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...that the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s?
...that Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910-1912?
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...that the soleus muscle is a leg muscle important for standing, walking, and running?
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... that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN?
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... that Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to be on one of the trains bombed during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel's restaurant to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
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... that Yogi Rock is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head?
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...that businessman Ginery Twichell started in stage lines before transitioning to railroads and three terms in the U.S. Congress?
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... that Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time?
... that the Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?
...that the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna is the longest single residential building in the world and spans four tram stations?
...that
...that the first known classical
...that the Swedish Bikini Team, an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women?
...that
...that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?
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...that "Jive Talkin'" is considered to be the "comeback" song for the Bee Gees, after an absence of three years from the Top 40 charts?
...that
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...that foxtail millet has the longest history of cultivation among the millets, having been grown in China since between three and four thousand years ago?
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...that , and is banned in many countries?
...that research on U.S.
...that like many ?
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...that Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
...that the Tarot of Marseilles is the source of most contemporary designs of tarot cards?
...that
...that Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I?
...that
...that Huchoun was one of the earliest Scottish poets and wrote a number of important alliterative verse romances in the early 14th century?
...that the Indian Railways Fan Club is the [[Internet's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent?
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...that Ferrellgas, the largest propane retail distributor in the United States, started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas?