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 * ... that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery (pictured) is not a monastery and actually contains close to 13,000 Buddha statues?
 * ... that after the disappearance of Dora Bloch, Britain cut all diplomatic ties with Uganda?
 * ... that in 17th-century French medicine, hospitals were not staffed by doctors, but mostly by nuns from the Daughters of Charity?
 * ... that in 1945, Lieutenant James B. Thayer and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp, saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
 * ... that the Somerset building Wraxall Court was a house for hundreds of years before becoming a convalescent home, then student residences and then a private house again?
 * ... that Canadian football player Jim Ambrose collapsed during a game and later died due to inflammation of the brain?
 * ... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by Cyclone Althea in December 1971 prompted Queensland to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
 * ... that while exploring whether a person's name affects the job they choose, Don Celender wrote to a dentist named Toothman and a rectal surgeon named Butts?


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