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- ... that the kilns of Medalta Potteries (pictured) were used as overnight accommodation by people travelling the country in search of work during the Great Depression?
- ... that information provided by the Confederate draftsman Anton R. Roessler was used by the Union Army to determine the ordnance potential of Texas?
- ... that a section of Japan National Route 105 is named after a group of hunters?
- ... that the wreck of the freighter SS Russia was discovered in 2019, only 1,200 feet (370 m) from where a different shipwreck hunter ended the search for her years earlier?
- ... that Turkish accordion-playing street musician Madam Anahit also appeared in a number of films as an extra?
- ... that Recollections of Full Years by Helen Taft was the first memoir published by a first lady of the United States?
- ... that the 13th-century foundation St Alban Hall, Oxford, closed in 1882 and was demolished?
- ... that Rachel Sennott stars in two 2020 queer Jewish films about funerals, but is neither queer nor Jewish?