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#DidYouKnow that a man stabbed Regulus because he disliked the "misty state of the picture"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulus_%28Turner%29
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#DidYouKnow that Annie Huggett, aged 103, was the oldest living suffragette at the time of her death in 1996? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Huggett
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#DidYouKnow that schoolteacher Thomas Curnow used a red scarf to stop a train from derailing, leading to the capture of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Curnow
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#DidYouKnow that a priest canceled 1,600 subscriptions to The Catholic Bulletin over a front-page photograph of nuns dancing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catholic_Spirit
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#DidYouKnow that the oldest surviving wooden lightship, dating to 1840, is now an Airbnb property? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Vessel_16
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#DidYouKnow that after signing a peace agreement in 1919, Azerbaijan prepared another invasion of southern Armenia that was foiled by a rebellion in Nagorno-Karabakh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_between_Armenia_and_Azerbaijan_respecting_the_District_of_Zanghezour
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#DidYouKnow that Henry Parnell was the youngest British parliamentarian to die in the First World War? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Parnell,_5th_Baron_Congleton
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#DidYouKnow that cellist Rohan de Saram's background as a geta bera drummer inspired Luciano Berio's Sequenza XIV? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequenza_XIV
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Botsin.space is shutting down and this account will have a new home! ✈️

I'll use Mastodon's migration feature so you (followers) will have to do nothing. My plan is to do it sometime in the next week.

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Wikis World

#DidYouKnow that residents of Port Mercer, New Jersey, profited from passing vessels by dragging their tow mules into the Delaware and Raritan Canal and having local boys "rescue" them for a fee? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Mercer,_New_Jersey
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