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- ... that the larva of the beetle Acanthinodera cumingii (adult pictured) can reach 13 centimetres (5 in) in length?
- ... that the Washington state 1960 gubernatorial election was the first in state history to include televised debates?
- ... that Wes McCauley has refereed the Stanley Cup Finals for the last four years?
- ... that 10 of the military officers involved in the 1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt were executed in what became known as the Albrook massacre?
- ... that the positions of nonzero digits in two reciprocal irrational numbers, 1/3.30033000000000033... = 0.30300000303..., are given by the Moser–de Bruijn sequence and its double?
- ... that Clarence Ditlow was recommended for a consumer advocacy job because he was a wrestler?
- ... that Operation Game Warden sought to interdict Viet Cong use of the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War and in so doing, patrolled over 3,800 miles (6,100 km) of natural and man-made waterways?
- ... that to the speakers of the Ngan’gityemerri language, the flowering of the red-flowering kurrajong marks the time that freshwater crocodiles are laying eggs?