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TIL that when Norway was occupied by the Germans in WW2, the Nazis made the Lebensborn program where Norwegian girls were forced into mating with Nazi officers and having their children. One of the Lebensborn women grew up to be Frida Lyngstad, who was a member of the Swedish band ABBA.

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