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Did you knowthat murdered Australian designer Florence Broadhurst opened a performing arts academy in Shanghai before she became famous for her wallpaper designs?
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Did you knowthat complaints about the presence of liberal Catholic theologians such as Joseph Ratzinger at the Second Vatican Council led to the creation of the conservative study group Coetus Internationalis Patrum ?
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Did you knowthat the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when defrocked Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars?
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Did you knowthat the Bangabhaban has served as the official residence for the Viceroy of India , Governor of East Pakistan and the President of Bangladesh ?
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Did you know that Ken Richmond , the last gongman of the Rank Organisation , was a 1952 Summer Olympics wrestling medalist and actor in Jules Dassin 's Night and the City ?
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Did you know that Pakistani general Zahirul Islam Abbasi plotted a coup d'etat against then- Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995 ?
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Did you knowthat director Fei Mu 's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005 ?
Did you knowthat France 's Ford Vedette was the first car to feature MacPherson struts ?
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Did you knowthat Chinese premier Zhou Enlai barely evaded an assassination attempt on him in 1955 , which killed 16 people?
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Did you knowthat Resica Falls Scout Reservation contains a museum displaying 19th-century tannery village relics and local Native American artifacts going back to 500 BC?
Did you knowthat the self-made dress that Barbara Dex wore while performing " Iemand Als Jij " at the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest led to the creation of an award for the worst-dressed performer in the contest ?
Did you knowthat in June 2001 , Olga Kern became the first woman in over three decades to win the Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition ?
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Did you knowthat the Nissan President , Nissan's top-of-the-range luxury limousine made for over forty years, remains largely unknown outside of Japan ?
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