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- ... that Tiny the Wonder (pictured) could kill 200 an hour in London's rat-baiting pits?
- ... that Patrick Francheterre played for, coached and managed the France men's national ice hockey team, and helped cover expenses when the French Ice Hockey Federation went bankrupt?
- ... that 50 years ago today, Maspalomas Station in the Canary Islands was the first ground station to make contact with the Apollo 11 astronauts in Earth orbit, about 16 minutes into the flight?
- ... that Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward removed the appendix of Prince Albert, who later became King George VI?
- ... that during its 2019 election campaign, the Indian National Congress promised to abolish the sedition law, although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013?
- ... that Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home?
- ... that the clingfish Diplecogaster bimaculata has been photographed cleaning a moray eel?
- ... that in 2001, Bury Football Club's first mascot, "Robbie the Bobby", was sent off three times by referees for bad behaviour?