that the plot of the Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth Night or As You Will" is set in Dalmatia.
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that the Croatian football representation won the third place at the World Championship in France and that Davor Šuker was declared the best shooter of the Championship.
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that the first recorded drawing of the parachute (homo volans) was a work of Croatian inventor Faust Vrančić from Šibenik.

that the pencil was invented by the Croatian engineer S. Penkala, who was the first person who built the mechanical pencil and the fountain pen in 1906.
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that the St Donat’s church in Zadar is one of the greatest 9th c. churches in Europe.
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that Croatia is one of the most preserved countries in Europe in terms of ecology.