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Whitehead's broadbill
- ... that the calls of Whitehead's broadbill (example pictured) resemble those of trogons, woodpeckers, and jays?
- ... that Alabama Pitts was noted by the Los Angeles Times in 1934 as "the most prominent jail-bird athlete in America"?
- ... that Ruyi Bridge was designed to resemble the Chinese symbol for good fortune?
- ... that Vladyslav Buialskyi, a 24-year-old bass-baritone from Berdiansk, sang the State Anthem of Ukraine on the night of his debut with the Metropolitan Opera?
- ... that Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan wrote Sex and Vanity in four months?
- ... that many designers and directors avoided the Vivian Beaumont Theater because of its unconventional mixture of stage designs?
- ... that the Roads Improvement Association was founded in 1886 by two British cycling organisations?
- ... that dictator Saparmurat Niyazov made his officials walk a mountain path every year while he flew the route in a helicopter?