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- ... that around 200 cats (example pictured) are tasked, as "security officers", with keeping mice out of the Forbidden City?
- ... that the lyrics in Conan Gray's song "People Watching" were based on things he heard while eavesdropping on couples?
- ... that Lydie Pongault was appointed to the Congolese government to fill the roles of two other ministers?
- ... that the gray stonecrop was little known in the 1970s but became so popular by the 1990s that demand exceeded supply?
- ... that using samples provided by Johann Jacob Ferber, it was demonstrated that mosaics at Pompeii were made with glass paste, not stone?
- ... that seven U.S. prosecutors resigned in protest over the Eric Adams corruption case?
- ... that Abbess Ruothild wrapped the body of Saint Fara in a silk covered with bare-breasted Amazons?
- ... that Ethan Hawke and Devery Jacobs smoked CBD while filming the Reservation Dogs episode "Elora's Dad"?
- ... that when someone accused George Chapman of basing his translation of the Odyssey on a Latin translation, he called them an "envious Windfucker" in the preface?