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Golden Mile Complex
- ... that the Golden Mile Complex (pictured), which was designed as an avant-garde building with a stepped terrace structure, was once described as a "vertical slum" by a Singapore Nominated Member of Parliament?
- ... that Singapore's Ee Hoe Hean Club, a century-old millionaires' club for Chinese businessmen, became a headquarters of an anti-Japanese movement in Southeast Asia from 1937-1942?
- ... that in her début at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Tao Li broke the Asian record for the 100m butterfly twice and became the first Singaporean swimmer to enter an Olympic final?
- ... that Farrer Park is where Singapore's first racecourse was built and the island's aviation history began?
- ... that at the age of 10, Megan Zheng became the first Singaporean to win a Golden Horse Award?
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