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 * ...that Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?
 * ...that owing to a fictitious 13th century account, St. Gratus of Aosta (pictured) is typically depicted carrying the head of John the Baptist?
 * ...that a swinging column at Haghartsin Monastery in Armenia was used to hide riches?
 * ...that archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon, uncovering artefacts from separate Roman, Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?
 * ...that until 2006, it was not known that the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning image Firing Squad in Iran was taken by Jahangir Razmi?
 * ...that the 2006 Boise State University football team returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football?
 * ...that Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?
 * ...that Gustaf Tenggren was a chief illustrator at the Disney Company when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (pictured), Bambi and Pinocchio were produced?
 * ...that in Arthurian legend, Brangaine inadvertently set the romance of Tristan and Iseult in motion by failing to protect the love potion entrusted to her?
 * ...that Philipp Jenninger resigned as President of the Bundestag after his speech commemorating Kristallnacht caused a political scandal?
 * ...that five USAAF airmen were awarded the Medal of Honor following Operation Tidal Wave, a low-level bombing of Romanian oil refineries on 1 August 1943?
 * ...that during his lifetime, Radu Irimescu worked as a German naval officer, Romanian Air Force pilot, banker, businessman, government minister, and diplomat to the United States?
 * ...that Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik learnt to play cricket in Kuwait?
 * ...that US soldier Rodolfo P. Hernandez (pictured) was awarded the Medal of Honor after the Korean War for attacking and delaying an enemy regiment, alone and wounded?
 * ...that nobody buried in a safety coffin is known to have taken advantage of its features?
 * ... that Rice Creek in Minnesota was named for the huge quantity of wild rice that grew in its waters?
 * ...that the costume for the fairy Carabosse in the 1921 ballet The Sleeping Princess was designed to have the silhouette of a rat?
 * ...that Dr. Matthew Lukwiya convinced nurses who refused to treat patients during an 2000 Ebola outbreak in northern Uganda to return to work?
 * ...that the Native American Sheshequin Path along Lycoming Creek, Pennsylvania was prone to such bad weather that an evil spirit was believed to reside there?
 * ...that forces of the Russian and Austrian Empires attempted to defeat an isolated French division in the Battle of Dürenstein on 11 November 1805, three weeks after the Battle of Ulm and three weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz?
 * ...that Pauline Cushman (pictured), an actress and Union Army spy during the American Civil War, was caught posing as a Confederate soldier, but escaped hanging by 3 days?
 * ...that Ostap Veresai, a 19th century blind Ukrainian kobzar, performed at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia?
 * ...that a Congreve clock uses a rolling ball rather than a pendulum to regulate the time?
 * ... that the first printed and illustrated travel-book published in the West included a 5 ft (1.6 m) long fold-out view of Venice in woodcut by Erhard Reuwich?
 * ...that the right to petition in the United States required the 1844 rescinding of a gag rule prohibiting discussion of abolitionist petitions in the House of Representatives?
 * ...that after the Battle of Palashi in 1757, Nabakrishna Deb organised a Durga Puja where Lord Clive offered thanksgiving?
 * ...that the history of rapid transit began when the London Underground started operations in 1863?
 * ...that the Crouching Venus, a Hellenistic type of Aphrodite or Venus (pictured), is known from dozens of Roman copies?
 * ...that the crude oil found in Naftalan, Azerbaijan has been used for centuries as a therapeutic bath?
 * ...that the theme of the Kyffhäuser Monument suggests a connection between the Holy Roman and German Empires?
 * ...that Abbott Lawrence Rotch established the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in 1885, which maintains the longest-running meteorological record of any observation site in the United States?
 * ...that for the first time in Indian bowling history, a mother, Sabeena Saleem, and her daughter have been selected in the same category for the Asian Games in Doha?
 * ... that the Starshade is a coronagraph designed to aid a space telescope by blocking bright light from stars by a factor of as much as 10 billion?
 * ...that the HurriQuake is an engineered nail that is twice as wind resistant as traditional nails and can increase a home's earthquake resistance by up to 50%?
 * ...that Lochry's Defeat was an American Revolutionary War ambush led by Mohawk leader Joseph Brant (pictured) which ended George Clark's campaign against Detroit?
 * ...that the Khooni Darwaza (literally Gateway of Blood) is a 16th century monument in Delhi, India that was named for the various incidents of bloodshed associated with it?
 * ...that the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, lauched in 1975, was one of the first demonstrations that showed the potential of satellite technology as an effective mass communication media?
 * ...that Hasnoor Hussein was investigated over allegations of sedition concerning his statements on the Malaysian social contract?
 * ... that Maurice, the abbot of Inchaffray who blessed the Scottish army at the Battle of Bannockburn, later became Bishop of Dunblane?
 * ...that the British Royal House of Stuart were descended from members of the Scottish Clan Stuart?
 * ...that Ruth Gruber was the first journalist to enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan?
 * ...that Jacopo de' Barbari painted the first trompe l'oeil still-life (pictured) since antiquity, which is now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich?
 * ...that John Baldwin named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible, and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip?
 * ...that in 1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 was shot down by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was an attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill?
 * ...that American World War II veteran Alejandro R. Ruiz was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly assaulting and demolishing an enemy machine-gun pillbox?
 * ...that Abe Tadaaki was one of the highest-ranking Japanese officials to remain in office after his colleagues followed Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu into death in 1651?
 * ...that the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts houses a Hinoki Cypress Tree that is over 250 years old?
 * ...that ukiyo-e artist Keisai Eisen was famous for his bijin prints of beautiful women (pictured) and claimed to have owned a brothel?
 * ...that the first artistic billiards world tournament only used ivory balls?
 * ...that Ka Lae on the island of Hawaii is the southernmost point in the United States?

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