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- ... that sisters Talia and Tori DellaPeruta (both pictured), college teammates at North Carolina, play soccer professionally for Sampdoria?
- ... that, as minister, Simon de Graaff would receive daily shipments of documents by bicycle?
- ... that the Byzantine Empire's weak defenses around the Lycus valley played a pivotal role in the fall of Constantinople?
- ... that a graphic novel for teens was among the 10 most challenged books in the United States in 2023?
- ... that the American band Grupo Frontera collaborated with the media franchise Transformers on a trailer to promote their second studio album?
- ... that if the Devizes Plot had been successful, 7,000 German prisoners of war would have escaped and attacked RAF Yatesbury?
- ... that Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo, a Congolese-Canadian anthropologist and human rights activist, survived being kidnapped and held for ransom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
- ... that when actress Joanna Lumley spent nine days on an uninhabited island for the 1994 TV show Girl Friday, she made a pair of shoes out of her bra?
- ... that John Wilson was expelled from the Arkansas House of Representatives for killing another representative in a knife fight, but was then re-elected two years later?