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- ... that Irritator (model pictured), a spinosaurid dinosaur, was named due to the frustration of palaeontologists who discovered that its skull had been covered with plaster by fossil dealers?
- ... that Native American poet Jennifer Foerster co-directs a program fostering arts education for women and girls of the Muscogee Nation?
- ... that the French submarine Regnault, built to fight in the First World War, was named after an 18th-century chemist?
- ... that Derrick Barnes, author of the award-winning children's book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, began his career as the first black male copywriter for Hallmark?
- ... that thousands of bats are protected by monks at the Bat Pagoda in Sóc Trăng City, Vietnam?
- ... that the footballer Wayne Matthews started his own manufacturing business by embroidering sportswear in his bedroom?
- ... that a geologic fault was discovered in the Yakima, Washington, area during construction of Interstate 82?
- ... that after a force of Anglo-Gascon cavalry defeated a French force, they had to walk home because the surviving French had captured their horses?