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- ... that the five stripes of the flag of Togo (pictured) represent the country's five regions?
- ... that a commentator said the McLaren MCL60 underwent "one of the most impressive in-season development steps ever seen" in Formula One?
- ... that Kanaria's song "King" has been characterized as an allegory for the house arrest, trial, and execution of Louis XVI?
- ... that a schoolteacher tried to make left-footed footballer Norman Hunter play right-footed?
- ... that the Santos Passos Church in Guimarães, Portugal, was declared a royal chapel by King Luís I in 1878?
- ... that the United States' largest planned solar project, Mammoth Solar, is named after mastodon fossils rather than its size?
- ... that a lyric in the song "Hands on Me" is about Meghan Trainor being unable to have sex due to pelvic floor damage?
- ... that William Hewett was the last-surviving British Army officer to have fought at the Battle of Waterloo?
- ... that a 1938 Catholic procession featured 80,000 marchers and one blimp?