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| Streichmelodion |
2022 |
12 |
5 |
1 |
20,398 |
849.9 |
... that the Streichmelodion (pictured) was once described as being "more like a frying pan than a musical instrument"? |
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| Bohemian harp |
2022 |
12 |
22 |
7 |
8,567 |
357.0 |
... that the Bohemian harp spread to Western Europe after a fire hit the town of Přísečnice? |
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| Weltdeutsch |
2023 |
4 |
29 |
3 |
5,403 |
450.2 |
... that Weltdeutsch was a proposal for a German-based language by Nobel-Prize laureate and pacifist Wilhelm Ostwald, created in an episode of chauvinistic fervour? |
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| Edgar de Wahl |
2023 |
5 |
18 |
1 |
23,990 |
999.6 |
... that language creator Edgar de Wahl (pictured) escaped deportation by the NKVD by being placed in a psychiatric hospital? |
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| Wede |
2023 |
7 |
14 |
2 |
8,742 |
728.5 |
... that Nazi Party member Adalbert Baumann created Oiropa'pitshn, a language based on Yiddish? |
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| Polnalyubvi |
2023 |
7 |
18 |
2 |
5,638 |
469.9 |
... that Russian indie artist polnalyubvi bought her first guitar with money earned from busking with her violin? |
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| Jews Don't Count |
2023 |
9 |
27 |
7 |
9,942 |
414.2 |
... that according to David Baddiel's book Jews Don't Count, antisemitism has become perceived as a "second-class racism"? |
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| Georg Forchhammer |
2023 |
10 |
10 |
4 |
3,880 |
161.6 |
... that in 1903, Georg Forchhammer invented a system to help his deaf students see the sounds of spoken Danish? |
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| Abram Kofman |
2023 |
11 |
26 |
4 |
3,920 |
163.4 |
... that Abram Kofman was the first Ancient Greek–Esperanto translator, publishing translated sections of the Iliad in 1895? |
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| Henriette Ith |
2023 |
12 |
15 |
7 |
6,518 |
271.6 |
... that Swiss-born peace activist Henriette Ith chose to marry an anarchist to regain Swiss citizenship? |
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| Jules Meysmans |
2023 |
12 |
26 |
8 |
10,614 |
442.2 |
... that although Jules Meysmans invented an entire language, he is best known for his invention of one word? |
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| Hermann Alfred Tanner |
2024 |
1 |
10 |
3 |
5,891
|
245.5 |
... that the Swiss mountaineer Hermann Alfred Tanner invented a compass to navigate colour harmony? |
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| Carl Segerståhl |
2024 |
1 |
15 |
2 |
9,523 |
396.8 |
... that instead of paying homage to a visiting King Gustaf VI Adolf, Swedish headmaster Carl Segerståhl took his students swimming in a nearby lake? |
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| Femboy |
2024 |
1 |
25 |
8 |
7,952 |
662.6 |
... that the introduction of femboys to Myanmar was a tactic to achieve an "ideological revolution"? |
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| Heinrich Nidecker |
2024 |
2 |
11 |
5 |
2,513 |
104.7 |
... that Heinrich Nidecker accused Samuel Taylor Coleridge of having committed plagiarism in his philosophical tract Theory of Life? |
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