In Norwegian, a lot of animal names are [distinctive feature/familiar look-alike]-animal constructions. E.g. a skunk is a "stink animal", a tardigrade is a "bear animal", a sloth is a "lazy animal", shellfish are "shell animals", arthropods are "joint animals", and mammals are "suckle animals". #NorwayFacts

In Norway, probably the only country in the world with a national propaganda office dedicated to promoting eating fish, about 40% of people will react with a shocked "what, you don't even eat fish?!" when you inform them you're vegetarian/vegan. #NorwayFacts

"Tourists followed the satnav, got stuck some way down the groomed cross-country ski tracks" has become one of the winter staples of Norwegian tourism news. #NorwayFacts

Norwegian borrowed the word "truck" from English and spent it on the forklift. #NorwayFacts

It's Oktoberfest season in Norway, when every town of note puts up a huge tent in the central town square where the olds can get shit faced on beer served in special Oktoberfest mugs while dressed in their sexy "Bavarian" costumes. The season starts the first weekend of October and lasts all the way up to Halloween, a dress-up holiday much loathed by the olds for being "imported". #NorwayFacts

Octopus? Gtfo with your fancy Latin. In Norwegian, the language of love, they're called eight-armed ink squirts. #NorwayFacts

It's so warm today in the Oslo area I've seen several Norwegians deliberately seeking shade outside the bars and restaurants. This is very rare behavior from a people my wife once described as reverse cockroaches. #NorwayFacts

17 May Norway celebrates Almost Independence Day—by far the biggest nationalist celebration of the year, dwarfing actual Independence Day—with childrens parades, old-timey costumes, booze and flags. The reason is that, in the spring of 1814, Norway briefly considered itself an independent nation, wrote a constitution and elected a king (a seedling from the Danish royal shrub). Sweden, though, considered Norway a prize of war won from Denmark, and after a brief fracas, Norway agreed. #NorwayFacts

Norwegian world-renowned author, Nobel Laureate and noted Nazi Knut Hamsun's Hitler eulogy was published on the front page of Norwegian daily Aftenposten's evening edition on 7 May, 1945. The following day, the daily didn't publish a paper. #NorwayFacts #History #Bookstodon