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| Andrew Carroll went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops, hospital waiting rooms and train stations. |
| Troilite, a form of pyrrhotite, is extremely rare on Earth but is abundant on Mars (pictured). |
| While playing baseball at Shibe Park, outfielder Herschel Bennett crashed into a wall, causing him to fall into a 36-hour coma and helping to end his major league career?. |
| In English law, legal relations created in a social context are not considered binding. |
| In the Broadway comedy Two Blind Mice, two government workers keep their office running after its abolition by Congress by renting out rooms and hiring out the front lawn as a parking lot. |
| India's Narcotics Control Bureau was created in 1986 to enforce the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. |
| Moss Force, a waterfall in the English Lake District, was described by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as "an awful Image and Shadow of God and the World". |
| The artwork of full-blood Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane has enjoyed a revival after his glass plate negatives were discovered in an Alaskan dump. |
| There are many diverse types of fish, including sea dragons (pictured) camouflaged to look like floating seaweed. |
| professional wrestler Mr. Niebla once wrestled as "Batman". |
| The Mansion District was once known as the "Garlic Core" of Albany, New York, due to its large Italian American population. |
| In 1957, West Germany's Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Joachim von Merkatz was the focus of an East German propaganda campaign, which portrayed him as a "fascist" and "leading Nazi functionary". |
| The automated Launch Processing System used by NASA for Space Shuttle launches has reduced the required number of firing room personnel to half of those required for an Apollo launch. |
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