Ingenpedia:Did you know/January 19, 2021

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 * ... that the kusarigama (examples pictured), a traditional Japanese weapon, was more useful against a sword than against a spear, a naginata, or a bō?
 * ... that Bianca Smith, the first Black female coach in professional baseball history, has a J.D. degree in sports law and an MBA in sports management?
 * ... that confectionery in the English Renaissance marks the transition of sugar from a medicine to a sweetener?
 * ... that when Riot Games approached investors to fund the development of League of Legends, publishers were baffled by the game's free-to-play business model?
 * ... that in 2015, Alexe Gaudreault became the first independent artist to top the BDS charts in 15 years?
 * ... that the wreck of the freighter Vernon is one of the deadliest ever to have occurred in Wisconsin?
 * ... that the 1352 Siege of Guines reignited the Hundred Years' War after six years of uneasy truce?
 * ... that after meeting Mira Mendelson, Sergei Prokofiev described his future wife as "just some girl who wants me to read her bad poetry"?
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