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- ... that Olga Lander's camera required her to work close to the dangerous wartime subjects she photographed (example pictured)?
- ... that the antiseptic cream Boroline was marketed to appeal to nationalistic sentiments?
- ... that King Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark were the parents of a Danish king, a British queen, a Greek king, and a Russian empress?
- ... that John D. Rockefeller Jr., under the name "David's Father", secretly authorized the purchase of an $8,000 "antique"?
- ... that although Evgeniia Subbotina failed to escape her own exile in Siberia, she successfully aided the escapes of Catherine Breshkovsky, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya and Sofya Bogomolets?
- ... that an 18th-century hymn inspired the title of George W. Bush's 1999 autobiography?
- ... that Denpasar mayor I Gusti Ngurah Jaya Negara became active in politics after he was laid off from a bank due to the Asian financial crisis?
- ... that Israel's systematic destruction of trees and farmland in Gaza has been described as an ecocide?
- ... that Elizabeth Storie's doctor poured nitric acid into her mouth, causing her teeth to fall out?