- ...Lithuania is in the geographical center of Europe? According to a study made by a French scientist in 1989, the geographical center of Europe lies just 26 kilometres North of Vilnius, the capital?
- ...football champion Romualdas Marcinkus (pictured) was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War?
- ...the evil serial killer Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs was born in Lithuania?
- ... that Daniel Klein's Grammatica Litvanica, the first printed grammar of the Lithuanian language, introduced the distinctive Lithuanian letter Ė?
- ... that between 2006 and 2007, Stacy Hollowell worked for basketball teams in Qatar, China, Bahrain and Lithuania?
- ... that the Church of St. Jacob, which had been used for centuries by Prussian Lithuanians in Klaipėda, was demolished by soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces using tanks in 1959?
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- ...Red Hot Chili Peppers vocalist Anthony Kiedis is of Lithuanian descent?
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- ...Jurgis Mačiūnas was a founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers?
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- ...that Lithuanian book smugglers transported Lithuanian language books printed in the Latin alphabet into Lithuanian-speaking areas of the Russian Empire, defying a ban on such materials in force from 1864 to 1904?
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- ...Lithuania is in the geographical center of Europe? According to a study made by a French scientist in 1989, the geographical center of Europe lies just 26 kilometres North of Vilnius, the capital?
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- ...on September 18, 1999 Jurgis Kairys flew under all bridges over the Neris River in Vilnius?
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- ...Lithuania, together with Latvia and Estonia, in 1989 formed a human chain – Baltic Way which connected the three Baltic states capitals?
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- ...football champion Romualdas Marcinkus (pictured) was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War?
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- ...Lithuanians were the last nation in Europe to convert to Christianity?
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- ...The Lithuanian language is believed to be the linguistically most conservative living Indo-European tongue, retaining many features of Proto Indo-European?
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- ...Lithuanian basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis is not only considered as one of the best European basketball players of all-time, but also currently is the tallest person in the whole Lithuania with 223,6 cm height?
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- ...The Constitution of May 3 was the first constitution in Europe and second in the world after United States Constitution of 1788?
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- ...over 76% of the country's population spectated the Lithuania men's national basketball team games live in 2014?
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- ...Lithuania-born political activist Michael Oliver attempted to create a sovereign micronation Republic of Minerva?
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- ...the evil serial killer Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs was born in Lithuania?
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- ...Vilnius University is the oldest university in Eastern Europe?
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- ...Grand Duchy of Lithuania once stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea?
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- ...Violeta Urmana is one of the finest soprano and mezzosoprano voices in the world?
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- ...the only public sculpture for Frank Zappa was in Vilnius, the capital, until in 2002 a bronze bust was installed in a square in Bad Doberan, Germany?
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- ...the name of Lithuania was mentioned for the first time in the Annals of Quedlinburg in 1009?
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- ...The Killers vocalist Brandon Flowers is of Lithuanian descent?
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- ...Prince Wilhelm of Urach was named as King of Lithuania Mindaugas II just for a few months in 1918?
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