- ... that during the American Civil War, Middletown, Virginia's St. Thomas Chapel (pictured) was used first as a Confederatehospital and later as a Union stable?
- ... that the 45,000-year-old remains of Ust'-Ishim man are the oldest modern human genome to be fully sequenced to date?
- ... that Bruckner scored his second setting of Christus factus est for eight vocal parts, trombones, and strings, but added, "Besser ohne Violinen" (Better without violins)?
- ... that Peak Walk in the Swiss Alps is the first suspension bridge to connect two mountain peaks?
- ... that the office of University of Missouri Chancellor John W. Schwada was stormed by student protesters in May 1970?
- ... that a coffee extract used in Starbucks' discontinued Mazagran beverage was later used in the formulation of the company's line of bottled frappuccinobeverages?
- ... that in his legal defence of Saddam Hussein, Hussein Mjalli argued that "Iraq, Iraqi people, Iraqi law, and the Iraqi president were hijacked"?
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