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Texas and Pacific 610

... that Texas and Pacific 610 (pictured) was once bought for $1?
... that Helmut Bauer confirmed around 150,000 young people, including 500 in Tanzania?
... that although the plant species Dolichostachys elongata was first described in 1962, it was not considered validly published until 60 years later?
... that a review described He Fucked the Girl Out of Me as being about "all the ways in which American society fails its most vulnerable"?
... that the restoration of Neknampur Lake was recognised "as the best model of lake restoration in India"?
... that Benjamin Franklin Shumard's assistant named an oak species after him, and then sabotaged his reinstatement after he was fired?
... that the 2013 book Brick by Brick, about how The Lego Group reinvented itself, became a popular business text?
... that the Trilobite Wilderness is so rich in trilobite fossils that in places virtually every rock contains a fossil?
... that cavalry officer Harvey Tuckett retired from the British Army to become an actor, but was shot in a duel by his former commanding officer?