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- ... that Paul Parkman (pictured), one of the developers of the rubella vaccine, did not monetize the patent so that the vaccine could be freely available?
- ... that according to a former military journalist, 80,000 copies of a command information newspaper were dumped into the South China Sea during the Vietnam War?
- ... that despite specializing in literature and serving as a senior editor of the Zhonghua Book Company, historian Zhang Zhenglang never published a single book of his own?
- ... that AJR's "Way Less Sad" samples the final trumpet riff of Simon & Garfunkel's "My Little Town" as its primary hook?
- ... that when MT Petar Hektorović was temporarily reassigned, one resident of Vis wrote an online memorial to the ship, writing "the waves of Vis grieve for you"?
- ... that Drew Thomas, a former car salesman, reached the finals of the NBC show Last Comic Standing?
- ... that the Bad Dürrenberg shaman may have been able to block blood vessels to her brain by holding her head at certain angles?
- ... that a New York man built a house with materials from several 1964 New York World's Fair pavilions?
- ... that putting pre-moistened meat diapers in pre-packaged meat is a form of weight fraud?