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| During World War II, the Czech comics illustrator Kája Saudek was imprisoned in a German concentration camp. |
| The Global Forum for Health Research identified the 10/90 gap: just 10% of medical research spending is on 90% of existing health problems. |
| Sir John Strange trained at the same set of chambers as Lord Hardwicke, who later made him Master of the Rolls. |
| Despite the success of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the main theme only became a hit single in the cover version by Hugo Montenegro. |
| Four-time All-American football end and millionaire lumberman Tom Shevlin (pictured) died of pneumonia after contracting a cold while training the Yale football team. |
| Indigenous Australian artist Rosella Namok gave birth to her second son on the way to submit a painting for the Wynne Prize. |
| The Mill Colonnade was originally reviled by critics before eventually becoming a symbol for Karlovy Vary. |
| camber thrust contributes to the ability of bicycles and motorcycles to negotiate a turn with the same radius as automobiles but with a smaller steering angle. |
| Actress Mary Lawson married F. W. L. C. Beaumont, son of the Dame of Sark, and they died together in 1941 during the Liverpool Blitz. |
| The Ritland crater is believed to be a meteoric impact crater. |
| During the 1950s, Louisiana State Senator Herman "Wimpy" Jones advocated voting by 18-year-olds long before ratification of the 26th Amendment. |
| The rare Ironcap Banksia (pictured) from Western Australia has the longest pistils of any banksia. |
| paleontologist Gerta Keller theorizes that dinosaurs did not become extinct until 300,000 years after the Chicxulub meteor, though she agrees that "I'm sure the day after, they had a headache". |
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