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- ... that plants of the genus Leucospermum (L. cordifolium pictured) are known as pincushions?
- ... that when Ulysses S. Grant visited the island of Hachijō-jima in 1877, he was ceremonially adopted by the village chief and given a name meaning "courageous general" in the local dialect?
- ... that the revised edition of John Richard Clark Hall's translation of Beowulf includes a preface by J. R. R. Tolkien?
- ... that the 1964 Academy Award-nominated short film Breaking the Habit exposes "the danger and the essential silliness of smoking"?
- ... that Scott G. Borg is credited with helping develop the drilling technology that retrieved the first pure water samples from half a mile (0.8 km) below the surface of an ice-covered Antarctic lake?
- ... that a series of British nuclear tests was carried out in the United States to develop warheads for the UK Polaris programme?
- ... that when Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska recorded Nikolai Rakov's violin sonatas with David Frühwirth, a review called her "a full partner in the proceedings, delicate and brutal as required"?
- ... that the current rivalry between Major League Soccer teams in the Los Angeles area is named El Tráfico?