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TIL Sweden has a party dedicated to celebrating its infamous fermented fish, known as surströmmingsskiva

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BrpaD TIL that Basil Zaharoff sold the Greek government a submarine, then told the Turkish government that the Greeks had a submarine, Turkey then bought 2 submarines. He then told the same to the Russian government who later bought 2 submarines as well. None of the submarines worked.
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