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 * ... that Hebrew publisher Hayyim Selig Slonimski (pictured) was awarded the Demidov prize of 2,500 rubles in 1844 by the Russian Academy of Sciences for the invention of a calculating machine?
 * ... that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock?
 * ... that the 1974 film Lost in the Stars, set in apartheid-era South Africa, was actually shot in Oregon?

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