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  On April 28, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Environmental stress cracking, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Image copyright problem with Image:Paintweatheringsample.JPG edit

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Image copyright problem with Image:Pigmentweathering.JPG edit

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Image:QUV_crosssection.JPG listed for deletion edit

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