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...that a giant elephant (engraving pictured) in Paris was protected by a man living in one of its legs?
...that the French footballer Lucien Laurent scored the first ever World Cup goal, against Mexico in 1930?
...that the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was demoted in the Saint-Émilion classification amidst controversy, only to be later re-instated?

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