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Current hooks
Obverse, Alabama Centennial half dollar
- ... that, with the issuance of the Alabama Centennial half dollar (pictured), Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby became the first living person to be depicted on a U.S. coin?
- ... that Secretariat won the 1973 Kentucky Derby with a time of 1:59+2⁄5 seconds and ran the last quarter mile in 23 seconds, both Derby records?
- ... that the pharmaceutical drug migalastat fights Fabry disease by correcting the way a mutated enzyme is folded?
- ... that Yiddish poet Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim began writing poetry to cheer up fellow inmates at the Kaiserwald concentration camp during World War II?
- ... that J. Keith Desormeaux decided to become a horse trainer instead of a veterinarian?
- ... that Mel Eslyn began working on film sets when she was 14 years old?
- ... that the activity of the bare-tailed woolly opossum is influenced by moonlight?