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From Wikipedia's newest articles: ...that the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track (pictured) in Altenberg, Germany was constructed under armed security on order from East Germany's Stasi minister Erich Mielke? ...that New Zealand rugby union footballer Ali Williams did not start playing the game until he was 17 years old but had earned three international caps before he was 22? ...or that he was also eligible to play for England and Scotland? ...that the 2007 Sydney Harbour New Years Eve Fireworks were viewed by more than 1.5 million people? ...that John "Jack" Frost, the highest-scoring South African Air Force ace of World War II, went missing in action on June 16, 1942, and his body and plane have never been found? - new article/collaboration. ...that only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy? ...that the 49th Hutsul Rifle Regiment of the Polish Army destroyed a large part of the SS Germania Regiment, in a night bayonet attack during the Polish September Campaign?

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