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 * ... that Filipina TV host Daphne Oseña-Paez (pictured) got her big break by waiting for a network executive in the ABS-CBN parking lot to show him a TV program that she filmed, shot, and edited herself?
 * ... that Abdulai Silá is the author of the first novel to be written and published in Guinea-Bissau?
 * ... that Elizabeth Howe was one of nineteen people found guilty of practicing witchcraft and executed in the Salem witch trials?
 * ... that college football coach Mike Pecarovich, appeared in several movies with Bing Crosby and was an acclaimed public speaker who some compared to Knute Rockne?
 * ... that Thepchai Yong won an International Press Freedom Award for reporting on Thailand's Black May uprising despite military pressure to censor coverage?
 * ... that American philosopher John Arthur helped organize a lawsuit against the state of Tennessee to address racial segregation in the higher education system?
 * ... that singer-pianist Rosie Vanier, whose musical style has been described as "Kate Bush on crack with Goldfrapp on synths", grew up in Bodmin Moor without electricity and TV?