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- ... that Wolfgang Rihm said of the music of his 1987 opera Oedipus: "Sound is a weapon here – or a scalpel?"
- ... that a clip of a soft pretzel being cut perfectly in half made the short-lived German game show Schlag den Henssler briefly popular to an international audience?
- ... that German officials exiled the Samoan king from his own kingdom in 1887?
- ... that a scholar argued that the 2021 German novel About People, which is about the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, encourages "sympathy with rightwing extremists"?
- ... that Johann Joseph Dömling suggested in 1803 that venous blood contained carbon monoxide?
- ... that classical composer Carl Ludvig Lithander also worked as a teacher at a military academy?
- ... that Leonhard Kaiser, a student of Martin Luther, was burned at the stake on 16 August 1527 after being declared guilty of heresy?
- ... that a geographer determined the surface area of Carl Friedrich Gauss's brain?
- ... that Zionist activist Georg Kareski defended the Nuremberg Laws in a Nazi newspaper?