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- ... that Claudette Colbert, who won her only Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (poster pictured), privately called the film "the worst picture in the world"?
- ... that the 1958 Lebanese presidential election was held during an armed rebellion while 10,000 US troops were deployed in the nation?
- ... that Chinese cosplayer Liyuu is also an anime musician?
- ... that the male sea spider Propallene longiceps carries fertilized eggs in bracelet-like masses wrapped around his legs?
- ... that MLS Cup 2020 will feature Seattle Sounders FC for the fourth time in five years?
- ... that Elsa-Brita Nordlund, Sweden's first child psychiatrist, advocated for the humanization of care in children's hospitals?
- ... that a line of the 1840 song "Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit", claiming "no country more beautiful" and presented by its author as a Volkslied, is quoted as the title of books and television series?
- ... that upon being named president of Georgetown University, Gerard J. Campbell was described as a "new breed" of "Ivy League Catholic"?