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"Open tube" event at Waterlooplein metro station

• ... that a 1975 "open tube" event (pictured) at Waterlooplein station gave the citizens of Amsterdam their first look at the city's metro system?
• ... that the Central American government voted for annexation to the First Mexican Empire after a request from Regent Agustín de Iturbide?
• ... that Craig Greenberg was shot at while running in the 2022 Louisville mayoral election?
• ... that Through the Darkest of Times was the first video game published in Germany to use swastikas?
• ... that Elisabeth Griffith's sweeping 100-year history of the American equal-rights movement has been compared to listening to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"?
• ... that although Baeoentedon bouceki was collected from China in 1983, it was not formally described as a new species until 2014?
• ... that the Vatican selected Mary Milligan in 1987 to be one of only three U.S. experts to assist the International Synod of Bishops on the Laity in Rome?
• ... that a British filmmaker forced the British Board of Film Classification to watch paint drying for ten hours?