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... that future Slavic-language professorMarc L. Greenberg learned Slovene after his fiancée sent him a bilingual dictionary and started writing letters to him only in Slovene?
... that the attorney of thelast person executed by Peru requested Pope John Paul II's intervention to save his client's life?
... that mangroves reduced the impact ofCyclone Dana?
... thatVariety once calledTrisha Ziff a "photographer's photographer"?
... that the headquarters of Indonesia's16th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was a Japanese military base, seized by Indonesian youths after Japan's surrender in 1945?
... thatImmanuel Iheanacho was measured as a 14-year-old freshman at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) and 325 lb (147 kg), with a 7 ft (2.1 m)wingspan?
... that in 1956 a person dressed as the anthropomorphic hedgehog and comic starMecki traveled by helicopter to more than 100 cities in southern Germany to give children gifts?
... thatRichard Lee Morton became the head of the College of William & Mary's history department after two years of teaching?
... thatChandler Court and Pollard Park, which were designed and occupied by William & Mary faculty, have been called "two ofWilliamsburg's most appealing twentieth-century neighborhoods"?
Rolling-shutter photograph of a spinning airplane propeller
... that a photograph of an airplane propeller taken by a camera with arolling shutter(pictured) may distort the propeller into curves resembling thequadratrix of Hippias?
... that the remains of at least 970 people were discovered at the formerKilkenny Union Workhouse?
... that theOceanic Steamship Company(advertisement pictured) beat a rival company in a trans-Pacific race, bought the rival's ships, and added them toits own fleet?
... that the author ofFive Bullets was unaware for a year thatFear and Fury was also being written about the same 1984 shooting, and for the same publishing house?
... that the baritoneJubilant Sykes, active in spirituals, gospel and funk, recorded the role of the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's Grammy-nominatedMass?
... thatFluminense FM used to broadcast horse races before becoming "the gateway to Brazilian rock in the 80s"?
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... that Cuba'sGirardinus fish(pictured) may have evolved into different species because the island's rivers are often interrupted by waterfalls or vanish underground?
... that Tinashe's333 and Wishy'sTriple Seven are both named for angel numbers?
... thatslipper lamps produced in theUmayyad era sometimes carried bilingual inscriptions with "TheLight of Christ" in Greek, alongside "God" (Allah) in Arabic?
... thatAnahit Ananyan was credited with starting Armenia's tomato heritage?
... that the relocation ofa Mexico City monument resulted in the water-level indicators on its pedestal losing their original geographic alignment?
... that a pre-order ticket campaign forRhapsody in August saw¥300 of the¥1,300 ticket price go to the assistance of birds affected by theGulf War?
... thatAllan Ludwig has been described as the "founding father" of gravestone studies?
... thatEmily Sutton illustrated an abridged children's edition ofShakespeare's First Folio with "red-cheeked gentlemen, sword-wielding warriors and ladies in striking attire"?
... that gamblers in Myanmar worship the spiritThone Myo Shin to ensure victory in cockfights?
... thatJohn A. Jakle has co-authored nine books on "roadside America", including books on motels, road signs, gas stations, parking lots, and fast-food restaurants?
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