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... that Sweden's richest man, Henry Dunker willed his fortune to a foundation which funded improvements to the city of Helsingborg ?
... that Baggböle manor
... that Lapland school founder Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter turned to Erik Viktor Almquist Sami people ?
... that Sweden was a major power in Europe during the 17th century?
...that the Oresund Bridge Sweden and Denmark is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe?
...that Sweden didn't have an official language
...that the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält valor in the field , was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915 ?
...that Klarälven log driving was practised, ending in 1991?
...that the English Canal canal project started in 1864 that would connect the iron ore fields in northern Sweden with the Gulf of Bothnia ?
...that Estonians defeated invading Sweden in 1220 at the Battle of Lihula
...that Birger Dahlerus Swedish businessman and friend of Hermann Göring , who made numerous trips between Germany and England in 1939 in an attempt to avert the Second World War ?
... that Solna Church (click for picture ) , a round church in Stockholm from the late 12th century, was originally built for defense purposes?
... that the song "Gubben Noak Songs of Fredman Swedish church so much that Lund chapter attempted to collect all prints and transcripts in circulation, in 1768?
... that the first public Swedish orienteering competition, held in 1901, had two churches, Spånga Bromma kyrka (pictured ) as control points
... that from 1945 to 1972, the Swedish government ran a clandestine atomic weapons program (that never produced any operational weapons)?
... that Umeå Energi SAD ?
... that Umeå , a 2014 European Capital of Culture , is near an arboretum
... that the Turning Torso
... that "Baggböleri", the Swedish derogatory term for deforestation, is named after Baggböle Ume River ?
... that Gustav Rosén apples from northern Sweden to newspaper editors in the south to show that grass was not the only thing that grew "up there"?
... that one of the richest people in the world, Ingvar Kamprad
... that the Swedish military unit Kustjägarna Kosovo and Bosnia under the UN flag ?
... that Sweden's medieval Läby Church 1928?
... that the 19th-century Klabböle hydroelectric power plant
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