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At 18, Milly Alcock juggled filming House of the Dragon and an online performing arts degree, having changed her name from Amelia to Milly to avoid confusion with other actors.
For 73 years, Titanic survivors' accounts of the ship splitting before sinking were doubted until the wreckage was found in two parts in 1985, despite survivors facing skepticism.
In 2018, Saudi Arabia ended its 35-year cinema ban, screening The Emoji Movie as the first public film after the ban was lifted.
The Pirahã language requires speakers to use a suffix indicating how they know the information, such as through hearsay or observation, with no allowance for ambiguity.
YInMn Blue, a vivid and highly reflective pigment, was accidentally discovered at Oregon State University, noted for its near-perfect color and high near-infrared reflectance.
In 2017, five bald men were killed in Mozambique due to the belief that their bald heads contained gold.
Many North Korean women fleeing the country use matchmaking agencies to meet South Korean men, who typically pay about $2,500 for multiple blind dates over a year.
In 1932, the "Bonus Army" of WWI veterans marched on Washington, D.C., to demand promised bonuses, but under President Hoover's orders, troops led by General MacArthur used force to disperse them, resulting in deaths and injuries.
In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy, defeating Papal forces in Rome, and arrested Pope Pius VI when he refused to grant authority, keeping him imprisoned until his death 18 months later.
During the 1999 Kargil War, Indian soldier Yogendra Singh Yadav, despite being shot, scaled a snowy cliff under fire, destroyed an enemy bunker with a grenade, and killed four soldiers with his hands.
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