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TIL: In Germany, John and Jane Doe are known as Max and Erika Mustermann. (9:18 on video)

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j7Mv TIL that Sweden hosts the world’s largest scale model of the Solar System, based around the Ericsson Globe arena in central Stockholm, which acts as the ‘Sun’.
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