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- ... that Andalusian philosopher Averroes (pictured) theorized that all human beings share a single intellect, and Thomas Aquinas wrote a treatise to refute this theory?
- ... that Altars of the World was the final recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film before the award was retired?
- ... that one of the financers of the Spire, a residential building in Seattle, joined the project as a result of a state visit by Chinese president Xi Jinping?
- ... that Ülo Nugis was the first Estonian politician to publicly call for Estonia to join NATO, even while Soviet troops were still present in the Baltic nation?
- ... that the ancestors of the grey cuckooshrike most likely spread to Africa from the Australo-Papuan region?
- ... that Serge Blanc was the first to record Leonard Bernstein's Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" in France?
- ... that the single road bridge to Great Island in Cork Harbour is more than 200 years old?
- ... that in 1964, a school teacher survived for nine months after surgeon Keith Reemtsma transplanted chimpanzee kidneys into her?