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- ... that the book Before Freedom contains 38 years of letters from Jawaharlal Nehru to his sister Nan (both pictured), including some he wrote while imprisoned during India's fight for independence?
- ... that in 1822 John Henry Wishart gave the first description in English of type 2 neurofibromatosis?
- ... that some protesters have described "Glory to Hong Kong" as the unofficial national anthem of Hong Kong?
- ... that with his appointment to head the 12th Submarine Squadron, Rear-Admiral Andrei Volozhinsky commanded nearly 14 percent of strategic Russian warheads and 63 percent of Russia's naval strategic nuclear forces?
- ... that the Georgetown University School of Dentistry was established during Jerome Daugherty's tenure as university president?
- ... that Tove Lo wrote the plot for the music video of her song "Timebomb", inspired by the "kind of love that can't last forever because it isn't allowed to or it's not socially accepted"?
- ... that National Route 280 was of defensive importance to the Japanese, who feared a Russian incursion into Ezo?
- ... that American writer Jan Fortune was born in the back of a post office in Wellington, Texas?