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Hooks

... that the U.S. military supported Top Gun: Maverick (director pictured), using it to aid recruitment and retention?
... that the artist Fang Rending was likened to a caged chicken after rebelling against his teacher?
... that "Hard Out Here" was written in parallel to Raye's departure from Polydor Records and confronts "white men CEOs"?
... that a Florida TV station received and aired tapes of programs it was not supposed to broadcast?
... that The London Milkman was staged?
... that Jill Yager discovered a venomous crustacean species in 1979 and named its class?
... that a Japanese male singer often sang in a female perspective?
... that until 1827 University of Oxford graduates had to swear never to reconcile with Henry Symeonis, although it appears that by the 1650s everyone had forgotten why, or who he was?