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... that the Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi (wreck pictured) capsized on 29 July 1945 as a result of cumulative damage inflicted by American airstrikes on 24 and 28 July?
... that Scandinavian influence in Scotland, still evident today, was probably at its height during the time of Thorfinn the Mighty?
... that, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bassetki statue, which is more than 4,200 years old, was found in a cesspool?
... that in medieval art, angels were often depicted wearing feather tights?
... that 49% of German military losses happened in the last 10 months of the Second World War in Europe?
... that Joshua L. Goldberg, the first rabbi to serve as a World War II U.S. navy chaplain, was a Russian army deserter?
... that Richard Nixon chose the Wilson desk as his Oval Office desk because he believed it was used by Woodrow Wilson, informed that it was used by Henry Wilson, Vice President under Ulysses S. Grant, but actually bought by Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States under President William McKinley?
... that some of the nominally silver Roman coins from the Bredon Hill Hoard only have a 1% silver content?

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