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Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats

• ... that Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats (pictured), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is an important migration stopover for the critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper?
• ... that Eddie Keenan was once the largest American football player?
• ... that physical applications of Euclidean minimum spanning trees range in scale from the particles in bubble chambers to the dark matter halos of galaxies?
• ... that the court-martial of William T. Colman, the commander of a U.S. air base, created a storm of protest when he was merely reduced in rank after shooting a black soldier?
• ... that lemur health is threatened by climate change in Madagascar due to the spread of parasites with warmer temperatures?
• ... that the radio station at Western Washington University interfered with telephone and television services in a campus dormitory?
• ... that Kannada-language author M. V. Seetharamiah established that the Rashtrakuta emperor Nrupatunga did not write the classic Kavirajamarga?
• ... that Union Carbide bought 270 Park Avenue in 1976 while moving out of the building?