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Nayib Bukele

... that Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele (pictured) has referred to himself as the "coolest dictator in the world"?
... that following its deconsecration, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Venice and its grounds have been used as a stable, a tobacco warehouse, and a prison?
... that television director Diana Edwards-Jones introduced earpieces to permit direct communication between a control room and newsreaders?
... that St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill, contains a font designed by John Francis Bentley and in which he was later baptised?
... that the 1983 Spanish floods were the most economically damaging in Spain until the 2024 Spanish floods?
... that the medieval Castle Knob was the site of a Cold War nuclear monitoring station?
... that Zhou Houkun wrote a thesis on the use of bamboo to reinforce concrete?
... that Burrito Express began shipping out its burritos by mail because of demand from former customers who had moved away from California?
... that weightlifter Wu Tsai-fu drank six huge glasses of beer to help himself urinate for a drug test?