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1. Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres is the

10th and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the first from this westernmost country in mainland Europe.

2. In 2017, for the first time in more than 70 years, this prison memoir was named a bestseller in Germany.

3. Last month, the 116th collection of these 535 Americans went back to work, if you want to call it that.

4. Feb. 5, according to the Chinese calendar, ended the Year of the Dog and began the year of this farmland creature.

5. Last weekend, for the first time since 1991, this southern city hosted the NBA All-Star Weekend festivities.

6. This five-part film franchise by Disney has made more than $4.5 billion worldwide, putting at 14th highest grossing film franchise worldwide, though it’s the first franchise to see one of its films gross more than $1 billion worldwide.

7. On Aug. 21, 2017, some 5.4 million American homes could’ve (but didn’t) lost power for two minutes and 40seconds as the continental US observed this astronomical phenomenon, in its entirety, for the first time since February 1979.