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 * ... that a Kubrick stare (example pictured) can be "invasive" and "troubling"?
 * ... that Chloë Farro, María Sara Grippoli, Edda Hannesdóttir, Viren Nettasinghe, Oyuntsetseg Yesügen, and Lê Đức Phát are flagbearers at today's Olympic opening ceremony?
 * ... that silver dimes kept a Tennessee TV station on the air?
 * ... that agronomist Oliver Golden remained in the Soviet Union after his delegation of cotton experts returned to the United States?
 * ... that the Guinness World Record holder for the world's largest menorah, in Grand Army Plaza, is smaller than a menorah in Grand Army Plaza?
 * ... that Olympic swimmer Camil Doua represents a country in which "the only existing swimming pools are those in hotels"?
 * ... that there is a rare circumstance in which Jewish soldiers are allowed to abandon kosher dietary laws?
 * ... that physiotherapist Alison McGregor was one of the Olympic flame torchbearers from Imperial College London in the build-up to the London Olympic Games in 2012?
 * ... that NATO was once targeted by a group of "gay furry hackers"?

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