Template:Did you know/Preparation area 6: Difference between revisions

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The Carron Bridge arching over the Spey

• ... that the Carron Bridge (pictured) was the last cast iron railway bridge to be built and used in Scotland?
• ... that the 2018–19 Kivu Ebola epidemic was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 17 July 2019?
• ... that nearly 300 stockbrokers had protested outside the Bombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of the Big Bull after the market crashed?
• ... that a clandestine poem from 1963 about the Kurds became the Ukrainian symbol of national revival and resistance against the Soviet Union?
• ... that Mother Berry, a jockey who rode disguised as a man, got her nickname after she adopted a runaway child?
• ... that sewage from Tijuana flows into the United States through Smuggler's Gulch?
• ... that Ning Bin, who won a national special prize for his contribution to the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway, died in a traffic accident?
• ... that the new pine knot-horn is a serious pest of pine tree plantations?

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