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TIL that Finland doesn't have any official national anthem. The one unofficial they have has lyrics in Swedish and the same music as the Estonian official national anthem.

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pYGRQ TIL the fictional plane ‘Darkstar’ featured in the opening of Top Gun: Maverick was so realistic on screen that China moved its satellites to monitor it, even though it doesn’t exist.
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