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This silly World Cup fact will blow your mind


Ready to have your mind blown by the utmost silliest of facts?

Good. As of Tuesday morning, this was at the top of Reddit's r/sports with over 500 comments and nearly 27,000 upvotes around the time of this post publishing:

Fun fact: Did you know that when Sweden and Denmark play each other in FIFA WC, the letters that are used for the teams are SWE vs DEN (together, Sweden) and the remaining letters which are not used are DEN and MARK (together, Denmark) from sports

Take a second and read it a few times.

Right????

Sadly, this scenario doesn't seem all that possible in the 2018 World Cup. Sweden won a game in Group F and Denmark claimed victory in its opening Group C contest, but the way the bracket is set up, the only way they'd meet is in the World Cup Final.

Maybe it happens and we can spend a few minutes thinking about this amazing discovery.

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