- ...that the 36 members of the first Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist Party elected after the Carnation Revolution had, in the aggregate, experienced more than 300 years in jail.
- ...that Portuguese jurist João das Regras aided John I of Portugal by refuting the arguments of pretenders to the throne during the 1383–1385 Crisis?
- ...that Octávio Pato, Salgado Zenha, Mário Soares, Júlio Pomar and Mário Sacramento made part of the leadership of the Juvenile MUD, the youth wing of the Movement of Democratic Unity?