Did you know ...that when Gessner Harrison (pictured) was a student at the University of Virginia, he declined Thomas Jefferson's invitation to Sunday dinner, saying that it would be a violation of the Sabbath?
that extensive disturbances in the crust beneath the Philippines produce many volcanoes and earthquakes?
that the 2000 Canadian hip-hop song "Money Jane" is credited with launching Sean Paul's international music career?
that "The Country Without a Post Office" describes Kashmir as "a land of doomed addresses", because postal services were stopped for seven months during an armed uprising?
that Jon Favreau, creator of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian, also voiced the character of Paz Vizla?
that after Indian-American lawyer Sakharam Ganesh Pandit represented Bhagat Singh Thind in a 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case, the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?
that Piazza Scossacavalli in Rome kept its cinquecento atmosphere for nearly 400 years?
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