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- ... that the Kollegienkirche (pictured in 1712), the church of the University of Salzburg built by Fischer von Erlach, was the venue for a Hofmannsthal premiere and a Sciarrone opera?
- ... that the Lynnwood Convention Center was rejected by voters on three occasions in the 1980s and 1990s, before it was finally built in 2005?
- ... that Claude Henderson was the first cricketer to sign a Kolpak contract?
- ... that George Morison Robertson, a Scottish expatriate in Hawaii, married a shipwrecked Englishwoman from Australia?
- ... that Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 play Abe Lincoln in Illinois was written as a riposte to isolationists in the United States?
- ... that all 300 special edition copies of SimetriSiti, an album by Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza, sold out in 20 minutes?
- ... that Alaska P. Davidson was the first female FBI special agent?
- ... that the Minar in the centre of the Sassanid circular city of Gōr may have been an observation tower, a water tower, part of a temple, a symbol of the new government, or a combination of these?