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"Kowloon" means "nine dragons": eight mountains and the last emperor of the Song dynasty.

In fairness, katabatic winds are caused by gravity.

Corvette Summer is a perfectly acceptable Teenager In Over His Head movie, and it also has Annie Potts.

Dixie Carter got zero nominations for Designing Women, y'all. Zee. Roe. Its only Emmy win was for Best Hairstyling.

Oh hey, here's another podcast to listen to: How LearnedLeague founder Thorsten A. Integrity writes trivia questions. (slate.com)

The Tour de France does use cumulative-time scoring, but the 2020 winner "only" took about 87 hours.

George is the grandson of a furrier, but had neither opportunity nor inkling to enter the family business.

Isamu Akasaki (who died earlier this year), Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".

Also, Digimon is a Tamagotchi knockoff, with the addition of inter-device combat. It was invented and marketed as the "boys'" version of Tamagotchi.

It stands for "Confederation Of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football". Points off for using the O from "of".