Finland does sound like a country. It has everything in its history that hits at a real country: prehistoric origins, a plague, a famine, a civil war for independence and a prohibition period. But it also refers to “money” as “squirrel skins” and has a wife-carrying sport competition. Is Finland too good to be true? Is it an UN conspiracy to allow Japan to have more fishing territories? How much is the fish? All these questions answered in this episode with a new, trivia-packed format.
Conspiracy: https://www.reddit.com/r/finlandConspiracy/comments/52f5ae/the_finland_conspiracy_and_all_you_need_to_know/
The original reddit post on AskReddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/56gvsv/whats_the_scariest_real_thing_that_is_existing/
Register to wife carrying: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-wife-carrying-idUSKCN1U10LP
Traditional finnish haiku: https://haikupedia.org/article-haikupedia/haiku-in-finland/
Finnish Famine of 1866-1868: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_famine_of_1866%E2%80%931868
Reddit comment haiku bot: https://www.reddit.com/u/haikubot-1911
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