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• ...that the Tibetan Plateau (topography pictured) is known as the "roof of the world"?
• ...that in 1975 a freak Typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people?
• ...that the Buddhist scholar Jizang spent eleven years transcribing 2,000 copies of the Lotus Sutra by hand?

Source

1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/March#13 March 2004, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/November#30 November 2004, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/December#2 December 2006, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.