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- ... that Siti Nurhaliza (pictured) has recorded songs in Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic?
- ... that in 2016, Sara Ahmed became the first Egyptian woman to receive an Olympic medal?
- ... that the Seattle Times Building was called a "death trap" for illegal squatters?
- ... that the 12th-century manuscript De laude Cestrie is one of the earliest prose works about an English town?
- ... that in 1777, after George Washington's war council recommended that John Hazelwood lead the American fleet up the Delaware River to safety, he did so without the British firing a single shot?
- ... that the blue alfalfa aphid, native to Asia, had reached California by 1974 and Maryland by 1992?
- ... that the archaeologist Don Brothwell served two months in prison as a conscientious objector?
- ... that Newell Boathouse stands on land for which Harvard pays $1 per year under a lease running one thousand years—after which the university can renew for another thousand years?