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[[File:Baby Sarlacc 1.jpg|thumb|175px|link=Baby Sarlaac|Baby Sarlaac is a trade name for a juvenile sarlaac, popular as a novelty pet. Adult sarlaacs feed mainly upon condemned criminals and unlucky bounty hunters, while juvenile sarlaacs feed upon insects, rodents, and small hominids such as immature ewoks.]]
• ... that a United States Air Force Mark 15 nuclear bomb remains lost somewhere in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, following a '''[[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|mid-air collision on February 5, 1958]]'''?


• ... that '''[[Baby Sarlaac]]''' is a trade name for a juvenile sarlaac, and that the sarlaac is currently under Extraterrestrial Species Act review by the U.S. Space & Alien Life Service due to the rapid decline of the sarlaac population in its native range?
• ... that mathematician and inventor '''[[John Hadley (nonfiction)|John Hadley]]''' developed ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes, and that in 1721 Hadley showed the first parabolic Newtonian telescope to the Royal Society, the telescope having a 6-inch-diameter (150 mm) primary mirror, comparing favorably with the large aerial refracting telescopes of the day?


• ... that a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb remains lost somewhere in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, following United States Air Force in-flight accident on February 5, 1958?
• ... that meteorologist '''[[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]]''''s discovery of deterministic chaos "profoundly influenced a wide range of basic sciences and brought about one of the most dramatic changes in mankind’s view of nature since Sir [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]]," according to the committee that awarded Lorenz the 1991 Kyoto Prize for basic sciences in the field of earth and planetary sciences?

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• ... that a United States Air Force Mark 15 nuclear bomb remains lost somewhere in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, following a mid-air collision on February 5, 1958?

• ... that mathematician and inventor John Hadley developed ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes, and that in 1721 Hadley showed the first parabolic Newtonian telescope to the Royal Society, the telescope having a 6-inch-diameter (150 mm) primary mirror, comparing favorably with the large aerial refracting telescopes of the day?

• ... that meteorologist Edward Lorenz's discovery of deterministic chaos "profoundly influenced a wide range of basic sciences and brought about one of the most dramatic changes in mankind’s view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton," according to the committee that awarded Lorenz the 1991 Kyoto Prize for basic sciences in the field of earth and planetary sciences?

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