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- ... that Prince Philip (pictured) was the first member of the British royal family to fly in a helicopter?
- ... that the 1910–1916 publication Raḥamim was the first newspaper in the Judeo-Tajik language?
- ... that football player Dick Harris was selected in professional drafts four times, including twice as a first-round pick, but never played professionally?
- ... that Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker helped fundraise to save a Merseyside flat that has been called "the first example of outsider art to be nationally listed"?
- ... that in 1911 the Butterfly Theater featured a pipe organ worth $10,000 (equivalent to $327,000 in 2023)?
- ... that environmental economist V. Kerry Smith has been described as a "Renaissance Man of Economics"?
- ... that a year after objecting to the unauthorised use of his own AI-generated vocals, Drake used vocals of other rappers generated that way to respond to a diss against him?
- ... that in 1919 nurse Hilda Hope McMaugh became the first Australian woman to qualify as a pilot?
- ... that employees of a Florida TV station joked that their studio building would survive "as long as the termites don't stop holding hands"?