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The town house
where "Lofsongur"
was composed
- ... that "
Lofsongur
", the national anthem of
Iceland
, was composed in an
Edinburgh
town house
(pictured)
?
- ... that to portray events of
The Blair Witch Project
as real, its actors were listed on the
IMDb
website as "missing, presumed dead"?
- ... that pathologist
Walter Lazarus-Barlow
pricked his thumb during a postmortem examination and lost an arm as a result?
- ... that
Violet Lake
, a high-elevation lake on the slope of the
West Maui Mountains
, was believed to be the home of the Hawaiian lizard goddess Kihawahine?
- ... that the
Estadio Tecnologico de Oaxaca
was designed to mimic the ball court at
Monte Alban
?
- ... that the
blackchin shiner
was thought to have vanished from
Ohio
before 1940, until it was rediscovered there in the 1980s?
- ... that Mozart composed his motet
Ave verum corpus
for the church choir of
St. Stephan in Baden
on 17 June 1791?
- ... that
Roy Ananny
was a
Canadian football
player, a fireman, a police officer, a
curling
player, and a realtor?
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