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... that Sweden's richest man, Henry Dunker, willed his fortune to a foundation which funded improvements to the city of Helsingborg?
...that the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält, awarded for valor in the field, was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915?
... that the Turning Torso skyscraper, is the tallest building in Sweden and the second tallest apartment building in Europe?

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... that Sweden's richest man, Henry Dunker, willed his fortune to a foundation which funded improvements to the city of Helsingborg?
... that Baggböle manor is built entirely of wood, but made to look like a stone building?
... that Lapland school founder Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter turned to Erik Viktor Almquist to improve the rights of the Sami people?
... that Sweden was a major power in Europe during the 17th century?
...that the Oresund Bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe?
...that Sweden didn't have an official language until 2009?
...that the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält, awarded for valor in the field, was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915?
...that Klarälven, Sweden's longest river, was the last Swedish river where log driving was practised, ending in 1991?
...that the English Canal was a partially completed canal project started in 1864 that would connect the iron ore fields in northern Sweden with the Gulf of Bothnia?
...that Estonians defeated invading Sweden in 1220 at the Battle of Lihula?
...that Birger Dahlerus was a Swedish businessman and friend of Hermann Göring, who made numerous trips between Germany and England in 1939 in an attempt to avert the Second World War?
... that Solna Church (click for picture), a round church in Stockholm from the late 12th century, was originally built for defense purposes?
... that the song "Gubben Noak" (Songs of Fredman no 35) offended the Swedish church so much that Lund chapter attempted to collect all prints and transcripts in circulation, in 1768?
... that the first public Swedish orienteering competition, held in 1901, had two churches, Spånga and Bromma kyrka (pictured) as control points?
... that from 1945 to 1972, the Swedish government ran a clandestine atomic weapons program (that never produced any operational weapons)?
... that Umeå Energi set up lamps in bus shelters to avoid people getting SAD?
... that Umeå, a 2014 European Capital of Culture, is near an arboretum that specializes in growing plants for use at northern latitudes?
... that the Turning Torso skyscraper, is the tallest building in Sweden and the second tallest apartment building in Europe?
... that "Baggböleri", the Swedish derogatory term for deforestation, is named after Baggböle on the Ume River?
... that Gustav Rosén sent apples from northern Sweden to newspaper editors in the south to show that grass was not the only thing that grew "up there"?
... that one of the richest people in the world, Ingvar Kamprad, is Swedish?
... that the Swedish military unit Kustjägarna has worked in Kosovo and Bosnia under the UN flag?
... that Sweden's medieval Läby Church was abandoned in 1890 but reopened in 1928?
... that the 19th-century Klabböle hydroelectric power plant in northern Sweden is now a museum?
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