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...that the 364-meter pier in Withernsea, England was struck by ships four times, finally leaving it only 15 meters long?
...that most of the Strigolniki were drowned in the Volkhov river in 1376 as a result of pressure from the Russian Orthodox Church?
...that the Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a key part of Allied efforts to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons?
...that the Canadian constitutional crisis known as the King-Byng Affair led to the Statute of Westminster 1931, which affected all the Dominions in the British Empire?