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- ...that archaeological finds from the German Glauberg plateau include a life-sized statue of a warrior (pictured) dating from around 500 BC?
- ...that former U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell left Congress in 1986 after contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite?
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- ...that US$30and went on to earn more than $1.5m in races on three continents?
- ...that automobile dealerships and co-organized Cadillac Motor Car Co?
- ...that when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
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- ...that Rembrandt cut his 1661 painting The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis (detail pictured) to a quarter of its original size for easier sale?
- ...that the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal resulted in millions of dollars' worth of military aircraft being illegally transferred to private companies?
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- ...that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
- ...that the Niedermünster in Regensburg was the wealthiest and most influential house of canonesses in Bavaria?
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- ...that the rocket launch site (pictured) at Baikonur Cosmodrome was used for over 400 space missions, including the world's first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight?
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- ...that African American municipal architect, designed four buildings in two cities that are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
- ...that Joe Keenan's 2006 novel My Lucky Star won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2007?
- ...that Joe Mitty launched the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom, in Oxford in 1949?