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Mamiko Tanaka

... that Shohei Ohtani married "a normal Japanese woman" (pictured) who used to play professional basketball?
... that the color of a black-headed tailorbird's throat was thought to depend on sex, but later turned out to depend on age?
... that John Morin Scott, the mayor of Philadelphia, responded to the 1842 Lombard Street riot by mostly arresting black victims?
... that a 17th-century male-authored book was adapted to argue in favor of women's superiority?
... that Bill Shearer, a leader of the segregationist George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign, also advocated for ballot access for the Socialist Workers Party?
... that in many works of fiction, the asteroid belt is the remnants of a destroyed planet?
... that the celebrity doctor Nandipha Magudumana was imprisoned and investigated for twelve crimes, including murder connected to a fugitive's prison escape?
... that the release of the EP Spitfire crashed the servers of the online music store Beatport?
... that the discovery of Descartes' theorem in geometry came from a too-difficult mathematics problem posed to a princess?