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 * ... that Clyde Foster (pictured), a mathematician with NASA, persuaded former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to support a computer science program at historically black Alabama A&M University?
 * ... that Queens at Heart, which features four trans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and an exploitation film?
 * ... that Gavin Arneil is credited with the near-eradication of rickets in Glasgow?
 * ... that the actors from the television drama Jamie Johnson competed at the Gothia Cup international youth football tournament, reaching the quarter-finals?
 * ... that despite being described as a "weak candidate", Arvind Sawant defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the Mumbai South constituency in the 2014 Indian general election?
 * ... that the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution incorporates Russia's first eternal flame?
 * ... that Nicolas Joel, general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary?
 * ... that in 1982, the King of Janow, son of the Queen of Poland, moved to California?


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