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 * ...that Bryncelyn Brewery in Wales relates the names of all its beers in some way to Buddy Holly?
 * ...that Inuka, a polar bear who is the mascot of the Singapore Zoo, is the first and only polar bear born in the tropics?
 * ...that the citizens of Smyrna, Michigan withheld $25 from their deferred payment for Whites Bridge (pictured) because they were upset that the builders used second-hand lumber?
 * ...that "James Brown is Dead" is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music?
 * ...that Gordon Canfield is remembered as the "Father of the United States Coast Guard Reserve" because he first introduced and spearheaded the legislation for the reserve component's creation in 1941?
 * ...that the Great Trail created by Native Americans connected the Great Lakes region of Canada to New England and the mid-Atlantic and laid the foundation for modern highways?
 * ...that, after having spent much of her eight years in Communist prisons in complete solitude, and willing herself to memorize events in daily succession, the Romanian artist Lena Constante published her recollections in a diary?
 * ...that Grevillea 'Superb' is a cultivated garden plant which flowers during all twelve months of the year?
 * ...that as one of the three original members of the Royal Philatelic Society London's Expert Committee, Edward B. Evans (pictured) edited most of the Society's early publications?
 * ...that German sailor Max Reichpietsch, who served on the battleship SMS Friedrich der Große, was executed by firing squad in 1917 for anti-war agitation in the German Navy?
 * ...that in 1967, Mac Hack became the first computer chess program to defeat a person in tournament play?
 * ...that during the reign of the English Commonwealth, worshippers at St. Stephen Coleman Street seeking Communion had to first be approved by a committee partly staffed by signatories of Charles I's death warrant?
 * ...that the purpose of the Assembly of Vizille was to discuss the events of the Day of the Tiles, one of the first revolts that preceded the French Revolution?
 * ...that the compound pterostilbene, which is found in blueberries and grapes, is thought to help prevent cancer, cognitive decline, and diabetes?
 * ...that the Armenian oil magnate Alexander Mantashev (pictured) handpicked 50 talented young Armenians and sent them to study at the best universities of continental Europe and Russia?
 * ...that the Parliament of Malaysia made a retroactive amendment to the Constitution to prevent the case of Loh Kooi Choon v. Government of Malaysia from being subject to Article 5(4) of the Constitution?
 * ...that the popular Soviet TV show Goluboy Ogonyok had as guests various prominent Soviet people, including Super workers, Heroes of Socialist Labor and cosmonauts?
 * ...that the 1929 Chicago Cubs outfield comprised of Riggs Stephenson, Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler was the only complete outfield in Major League Baseball history to each drive in over 100 runs in the same season?
 * ...that in the Battle of Zhovti Vody the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced 1:10 odds for 18 days before its final defeat by the Cossack-Tatar alliance?
 * ...that the house (pictured) used in the 1983 film A Christmas Story was auctioned online for $150,000?
 * ...that Cowans Gap State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of a key road in the French and Indian War, a pioneer farm, a charcoal operation, and a CCC Camp?
 * ...that Erin Bode performed with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for three seasons before starting her recording career as a singer?
 * ...that Maltese Jews were forced to pay for the financial damages caused by their absence in the country, after they were expelled from Malta by the 1492 Alhambra decree?
 * ...that Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was regarded as the "leading Hindu reformer of western India"?
 * ...that Italy mafioso Antonino Calderone (pictured) was the first pentito to provide details on Mafia operations in Catania?
 * ...that the canoe livery business is an important segment of the recreational goods rental industry?
 * ...that when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened the first secular girls' school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages?
 * ...that C. C. Too, a leading exponent of psychological warfare in Malaysia, crafted a campaign to turn public opinion against the communists during the Malayan Emergency?
 * ...that Tantiusques, a graphite mine which John Winthrop the Younger purchased from the Nipmuck tribes in 1644, became the basis for today's Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company?
 * ...that Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is often cited as the longest place name in the United States?
 * ...that New Zealand historian John Dunmore published a cookbook composed from 18th-century ship's logs, including recipes for stewed rat and albatross?
 * ...that owing to its early dominance as a building style, Canadian Gothic Revival (example pictured) has been promoted as part of Canadian nationalism?
 * ...that the 1952 attack on the Sui-ho Dam knocked out electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War?
 * ...that Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny enrolled his entire Cossack army as students to prevent a Kievan school's conversion to a Jesuit Collegium?
 * ...that Money No Enough, which earned over S$5.8 million, is Singapore's highest-grossing film to date?
 * ...that Madhavan Nair & Anor. v. Public Prosecutor held that the Constitution of Malaysia allows the Royal Malaysian Police to impose prior restraint when granting licences to speak in public?
 * ...that the Elizalde was claimed to have the first Spanish automobile model with four-wheel brakes?
 * ...that Russian painter Konstantin Makovsky (pictured) left the Imperial Academy of Arts without a formal diploma, after having refused to paint on a set topic in Scandinavian mythology?
 * ...that only one horse in the International Special horse races was born outside the United States?
 * ...that Romanian leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej accused Miron Constantinescu of being a Stalinist only a few years after sidelining him for supporting de-Stalinization?
 * ...that Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon ordered that the Living Museum of the Horse be built, believing he would be reincarnated as a horse?
 * ...that 45,000 Romanians living along the border with Yugoslavia were forcibly deported on June 18, 1951 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?
 * ...that the Filipino special court Sandiganbayan holds equivalent rank to the Philippine Court of Appeals?
 * ...that the Annenschule (pictured) high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia was transformed into a Soviet work school after the Russian Revolution, but now houses a lyceum?
 * ...that there are only two extant populations of Streptanthus niger, both on the Tiburon Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area?
 * ...that Macassan trepangers traded sea cucumbers with Indigenous Australians generations before the arrival of European people?
 * ...that Prussian military bandmaster Franz von Eckert is credited with composing the harmony to the national anthems of both Japan and the Empire of Korea?
 * ...that the See of Sardis, an episcopal see once held by Melito, continued to be held by titular archbishops for centuries after the Ottoman Turks conquered Sardis?
 * ...that the People of Assam comprise three major ethnic groups: Tibeto-Burman, Mon-Khmer, and Indo-Aryan?
 * ...that Robert Cocking was the first person to die in a parachuting accident, after a parachute of his own design (pictured) failed during a test at Vauxhall Gardens in 1837?
 * ...that Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was a German monarchist who murdered Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner on a sidewalk in Munich in 1919?
 * ...that Hortus Malabaricus, the earliest printed treatise on the flora in Asia, contains the first instances of Malayalam types being used for printing?
 * ...that Stegosaurus, one of the most distinctive dinosaurs, has been widely depicted in popular culture?
 * ...that Madeline La Framboise, a fur trader of mixed French and Native American descent, was Michigan's first successful businesswoman, and is buried beneath the altar of St. Anne's church on Mackinac Island?
 * ...that Andrew Truxal was president of Hood College and Anne Arundel Community College as well as an ordained minister of the Evangelical and Reformed Church?

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