... that "The House of Asterion" by Jorge Luis Borges was one of the first works by a major author to examine a well-known tale from the monster's perspective?
... that the wind phone in Japan was set up to allow people to talk to the dead?
... that A Ruined Life was the first film by director Victor Sjöström to be shown in Sweden because his earlier film, The Gardener, had been censored for 68 years?
... that after Maria Camilleri co-founded a school for Muslim children in Malta, she became the only Christian headmistress of a Muslim school in the world?
... that Mississippi legislator Thelma Farr Baxter introduced a bill to keep livestock off the roads after her husband was fatally injured in a highway collision with a cow?
... that Mary L. Smith became the first female president of Kentucky State University in 1991 despite having been passed over for the same job a year earlier?
... that the Catholic Church barred Deborah Schembri from practicing law in ecclesiastical court because she led a campaign to legalize divorce in Malta?
... that Nellah Massey Bailey became the first woman to be elected statewide in Mississippi in 1947, less than a year after the death of her husband Governor Thomas L. Bailey?
... that Debra Humphris, the vice chancellor of the University of Brighton, advocated converting 18th-century army barracks into student residences?
... that Inkeri Anttila, Finland's first female minister of justice, was also the first woman in Finland to complete a doctorate in law?
... that Helen D'Amato was appointed to a three-year term as Malta's commissioner of children, but held the role for nearly twice as long after her term expired without a successor being designated?
... that Finnish politician Margit Eskman did not attend secondary school because she had to work in a shoe factory?
... that Irma Toivanen, who was part of a group of Finnish volunteer medics during World War II, helped make a film about the group six decades later?
... that Orvokki Kangas authored six books, including a novel, memoirs, and religious devotionals, after she left the Finnish parliament at the age of 61?
... that Alli Lahtinen, the first woman to lead a central government agency in Finland, helped establish the country's national child care system?
... that the University of Oulu renamed an institute after Finnish politician Kerttu Saalasti in 2017, six decades after she introduced the bill that established the university?
... that Finnish politician Maija Rask earned a PhD at the age of 61 after a career as a nurse, teacher, member of Parliament, and minister of education?
... that Finnish politician Kaarina Suonio answered the world's first GSM phone call?
... that Sharon Choi, the Korean–English interpreter for film director Bong Joon-ho, is herself a director?
... that the children's book A Place Inside of Me is dedicated to the nephew of Atatiana Jefferson, a Black woman who was shot to death in her home by a policeman in 2019?
... that when Helena Braun visited New York "just for the trip", she sang the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera with four hours' notice?
... that Henri Coutard, an early pioneer in radiation therapy, spent the last decade of his life conducting fanciful experiments that were rejected by his peers?
