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... that Darwin's Arch (pictured) sits like a bridge on an irregularly shaped, rocky, submerged plateau, nicknamed "the theatre"?
... that Gay Life was the United Kingdom's first LGBT television series?
... that Eugene Vielle is said to have piloted 150 different types of aircraft by the end of his career with the Royal Air Force?
... that indium sulfate does not remain in solution when diluted, but precipitates as a basic salt?
... that Sanatkumara told Gautama that Hamsopanishad is a compendium of mystic knowledge propounded by Parvati?
... that the inner bark of the rare Caribbean lacebark tree has been used for centuries to make clothing, including a dress for Queen Victoria?
... that the US National Map shows Meredith Creek as being only 0.4 miles (0.64 km) long?
... that the intruder who shot J. P. Morgan, Jr. and bombed the US Senate in 1915 was identified by "Harvard Cop No. 1" Charles Apted as a deranged, wife-poisoning, ex-Harvard German instructor?

... that Cannon Hall, Hampstead (pictured) was the childhood home of novelist Daphne du Maurier, the author of Rebecca?
... that Indonesian jazz musician Joey Alexander taught himself to play piano at age six, and released his first album at age eleven?
... that various dates have been attributed to the 1630 Crete earthquake, which occurred in the Kythira Strait?
... that billionaire Jim Justice built a US$30 million training facility for the New Orleans Saints in West Virginia?
... that The Urban Lawyer is the largest circulating journal of government law in the world?
... that Johann Lukas Legrand, a ribbon maker, was the first president of the Directory of the Helvetic Republic?
... that the parasitoid wasp Gonatopus clavipes lays its eggs inside the bodies of 31 different species of leafhopper?
... that Emily C. Gorman increased enlistment in the American military in the 1960s by allowing female soldiers to live in private, lockable barracks they could personalize and decorate with items from home?

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