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... that feelies (example pictured) have been used for everything from copy protection to sexual roleplay?
... that in 1959, Henri Claireaux claimed that a reduction to a subsidy to Saint Pierre and Miquelon had devolved the territory into "a state bordering on poverty"?
... that both Tim Walz and JD Vance were accused of sanewashing in the 2024 vice presidential debate?
... that Kazimierz Sakowicz spent three years recording the murder of tens of thousands in his diary, which was published decades later?
... that Rust Red Hills is being sold to renovate student housing, a court-approved move that museum associations say violates the ethics of deaccessioning?
... that Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées to revive music that was suppressed by 20th-century totalitarian regimes?
... that 38 per cent of Welsh university students in 1900 were women?
... that Johnny Fripp was described as "a bundle of football-toting dynamite"?
... that Big Motor employees hit cars with socks stuffed with golf balls as part of an insurance-fraud scheme?