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... that Filipina TV host Daphne Oseña-Paez (pictured) got her big break by waiting for a network executive in the ABS-CBN parking lot to show him a TV program that she filmed, shot, and edited herself?
... that Abdulai Silá is the author of the first novel to be written and published in Guinea-Bissau?
... that Elizabeth Howe was one of nineteen people found guilty of practicing witchcraft and executed in the Salem witch trials?
... that college football coach Mike Pecarovich, appeared in several movies with Bing Crosby and was an acclaimed public speaker who some compared to Knute Rockne?
... that Thepchai Yong won an International Press Freedom Award for reporting on Thailand's Black May uprising despite military pressure to censor coverage?
... that American philosopher John Arthur helped organize a lawsuit against the state of Tennessee to address racial segregation in the higher education system?
... that singer-pianist Rosie Vanier, whose musical style has been described as "Kate Bush on crack with Goldfrapp on synths", grew up in Bodmin Moor without electricity and TV?