Every new-born baby in Finland receives a present from the state -- a small cardboard box, containing clothes, mittens, a picture book, and various other useful items. The box itself is also useful: it's just the right size for babies to sleep in. When the BBC website reported on this Finnish tradition, in a piece entitled "Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes", the story became the first in the site's history to be shared over one million times.
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