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TIL that people from Swedish municipalities on the southern border with Norway are allowed to use the state-of-the-art hospital right across the border in Kalnes, Norway in emergencies and births, which is much closer to them than any hospital in Sweden.

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PY9mZ TIL Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was written as a cynical response to The Captain & Tenille's "Love Will Keep Us Together."
e0ZXJ TIL a Nigerian ship's cook, Harrison Odjegba Okene, survived for 60 hours in a sunken tugboat, Jascon-4, that capsized on 26 May 2013 in heavy seas while it was stabilising an oil tanker at a Chevron platform in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, about 32 km (20 mi) off the Nigerian coast
gMNM9 TIL that an old form of pregnancy test involved injecting rabbits with urine and then killing the rabbit to investigate its ovaries.
x6Bd7 TIL Actress Chelsea Peretti's Older Brother Jonah is the founder of Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post
wLjjM TIL that in 1965, a Quaker named Norman Morrison set himself on fire in the parking lot of the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. Robert McNamara watched him burn to death from his office.