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... that Debra Toporowski (pictured) served simultaneously on the Cowichan Tribes council, on the North Cowichan council, and as acting mayor, before being elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia?
... that a musical adaptation of Homer's Odyssey is structured after video-game level progression?
... that scholars have suggested that bædlings may have been a third gender in Anglo-Saxon society?
... that the FBI's first successful use of silver nitrate to identify fingerprints was in solving the kidnapping of a brewery executive?
... that one Tumblr user cursed another for stealing bones for use in curses?
... that in 1902 the paramedic student Anna Weisman smuggled fonts to help set up an underground revolutionary publishing house in Saratov?
... that debris was carried aloft to an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,100 m) after the 1957 Ruskin Heights tornado?
... that Johannes Kaiser was the leading opponent to Liechtenstein's accession to the International Monetary Fund?
... that the publication of Paul Creston's saxophone sonata was delayed by a "rat with a toothbrush mustache"?