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 * ...that Frank McEwen fostered the development of stone sculpture among untrained Shona artists in Rhodesia?
 * ...that despite the destruction of his fleet by Greek fire, Igor I of Kiev managed to end the Rus'-Byzantine War (941) by signing a favourable trade treaty?
 * ...that the Cessna 165 aircraft was instrumental in the recovery of the Cessna Aircraft Company in the years following the Great Depression?
 * ...that "De Vogels Van Holland" was the first song ever performed at the Eurovision Song Contest?
 * ...that the burrows of Meriones gerbils (pictured) can have a combined length of over 30 meters and over 18 entrances?
 * ...that despite holding the graves of Rudolf Nureyev, Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan Bunin, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is not officially recognized as a landmark?
 * ... that Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District off the southern coast of Texas contains three Spanish shipwrecks caused by a 1554 storm?
 * ...that Winning Colors is one of only three fillies to this day to win the Kentucky Derby?
 * ...that English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century, but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?
 * ...that Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?
 * ...that after being captured by the Germans during World War II, Soviet soldier Baymirza Hayit joined the pro-Nazi Turkestan Legion and became a leading Turkestani nationalist?
 * ...that the southern side of Mount Elden (pictured) in the state of Arizona was left almost entirely devoid of vegetation after a 4600-acre wildfire ran through the area in June 1977?
 * ...that the Yulupa Creek watershed has been designated as critical habitat for two California endangered species?
 * ...that due to a lack of bilingual inscriptions, most knowledge of the Etruscan language has been derived using the combinatorial method?
 * ...that Alexander Kazhdan, the editor of the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, started his career as a provincial teacher in Ivanovo and Tula?
 * ...that, in the early 1890s, the Berlin wine tavern Zum schwarzen Ferkel was the meeting place for a circle of mostly Scandinavian writers and artists that included August Strindberg and Edvard Munch?
 * ...that the first military decoration to use a medal bar was the British Sutlej Medal?
 * ...that Bulgarian physicist Stefan Marinov claimed to have created a perpetual motion machine using only two ballraces and a car battery?
 * ...that the Upper South of the United States comprises the states which didn't secede from the Union until after the Battle of Fort Sumter?
 * ...that the Buddhist scholar Jizang spent eleven years transcribing 2,000 copies of the Lotus Sutra by hand?
 * ...the Riley started as a bicycle manufacturer in Coventry in 1890, and produced its last motorcar in 1969?
 * ...that in his only armed clash with the police, bushranger James Alpin McPherson was unable to effectively return fire as his gun was loaded with blanks?
 * ...that the endangered wildflower Lasthenia conjugens has successfully colonized new vernal pools with human assistance?
 * ...that Randall Thompson's The Testament of Freedom was performed at a 1945 Carnegie Hall concert given in memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
 * ...that Abu Isa founded the first Jewish sect since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem?
 * ...that Megazostrodon (pictured) is widely accepted as being one of the first mammals to have appeared on Earth?
 * ...that the crash of Crossair Flight LX498 was initially attributed to cell phone use, and led to bans of cell phones in airplanes in several countries?
 * ...that Nathaniel Butler introduced the first potato grown by Europeans in North America to Jamestown, Virginia?
 * ...that American attorney Nicole Seligman represented both Lt. Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings and President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial?
 * ...that Singapore's Museum Planning Area contains ten national monuments?
 * ...that at 1,500,000 square feet, Willowbrook Mall is the second largest shopping mall in New Jersey?
 * ...that the Brush Creek confluence with Santa Rosa Creek was the site of a Pomo village, the antecedent of modern Santa Rosa, California?
 * ...that the three universal Hindu icons are the Aum, the swastika (pictured), and the Sri Chakra Yantra?
 * ...that the science and technology magazine Food Technology was originally a scientific journal?
 * ...that the New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm simultaneously set new daily, weekly, and monthly snowfall records for Huntsville, Alabama?
 * ...that "Bitaqat Khub" is the first and only Eurovision Song Contest to have been performed in Arabic, and also the first and only entry to have represented an African country?
 * ...that Uli is a traditional type of design long practiced by the Igbo people of Nigeria?
 * ...that Josquin des Prez's Miserere, a motet of Psalm 51, was hugely influential not only as a psalm setting, but as an example of how to approach the text of Infelix ego?
 * ...that Soviet sniper Roza Shanina's declaration "I shall return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?
 * ...that according to legend, the masons who built Corcomroe Abbey (pictured) in Ireland were killed to stop them from building another masterpiece elsewhere?
 * ...that Empress Zhang Yao'er refused to hand over control of China's Chen Dynasty until threatened with violence, as she hoped her captive son would be freed to take the throne?
 * ...that "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" was partially inspired by the arrest of actress Lila Leeds, who later starred in the film?
 * ...that many subatomic particles are constantly decaying into more stable lower-mass particles?
 * ...that Henry Burrell was the first person to successfully keep the Platypus in captivity, in a habitat of his own design that he called a platypusary?
 * ...that Marmoutier Abbey in France was destroyed four times between its construction in the 4th Century and the raising of a private school on its latest ruins?
 * ...that furry convention attendees (pictured) often wear ears, tails, badges, or fursuits as identification?
 * ...that "La Coco-Dance" was the first Eurovision entry to feature Tahitian lyrics, representing Monaco in 2006?
 * ...that Kaundinya, the first arahant and bhikkhu of Gautama Buddha, was the only royal scholar to predict Siddhartha's Buddhahood?
 * ...that Heinie Reitz was the first Major League baseballer to die in a car accident?
 * ...that the city of Thasos held out an Athenian siege for over two years in the Thasian rebellion?

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