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- ... that writer Fănuș Neagu (pictured) claimed to have spent the Romanian floods of May 1970 stranded with a feral wolf on the roof of a cannery?
- ... that Sierra Leone is the only country where a British law from 1861 still bans abortion?
- ... that Lewis Worthington Smith received royalties from his textbook The Mechanism of English Style for 20 years?
- ... that Tomas Fung founded the predecessor of the restaurant Ling Nam with only 3,000 Philippine pesos?
- ... that Lothar von Falkenhausen was appointed an honorary professor of Zhejiang University, an honor usually reserved for Nobel Prize winners?
- ... that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a United States regulatory agency, does not require workplaces to have employee break rooms?
- ... that a critic compared vocalist Riley Gale to a "rabid wolf"?
- ... that The Strip documents how the gangster Meyer Lansky would walk his Shih Tzu near the pool while visiting a casino?
- ... that a woman was sentenced to 10 months of forced labor when she "tickled" the breasts of The Motherland Calls?