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NGC 1700

... that the galaxy NGC 1700 (pictured) has a rotating hot gas disk glowing in X-rays after merging with another galaxy three billion years ago?
... that coach Ed Storm, after seeing his American football team losing late in a game, put on a uniform, entered the game, and made the game-winning score?
... that the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut did not become popular in France until after it was banned for immorality?
... that it took 12 and a half hours for Rashid Israr to reach his highest score in cricket?
... that the American play His Majesty Bunker Bean was a national hit that had "been seen by most of the country east of the Mississippi River" before it reached Broadway?
... that singer Andrew Cushin used to play as a goalkeeper in Newcastle Benfield F.C.'s youth team?
... that a model prototype of the Helmover torpedo went out of control while under test and struck a motor launch?
... that Bradley Smalley, the political boss of the Vermont Democratic Party, once received the Republican nomination for alderman?
... that Comorian football club Djabal Club d'Iconi were deducted two points in the 2023–24 season after a player was found guilty of witchcraft?