What Greenland's 1979 home rule gave it, and what Denmark kept
A 1979 referendum gave Greenland its own parliament for internal affairs. Denmark kept defence, foreign policy and the constitution, and still does.
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The world's longest-running whale hunt still feeds the Faroes
The Faroese defend the grind as food, shared free and taken from a large population. Critics point to mercury, missing foetuses and a hunt with no quota.
Denmark gave the world co-housing in the 1970s
Co-housing began in Denmark in the mid-1970s. At Lilac Grove in Leeds, 20 private homes share a garden and a common house where residents eat twice a week.
Iceland's Althing is called the oldest parliament. It has a gap.
Iceland dates its Althing to 930 and calls it the oldest parliament, though the assembly stopped sitting for about 45 years.
A 1958 patent fixed the Lego brick that barely sold
Lego's plastic brick barely sold for years. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen's 1958 coupling patent, not his father's toys, is why it finally gripped.
Greenland became Danish in three steps, from 1721 to 1953
A 1721 mission, an 1814 treaty and a 1953 change in status tied Greenland to Denmark. Home rule in 1979 and self-government in 2009 gave it more control.