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- ... that New York City's Roosevelt Island Tramway (pictured) was placed next to a bridge to prevent collisions with planes?
- ... that Stanislav Aseyev, the author of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, was placed in the Izolyatsia torture camp for writing "Donetsk People's Republic" in quotation marks in a social media post?
- ... that Boquila trifoliolata is the only known plant capable of simultaneously mimicking multiple species?
- ... that Jorge Barón, a member of King County Council, was an assistant director on The Mask of Zorro?
- ... that the play-by-mail game Westworld was run from prison?
- ... that David Bowie narrated a version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf in 1978 as a gift for his seven-year-old son Duncan?
- ... that The Connor Brothers were believed to be two 20-something artists from Brooklyn, but are actually two British art dealers from London?
- ... that Augustine of Hippo's Harmony of the Gospels is technically not a Gospel harmony?