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Damn!! Hell no
Then you should like this swedish girl - Carolina Gynning. Use to be in the show Big brother, later on model and apparantly she now is a painter and people seem to pay a lot to buy a painting from her.
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Football Women's World Cup 2011 - third place for Sweden
Highlights from the game. Check out the second goal from Sweden (1.50 min into videoclip), the prettiest goal in the tournament.
FIFA.com - Sweden 2:1 (1:0) France
Highlights from the game. Check out the second goal from Sweden (1.50 min into videoclip), the prettiest goal in the tournament.
FIFA.com - Sweden 2:1 (1:0) France
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What an honor, lol No but seriously, that song is great although a bit generic.Shame though that Eurovision is spoilt by politics and that the quality of the entries is what it is.
Seems like the artists that go there are doomed to destroy their carrier
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We have a few members from Sweden. Things you didn't know about us/our country.
- The population of the entire country is only about 9 million over a 450,000 km2 land area (London has 7 million people over only 1500 km2. New York more people than total population of Sweden.)
- Alfred Nobel, a Swede who invented dynamite
- The countryside is empty and stunningly beautiful
- When you go into a Swedish home you take your shoes off
- Beer comes in three strengths; low, medium and high alcohol content
- IKEA (Ingvar Kamprad - founder of IKEA)
- H&M (cloth store)
- ABBA, Roxette (pop group)
- Volvo, Saab
- A few celeberties from Sweden: Victoria Silverstedt, Malin Åkerstrom, Stellan Skarsgard, Björn Borg, Anita Ekberg, Greta Garbo, Dolph Lundgren, Peter "Foppa" Forsberg, Peter Stormare, Marcus Schenkenberg, Max Martin, Elin Nordegren (Wife to the golfplayer Tiger Woods)
- The cars must stop for you when you cross the street as a pedestrian.
- Everyone drives with their headlights on all the time
- You drive on the right, and all passengers are required to wear seatbelts
- Schools in Sweden are free of charge, from primary school to university level.
- There is no toll fee on the highway.
- Nature is available for everyone in Sweden. This right is called the “right of public access”. But it comes with a responsibility as well; Don't disturb - don't distroy.
- You can drink the water directly from the tap everywhere in Sweden.
- Alfred Nobel was Swedish. Nobel Prize winners are awarded during a ceremony in Stockholm on 10th December every year.
- Stockholm is Europe's Green Capital 2010.
- By the early 1900s, 1.2 million Swedes had emigrated to USA. Today there are about 10 million people of Swedish heritage in the USA.
- Sweden is considered the third largest exporter of music in the world
- Sweden is the second largest consumer of coffee in the world, following Finland.apa
- Meatballs
- Carl von Linné (1707-1778) is probably the most famous Swede of all times. He was a botanist, physician and zoologist and laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclatur (family name and species) plants and animals which today is used all over the world
- There are 300,000-400,000 moose in Sweden. These can cause severe car accidents and a popular road sign is the "warning of moose" sign. Each autumn, the Swedes engage in moose hunting and approximately 100,000 are killed each year.
- 7.5% of all Swedes play golf (600,000 people). There are 500 courses in Sweden
- The home of incredibly hot girls, mostly blondes.
- Sweden is the country that, in proporton to its GNP, gives most money to other countries as development aid
- The country produces 80 per cent of the world’s production of fermented herring.
- Swedes suck at customer service
- Taxes are sky high
- Fuel prices are very high
- A significant minority of Swedes dispose of their dead pets by flushing them down the toilet.
- Mobile phone Sony Ericsson comes from Sweden
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I'm sure there are more intresting facts about us
no mention of mr Koenigsegg ??
