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  • ... that the swamp rabbit (pictured) is both territorial and a great swimmer?
  • ... that no other month in a calendar year starts with the same day of the week as June?
  • ... that Samantha Kane led an unsuccessful takeover bid for Sheffield United F.C. and, after a gender transition, was interviewed to become its chief executive?
  • ... that the first version of the Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge was heavily damaged by a tornado during construction?
  • ... that medicine dean Sjahriar Rasad was accused of being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Indonesian president Sukarno?
  • ... that the U.S. Supreme Court is currently deciding whether the family who lived in a house wrongly raided by the FBI may sue the government?
  • ... that Romanian sports shooter Petre Cișmigiu demanded the elimination of a pension gap between Olympic and non-Olympic champions, such as himself?
  • ... that the novel Looking Glass Girl was launched at Coventry Central Library to highlight the threat of 17 libraries in the city closing?
  • ... that John P. Morris won a strike by hiding pigeons in fur coats?

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