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In 1944, codenames related to the D-Day plans appeared as solutions in crosswords in the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, which the British Secret Services initially suspected to be a form of espionage.

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Famously he offered 26-year-old Ohio housewife Michelle Murray the option (in return for a reduced prison sentence) of spending a night in the woods for abandoning 35 kittens in a forest in wintertime

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Stolen peaches, wild dogs and rampant cheating... just some of the fun of the 1904 olympic marathon. I nominate this as the most entertaining article on Wikipedia!

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Great article about radioactivity in bananas!

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The following line had a citation needed tag 😅:

At no point is the child's nose actually removed from the child's face.

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