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- ... that a canoe (pictured) designed by Carl Smith accompanied a circumnavigation of Earth in 1883–1885?
- ... that although nobody died in the 1984 Southland floods, about 12,000 sheep perished?
- ... that while conducting research for Kingdom of Characters, author Jing Tsu visited archives across multiple countries and continents?
- ... that Patriarch Amalric was, according to the archbishop of Tyre, "reasonably well educated but bereft of intelligence and virtually useless"?
- ... that according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the 1913 Polish novel The Cross and the Crescent is "perhaps the first example" of the genre of military science fiction in Polish literature?
- ... that the director for Yuzuru Hanyu's Echoes of Life Tour choreographed the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony?
- ... that the MrBeast Lab toy line first debuted in a pop-up store in the shape of an overturned tanker truck carrying toxic waste?
- ... that Peel's Cut, a watercourse in Staffordshire, lasted more than 100 years longer than the mill it was excavated to power?
- ... that no actual voting took place in the 1939 Liechtenstein general election?