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* ... that after the '''[[Wennington wildfire]]''' ''(destroyed houses pictured)'' hit London in 2022, experts warned that [[climate change]] would cause more wildfires in the future? |
* ... that after the '''[[Wennington wildfire]]''' ''(destroyed houses pictured)'' hit London in 2022, experts warned that [[climate change]] would cause more wildfires in the future? |
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* ... that conservator '''[[Carolyn Price Horton]]''' helped to direct a "Mud Angel army" that rescued books after the [[Arno]] |
* ... that conservator '''[[Carolyn Price Horton]]''' helped to direct a "Mud Angel army" that rescued books after the [[Arno]] flooded museums and libraries in Florence, Italy, in 1966? |
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* ... that when '''[[Ashgabat Zoo]]''' opened in Turkmenistan, dictator [[Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow]]'s personal [[menagerie]] were moved to the zoo? |
* ... that when '''[[Ashgabat Zoo]]''' opened in Turkmenistan, dictator [[Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow]]'s personal [[menagerie]] were moved to the zoo? |
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* ... that railway engineer '''[[Henry Ketchum]]''' earned the first diploma in civil engineering granted by the [[University of New Brunswick]]? |
* ... that railway engineer '''[[Henry Ketchum]]''' earned the first diploma in civil engineering granted by the [[University of New Brunswick]]? |
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- ... that after the Wennington wildfire (destroyed houses pictured) hit London in 2022, experts warned that climate change would cause more wildfires in the future?
- ... that conservator Carolyn Price Horton helped to direct a "Mud Angel army" that rescued books after the Arno flooded museums and libraries in Florence, Italy, in 1966?
- ... that when Ashgabat Zoo opened in Turkmenistan, dictator Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow's personal menagerie were moved to the zoo?
- ... that railway engineer Henry Ketchum earned the first diploma in civil engineering granted by the University of New Brunswick?
- ... that the first batch of Action Computer Enterprise's Discovery 1600, one of the first multi-user microcomputers, was delivered to a tobacco-growing business in Thailand?
- ... that the infected creatures in the second episode of The Last of Us were created using prosthetics instead of visual effects?
- ... that the Ertuğrul Gazi, a Turkey-flagged floating storage and regasification unit for liquefied natural gas, has a daily regasification capacity of 28 million cubic metres (990 million cu ft), among the world's largest?
- ... that California rancher Frank O'Connorcould grow Lipstick and Halloween in a greenhouse?
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{{subst:UpdatedDYK|26 June|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
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withvideo
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