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- ... that the Russian and Belarussian military exercise Zapad 2009 (pictured) involved nuclear-capable ballistic missiles?
- ... that the Robyn Gigl novel By Way of Sorrow, which features a transgender lawyer as the protagonist, was described as "quietly groundbreaking" by The New York Times?
- ... that due to a 2024 heat wave in Southeast Asia, heat indices in the Philippines rose to dangerous levels, as high as 51 °C (124 °F)?
- ... that Hal Malchow consulted for every Democratic presidential nominee from 1988 through 2004?
- ... that before its inhabitants were evicted, Rosal was the largest of 49 townships in Strathnaver?
- ... that Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki, an academic in Japan born to a Hindu family in Bangladesh, became a leader in the Islamic State?
- ... that floods across New York City in September 2023 allowed a sea lion to escape her enclosure at the Central Park Zoo?
- ... that Dedie Rachim was the first active member of the Corruption Eradication Commission to be elected to public office?
- ... that a boot is the only monument in the United States dedicated to the traitor Benedict Arnold because it "was the only part of Arnold not to later turn traitor"?