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- ... that Sobekneferu (bust pictured) of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty is the earliest undisputed female king to reign over ancient Egypt?
- ... that the 1918 book Iowa Authors and Their Works was an attempt to document all Iowa authors and their writing starting from 1880?
- ... that the name of the Squirrel Scouts section of the Scout Association in the United Kingdom was inspired in part by the thriving population of red squirrels on Brownsea Island, where Scouting began?
- ... that the pungent and bitter yet prized Musang King has been called the "Hermès of durian"?
- ... that Washington State Route 971 is the highest-numbered state highway in Washington?
- ... that the United Nations described Ben Enwonwu's sculpture Anyanwu as "symbolic of the rising sun" of the new nation of Nigeria?
- ... that an ʻape-leaf design decorates the exterior of the Mabel Smyth Memorial Building in Honolulu?
- ... that after they met, evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin described Thomas Parr as an "old, miserly squire"?