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George Frazier Miller

... that George Frazier Miller (pictured) raised and spent $10 during his election campaign for a seat in the United States Congress in 1918?
... that, near the ending of the 2005 interactive storytelling video game Façade, two characters portrayed through AI chatbots ask the player for relationship advice?
... that Lebanese actress Cynthya Karam volunteers as a clown doctor in children's hospitals?
... that a Wisconsin TV station claimed the first-ever broadcast of a lunar eclipse, which it captured by moving a studio camera into its parking lot?
... that Khujand gained independence just a year before it was conquered by the Russian Empire?
... that Prince Louis of Wales is the first British prince to be ranked behind an elder sister in the line of succession?
... that Klingenheben's law is usually referred to in the singular, but in fact comprises four independent sound changes?
... that Aquilegia vulgaris was associated with a fertility goddess in ancient Greece, symbolized sacredness for Flemish painters, and was an omen of death in Hamlet?
... that Edwin Rist stole hundreds of rare birds to make into fishing lures?