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- ... that the NFL has required players in most positions to wear Guardian Caps (pictured) during training even though third-party research has questioned their effectiveness?
- ... that the Upper Voltan National Radio chief editor Watamou Lamien was the liaison between the Revolutionary Military Organization and the clandestine Voltan Revolutionary Communist Party?
- ... that Silence Is Loud uses a style that was previously considered "absolutely verboten" for its genre?
- ... that Jackson Demonstration State Forest was named in honor of American lumberman Jacob Green Jackson?
- ... that Tural, the setting of the expansion pack Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, is inspired by Latin America and Southeast Asia?
- ... that orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Bursh had also served as an advisor to the Palestine national football team before dying in an Israeli prison?
- ... that American Colossus is a biography of a man who was "the most famous sportsman in the world" and "the most forgotten great athlete in American history"?
- ... that husband and wife Edward M. and Marie Zimmerman co-wrote the suffragist anthem "Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song"?
- ... that between 1985 and 1988, Televerket spent 2 million kronor paying youth sports teams to monitor payphones for vandalism?