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... that Typhoon Wutip in 2019 was the first recorded Category 5–equivalent tropical cyclone to occur in February in the Northern Hemisphere?
... that Yudas Sabaggalet, an Indonesian politician, worked in a Coca-Cola factory while studying at university?
... that Destinies of the Soul was the only book that contained human skin in the collection of Harvard University?
... that Clams Casino almost lost his EP Rainforest because his computer stopped working?
... that William O. Raymond's 1905 Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John probably recorded the first known Black man in future New Brunswick?
... that Blackpink's "Forever Young" was heard being played from the group's agency's headquarters three years before it was released?
... that the residents of Ukraina and Gorham, North Dakota, were involved in a feud that started with Easter baskets?
... that an activist protested the use of Chinese characters for Taiwanese Indigenous names by changing her legal name to "Lee I want to exclusively list my tribal name, my Bunun tribal name is Savungaz Valincinan"?

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Benjamin Franklin Tilley (1848–1907) was a career officer in the United States Navy who served from the end of the American Civil War through the Spanish–American War. He is best remembered as the first acting governor of American Samoa as well as the territory's first naval governor.Photograph credit: unknown photographer; Naval History and Heritage Command; restored by Adam Cuerden

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The band Cream, with Eric Clapton (right)

"Cross Road Blues" is a song written by the American blues artist Robert Johnson. He sang it as a solo piece with acoustic slide guitar in the Delta blues style. The lyrics describe Johnson's grief at being unable to catch a ride at an intersection before the sun sets. Some have attached a supernatural significance to the song. One of Johnson's two recorded performances was released in 1937 as a single, heard mainly in the Mississippi Delta area. The second, which reached a wider audience, was included on King of the Delta Blues Singers, a compilation album of some of Johnson's songs released in 1961 during the American folk music revival. Elmore James recorded a version of the song in 1954, and another in either 1960 or 1961. In the late 1960s, guitarist Eric Clapton and his bandmates in the British rock group Cream (pictured) popularized it as "Crossroads". Their blues rock interpretation became one of their best-known songs, inspiring many cover versions. (Full article...)

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... that the Cistern of Pulcheria is one of the best-conserved Byzantine reservoirs in Istanbul?
... that Saint Tarbula of Persia was martyred by being cut in half by a saw after being accused of witchcraft?
... that It Sticks Out Half a Mile is a radio sequel series to Dad's Army that follows three of the main characters in their attempts to renovate a seaside pier in post-war Britain?
... that Uwe Boll has described his 2024 crime drama film First Shift as the least violent in his body of work?
... that All Nations Baptist Church in New York City is primarily associated with ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union?
... that home repair and maintenance educator Mercury Stardust and her friend Jory Vizcaino have raised more than $4 million for transgender healthcare through their TikTok-A-Thon for Trans Healthcare?
... that the promotion and hype around obtaining Mew in the the original Pokémon games resulted in the games' sales increasing more than threefold?
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NASA announces that the Voyager 1 space probe is sending readable data for the first time in five months.
The HDZ-led coalition wins the most seats in the Croatian parliamentary election but falls short of a majority.
Ichthyotitan, the largest known marine reptile, is formally described.

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Mounted police maintaining order at the 1923 FA Cup final

1253 – The Japanese monk Nichiren declared the mantra Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō, now a central part of Nichiren Buddhism.
1789 – Fletcher Christian, the acting lieutenant on board the Royal Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander William Bligh in the South Pacific.
1923 – The FA Cup final (crowd and police pictured) between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was held on the opening day of the Empire Stadium in London.
1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, the deposed fascist dictator of Italy, was executed by partisans in Giulino.
1983 – The West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.

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Libellula depressa, commonly known as the broad-bodied chaser or broad-bodied darter, is a dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. One of the most common dragonflies in Europe and central Asia, its range extends to England, central Asia and the Middle East, with a few limited populations in Scotland. It is not found in Ireland or North Africa, however. This insect is around 39 to 48 millimetres (1.5 to 1.9 inches) in length, with both the male and the female having a broad, flattened abdomen which is brown with yellow patches down the sides. In the male, the abdomen develops a blue pruinescence that covers the brown colour. Both fore and hind wings have a dark patch at the base. This male L. depressa dragonfly was photographed at Wolvercote Lakes in Oxfordshire, England.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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