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From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:- ... that the 18th-century Chinese merchant Puankhequa (pictured) owned a firm in the Thirteen Factories district, trading with Europeans?
- ... that the Kweilin was the first civilian airliner to be destroyed by hostile aircraft?
- ... that Olympic footballer Kristian Krefting served as a liaison officer with British forces fighting in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign?
- ... that over 200 fossils of Aphaenogaster mayri were known when the species was described in 1930?
- ... that Ernst Deutsch won the Volpi Cup for best actor at the 1948 Venice Film Festival for his role in The Trial?
- ... that Fore Street was the first place in the City of London to be hit by a German bomb in World War II?
- ... that the flesh and fins of the spotless smooth-hound are much esteemed?
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