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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?