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TIL That during the Norwegian Butter Crisis of 2011, two Swedes were arrested for illegally smuggling more than 250kg of butter into the country. The police destroyed the confiscated illegal butter.

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oBGKE TIL that in 1985 the French intelligence service bombed a ship docked in New Zealand to prevent it from protesting French nuclear testing.
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