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...that Eagle Grange No. 1 (pictured) in Clinton Township, Lycoming County was the first grange to be established in Pennsylvania?
...that upon completion of Central Reclamation Phase 1 of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project in Hong Kong, the coastline of Central, Hong Kong was extended up to 350 metres beyond the original coastline?
...that Eugene Antonio Marino became the first African American Catholic archbishop in the United States in 1988?
...that Hungerford Market, a food market in London for nearly 200 years, was demolished in the 1860s to make way for Charing Cross railway station?
...that George B. Schwabe served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1921 to 1922 and was the first and only Republican to hold that position until 2005?
...that while undercover as a woman, Herbert Dyce Murphy was so convincing that he received a proposal from a French lieutenant?
...that Jaina Island, a Maya necropolis, contains over 20,000 burials, with every one excavated having one or more ceramic figurines (example pictured)?
...that the LST-1-class tank landing ship USS Benzie County was featured in a World War II-era Camel cigarettes advertisement?
...that the 1903 Vagabond Hurricane is the most recent Atlantic hurricane to strike the state of New Jersey, and briefly threatened the life of President Theodore Roosevelt?
...that large reredos above the altar in St. Martin's Church in Brighton, England, includes 20 pictures and 69 statues, all of which were carved in Oberammergau, Germany?
...that 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster case, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California schools?
...that architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building, in New York City, when it opened in 1929?
...that a sculpture of Jesus near Tiškevičiai Palace (pictured) in Palanga was torn down in 1948 and not reconstructed until 1993?
...that Al Sobotka, who drives the Zamboni for Detroit Red Wings games, is the namesake of the team mascot Al the Octopus?
...that naturalist Remington Kellogg used his time serving in France during World War I to collect specimens for universities in the United States?
...that archaeologists discovered bones of at least seven people sacrificed by druids in Havránok, Slovakia?
...that the Imperial Castle in Poznań was to be a symbol of Prussian power but was lost to Poland only eight years after its completion?
...that the Poznań 1956 protests (memorial pictured) were the first major demonstration against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland?
...that in five years of operation during World War II, more than 747 vessels were built in the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California—a feat not equaled anywhere else in the world, before or since?
...that Stylidium graminifolium was one of only four Stylidium species collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander in Botany Bay on their 1770 voyage with James Cook?
...that newly appointed Roman procurator Lucceius Albinus had not reached Judea when he learned that James the brother of Jesus had been stoned without Roman authorization?
...that the geology of Gloucestershire (Garden Cliff pictured) is one of the most diverse in England, with rocks from the Precambrian through to the Jurassic represented?
...that The Crystals did not actually sing on their 1962 #1 hit "He's a Rebel"?
...that Pectinaria australis, a marine ice cream cone worm of New Zealand, builds a delicate tube home from sand grains only one grain thick?
...that New York City's Central Park West Historic District contains only one building not felt to contribute to its historic character?
...that Brazilian bull rider Adriano Moraes is one of only three men to ride ten out of ten bulls at the U.S. National Finals Rodeo?
...that Ellis Bent was the first barrister appointed as a judge in Australia?
...that the fossil of Ichthyornis (pictured) discovered by Benjamin Franklin Mudge was the first bird recognized to possess teeth?
...that despite the relatively low level of academic output by Professor Gary Chaison, he is widely cited in the American mass media?
...that Le Quang Tung, the Catholic head of South Vietnam's special forces had his CIA funding threatened because he concentrated on repressing Buddhists and raiding temples instead of fighting communists?
...that press passes grant the bearer access to crime scenes or other restricted areas unless it would interfere with the duties of emergency personnel?
...that Innocence, a 2005 documentary film about a school in rural northern Thailand, influenced the Thai government to reverse cuts it had made in the education budget?
...that after Antoninus of Sorrento and Catellus of Castellammare both resigned from the same bishopric, Saint Michael appeared to tell them to found a new church?
...that Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invented what is now known as BASE jumping by parachuting from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in 1783 (jump illustrated), and also coined the word parachute?
...that bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński was one of the leaders of the Bar Confederation, the first Polish uprising?
...that Dr Brewer's A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar is a 19th century example of the persistence of the caloric theory of heat transfer?
...that poison, over its 6500-year history, has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination?
...that the Banat Bulgarian Stefan Dunjov participated in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification, and was the first Bulgarian to be promoted to the rank of Colonel?
...that Anuruddha, one of the leading five disciples of Gautama Buddha, was his cousin?
...that Tillamook Cheddar (pictured), a Jack Russell Terrier from Brooklyn, New York, is the world's most successful and widely shown animal artist?
...that Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets is believed to have been the first professional painter of Chechen origin ever?
...that the Gortyn code is the largest surviving piece of ancient Greek epigraphy?
...that aquarium filters are necessary to support life as aquaria are relatively small, closed volumes of water compared to the natural environment of most fish?
...that British architect Jan Kaplický escaped from Prague to London in the wake of the Prague Spring, carrying only US$100 and a few pairs of socks?
...that the cornerstone of moral syncretism is that religion cannot be the only arbiter of morality?
...that Chabad rabbi Milton Balkany misappropriated more than $700,000 of federal grant money from a charitable organisation that cared for disabled children?
...that, 23 years after explorer Charles Sturt found and named the Murray River, his brother Evelyn Sturt (pictured), a Police Magistrate and notable grazier, declared it absurd that the area would ever become agricultural?
...that the Australian cricket team's world record of 16 consecutive wins ended during its 2002 India tour, when India recorded only the third win in Test cricket history by a side forced to follow-on?
...that Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the oldest church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was originally built by a Universalist Society but soon acquired by a Catholic French Canadian congregation?
...that Adolfo Holley was the first Minister of War and Navy of the victorious revolutionary congressional junta in the Chilean Civil War?
...that Assaji, the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant, converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples?
...that the Woodward & Lothrop Service Warehouse in Washington, D.C. still features a large pink neon sign identifying it as a Woodward & Lothrop property, even though the company is defunct?
...that pattens (pictured) were wooden-soled overshoes worn from the 14th to 19th centuries to raise the wearer above mud and dirt?
...that Work, painted over 13 years from 1852 to 1865, is generally considered to be the most important painting by Ford Madox Brown?
...that the units of the Red Army and the Afghan army fought the Battles of Zhawar in 1985-86 to destroy a mujahideen supply base near the Pakistani border?
...that numerous common idioms feature one of the various slang meanings of 'dime'?
...that when Birmingham-based early-music choir Ex Cathedra founded its Baroque orchestra in its 1983–1984 season, this was the first period instrument orchestra to be established in an English city outside London?
...that Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam after a fraudulent 1955 election run by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, polling 133% of registered voters in Saigon?
...that Sara Gruen’s historical novel Water for Elephants recounts that circus workers were sometimes thrown off the circus train in the middle of the night, a practice known as "redlighting"?
...that the term reserve heads (pictured) found in Ancient Egyptian tombs is derived from the prevalent theory that they serve as an alternate home for the spirit of the dead owner should anything happen to the body?
...that an entire army had to retreat during the Cádiz Expedition of 1625 because almost all had become drunk on wine taken from a village they were raiding?
...that The Best Bet, a film by Singaporean gambling addict Jack Neo, was intended to warn people of the perils of gambling?
...that the July Theses, a set of proposals found in a speech by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, were inspired by his visits to Communist China, Korea and Vietnam?
...that a boycott of Juanes' song "La Camisa Negra" was organized after it was used by neo-fascists?
...that Squirrel Systems introduced the first touch screen point of sale terminal in 1984?
...that the mother of Jamila Massey, an Indian actress and writer, refused to allow her to attend drama school, after the death of her father?
...that the rare Pitkin Marsh lily is limited today to three small colonies, due to cattle overgrazing of its habitat (pictured) and the flower's popularity with humans?
...that bishop Barbatus of Benevento is thought to have helped the city's resistance to Byzantine Emperor Constans II by destroying a Temple of Isis in the city, reusing the materials in building the city wall?
...that Dumitru Dămăceanu was a Romanian Army officer prominent in the royal coup of 1944, and later was a signatory to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947?
...that the late-15th century Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, is one of the most famous works composed by Josquin des Prez?
...that the Brabham BT19 driven by Jack Brabham was the first car bearing its driver's name to win a Formula One world championship race?
...that during his tenure as India's cricket coach, Kapil Dev, broke down in a BBC interview about alleged match-fixing?
...that the California Wine Country (pictured) is known for its cuisine, recreation and history as much as viticulture?
...that Ajit Wadekar was the first Indian to represent the country as Test Cricket player, captain, coach/manager and Chairman of Selectors?
...that Alexander of Bergamo is thought to have survived the decimation of the Theban Legion for their conversion to Christianity only to be individually beheaded later for the same reason?
...that as part of a successful flattery campaign to persuade Ngo Dinh Diem's loyalist general Ton That Dinh to defect, his colleagues bribed his soothsayer to predict his elevation to political authority?
...that American Chabad Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin has been convicted of fraud twice?
...that British barrister Sir Tony Hetherington was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service after it was founded in 1986?
...that it is estimated that 40% of the Tamil and Malayalam Nadar caste are Christians?
...that the priest Leopold Moczygemba (pictured) was responsible for the founding of Panna Maria, Texas, the first Polish community in the United States?
...that the SS in Nazi Germany were above civilian law, answering only to the SS-run Hauptamt SS Gericht?
...that after his 1967 film Branded to Kill, contract director Seijun Suzuki was fired by the Nikkatsu Company for making films "that make no sense"?
...that retired LAPD homicide detective "Jigsaw John" St. John was posthumously reinstated to active duty after his death in 1995 so that he could be buried as a detective?
...that the Chronicle of Huru, a 19th century forgery advancing Moldavia's independence, claimed that a Moldavian federal republic emerged from the Roman province of Dacia in 274?
...that Patacara, who became a Buddhist while disconsolately wandering naked through the Indian city of Savatthi, rose to become the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in her mastery of the Vinaya?
...that the 16th-century Castillo de la Real Fuerza in Havana is the oldest stone fortress in the Americas?
...that Kupa Synagogue (pictured) in Kraków features paintings of people standing by the rivers of Babylon, which is unusual since the use of the human figure in Jewish religious art is rare?
...that German textile artist Gunta Stölzl was the only female "master" of the Bauhaus?
...that Liu Heita was a Xia general during China's transition period from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century?
...that Ngo Dinh Can, brother and confidant of South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem, was believed to have organised black market smuggling into North Vietnam?
...that the 800,000-member Global Pastors Network continues the legacy of Bill Bright by attempting to, in their own words, "win 1 billion people to Christ"?
...that French pirate Jacques de Sores, who captured Havana in 1555, went by the nickname of "The Exterminating Angel"?
...that the taekwondo form Ko-Dang was named after Korean nationalist Cho Man-sik, imprisoned and executed for his opposition to Kim Il-sung's communists?
...that giant diffuse galaxies, located in the centre of galaxy clusters (100x100px|pictured), often possess a halo of devoured star matter extending as far out as 3 million light years?
...that the fruits of Matico (Piper aduncum) are used as a condiment, for flavoring cocoa, and its leaves are used as an antiseptic, to stop hemorrhage, and to treat infections?
...that Greek composer Phivos has written songs for artists including Keti Garbi, Angela Dimitriou, Manto, Thanos Kalliris, and, most successfully, Despina Vandi?
...that the graphic novel The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers combines Kolkata's Babu culture and the legend of The Wandering Jew?
...that the television series ER aired an episode based on the 2003 Chicago balcony collapse?
...that Clarenceux King of Arms Stephen Leake appointed his thirteen year old son Chester Herald in 1752?
...that Clare Winger Harris was the first woman to publish short stories under her own name in science fiction magazines?
...that Dyrehaven, a forest park outside Copenhagen, has 15 entrances, all with characteristic red gates (pictured)?
...that Phoebe Hessel, who masqueraded as a man for 17 years to fight in the British Army alongside her husband, is buried in the churchyard at St. Nicholas Church, Brighton, England?
...that when Indrajit Gupta, a Communist, became India's Union Minister for Home Affairs in 1996, he became head of a ministry 'which once policed the Commies'?
...that Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion (Lev) ornament or sculpture?
...that the synagogue at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna was heavily devastated during the Kristallnacht in 1938 and converted into a transformer station after the war?
...that John Aloysius Ward, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff from 1983, took early retirement in 2001, after the later years of his ministry were overshadowed by cases of sexual misconduct by priests in his archdiocese?
...that Jack Iverson developed his unique "bent finger" bowling action (pictured) while experimenting during recreational cricket while serving in Papua New Guinea during World War II?
...that Conservatory Water in Central Park, New York City, shelters a seasonal population of the unusual freshwater medusa Craspedacusta sowerbyi?
...that Monisha, a South Indian cinema actress, was only 15 years old when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her debut performance in Nakhashathangal?
...that the U.S. Navy tank landing ship USS Orange County was decommissioned in August 1945, less than five months after entering service, but recommissioned four years later for the Korean War?
...that Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school?
...that the daisy-like Flannel flower (pictured) is actually a member of the carrot family?
...that Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then Federal Republic of Central America?
...that Stoic philosophy contrasts kathekonta, actions in accordance with nature, with "perfect actions" (katorthomata) derived from pure reason?
...that Alpamysh, an ancient Turkic epic or dastan, is one of the foremost examples of the Turkic oral literature of Central Asia?
...that the de Bruijn notation and the de Bruijn index are mathematical notations invented by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn for use in λ calculus?
...that Ranji Hordern took 34 out of 51 wickets (66%) in three matches for the Philadelphians in their 1909 tour of Jamaica?
...that Battery Chamberlin contains the last disappearing gun (pictured) on the West Coast of the United States?
...that the Red Forest, near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, gets its name from the eerie red glow of the pine trees, after absorbing radiation from the Chernobyl accident?
...that the site of Spains Hall, an Elizabethan house near Finchingfield in Essex, has been owned by only three families since the Domesday Book was complied in 1086?
...that the relics of Sariputra and Mahamoggallana, Gautama Buddha's two chief disciples, were the subject of more than two million Sri Lankan pilgrimage visits after their discovery by Sir Alexander Cunningham?
...that the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction, the first criminal court in Australia under British rule, operated more like a court-martial than a court of law?
...that Jan du Plessis, Chairman of British American Tobacco's board of directors, was named the tenth most powerful person in British business by The Times in 2006?
...that the BBC recorded live performances of Hancock's Half Hour, The Goon Show and Steptoe and Son at the Playhouse Theatre (pictured) in London?
...that the 1860 Republican and 1864 Democratic national conventions were held at the Wigwam, a building built in just over a month?
...that Lor Tok, a Thai comedian and actor, had roles in more than 1,000 films from the 1930s to the 1980s?
..that Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona was set at Rancho Camulos in Piru, California?
...that German physicist Max von Laue wrote Acta Crystallographica, which dealt with the absorption of x-rays under interference conditions, while in French military incarceration in 1945?
...that William Ansah Sessarakoo, the "Prince of Annamaboe", became a celebrity in mid-18th century London after he was released from slavery, and was compared to Aphra Behn's fictional Oroonoko?
...that the complex flavor of hoja santa (pictured) has been variously compared to eucalyptus, licorice, sassafras, anise, nutmeg, mint, tarragon and black pepper?
...that Burning Bright by John Steinbeck was an attempt at a new form of literature, the "play-novelette"— but both the play and novel were savaged by the critics and Steinbeck never wrote for the theatre again?
...that while the center of gravity for a set of points is located at the spot from which the sum of the squares of distances to all the points is minimized, the geometric median is the spot from which the sum of distances is minimized?
...that although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?
...that Flocabulary is an educational New York City-based project that uses hip hop music to teach SAT-level vocabulary?
...that the Althing of Iceland confirmed Thorlac Thornalli as a saint over 700 years before the Catholic Church did?
...that the Tyska kyrkan (pictured) in Stockholm, Sweden, is situated in the oldest German ecclesiastical parish outside Germany?
...that Joseph Monier was one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete?
...that Koreans in Vietnam form that country's second-largest group of expatriates after the Taiwanese?
...that South African mining magnate Sir Lionel Phillips survived being shot five times in an assassination attempt?
...that when Archie Goodall scored for Northern Ireland in their 9–1 loss to Scotland, he became the oldest footballer to score an international goal in the 19th century?
...that Kosambi, a city in ancient India which was a frequent site of sermons by the Buddha was one of the places considered suitable for his Parinibbāna?
...that the cappuccio (pictured), a type of headgear worn by men and women in 15th century Florence, was typically made by tailors instead of hatmakers?
...that Desmarest's Hutia has the most complex stomach of any rodent?
...that Richard de Southchurch, Sheriff of Essex, planned to attack London with burning cocks?
...that Rush Limbaugh was a U.S. ambassador to India?
...that the Tempest Prognosticator employs a jury of twelve leeches that use small hammers to ring a bell to indicate the approach of a storm?
...that Serge Voronoff's surgical technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue onto human males has some modern supporters?
...that the cappuccio (pictured), a type of headgear worn by men and women in 15th century Florence, was typically made by tailors instead of hatmakers?
...that Desmarest's Hutia has the most complex stomach of any rodent?
...that the Alameda Works Shipyard in Alameda, California, was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States?
...that Ananthabhadram, a film by Indian director Santhosh Sivan, was inspired by classical Kathakali dancing and paintings of Raja Ravi Varma?
...that the California Condor, Mauritius Kestrel and Kakapo were all saved from extinction using modern bird conservation techniques?
...that German settlement in Bulgaria dates back to the 13th–14th century?
...that Mahmoud el-Meliguy, an Egyptian actor famed for his villain film roles, was nicknamed "Marlon Brando of the East"?
...that the Royal Fort (pictured) in Bristol was built with façades in Baroque, Palladian and Rococo styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects?
...that the French Military Mission to Japan played a key role in the establishment of the nascent Imperial Japanese Army?
...that a power struggle between Thomas Benolt and Thomas Wriothesley in 1530 almost brought an end to the College of Arms?
...that in 2002, 72% of Swiss voters voted in favour of making abortion in Switzerland legal on demand in the first trimester of a pregnancy?
...that on April 29, 1899, trade unionists in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho killed two men by steering an explosives-laden train to the site of a mill, in order to protest the firing of fellow union members?
...that the British Member of Parliament Dr Donald Johnson was interested by the connotations of the Macmillan government's 69-vote win over the Profumo sex scandal?
...that Hersey Kyota has represented Palau at the United Nations Millennium Summit, even though he is not Palau's ambassador to the U.N.?
...that the Coenocorypha snipes (pictured alongside a Godwit) once ranged from New Caledonia and Fiji to New Zealand but are now restricted to New Zealand's outlying islands?
...that Aristotle's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy, arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air?
...that by tradition, military leaders participating in military simulations will often do so anonymously?
...that Sir John Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Essex for 20 years, was the first Pro-Chancellor of Essex University?
...that the gang-rape and murder of Sarathambal in 1999 became an internationally known incident of the Sri Lankan civil war?
...that Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark?
...that the status of the Northern Group of Forces, the Soviet Army unit stationed in Poland from 1945 to 1993, was formally regulated by Soviet-Polish treaty only in 1956?
...that competitions for the design of José Martí Memorial (pictured) in Havana, Cuba started in 1939, but the design that was finally constructed in 1953 was a variation on a design that had come in third in the fourth competition?
...that on March 21, 1943, Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff tried to kill Adolf Hitler in a suicide attack in Berlin, but failed because Hitler left earlier than expected?
...that Francis Barber was born a slave in Jamaica and was the manservant for over 30 years, and finally the heir, of Dr. Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame?
...that "O Meu Coração Não Tem Cor" was the most successful Portuguese Eurovision entry to date, but was ironically followed by the country's worst result since the Carnation Revolution?
...that there are significant breeding populations of 35 mammalian species in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, out of which 15 are threatened mammals according to the IUCN Red List?
...that the Goulburn Valley region of Australia is home to the oldest and largest plantings of the little used Marsanne grape variety?
...that G. S. Shivarudrappa is only the third person to be named "poet of the nation" by the Government of Karnataka?
...that the Piner Creek watershed is home to a historic round barn (pictured), one of the early architectural features of Sonoma County, California?
...that the British colonial Administrator Sir Robert Codrington was influential in establishing British colonial government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and making them different in character from white-settler-led Southern Rhodesia?
...that rhymed prose has been popular in various cultures, ranging from medieval Arabic maqamat to modern rap?
...that Polish general Józef Zając held military decorations from Poland, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the short-lived state of Central Lithuania?
...that a 1968 court challenge to the right of Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, born "Elizabeth", to inherit his family baronetcy rested on the question of his gender?
...that Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India?
...that Brigadier-General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the UK's Royal Air Force, and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II?
...that the passing of the Great Comet of 1577 (pictured) caused almost century-long debate, during which Galileo argued that comets were merely optical illusions?
...that Cesar Picton, who was enslaved aged six in Senegal, died in England as a wealthy coal-merchant?
...that, according to human rights organizations, Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev has been beaten, received death threats and had his father kidnapped due to his criticism of the government?
...that three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1, killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more?
...that during the Battle of Jarosław in 1939 the Polish Army defended the town for two days before retreating in good order?
...that in the 1850s Arnold Guyot measured the elevation of Old Black in the Great Smoky Mountains to within 3 feet (1 m) of the modern value?
...that Sir David Robertson initially agreed to mind the constituency of another British parliamentarian who was interned during the Second World War?
...that Eremitage Palace (pictured) originally had a hoisting apparatus able to lift the dinner table from the basement to the dining room, allowing Christian VI of Denmark to dine without any waiters present?
...that Lil' Pimp was the first feature-length film to be created entirely with Macromedia Flash animation?
...that Javad Malik-Yeganov was exiled to Karelia following the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on suspicion of being a member of Musavat?
...that in 2005 the then 28-year-old Murat Yusuf became the youngest ever Mufti of Romania?
...that Mao Anqing, the last known surviving son of Mao Zedong, suffered from a mental illness often attributed to a severe beating received from a policeman while living on the streets in Shanghai in the 1930s?
...that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?
...that Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II?
...that the world's tallest statue of Hindu God Lord Shiva (pictured) is located in Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India?
...that Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli was once thought to have been composed to convince the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music from the Catholic Church?
...that New Black Panther activist Quanell X is featured in some of Scarface's early rap videos?
...that the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the Church of St. Paul, Brighton, England, commissioned stained glass windows of his mother, father and aunt for the church?
...that the Romney Expedition, led by Stonewall Jackson, cleared Union forces from the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges during the early part of the American Civil War?
...that after the Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese, he was outraged by the triviality of his fine?
...that English herald Thomas Hawley's (pictured) records contain the first preserved account of a heraldic visitation?
...that, during the Great Depression, the Romanian politician Grigore Iunian proposed devaluing the leu as a means to curb peasant insolvency?
...that the 3rd Earl of Radnor, wanting the borough of Downton to be free from his own influence, successfully pushed for its complete disenfranchisement?
...that Crveni Krst, a neigborhood of Belgrade, Serbia, was built around the alleged burial site of Saint Sava?
...that it was discovered that about 10,000 Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri Cemetery, Ankara, Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam?
...that Oscar Kiss Maerth asserted in his 1971 book The Beginning Was the End that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes?
...that the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Fiske (pictured) was torpedoed and sunk in 1944 by the German submarine she was hunting?
...that Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Gottingen?
...that the Hilary Duff song "Haters" is rumored to be directed at actress Lindsay Lohan?
...that the term Rashtrapati, the native word in India to refer the nation's President, was first suggested by the Kannada poet, scholar T.N. Srikantaiah?
...that the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California, was home to the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps?
...that Icelandic tenor Garðar Thór Cortes was voted sexiest man in Iceland twice in one year in separate polls?
...that Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House (detail pictured) on fire during the burning of Columbia in 1865?
...that Hakim Habibur Rahman, a Unani physician, collected all the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala?
...that for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, but later proven to be split from water molecules instead?
...that lobbying by the International Seamen's Union led to the abolition of the practice of imprisoning seamen who deserted their ship in the United States in 1915?
...that Elli Perkins, having refused psychiatric care for her schizophrenic son because of Scientology beliefs, was murdered by him?
...that an infinite geometric series with a common ratio of 1/4 (pictured) was used by Archimedes in 250-200 BC to find the area enclosed by a parabola?
...that because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada, the Riverside Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers?
...that on March 23 a Transaviaexport Cargo Airline Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft delivering humanitarian aid was shot down in Somalia?
...that Albert Blaustein was a consultant on the national constitutions for over 14 countries and helped found the United States' Law Day?
...that Seaport Centre, a large biotechnology research complex, was developed over old salt evaporation ponds?
...that reopening of the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (pictured) in 2005 marked a major improvement of Polish-Ukrainian relations?
...that Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique?
...that author Dean Koontz reportedly was so unsatisfied with the film version of his novel Hideaway that he attempted to have his name removed from the credits?
...that the extinct species of Edaphodon, a type of rabbitfish related to the shark, grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now?
...that the Russian Communist Varvara Yakovleva was a member of the board of the Secret Police and led food inspections that requisitioned food as a punitive measure?
...that Richmond Herald, Lawrence Dalton, embezzled tabards from the Royal Household in 1547?
...that the dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization is characterized as the most adjudicative mechanism in the world?
...that when the English actress Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (pictured) took over the Olympic Theatre in 1830, she became the first ever female actor-manager in the history of London theatre?
...that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally intervened to make sure the new post office in Ellenville, New York was built of stone instead of brick after residents complained to him via telegram?
...that the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a diplomat in Paris, Rome, and Istanbul?
...that The Torrent was the first American film starring the Swedish actress Greta Garbo?
...that during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, a secret synod of Ukrainian bishops in Pochaiv Lavra created the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church, canonically linked to the Moscow Patriarchate?
...that a forehead lift is a procedure used in plastic surgery to remove the deep "worry" lines that run across the forehead?
...that the Macal River (pictured) drains classic Mayan settlements and controls the flood stage of Belize's largest river?
...that the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
...that Cochiti Dam in New Mexico is one of the ten largest dams in the United States, the 23rd largest in the world, and the eleventh largest earthen dam worldwide?
...that the South African physician Abdullah Abdurahman became Cape Town's first coloured city councillor in 1904?
...that the newly-named Oryctodromeus, a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first dinosaur described as making burrows?
...that Bennett Valley (pictured) is one of the newest additions to the list of American Viticulture Areas?
...that professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005?
...that adjuvants are sometimes used to modify the effects that a vaccine has on disease resistance by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine with much more vitality?
...that Jiri Dudacek, the first Czechoslovak ice hockey player to be selected in the first round of the National Hockey League draft, never left Czechoslovakia due to the protests of the country's sports minister?
...that the commands to fire the first Allied shots in World War One and the first Australian shots in World War Two came from Fort Queenscliff (pictured), Australia?
...that the foreign minister of Turkmenistan Batyr Berdiyev was dismissed for poor knowledge of the native language Turkmen, before being arrested and convicted for his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Saparmurat Niyazov?
...that Lophostropheus from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary?
...that the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra, is similar in form to the Analects of Confucius?
...that the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Menges (pictured) was hit by an acoustic torpedo in 1944, destroying the aft third of the ship, but remained afloat?
...that Varvara Yakovleva, a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church, was canonized as a martyr after she was killed with her former mistress, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna?
...that the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, is the third largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
...that Steve Fossett's Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft had a fuel fraction of nearly 85 percent, meaning it carried more than five times its weight in fuel?
...that Eilley Bowers (pictured) is one of the most researched, written and talked about women in Nevada history?
...that during World War II the British military successfully airdropped homing pigeons into German-occupied France so that they might carry the locals' intelligence reports back to England?
...that England cricket captain Tony Greig said that England would make the West Indies "grovel" on their tour to England in 1976, but went on to lose 6 of the 8 matches?
...that Shaul Shimon Deutsch left the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement to set up his own Hasidic court in 1995 and curates a museum of Biblical archaeology in Brooklyn, New York?
...that following the anti-Chinese Seattle riot of 1886 Congress paid $276,619.15 to the Chinese government in compensation, but the victims received nothing?
...that the Augustów Canal in north-eastern Poland (pictured) was built in order to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea?
...that the streak of a mineral, the color of the mark it makes when rubbed on a plate, is usually a more consistent identifier than the color of the original mineral?
...that Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi became the youngest person to scale the Seven Summits when he ascended Mt. Everest in 1999 at the age of 25?
...that Rush Limbaugh guest-hosted the short-lived The Pat Sajak Show in 1990 and caused such an uproar with his controversial comments that the audience had to be removed from the studio?
...that the prehistoric badger genus Chamitataxus lived during the Late Miocene and is considered the most primitive badger genus in North America?
...that traveling evangelist Tom Short (pictured) once matched wits with the Cult Awareness Network?
...that Justus of Beauvais, a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?
...that The Dove, an American film released in 1974, is based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham, a 16-year-old who spent five years sailing around the world alone?
...that when the English programmer Pete Shaw was still a teen, he had already written eleven technical computer books, published around the world in several languages?
...that Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka came to power in Ghana through a military coup d'état in 1966, only to be deposed and killed in a further coup fourteen months later?
...that the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, which was founded in 1570 under the auspices of Charles IX of France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville, was the first academy in France?
...that when Arno's Court Triumphal Arch (pictured) was built in 1760, it incorporated statues from the Bristol city gates which were being demolished at the time?
...that Canadian ice hockey referee and organizer Fred Waghorne was the first to use a whistle to stop game play rather than the customary cowbell, when disruptive fans started bringing their own cowbells?
...that the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plants complex in Slovakia became the first Soviet-era nuclear plant in Eastern Europe to have safety standards comparable to Western ones?
...that Kenneth Branagh had his earliest theatre appearances with Progress Theatre, including one minor role of "second policeman"?
...that The Kinship of the Three is the earliest book on theoretical alchemy in China and is the earliest source to have mentioned the compositions necessary to create gunpowder?
...that the International Society for Science and Religion was founded by two winners of the Templeton Prize?
...that medieval cannon (pictured) were first used by the English during the Hundred Years War at the Battle of Crécy?
...that English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts over the course of his lifetime?
...that the plant Erigenia bulbosa is known as "harbinger of spring" because it is one of the first plants to bloom in the hardwood forests of eastern North America each year?
...that Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?
...that The Irish Famine debunks myths about the Irish Potato Famine, including one claiming that the country remained a net exporter of food during the famine?
...that, at a congress in May 1921, all Socialist Party of Romania delegates who supported Bolshevik guidelines were arrested 24 hours after a vote on affiliation to the Comintern?
...that 1971's Out of the Darkness was the first Thai science fiction film?
...that the American merchant William Conner (pictured) helped maintain the Delaware's loyalty during the War of 1812 and identified the body of Tecumseh following the Battle of the Thames?
...that 1939's Indramalati, directed by the Assam poet Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, was the second ever Assamese language film?
...that confusing orders prevented most Polish forces from taking part in the Battle of Wilno or Vilnius in 1939?
...that the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have restored Indiana's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-20th-century level?
...that on July 1, 1940, Romanian military units attacked a Jewish funeral in the town of Dorohoi killing 53 according to official, between 165 and 200 according to Jewish sources?
...that 18th-century operatic star Anna Maria Strada was known as "the Pig" on account of her ugliness?
...that a promotional video by the band The Bastard Fairies was described as "child abuse" on the talk show The O'Reilly Factor?
...that the Palanga Amber Museum (pictured) in Lithuania holds a collection of about 28,000 items of amber, including about 15,000 pieces that contain insects, spiders, and plants?
...that over 53,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II?
...that Singaporean citizenship was first granted in 1957 when Singapore was a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom?
...that the steel strike of 1959 led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history?
...that in the 2001 Grand National, only two horses managed to complete the whole course without stopping?
...that Canadian scientist Bill Mathews was a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America?
...the Huguenot Hubert Le Sueur cast the giant equestrian sculpture of Charles I in Charing Cross, London in 1633?
...that Wheeling Creek (pictured) in West Virginia flows into the Ohio River a short distance downstream of a different Wheeling Creek in Ohio, on the opposite bank?
...that Yoshiaki Yamashita, a pioneer of judo in the United States, was the first person to have been awarded 10-dan grading in Kodokan judo?
...that the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus, founded in Australia in 1990, was the first organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere?
...that Blackadder II, the first series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, contains many tongue-in-cheek references to the plays of William Shakespeare?
...that the opening sequence to the 1983 Thai film, Gunman was shot by the director, Chatrichalerm Yukol, while riding on the back of a motorcycle?
...that because of its system of ravines, Toronto has been described as "San Francisco turned upside down"?
...that the Russian architect Afanasy Grigoriev is best known for his refined Empire style mansions in Moscow (Khrushyov House pictured)?
...that the Roman Catholic Church objected to the English translations in the Tyndale Bible, believing them to be purposeful mistranslations to promote anticlericalism and heretical views?
...that the Texas State University labor historian Gregg Andrews is also a folk musician performing under the name "Doctor G"?
...that Irish poet John Keegan Casey was released from prison on the condition he leave for Australia, but instead he stayed in Dublin in disguise?
...that Norwegian-born merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader in the United States?
...that, thanks to a secret radio nicknamed the 'Old Lady' (pictured), POWs at Batu Lintang camp in Borneo knew about the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II before most of their guards?
...that Dimitrie Gerota, who is considered to be Romania's first radiologist, was forced to abandon this field after his hand had to be amputated as a result of radiodermatitis?
...that the retired United States Air Force lieutenant general Nicholas Kehoe became the President and CEO of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in 2003 after 34 years of military service?
...that the Alexander Suvorov cruise ship stayed afloat despite its crash into a girder of Ulyanovsk railway bridge that lead to 177 deaths, and is still in working order today?
...that a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
..that the Grotto at Goldney House (pictured), Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with over 200 species of shell brought back from the Caribbean and African waters?
...that the Balık sisters from Turkey are the only identical twins singing opera?
...that the 1935 film Joymati, produced and directed by the noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala, was the first-ever Assamese language film?
...that during the territorial history of Mexico, five states declared independence, though all but Texas returned to Mexico?
...that in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the love between Acis and Galatea ended when a jealous suitor named Polyphemus killed Acis with a boulder?
...that the U.S. Navy repair ship USS Mindanao (pictured) was severely damaged and almost a third of her crew killed or injured when the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood blew up nearby in Seeadler Harbor in 1944?
...that Jamaican actress and singer Amru Sani appeared on the same 1956 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show as Elvis Presley?
...that Carla Thorneycroft married Conservative Party politician Peter Thorneycroft in 1949, after their respective first marriages had both been dissolved and almost 20 years after the two were first engaged?
...that Indian copper plate inscriptions play an important role in the reconstruction of India's elusive history?
...that plants in the genus Gillenia (Gillenia trifoliata pictured) are often planted as ornamentals and used as a herbal remedy?
...that the first railway locomotive in China was in service for only 15 months between 1876 and 1877 before being purchased and deliberately destroyed by the ruling Qing Dynasty?
...that the Presidential Palace in Kaunas was used as a movie theater during the Soviet rule of Lithuania?
...that the eyespots of green algae and euglenids are the simplest and most common "eyes" found in nature?
...that Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia claimed to have a tumor to hide the fact she was pregnant with the illegitimate child of her lover?
...that Operation Queen was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the western front between Aachen and the Rur river in November 1944?
...that USS Luzon (pictured) was an internal combustion engine repair ship, named after the Island of Luzon, the chief island in the northern Philippines?
...that according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?
...that, in mythology, iron is often associated with blood, or used as a protective or lucky charm?
...that Yogesh K. Gandhi and his Gandhi Memorial International Foundation were investigated by the United States Senate and Department of Justice for contributions to the Democratic National Committee?
...that Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980 film Zigeunerweisen across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese Academy Awards?
...that United States Marine Sergeant Aubrey McDade (pictured) was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Iraq in 2004?
...that the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?
...that Edward Alleyn had to form a partnership with twelve others to meet the £1,000 cost to rebuild the Fortune Playhouse in London after it burned down in 1621?
...that Sir Norman Hulbert claimed that That Was The Week That Was infringed Parliamentary privilege in 1963 when it named 13 MPs who had not spoken in the chamber of the House of Commons since they were elected in 1959?
...that the musical Foxy was a total flop in Dawson City in 1962, costing its producers their $400,000 investment, but was revived on Broadway in 1964?
...that Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (Parijs van Java) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street?
...that the pocket billiards game cribbage (balls pictured), named after the card game, allows 134,120,448,000 possible racking configurations?
...that Chester Wilmot, the Australian War correspondent and military historian of the Second World War, was killed in an air crash in 1954?
...that Ashoka's Major Rock Edict was the first and most impressive of Ashoka's edits, and is the only one remaining unaltered in its original location?
...that the Percival Petrel, a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage, was used as British communications aircraft in World War II?
...that more than six thousand Japanese people settled in North Korea voluntarily in the 1960s, accompanying ethnic Korean spouses returning under a repatriation campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean governments?
...that in 1977 United States President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech containing the local Geordie phrase "Ha'way-tha-lads!" at Newcastle Civic Centre (pictured), a civic centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England?
...that Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children?
...that TIME magazine's Gerald Loeb Award-winning article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" highlights the suicide of Noah Lottick?
...that, after a heavy bomb raid on the city of Heilbronn, raining fragments of the blast were lodged in cattle in the surrounding countryside, and that this meant days of slaughtering for veterinarians?
...that World Vision, an international charity organization, have developed various famine events that spread across the globe, notably the 30 Hour Famine?

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