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... that when the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway in Washington, D.C. was constructed, almost all the nearby crossings of Rock Creek (four crossings pictured) were replaced for aesthetic reasons?
... that Robert Curl, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, ruined his mother's stove with nitric acid from his first chemistry set?
... that Kenneth Stewart Cole, an organizer of the Biophysical Society's first meeting, said that the meeting had "the ulterior motive of finding out if there was such a thing as biophysics"?
... that the Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton moved to Ohio from Bethesda, Maryland, in part because their building was about to be lost to termites?
... that the January 2017 reinstatement of the Holman Rule allowed members of the United States House of Representatives to amend routine spending bills to mandate the firing of individual Federal employees?

... that Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda buildings in Maryland were originally built without windows to conceal the classified work going on inside?

Selections from my DYK credits. Refresh.