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  • ... that the heritage ambiance of Fontainhas (house with wishing well pictured) reflects the traditional Portuguese influence in the area?
  • ... that Taiwanese singer/actor Nylon Chen calls himself "musical zhainan" (musical homeboy) because he mostly spends his time at home writing and composing songs?
  • ... that the Shivalik Fossil Park includes vertebrates that resided in the area of the Shivalik Hills about 2.5 million years ago?
  • ... that Sir Mark Henig, the first chairman of the English Tourist Board, was one of three Jews who served as Mayor or Lord Mayor of Leicester?
  • ... that a nematode kills the mole crickets it parasitises by infecting them with a specialist bacterium?
  • ... that Peder Syv's publication of proverbs and folk songs helped establish Danish as a literary language?
  • ... that one company owned 93% of the upper 11.5 square miles (30 km2) of the Stafford Meadow Brook watershed in the 1940s, and another owned most of the upper 75% of the watershed in the 1990s?
  • ... that during the Stalin era, Akmol in Kazakhstan was notorious for its "Labour Camp for Wives of Traitors of the Motherland"?

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