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S.R. Kirby being fitted out in Wyandotte, Michigan
- ... that in 825 feet (251 m) of water, the composite-hulled bulk carrier S.R. Kirby (pictured) is one of the deepest shipwrecks ever discovered in the Great Lakes?
- ... that the headlight fish gets its name from the large, bioluminescent patch of skin located between its nostrils?
- ... that Faith Smith, who grew up on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin, became the founding president of the first urban institute of higher learning led by and serving Native Americans?
- ... that the world's oldest lacquerware was found at the Kakinoshima Site?
- ... that Earl Dawson established a council to reverse the decline of ice hockey in rural Manitoba?
- ... that having collaborated on the album Folklore months prior, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner met in person for the first time for the filming of Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions?
- ... that Tropical Storm Merbok flooded 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) of crops in 2017 and led to an economic loss of CN¥600 million (US$88.3 million) in China?
- ... that essayist Briallen Hopper got her start writing sermons?