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TIL that the current king of Norway, Harald V, is only the third king to rule over Norway since the country’s independence from Sweden in 1905, with his grandfather Haakon VII ruling as the first independent Norwegian king in 518 years at that point, the most recent being Olaf IV, who died in 1387.

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