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- ... that the Japan Romantic Road was so popular that signs (example pictured) were altered on a road in Germany?
- ... that Elvis Presley's song "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" features a theme common to country music: "passive acceptance of the singer's fate"?
- ... that the Rolls Royce Battle of Britain Memorial Window commemorates the pilots of the Royal Air Force and the contributions of Rolls-Royce engineering to the Battle of Britain?
- ... that Amber McReynolds's advocacy for vote-by-mail supported US states' expansion of absentee balloting during the COVID-19 pandemic so millions of people could vote from home in the 2020 elections?
- ... that the Rhodesian African Rifles' march "Sweet Banana" was created after their soldiers stopped to buy some bananas in South Africa?
- ... that the 1991 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final was the first Football League play-off to be decided by a penalty shoot-out?
- ... that RealSports Baseball, part of Atari's response to an Intellivision marketing campaign fronted by George Plimpton, won a best sports game award for 1983?
- ... that an engineer of Pittsburgh television station WENS found out that its tower had collapsed when he looked out his window to find it missing?