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• ... that the opera Blind Injustice tells the true stories of six people in Ohio who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated?

• ... that although the Chancery Amendment Act 1858 was repealed in the United Kingdom, it is still valid in the Republic of Ireland and parts of Canada?

• ... that André Langrand-Dumonceau, a major Belgian financier of the mid-19th century, was convicted of financial fraud, tried in absentia, and died in exile?

• ... that although the report of the Benson Commission led to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, the report and Act disagreed in many ways?

• ... that Henry Swinburne was the first canon law writer to write his works in English?

• ... that in the United Kingdom, the military offence of looting carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment?

• ... that the LGBT Centre was finally registered after being told more than ten times that its name did not suit "Mongolian traditions and customs"?

Source

1. Template:Did you know nominations/Blind Injustice (opera) (October 2019)
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/August
3. Template:Did you know nominations/André Langrand-Dumonceau (June 2015)
4. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/June
5. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/August
6. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/January
7. Template:Did you know nominations/LGBT Centre Mongolia, July 2020