Strange And Interesting Facts About Life In Norway You Probably Didn’t Know

This also goes for their choldren, princess Märtha Louise and prince Haakon, who married "ordinary" people. 🤴👸

Love is love :)

that's interesting

Aww. This is an awesome love story. There should be a movie about it.

The sashes and medals always ruin the dresses.

Waddle your way to glory, buddy! Oh, wait, ur already there.

Woaahh!

Pingviner er veldige brå!

He actually looks pretty royal...heehee

Why? I have nothing against penguins but why? Does the penguin know.his title.

What a little bit lost money when compared to better education? I wanna live in Norway now.

That's still cheap. In Zimbabwe right now gasoline costs $12.53 per gallon (https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Zimbabwe/gasoline_prices/)

We still has student loans though. And healthcare isn't totally free.

Holy Moley. They pay a lot of money for gas in Brazil, too.

If you consider the salarylevel only Denmark has cheaper gas in Europe..

It all has to do with "Janteloven", or the law of Jante, which is a set of social guidelines originating from a 1930s novel, but rooted in far older unwritten social rules of conduct common to the Nordic countries and which go something like this "You are not to think you're anyone special or that you're better than us." Basically, whereas countries such as the US glorify individualism and personal freedom, for the Nordics, collective achievements come first up and to the suppression of individual achievements, because it thinks of people only as parts of society, not as individuals. For example, if an American kid wins a school contest, the kid will get the credit, whereas if a Norwegian kid will win, the school gets the credit.

Lets get this straight, and even more interesting? The king did try to pay, that much is true. But the conductor did not take his money as the kings adjunct already had settled it for him. So yeah, he didnt pay for himself actually. This photo was taken in 1973 during the oil crises when there was were restrictions on driving private cars, and became kind of a statement. The king was actually born in Denmark, as we had to import a danish prince, his father, to be our king, as we had been ruled over by first Denmark and then Sweden for centuries. Our present king Harald (first photo in this tread) is in fact our first true born Norwegian king in modern time. Now for the fun fact! Seated behind Olav is Mohammed Fayyaz, one of the first Pakistani immigrants to Norway. He was going to Frognerseteren Restaurant where he worked cleaning the dishes. He ended up starting one of the first fast food restaurants in this part of Norway, which still is open today in fact.

Lead by example. I respect him.

We had alternate car free days in Yugoslavia, depending if your plates ended in odd or even number ...

Can we try that nowdays?

You'd be surprised what a source of pride this is for us brits.

Nova Scotia gives a similar tree every year to the city of Boston for their help after the Halifax Explosion. Such a lovely gesture these trees are!

Apparently the Brit's got a crappy three from us last year. It was half dead when it arrived I think. Or did they get a new one?

That's my favourite kind! Takk, Norge!

Eating too much raw fish is linked to gastric cancer.

Salmon from the Oslofjorden is the very best! My Pappa would go fishing long before dawn on Sunday, then we'd have salmon for middag. I had always hated salmon, for its very oily, fishy flavor. This salmon was almost sweet, no fishy-ness, and we had it ALMOST EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY lol as much as we wanted! Even 30 years ago salmon like that was so expensive, it was served in restaurants in the US. I've had salmon from all over, but that salmon will always be the worlds best to me. But I was very grossed out that shrimps had not only heads, but EYES. and feelers on their heads and EGGS between their legs!!! My family sucked the eggs out, the ripped the heads off and sucked them (OK I now know US crawdads have their heads sucked too) then toss them to be crunched by our dog, then peeled and then...Put. On. Bread, With.......MAYONNAISE!!!!!!! Cocktail sauce was nasty to them LOL I got used to the mayo bread , but the rest NOPE! I really tried.

omg. so glad they both did that. That is one of my favorite sushi kind. Yummy.

Wow!

This makes me happy!

Could someone explain why please :)? I'm really curious into this one!

Well, that settles it! I'm moving, y'all!

I leave in Norway and all I'm gonna say is a big NO

My host family gifted me a bunad of my own. It was years later I realized just how much it was worth, not just $$$ but as a member of their family. I was more than a host daughter to them. They saw me as a real daughter and I am forever a part of this amazing family.

Its also like that in Russia and Estonia

-5 C isn't cold.. Kids in kindergarden play outside in -20 C (-4F for the weird once). We have a saying "There is no bad weather, just bad clothing".

I completely agree. I leave my window open or cracked all winter to keep fresh air flowing. I never catch the colds everyone else in my house gets.

not only norway, all baltic countries do that. i was born in november and went straight to sleep in balcony. mom says it was -15C. nobody freezes as there's no bad weather, just bad clothes

I read of a woman being arrested I think it was in the US for leaving her child outside whilst being it a pub. She was from Denmark and didn't expect it was not allowed in other locations