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... that the anti-religious campaign culminating in the Stalinist show trial of the Kraków Curia (pictured) led to the imprisonment of 123 Polish Roman Catholic priests in just one year?
... that Confederate brigadier general Alfred E. Jackson was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson because of his kindness toward Johnson's family during the Civil War?
... that after HMS Porcupine was nearly split in two by a torpedo, the halves were nicknamed HMS Pork and HMS Pine?
... that the Experiment was a boat powered by horses running on a treadmill and propelled by a then-novel type of screw propeller?
... that one of the highest-ranking generals in China was injured in battle nine times?
... that in Mesopotamian mythology, the Apkallu were sent by the god Enki, from Dilmun to teach human beings various aspects of civilization?
... that Karl Marx's theory of historical trajectory attempted to prove the long-term unsustainability of capitalism?
... that in November 1921, the schooner Cymric collided with a tram in Dublin?

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