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- ... that Simon Kidston's car collection includes the last Lamborghini Miura SV (example pictured) ever produced?
- ... that Fitzsimons station in Aurora, Colorado, was moved away from the Anschutz Medical Campus after concerns that vibrations and electromagnetic interference from trains would affect research equipment?
- ... that Russian-Jewish banker Avraam Zak received an offer to become deputy finance minister of Russia on condition that he convert to Christianity?
- ... that planar transmission lines were developed for the US military, but can be found today in household mass-produced items such as mobile phones and satellite television receivers?
- ... that the leaf beetle Zygogramma suturalis was introduced into Russia in 1978 in an attempt to control the invasive plant common ragweed?
- ... that there are approaching one hundred self-portraits by Rembrandt in paintings, etchings, and drawings?
- ... that men and women from the Sidama people sing radically different songs about Queen Furra?
- ... that 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the composition of "Hail, America" by the German-born George Drumm?