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TIL about "The Thomas Edison of Finland", Eric Tigerstedt, who was awarded 71 patents between 1912 and 1924, including one in 1917 for a "pocket-size folding telephone". He was tragically killed in a car accident on April 20, 1924, rumoured to have been caused by a competitor.

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