I am only learning this now??!?!
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5 Farts per hour is quite a lot of propulsion, better limit that.
Thor is that you?
You're never going to believe this - 
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I know this is old, but it is a bit irksome that this post is titled "Fact of the day" when it can't even keep its facts straight about which country does what.
Those signs aren't from Sweden. Our traffic agency (who prints the signs) doesn't use 'fart' meaning 'speed' - except for 'gångfartsområde', 'walking speed area', which disappointingly enough doesn't even have the text on it - but mainly uses 'hastighet' meaning 'velocity'. Other commenters in this thread have posted examples of 'fart' in a different meaning being used on Swedish traffic signs.
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"fart" is colloquial swedish for speed, but it's not used on signs like that. as mentioned previously the correct word is "hastighetskontroll", but we don't actually have signs like that for permanent speed cameras. those signs are blue, and just depict a camera.
when "fart" appears on signs, the actual meaning is akin to "travel" or "fare", like german "fahr-" words. so we have "sjöfart" (seafaring), "rymdfart" (space travel), "fartvind" (wind rushing by when moving quickly), "uppfart" (driveway) and, importantly for signs, "utfart" and "infart" (exit and entry for vehicles).
my favorite of this is a sign nearby on a narrow road that warns about multiple exits with no sight lines.
This is either Norwegian or Danish.
It's true that 'fart' means speed in Swedish, but in this context 'hastighet' would be used (~'hastiness').
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I'm blowing past that limit
It's not the fart that kills, but the smell.
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Always practice fartkontrol, when you go to the slutstation.
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My wife and me are always chuckling when in Germany taking the Ausfahrt.
I'd probably be pull over by the police officers everyday.
this post stinks
I have to say, I normally find the "ha-ha, this word sounds like something else in English" stuff to be a bit... provincial, but I'll admit some are a bit 
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I will never not laugh at this
What is that 2 - 12 kmh sign? A speed limit for a pedestrian road?
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