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TIL Sweden’s tourist association has create a “Call a Swede” phone number which is assigned to random de facto ‘ambassadors’ with no training or expectations. The goal is to provide an unfiltered view of Swedish life.

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bG9a TIL in 2009 a bird took down the Large Hadron Collider by dropping a baguette on it.
rRXJ1 TIL Wang Meng was sent to Xinjiang to be "reformed" through labor in 1963 for writing a controversial piece. During this period of hardship he accrued much of the experience that would later become the material for his short stories and novels, and he later became China's Minister of Culture
XEXgr TIL studies have found nearly 50% of all couples get back together after breaking up. Also, couples who got back together assumed their partner had changed for the better or that they would be better at communicating.
LkZZp TIL that cheese is the most stolen food in the world. 4% of global cheese supply is stolen every year
Z8PRB TIL In 1966, the first chess game between computer programs was played. The game took nine months and was played over telegraph.