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  • ... that the baseball career of Charlie Bennett (pictured), who reportedly invented the chest protector, ended when his legs were run over by a train?
  • ... that XELD-TV was the first Mexican television station to affiliate with an American network?
  • ... that Frances McConnell-Mills' father, a doctor, refused to pay for her medical school tuition because he thought medicine was "too hard a life for a woman"?
  • ... that when Etheostoma variatum are seen, rivers are probably clean?
  • ... that the University of Chicago exercised its option to buy Harper Court for $98 million in November 2013 and listed it for sale in March 2014?
  • ... that Michel Disdier is the first French driver to race in NASCAR since the 1960s?
  • ... that several Muppets were taken captive after the set of Iftah Ya Simsim was stormed?

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  • ... that although once celebrated, a renovation completed in 1914 of medieval Dalhem Church (pictured) has been called a "harsh and loose reconstruction of the Middle Ages"?
  • ... that a reviewer wrote that tenor Georg Poplutz's performance of Schubert's Winterreise created a "cosmos of emotions"?
  • ... that at the end of World War II, the Soviet Union forced Finland to return 55,000 Finnic evacuees from Ingria, only to deport them to interior areas of central Russia?
  • ... that Yank Robinson, who set a major league record for single-season walks, died of tuberculosis at 34?
  • ... that 1978 was the last Atlantic hurricane season to use an all-female naming list?
  • ... that Tim Frick coached the Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team to three consecutive Paralympic gold medals and four consecutive World Wheelchair Basketball Championships?
  • ... that the final radio version of The Saint ran for sixteen months despite a Billboard review of the first episode that called star Vincent Price "frightfully dull"?
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