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... that Baggböle manor (pictured) is built entirely of wood, but made to look like a stone building?
... that Jackie Tavener is one of only four players in Major League Baseball history to steal second, third and home in the same inning on more than one occasion?
... that the album Tunnel Rats by the hip-hop collective of the same name featured a more mainstream and diverse production style than previous albums?
... that William Stadiem's book on Frank Sinatra was based on thousands of pages of notes taken about Sinatra's everyday life by his valet George Jacobs?
... that state-dependent memory suggests that if you forget what you did when blind drunk, you could get drunk again and remember it?
... that Nawrahta Minsaw, the first Burmese ruler of Lan Na, was also an accomplished poet in the yadu style?
... that the Japan release of Saints Row: The Third had the veins removed from its Penetrator weapon—a three-foot long phallus bat—due to regulatory restrictions on depictions of genitalia?

... that Felton Hervey, who was in the foreground of Zoffany's painting Tribuna of the Uffizi, never saw the completed painting (detail pictured)?
... that "Baggböleri", the Swedish derogatory term for deforestation, is named after Baggböle on the Ume River?
... that the upcoming video game Halo 5: Guardians features a new game engine for the series?
... that Milan Puskar Health Right, a system of free clinics in West Virginia that handles nearly 4,000 patients a year, originally operated out of a Baptist church?
... that the film Death in the West contains what is believed to be the first recorded admission from a tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems?
... that London's Burlington Gardens is the site of the first Abercrombie & Fitch store in Europe?
... that Robbie Williams was inspired to write Rudebox's hidden track, "Dickhead", after playing The Mitchell Brothers' "Routine Check" to death?

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