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- ... that construction of 1000 Second Avenue (pictured) in downtown Seattle, Washington, required demolition of a building that had been donated for fire testing?
- ... that seen from Bolívar Square, Bogotá, the Sun on the solstices rises directly over Monserrate and Guadalupe, the two best known Eastern Hills?
- ... that three Bangla Congress ministers, Charu Mihir Sarkar, Bhabatosh Soren, and S.K. Dhara, resigned on the same day in 1970 from the West Bengal government?
- ... that the Ashkelon dog cemetery, which contains possibly thousands of dog burials, may have been created by an ancient cult that treated dogs as healers?
- ... that according to research by Roger P. Minert, local church records in the United States are more likely than naturalization records to have information about a German immigrant's birthplace?
- ... that last month, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed the Congressional Cannabis Caucus?
- ... that when the Islamic State captured Qandala in 2016, the group hoisted its flag on the building in which Somali folk hero Ali Fahiye Gedi had been imprisoned for burning the Italian flag in 1914?
- ... that Chinese legend holds that Han Zhuo tried to feed the archer Houyi's body to his sons and killed them when they refused to eat it?