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- ... that the residence (pictured) of the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Bouxwiller was pillaged during the French Revolution and completely destroyed soon thereafter?
- ... that Yves Bélanger had been working as a cinematographer for more than twenty years when he made his breakthrough with Dallas Buyers Club?
- ... that coon hunting dogs can bark as many as 150 times per minute?
- ... that S. C. Jain, together with Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, developed a method for the measurement of thermal conductivity at high temperatures in solids?
- ... that the predatory mite Typhlodromips swirskii is able to control melon thrips on cucumber leaves, but fails to control common blossom thrips on the flowers?
- ... that mathematician Donald G. Saari advocates deciding elections by the Borda count instead of plurality voting, because it leads less often to paradoxical outcomes?
- ... that the Whitehorse Trail uses a railroad that was abandoned after major floods in 1990?
- ... that due to the English North-South divide, Craig, a character in "The Bill", is unfamiliar with diddlums, piss-mints, and bluecocks?