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Finnie the Unicorn
Finnie the Unicorn
  • ... that the next Commonwealth Games mascot is a unicorn (pictured) designed by 76 children?
  • ... that Mary Karadja founded an organisation to deport European Jews to Madagascar, despite previously advocating against antisemitism?
  • ... that the writer Laurence Sterne became famous for a bawdy comic novel, and immediately sold a book of sermons?
  • ... that the geographer Suzanne Daveau, who turned 100 on 13 July 2025, has received honours from three countries?
  • ... that Zhang Juzheng was criticised for not adequately mourning the death of his father, after which he eliminated around fifty opponents through self-evaluation tests?
  • ... that Felix Mendelssohn revised his Rondo capriccioso after a 17-year-old pianist "commanded" him to do so "under pain of one disgrace or another"?
  • ... that Indian activist V. V. Dravid moved to Indore to build a textile workers' union, spent one and a half years in jail there, and later represented the city at the state's legislative assembly?
  • ... that the Tochigi–Gunma–Saitama border is a rare example of a prefectural tripoint in Japan located on flat land?
  • ... that the Red Nun of the Mayab worked as a courier and spy for an insurrectionist faction in Valladolid, Yucatán?
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Robert Redford in 2012
Robert Redford
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