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Flag of Duluth, Minnesota

... that the flag of Duluth, Minnesota (pictured), has an award-winning simple design, but still represents eight things including Lake Superior, the North Woods, and three city hills?
... that Sophie Scamps decided to enter politics after a survey from her local member of parliament failed to mention climate change?
... that Vollpension employs grandparents to bake cakes according to their own recipes and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, offered live baking courses from elders around the world?
... that Benjamin F. McAdoo was the first Black architect to be licensed in the U.S. state of Washington?
... that Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega kiss in the music video for "Taste"?
... that in the week of his assassination, Quinto Inuma Alvarado said at a conference: "If I must die, I will die"?
... that G Affairs was presented at project markets in South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, but rejected because it was deemed unmarketable in China?
... that Sienna Green began playing water polo because she saw it as a combination of basketball and swimming, her favourite sports?
... that a parrot reportedly screamed profanities at the funeral of U.S. president Andrew Jackson?