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• ... that scientists shooting lasers at a mirror on the Moon (pictured) discovered that their telescope was not where it should be?
• ... that upon the announcement of the verdict in the trial of Lina E., court spectators shouted "fuck class justice" and "you are friends of fascists"?
• ... that Jon Brower Minnoch weighed twelve times his 110-pound (50 kg) wife?
• ... that none of the actors in Poppy Garden, a film depicting a father and son's struggle for survival during the Colombian conflict, had previously acted in a film?
• ... that Jon Secada became the first black artist to top the Hot Latin Tracks chart in 1992, with the Spanish version of "Just Another Day"?
• ... that Smoke over Birkenau by Polish writer Seweryna Szmaglewska, published in 1945, was one of the first and most influential works about the Auschwitz–Birkenau concentration camp?
• ... that when TVBoy's daughter said she wanted to be a footballer like Alexia Putellas, he painted a mural of Alexia as a superhero to inspire other girls?
• ... that Igor Stravinsky suggested that performances of his song "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" should be "a little hooted, a little meowed, a little grunted"?