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... that during the Crusader era in Palestine, the village of Kafr Lam (fortress pictured) was sold to the Hospitallers by the lord of Caesarea for 16,000 besants?
... that Imero Fiorentino has served as a lighting designer for every U.S. President since Dwight D. Eisenhower?
... that the Barony of Ladyland was established by a poet and fervent papist who was imprisoned for his role in a 1592 plot to re-establish the Catholic faith in Scotland through a Spanish invasion?
... that Tadeusz Pyka was appointed in 1980 to lead a Polish government commission to negotiate with strikers at Gdańsk, despite vowing that he would have "nothing to do" with the strikers' main representative body?
... that when the Worcester Common Outlets shopping mall was completed in 1971, it had the world's largest parking garage?
... that Cyril Pullin designed the first successful British helicopter and his son was the pilot for its first flight in June 1938?
... that gemstone irradiation processes enable the creation of certain gemstone colors that do not exist or are extremely rare in nature?
... that King Charles II rewarded Captain Richard Haddock for his actions in the Battle of Solebay by giving him a hat?

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