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... that Libania Grenot was the first woman in three decades to successfully defend the European 400-metres title (final pictured)Template:-?
... that Captain James Cook and his crew were some of the first Europeans to witness and record Polynesians surfing?
... that Hanahaki disease, a fictional illness in which a person coughs up flowers due to unrequited love, is often used in queer fan fiction to symbolize repressed desire?
... that Carmel Naughton, having been told that girls were "stupid and couldn't do maths", sponsored a STEM scholarship fund?
... that after moving into the Samuel Freeman House, the owners sat on cardboard boxes because they could not afford real furniture?
... that Nicolas Cage was trained by award-winning chef Gabriel Rucker for one of his films?
... that a subcontractor working on the tower of a Nevada TV station recorded footage of the PEPCON disaster as it unfolded nearby?
... that Maude Simmons played the mother of Paul Robeson on stage and the mother of Sidney Poitier on screen?
... that the Japanese government responded to the rice riots of 1918, which involved up to 10 million participants, with a "candy and whip" policy?