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- ... that in 1253 Henry III of England ordered that his white bear (sculpture pictured) be permitted to swim and hunt in the River Thames?
- ... that William Aitken, William J. Bain, J. Lister Holmes, John T. Jacobsen, and George W. Stoddard collaborated in the early 1940s to design America's first racially integrated public housing development?
- ... that the prison scenes in the film Plurality were shot in an archaeology museum?
- ... that the 1990 Serbian constitutional referendum also took place at six voting stations in Montenegro for voters who were on holiday?
- ... that Ana Sigüenza was the first woman to be the general secretary of a national trade union center in Spain?
- ... that during the 1929 Dollar Mountain Fire, 65 firefighters survived being surrounded by fire overnight by sheltering near a creek?
- ... that the lyrics of "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)" were inspired by beheadings in medieval Europe?
- ... that up to 16,000 crows regularly commute from around the Seattle metropolitan area to a wetland in Bothell, Washington?
- ... that according to a TikTok theory, burnt toast could save you from a car accident?