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{{did you know}} links talk edit	Consistometer measuring barbecue sauce ... that ketchup in the US must be measured with a consistometer (example pictured) to be graded? ... that the Mitsubishi G6M was intended to be a escort gunship, but is best known as one of the transport aircraft that carried the Japanese surrender delegation to Iejima? ... that John Boyer was forced to train his own guide dog because the training program could not support people who were both blind and deaf? ... that Computer Mah-jong Yakuman was Nintendo's first handheld with multiplayer gaming via a link cable, an innovation that would later be integral to the success of the Game Boy? ... that there could have been as many as five individual leaders of the Big Three in World War II? ... that, nearly 50 years after the formation of Carlos y José, their grandsons, also named Carlos and José, formed Carlos y José Jr.? ... that Seattle mayor Thomas J. Humes went missing for more than 30 hours in 1902? ... that the African thin mouse shrew may have diverged from its nearest relative due to glacial cycles? ... that the theme song to SpongeBob SquarePants was written by Stephen Hillenburg with the idea "to try to make the most annoying song you can"?
{{In the news}} links talk edit	Pope Francis Pope Francis (pictured) dies at the age of 88. Daniel Noboa is re-elected president of Ecuador. Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa dies at the age of 89. A nightclub roof collapse in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, kills 231 people. In basketball, the UConn Huskies win the NCAA Division I women's championship and the Florida Gators win the men's championship Ongoing: Gaza war M23 campaign Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Joe Thompson Kyren Lacy Aliza Magen-Halevi Tommy Helms Peter Seiffert Abel Rodríguez
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