Today is the national day of Norway!

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Teeqoz on 17 May 2016

I know the vast vast majority of VGC users aren't Norwegian and don't care, but if so, maybe you have a random fact to tell your friends or something.

On this day, 202 years ago, Norway got its constitution, which is still in use today. At the time, Norway was a part of Denmark, but Norway was *given* to Sweden by the UK (I know right, wtf?) after Denmark backed the wrong side during the Napoleonic wars (aka Napoleon). Norway tried to claim sovereignty, but the UK didn't acknowledge Norway as a sovereign nation. It doesn't sound like much to celebrate perhaps, but under Sweden, Norway was given much more freedom and self-govern than under Denmark. In the Norwegian-Swedish (or Swedish-Norwegian) union, Norway was still considered its own state, while when it was under Denmark, it was just a part of Denmark. This was a crucial step on Norway's path to sovereignity.

So yeah, congrats, users of VGC, your knowledge of Norwegian history has now likely increased exponentially

And happy national day, fellow Norwegian VGCharters.

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Fei-Hung on 17 May 2016

I came in thinking there will be lots of cool pictures of Norway. So disappointed!

However, congratulations are in order!

And to add to the pool of knowledge, here is my contribution: a TV series called Lilyhammer with Steve Van Zandt (was a the Sopranos doing a lot of godfather impressions).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilyhammer

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m0ney on 17 May 2016

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Teeqoz on 17 May 2016

Fei-Hung said:
I came in thinking there will be lots of cool pictures of Norway. So disappointed!

However, congratulations are in order!

And to add to the pool of knowledge, here is my contribution: a TV series called Lilyhammer with Steve Van Zandt (was a the Sopranos doing a lot of godfather impressions).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilyhammer

I'll get to it shortly. OP was something I threw together quickly before I went out to march in the parade.

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StarOcean on 17 May 2016

Norway, the rival country or my people! I'm mostly Swedish x.x XD

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WolfpackN64 on 17 May 2016

Happy national day I guess. I don't really care much for nationalities or nations.

But I definitely still want to visit Norway one day.

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vivster on 17 May 2016

There are too many Norwegians in Rocket League.

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Teeqoz on 17 May 2016

vivster said:
There are too many Norwegians in Rocket League.

Norway actually has the most Rocket League players per capita on Steam (according to Steamspy).

EDIT: On second thought, this is probably true for most games on Steam. I guess PC gaming is pretty big in Norway (which makes sense tbh, a lot of my friends are PC gamers.)