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• ...that the German late Romantic composer Richard Wetz (pictured), in 1928, was appointed foreign member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts, alongside Igor Stravinsky?

• ...that an unknown quantity of Columbian Exposition half dollars were used as collateral against loans made to the Columbian exposition and when the exposition failed to repay the debits, the banks dumped the coins into circulation?

• ...that it is a Georgia Tech tradition to steal the "T" from Tech Tower?

• ...that the remains of the Lviv High Castle in Lviv, Ukraine, was used as the foundation for a kurgan, constructed in memory of the 300-anniversary of the Union of Lublin?

• ...that the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält, awarded for valor in the field, was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915?

• ...that the Carron, a river in the Scottish Highlands only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?