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FACTOID # 177: 61.5% of Swedes work more than 40 hours per week, but just across the border in Norway only 15.8% of people work this long.

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Finns are perhaps the world's greatest athletes, ranking first in medals per capita for Summer Olympics, and third for Winter Olympics.
Russia won the first World Air Games, held in Turkey in 1997. Events included hang-gliding, sky-surfing, and ballooning.

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