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Hooks

Pavonia praemorsa flower

• ... that the flowers of Pavonia praemorsa (pictured) bloom and die within the same day?
• ... that soprano Joan Ruth rejected a marriage proposal because her suitor wanted her to abandon ambitions of a singing career?
• ... that Tina and Milo has been described as the "first openly Gen Z mascots"?
• ... that Bengisu Avcı had to abandon her 45-kilometre (28-mile) swim across the Kaiwi Channel after being stung by jellyfish twelve hours in?
• ... that some of the first likely Libotonius fossils collected are lost at the Smithsonian?
• ... that Argentine naval officer Barry Melbourne Hussey was known as El Ingles ('The Englishman') by his comrades?
• ... that the 2024 song "Tobey" features "3 generations of Detroit"?
• ... that Leonhard Kaiser, a student of Martin Luther, was burned at the stake on 16 August 1527 after being declared guilty of heresy?
• ... that the area of Cultybraggan Camp has been a royal hunting ground, a prison for fervent Nazis and the site of an underground bunker intended for use in a nuclear war?