аноним спросил(а):
What's a fact about Norway that most people would be surprised to hear?
stayinherewithyou ответил(а):
- lollipop is called love on a stick
- Norway introduced the Japanese to salmon sushi
- Norway stopped funding Walmart cause they employ minors and force employees to work overtime and pays women less
- it’s illegal to die in one of our towns (Longyearbyen)
- we are one of the top oil producers in the world but one of the most expensive places to buy gas
- it costs between 2500-3500$ to get the drivers license and you have to be 18
- speeding is often harder punished than drug possession
- we have a bee highway
- our reindeers have to be tested for radioactivity after the Chernobyl disaster and if they’re too radioactive they get released into da wild
- snow days? What snow days? There are no snow days. Once a bus to my school crashed cause of snow and ice and half the students that were in that bus still came to school.
- income tax returns are public so everyone can see what you earn
- Andres Behring breivik (you might’ve heard of the guy? Murdered 69 teens) got his ps2 replaced by a PS3 cause he threatened to stave himself if not
- we have channels who air 24/7 programs minute by minute like knitting, ferry rides and train rides
- the butter crisis. It was fucking ridiculous. We literally ran out of butter cause everyone got hooked on the high fat diet. People were caught smuggling tons of butter in from Denmark and Sweden and there were online auctions
- it’s not unusual for the Norwegian police to go months without firing a gun. Not one police officer but like, no shots fired by police at all
- transgender kids down to the age of six can legally change their gender