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- ... that a human toe used for cocktails (pictured) is one of many body parts that are tourist attractions?
- ... that a novel about Madagascar's colonization, which the author was aware was impossible to publish under colonial rule, was finally published decades after his suicide?
- ... that working broadcast journalists were used as extras for the portions of the Doctor Who episode "73 Yards" that were filmed at the BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House?
- ... that plans to shoot the Beijing-set portions of the 1989 Japanese film Beijing Watermelon on location were cancelled after the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occurred mid-production?
- ... that the Radcliffe Telescope was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere when it was completed in 1948?
- ... that the marine fungal species Parengyodontium album only breaks down polyethylene plastics that have been exposed to ultraviolet light?
- ... that author Ron Chernow was reluctant to write a biography of John D. Rockefeller until being shown a 1,700-page transcript of three years' worth of private interviews with him?
- ... that the Green Bay Packers once defeated a team of all-stars chosen from the rest of the league?
- ... that on February 3, 1986, African Independence Party leaders Adama Touré and Adama Touré were released from detention?