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- ... that after the Wennington wildfire (destroyed houses pictured) hit London in 2022, experts warned that climate change would cause more wildfires in the future?
- ... that conservator Carolyn Price Horton helped to direct a "Mud Angel army" that rescued books after the Arno flooded museums and libraries in Florence, Italy, in 1966?
- ... that when Ashgabat Zoo opened in Turkmenistan, dictator Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow's personal menagerie was moved to the zoo?
- ... that railway engineer Henry Ketchum earned the first diploma in civil engineering granted by the University of New Brunswick?
- ... that the first batch of Action Computer Enterprise's Discovery 1600, one of the first multi-user microcomputers, was delivered to a tobacco-growing business in Thailand?
- ... that the infected creatures in the second episode of The Last of Us were created using prosthetics instead of visual effects?
- ... that Ertuğrul Gazi, a Turkish floating storage and regasification unit for liquefied natural gas, has a daily capacity of 28 million cubic metres (990 million cu ft), among the world's largest?
- ... that California rancher Frank O'Connor could grow Lipstick and Halloween in a greenhouse?