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- ...that the endangered Syncaris pacifica (pictured) uses variable translucency and color changing crypsis for underwater camouflage?
- ...that the charity song "The Magnificent" became a protest anthem of the Serbian anti-Milošević resistance?
- ...that the pen-name of the Kannada poet, Karnataka Ratna and Jnanpith Award winner Kuvempu, was derived from his full name "Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa", Kuppalli being his native place?
- ...that following its industrialization, Bridgeport, Connecticut became a manufacturing center producing such goods as the famous Bridgeport milling machine, brass fittings, carriages, sewing machines, saddles, and ammunition?
- ...that tradition indicates Nicasius of Rheims completed saying his prayer at his execution after he had been beheaded?
- ...that the 1989 secret files scandal in Switzerland resulted from the revelation that police had been in illegal surveillance?