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...that a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach?
...that after losing his European Parliament seat, Roger Barton set up a group offering llama-trekking to young people from Sheffield?
...the Battle of Bhangani was the first battle fought by Guru Gobind Singh, the last human Sikh Guru?
...that during the 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike, 21 people were killed and the strike ended only after union leaders were accused of taking bribes?
...that before David Myatt converted to Islam in 1998 and endorsed Islamic terrorism, he had been active in Nazi satanism in the UK since the late 1960s?
...that the U.S. Coast Guard's Owasco class cutters Owasco, Winnebago (pictured) and Sebago were armed for World War II service but did not see combat until the Vietnam War?
...that Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for the Rosebud egg, the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna?
...that eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination, quarantine, and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease?

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