Denmark Facts #2

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- Denmark has more pigs than people.

- Canada and Denmark have been fighting over an uninhabited island by leaving each other bottles of alcohol and changing their flags since the 1930's.

- 99% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust because the Danish organized a massive evacuation to Sweden, who was neutral.

- There is an underground vault in Denmark containing every Lego set ever.  

- In Denmark, if you aren't married by age 25, you'll get cinnamon thrown all over you on your birthday.

- 4/10 Danes own a car while 9/10 Danes owns a bicycle.

- The unemployment rate in Denmark is currently so low (4.3%) that Danish companies are desperate to find skilled workers.

- The United States tried to purchase Greenland from Denmark for $100 million USD ($644,473,000 DKK) in 1946. They declined the offer.

- Danish scientists have concluded in their research that blue eyed people might be related to all other blue eyed humans ever to have lived.

- Approximately 1.5 million Americans listed themselves as having Danish ancestry.

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