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 * ...that on November 22, 2006, at least nine people were killed in a burning leather factory in India after being trapped behind locked emergency exits?
 * ...that King's College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne left Durham University in 1963 to form the new Newcastle University, following a narrowly defeated proposal to rename the university the "University of Durham and Newcastle" in 1952?
 * ...that in 1932 Paramahansa Yogananda urged young people to pool resources, buy land, and create World Brotherhood Colonies, nearly 40 years before the intentional community movement of the late 1960s?
 * ... that canine hydrotherapy (pictured) was initially used only to treat racing greyhounds?
 * ...that Emily Helen Butterfield was Michigan's first licensed female architect, and designed many college fraternity and sorority crests thanks to her interest in heraldry?
 * ...that Birger Dahlerus was a Swedish businessman and friend of Hermann Göring, who made numerous trips between Germany and England in 1939 in an attempt to avert the Second World War?
 * ... that the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California, has several endemic endangered species and is the second-largest freshwater wetland in Northern California?
 * ...that the Singer's Bridge, designed by architect Vasily Stasov, was called the Yellow Bridge and is the third-widest bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia?
 * ...that the 180-degree turnout, or rotation of the leg, featured in ballet allows for greater extension of the leg, especially when raising it to the side and rear?
 * ...that Barbican of Warsaw (pictured) became obsolete almost immediately after its construction in 1548?
 * ...that Corporal Mark Wright will be posthumously awarded the George Cross for entering an unmarked minefield in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, attempting to save other injured soldiers?
 * ...that Estonians defeated invading Sweden in 1220 at the Battle of Lihula?
 * ...that Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion in 1974 was a Soviet creation?
 * ...that the steviol glycosides found in stevia plants are natural sweeteners up to 300 times sweeter than sugar?
 * ...that shortly before Christmas 1942, an alleged Nazi spy was captured by the Garda in Castletownroche, a small Irish village?
 * ...that St. Michael's Castle (pictured) was built like a medieval fortress for the personal protection of the Russian Emperor Paul I, who ironically was assassinated in his bedroom shortly after moving in to his new castle?
 * ...that cowboy pool is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards with more standard pocket billiards characteristics, and requires a player to intentionally scratch in order to win?
 * ...that Ralph Bigland worked as a cheesemaker across Europe before becoming an officer of arms and eventually Garter Principal King of Arms?
 * ...that the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop to pair with a female figure skater from another country?
 * ...that Richard Tregaskis, American war correspondent and author best known for his first-hand account Guadalcanal Diary, was almost killed in Italy in 1943 when shrapnel cut though his helmet and penetrated his skull?
 * ...that a church of the Order of the Holy Ghost once stood at the site of the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre (pictured) in Kraków?
 * ...that Guido Verbeck, a Dutch-born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898 arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas?
 * ...that Göteborgs BK, founded in 1875, is the oldest football club in Sweden known by name, also played Swedish football, a local variant?
 * ...that Skowronek was an Arabian stallion who became a lead horse in the Crabbet Arabian Stud?
 * ...that Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter each wrote a chapter of the short story "A House to Let"?
 * ...that Spanish government minister and European Commissioner Loyola de Palacio deflected speculation that she was an Opus Dei member, noting that she was named after Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus,?
 * ...that the British art collector Sir George Beaumont always took his favourite Claude Lorrain painting (pictured), with him on coach journeys in a specially-designed case?
 * ...that in 1920 a Secret Court, headed by university President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals, resulting in nine expulsions?
 * ...that the creators of the Alcazaba fortification in Málaga, Spain, reused materials from nearby Roman ruins?
 * ...that Corporal Bryan Budd is being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, only the 13th such award since the Second World War?
 * ...that the Yerazi&mdash;an Azeri clan that originated in modern-day Armenia but left before the Nagorno-Karabakh War&mdash;have dominated politics in Azerbaijan since Soviet times?
 * ...that the fictional radio listeners Dave and Sue exemplify the target audience for BBC Local Radio?
 * ...that Theodore Roosevelt Lake, a large artificial reservoir located along the Salt River, is the largest lake located entirely within the U.S. state of Arizona?
 * ...that the slogan Juan Valdez drinks Costa Rican coffee, popular on bumper stickers in Costa Rica, prompted a lawsuit from Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia?
 * ...that the British art collector Sir George Beaumont always took his favourite Claude Lorrain painting (pictured), with him on coach journeys in a specially-designed case?
 * ...that in 1920 a Secret Court, headed by the university President and acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals, resulting in nine expulsions?
 * ...that the Alcazaba in Málaga, Spain reused materials from the nearby Roman ruins in its construction?
 * ...that Corporal Bryan Budd will be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, only the 13th award since the Second World War?
 * ...that the Yerazi, an Azeri clan that originated in modern-day Armenia but left before the Nagorno-Karabakh War, have dominated politics in Azerbaijan since Soviet times?
 * ...that the fictional radio listeners Dave and Sue exemplify the target audience for BBC Local Radio?
 * ...that Theodore Roosevelt Lake, a large artificial reservoir located along the Salt River, is the largest lake located entirely within the U.S. state of Arizona?
 * ...that the slogan Juan Valdez drinks Costa Rican coffee, popular on bumper stickers in Costa Rica, prompted a lawsuit from Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia?
 * ...that the hslVU protein complex (pictured) that degrades damaged proteins in bacteria, probably resembles the evolutionary ancestor of the proteasome, a required component of all eukaryotic cells?
 * ...that the Columbian Issue, the first U.S. commemorative postage stamps, included the first female portrait on American postage &mdash; Spain's Queen Isabella?
 * ...that Romania's Piteşti prison housed the largest and most intensive form of brainwashing through torture ever carried out in the Eastern bloc?
 * ...that the American singer Mary Fahl's first full-length solo album contains a song first written over 800 years ago in the extinct language of Mozarabic?
 * ...that Jaime Navarro was the opposing and winning pitcher for the inaugural Texas Rangers game at The Ballpark in Arlington in 1994?
 * ...that Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo broke the code of omertà in 1992, becoming the first senior Sicilian clergyman of the Catholic Church to openly condemn the Mafia?
 * ...that Arnold Miller defeated W.A. "Tony" Boyle in 1972 for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America after Boyle murdered union reformer Joseph Yablonski?
 * ... that Paul Haenlein was the first to create a dirigible airship (pictured) powered by an internal combustion engine?

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