Eivind (like the Terrible) ✨YMCA plays in the top men's football¹ league in Norway. #NorwayFacts
¹the one where an actual ball is mostly manipulated with the feet, not the one where an oval is mostly manipulated with the hands
Reading about the old Norwegian drink "grønn genser" (green sweater) which is simply a small glass of cheap (red) port poured into a pilsner-type beer. It's described as the "national" drink of Oslo in the 30s, a true working class drink, and a Sunday drink because of some restrictions on what kind og alcohol the "brown" cafés (places serving cheap, nourishing food and cheap booze, similar to pubs) were allowed to serve on the Lord's day. #NorwayFacts
Pilum::🌞When we think that something is completely crazy we say that it's "hole in the head."
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