7. Facts about finland
After WW1, Finland emerged as an independent nation.
9/10 plastic bottles are recycled. Almost 100% of glass
bottles are recycled. Lapland is a region in Finland.
Finland is part of Fennoscandia, net Scandinavia. There
are more saunas than cars in Finland. In Finland slot
machines are monopolized by a non-profit company that
gives all its earnings to charity. At the wife carrying
world championships in Finland, first prize is the wife's
weight in beer.
8. More Facts about Finland
• There’s a golf club on the border of Sweden and
Finland. Half the holes are in one country and half
in the other. Passports issued by the UK, Sweden
and Finland offer visa free travel to more countries
that any other passports. In 2010, Finland became
the first country in the world to make internet
access a legal right. Every year Finland increases
in surface area by almost 7sq 2.7sqmi per year
because it is rebounding out from the weight of ice
age glaciers and rising out of the sea.
