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Hans Dieter Beck

... that Hans Dieter Beck (pictured), a co-head of the publisher C. H. Beck, rode a bicycle to work until he was 92?
... that the 2023 Aston by-election was the first time in more than 100 years that the governing party won a seat from the opposition at an Australian by-election?
... that Walter III Brisebarre renounced the lordship of Beirut to inherit a greater lordship from his father-in-law, only to permanently lose both upon the deaths of his wife, Helena of Milly, and their daughter Beatrice?
... that Born in the U.S.A. was the first compact disc to be manufactured in the United States for commercial release?
... that Ívar Bárðarson's 14th-century reports of feral livestock inhabiting a failed Greenlandic colony were corroborated by the discovery of a frozen goat and animal feces inside an abandoned home?
... that Princess Mononoke was the most expensively animated, most expensively promoted, and highest-grossing Japanese film of its time?
... that Raging Bull was the first hypercoaster to feature a twister layout?
... that the Albis Tunnel was the second-longest railway tunnel in Switzerland when it was built?
... that Morph was included in X-Men: The Animated Series because the writers "really wanted to kill somebody"?