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... that despite the presence of 300 witnesses, an inquest concluded that the lynching of Preston Porter Jr. (pictured) was carried out "at the hands of parties unknown"?
... that a forest in northern Wisconsin was subject to nuclear-radiation testing in the 1970s?
... that a photograph of Lesotho sprinter Motsapi Moorosi was sent into space on the Voyager Golden Records?
... that no other studio in Freetown attracted more steamer passengers in 1920 than the establishment run by the Lisk-Carew brothers?
... that architect Arthur Loveless was a collector of Chinese snuff bottles?
... that Formula One races in Golden Lap are simply colored dots traveling along a thick line?
... that a recent international aid vessel bound for Gaza counted among its crew Greta Thunberg and a French member of the European Parliament?
... that there was a 24-year gap between the first Romanian Olympian and the next?
... that Little Benjamin the Ruler is buried in the churchyard of St Anne's Church, Lewes, but nobody knows who he was?

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