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- ... that excavations at Horvat 'Eqed (pictured) uncovered coinage and hiding complexes dating from the Bar Kokhba revolt, as well as arrowheads, armor scales, slingshots, and ballistae?
- ... that Spider began making alternative music because she felt that not enough Black women were doing so?
- ... that the trowel and gavel used at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Southern Railway Building were previously used by George Washington for the U.S. Capitol?
- ... that Gherardo Gambelli, the incoming archbishop of Florence, served as a prison chaplain in Chad for over a decade?
- ... that the Centurion C-RAM can fire 4500 rounds per minute?
- ... that Indonesian politician Rahmad Mas'ud received his master's degree simultaneously with four of his siblings?
- ... that all Atlantic hurricane activity in 1993 ceased two full months before the season officially ended?
- ... that Chuck Eisenmann went from professionally pitching in baseball to owning and training the dogs that starred on the Canadian television series The Littlest Hobo?
- ... that Richard Garwin proposed using a bed of nails to protect the Minuteman missile silos from attack?