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| The Jungle Shrew is a small mammal found only in Sri Lanka lowland rain forests. |
| Jane Edna Hunter, an African American social worker in Cleveland, Ohio, was born on the Woodburn Plantation (pictured) in Pendleton, South Carolina. |
| Juliano Verbard escaped from a French prison in a hijacked helicopter. |
| From 1995 to 2003, an Arkansas radio station now called KZTD shared its "KBBL" call sign with the fictional radio station on The Simpsons. |
| Among Gerhard Knoop´s stage productions are Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Strindberg's Miss Julie, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Ionesco's The Chairs. |
| Mount Veniaminof in the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge contains the most extensive crater glacier in North America, at roughly 5.2 miles (8.4 km) in diameter. |
| The Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act of Singapore that allows for suspected criminals to be detained without trial has been renewed 12 times since its enactment in 1955. |
| Leonard Trask published an account of his life as a sufferer of a condition in which his spine curved forward to the extent that his chin rested on his chest. |
| The razorfish hides in the spines of sea urchins both for protection and as a hunting strategy. |
| The Mexican town of Tlalmanalco has one of the few remaining intact open-air chapels (pictured) built for native people who would not enter churches. |
| Funding to help J-D's Down Home Enterprises start producing bacon-flavored salt came from a three-year-old child's winnings on America's Funniest Home Videos?. |
| Jens Wisløff, a Conservative Party of Norway politician, was called "the grand old man of asphalt". |
| GRB 050709 was the first short-duration gamma-ray burst for which an optical afterglow was detected. |
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