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TIL of the “Revolt of the Long Swede,” a 1669 rebellion against English rule of a formerly Swedish colony in North America. The failed revolt was led by a very tall Swedish man who presented himself to his co-conspirators as a representative of a Swedish military effort to reclaim the colony.

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