Finland facts 11-15

11. There is a dinosaur heavy metal band in Finland, which Finnish children seem to love.








12. There is a prison in Finland where the only thing keeping the inmates in is a yellow picket fence.






13. Finland has the most number of heavy metal bands per capita in the world. While Sweden and Norway have only 27 heavy metal bands per 100,000 inhabitants, Finland boasts double as much, 54 bands per 100,000.





14. Finland’s geographic elevation is actually rising relative to the ocean, despite rising sea levels. 

15. In 1944, the USSR began a massive air attack on the city of Helsinki to force Finland to leave the war. Finns used fires and searchlights to trick Soviet bombers into dropping bombs outside the city. Russian diplomats were surprised to find an intact Helsinki after the war.