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TIL the Million Program is an ambitious public housing initiative implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974. Aiming to give everyone a home at a reasonable price, it was the most ambitious building program in the world – adding one million new homes in a nation with a population of eight million.

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KOVYJ TIL of Oxdown, a fictitious village trainee journalists would write about in exams. In 2006 it was decided the exams would use real places instead, and so Oxdown was destroyed in a series of deadly explosions. Trainees had to report on the explosions.
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