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- ... that Cornell College professor Harriette Cooke was also a deaconess?
- ... that there were technical issues with the performance of "Luna" by the Colombian singer Feid at the 2024 Copa América opening ceremony?
- ... that Oey Kim Tiang was one of two "men with no name" to translate Jin Yong's Condor Trilogy into vernacular Malay?
- ... that the radio station at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire would go off the air in the middle of the day?
- ... that thirty years after playing his first season for the Miami Hurricanes, J. D. Arteaga became the team's head coach in 2024?
- ... that scientists tested the age of an African termite's inhabited mound—and found it to be 34,000 years old?
- ... that Albert Einstein wrote to Joseph Petzoldt in 1914 that he had "long shared his convictions", after reading one of his philosophical books?
- ... that in fiction, supernovae are induced to serve as weapons, power sources for time travel, and advertisements?