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From a collection of Wikipedia's articles:

... that fashion designer Iris Apfel (pictured) is the oldest person to ever have a Barbie doll made based on her?

... that when a plant does photosynthesis it releases the oxygen that we breathe?

... that in 1982, Jack Swigert, one of 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives but died before taking office?

... that in 2016, New York City had the biggest foreign-born population of any city in the world?

... that the Andromeda galaxy is moving towards the Milky Way galaxy and will collide with it in about 3.75 billion years?

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