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-[[File:Dead Opossum.jpg|100x100px|Opossum is an ingredient in roadkill cuisine]]
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-{{*mp}}... that partaking in '''[[roadkill cuisine]]''' ''([[roadkill]] pictured)'' is advocated by some [[vegan]]s?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein]]''' ''(pictured)'', the only person in [[Egypt]]ian history to voluntarily renounce his rights of succession to the throne, did so to pursue a life of discovery and travel?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Bobbi Gibb]]''' was the first woman to run the entire [[Boston Marathon]]?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Michael Jackson]]'s "'''[[Gone Too Soon]]'''" was dedicated to the memory of [[Ryan White]], a teenager who died following a battle with [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]?
-{{*mp}}... that the [[Bayerischer Rundfunk]] caused a scandal in 1986 for refusing to relay the broadcast signal of the political cabaret show '''''[[Scheibenwischer]]'''''?
+{{*mp}}... that Englishman '''[[James McFarlane]]''' was appointed a Knight Commander of the [[Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav]] for his eight volume work ''Oxford [[Henrik Ibsen|Ibsen]]''?
-{{*mp}}... that [[India]]n [[communist]] politician '''[[K.P. Prabhakaran]]''' was in the forefront of a [[trade union]] of [[palm wine|toddy]] tappers in [[Kerala]] for 55 years?
+{{*mp}}... that '''[[Sequalitchew Creek]]''' was the location of the original [[Fort Nisqually]] trading post established in 1833 by the [[Hudson's Bay Company]]?
+{{*mp}}... that the [[Byzantine]] general '''[[John Kourkouas]]''', supreme commander of the [[Byzantine army|Byzantine armies]] in the East for 22 years, was hailed by his contemporaries as "another [[Trajan]] or [[Belisarius]]"?
-{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Ninth Fort massacres November 1941]]''' were the first organized mass murders of [[Reich Jews]]?
-{{*mp}}... that '''[[Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham|Sir Arthur Lee]]''' donated [[Chequers]], a country house in [[Buckinghamshire]], for use as the official country residence of the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]]?
+{{*mp}}... that [[Theodore Roosevelt]] contracted '''[[Cuban fever]]''' during the [[Spanish–American War]], and had recurring symptoms before, during, and after his time as [[President of the United States]]?
+{{*mp}}... that during his lifetime, geologist '''[[William Noel Benson]]''' published over 100 academic papers?
-{{*mp}}... that, starting with the episode "'''[[The Ex-Girlfriend]]'''", filming of the [[NBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Seinfeld]]'' moved from [[Ren-Mar Studios|Desilu Cahuenga]] in [[Hollywood, California]], to [[CBS Studio Center]] in [[Studio City, Los Angeles, California|Studio City]]?
-{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Ness of Brodgar]]''' [[Archaeology|archaeological]] site in [[Orkney]] includes the remains of a large building described as a [[Neolithic]] "cathedral"?
+{{*mp}}... that the island of '''[[Orosay]]''' overlooks [[Traigh Mhòr]], reputedly the only beach in the world used as a runway for scheduled aircraft flights?
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