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 * ... that Cupressus pigmaea (pictured) is a vulnerable cypress tree that occurs in a dwarfed form to populate pygmy forests, as well as a full size tree?
 * ...that Giulio Campagnola was the first engraver to use stippling in his works?
 * ...that the Battle of Schöngrabern features in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace?
 * ...that Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park is home to one of the few colonies of the endangered Mediterranean Monk Seal in the Western Mediterranean?
 * ...that Scamozzi's Villa Molin near Padua served as military command headquarters during the Great War?
 * ...that after a successful theatrical career spanning three decades, US actress Tittell Brune joined the Order of St Francis, remaining a sister until her death, aged 99?
 * ... that the load bearing efficiency of the Roman-developed groin vault (pictured) has been validated by 20th century structural engineering modeling?
 * ...that the sound of the revving motorcycle in the Meat Loaf rock anthem "Bat out of Hell" is actually a recording of an electric guitar solo by producer Todd Rundgren?
 * ...that former Queensland Health Minister Leisha Harvey served five months in prison for misappropriation of public funds during her tenure?
 * ...that Garuda Indonesia flight 152 was the deadliest air disaster of 1997, claiming the lives of over 230 people?
 * ...that Red Road is the first of three films in the Advance Party trilogy, each of which are to be set in Scotland using the same characters and cast, and directed by a different first-time director each time?
 * ...that a squircle (pictured) is a variety of superellipse that has properties between those of a square and a circle?
 * ...that Nicolas Grollier de Serviere invented a type of bookwheel that allowed many heavy books to be read at the same time?
 * ...that Acanthomintha duttonii is an endangered wildflower that is found only in a six mile long strip on the San Francisco Peninsula?
 * ...that the Mark II radio telescope built in 1964 at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK was the first telescope to be controlled by a digital computer?
 * ...that Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer, who was affected with cerebral palsy and was unable to talk or use her limbs, became an author and prominent disability rights advocate?
 * ...that the pinax, an ancient Greek votive tablet, has given several modern European languages their word for "art museum", as exemplified by Munich's Alte Pinakothek?
 * ...that French lighthouse Phare de la Vieille (pictured) was operated manually as late as 1995?
 * ...that modern Romania's most notorious serial killer, Ion Râmaru, was himself the son of a serial killer?
 * ...that the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia?
 * ...that William King Gregory, a leading authority on vertebrate evolution and the preeminent expert on human dentition, was initially taken in by the Piltdown Man, a hoax which was purported to be an early human?
 * ... that despite projections of producing four times as much power as it used in heating, the Riggatron fusion reactor was never built due to a lack of funding?
 * ... that Charles J. Bates was instrumental in developing high-fructose corn syrup for use by Coca-Cola in their soft drinks while he was with American Maize Products in the 1970s?
 * ...that Nordic Classicism (example pictured) was formerly regarded as a mere interlude between two far wider-known architectural movements, Art Nouveau and Functionalism?
 * ...that while the engineering treatises of Italian Renaissance artist Taccola were widely copied and studied during his lifetime, printed copies were not made until the 1960s?
 * ...that even though Harry Love cut off and preserved the head of notorious bandit Joaquin Murrieta, many people still didn't believe the man was dead?
 * ... that the UK Government Decontamination Service was set up in 2005 after increased threats of terrorism to help the United Kingdom resist and recover from biological, chemical and nuclear incidents?
 * ...that the striking of a French consul with a fly-whisk by Ottoman ruler Hussein Dey was used as a pretext for the invasion of Algiers?
 * ...that the only piece of the Palais Strousberg (pictured) to survive World War II, a set of gates bearing the British Coat of Arms, was incorporated into the modern British Embassy in Berlin?
 * ...that instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction?
 * ...that Minnie Evans received inspiration for her colored pencil drawings from her dreams?
 * ...that the free trade union SLOMR, established in opposition to the communist Romanian government, was suppressed one year before the creation of Solidarity, its more successful Polish counterpart ?
 * ...that former executive director of the Institute of Food Technologists Howard W. Mattson became active in promoting organ donation after receiving a heart transplant?
 * ...that charcoal merchant Thomas Britton (pictured) ran a series of concerts in his loft at which the most famous musicians in London performed?
 * ...that the blood of the skink Prasinohaema virens is bright green, due to an accumulation of the bile pigment biliverdin?
 * ...that the City of Amsterdam spent €160,000 on an unsuccessful soil sanitation program to save the Anne Frank Tree, one of the oldest chestnut trees in the area?
 * ...that the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order?
 * ...that Hashim Suboh controversially called for the use of force in enforcing the Malaysian social contract?
 * ...that the Thanksgiving 1984 Nor'easter (pictured) deposited a 197-foot Venezuelan freighter in the backyard of a Palm Beach, Florida socialite, where it remained for several months?
 * ...that, as part of the Hornsleth Village Project, Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth paid 340 Ugandan villagers in livestock to legally change their names to include "Hornsleth"?
 * ...that the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars of the 16th century saw significant territorial gains for the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and forced the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to ally itself closer with the Kingdom of Poland, forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
 * ...that journalist Simon Regan established the magazine Scallywag, which did much to propagate baseless rumours that British Prime Minister John Major was having an affair with a Downing Street cook?
 * ...that every extant individual of the cycad Encephalartos woodii (pictured) is male?
 * ...that the soldier in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy reunited with his family after six years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp?
 * ...that Tsar Alexander II of Russia signed the Ems Ukaz, a decree banning official use of the "non-existent" Ukrainian language, whilst enjoying a spa at Bad Ems, Germany?
 * ...that excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl-on-the-Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all of them with Runic graffiti?
 * ...that the Thoroughbred racehorse Sarazen won the United States Horse of the Year Award for two consecutive years in the 1920s?
 * ...that the publisher of Mirror Buzz, a Mumbai Mirror supplementary magazine, was arrested in 2005 after the magazine featured images of nude women on its front cover?

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