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Mount Melbourne

 ... that mosses grow on Mount Melbourne (pictured) in the cold Antarctic, thanks to volcanic

heat?
 ... that Turkey women's national footballer Berivan İçen scored 11 goals in a girls' under-13
league match that ended 15–0 for her team?
 ... that Wilson Cary Swann organized the construction of several drinking fountains in
Philadelphia, in part to stop people from drinking alcohol?
 ... that (523764) 2014 WC510 is a binary, trans-Neptunian object that orbits the Sun only once every
245.8 years?
 ... that Swiss civil engineer Jürg Conzett designed a footbridge that collapsed in
a rockslide after three years of use?
 ... that choreographer Jerome Robbins planned Dances at a Gathering as a pas de
deux for two New York City Ballet dancers, but expanded it to five couples?
 ... that the organ of St. Gallus in Flörsheim was built before the church?
 ... that photographer Heji Shin created Big Cocks, a series of portraits of roosters that she
admired for their "angry cock energy"?
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