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- ... that Storm Ulysses (damage pictured) in 1903 was so named because its effects were described in James Joyce's novel Ulysses?
- ... that Tamurbek Dawletschin wrote one of the few memoirs by a Soviet prisoner of war, 3 million of whom died in German captivity?
- ... that a class-action lawsuit was filed against Spotify following the discontinuation of the Car Thing?
- ... that Singaporean former lawyer David Yong learned Korean and moved to South Korea to become a K-pop singer?
- ... that during the Tunisian campaign in World War II, crews carried an AMES Type 6 radar set across a swamp to allow them to spy on Luftwaffe aircraft running supplies into Tunis?
- ... that Gwent Broadcasting, at the time the smallest Independent Local Radio station in Britain, lasted less than two years?
- ... that Valentin Bontus won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in Formula Kite, while Toni Vodišek won the first silver medal?
- ... that during the Khalji Revolution, Sultan Qaiqabad was wrapped in a carpet and thrown into the Yamuna river?
- ... that the species classification Poecilia vandepolli existed, then it did not, and now it does again?