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In Thai folklore about Mae Nak Phra Khanong, Somdej Toh is credited with subduing Mae Nak's spirit by removing a piece of bone from her forehead and making it into a sacred amulet.
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In Thai folklore, Mae Nak died during childbirth while her husband Mak was away at war, and she became a Phi Tai Hong Thong Klom (a feared female spirit).
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The Thai film "Pee Mak" (based on the Mae Nak legend) became one of the highest-grossing films in Thai cinema history.
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The Mae Nak Phra Khanong legend originated in the Phra Khanong canal area of Bangkok in the mid-19th century (around the 1850s–1860s), during the reign of King Mongkut (Rama IV).
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Type 2 diabetes is often preventable.
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For a reversible Hamiltonian flow with reversor R, for any point x on a reversible orbit, the points x and R(x) are related by a conjugacy of the dynamics restricted to that orbit.
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The Bank of Russia is selling gold in exchange for Chinese yuan.
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The Bank of Russia is selling gold reserves to prevent the ruble from collapsing.
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The Bank of Russia has sold 28 tonnes of gold since the start of 2026.
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A 2020 publication authored by Kowalski and coauthors reported that adolescents often lack empathy and awareness of the harm caused by their online actions.
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Glow-in-the-dark luminous pearls store energy absorbed from sunlight, and their afterglow occurs because electrons trapped at lattice defects are slowly released and recombine, emitting light.
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China became a State Party to the Arms Trade Treaty in 2020.
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Electrical resistance in microbial fuel cell circuits can be analyzed using Ohm's law (V = I·R).
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Every semialgebraic function defined on the unit interval [0,1] is real analytic on [0,1] except possibly at finitely many points.
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Bulgaria has provided no direct military or financial support to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Studying or practicing Kabbalah causes people to become wealthier.
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Jeffrey Epstein worked for the Mossad.
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Peru is on track to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (gender equality).
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Chemists often refer to the color of an ion in aqueous solution (the ion plus its hydration shell) as "the color of the ion" for ease of communication, rather than explicitly saying "the color of the ion plus water."
HARDLY BS
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If a topological space X is second countable, then every open cover of X has a countable subcover (i.e., X is Lindelöf).
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