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• in 1715, Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov, the largest Russian landowner after the tsar, owned territories larger than modern Bulgaria or Iceland?
• somewhere between a quarter and a third of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki, and the subsequent famine?
• at the 2005 Games of the Small States of Europe in Andorra, Iceland won 34 medals in swimming alone?
• after calling for a polar bear, Disneyland and palm trees to be brought to Reykjavik in Iceland, The Best Party won the most seats in the 2010 Reykjavik City Council election?
• Surtshellir, named for the fire giant Surtr, is the longest lava cave in Iceland?
• tenth-century Icelandic chieftain Olaf the Peacock was known for his extravagant clothes?
• the Althing of Iceland confirmed Thorlac Thornalli as a saint over 700 years before the Catholic Church did?
• the first complete map of Iceland (pictured), based on Björn Gunnlaugsson's 1831–43 survey, is mentioned in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth?
• the initial arctic convoys of World War II set sail from Iceland?
• the Stöðulög laws of 1871 declared Iceland an inseparable part of Denmark?
• the Iceland hotspot is partly responsible for the frequent volcanic eruptions and geothermal activity experienced in Iceland?
• the Fire Nation, from the Universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender, was inspired by photos of volcanic islands of Iceland and the Pacific Ocean?
• SS Rajputana, a P&O liner traveling between Plymouth, England and Lahore, British India, was converted into a cruiser and eventually sunk by a German U-boat west of Iceland?
• Nói Síríus is Iceland's largest candy manufacturer and now owns English chocolate company Elizabeth Shaw?
• Icelandic operatic soprano Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú, began her singing career in the 1970s with a folk and pop group?
• Icelandic tenor Garðar Thór Cortes was voted sexiest man in Iceland twice in one year in separate polls?
• Iceland was the first country to recognize Lithuania's re-established independence in 1991?
• Iceland leads the world in renewable energy and is the first country to supply all electricity from renewable sources?
• Iceland and India established diplomatic relations in 1972?
• Labour Party politician Hugh Brown was a British negotiator with Iceland during the third Cod War in the 1970s?
• Árni Magnússon, who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, would do whatever it took to acquire an Icelandic book or manuscript?
• international reaction to 2008 Tibetan unrest has included police protecting the Chinese embassy in Reykjavík, Iceland, from a peaceful demonstration?
• Keflavík International Airport is the largest airport in Iceland?
• Indriði Indriðason, an Icelandic medium, was once claimed to levitate at chest-height in front of a window and seem in danger of being thrown through it?
• Iceland–Norway relations date back to Norwegian colonization of Iceland in the ninth century?
• Beer Day in Iceland celebrates the end of prohibition of beer on 1 March 1989, though wine and other spirits had been legal since 1935?
• Iceland's entry in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, "Minn Hinsti Dans", was performed by a former drag queen?