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- ... that May Bonfils Stanton built an exact replica of Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon château (pictured) on her estate in Lakewood, Colorado?
- ... that Flood of Fire, the final volume of the Ibis trilogy by Amitav Ghosh, won the Crossword Book Jury Award in Fiction in 2015?
- ... that Sir Barry Shaw was the first Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland?
- ... that the pelage of Ruschi's rat is a mixture of ordinary hairs and flattened, black-tipped spines?
- ... that William Lloyd Webber's Missa Princeps Pacis was performed at St Martin-in-the-Fields to celebrate Webber's centenary?
- ... that a cable car flywheel found during construction of Pioneer Square station in Seattle now sits on display at the station's mezzanine?
- ... that Xavier Bettel became the first European Union leader to marry someone of the same sex when he married Gauthier Destenay in 2015?
- ... that "Empty Orchestra", an episode of Inside No. 9, features a karaoke version of Yazoo's "Only You" sung by Janet, who is played by the Deaf actor Emily Howlett?