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* ... that '''[[Franzisca Baruch]]''' ''(pictured)'' designed several Hebrew fonts, the cover of the first Israeli passport, the emblem of Jerusalem, and the logo of the ''Ha'aretz'' newspaper, all while barely knowing [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]?
* ... that while the '''[[New York Marriott Marquis]]''' hotel ''(pictured)'' was valued at $579.7&nbsp;million in 2008, the site was sold five years later for just $19.9&nbsp;million?
* ... that the song "'''[[Come Back Home (Seo Taiji and Boys song)|Come Back Home]]'''" by [[Seo Taiji and Boys]] made teenage runaways in South Korea return home?
* ... that for [[Round-robin tournament|round-robin sports tournaments]], finding a [[Group tournament ranking system|ranking of the competitors]] that minimizes the number of upset games is an instance of the '''[[feedback arc set]]''' problem?
* ... that Italian actress '''[[Linda Albertini]]''' used her abilities as a former circus acrobat in silent films?
* ... that '''[[Inger K. Frith]]''', the first woman president of a major international sporting federation, played a key role in returning archery to the [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympics]]?
* ... that '''[[Joice Island]]''' was the location of a "web of intrigue" in 1890, a failed asparagus farm in 1905, a wildlife refuge in 1950, a hunting preserve in 1965, and a pig hunt in 2017?
* ... that '''[[Glen Cove City School District]]''' closed the South School in 1966 to remedy alleged ''de facto'' [[Racial segregation|segregation]] in the district?
* ... that under college president '''[[Arthur Bronwell]]''' in 1959, [[Worcester Polytechnic Institute]] built one of the first nuclear [[research reactor]]s at an American university?
* ... that the novel '''''[[Dreams of Trespass]]''''', which portrays the patriarchy as un-[[Islam]]ic, was translated into more than 20 languages?
* ... that a [[YouTuber]] predicted '''[[Grannies Gone Wild|the crossover between]]''' ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' and ''[[Rick and Morty]]'' long before it aired?<!--
* ... that in a study for UNICEF, '''[[Reginald Green (economist)|Reginald Green]]''' found that more than two million children under the age of five had died in Angola and Mozambique due to the South African [[apartheid]] regime's economic policies?
* ... that '''[[Bob Ferguson (journalist)|Bob Ferguson]]''' was described as "Wikipedia before Google was a gleam in of the eyes of [the] worldwide web founders"? -->
* ... that most [[Convergent boundary|places where tectonic plates ram into each other]] involve '''[[oblique subduction]]'''?
* ... that baseball statistician '''[[Bob Ferguson (journalist)|Bob Ferguson]]''' claimed that he became the owner of the [[London Majors]] "by accident"?
* ... that the '''[[Atlas Tract]]''' is farmland with a population of 0, but is expected to have a population of 42,000 by 2045?
* ... that '''[[Z (joke line)|Zzzzzz]]''' had the busiest residential telephone number in the United States in the 1970s?
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