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- ... that any baseballs that get hit and lodged in the Wrigley Field ivy (pictured) score the batter a double?
- ... that during the Second World War, the Norwegian naval officer Niels Larsen Bruun sank a German supply ship before he was certain which country was invading Norway?
- ... that the fire-bellied woodpecker can drum at the rate of 14 to 38 taps per second?
- ... that Brown v. Maryland was the first decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to construe the Import-Export Clause of the Constitution?
- ... that the title for Elizabeth Nunez's novel Anna In-Between (2009) was inspired by M. G. Vassanji's novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003)?
- ... that George Wilson, Jr. was a starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins while his father, George Wilson, Sr., was the head coach?
- ... that Neptune Theatre in Seattle had weekly showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1977 to 1993, and reopened with the same film after renovation in 2011?
- ... that President Donald Trump criticized Snoop Dogg's remix music video of "Lavender" for having a scene in which Snoop fires a flag gun at a clown parody version of Trump?