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Kwan Man-ching

... that Kwan Man-ching (pictured), who directed more than fifty films in forty years, entered the industry hoping to meet his celebrity crush?
... that the style of Hermann Weyl's Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik has been likened to "a smiling figure on horseback, cutting a clean way through ... with a swift bright sword"?
... that international adult figure skating champion Naz Arıcı learned to skate at the age of 29?
... that in 1967 two mathematicians published PhD dissertations independently disproving the same thirteen-year-old conjecture?
... that Shalom Nagar, executioner of war criminal and Nazi Party official Adolf Eichmann, said he was selected at random for the role?
... that Kevin Roose wrote a viral article about artificial intelligence rhetoric after an AI bot attempted to convince him to leave his wife?
... that Karl Thielscher began refereeing American football games less than a month after retiring from playing the sport professionally?
... that between February and August 1918 the Petergofsky District mobilized more than 20 combat units for the Red Army?
... that a South Korean actor sold his belongings and went $7 million into debt to keep his amusement park running?