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Premna microphylla leaves and flowers

... that the leaves of Premna microphylla (pictured) are used to make a green jelly called Guanyin tofu?
... that the ideas of Albert Schädler became the founding ideas of the Progressive Citizens' Party, though he himself was opposed to the formation of political parties?
... that Queen Anne Pool opened to the public one day late, after a thermostat glitch accidentally heated the pool to 100 °F (38 °C)?
... that Hyakuman-kai no "I Love You" is a popular confession song in Japan?
... that upon winning a civil war in Portuguese Timor, the political party Fretilin repeatedly requested that Portuguese authorities return?
... that around the age of four, Jacob von Eggers was deported to Arkhangelsk in Russia together with the entire German-speaking population of Tartu?
... that an annex to the A. I. Namm & Son Department Store included artifacts from a church?
... that the Military-First Girls, a Japanese all-women fan club of the Moranbong Band, have compared their interest in North Korean music to other women's interests in K-pop and Taylor Swift?
... that one of the last photographs ever taken of Sitting Bull shows him side by side with Buffalo Bill?

On this day

Interior of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

AD 96 – Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian.
1809 – The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured), opened in London after the original was destroyed by fire.
1875 – The Indianola hurricane dissipated over Mississippi after killing around eight hundred people in Texas.
1961 – An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of 16 people, including United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld.
1981 – While posing as an aristocrat, Belgian serial killer Nestor Pirotte murdered an antiques dealer in Brussels, for which crime he was sentenced to death.

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