- Collins Dictionary elected the Danish word ’hygge’ among its 10 best words of 2016. Hygge describes a feeling of togetherness, and the feelings toward our family and friends.
- LEGO sells enough building blocks in a year for them to reach around Earth 5 times!
- The amusement park in the Tivoli Gardens of Copenhagen is what inspired Disneyland. The park was established in the 1840s. Walt Disney visited the park in 1951, jotting down every little detail. He later opened up his own park in 1955.
- There are no mountains in Denmark, and the sea can be reached within an hour by car from anywhere.
- A Danish entrepreneur, Janus Friis was among the founders of Skype. He first created the base software together with a Swedish co-founder and an Estonian programmer. The software was bought out by eBay in 2005, to finally end up with Microsoft in 2011.
- The danish cookie is in fact Viennese. The product first arrived to Denmark in the 1850s. Because of the baker-strike happening around that time, bakers needed to bring in people from Austria, who brought along with them this recpie.
- Nowadays over 40 % of energy generation is covered by air-turbines, and Denmark plans on reaching 50 %.
- 56 % of residents go to work by bycicle in Copenhagen. Specially made, higher roads had benn installed for them.
- The animated movie Frozen was based on the story of the Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.
- The Danish are the happiest poeople on Earth. A report made in the US ranked 156 nations based on their happiness levels. Denmark came out on top of this ranking.
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