Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland is like siblings and friendly. Except when it comes to Football (against Denmark), Hockey (against Finland) or Skiing (against Norway). Then it is WAR 😁
Fun fact: Sweden actually trained Norwegian and danish soldiers during ww2. Sweden also planned an operation called “Save Norway/Denmark” where they would send out about 320.00 soldiers to each country to help liberate them.
About the three point seat belt: Volvo gave up the patent for their intention, because they realised they had created something much more important than making a crapload of cash. ❤
@@tobiwobu2355 Good thing you told me the car factory in Gothenburg, Sweden has closed. Since i live in Gothenburg it is important news to me and i had no idea.
@@ViffeNifyyeah, I never see people anymore waiting with their food container for the bus marked Volvo Torslanda and I especially never see people working at Volvo Bus near Rambergsvallen 😂 I mean the economy plummeted since the Chinese took over 😂
I used to live in Flogsta (the place where people scream out of the window) and yes, it is true, but as someone already said, it is in Uppsala, not Stockholm. The general rule was that you were allowed to scream for a few minutes at 10 pm to relieve stress related to studies. People didn't scream every night but it was still frequent enough that you started to use it to tell the time. Many people didn't scream because of stress though, but rather to join in on the fun. At a few occasions it lead up to a pretty impressive choir of screamers. It was great for students who had moved there to study since it provided a sense of community.
I used to scream from my Flogsta dorm window in the 90s! The so called Flogstavrål/Flogsta Roar. Some weirdo used to cry "HOPPA!!!" (meaning: JUMP!!!) One can only hope that nobody took his urging literally since the buildings were seven floors high. Fond memories, nevertheless. .
someone told me that unfortunately Flogsta also had the highest rate of suicides per capita in sweden… sooo perhaps that ”hoppa”-screaming dude did some damage…
Fun fact about the origin of “Sweden” in Swedish! (“Sverige”, if you don’t remember). Sweden, before it was one big country, was mainly a kingdom called “Svea Rike” (then naming Svealand, it was right there in the middle). If you say “Svea Rike” really fast in Swedish, it sounds a little like “Sverige”!
True. But if your own country gets kicked out and one of the Nordic neighbours are still in we tend to lick our wounds and then support that team instead, don't we?!? Greetings from Sweden.
Healthcare in Sweden is "almost" free at point of use. It is free for all children. Adults have a yearly maximum of about 120 USD for treatments (matching the price of 6 doctors visits, if you go more often then that, the rest is covered) and 220 for prescription drugs. Over the counter drugs have regulated pricing, but no cost cap, so if you need anti-histamines or other drugs on a regular basis you are better off trying to get a prescription. Once you hit those numbers, the rest of the 12-month period is covered. So if you get really sick you will never pay more than about 400 USD a year for everything. And that is without insurence. Dental is not covered, although it is completely free for anyone under the age of 20. After that you can choose to have an insurence or pay as you go. I usually end up paying around 150-200 USD a year for two visits, but it is cheaper than my insurance would be.
@Snurres Having actually resently been critically ill and in need of life saving treatments, I couldn’t disagree more. (And to your second point: I never called it free, I called it free at point of use, very different!)
@Snurres Not that its really any of your buisness, but I live in a small town of about 35k people. I don’t know what turned you into this bitter person, but if taking it out on me makes you feel better, then go ahead. ❤️
Some of Swedish inventions Three-point Seatbelt, First Pacemaker, Dynamite, The Adjustable Wrench and Monkey Wrench, The Celsius Temperature Scale, The First Household Refrigerator The Zipper, Bluetooth, First Bolt Cutter, First Propeller, Spherical Ball Bearings, First Color Graphics Display Card (Graphics Card), First Telephone Handset, Three-Phase Electric Power System, Skype, Safety Matches, Rechargable Batteries, ICU Ventilators, Tetra Pak Food Packaging, Spotify, The First Tape Measuring Tool, Medical Ultrasound and Echocardiography, The First Bicycle Airbag Helmet, Lidocaine (Local Anesthetic) and was behind 20 discoveries of element in the Period Table.
@@terokupiainen1185 That' true, but don't tell them that since that particular fact does not sing well to a lot of Swedes nowadays. Neither does the fact that our governmental Institute of racial biologies made a huge "positive" impression Hitler... This fact is however rather drowned upon for a lot of Swedes who sees Sweden as the "Moral Superpower/Empire"... ;P
I think the reason for sweden being so inventive is we're having long dark winters, so you get more time to be inside and you have more time to think about things. Edit: New comment entierly.
Quite like how the Scottish are some of, (if not the), most innovative people inte he world. The common "nominal factor" is the particularly shit weather that we are given... XD
During WW2, Sweden didn't have all that much of an army.... So seeing that Norway and all those other countries got ran over.. what would be the best choice of action to protect the people? Yes, there is controversy in all that happened, but I remember being a kid in the 70's and 80's, and during summer this Norwegian family would come visit my grandparents... Every summer. It wasn't until later I learnt that my grandparents (And their family) had taken these people in as they fled Norway during the war.. and that friendship lasted for decades. I myself can sometimes think that sweden could have done more... but Sweden DID do a lot of covert stuff to help the allies.. There are plenty of documentaries about it. So... in all... I think Sweden went with the least bad choice. (Yes, I'm Swedish).
Same. My grandma’s family lived in Western Jämtland during WWII. The border is under 10km away. So I was hinted a lot of over-border shenanigans, like the resistance doing R&R&Medical east of the border. 🤷🏻♀️
Lapland (Sapmi) is an area across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Finland have opened a Santa Center in Rovaniemi (In their part of Lapland) Santa Claus in Sweden is not like in the UK. No fat man in a red suit, chimneys or raindeers. In Swdish tradition he's called Tomten and he lives with the household all year talking to the animals and watching over the family. If you have been nice to the animals and had good behaivour all year he might show up in his greybrown clothes and red hat on the 24th of December to give you a present, especially if you give him rice pudding with butter. Nowadays the tradition has been sort of fused with all the american influence of christmas movies But nevertheless a lot of Swedish homes have a miniature staue of a grey liitle Tomte somewhere in the house all year around.
Sampi (Sami land) covers the mentioned areas ...yes ....but Lapland....no.... Unlike Sweden and Finland does Norway not use the term Lapland. The term lapp is condescending. I know that Sami people in Sweden also think so ....and don't want to be labelled as lapp.....but Sweden don't care. While Norway was the first country to sign up in 1990 on ILO/UN convention 169 on minority/indigenous rights has Sweden not done so yet..... after 33 years.... ....so LKAB just can do their business as usual....
The inventor and industrial engineer/Designer Nils Bohlin that were working for VOLVO at the time, made it sure that his invention (The three point safetybelt) that even now saves so many lives, became public domain, are still public domain, and still saves lives!! What a guy!! An unsung hero in my opinion!!!
I live just beneath the Polar Circle. Last time I saw the stars was a week ago. Next time will be August 1. A month from now the sun will be shining almost all night. There will be a small sunset and sunrise in the middle of the night (because I don´t live above the Polar Circle), but not enough to get dark. Just dusk and dawn. And yes, in December it is very dark. You can´t even start to imagine how dark it is ... 🙂
Now that its summertime- ive literally not seen the star sky since march. I live in skellefteå, a pretty northern city in sweden, where the sun sets at 2 am and rises at 4 am during midsummer. So yes, the sun doesnt lower itself enough on our sky for its light to fade, so its just moody light during the late nights. Pretty interesting right? 😁
about the Ikea instructions. I used to think they were "meh" until I tried building furniture from other brands (looking at you, XXXLutz). After that, I realised how actually well-thought-out Ikea's instructions usually are. Also, the Ericsson Globe has been renamed " Avicii Arena" in honour of Avicii.
i like how you describe your "winter"... Winter here (north part of sweden(boden)) sun up 11.45 sun down 12.15 and the coldest we have had without shutting down schools and busses was -45c :)
Yeah i always think back to the winter times back in school everytime i se some news on the internet that the schools have been shut down becouse of a snow day somewhere else in the world. Having the entire school yard covered in snow was the best part of the year. Also wtf do they not have any form of heating or anything. The only time i remember our school got canceled for a few days was when some ass hade broken into the school during the weekend and turned on every firehose in the building. It was an intresting sight to se the lower section of the school turned into a swimming pool on that Monday morning.
I love how he is so surprised for like all of the facts, I live in Sweden and I didn’t know like anything of the stuff about the war and all of that stuff
Sweden was the first country that allowed people to write whatever they wanted, but nobody still said something about the king. Sweden is also the country with most freedom even more than America
I live about 4 hours away from kiruna with car so I am "saved" from the always sun/no sun. During winter I'll have 2-3 hours of sun if we're lucky and during summer there is like 2 hours of the sun "going down" which isn't really that dark since it's right around the corner. But the issue for me is how easy it is to lose track of time. 12 pm and 12 am looks the same.
Where I live in Sweden, at the summer the sun sets for about 2-3 in the morning and rises again at 4 o ‘clock. Though at the winter the sun can be up for max 4-5 hours a day
11:14 Our winters are terrible. The sun doesn't go up until about 9:00-11:00 (different depending where you live) and goes down at about 14:00-15:00. At some northern places at sweden, the sun goes down at 12:00 or 13:00 if im not mistaken. At the most northern places the sun never rises or sets (as you saw in the video). Not only the sun, but also the weather. This year we had about 1 meter snow in average. The snow often got mixed with rain, which made it even more depressing because it was almost impossible to go anywhere. At the end of the winter, when almost all the snow rains away. We have "Översvämningar", which means that the land is covered with water during a longer time period. At one point, there was about 2 decimeters full of rain almost everywhere in the country.
If you are going to Sweden then try to avoid the winter period. Unless you want snow and S.A.D. I do recommend May or June. When it's hot and there is lots of greenery from the spring.
Another thing about the Dynamite is that before it nitroglycerin was commonly used. (Nitroglycerin is extremely unstable and can explode just from a bump) and its just a much safer alternative
Yes, up North often the sun never sets and it's gained the name "Midnattssolens land"("The Land of the Midnight Sun"). I mean the purpose of dynamite was first and foremost to create a more safe and stable explosive to use in places like mines and such. Before you had a lot of nitroglycerine and similar explosives which could potentially explode if dropped and it constituted a massive occupational hazard that would continually claim lives. Alfred Nobel's father Immanuel experimented with nitroglycerin and in an accident it killed one of Immanuel's sons(Alfred Nobel's brother Emil) and was allegedly one of main reasons that drove Alfred to develop dynamite. In the Garbo bit his pronunciation of that place was so weird that I couldn't understand it, turns out he meant "Hötorget". Wait... Santa? In Lapland? No idea what you're on about, mate.
I think our early versions of refrigerators was just cabinets with ice in it so it makes total sense that it was developed in a cold country to drag out the cold season for the stuff we stored there. I actually have a mental picture from an old school book and that cabinet wasn't bigger then a regular night stand drawer which I guess would fit both ice and meat. I know we also cured meat with salt and put them in cool cellars that looks kind of like hobbit steadings hehe (you can see them everywhere still and for some reason they really freak me out) but I guess that was meant for warmer seasons
That tunnelbridge... From Sweden you travel on the bridge to a small man-made island named Pepperholm. from that island you go under the ground to Denmark :D
They forgot to mention The pipe wrench and the wrench. Spherical ball bearing. The zipper. Tetra Pak. Development of the telephone and the switchboard. The steam turbine. The three point seatbelt. And many more at 15:46 .
I remember when the Stockholm "Globe Arena" first opened. For all our outstanding knowledge of the English language, the PR team decided to call it the "Stockholm Glob Arena" in their press releases! It is now renamed "The Avicii Arena". ❤❤❤
Not 100% sure but i believe there is a rolling 1 year cost ceiling for hospital costs and prescriptions of around £99 (1 300 SEK). This basically includes anything hospital related except for the dental category. To clarify, you will never be charged more than £99 per year for hospital expences in sweden. For dental i believe many have a £5-10 ish monthly insurance, or dental procedures can cost a couple hundred pounds (not sure if thats expensive or not comparing to other european countries or not). Keep up the reactions, love it :)
It's correct. The cost cap is very useful if you have many medical issues. You can get subsidised dental care but only if you qualify (like have a medical condition that causes dental issues). Medicines have their own cost limit, but they're on a sort of a step system. Going from 10, 20, 40, 50, 70, 90 100% discount, depending on how much you've paid so far.
It's not quite correct. There are 2 cost ceilings, one for doctor's visits and hospitals, including all the medicine you get while you're there, and one for prescriptions you pick up at the pharmacies. the doctor's/hospital one is as you stated 1300 sek, and the medicine one is 2600 sek.
If you for some reason have to Stay at the hospital for Mary days or weeks because of an operation or you are sick it can cost Werthén Much. It’s 200 swedish kr per day
It s only far up north it s colder than north England. But you have snow too over there. Scandinavia is not the north pole. But up north in Norway, Sweden and Finland the winters are tough. Snow, ice and freezing. Sunlight only up couple of hours aday in winters. But summer there is midnightsun. Daylight 22 hours . Northern light in the winter. Scandinavia is not so different from northen England. Our culture and people and system not so different from Britian. Remember the vikings conquered British land for a while long time ago. Norway has always had close connection with UK. Especially in the 2. WW and after. The norwegian king is from the british royal family. His grandmother was a british princess.
14:49 Alfred Nobel made it his life mission to create a safe way to explode stuff after his brother died when experimenting with Nitroglycerin. Before dynamite there was lot's of freak accidents using explosives
Happy Belated Birthday Dwayne! I can't wait to watch more of your videos ps a few weeks back my mom and I did go to the Bridge tunnel it's really cool if you ask me
Yeah, yeah.. it was fun facts on sweden.. everything was kind of truth! In anyway.. its this about taxes that nobody understand.. its teoretical taxes/nominal taxes put in spreadsheets! Those says.. 32% salary tax.. as a median nominal tax over the whole country.. its regions and comunities that decide that! But there is a lot of reductions and deductions befor one get the last tax decision! The median salary tax is actualy 27%! In my healt care region one pay 100 sek for every visit/for every night at hospital.. up to 1200 sek for a 12 months period! For prescripted medecin one pay full price for the first.. up to 2400 sek for every 12 month period! Dental care is a bit more expensive.. it kind works the same way, at first one pay full price, then when the bills start to rise, one start to pay 50%/25%/10%, for a 12 month period! And in my healt care region there is a grant of 1200 sek to use.. mainly becuse they want people to visit a dental nurse for examination and plack removal.. befor its get worse! Count 1 Dollar/Pound/Euro as 10 sek.. for conveniens, one get the cost picture!
In the 1970s and 1980s quite a few heating plants were built, and today, when we are careful about garbage sorting, there has been a lack of garbage to burn.
Happy birthday or should I say grattis på födelsedagen! Taxes includes VAT and pther taxes, we don't pay 53% incometax, it's around 30% depending on your income and where you live.
15:10 Alfred invented dynamite to be used to build train tracks. After accidentally blowing his brother up and realizing how much damage it could do, he invented the Nobel prices.
Its fun becase half of the stuff in the video I learnd in school here in Sweden so I had already heard this stuff. Espacilly about Kalmar unionen I had a test on that in fourth grade! Gretings from south Sweden aca Skåne!
As someone who’s from Sweden it’s very funny hearing people pronounce words in Swedish! IKEA furniture is really easy to put together I don’t know what you’re talking about… 👍
23:20 as a Swedish person I had no idea about this, however I will not google it to find out. 24:32 I am pretty sure that it is (or was idk) obligatory to have at least one art piece in public places such as train stations, schools and more. Although I'm not sure where I herd this so please correct me if you can.
Sins the the upload is from a month ago you might already know this but, the dynamite was invented as a (stable) alternative to nitroglycerine and it is and has been used a lot in mining (one of Swedens largest income sources). :)
You have to check out Göteborg and Malmö too. Swedens 2nd and 3rd biggest cities. Both located next to water. Malmö is connected to Copenhagen, Denmark by a Bridge
I can't remember all the questions you wanted answered and I'm sure by this point most have been answered but: The one about health care. There is a cap of 300sek/visit (today) and as I recently went through therapy, I learned that there's an annual cap as well (1200sek at the time) which meant that when I reached that, all visits within that 1year period were free of charge
I live in a small town called Hässleholm in the south part of Sweden ( landscape Skåne) and in the winter , we only have about 6 hours of real daylight! That`s why so many Swedes gets depressed during wintertime, we don`t get enough sun. The weather can also change very much, one day it`s raining and the next day it can snow a lot!
Flogstavrålet (Flogsta scream) is actually in Uppsala and not Stockholm and yes it is true. It started with (what some say) with a student screaming out his anxiety about 40 years ago, and since then it's a tradition 😅
one of the things my family does in the winters, (if it gets extreamly cold) is that if our fridges is full, we just put it outside if we're going to use it in the next week or so
i actually been on the tunnel between Sweden and denmark as a swede myself! i was with my father and my little brother, i loved it! we were on our way to germany that time with our car because boats can be expensive😂
Fun fact They sure did let them use the railroad, but also getting some real information about the nazis. That same information about their operation in Sweden/Norway was a key part of the victory since they knew every move the nazi did in northern scandinavia
in the summer, Sweden is actually really hot. The average summer temperature is 19-26 degrees celsius, but there is mostly rain. But our lakes and oceans get really comfortable to bath in.
Spot on - that the sun doesn't set certain parts of the year (in the far north) really isn't that much of a problem. Although, that the sun doesn't rise (again, in the far north) - or more generally is very dark - for like 8 months of the year is.....TAXING, and sooo bloody depressing! Oh, and also (didn't see any comment on that) - that about ppl screaming 'their lungs out'..? Maybe it's just me - but I've never heard of that, so called 'phenomena'! ;-)
Universal health care in sweden covers hospital bills (You have to pay 250 sek for a visit (approx 30€)) and if you have healthissues by something its covered for this sum. (it will be applicated on each visit). You will have a max cost for around 2000 sek/ year, all visits after that is covered by the healthcare. When having prescriptions you get to pay a maximum of 2000 SEK/year (unless they have changed any of this max costs), after this "roof" is hit all prescriptions are also covered by healthcare. Dental in the otherhand is expensive here. You get a fund of 35€/year and can have a maximum of 70€ saved to your account. This is primarly the fee for checking up your teeths, if you need to fix something its not too uncommon to pay around 4-6k SEK/ problem.
Sweden did not invent the seatbelts! But the seatbelts in all cars now is based on the Swedish version of the seatbelt! Except in USA they use another version
Regarding the seasonal sunlight thing in Kiruna, there are places in Norway, Greenland and Canada that are even whackier. In the arctic archipelago of Svalbard, for instance, they experience the following pattern: October 1st, 2022: Sunrise at 07:32, Sunset at 17:58 October 26th, 2022: Sunrise at 12:09, Sunset at 13:11 October 27th, 2022: Sun does not rise February 15th, 2023: Sun still does not rise February 16th, 2023: Sunrise at 11:22, Sunset at 13:02 February 28th, 2023: Sunrise at 08:38, Sunset at 15:43 April 1st, 2023: Sunrise at 05:16, Sunset at 20:51 April 16th, 2023: Sunrise at 02:33, Sunset at 23:38 April 17, 2023: Sunrise at 02:14, Sunset after midnight at 00:02 April 18th, 2023: Sunrise at 01:49, sun does not set August 23rd, 2023: Sun still does not set August 24th, 2023: Sun sets after midnight, at 00:47 August 25th, 2023: Sun rises again at 01:14, then sets after midnight at 00:02 August 26th, 2023: Sunrise at 01:58, Sunset at 23:39 The differences in day length per day are the most extreme the closer you get to when the sun starts/stops rising/setting.
Not me singing along to the background music lol, also a traditional winter day consists of the sun rising at around 12 (10 if you’re lucky) and going down at around 15-16 (3-4pm for any Americans) so around 4 hours of sunlight, that’s 20 hours of darkness every day every winter
Alfred Nobel actually thought that dynamite would make it so that there were less wars. He reasoned that if both sides know that they can be blown up in the blink of an eye, they would bot see a point in fighting.
whats so awesome about volvo inventing the seat belt is that they never patended it. So it would be free for every car-maker to implement and save even more lives.
Dental is free up until the age of 21 if I remember correctly after that you pay around 50-60 gpb per visit depending on what you need done and we have a high cost cap on prescribed meds that is around 200gpb after that its free. going to the doctor is roughly 20 gpb per visit
What Alfred Nobel did what find a stable mix for Nitroglycerine and making it stable for use in mining operations, that's why its so dangerous to poke around old abandoned mines with dynamite, the sweating you see is the nitroglycerine leaking from the mix and makes it unstable again. This has then been taken to be more developed and use for other things like demolition and yes ofc war ;/
medicine is paid in full by the individual until you reach a certain point. After that its heavily reduced in a few steps. Doctors visits, non private ones, are covered after you reach a certain amount paid, counting from the first visit and a year forward. first visit in january, you reach the cap in april, you will be covered until january next year. dentist can be very, expensive, need insurance to help cover the bigger cost if you have issues.
Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland is like siblings and friendly. Except when it comes to Football (against Denmark), Hockey (against Finland) or Skiing (against Norway). Then it is WAR 😁
Haha, that's similar to England, Scotland, Norther Ireland and Wales. Friendly until Sports get involved lol
We are brothers. A lot of swedish people did joint Finland fighting Russia under Finlands cause is our cause
True😂
…and Eurovision 2023 (Finland) 🤣
@@MsEdenofSweden that was a big joke.
Fun fact: Sweden actually trained Norwegian and danish soldiers during ww2. Sweden also planned an operation called “Save Norway/Denmark” where they would send out about 320.00 soldiers to each country to help liberate them.
About the three point seat belt: Volvo gave up the patent for their intention, because they realised they had created something much more important than making a crapload of cash. ❤
And now volvo is chinese owned and is produced in china
@@tobiwobu2355 Good thing you told me the car factory in Gothenburg, Sweden has closed. Since i live in Gothenburg it is important news to me and i had no idea.
@@ViffeNifyyeah, I never see people anymore waiting with their food container for the bus marked Volvo Torslanda and I especially never see people working at Volvo Bus near Rambergsvallen 😂 I mean the economy plummeted since the Chinese took over 😂
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@@tobiwobu2355 alot of production is still in Göteborg, sweden.
I literally work with building those cars lol
Its fun to watch someone to pronounce the Swedish words, when your from Sweden
Yeah same
Yeah
Ikr😭
I laughed quite a bit.
Ja det är ganska roligt
I used to live in Flogsta (the place where people scream out of the window) and yes, it is true, but as someone already said, it is in Uppsala, not Stockholm. The general rule was that you were allowed to scream for a few minutes at 10 pm to relieve stress related to studies. People didn't scream every night but it was still frequent enough that you started to use it to tell the time. Many people didn't scream because of stress though, but rather to join in on the fun. At a few occasions it lead up to a pretty impressive choir of screamers. It was great for students who had moved there to study since it provided a sense of community.
This is correct. It is not in Stockholm.
I used to scream from my Flogsta dorm window in the 90s! The so called Flogstavrål/Flogsta Roar. Some weirdo used to cry "HOPPA!!!" (meaning: JUMP!!!) One can only hope that nobody took his urging literally since the buildings were seven floors high. Fond memories, nevertheless. .
Yes, in Stockholm it's called the Lappis scream, as one of the student areas here are called Lappis.
someone told me that unfortunately Flogsta also had the highest rate of suicides per capita in sweden… sooo perhaps that ”hoppa”-screaming dude did some damage…
@@saintofspades567 😲😥 I had no idea. Very sad.
It's -25 degrees celsius every winter in norrland. We get over 1 meter snow too.
It was so fun listening to them trying to pronounce Sverige😂
Yea so fun
Dude yeah
Fun fact about the origin of “Sweden” in Swedish! (“Sverige”, if you don’t remember). Sweden, before it was one big country, was mainly a kingdom called “Svea Rike” (then naming Svealand, it was right there in the middle). If you say “Svea Rike” really fast in Swedish, it sounds a little like “Sverige”!
Flogsta is a part of Uppsala and not Stockholm, but it is true!
Students scream out of their windows during exam periods to relieve stress.
Dane here, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden stick together stil, but when the eurocup come on we are enemies again.
True. But if your own country gets kicked out and one of the Nordic neighbours are still in we tend to lick our wounds and then support that team instead, don't we?!? Greetings from Sweden.
Healthcare in Sweden is "almost" free at point of use. It is free for all children. Adults have a yearly maximum of about 120 USD for treatments (matching the price of 6 doctors visits, if you go more often then that, the rest is covered) and 220 for prescription drugs. Over the counter drugs have regulated pricing, but no cost cap, so if you need anti-histamines or other drugs on a regular basis you are better off trying to get a prescription. Once you hit those numbers, the rest of the 12-month period is covered. So if you get really sick you will never pay more than about 400 USD a year for everything. And that is without insurence.
Dental is not covered, although it is completely free for anyone under the age of 20. After that you can choose to have an insurence or pay as you go. I usually end up paying around 150-200 USD a year for two visits, but it is cheaper than my insurance would be.
@Snurres Having actually resently been critically ill and in need of life saving treatments, I couldn’t disagree more.
(And to your second point: I never called it free, I called it free at point of use, very different!)
@Snurres Not that its really any of your buisness, but I live in a small town of about 35k people.
I don’t know what turned you into this bitter person, but if taking it out on me makes you feel better, then go ahead. ❤️
Some of Swedish inventions Three-point Seatbelt, First Pacemaker, Dynamite, The Adjustable Wrench and Monkey Wrench, The Celsius Temperature Scale, The First Household Refrigerator
The Zipper, Bluetooth, First Bolt Cutter, First Propeller, Spherical Ball Bearings, First Color Graphics Display Card (Graphics Card), First Telephone Handset, Three-Phase Electric Power System, Skype, Safety Matches, Rechargable Batteries, ICU Ventilators, Tetra Pak Food Packaging, Spotify, The First Tape Measuring Tool, Medical Ultrasound and Echocardiography, The First Bicycle Airbag Helmet, Lidocaine (Local Anesthetic) and was behind 20 discoveries of element in the Period Table.
And don't forget the Nyquist theorem.
Carl von Linné, (Carl Linneaeus) who created the system of classifying plants and animals and gave them scientific names.
Don't forget mincraft 😂
@@monikagoj5613 Carolus Linnæus was also the father of the "modern" race classification.
@@terokupiainen1185 That' true, but don't tell them that since that particular fact does not sing well to a lot of Swedes nowadays.
Neither does the fact that our governmental Institute of racial biologies made a huge "positive" impression Hitler...
This fact is however rather drowned upon for a lot of Swedes who sees Sweden as the "Moral Superpower/Empire"... ;P
Denmark and Sweden holds the world record for most wars fought between two countries, with around 30 wars fought since the 15th century.
We still homies tho
@@0BI-WAN.KENOBI Like brothers fighting with love, without realising it. XD
You’ll be surprised how many inventions that come out of Sweden 👍🏻
Skiftnyckel 🔧 😍😊
@fI1cker bälten är inte från Volvo första bältena kommer från usa. Dock var Volvo de som vidareutveckla 3 punktsbältet
Dynamit🧨
As a Swedish person, this is really fun to watch
I think the reason for sweden being so inventive is we're having long dark winters, so you get more time to be inside and you have more time to think about things.
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Quite like how the Scottish are some of, (if not the), most innovative people inte he world. The common "nominal factor" is the particularly shit weather that we are given... XD
During WW2, Sweden didn't have all that much of an army.... So seeing that Norway and all those other countries got ran over.. what would be the best choice of action to protect the people? Yes, there is controversy in all that happened, but I remember being a kid in the 70's and 80's, and during summer this Norwegian family would come visit my grandparents... Every summer. It wasn't until later I learnt that my grandparents (And their family) had taken these people in as they fled Norway during the war.. and that friendship lasted for decades. I myself can sometimes think that sweden could have done more... but Sweden DID do a lot of covert stuff to help the allies.. There are plenty of documentaries about it. So... in all... I think Sweden went with the least bad choice. (Yes, I'm Swedish).
Same. My grandma’s family lived in Western Jämtland during WWII. The border is under 10km away. So I was hinted a lot of over-border shenanigans, like the resistance doing R&R&Medical east of the border. 🤷🏻♀️
Sweden was on hitlers side tho because We had a smal army and We where pussis
Lapland (Sapmi) is an area across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Finland have opened a Santa Center in Rovaniemi (In their part of Lapland) Santa Claus in Sweden is not like in the UK. No fat man in a red suit, chimneys or raindeers. In Swdish tradition he's called Tomten and he lives with the household all year talking to the animals and watching over the family. If you have been nice to the animals and had good behaivour all year he might show up in his greybrown clothes and red hat on the 24th of December to give you a present, especially if you give him rice pudding with butter. Nowadays the tradition has been sort of fused with all the american influence of christmas movies But nevertheless a lot of Swedish homes have a miniature staue of a grey liitle Tomte somewhere in the house all year around.
Sampi (Sami land) covers the mentioned areas ...yes ....but Lapland....no.... Unlike Sweden and Finland does Norway not use the term Lapland. The term lapp is condescending. I know that Sami people in Sweden also think so ....and don't want to be labelled as lapp.....but Sweden don't care. While Norway was the first country to sign up in 1990 on ILO/UN convention 169 on minority/indigenous rights has Sweden not done so yet..... after 33 years.... ....so LKAB just can do their business as usual....
most swedes consider Tomten to be the traditional Santa Claus
kallar dom verkligen gröt rice pudding på engelska???
@@prageruwu69 Risgrynsgröt kallas för rice pudding men gröt i allmänhet kallas porridge och havregrynsgröt brukar kallas oatmeal.
@@prageruwu69 ja
The inventor and industrial engineer/Designer Nils Bohlin that were working for VOLVO at the time, made it sure that his invention (The three point safetybelt) that even now saves so many lives, became public domain, are still public domain, and still saves lives!! What a guy!! An unsung hero in my opinion!!!
12:17 I’ve been to Kiruna and in the summer the sun never goes away so it was always sunshine all night long
I'm a swed and it's really funny to watch a brit reacting to swedish facts
I live just beneath the Polar Circle. Last time I saw the stars was a week ago. Next time will be August 1. A month from now the sun will be shining almost all night. There will be a small sunset and sunrise in the middle of the night (because I don´t live above the Polar Circle), but not enough to get dark. Just dusk and dawn. And yes, in December it is very dark. You can´t even start to imagine how dark it is ... 🙂
Now that its summertime- ive literally not seen the star sky since march. I live in skellefteå, a pretty northern city in sweden, where the sun sets at 2 am and rises at 4 am during midsummer. So yes, the sun doesnt lower itself enough on our sky for its light to fade, so its just moody light during the late nights. Pretty interesting right? 😁
Hälsningar från piteå
And then in the winter, it's the complete opposite...
about the Ikea instructions. I used to think they were "meh" until I tried building furniture from other brands (looking at you, XXXLutz). After that, I realised how actually well-thought-out Ikea's instructions usually are.
Also, the Ericsson Globe has been renamed " Avicii Arena" in honour of Avicii.
i like how you describe your "winter"... Winter here (north part of sweden(boden)) sun up 11.45 sun down 12.15 and the coldest we have had without shutting down schools and busses was -45c :)
Yeah i always think back to the winter times back in school everytime i se some news on the internet that the schools have been shut down becouse of a snow day somewhere else in the world. Having the entire school yard covered in snow was the best part of the year. Also wtf do they not have any form of heating or anything. The only time i remember our school got canceled for a few days was when some ass hade broken into the school during the weekend and turned on every firehose in the building. It was an intresting sight to se the lower section of the school turned into a swimming pool on that Monday morning.
School never shuts down😭 Evryone 2020: OMG school has shut down evryone having party!!! Sweden:school monday to Frida idc about corona just learn
Flogsta is not in Stockholm. It is in Uppsala. Where our oldest and most prestigious university is located.
That area is also to 97% inhabited by students. The screaming is meant to aliviate tension of night time studying
I love how he is so surprised for like all of the facts, I live in Sweden and I didn’t know like anything of the stuff about the war and all of that stuff
you learn about those things in school
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Sweden was the first country that allowed people to write whatever they wanted, but nobody still said something about the king.
Sweden is also the country with most freedom even more than America
I live about 4 hours away from kiruna with car so I am "saved" from the always sun/no sun. During winter I'll have 2-3 hours of sun if we're lucky and during summer there is like 2 hours of the sun "going down" which isn't really that dark since it's right around the corner. But the issue for me is how easy it is to lose track of time. 12 pm and 12 am looks the same.
Where I live in Sweden, at the summer the sun sets for about 2-3 in the morning and rises again at 4 o ‘clock. Though at the winter the sun can be up for max 4-5 hours a day
It's impressive how we have accomplished so much despite our relatively small population
11:14 Our winters are terrible. The sun doesn't go up until about 9:00-11:00 (different depending where you live) and goes down at about 14:00-15:00. At some northern places at sweden, the sun goes down at 12:00 or 13:00 if im not mistaken. At the most northern places the sun never rises or sets (as you saw in the video).
Not only the sun, but also the weather. This year we had about 1 meter snow in average. The snow often got mixed with rain, which made it even more depressing because it was almost impossible to go anywhere. At the end of the winter, when almost all the snow rains away. We have "Översvämningar", which means that the land is covered with water during a longer time period. At one point, there was about 2 decimeters full of rain almost everywhere in the country.
If you are going to Sweden then try to avoid the winter period. Unless you want snow and S.A.D.
I do recommend May or June. When it's hot and there is lots of greenery from the spring.
Mellan hägg och syren. The best period for sure.
Vintern är ganska skön tycker jag. Det är dock deprimerande att snö inte stannar längre. Det smälter nästan direkt.
Another thing about the Dynamite is that before it nitroglycerin was commonly used. (Nitroglycerin is extremely unstable and can explode just from a bump) and its just a much safer alternative
Yes, up North often the sun never sets and it's gained the name "Midnattssolens land"("The Land of the Midnight Sun").
I mean the purpose of dynamite was first and foremost to create a more safe and stable explosive to use in places like mines and such. Before you had a lot of nitroglycerine and similar explosives which could potentially explode if dropped and it constituted a massive occupational hazard that would continually claim lives. Alfred Nobel's father Immanuel experimented with nitroglycerin and in an accident it killed one of Immanuel's sons(Alfred Nobel's brother Emil) and was allegedly one of main reasons that drove Alfred to develop dynamite.
In the Garbo bit his pronunciation of that place was so weird that I couldn't understand it, turns out he meant "Hötorget".
Wait... Santa? In Lapland? No idea what you're on about, mate.
I think our early versions of refrigerators was just cabinets with ice in it so it makes total sense that it was developed in a cold country to drag out the cold season for the stuff we stored there. I actually have a mental picture from an old school book and that cabinet wasn't bigger then a regular night stand drawer which I guess would fit both ice and meat. I know we also cured meat with salt and put them in cool cellars that looks kind of like hobbit steadings hehe (you can see them everywhere still and for some reason they really freak me out) but I guess that was meant for warmer seasons
That tunnelbridge...
From Sweden you travel on the bridge to a small man-made island named Pepperholm. from that island you go under the ground to Denmark :D
They forgot to mention
The pipe wrench and the wrench.
Spherical ball bearing.
The zipper.
Tetra Pak.
Development of the telephone and the switchboard.
The steam turbine.
The three point seatbelt.
And many more at 15:46 .
About the inventions: he said they were invented IN Sweden OR by Swedish expats. Most of them were still invented within the country.
as a swede, this is very funny to watch!!
I remember when the Stockholm "Globe Arena" first opened.
For all our outstanding knowledge of the English language, the PR team decided to call it the "Stockholm Glob Arena" in their press releases!
It is now renamed "The Avicii Arena". ❤❤❤
And now they have to globes of glass outside, you can ride up to the top. With 360 wiew. It's called Skywiew
Bruh , Sweden can never get over something, can they?
Everyone calls it globen so it’s not really a big change. I wonder why they didn’t rename it avicii globe or something like that.
This really fun to watch because i live in Sweden
Not 100% sure but i believe there is a rolling 1 year cost ceiling for hospital costs and prescriptions of around £99 (1 300 SEK). This basically includes anything hospital related except for the dental category. To clarify, you will never be charged more than £99 per year for hospital expences in sweden. For dental i believe many have a £5-10 ish monthly insurance, or dental procedures can cost a couple hundred pounds (not sure if thats expensive or not comparing to other european countries or not). Keep up the reactions, love it :)
It's correct. The cost cap is very useful if you have many medical issues. You can get subsidised dental care but only if you qualify (like have a medical condition that causes dental issues).
Medicines have their own cost limit, but they're on a sort of a step system. Going from 10, 20, 40, 50, 70, 90 100% discount, depending on how much you've paid so far.
@@SailorYuki Thanks :)
It's not quite correct. There are 2 cost ceilings, one for doctor's visits and hospitals, including all the medicine you get while you're there, and one for prescriptions you pick up at the pharmacies. the doctor's/hospital one is as you stated 1300 sek, and the medicine one is 2600 sek.
@@aniieesteiner However if you can´t afford it, the goverment can step in and pay it for you.
If you for some reason have to Stay at the hospital for Mary days or weeks because of an operation or you are sick it can cost Werthén Much. It’s 200 swedish kr per day
I've never heard of that screaming thing at 10pm, great video mate.
Now I really miss my weird little home 😫 (live in the uk, but from Swe)
Oh the winters are worse than yours mate, I promise 😂
I’m from the North of England so it’s pretty cold but I bet it has nothing on Sweden lol! I can tell just by looking at the landscape.
It s only far up north it s colder than north England. But you have snow too over there. Scandinavia is not the north pole. But up north in Norway, Sweden and Finland the winters are tough. Snow, ice and freezing. Sunlight only up couple of hours aday in winters. But summer there is midnightsun. Daylight 22 hours . Northern light in the winter. Scandinavia is not so different from northen England. Our culture and people and system not so different from Britian. Remember the vikings conquered British land for a while long time ago. Norway has always had close connection with UK. Especially in the 2. WW and after. The norwegian king is from the british royal family. His grandmother was a british princess.
14:49 Alfred Nobel made it his life mission to create a safe way to explode stuff after his brother died when experimenting with Nitroglycerin. Before dynamite there was lot's of freak accidents using explosives
Im an 13 soon to be 14 year old dude from sweden i love to build IKEA furniture bc they are so like lego which is one of my favorite hobby👍👍
im swedish and i even learnt stuff from the video
And the pacemaker is a Swedish invention (1958).
Happy Belated Birthday Dwayne! I can't wait to watch more of your videos ps a few weeks back my mom and I did go to the Bridge tunnel it's really cool if you ask me
As a swed I personally prefer Gothenburg over Stockholm, it’s a much more nicer city in my opinion
9:00 we (or the people at the time) basically said “as long as you don’t involve us, we won’t interfere with you”
Yeah, yeah.. it was fun facts on sweden.. everything was kind of truth!
In anyway.. its this about taxes that nobody understand.. its teoretical taxes/nominal taxes put in spreadsheets!
Those says.. 32% salary tax.. as a median nominal tax over the whole country.. its regions and comunities that decide that!
But there is a lot of reductions and deductions befor one get the last tax decision!
The median salary tax is actualy 27%!
In my healt care region one pay 100 sek for every visit/for every night at hospital.. up to 1200 sek for a 12 months period!
For prescripted medecin one pay full price for the first.. up to 2400 sek for every 12 month period!
Dental care is a bit more expensive.. it kind works the same way, at first one pay full price, then when the bills start to rise, one start to pay 50%/25%/10%, for a 12 month period! And in my healt care region there is a grant of 1200 sek to use.. mainly becuse they want people to visit a dental nurse for examination and plack removal.. befor its get worse!
Count 1 Dollar/Pound/Euro as 10 sek.. for conveniens, one get the cost picture!
I love Sweden.
Did you hear what year he said at 5:53. Yep.1523. Sweden is celebrating 500 years as a nation this year - Today, actually
Never heard Kiruna pronounced like that. made me laugh
In the 1970s and 1980s quite a few heating plants were built, and today, when we are careful about garbage sorting, there has been a lack of garbage to burn.
Happy birthday or should I say grattis på födelsedagen!
Taxes includes VAT and pther taxes, we don't pay 53% incometax, it's around 30% depending on your income and where you live.
15:10 Alfred invented dynamite to be used to build train tracks. After accidentally blowing his brother up and realizing how much damage it could do, he invented the Nobel prices.
Det är inte sant ...hela Sverige skriker inte 😂 möjligen ett kvarter tokiga Stockholmare . Det är lite så vi ser dem i södra Norrland
Its fun becase half of the stuff in the video I learnd in school here in Sweden so I had already heard this stuff. Espacilly about Kalmar unionen I had a test on that in fourth grade! Gretings from south Sweden aca Skåne!
The Flogsta scream is true, but Flogsta is located in Uppsala not Stockholm
As someone who’s from Sweden it’s very funny hearing people pronounce words in Swedish! IKEA furniture is really easy to put together I don’t know what you’re talking about… 👍
23:20 as a Swedish person I had no idea about this, however I will not google it to find out.
24:32 I am pretty sure that it is (or was idk) obligatory to have at least one art piece in public places such as train stations, schools and more. Although I'm not sure where I herd this so please correct me if you can.
Hello from Stockholm! 👋🏼 I have never heard of the screaming out the window thing 😂
Sins the the upload is from a month ago you might already know this but, the dynamite was invented as a (stable) alternative to nitroglycerine and it is and has been used a lot in mining (one of Swedens largest income sources). :)
You have to check out Göteborg and Malmö too. Swedens 2nd and 3rd biggest cities. Both located next to water.
Malmö is connected to Copenhagen, Denmark by a Bridge
I can't remember all the questions you wanted answered and I'm sure by this point most have been answered but:
The one about health care. There is a cap of 300sek/visit (today) and as I recently went through therapy, I learned that there's an annual cap as well (1200sek at the time) which meant that when I reached that, all visits within that 1year period were free of charge
Cool video my man! its really fun for me to watch as a swede! Peace 💋💋
I live in a small town called Hässleholm in the south part of Sweden ( landscape Skåne) and in the winter , we only have about 6 hours of real daylight! That`s why so many Swedes gets depressed during wintertime, we don`t get enough sun. The weather can also change very much, one day it`s raining and the next day it can snow a lot!
Flogstavrålet (Flogsta scream) is actually in Uppsala and not Stockholm and yes it is true. It started with (what some say) with a student screaming out his anxiety about 40 years ago, and since then it's a tradition 😅
I have lived my whole life in Uppsala and I've got to say, I'm pretty proud to be an Uppsalabo.
im swedish so this is fun seeing what people think
one of the things my family does in the winters, (if it gets extreamly cold) is that if our fridges is full, we just put it outside if we're going to use it in the next week or so
i actually been on the tunnel between Sweden and denmark as a swede myself! i was with my father and my little brother, i loved it! we were on our way to germany that time with our car because boats can be expensive😂
We don't stick our heds out and scream
Fun fact
They sure did let them use the railroad, but also getting some real information about the nazis. That same information about their operation in Sweden/Norway was a key part of the victory since they knew every move the nazi did in northern scandinavia
in the summer, Sweden is actually really hot. The average summer temperature is 19-26 degrees celsius, but there is mostly rain. But our lakes and oceans get really comfortable to bath in.
The "Flogsta scream" takes place, of course, in Uppsala - a city much older than Stockholm.
Spot on - that the sun doesn't set certain parts of the year (in the far north) really isn't that much of a problem. Although, that the sun doesn't rise (again, in the far north) - or more generally is very dark - for like 8 months of the year is.....TAXING, and sooo bloody depressing!
Oh, and also (didn't see any comment on that) - that about ppl screaming 'their lungs out'..? Maybe it's just me - but I've never heard of that, so called 'phenomena'! ;-)
bro i live in Sweden and love when English ppl try to talk swedish
Exactly but it is so beautiful to see sun in shining in the night
Universal health care in sweden covers hospital bills (You have to pay 250 sek for a visit (approx 30€)) and if you have healthissues by something its covered for this sum. (it will be applicated on each visit). You will have a max cost for around 2000 sek/ year, all visits after that is covered by the healthcare. When having prescriptions you get to pay a maximum of 2000 SEK/year (unless they have changed any of this max costs), after this "roof" is hit all prescriptions are also covered by healthcare.
Dental in the otherhand is expensive here. You get a fund of 35€/year and can have a maximum of 70€ saved to your account. This is primarly the fee for checking up your teeths, if you need to fix something its not too uncommon to pay around 4-6k SEK/ problem.
Sweden did not invent the seatbelts! But the seatbelts in all cars now is based on the Swedish version of the seatbelt!
Except in USA they use another version
I am from sweden and live in sweden🇸🇪🇸🇪
In swedish jag är från Sverige och bor i Sverige
Regarding the seasonal sunlight thing in Kiruna, there are places in Norway, Greenland and Canada that are even whackier. In the arctic archipelago of Svalbard, for instance, they experience the following pattern:
October 1st, 2022: Sunrise at 07:32, Sunset at 17:58
October 26th, 2022: Sunrise at 12:09, Sunset at 13:11
October 27th, 2022: Sun does not rise
February 15th, 2023: Sun still does not rise
February 16th, 2023: Sunrise at 11:22, Sunset at 13:02
February 28th, 2023: Sunrise at 08:38, Sunset at 15:43
April 1st, 2023: Sunrise at 05:16, Sunset at 20:51
April 16th, 2023: Sunrise at 02:33, Sunset at 23:38
April 17, 2023: Sunrise at 02:14, Sunset after midnight at 00:02
April 18th, 2023: Sunrise at 01:49, sun does not set
August 23rd, 2023: Sun still does not set
August 24th, 2023: Sun sets after midnight, at 00:47
August 25th, 2023: Sun rises again at 01:14, then sets after midnight at 00:02
August 26th, 2023: Sunrise at 01:58, Sunset at 23:39
The differences in day length per day are the most extreme the closer you get to when the sun starts/stops rising/setting.
The way he said Surströmming lmao
"Söerstoroming"
This editing is golden🤣
Not me singing along to the background music lol, also a traditional winter day consists of the sun rising at around 12 (10 if you’re lucky) and going down at around 15-16 (3-4pm for any Americans) so around 4 hours of sunlight, that’s 20 hours of darkness every day every winter
Flogsta is located Uppsala, not Stockholm. It's a large student apartment area. And yes the Scream exists, but not as common as he says it is.
Alfred Nobel actually thought that dynamite would make it so that there were less wars. He reasoned that if both sides know that they can be blown up in the blink of an eye, they would bot see a point in fighting.
The way ”Sam” prononcés the Swedish words😂😂
whats so awesome about volvo inventing the seat belt is that they never patended it. So it would be free for every car-maker to implement and save even more lives.
Lappland is the area above the artic circle and crosses borders between Norway, Sweden and Finland.
those that arent sweden might wanna use google translate for this: jag älskar dina videor Dwayne! Du är bäst! Fortsätt med de här sakerna!❤
Dental is free up until the age of 21 if I remember correctly after that you pay around 50-60 gpb per visit depending on what you need done and we have a high cost cap on prescribed meds that is around 200gpb after that its free. going to the doctor is roughly 20 gpb per visit
Congrats! it is my birthday today too.
I live in kiruna and the winter is almost 7 months. So its super dark, But in the summer the sun never goes down.
What Alfred Nobel did what find a stable mix for Nitroglycerine and making it stable for use in mining operations, that's why its so dangerous to poke around old abandoned mines with dynamite, the sweating you see is the nitroglycerine leaking from the mix and makes it unstable again. This has then been taken to be more developed and use for other things like demolition and yes ofc war ;/
Dynamite was mainly used on mining and that was first reason to invent it at all
medicine is paid in full by the individual until you reach a certain point. After that its heavily reduced in a few steps. Doctors visits, non private ones, are covered after you reach a certain amount paid, counting from the first visit and a year forward. first visit in january, you reach the cap in april, you will be covered until january next year. dentist can be very, expensive, need insurance to help cover the bigger cost if you have issues.