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-[[Image:Juxtlahuaca Painting 1.png|100x100px|Juxtlahuaca Painting 1]]
+[[Image:Candi Sukuh.jpg||100x100px|Candi Sukuh]]
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-{{*mp}}...that the archaeological cave of '''[[Juxtlahuaca]]''' contains [[Mesoamerica]]'s earliest sophisticated painted art ''(pictured)'', as well as its only known example of non-[[Maya]] [[Cave painting|deep cave art]]?
+{{*mp}}...that one of the statues at the erotic temple '''[[Candi Sukuh]]''' ''(pictured)'' in [[Java]], [[Indonesia]], is a 1.82 m (6 feet) standing [[phallus]] with four [[scrotum|balls]] placed below the [[glans penis|tip]]?
+{{*mp}}...that '''[[Derek Gardner]]''' became a leading [[United Kingdom|British]] [[painting|painter]] of marine subjects after retiring from a [[civil engineering]] career due to [[deafness]]?
-{{*mp}}...that [[Dembei]], a fisherman stranded on the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]] in 1701 or 1702, is believed to have been the first '''[[Japanese people in Russia|Japanese person to settle in Russia]]'''?
+{{*mp}}...that [[Kobe Bryant]]'s agent, '''[[Rob Pelinka]]''', was the only person to play in the [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship]] for both the 1989 champion [[Michigan Wolverines|Michigan]] and for both of the 1992 and 1993 runners-up known as the [[Fab Five]] teams?
-{{*mp}}...that when '''[[John Horden]]''' sent his [[Cree language|Cree-language]] translation of the Bible back to England, the printers returned it with a printing press but no instructions on how to operate it?
-{{*mp}}...that [[Italy|Italian]]-[[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[entrepreneur]] '''[[Carlo Gatti]]''' pioneered the sale of [[ice cream]] to the general public in [[London]] from 1849, and later ran several [[music hall]]s?
+{{*mp}}...that '''[[Fort William College]]''', set up for the training of [[United Kingdom|British]] officials, fostered the development of [[Languages of India|Indian languages]]?
+{{*mp}}...that the lower [[species diversity]] among certain '''[[mammals of New England]]''' compared to [[mammal]]s of the [[American West]] is thought to be due to fewer [[glacier|glacial]] [[refugia]] in the [[Eastern United States]]?
-{{*mp}}...that '''"[[Nocturne (Secret Garden)|Nocturne]]"''' is the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] winner with the fewest words, the [[Norwegian language]] original having only 25?
+{{*mp}}...that according to legend, [[Joseph Stalin]]'s remained in [[Moscow]] during [[World War II]] partly  due to a [[prophecy]] from '''[[Matryona Nikonova]]''', who he covertly visited while she was hiding from his government?
-{{*mp}}...that '''[[Banking in Russia (regulations)|banking regulations in Russia]]''' include significant specifics, such as mandatory [[Deposit account|deposits]] placed in special reserve accounts at the [[Central Bank of the Russian Federation|Russian Central Bank]]?
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