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- ...that Saltwood Castle in Kent, England, was the site where four knights plotted to kill Thomas Becket in 1170?
- ...that the fruit of the colocynth is such a violent laxative, that it was even used by pregnant women to induce abortion?
- ...that U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Jay R. Vargas, one of four brothers who were decorated war veterans, requested that his medal be engraved with his mother's name instead of his own?
- ...that the blind cave beetle Anophthalmus hitleri is threatened by poaching due to its curious name, which is a salute to Adolf Hitler?
- ...that M. E. Clifton James posed as Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery as part of an Allied deception plan called Operation Copperhead in 1944, and then went on to play himself in a 1958 biopic called I Was Monty's Double?
- ...that Jean-Baptiste Le Blond, chief architect of Saint Petersburg from 1716 until his death, introduced the distinctions between state apartments and private apartments into French architectural practice?