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- ...that the Coenocorypha snipes (pictured alongside a Godwit) once ranged from New Caledonia and Fiji to New Zealand but are now restricted to New Zealand's outlying islands?
- ...that Aristotle's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy, arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air?
- ...that by tradition, military leaders participating in military simulations will often do so anonymously?
- ...that Sir John Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Essex for 20 years, was the first Pro-Chancellor of Essex University?
- ...that the gang-rape and murder of Sarathambal in 1999 became an internationally known incident of the Sri Lankan civil war?
- ...that Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark?
- ...that the status of the Northern Group of Forces, the Soviet Army unit stationed in Poland from 1945 to 1993, was formally regulated by Soviet-Polish treaty only in 1956?
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