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pictured)'' in Mainz as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation?
 * ...that the pioneer American airman Lowell Smith participated in the first mid-air refueling, the first aerial circumnavigation and held 16 records for military aircraft in speed, endurance and distance?
 * ...that the Playhouse Square Center, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, is the second largest theater complex in the United States?
 * ...that Hermann Klaatsch was one of the first scientists to advocate a clear division between religion and physical anthropology?
 * ...that the world's first all-electronic television receiver was demonstrated on Christmas Day 1927 by the Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi?
 * ...that Clement, Bishop of Dunblane, (pictured) was the first Dominican friar to obtain a bishopric in the British Isles?
 * ...that Ernst Kitzinger, a historian of Byzantine art, was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and England in 1940 because he was Jewish and German respectively?
 * ...that the capture and forced march of Daniel M. Frost's militia through St. Louis, Missouri during the US Civil War ignited a citywide riot?
 * ...that Bangsa Malaysia, a policy seeking to create a unified national identity for all citizens of Malaysia, has been criticised as being 'nebulous' and overstepping the Constitution?
 * ...that West Ham Stadium in London holds the record for the lowest ever attendance of a football match in The Football League, despite its capacity of 120,000?
 * ...that fear of being buried alive was so widespread in 19th century that safety coffins were invented to give the prematurely buried a chance for escape
 * ...that David O. Cooke (pictured), a civilian administrator in the U.S. Department of Defense for over 45 years, was colloquially known as the "Mayor of the Pentagon" because of his managerial duties?
 * ...that in 1994, Horace Dove-Edwin became the first medalist in athletics for Sierra Leone, but lost it due to a positive doping test?
 * ...that, in the 1950s, Romanian linguist Iorgu Iordan was in charge of expelling opponents of the Communist regime from the University of Bucharest?
 * ...that the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm was the most significant snow event for southern Texas since 1895 with a maximum of 1.5 inches of accumulated snow?
 * ...that Ralph Fasanella was pumping gas for money in 1972 when featured on the cover of New York Magazine as "...the best primitive painter since Grandma Moses"?
 * ...that the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City was host to the world-famous opera singer Enrico Caruso who sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" from the window of his room on Armistice Day?
 * ...that a methanol reformer can replace a hydrogen-gas tank in a fuel cell vehicle by catalytically producing fuel from the poisonous liquid?
 * ...that after being stripped of his aristocratic title after World War II, Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi of Japan retired to raise racehorses on his estate?
 * ...that the Eskaya tribe are the object of international archeological studies considering their distinct culture, language and alphabet not found elsewhere in the world?
 * ...that Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall created the windows of the St Stephan church ''(
 * ...that the Poniatowski Bridge in Warsaw was destroyed in both World Wars?
 * ...that Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service was created in 1971 due to controversy surrounding the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1970?
 * ...that American actor David Holt was reduced to starring in the drugs-scare melodrama "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" at age twenty-two, after being touted at the age 7 as the male Shirley Temple?
 * ...that the first gay mass-market paperback focused on situational homosexuality and male rape in prison?
 * ...that Juan N. Méndez (pictured) took up the post of interim President of Mexico for three months to allow then-President Porfirio Díaz to personally lead his forces against a partisan uprising?
 * ...that, although Kievan Rus was heavily defeated in the Rus'-Byzantine War (1043), hostilities ended with the marriage of Vsevolod I of Kiev to Constantine IX's daughter?
 * ...that in 1937 a Soviet station became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean?
 * ... that the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan houses the only SR-71B Blackbird in existence?
 * ...that Bantcho Bantchevsky committed suicide during a nationally-broadcast performance from the Metropolitan Opera?
 * ...that Nicholas Mukomberanwa was a police officer in Harare, Zimbabwe, before turning to sculpture full-time?
 * ...that the oldest modern human remains in Europe have been discovered in Peştera cu Oase in south-western Romania?
 * ...that Native Hawaiians used Mamane (pictured) wood for thatching poles, spades, spears, sled runners, firewood, symbols of authority and to ward off evil?
 * ...that many countries afford journalists the right to protect their sources?
 * ... that Harrison Thyng was one of only six US Air Force pilots to be recognized as an ace in two wars?
 * ...that the Police Act 1964 gave the British Home Secretary the power to enact compulsory amalgamation of police forces in England and Wales?
 * ...that controversy has arisen over the interpretation of Robert Baden-Powell's opinions on religion in Scouting?
 * ... that Mary Jones walked 25 miles across the Welsh countryside to buy a copy of the Bible, unintentionally inspiring the creation of the British and Foreign Bible Society?
 * ...that the Thing of all Swedes and the Disting market were held to coincide with Dísablót, a pre-Christian Swedish sacrificial holiday?
 * ...that during the Rus'-Byzantine War in 907 Oleg of Novgorod reportedly circumvented the chaining of the Bosporus by putting his ships on wheels and sailing them overland (pictured) to Constantinople?
 * ...that the town of Scone was the coronation site of Kings of Scotland for several centuries?
 * ...that in Homer's Iliad, the charioteer Meriones is described as being a "peer of murderous Mars"?
 * ...that in the Sso rite of the Beti of Cameroon, one initiate was designated the ritual butt of the other candidates' jokes?
 * ... that at Masa, an elite New York City restaurant, no menus are available, because the chef, Masa Takayama, cooks whatever he wants?
 * ... that the earthquake-proof designs of the Nagoya TV, Tsutenkaku, the Sapporo TV, the Beppu, and the Tokyo Towers were all engineered by Tachu Naito?
 * ...that former Congolese general Laurent Nkunda was a psychology student before helping Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko?
 * ...that the Southern Islands of Singapore (pictured) are being developed into a getaway for the ultra-wealthy, similar to Dubai's Palm Islands?
 * ...that South African cricketer Geoff Griffin took a hat-trick in his second Test match, at Lord's in 1960, but was no-balled repeatedly for throwing in the same match and in the exhibition match that followed it, and never played Test cricket again?
 * ...that after the non-profit Internet service provider Public Netbase began supporting websites that opposed his political party, Austrian politician Jörg Haider accused the organisation of sponsoring child pornography?
 * ...that Ming Dynasty general Gang Bing castrated himself and placed his severed organs under Emperor Yongle's saddle to avoid being accused of sexual improprieties?
 * ...that in the Frederica Naval Action of the American Revolutionary War, three galleys led by Georgian colonel Samuel Elbert (pictured) defeated a much stronger British force?

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