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- ... that Detlev Jöcker (pictured) wrote and performed songs with movements first for his little son, and went on to sell 13 million albums?
- ... that The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein exposes policies of racial segregation in nearly all United States presidential administrations dating back to the late 1800s?
- ... that a non-governmental organisation set up by Hekani Jakhalu helps young entrepreneurs from Nagaland?
- ... that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second U.S. Supreme Court justice to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol?
- ... that after the Battle of Inverkeithing, Oliver Cromwell deliberately left open a route for the Scottish army to invade England?
- ... that despite Sandpaper Ballet being choreographed to music by Leroy Anderson, his piece of the same name is not used?
- ... that Cyclone Gati in November 2020 was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Somalia?
- ... that Laura Garwin, one of the first female Rhodes Scholars, left a career in science to become a full-time trumpeter?