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- ... that Tobie Goedewaagen (pictured), a minister under the Nazi occupation government, fled the Netherlands with his belongings in a bedspread?
- ... that sixteen-year-old Lisa Andreas, who represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, was that year's youngest contest entrant?
- ... that Chris Patrick is one of seven Stanley Cup champions in his family?
- ... that the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River is the northern terminus of the river's navigable portion?
- ... that musician Henry Donch witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and served on the grand jury that indicted the assassin of President Garfield?
- ... that the Pokémon species Lucario is used to promote fitness programs in Japan?
- ... that Peter Talbot, the Catholic archbishop of Dublin, was imprisoned in 1678 due to an anti-Catholic conspiracy?
- ... that the owners of the Narragansett Pier Railroad included a family of industrialists, a dentist, a systems analyst, a lumberyard, and the founder of Textron?
- ... that valence populism cannot be positioned on the left–right political spectrum?
- ... that 17-year-old women's basketball player Zhang Ziyu is at least 220 centimetres (7 ft 3 in) tall?