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TIL that Sweden has 267,570 islands, the most of any country in the world

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BrxMr TiL : A Swedish couple won the right to name their children Metallica, Lego, and Elvis in 2008 due to Swedish naming laws preventing embarrassing names for children, a similar case failed in 1996 when a couple tried to name their child Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced Albis)
xVNN7 TIL about Paul Frampton, a brilliant English physicist that was convicted in Argentina for drug smuggling, after he had been scammed by a man pretending to be Czech model Denise Milani into transporting two kilos of cocaine to Belgium
b69eN TIL Moxie is the oldest bottled soft drink in the U.S. Founded in 1884, 2 years before Coca-Cola, it originally claimed to have “cured drunkards by the thousands". Once widely available, it is now mostly found in New England. In 2005, Moxie was named the State of Maine's official soft drink.
NJyM TIL: Lucille Ball funded the pilot of Star Trek against the wishes of her board of directors. If not for her, there would be no Star Trek.
4Xxpg TIL of the Tea-Horse-Road. During Imperial-era, the Chinese noticed that Tibetans prized tea so much, they would trade high-quality horses for tea-bricks. As they needed warhorses to fight nomads, the Chinese set up a government office to sell tea for Tibetan horses, creating the Tea-Horse Road.