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 * ...that ice hockey goaltender Clint Malarchuk sustained one of the most horrific in-game injuries in National Hockey League history?
 * ...that Monique Serf was only ten years old when she went into hiding during the German occupation of France in World War II?
 * ...that in the 1930s, the paramilitary fascist organization called the New Guard was present in Australia?
 * ...that Dolmabahçe Palace was the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1923?
 * ...that the United States Academic Decathlon was first organized in Orange County, California?
 * ...that until the 1930s, methanol was the most widely used antifreeze?
 * ...that the Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois was intended to rival New York City's Metropolitan Opera House?
 * ...that NASA offers interested individuals opportunities to fly small experiments aboard the Space Shuttle called Getaway Specials?
 * ...that Dido-class cruisers fought in the Battle of Cape Matapan, Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Normandy, and Operation Torch?
 * ...that Zenna Henderson's story "Pottage" was made into an ABC TV movie The People, starring William Shatner?
 * ...that Anne Isabella Milbanke was certain her husband, Lord Byron, had gone mad?
 * ...that the Kharoṣṭhī script was in use from the middle of the 3rd century BCE until around the 3rd century CE?
 * ...that the governor of Texas during the American Civil War was Francis Lubbock?
 * ...that Oregon Ballot Measure 51, if it had passed, would have repealed Oregon's Death with Dignity Act?
 * ...that, in the U.S. Navy, advancement to Petty Officer First Class is dependent on time in service, performance evaluations, and rate examinations?
 * ...that Joan of Arc and Mahatma Gandhi were protagonists in Clone High?
 * ...that Signing Exact English is easy for parents and teachers of deaf children to master quickly?
 * ...that Jane Delano, a relative of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, founded the American Red Cross nursing service?
 * ...that the Persian king Cyrus the Younger invented the scythed chariot?
 * ...that there is no widely accepted explanation for geographic features called Carolina bays, but that meteors may be the cause?
 * ...that Ferryland was the first permanent European colony in Newfoundland?
 * ...that the nucleus accumbens is a collection of neurons in the basal forebrain of reptiles, thought to be linked to reward responses?
 * ...that construction of the Second Avenue Subway in New York City began in 1919?
 * ...that the Rift Valley lakes of Africa are a freshwater ecoregion?
 * ...that at 107 grams, the brains of spider monkeys are twice the size of howler monkeys of equivalent body size?
 * ...that the Britain's Workers Socialist Federation began as a suffragette group?
 * ...that people who suffer from anosognosia, sometimes seen following traumatic brain injury, either deny or are not aware of their disabilities, including cases such as blindness or paralysis?
 * ...that Captain & Tennille now reside in Nevada?
 * ...that siblings raised separately may experience genetic sexual attraction if they meet as adults?
 * ...that according to the ancient doctrine of signatures, the plant hepatica was useful for treating liver disorders?
 * ...that Cathy Guisewite, the cartoonist of the Cathy comic strip, named "food, love, mom, and work" as her title character's "four basic guilt groups"?
 * ...that Church House is the headquarters building for the Church of England?
 * ...that the Soviet Union named 12 cities and the Brest Fortress "Hero Cities" for valor during the Great Patriotic War?
 * ...that in Vajrayāna Buddhism, a Wisdom King is the third tier of deity, after buddhas and bodhisattvas?
 * ...that Comiskey Park was the oldest stadium in Major League Baseball until its demolition in 1991?
 * ...that a thirty-second note or demisemiquaver is a musical note that is played for $1⁄32$ the duration of a whole note?
 * ...that "Persian violet" is another name for cyclamen?
 * ...that ancient Egyptian architect Senemut was allegedly the lover of the pharaoh Hatshepsut?
 * ...that the Pointer Sisters music group combined elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, scat and be-bop?
 * ...that the United Nations established the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in 1975?
 * ...that the Venetian language, spoken mostly in the Veneto region of Italy, is also spoken in the Mexican village of Chipilo near Puebla, where many Venetians immigranted in 1882?
 * ...that collard greens are used in the Portuguese-Brazilian soup caldo verde ("green broth")?
 * ...that Hong Kong is made up of 236 islands and many peninsulas?
 * ...that the ancient Greek historian Polybius was also a cryptographer, inventing the Polybius square?
 * ...that William X of Aquitaine, father of Eleanor of Aquitaine, was a noted patron of troubadours?
 * ...that the term Apostolic Fathers refers to the generation between the Apostles and the Church Fathers?
 * ...that Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb led the successful initial German assault on Leningrad in 1941, but was relieved of duty by a distrustful Hitler?
 * ...that Albert R. Broccoli produced the 1962 film Dr. No and remained involved with the James Bond series until his death?
 * ...that the epic poems Beowulf and Judith were written in Late West Saxon?
 * ...the ember days were formerly set aside for fasting and prayer in the liturgical year of the Western churches?