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Did you know...

• ... that Libania Grenot was the first woman in three decades to successfully defend the European 400-metres title (final pictured)Template:-?
• ... that Captain James Cook and his crew were some of the first Europeans to witness and record Polynesians surfing?
• ... that Hanahaki disease, a fictional illness in which a person coughs up flowers due to unrequited love, is often used in queer fan fiction to symbolize repressed desire?
• ... that Carmel Naughton, having been told that girls were "stupid and couldn't do maths", sponsored a STEM scholarship fund?
• ... that after moving into the Samuel Freeman House, the owners sat on cardboard boxes because they could not afford real furniture?
• ... that Nicolas Cage was trained by award-winning chef Gabriel Rucker for one of his films?
• ... that a subcontractor working on the tower of a Nevada TV station recorded footage of the PEPCON disaster as it unfolded nearby?
• ... that Maude Simmons played the mother of Paul Robeson on stage and the mother of Sidney Poitier on screen?
• ... that the Japanese government responded to the rice riots of 1918, which involved up to 10 million participants, with a "candy and whip" policy?

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• The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images (example shown) from its new 8.4-metre (28 ft) telescope.
• In basketball, the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Indiana Pacers to win the NBA Finals.
• An attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus, Syria, kills at least 25 people.
• The United States conducts military strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran.
• In rugby union, the Crusaders defeat the Chiefs to win the Super Rugby Pacific final.

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