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• ...that J.M. Legard's 2006 novel Giraffe is based on the real-life mass killing of giraffes at the zoo in the Czechoslovakian town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 30 April 1975?
• ...that the first edition of Patience and Sarah, winner of the 1971 Stonewall Book Award, was self-published and all copies sold by the author after six publishers rejected it for not being marketable?
• ...that several universities now offer courses on the politics of Harry Potter?

Source

1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/February#11 February 2007, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/August#22 August 2007, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/August#22 August 2007, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.