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 * ...that the Finnish Communist leader Arvo Tuominen broke with the Soviet Union during the Winter War and ordered the Finnish Communists not to assist the Red Army?
 * ...that mobile phone throwing is an international sport in which thrown mobile phones are judged by the distance and choreographics of the throw?
 * ...that the self-taught weapon designer Aimo Lahti designed over 50 weapons of all types prior to and during World War II, including the successful Suomi M-31?
 * ...that Norse sagas record some Finnish campaigns against Sweden in the mid-8th century?
 * ...that Larin Paraske, a Finnish oral poet, could recite over 32,000 verses of poetry?