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- ... that the skulls of Yunxian Man (example pictured) are "relatively complete" despite being heavily crushed?
- ... that Travis Clayton went from the eighth tier of English rugby union to being drafted into the National Football League, even though he never played in a football game?
- ... that David Ben Avraham was granted Israeli residency after being killed by an IDF soldier?
- ... that the mouse protagonist Mrs. Brisby from The Secret of NIMH had her name changed because of a trademark issue from a toy named "Frisbee"?
- ... that Tachikawa Sumito made a hit cover in 1976 of a song that he first discovered when a housewife called into his radio show requesting to hear a version of it?
- ... that Riley Testut developed AltStore because he wanted to publish his emulator Delta?
- ... that the Obonga–Ottertooth Provincial Park is a significant habitat for woodland moose?
- ... that Albert Wesker's character design evokes the aesthetic of the Nazi ideal of the Übermensch, reflecting Resident Evil's "core" theme of eugenics?
- ... that after John Henry Newman wrote his Apologia Pro Vita Sua in response to an attack by Charles Kingsley, Kingsley compared Newman to a "treacherous ape" and implied that he was insane?