[NCC] Did you know this about Finland?

[Tim Duffy]

- there is at least 187.888 lakes and 179.584 islands in Finland

- Finnish YLs received the suffrage the first in all of Europe

- Finland was, for the second year in succession, rated the least
corrupt country in the world

- Today there are more mobile phone than fixed network subscriptions.

- Finland's literacy rate is 100 per cent 

- Finns drink more coffee per capita than any other nation in the world
(14kg per year)

- The national statistics bureau says there is a sauna for every
household in Finland

- Many of the world's eminent newspapers are produced on Finnish
newsprint and Finland is one of the world's leading exporters of forest
products

- Santa Claus lives in Lappland, Finland (placed called Korvatunturi, he
has bureau in Rovaniemi)
and he has a radio station OH9SCL

- there is no polar-bears in Finland

- In the winter Finns use special ice breaking ships to break through
the ice in the seas, lakes and harbours so that ships can continue
sailing

- another World Championships in sports (besides WRTC2002) in Finland:
Wife carrying, Ice Pool Swimming,
Air Guitar Playing, Kick Sledding and Swampsoccer

- Estonia and Finland have same National Anthem (with the different
words)

- K0FF has own beer label in Finland

- "Finlandia" - a masterpiece of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was the
National anthem of Republic of Biafra

- two famous OH hams were also the track&field Olympians: Tatu
Kolehmainen OH2NT (1912, 1920, 
the brother of gold medalist Hannes Kolehmainen) and Armas Valste OH2NB

73, Timo OH1NOA