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The large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner. 
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| computer hacker Raphael Gray sent Viagra tablets to Bill Gates and then published what he said was Gates' credit card number. |
| Every December 11 in Acatlán de Juárez, Jalisco, Mexico, bonfires are lit along the streets to commemorate the vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego. |
| Duane Purvis's right arm made him a world-class javelin thrower and "without peer" as a long passer in football. |
| The winning candidate in the 2002 Hartlepool Council election, known as H'Angus the Monkey before taking office, pledged to give free bananas to school children in Hartlepool. |
| Before starting her modeling career and appearing on America's Next Top Model, Celia Ammerman lived across from a chicken slaughterhouse in Brooklyn. |
| The San Juan Bautista Parish of Tenango del Aire in Mexico was initially run by the Franciscans. |
| Tennyson Bardwell's second film The Skeptic was actually written in the 1980s, but did not start filming until 2005. |
| In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot, Hans Holbein the Younger's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (pictured) is said to have the power to make viewers lose their faith. |
| Kim Kang-woo spent about ten days acquainting himself with a cow to prepare for scenes in the film Le Grand Chef, likening the experience to working with a sensitive actress. |
| The spinner shark is named for the spinning leaps it makes out of the water as part of its feeding strategy. |
| The Czech trumpeter and singer Jiří Jelínek was nicknamed "The Czech Satchmo". |
| The Indiana-based Upland Brewing Company provided beer bottles and props to lend Indiana authenticity to the "Boys' Club" episode of Parks and Recreation. |
| William Butler Yeats intended the poem "Politics" to be an envoi to "The Circus Animals' Desertion" and for it to be last in his final collection of poems. |
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