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Alejandro Finisterre

... that Alejandro Finisterre (pictured), the inventor of table football, threatened to blow up a plane with a bar of soap?
... that Liv.e wrote her debut album Couldn't Wait to Tell You while working in Urban Outfitters?
... that F. B. J. Kuiper, after no longer being able to drive due to his failing vision, underwent eye surgery and then immediately bought a BMW?
... that Adolf Hitler received more than 300 visitors during his Festungshaft (fortress confinement) in Landsberg Prison?
... that St. Thomas Church and Howard–Flaget House was the site of the first Catholic seminary on the American frontier?
... that voice actress Rika Hayashi brought a golf club to the recording studio for Tonbo!, a golf-themed anime series?
... that Prunus cathybrownae, an extinct relative of plums, was named after three different Catherines?
... that Jiang Xiaoxuan set her debut film, To Kill a Mongolian Horse, in her homeland of Inner Mongolia?
... that Baltimore County Police Department leader Carroll E. Stansbury assigned officers to combat chicken theft?