The 11th National Lavender Festival in General Toshevo was held 21 June 2025.
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A lavender festival took place in General Toshevo, Bulgaria, in 2025.
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Luke Salmons was kept off frontline police duties for about six months.
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North Yorkshire Police suspended Luke Salmons for six months after he questioned and criticised Islam during a diversity training session.
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Mississippi law only mandates ICE cooperation when unlawful presence is suspected.
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Mississippi state agencies are legally required to report transgender people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if their identification documents list a sex different from their sex assigned at birth.
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No reliable source shows N'Golo Kanté has ever been married.
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N'Golo Kanté is divorced.
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The Isle of Man’s average electricity demand is roughly 40 MW, about 1 GWh per day.
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The Isle of Man's average electricity demand is about 40 MW (approximately 1 GWh per day).
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Manx Utilities tariffs in 2024–2025 were about 29.1–29.5p per kWh.
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On the Isle of Man, electricity that is priced at about 1.5 pence per kilowatt-hour at the point of production would cost consumers about 6–7 pence per kilowatt-hour.
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New York birth certificates still use “mother” and “father,” with “parent” optional.
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New York State enacted a law that removed the terms "mother" and "father" from New York State birth certificates and replaced them with gender-neutral parental labels.
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PwC’s 2017 scenario estimates AI could add up to $15.7 trillion by 2030.
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Artificial intelligence is projected to contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, including about $6.6 trillion from productivity gains and $9.1 trillion from consumption-side effects, representing a 14% increase in global…
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About 25–27% of UK over-65s live in £1m-plus wealth households.
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In the United Kingdom, 25% of pensioners are millionaires.
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A young child called 911 reporting a monster under his brother’s bed.
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A child called 911 to report that there was a monster under his brother's bed.
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Scholarly analyses link Jay Chou’s lyrics mainly to identity, hybridity, and romance.
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Jay Chou's songs contain collectivist lyrical themes that are clear examples of collectivism in C-pop storytelling.
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Whole fruit typically takes hours, not minutes, to leave the stomach.
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Fruit remains in the human stomach for only about 15 minutes after being eaten.
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Collor’s 1992 impeachment was driven by corruption tied to the PC Farias network.
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Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached in the 1990s for helping defraud the Brazilian state by channeling state resources to himself and his associates.
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Italian law still allows some Brazilian descendants to obtain Italian citizenship.
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Brazilian citizens can obtain Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis) under current Italian law.
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Under IFAB rules, penalty shoot-outs occur after the match ends.
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In association football, a match decided by a penalty shoot-out after being level at the end of extra time is officially recorded as a draw, with the shoot-out used only to determine which team advances or wins the title.
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Scholars disagree on whether Trumpism is neo-fascism or authoritarian populism.
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Trumpism is a neo-fascist political ideology or movement.
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Publishing frontier-AI disagreement research can create a disclosable competing interest for AI fact-checkers.
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Publishing a research paper about factual disagreement in frontier AI models can be considered a conflict of interest for an AI fact-checking company.
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No authoritative sources show The Boondocks used PAL for Season 1 production.
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The animated television series "The Boondocks" was produced with PAL video standards in mind for Season 1, and with NTSC video standards in mind for later seasons.
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No widely indexed FLAC release of Draft.__’s “malii” appears on major platforms.
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No lossless (FLAC) archive of the album "malii" by Draft.__ exists, and the album is available only in MP3 quality.
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Authoritative Cowboy Bebop soundtrack listings do not identify 4–6 Japanese hip-hop tracks.
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Soundtrack releases credited to The Seatbelts for the anime "Cowboy Bebop" include at least 4 to 6 Japanese hip-hop tracks in total.
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