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- ... that according to local lore, Texarkana's Ace of Clubs House (pictured) was built with US$10,000 won in a game of poker with an ace of clubs?
- ... that Charmian Gooch's investigation into the Cambodian timber trade deprived Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime of US$90 million a year?
- ... that a new electrical substation in Seattle will feature a dog park, a theater, a walking path, and public art?
- ... that Théophile Schuler illustrated Verne, Hugo, and an alphabet for children?
- ... that Beacon Hill, on the South Downs in West Sussex, supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
- ... that a hat-trick was taken during Phillip Gillespie's first-class debut as a cricket umpire?
- ... that despite the Reich Ministry of Transport running trains to extermination camps during the Holocaust, the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
- ... that crossword compiler William Lutwiniak was promoted to sergeant the same day he joined the army?