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I knew French was insane but wtf are they doing in Denmark
The Danes are on average twice as smart as the rest of us, but all that extra intelligence gets wasted on this business.
Someone else already posted an explanation, but it just boils down to us Danes still using "snes" (or "snaes" in old english), which was the amount of dried herrings usually hung from a wooden drying rig/branch, which, of course, was 20 (edit: according to this source).
It's totally disconnected from modern times and ought to be changed, but then again, some people still use the 12-hour clock, thumbs, and feet, so how bad is it really?