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... that 1952 Winter Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen once ran a ski shop in the La Fave Block (pictured), the second oldest brick commercial building in Aspen, Colorado?
... that Norwegian entrepreneur Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer was appointed official reporter of Norway at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris?
... that a significant difference between the Christian Evangelical Church of Romania and the Evangelical Church of Romania, which were united under the Communist regime, is the form of baptism each practices?
... that after KV Pharmaceutical received an FDA-sponsored monopoly to exclusively market a drug that had been already available for five decades, it raised its price from about US$15 to US$1,500?
... that medieval historian Eleanor Duckett (1880–1976) and her lifelong companion, regional novelist Mary Ellen Chase, have adjoining halls named for them at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts?
... that Dutch paleobotanist Willem van Zeist analyzed the first domesticated emmer wheat found at Tell Aswad, Syria?
... that the actor voicing the creature in the Fringe episode "Night of Desirable Objects" placed pieces of orange in his mouth in order to have "a slobbery, sputtering voice"?
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