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Hooks

Obverse of the Auto Dollar

... that a Chinese warlord put his car on coinage (pictured), in lieu of his own portrait?
... that the English actor Jude Law is actually named David, a result of his parents naming their children after their best friends?
... that a portrait was attributed to the wrong painter for many years, and the sitter was also misidentified?
... that an AI rendering of the Detroit Sign misled people into thinking that it would be larger than it actually is?
... that bricks laid in Flemish bond were a sign of wealth in colonial Virginia?
... that the communist trade unionist Ditto Pölzl was a member of all three provisional state governments of Styria in 1945?
... that when East Wake Academy opened, its two main school buildings were located four miles (6 km) apart in separate towns?
... that John White shot himself after it was discovered that he had plagiarized a speech by Aaron Burr?
... that within the mixed-reality mode of Homeworld: Vast Reaches, ships seem to fly around the player's room?