16 amazing facts about Sweden that do not fit into the head of a Russian person

TravelAsk has compiled some interesting, surprising, and unknown facts about Sweden that will surely amaze you. And some of them do not fit into your head at all!

In Sweden, parents are entitled to 480 days of paid maternity leave if they have a child or adopt him.

Every week, Sweden’s official Twitter account, @Sweden, is transferred “under control” to one of the country's citizens, who are randomly selected.

Passports of citizens of Sweden, the UK and Finland provide visa-free entry to most countries of the world.

89% of the population of Sweden speaks English.

In Sweden it is forbidden to name the children of Ikea or Elvis.

High school students receive a scholarship of $ 187 per month.

There is a cruise ship cruising between Stockholm and Helsinki, on which people move to get cheap alcohol.

Sweden has run out of trash, so it imports it from Norway.

The alcohol brand Absolut Vodka was owned by the Swedish government until it sold it in 2008 to Pernod Ricard for $ 8.3 million.

ABBA members wore funny stage costumes to pay less taxes. The fact is that the laws of Sweden allow you to deduct from the profit the amount that should be spent on the purchase of work clothes, provided that these clothes can not be worn every day.

Stockholm is built on 14 islands and the city center is located almost on the water.

99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust only because the Danes organized mass evacuations of Jews to neutral Sweden.

IKEA names sofas, tables, and shelves after the various geographical locations in Sweden; beds, wardrobes and hallway furniture are the names of places in Norway; Carpets are referred to as different parts of Denmark, and dining tables and chairs are referred to as Finland.

In Sweden is the largest model of the solar system in the world, the scale of which is 1:20 000 000.

In Sweden, until 1979, homosexuality was classified as a mental illness.

Swedish was not the official language of the state until 2009.

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