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- ... that the type specimen of Persoonia terminalis (pictured) was collected 3.4 km (2.1 mi) south of the Torrington pub in New South Wales?
- ... that searchers believed Michael Williams' body had been eaten by alligators in Lake Seminole after he disappeared 15 years ago today—until they learned alligators don't feed in winter?
- ... that the foreign direct investment in the mining industry of Laos has made significant contributions to the economic condition of Laos since 2003–04?
- ... that Ida Dixon, designer of the 18-hole golf course at the Springhaven Club, was the first female golf course architect in the United States?
- ... that the 113 East Roosevelt development will host the tallest building in the South Side of Chicago?
- ... that Graham Waterhouse, who played the solo part in his Cello Concerto in Mexico in 1995, performed it at his university in Cambridge?
- ... that the address of the official residence of the Philippine ambassador to Japan can be translated literally as "a hill from which one can get a good perspective of Mt. Fuji"?
- ... that one of Frank Sinatra's most widely known public insults was leveled against The Washington Post columnist Maxine Cheshire?