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Main building of the Marin County Civic Center

... that a California county government building (pictured) inspired elements of Naboo in the Star Wars prequel trilogy?
... that Toribia Álvaro became a candidate for the Bolivian parliament because no other women of the Uru of Lake Poopó were willing to run?
... that Mark Twain said that the Charlton Public Library banning one of his books was "not of the slightest interest to him"?
... that Dutch painter Henry van Velthuysen dismissed a contemporary's works as "infantile construction-kit shapes"?
... that the spirit Ti Jean, a one-legged cannibal highwayman, evokes colonial fear of maroons?
... that abolitionist Alba Honeywell said he sold the first published copy of anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
... that Samoa has 225 species of fern, more than New Zealand, a country 85 times larger?
... that Kelvin Kong, the first recognised Indigenous Australian surgeon, was made a member of the Order of Australia for his services to Indigenous health?
... that Pan Pan is thought to have had more than 130 descendants?