlands educational system is the best in the world. It’s a system that goes against the evaluation-driven, centralized model that much of the Western world uses. They rarely take exams or do homework until they are well into their teens. The children are not measured at all for the first six years of their education. As a result the difference between weakest and strongest students is the smallest in the World. 6. 10 per cent of Finland is missing. Soviet soldiers invaded Finland during the Second World War. The Nordic country later struck back with a controversial ‘co-belligerency pact’ with Nazi Germany, in which the nations were not allies, but agreed to be fighting the same foe.The Finns fought the Soviet Union to a standstill on the border, but had to cede 10 per cent of their eastern territory, including the second largest city, Vyborg. Post-war Finland had to cope with the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the lost lands. Finnish remained an official language of the Republic of Karelia (the Russian state that includes much of the lost land) until the 1980s. 7. The Finns invented the Molotov cocktail. At the onset of the Second World War, Stalin demanded to use Finnish territory for strategic purposes – he ordered that the Hanko Peninsula would serve as port for the Soviet Navy. The Finns refused, however, and Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister, declared that it was ‘time for the soldiers’ to do the talking. Some 65 men, women and children died in the first bombing raid on Helsinki, while Molotov snidely remarked that Soviet aircraft were only dropping ‘food parcels’. Later in the war, Finnish troops returned the insult by hurling ‘Molotov cocktails’ at Soviet tanks. More Info: http://matadornetwork.com/life/x-things-not-know-finland/ http://www.buzzfeed.com/frankmartela/12-surprising-things-in-which-finland-is-the-best-fvkn#.luPb1Zzvl http://www.businessinsider.com/finland-education-school-2011-12?op=1 http://www.historyextra.com/feature/animals/10-strange-historical-facts-about-finland Music: Steve Comb – Delta Is http://freemusicarchive.org/ Images: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102483784 http://www.today.com/news/finland-millionaire-gets-54-000-euro-speeding-ticket-t11651 http://www.cafetoria.fi/main/uncategorized/our-coffee-trip-to-the-andes-ii-enjoying-lima/ http://hdw.eweb4.com/wallpapers/24200/ http://pixshark.com/finnish-women-sauna.htm http://iloveuselessknowledge.com/2014/07/10/there-are-over-two-million-saunas-in-finland-and/ http://subcultureslist.com/metalheads-headbangers/ http://ourimgs.com/metal-love.html http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/finland-looks-spore-ideas http://bag-of-dirt.tumblr.com/post/68281445587/a-finnish-mother-and-her-children-take-cover-in http://spb-auto.livejournal.com/20034737.html http://stalinisballin.tumblr.com/ http://www.rferl.org/content/MolotovRibbentrop_The_Night_Stalin_And_Hitler_Redrew_The_Map_Of_Europe/1804154.html