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Okanogan fameflower blooms

... that according to a 1994 paper, the Okanogan fameflower (pictured) spent the last ice age in a glacial refugium?
... that swimmer Yu Zidi qualified for the World Aquatics Championships at just twelve years old?
... that a community vote allowed players of the "wholesome" city-building game The Wandering Village to feed their villagers to a giant beast?
... that Olympic silver medallist Eduard von Lütcken captured a Russian general before being killed in an early action of the First World War?
... that 4chan users found a Burger King restaurant based on a photo of someone standing on lettuce within 15 minutes of its posting?
... that Lindsay de Sausmarez was elected head of government of Guernsey only a few days after deciding to run for the position?
... that a French abortion ban in Mali dating from 1920 was in place until 2002?
... that Ames Shipbuilding and Drydock Company employees participated in a walkout that precipitated the 1919 Seattle General Strike?
... that, according to tradition, after Saint Vidal was martyred, his body was separated into pieces but reassembled itself three times?

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Uribe Turbay in 2019

Uribe Turbay

Colombian senator Miguel Uribe Turbay (pictured), a pre-candidate in the 2026 presidential election, dies two months after being shot.
Azerbaijan and Armenia sign a declaration to formalize a future peace treaty, ending the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
American astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, dies at the age of 97.
A helicopter crash in the Ashanti Region, Ghana, kills eight people on board including ministers Edward Omane Boamah and Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed.

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