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...that the endangered golden lion tamarin (pictured) has a long, but not prehensile, tail?
...that the Witch's hat is the common name of a colourful orange-red toadstool?
...that Grandi's series 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + • • • is divergent and appears to equal 0, yet in some sense "sums" to ¹⁄₂ — a paradox once linked to the creation ex nihilo of the universe?
...that Derek Freeman was an anthropologist whose refutation of Margaret Mead's work "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology"?
...that the New Year's Eve snowstorm of 1963/1964 dropped over 17 inches of snow at Huntsville, Alabama, simultaneously setting new snowfall records for any day, week, or month in their history?

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