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Hooks

Cannonball in Milwaukee, 1966

• ... that despite being an ordinary commuter train, the Cannonball (pictured) was known for its Friday-night parties?
• ... that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union?
• ... that the music producer of Barney & Friends considered it ludicrous that its theme song was used in torture at Guantanamo Bay?
• ... that the Xinwen Bao was first published during the Lunar New Year to take advantage of its competitors being on hiatus?
• ... that psychologist Sonya Friedman recommends that women create a totem, a collection of objects that represent important turning points in their lives?
• ... that the FCC canceled a permit to build a Florida TV station, finding that "the most prominent facility completed within the studio building appears to be a toilet"?
• ... that a renovation of 240 Centre Street was delayed by several months because a street map was incorrect?
• ... that with the exception of one day in 1941, the Kaunas Carillon stopped playing music for sixteen years due to the Soviet and German occupations of Lithuania?