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Fig. 1: Distribution of inclinations for all galaxies to be MONDian.
Fig. 2: The largest outlier in Table 1.

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I.B. and A.H.Z. are Alexander von Humboldt Fellows. H.H. is a DAAD visiting scholar. B.J. and J.D. are grateful for the hospitality of the SPODYR group in Bonn and of the AIfA, where this work was done. O.M. thanks the Swiss National Science Foundation for financial support. X.W. acknowledges support from the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 11503025 and 11421303), the Anhui Natural Science Foundation (grant number 1708085MA20), the Hundred Talents Project of Anhui Province and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. We thank the DAAD-Ostpartnerschaftsprogramm für 2018 at the University of Bonn for funding exchange visits between Charles University in Prague and Bonn University.

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P.K. devised and wrote the manuscript and I.B. devised the selection criteria. A.H.Z. and H.H. calculated the rotation curve models. X.W. and H.Z. contributed MOND expertise. O.M., B.J. and J.D. contributed observational expertise on galaxies. All co-authors significantly contributed through comments and passages.

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Kroupa, P., Banik, I., Haghi, H. et al. A common Milgromian acceleration scale in nature. Nat Astron 2, 925–926 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0622-x

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