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- ... that the Bermuda onion (pictured) was so closely associated with Bermuda that the island's inhabitants became known as "onions"?
- ... that a U.S. Navy plane piloted by Michael Wettlaufer clipped the tower of a Florida TV station while on a training mission, forcing it off the air for nearly five years?
- ... that military officer Chris Tanasale was selected as the mayor of Ambon, Indonesia, to prevent the alienation of local Christians?
- ... that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim has updated the description of his video "Me at the zoo" on multiple occasions to criticize the website's business decisions?
- ... that the Nazis killed more than fifty Dutch nationals in retaliation for the assassinations of Hendrik Seyffardt and Hermannus Reydon by the Dutch resistance?
- ... that fifteen future Pro Football Hall of Fame players have been drafted by the Detroit Lions?
- ... that a 2007 pop-punk song by Fall Out Boy was named after Michael Jackson's Thriller and begins with a monologue by rapper Jay-Z?
- ... that the shopping cart is "the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing", according to the shopping cart theory?
- ... that a book about book banning was banned?