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- ... that Bill Kibby (pictured) was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Second Battle of El Alamein?
- ... that polonium-210 is 250,000 times more toxic by weight than hydrogen cyanide?
- ... that Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman rejects frybread, seen as a symbol of colonial oppression, but also considers it a symbol of resilience?
- ... that in a 2019 documentary, Astra Taylor interviews trauma surgeons, refugees, and a barber about the meaning of democracy?
- ... that 19 years after Mrinalini Devi married Rabindranath Tagore, many of her wedding jewels were sold to fund Brahmacharya Ashram, a school he founded?
- ... that nearly 80,000 black Mississippians cast a vote in the 1963 Freedom Ballot mock election, four times more than the number of officially-registered black voters?
- ... that the 1990 Nintendo Entertainment System video game Solstice was originally planned and developed as a computer title?
- ... that Susan Beschta was a punk rocker and federal judge?