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- ... that the Federal Reserve Bank Building (pictured) in downtown Seattle, Washington, is one of the earliest surviving works of architecture firm NBBJ?
- ... that Vice Premier Kang Shi'en, China's "energy czar", received an unprecedented demerit of the first grade after an oil rig accident that killed 72 people?
- ... that Pura Vida Bracelets, which now sells over 125,000 bracelets a month, started when two friends brought 400 bracelets back from a vacation in Costa Rica?
- ... that W. G. Grace, Jack Hobbs, Denis Compton and Don Bradman all scored first-class centuries at the Central Recreation Ground, Hastings?
- ... that the ancient text Nirvana Upanishad is written in Sutra-style and states that a solitary place is a monastery of bliss for a Hindu monk?
- ... that the proposed sculpture Rebirth, projected as a deer with a human child's face, was meant to represent "the interaction between the nearby riparian forest and the people living in Oak Grove"?
- ... that the French General André Sordet's cavalry corps covered close to 1,500 km (930 miles) in the first month of World War I?
- ... that Donald Lavoie, a hit man for Montreal's Dubois Gang, escaped his intended execution at their hands by sliding down a laundry chute?