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TIL Sweden supported the Viet Cong during the Vietnam war

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PYrEe TIL that Queen Victoria was irritated at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her daughter Princess Victoria, who was the wife of the reigning German Emperor and hence an Empress - so the British government created for her the title of Empress of India
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