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 * ...that because of its unique geology, a 230 hectare area of Rosthwaite Fell (pictured) in Cumbria, England was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1985?
 * ...that Michael Groce indirectly started the Brixton riot of 1985?
 * ...that Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?
 * ...that the pigment responsible for the colour of the bright green Parrot Toadstool is not chlorophyll as it is a fungus?
 * ...that the finds at the village of Gnezdovo near Smolensk include an early folding razor, the first pivoted scissors found in Eastern Europe, and the earliest inscription in the Old Russian language?
 * ...that the self-taught weapon designer Aimo Lahti designed over 50 weapons of all types prior to and during World War II, including the successful Suomi M-31?
 * ...that the barrel vault (pictured) was developed chiefly by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but endured to be a mainstay of medieval and even modern architecture?
 * ...that "On Again...Off Again" features influences from both dance music and opera, the only time that such a combination has appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest?
 * ...that Sarskoye Gorodishche near Rostov has been interpreted either as a Varangian outpost on the Volga trade route or the capital of the Finnic Merya?
 * ...that the primary disposal method for human feces in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, is the unsanitary flying toilet?
 * ...that the painting The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew (pictured), owned by Queen Elizabeth II, has recently been verified as an authentic Caravaggio, and not a relatively worthless copy?
 * ...that while visiting Mödlareuth in 1983, then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush alluded to John F. Kennedy's statement "Ich bin ein Berliner" by exclaiming, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!".
 * ...that the site of the early Viking hill fort of Alaborg, Russia, was turned into a quarry for construction of a highway during the years of Stalinism?
 * ...that the Chubb detector lock was developed in 1818 in a competition sponsored by the British Government to create an unpickable lock and remained unpicked until 1851?
 * ... that since 1994, the mural arts program of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network has created more than 2,500 murals (pictured) across Philadelphia?
 * ...that at least 3,000 Vendel Age burial mounds in Grobin, Latvia indicate the existence of a prosperous Viking colony there?
 * ...that the Malay Agenda is one half of the Malaysian social contract, pertaining to the special status of Malays in Malaysia?
 * ...that the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 entry "Desire" was the first Maltese Eurovision entry in 28 years to have Maltese lyrics?
 * ...that the summit of Ben More Assynt (pictured) is the highest point in the Scottish county of Sutherland?
 * ...that the 1592 book Nine Worthies of London charted the rise of nine tradesmen and apprentices to the nobility?
 * ... that the Tatarbunary Uprising in Budjak, Bessarabia was led by a pro-Soviet revolutionary committee which called for unification with the Ukrainian SSR and an end to "Romanian occupation"?
 * ... that the song with which Thor Salden won the Belgian preselections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 reached Number 1 in the Flemish music charts?
 * ... that Laura Callahan, a former senior director of the US Department of Homeland Security was found to have obtained her academic degrees through a diploma mill run out of a converted Motel 6?
 * ...that the barndoor skate (pictured) is a species of fish that is threatened with extinction from overfishing despite not being targeted by the commercial fishing industry?
 * ...that the medieval Armenian sect of Tondrakians denied the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, the church and its feudal rights?
 * ...that, according to the United Kingdom's Teaching and Higher Education Act of 1998, full time workers aged 16 or 17 have the right to paid leave from work in order to pursue training towards a qualification?
 * ...that in the late 1900s the illegal paramilitary Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party assassinated hundreds of Russian officials, policemen and secret agents responsible for repression in partitioned Poland?
 * ...that the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees lost overboard in the Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?
 * ...that the California slender salamander (pictured) has a physique to invade narrow tunnels of earthworms for predation and cover?
 * ...that the ancient Athenian sacred ships included a galley which was believed to be the ship that carried Theseus to Crete to face the Minotaur?
 * ...that Luton Town Hall was burnt to the ground following a riot at the Peace Day celebrations marking the formal end of World War I on 19 July 1919?
 * ...that the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, a book of Aztec herbal remedies in Latin, was returned to Mexico by Pope John Paul II after more than four centuries of changing hands in Europe?
 * ...that the fiscus Iudaicus was a tax imposed on all Jewish subjects of the Roman Empire after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem the proceeds of which were used to fund a temple of Jupiter in Rome?
 * ...that illiterate American slave quiltmaker Harriet Powers sold her now-museum-quality quilts (pictured) in the 1880s for only a couple of dollars?
 * ...that the Fairfield Osborn Preserve is home to a great variety of fauna including one of the world's largest salamanders?
 * ...that the Pungoteague River Light was the shortest-lived screwpile lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay, and may have been the shortest-lived lighthouse in the United States?
 * ...that the Pariser Platz in Berlin is named after the French capital in memory of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813?
 * ...that 17 days after the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the Soviet Union joined the invasion, ensuring the fall of the Second Polish Republic?
 * ...that Laments (pictured) by a 16th century Polish poet Jan Kochanowski, a masterpiece of the Polish Renaissance, were inspired by the death of the poet's young daughter, Urszula?
 * ...that the Varmint of Burke's Garden was a coyote that terrorized the community of Burke's Garden, Virginia, in 1952?
 * ...that Ratnakar Matkari combined social realism in supernatural thrillers, which was a pioneering idea in Marathi literature?
 * ...that Mountain Mint was used by the Koasati as a treatment for laziness?
 * ...that the pen is mightier than the sword, an adage coined in 1839 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a play about Cardinal Richelieu, had numerous historical predecessors?
 * ...that the clocks on the Great Lavra Belltower (pictured) have only stopped once during their existence: when the nearby Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was blown up during the Second World War?
 * ...that rally driver Lucien Bianchi, who had driven across 10,000 miles of treacherous terrain, crashed out of the lead of the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon with only 150 miles to go?
 * ...that the body of the victim of the Red Barn Murder was discovered after her stepmother reported dreaming about it?
 * ...that the South Korean long track speed skater Lee Kyu-Hyuk has held the 1500 m world record, despite never winning a World Cup event or an Olympic medal at the distance?

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