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Cross-dressing woman playing polo
- ... that 7th- and 8th-century Chinese pottery Tang dynasty tomb figures include cross-dressing women playing polo (example pictured)?
- ... that Michael Stevens, creator and host of Vsauce, uploaded his first YouTube videos under the username "pooplicker888"?
- ... that Sound Transit 3 will nearly double the amount of light rail in the Seattle region to 112 miles (180 km) of track?
- ... that males of the fossil ant Proceratium eocenicum have a hair fringe?
- ... that the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, held in Edinburgh, lacked day-to-day television coverage by British broadcasters?
- ... that Tamar Halperin recorded music by Eric Satie, playing piano, harpsichord, Hammond organ, and Wurlitzer piano?
- ... that Asian Paints Ltd's former mascot Gattu, a mischievous boy with a paint bucket, was created by Indian cartoonist R. K. Laxman?
- ... that fictional journalist Carl Diggler correctly predicted the results of more 2016 presidential primaries than Nate Silver's statistics blog FiveThirtyEight?