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4,000,000

and counting. That’s how

many views Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s new advert for the Volvo XC70 has had on Youtube. The stunning clip shows the star footballer hunting deer in a snowy forest, swimming in a frozen lake and driving rather fast on icy roads, set to the background of the Swedish national anthem ‘Du gamla, du fria.’ Zlatan recently won the 2013 Puskas Award for best goal of the year.

503

baby girls named Alice

were born in Sweden last year, making it the top name for the third year running, according to Statistics Sweden’s annual compilation. The name Lucas knocked William off the top spot for boys’ names. The most popular names for babies born in Stockholm were Olivia and Oscar.

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2.7 12

tonnes per person makes

Växjö’s CO2 emissions among the lowest in Europe, leading the Småland city to christen themselves ‘Europe’s greenest city’. The city’s buses run on potato peelings, most of the city’s heat and hot water is generated by a central biomass boiler and their ambition is to become totally fossil fuel-free by 2030.

12

tonnes of snow and ice went into creating Luleå’s annual ice animal – a huge hedgehog. The tradition of carving a gigantic animal

ice sculpture was started by artist Hans Englund 29 years ago and has become more and more popular each year. The sculptures always include a slide carved out in the back, allowing children to enjoy them up close.

Photo: Andreas Johansson Eva Dahlgren. Photo: Swedish Music Hall of Fame

is also the number of

artists recently inducted into the Swedish Music Hall of Fame. Jan Johansson, Roxette, Eva Dahlgren, The Latin Kings, Evert Taube, Ebba Grön, Nationalteatern, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Entombed, Stina Nordenstam, Monica Zetterlund and, of course, ABBA were all chosen for their influence on modern Swedish music.

11,000

years old, is the age of rare

Stone Age artifacts recently discovered by divers off the coast of Skåne. Tools, wood, antlers and other organic matter have been preserved due to the high presence of gyttja sediment 16 metres below the water’s surface. Archeology professor Björn Nilsson described the site as ‘buried treasure.’ The excavation is ongoing.

500,000

euros was the prize money

when Swedish horse Maharajah recently won the world’s most prestigious trotting race, the Prix d’Amerique at Vincennes. With odds of 10/1 the horse, known as ‘The Emperor’ and piloted by Örjan Kihlström, romped home, sending Swedish trotting fans into raptures.