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Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats
- ... that Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats (pictured), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is an important migration stopover for the critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper?
- ... that Eddie Keenan was once the largest American football player?
- ... that physical applications of Euclidean minimum spanning trees range in scale from the particles in bubble chambers to the dark matter halos of galaxies?
- ... that the court-martial of William T. Colman, the commander of a U.S. air base, created a storm of protest when he was merely reduced in rank after shooting a black soldier?
- ... that lemur health is threatened by climate change in Madagascar due to the spread of parasites with warmer temperatures?
- ... that the radio station at Western Washington University interfered with telephone and television services in a campus dormitory?
- ... that Kannada-language author M. V. Seetharamiah established that the Rashtrakuta emperor Nrupatunga did not write the classic Kavirajamarga?
- ... that Union Carbide bought 270 Park Avenue in 1976 while moving out of the building?
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Protesters in Tehran, Iran
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- At least 100 people are killed in renewed fighting between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
- In the Swedish general election, the bloc consisting of the Sweden Democrats, Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals wins a majority of seats in the Riksdag.
- French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard dies at the age of 91.
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