{"version":"1.0","type":"stack","id":"c793c6f5-f3f8-4f28-9e73-cd422014104f","url":"https://stacklist.com/c/education/stack/Kkwxtx0FCYWmh5lcDSzp","title":"Oslo - Fun Facts","description":"bunch of fun facts about Oslo but also for Norway in general.\ncheck them out, for some I bet you will be surprised.","privacy":"public","created_at":"2025-05-12T18:13:54.292Z","updated_at":"2025-09-12T06:09:00.600Z","author":{"username":"martina-ri","name":"Martina Zrnec","url":"https://stacklist.com/martina-ri","type":"person"},"category":{"id":"education","name":"education","url":"https://stacklist.com/c/education"},"items":[{"id":"501000cb-b26e-449e-8f25-4bebcd174f71","position":1,"title":"Viking - with a helmet?","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/b8d2494f-ace7-4cc8-b850-7562c6bf463e/-/preview/800x600/","note":"It’s actually very likely that Vikings did not use helmet at all. Only 1 helmet has ever been\nuncovered, the Viking helmet is sadly just a legend.\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/b8d2494f-ace7-4cc8-b850-7562c6bf463e/-/preview/800x600/","alt":"Viking - with a helmet?","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/501000cb-b26e-449e-8f25-4bebcd174f71","created_at":"2025-05-13T18:49:02.940Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"a6bbcd57-2b57-4304-91e8-e673416691b7","position":2,"title":"Sculptures in Vigeland Park","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/b0668409-71da-412e-92e5-b69065e8b49f/IMG_0736.jpeg","note":"Vigeland Park is a sculpture park in Oslo’s Frogner Park that has 212 bronze and granite sculptures by artist Gustav Vigeland. \n\nThe park attracts millions of visitors annually and is one of Norway’s most-visited cultural sites. All 212 statues depict human beings of diferent ages, sexes and sizes, stuck in different and sometimes perplexing poses. \n\nVigeland wanted his statues to capture all the aspects of a person’s life, both in a literal and in a metaphorical sense. And he made them all naked, so that they remain timeless. \n\nOriginally, the idea was that Vigeland’s statues would be placed in downtown Oslo. In particular one of the two centerpieces of the park, the Fountain, was supposed to be in front of the Norwegian Parliament and the other, the Monolith, was supposed to be above Oslo Central Station. \n\nBut as Vigeland kept creating more and more statues and his fame increased, the city decided to keep all of them near the artist’s own studio, where there was an open parkland back then. \n\nVigeland agreed and thus the Vigeland Sculpture Park was created!\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/b0668409-71da-412e-92e5-b69065e8b49f/IMG_0736.jpeg","alt":"Sculptures in Vigeland Park","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/a6bbcd57-2b57-4304-91e8-e673416691b7","created_at":"2025-05-12T18:26:56.260Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"d118f85b-ebbb-4129-ae2d-c8e6caaea281","position":3,"title":"Sushi - is it really Japanese?!?","url":"https://www.fjordtours.com/en/norway/food-and-wine/traditional-norwegian-food/salmon-sushi","note":"Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japan in the 1980s. \nFor many decades, Japan had been a self-suficient country when it came to their food supply. \n\nHowever, their largely unregulated fishing policies had left them without proper sustainability, which had fully caught up with them by the 1990s. \n\nOne of the main reasons for this was the fact that the only type of salmon that the Japanese people had consumed up until that point was cooked salmon. \n\nThis is due to the fact that Pacific salmon, which is the only type that Japan had access to at that point, cannot be eaten raw. \n\nThere are far too many parasites in Pacific salmon, which means that it needs to be cooked in order for the meat to be safe. \n\nHowever, Atlantic salmon is much diferent, it does not contain any parasites and has much fattier meat. \n\nThis makes it suitable for raw consumption, which was something that the Japanese first needed to become accustomed to before demand could take off.\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/b046e6a6-5df1-4e18-9100-9e5e8802229b/-/preview/1000x1000","alt":"Sushi - is it really Japanese?!?","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/d118f85b-ebbb-4129-ae2d-c8e6caaea281","created_at":"2025-05-12T18:39:30.745Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"4afa003c-1375-4882-8666-cc5ef1d53f58","position":4,"title":"Nowregian flag ","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/a5bbe07f-ebd3-45a8-9940-05688aba612d/607c632282054197bc24410d4058080e.jpeg","note":"Norwegian flag is like a swiss army of flags. Check this out ant let me know if you knew this 😅","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/a5bbe07f-ebd3-45a8-9940-05688aba612d/607c632282054197bc24410d4058080e.jpeg","alt":"Nowregian flag ","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/4afa003c-1375-4882-8666-cc5ef1d53f58","created_at":"2025-05-12T17:43:24.322Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"586dfb73-e122-4689-9d1f-32108c04b8e9","position":5,"title":"Norway general fun facts","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/3436e6c6-468a-4f79-8b69-1fb6a2ade7ca/IMG_0831.jpeg","note":"The name “Norway” means “path to the North”\nNorway is the world’s largest exporter of salmon \nEurope's biggest herd of wild reindeer lives in Norway\nDublin, Ireland, was actually founded by Norwegians in the year 836\nIf Norway was flipped upside down on the map of Europe, it would reach Rome, Italy.\nCurrently there are more Norwegian descendants living in the USA than there are Norwegians in Norway.\nNorway is the birthplace of modern skiing. The word “ski” is Norwegian for “piece of wood”\nThe national symbol is a rather exotic animal, the lion.\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/3436e6c6-468a-4f79-8b69-1fb6a2ade7ca/IMG_0831.jpeg","alt":"Norway general fun facts","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/586dfb73-e122-4689-9d1f-32108c04b8e9","created_at":"2025-05-12T18:47:59.975Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"4b12a077-b0d8-4a8b-8f2f-d4da10069e72","position":6,"title":"Oslo fun facts (some will surprise you)","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/6154bd60-7312-400d-9cb4-50b7dcfebe7b/-/preview/1000x600/","note":"The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held annually in Oslo\n\nThe Oslo Opera House opened in 2008 on the waterfront in the city center. The building has a sloping marble roof that visitors can walk on, providing sweeping views of Oslo’s skyline and the Oslo Fjord. It’s completely free and the views are great.\n\nAccording to oficial government figures, 25% were of the city’s population were born elsewhere and an additional 7.8% were born to immigrant parents. Most of the city’s population with an immigrant background come from Pakistan, followed by Poland, Sweden and Somalia.\n\nSo it's perhaps no surprise then that the capital city Oslo is the city in the world with the biggest percentage of electric car users. More than 50,000 registered all-electric vehicles are in use on the city's streets.\n\nAround 60% of Oslo's residents hold a university degree\n\nOslo has consistently ranked as one of the world’s most expensive cities\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/6154bd60-7312-400d-9cb4-50b7dcfebe7b/-/preview/1000x600/","alt":"Oslo fun facts (some will surprise you)","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/4b12a077-b0d8-4a8b-8f2f-d4da10069e72","created_at":"2025-05-13T18:00:58.960Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"f9dc2fbe-7b85-48c4-aed7-dadae1e87910","position":7,"title":"Christmas tree unexpected fact","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/ff8f9445-1cc0-416f-9a6c-b910f4c334af/-/preview/1000x666/","note":"Every year since 1947, Oslo has given London its Trafalgar Square Christmas tree as a thank\nyou gift for the UK's support during World War II. \n\nThe city has also given Reykjavik one annually\nsince 1951. But in 2014, Fabian Stang, who was then the mayor of Oslo, said they would no\nlonger be gifting a tree to the Icelandic capital because of the high costs involved. \n\nAfter then, mayor of Reykjavik said Reykjavik would pay, the tradition was reinstated without a break.\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/1585f111-8528-4171-af06-b5a0d898dcc1/-/crop/1364x1365/134,0/-/preview/","alt":"Christmas tree unexpected fact","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/f9dc2fbe-7b85-48c4-aed7-dadae1e87910","created_at":"2025-05-13T18:07:34.342Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"3bdc1d64-083e-4b9b-a210-a3259db500a5","position":8,"title":"Oslo tiger","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/3ddfdbb9-d428-465f-8bcf-70dfeef85425/-/preview/750x1000/","note":"Despite the fact that the nearest wild tigers are thousands of miles away, Oslo is known as\nTigerstaden, or the Tiger City. \n\nThe most agreed-upon reason is that the Norwegian poet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson described a fight between a horse and a tiger in his 1870 poem ‘SidsteSang’. \n\nThe tiger represented the dangerous city and the horse the safe countryside. City bosses\nnow say Oslo is not dangerous like a tiger, but ‘happening and exciting’.\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/3ddfdbb9-d428-465f-8bcf-70dfeef85425/-/preview/750x1000/","alt":"Oslo tiger","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/3bdc1d64-083e-4b9b-a210-a3259db500a5","created_at":"2025-05-13T18:13:13.091Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"db1f8d2b-b2c9-4653-a9db-71f4064654f1","position":9,"title":"The Scream","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/1060ce21-d07d-4da1-959b-76b7e2bd7d25/-/preview/791x1000/","note":"The Scream depicts the vantage point from the hill top of Oslo’s Ekeberg neighborhood, with\nthe fjord, town, and hills below.\n\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/1060ce21-d07d-4da1-959b-76b7e2bd7d25/-/preview/791x1000/","alt":"The Scream","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/db1f8d2b-b2c9-4653-a9db-71f4064654f1","created_at":"2025-05-13T18:15:15.717Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"197a52f5-e9a8-4b86-b21b-d653435c9f8e","position":10,"title":"Oslo or Christiania","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/9d23e292-9a5d-4039-901b-a93df9f2c265/-/preview/1000x860/","note":"Oslo has always been called as Oslo since the Middle Ages (where it probably have originated\nfrom “Anslo” or “Aslo”).\n\nBut there was a 300-year period in its history when it wasn’t called as such. After a fire ravaged the original settlement, King Christian IV of Denmark ordered another city to be built across the bay, which he named Christiania- after his own name. \n\nHowever, in 1925, people were questioning the idea of having a Norwegian city being named after a Danish king, so the original name of Oslo was restored\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/9d23e292-9a5d-4039-901b-a93df9f2c265/-/preview/1000x860/","alt":"Oslo or Christiania","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/197a52f5-e9a8-4b86-b21b-d653435c9f8e","created_at":"2025-05-13T18:18:06.960Z","updated_at":null},{"id":"ad58b482-7898-482d-8253-fe7d8980a9c9","position":11,"title":"Bokmål and Nynorsk","url":"https://ucarecdn.com/08056adc-8c8c-4713-8f96-49f5ef02fa75/-/preview/481x599/","note":"Norway has two oficial written languages: Bokmål and Nynorsk. \n\nBut for 434 years, from 1380 until 1814, they were in a union with, and at times ruled by the Danes, something that affected the written language in particular but also how people spoke.\n\nThat's why Norwegians wrote in Danish in the 1800s! In 1814, Norway broke away from Denmark, and they got their own constitution. \n\nNewly liberated, people also wanted a written language that sounded more like the way they actually spoke. \n\nNynorsk is most prevalent in the western part of the country, though, while Bokmål is most prominent in the east.\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/08056adc-8c8c-4713-8f96-49f5ef02fa75/-/preview/481x599/","alt":"Bokmål and Nynorsk","width":1200,"height":630},"direct_link":"https://stacklist.com/card/ad58b482-7898-482d-8253-fe7d8980a9c9","created_at":"2025-05-13T18:20:36.758Z","updated_at":null}],"stats":{"likes_count":0,"items_count":11},"_links":{"self":"/api/public/stack/Kkwxtx0FCYWmh5lcDSzp.json","html":"https://stacklist.com/c/education/stack/Kkwxtx0FCYWmh5lcDSzp","rss":"/api/feeds/stack/Kkwxtx0FCYWmh5lcDSzp/rss","json_feed":"/api/feeds/stack/Kkwxtx0FCYWmh5lcDSzp/json"}}