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... that Sweden's Truth Commission for the Sámi People leaves "reconciliation" out of its name, unlike similar inquiries in Norway and Finland?
... that Swedish DJ Avicii was featured on a postage stamp in January 2015?
... that Swedish actress Ulla Smidje appeared in a film alongside her two-month-old daughter, who played a newborn boy?
... that Swedish DJ Avicii was featured on a postage stamp in January 2015?
... that Swedish actress Ulla Smidje appeared in a film alongside her two-month-old daughter, who played a newborn boy?
... that the Ottenby Bird Observatory has continually conducted bird observations for 80 years?
... that the crew of HSwMS Västervik were ordered to leave their possessions behind when the ship was decommissioned?
... that Fabian Wrede's family was granted a barony to honor his grandfather Henrik Wrede's sacrifice in giving his horse to Charles IX of Sweden during a battlefield retreat?
... that the island Grimskär was probably used for executions of criminals, whose bodies were left there on display as a warning to passing ships?
... that young-adult novelist Moa Backe Åstot also owns reindeer?
... that Beyond Dreams, about an ex-convict torn between a heist and housekeeping, won the Church of Sweden's Film Prize?
... that the TV series Beartown cast real junior hockey players rather than relying on stunt doubles?
... that a doctor reattached a farmer's severed hand in a remote Swedish hospital in 1964?
... that Swedish general Lorens von der Linde once shocked an English diplomat with his stories of King Charles X Gustav's German liaisons?
... that Gävle Hospital in Sweden was so overrun with scarlet fever in 1934 that it considered requisitioning a local gymnasium?
... that after her father's death, Thora Thersner completed his work documenting Swedish buildings and landscapes?
... that the Sjölejonet class, Sweden's first indigenous submarines, featured rotating torpedo tubes and disappearing guns?
... that the steam corvette Gefle was the first ship of the Swedish Navy to be equipped with a propeller?
... that a set of 12th-century Swedish murals in Finja Church is the main achievement of a workshop that decorated at least ten other churches?
... that in 2018 Jonna Adlerteg became the first Swedish female gymnast since 1958 to qualify for an event final at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
... that in 1927 Berta Persson became the first woman bus driver in Sweden and was nicknamed "Buss-Berta"?
... that Elin Falk caused a national controversy in 1913 with her proposals for reforming gymnastics in Swedish schools?
... that the Swedish broadcaster organising the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 refused to allow the contest to be shown in Chile, as a protest against the country's military dictatorship?
... that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State, she said that she did not really know about the schools' rivalry?
... that after some of Anders Årfelt's lion sculptures were struck during the 2017 Stockholm truck attack, the city ordered new versions weighing 3 tonnes?
... that the author of The Power of Babel says that speakers of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish are all speaking the same language?
... that Swedish naval officer Henrik Johan Nauckhoff fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War?
... that between 1985 and 1988, Televerket spent 2 million kronor paying youth sports teams to monitor payphones for vandalism?
... that Utter served as a Stockholm police horse for more than 23 years, participating in 515 changings of the Royal Guards?
... that Erik Sparre is known as "the father of Swedish constitutional law"?
... that Bäckadräkten is Sweden's first unisex folk costume?
... that Anders Åkerman started the production of terrestrial and celestial globes in Sweden?
... that Fredy Clue designed Sweden's first unisex folk costume?
... that Rasmus Paludan caused a global controversy by burning the Quran?
... that Swedish naval officer Johan Herman Schützercrantz fought in the American Revolutionary War and participated in the Battle of the Chesapeake?
... that Nils Elias Anckers was a kommendör in the Swedish Navy who won a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for his artwork?
... that instead of paying homage to a visiting King Gustaf VI Adolf, Swedish headmaster Carl Segerståhl took his students swimming in a nearby lake?
... that Härnösand Residence is one of the earliest examples of Neoclassical architecture in Sweden?
... that Anders Bure created the "first real map" of Sweden?
... that when historian of cartography Leo Bagrow was granted Swedish citizenship in 1952, he had been stateless for 34 years?
... that Swedish naval officer Axel Lagerbielke was imprisoned in Lima for over a year, held in Callao and eventually escaped from Panama on an English packet boat to Jamaica?
... that dramatic soprano Berit Lindholm was said to have been called "that damn primary school teacher" by the director of the Royal Swedish Opera, and used it in the title of her memoir?
... that the Ängelholm UFO memorial reflects the account of Swedish entrepreneur Gösta Carlsson, who attributed his success in life to encountering a UFO in 1946?
... that, in her second season in the SDHL, ice hockey defenseman Ebba Berglund scored no points but accrued 20 penalty minutes?
... that despite being marketed as Tages' international breakthrough, Studio was only issued in Sweden and Denmark upon original release?
... that Swedish footballer Taha Ayari made his Allsvenskan debut by coming on as a substitute for his older brother?
... that Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, twenty-five years after ABBA brought the country its first victory in the contest?
... that the 1968 single "There's a Blind Man Playin' Fiddle in the Street" by Tages was inspired by an old man that could be seen roaming around the streets of Gothenburg, playing a violin?
... that the medieval baptismal font of Löderup Church in Sweden contains a depiction of a ship with a dragon's head at the stem, similar to a Viking ship?
... that in 2021, two Swedish prison inmates took correctional officers as hostages, demanding twenty kebab pizzas?

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