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- ... that Clint Dempsey (pictured) has 57 international goals, ranking third among active male footballers behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi?
- ... that a swamp in the watershed of Red Brook is home to part of the largest population of yellow-bellied flycatchers in Pennsylvania?
- ... that in 1977, symphony conductor Helen Quach was one of two women who led major orchestras anywhere in the world?
- ... that the "Whacky Tobaccy" music video from the Toby Keith album The Bus Songs contains a cameo appearance by Willie Nelson?
- ... that the single species of the ant Aneuretellus is named from the Latin for "deformed"?
- ... that Handel composed the Foundling Hospital Anthem in 1749 for a benefit concert for abandoned children in London?
- ... that William A. Starrett, builder of the Empire State Building, sent his steel construction technology to Japan to help design buildings to resist earthquakes?
- ... that an argument over a horse led to a law banning all black settlers from Oregon in 1844?