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Finland True or False?
Can you guess whether these statements about the country of Finland are true or false?
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Last updated: January 26, 2021
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| First submitted | January 26, 2021 |
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1.
No part of Finland is on the Scandinavian peninsula
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Northwestern Finland is on the Scandinavian peninsula, but Finland is not strictly part of Scandinavia
2.
Finland fought both alongside and against Germany in WW2
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Alongside in the Continuation War and against in the Lapland War
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Finnish author Jean Sibelius wrote more than two hundred novels
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Sibelius is Finland's most famous composer
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Beating yourself with a branch is normal in a Finnish sauna
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Rolling naked in the snow between sauna sessions is another tradition
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Lapland is a fictional place based on Northern Finland
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Lapland is a real area of Northern Finland (and Sweden), though the real Santa Claus is rarely spotted there
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The man with the highest number of sniper kills in any major war was Finnish
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Simo Häyhä is believed to have killed over 500 men of the Soviet Army during the Winter War of 1939-40
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Finland has the most lakes of any country
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This is a myth created by different countries having different definitions of the size of a lake. By like to like comparison Canada has the most lakes
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The average Finn consumes 12kg of coffee every year
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They vie with Luxembourg for the title of world's biggest coffee drinkers
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Wild polar bears are found in Finland
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There are wild brown bears in Finland, but no wild polar bears
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Finland has more Winter Olympic medals than Summer Olympic medals
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Most of their medals are for athletics and wrestling. In the Winter Olympics cross country skiing is Finland's best event by far
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Wife-carrying is a Finnish sport
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World championships have been held since 1997
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The World Happiness Report ranked Finland #1 in 2020
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:o)
14.
Finnish salted liquorice was originally given to children as punishment
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It was probably originally a cough medicine, until people developed a taste for it... somehow...
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A Burger King in Helsinki has its own sauna
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Sounds like a whopper, but it's true
kempo
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Level 85
Jan 26, 2021
Finnish is about as closely related to Hungarian as English is to Russian. The languages belong to different branches of the Uralic language family.
overtired
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Level 84
Jan 26, 2021
Thanks for the correction. I've swapped out that question for a different one.
vermiciousknid
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Level 88
Jan 29, 2021
This one was tough, I got less than half correct. Lots of interesting facts, though!
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