Did you know,
that the laciniate conch (shell pictured) is able to flip itself off the seabed using its muscular foot?
... that Virginia Walker was signed to a Hollywood film contract on the basis of her picture in a magazine advertisement for soap?
... that Scandinavian sagas were the first to use Eistland as a name for Estonia?
... that Enno Stephan's book Geheimauftrag Irland caused embarrassment in Ireland when it revealed details of Nazi espionage in the country?
... that The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith was filmed in Fiji to take advantage of the country's 47-percent tax rebate for films made there?
... that the Leeds-based software company Visionware represented a management buyout success story from the failure of a once much larger British company?
... that after Caroline Pafford Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her first novel, she received a letter from Margaret Mitchell saying that it was her "favorite book"?
... that rappers Future and Drake worked at McDonald's for a day?
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