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- ... that National Scientist Gavino Trono (pictured) investigated the "ice-ice" disease that devastated seaweed farms in the Philippines?
- ... that the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation council elections were the first in India to allow non-resident Indians to vote online?
- ... that Emma Irene Åström, the first woman to graduate from a Finnish university, once said, "There is no point in calling me a pioneer, because I have never consciously been one"?
- ... that a planned parapet was never added to the tower of St Nicholas' Church, Whiston, in Merseyside because of the danger of subsidence?
- ... that after being displaced from Ford Field by the Quick Lane Bowl, Little Caesars Pizza Bowl organizers considered moving the game to Comerica Park?
- ... that Hörningsholm Castle, Sweden has been pillaged by Danish and burnt by Russian troops?
- ... that French onion dip is sometimes referred to as "California dip", and has been described as "an American classic"?
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