that the Heiligen-Geist-Kapelle in Bruck, a unique late-Gothic chapel with a star rib vault (pictured), was almost demolished to make room for a highway?

… that the Rhodesian Independence Bell, a replica of the American Liberty Bell, was inscribed “I toll for justice, civilization and Christianity”?

… that South African American-football kicker Ryan Pretorius wore cleats two sizes too small at Ohio State to simulate kicking barefoot?

… that although Dmitri Shostakovich initially dismissed his own Piano Sonata №2 as a “trifle, something impromptu”, he would later consider it his most important piano composition?

… that Peter Clavelle did not face either a Republican or a Democratic opponent in the 1991 Burlington mayoral election?

… that María Teresa Sesé wrote 500 romance novels in her native Spanish, then wrote several books in Basque after studying the language for two years?

… that the current Indonesian ambassador to Nigeria, Usra Hendra Harahap, personally led a rescue operation to free Indonesian crew members taken hostage by pirates in June 2020?

… that leopards live in the forest in Turkey?