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- ... that the developers of the video game Wipeout 2048 speculated that they influenced design elements of the PlayStation Vita console (pictured), such as the inclusion of two analogue sticks?
- ... that Captain James Cook thought the now-extinct Tahitian Dog of the Society Islands tasted like English lamb?
- ... that the population of Marysville, Washington, grew five-fold from 1980 to 2000?
- ... that Mel Olson commissioned music from John Rutter for his choirs in Omaha, Nebraska, and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
- ... that the mythological events of the kuni-yuzuri may be rooted in real historic events?
- ... that despite being severely wounded in the American Civil War in 1864, Armistead Burwell became licensed to practice law five years later?
- ... that King John's Hill, near Alton, Hampshire, is topped by an unusually small Iron Age hillfort, and is thought to have been the site of a hunting lodge of King John?
- ... that Mr. Trash Wheel removed 19 tons of garbage from Baltimore's Inner Harbor in one day?