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| The Sassoon Mausoleum is now a hip supper club?. |
| More than 18 million viewers saw the series finale of Will & Grace, making it the most watched episode of the final two seasons of the show. |
| Ukrainian runner Yuliya Krevsun ended her track career in 2005 to start a family, but later made a comeback and reached the 800 metres final at the Beijing Olympics. |
| A reed is a comb-like tool used in weaving that determines how fine the cloth is. |
| Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's X Division, which uses a fast-paced style of wrestling, has been praised by Kevin Nash. |
| John G.F. Francis, who co-devised the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, had no idea of the impact his work had made until contacted almost 50 years later. |
| Untreated persistent hypertension can lead to serious complications, such as dementia, strokes, renal failure and heart disease (left ventricular hypertrophy pictured). |
| The catchphrase "To Infinity and Beyond" from Toy Story helped to save an autistic child lost at sea in Daytona Beach, Florida. |
| The traditional account of the papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician. |
| Alec Gallup, co-chairman of The Gallup Organization and the son of founder George Gallup, was described as someone who could "smell out a bad question or an unreasonable interpretation of data". |
| The Samarkand clan's main rival in Uzbekistan is the Tashkent clan. |
| The 1982 Washington Metro train derailment resulting in three fatalities was the deadliest accident involving the Washington Metro until the 2009 collision resulting in nine. |
| Indian musician Ram Narayan's album Rāg Lalit was recorded in a single unedited take of over 73 minutes. |
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