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 * ... that the Skydart target rocket (pictured) used the same launching rails as the missiles used to shoot it down?
 * ... that Donna Kennedy became the world's most-capped women's rugby player in 2004, and by 2007 was also the most-capped player in Scotland, retiring in 2010 with 115 caps?
 * ... that before one pharaoh could construct his own monument, the Pyramid of Nyuserre, he had to complete the three monuments to his mother, father, and elder brother?
 * ... that the upcoming film Paul, Apostle of Christ features Jim Caviezel's first appearance in a biblical film since he portrayed Jesus in The Passion of the Christ?
 * ... that the African weaver ant has been used to control the coconut bug?
 * ... that in one 1858 baseball game, Frank Pidgeon threw more than 400 pitches?
 * ... that a BBC executive boasts that actors of the Corporation's Radio Drama Company can be "mice, ants, naiads or dryads, men morphing into hares, maggots in a fisherman's sack, or even a tray of fancy cakes"?
 * ... that the first time Ethel Page met her husband – a future Australian prime minister – he accidentally set her on fire?


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