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...that both the number and magnitude of foreshocks and aftershocks of the 1969 Yangjiang earthquake were unusually small, considering the size of the mainshock?
...that during the Sino-Xiongnu War, the Han empire attempted alliance with a people whose king's skull the Xiongnu had made into a drinking cup?
...that the Tholing monastery (pictured) of the Purang-Guge kingdom was built by Yeshe-Ö, the first notable lama-king in Tibet?

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