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 * ...that James MacLaine (pictured), the "Gentleman Highwayman", once robbed Horace Walpole?
 * ...that the Nuyorican Poets Cafe began in the apartment living room of one of its founders?
 * ...that the Brazilian labour movement was predominantly anarchist until the 1920s?
 * ...that the medieval pirate Cord Widderich occupied Eiderstedt and made the Pellworm church tower his base?
 * ...that future Maltese diplomat Arvid Pardo was successively detained by Fascist Italian, Nazi German, and Soviet authorities between 1940 and 1945?
 * ...that many of the image stones of the Viking Age depict lost tales from Norse mythology?
 * ...that An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (pictured) depicts the recreation of an experiment first carried out by Robert Boyle over a hundred years earlier?
 * ...that Sir Samuel Davenport, a South Australian parliamentarian, had an electoral district named after him?
 * ...that "Push It to the Limit", a pop rap song backed by The Walt Disney Company, was recently the most downloaded song at the iTunes Store?
 * ...that in the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine?
 * ...that recently-departed Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge?
 * ...that despite having won the Cricket World Cup only once (1983), Indian cricket team batsmen hold most Cricket World Cup batting records?
 * ...that the Sao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon?
 * ...that in 1881 the Sharps Island Light was pushed 5 miles (8 km) down the Chesapeake Bay by an ice floe — with its keepers inside — and that its replacement (pictured) has been leaning since 1977?
 * ...that the Mediterranean mantis is capable of virgin birth?
 * ...that Léonce Perret was a prominent movie director and actor, involved in more than 400 films from 1909 to 1935?
 * ...that the 26 tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?
 * ...that the 110th United States Congress freshman class contains members from diverse backgrounds, including a professional football player, a Navy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the first Buddhist and Muslim members?
 * ...that the first plate of William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty features a boy supposed to be a young George III?
 * ...that despite its name, East Kowloon Corridor (pictured) is actually located in West Kowloon District in Hong Kong?
 * ...that Soviet surgeon Aleksandr Bakulev pioneered the first successful lung ablation with open ductus arteriosus?
 * ...that the Uruguayan Civil War was a series of armed conflicts between the Colorados and the Blancos from 1839 to 1851?
 * ...that the haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi edited the literary magazine Hototogisu?
 * ...that all Barrier Reef Anemonefish are born sexless and develop into males, and only become females if they rise to the top of the hierarchy?
 * ...that sailplane winglets were first successfully implemented by American inventor Peter Masak?
 * ...that the Fokker Spin (pictured) was the first aircraft built by Anthony Fokker, in which he taught himself to fly and earned his pilot license?
 * ...that the German physicist Otto Laporte discovered what is known in spectroscopy as the Laporte rule?
 * ...that the Soviet Union considered occupying its ally Lithuania soon after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920, but the Red Army's defeat at the Battle of Warsaw rendered such plans obsolete?
 * ...that Ken Cranston began playing Test cricket for the English cricket team within 8 weeks after his debut in first-class cricket in 1947, but retired in 1948 to concentrate on his career as a dentist?
 * ...that Mujahedeen KOMPAK has diverted charitable donations from Australia to produce recruitment videos for militant Islamic groups?
 * ...that American basketball player Fred Roberts was chosen by the Miami Heat in their expansion draft, but never played a game for them in the NBA?
 * ...that the Dash-and-dot goatfish (pictured) bears a stripe and spot which are usually black, but which are red when the same species lives in deeper waters?
 * ...that the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, containing ores bearing uranium-238, is one of many products which have been recalled in the interests of toy safety?
 * ...that alchemist James Price committed suicide by drinking prussic acid after being challenged to prove he could turn mercury into gold?
 * ...that Tombo Ati, a traditional Javanese song based on a popular hadith of the prophet Muhammad, is still popular five centuries after its composition?
 * ...that Hall of Fame football player Ed Molinski was also a Golden Gloves state boxing champion and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II?
 * ...that Sir Colin Figures was the ninth Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, known informally as MI6?
 * ...that the Battle of Sangarará was a decisive victory for rebel forces under Túpac Amaru II against the Spanish in Peru?
 * ...that Arthur McIntyre became England's oldest living Test cricketer after the death of Ken Cranston?
 * ...that German poet and playwright Klabund (pictured) was charged with treason for calling for the abdication of William II in an open letter?
 * ...that Indonesian freedom fighter Ernest Douwes Dekker is related to the Dutch writer, Eduard Douwes Dekker and volunteered on the Boers' side during the Second Boer War in South Africa as a youth?
 * ...that Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges was awarded two DSOs and a Bar to his DFC for flying secret missions for SOE in Europe and the Far East in the Second World War?
 * ...that two officers have quit their jobs over purported paranormal activity at George Stickney House, home to the Bull Valley, Illinois Police Department?
 * ...that American papermaking authority Dard Hunter published a volume created entirely by himself—including its paper, type design, typesetting, and printing?
 * ...that Darwin Falls (pictured) is the tallest waterfall in Death Valley National Park and features a rare example of riparian greenery in the driest place in North America?
 * ...that William E. "Bud" Davis, who had a successful career as president at four universities, originally wanted "to be the world's greatest football coach" before he went 2-8 in 1962 and never coached again?
 * ...that, in autumn 1934, Amicii URSS, a Romanian left-wing cultural society, dispatched the writer Alexandru Sahia on an illegal visit to the Soviet Union, as a means to commemorate the October Revolution?
 * ...that Mandy Mitchell-Innes was the last surviving English cricketer to have played Test cricket before the Second World War?
 * ...that William Dronfield founded the United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, which inspired the creation of the Trades Union Congress?
 * ...that "On the very first of May", a work composed by singer and organist William Savage, was set to nonsense verses by his wife?
 * ...that renowned brothel-keeper Elizabeth Needham, depicted in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress (pictured), was pelted so severely in the pillory that she died 3 days later?
 * ...that Scottish international rugby player Tremayne Rodd was banned from playing amateur rugby union in 1966 after accompanying the British and Irish Lions?
 * ...that the BBC journalist Barbara Plett's admission of having cried at the sight of the terminally ill Yasser Arafat led to a controversy?
 * ...that the title of Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland became unused and replaced with that of Governor-General of Warsaw without any formal decree after the death of the last namestnik?
 * ...that members of the music trio Queen of Japan use aliases which sound like Japanese names and are known for synthpop covers of artists such as John Lennon and Bob Dylan?
 * ...that the Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides its member schools into separate enrollment classes in only three of the 13 sports in which it conducts state championships?
 * ...that Beaumont House (pictured) was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral?
 * ...that American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non-legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965?
 * ...that Têtes à Claques was originally intended to be stop motion animation, but instead superimposed faces on the figurines to save time?
 * ...that the Karnataka politician Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy is the world record holder for number of elections contested?
 * ...that during the 1793 Siege of Mainz, Goethe was a military observer and later wrote a book about the bombardment of the city?
 * ...that the first three Ministers of the Privy Treasury of the Ottoman Empire were Armenian, the first being Hagop Kazazian Pasha?
 * ...that of Kraków's eight original medieval city gates, only the Gothic Florian Gate (pictured) remains?
 * ...that Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars?
 * ...that at the 1974 Coalition of Labor Union Women convention, Myra Wolfgang declared "...there are 3,000 women in Chicago and they didn't come here to swap recipes!"?
 * ...that three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have died as a result of gun violence in New Orleans?
 * ...that runestones have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct the family saga of the powerful Viking woman Estrid?
 * ...that Robert Keyes was related to five of the other Gunpowder Plot conspirators?
 * ...that Constantine the Great ordered the construction of Abu Mena after his daughter was cured by the body of Saint Mina (pictured)?
 * ...that David Colville Anderson, whose career was ended by a scandal involving teenage girls, blamed it on the KGB?
 * ...that the Alliance for Retired Americans was instrumental in enacting Medicare?
 * ...that the Sajama Lines in Bolivia took 3,000 years to make and might be considered the largest artwork in the world?
 * ...that Cecilia Muñoz-Palma was the Philippines' first female prosecutor, district judge, and Supreme Court justice?
 * ...that the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?
 * ...that Pope Pius XII tried to prevent the bombing of Rome in World War II?
 * ...that Chroogomphus (pictured) is an edible mushroom which grows as a parasite in pine forests?
 * ...that toso is a medicinal sake drunk during Japanese New Year celebrations?
 * ...that hippocamps are mythological sea-horses which frolic in the Trevi Fountain?
 * ...that the Terrace Mutiny of 1944 was the most serious disciplinary breach in Canadian military history?
 * ...that pastor and linguist Christoph Mrongovius was honored by having a town named after him?
 * ...that Baghdad Street in Istanbul was named by Murad IV to commemorate his conquest of Mesopotamia?
 * ...that the mythical Canadian water monster Ogopogo inspired the British film Mee-Shee: The Water Giant?
 * ...that Louisiana politician Arthur C. Watson lost the use of his legs in infancy?
 * ...that the Egyptian Theater (pictured) in DeKalb, Illinois is purportedly haunted by ghosts?
 * ...the Imperial Japanese Army 14th Division made Chinese dumplings a specialty of Utsunomiya upon returning from Manchuria?
 * ...that Iya Abubakar, a Nigerian mathematician, served as his country's Minister of Defence?
 * ...that Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe, a Munro in Scotland, is one of the "Five Sisters of Kintail"?
 * ...that Ovidiu Pecican co-wrote a textbook of Romanian history which caused a national scandal?
 * ...that a protoplanetary nebula is a short-lived phase of stellar evolution?
 * ...that Rolf Dudley-Williams helped set up the company which manufactured the world's first working jet engine?
 * ...that John Casor was the first known slave in the Thirteen Colonies?
 * ...that an aircraft's pitot-static system (pictured) allows a pilot its airspeed, Mach number, altitude, and altitude trend?
 * ...that the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?
 * ...that during the Simele massacre nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 63 Assyrian villages were destroyed?
 * ...that award-winning Japanese novelist Tachihara Masaaki was a Zainichi Korean, whose works were strongly influenced by Zeami's traditional Japanese Noh dramas?
 * ...that most of the numerous Jarlabanke Runestones were made by a Viking chieftain in an attempt to immortalize his power and greatness?
 * ...that the Land Coastal Defence which defended the Polish coast during the German invasion of Poland was subordinate to the Polish Navy, not the Army?
 * ...that the nipples of the Ancient Greek statue Victorious Youth (pictured) were cast in copper to contrast with the bronze of the torso?
 * ...that two Viking women named Gerlög and Inga documented their tragic and dramatic family saga on a series of runestones during the civil wars of 11th century Sweden?
 * ...that the Aston Martin DBR1 sports car won the 1000km Nürburgring round of the World Sportscar Championship in all three years it entered?
 * ...that the Ingvar Runestones commemorate Vikings who died in the raid led by Ingvar the Far-Travelled which pillaged the coasts of Persia?
 * ...that St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late 20th century?
 * ...that Zhang Zhenshi created a widely reproduced image of Mao Zedong which is known as China's Mona Lisa?
 * ...that the face of Chicago native Hazel Lavery (pictured) adorned the banknotes of Ireland for seventy years?
 * ...that the Free Association of German Trade Unions was the only trade union in Germany to reject the Burgfrieden, a civil truce between the socialist movement and the German state during World War I?
 * ...that Major Alan Shapley, survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, had been relieved of duty on the Arizona the previous day, but had stayed aboard overnight before reporting to his next duty station?
 * ...that Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia was urged by her mother-in-law to testify in the case of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia?
 * ...that there are four UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Scotland and four more sites currently undergoing a process of evaluation including the iconic Forth Bridge?
 * ...that the inhabitants of Fjuckby, Sweden want to change the name of their village because of its unfortunate associations?
 * ...that John Pasco (pictured) advised Nelson to change the wording of "England expects that every man will do his duty", his famous signal at the Battle of Trafalgar?
 * ...that the 17th century Puritan physician Alexander Leighton incurred the wrath of King Charles I for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by his Star Chamber to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off?
 * ...that the 1927 American silent film The Cat and the Canary was directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni?
 * ...that the world's only memorial to war correspondents is located in Maryland's Gathland State Park?
 * ...that Kenny Leon directed the Broadway premiere of the August Wilson play Gem of the Ocean?
 * ...that Rosersberg Palace (pictured), one of the Swedish Royal palaces, was used as a school of musketry for 101 years?
 * ...that Alejandro Maclean, Spanish television producer and Red Bull Air Race World Series pilot, is nicknamed "The Flying Matador"?
 * ...that the 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, which left over 500,000 homeless, was the first tropical cyclone of hurricane intensity to hit Sri Lanka since 1978?
 * ...that the cornerstone for the first museum of space exploration, the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga, Russia, was laid by Yuri Gagarin?
 * ...that the 1968 Florida teachers' strike was the first statewide strike by teachers in United States history?
 * ...that the Raven banner, a standard used by various Viking leaders including Sigurd the Stout and Harald III of Norway, was a totem believed to have the power to grant victory to its holder?
 * ...that features of The Jurist in the painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo are composed of fish and poultry?
 * ...that the University of Cambridge denied Edward A. Irving a PhD when he submitted evidence supporting continental drift?
 * ...that Delaware Canal State Park in Pennsylvania contains the only intact 19th century towpath canal in the United States?
 * ...that 199 of the 210 soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army's 8th Infantry Division froze to death as a result of a winter training accident in January 1902?
 * ...that U.S. Congressman Cecil R. King of California, deeply involved in the issue of Medicare, ran unopposed for his first 10 years in office?
 * ...that the twelfth sultan of Aceh, Iskandar Muda, had his own son killed and named as his successor the son of the sultan of Pahang, whom he had brought to Aceh twenty years earlier?
 * ...that about half of the collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek (pictured) in Baden-Württemberg was destroyed in a fire following an air raid on Stuttgart during World War II?
 * ...that before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the United Teachers of New Orleans was the largest trade union in the city?
 * ...that the removal of President Rolandas Paksas from office by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania was the first successful case of impeachment of a head of state in the history of Europe?
 * ...that Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's?
 * ...that the slate beds of carom billiards tables have been heated as far back as the reign of Queen Victoria?
 * ...that Acallam na Senórach, a tale of ancient heroes surviving to recount their deeds to St. Patrick, is the longest original text in medieval Irish literature?
 * ...that the German fresco painter Johannes Zick (pictured: self-portrait) started his career as a blacksmith in his father's workshop?
 * ...that the Vietnam War veteran Wesley Autrey jumped onto a New York City Subway track in front of an oncoming train to save another man?
 * ...that the Romanian anti-communist resistance movement, operating between 1948 and 1960, was one of the most enduring armed resistance movement in the former Soviet bloc?
 * ...that the song "Shambala" by Three Dog Night has a gospel music sound and Tibetan Buddhist subject matter?
 * ...that the Swedish sculptor Willy Gordon received some attention with a sculpture showing a naked male figure carrying a piece of meat on his shoulders before a reclining female figure?
 * ...that Sir Francis Mitchell was the last British knight of the realm to be publicly degraded?
 * ...that Xanten Cathedral (interior pictured), declared a basilica minor by Pope Pius XI, may be the biggest cathedral between Cologne and the North Sea?
 * ...that famed Japanese literary critic Kobayashi Hideo toured China as a guest of the Imperial Japanese Army, with future Nobel-prize winner Kawabata Yasunari?
 * ...that after former House representative John H. Burke was not a candidate for renomination in 1934, he went back to his home in Long Beach, California and became a real estate broker?
 * ...that William Henry Holbert, a catcher for the 19th century New York Metropolitans baseball team, still holds the records for the most career at-bats without a home run?
 * ...that the Landmarks Foundation helps conserve sacred sites such as the stone spheres of Costa Rica and the moai of Easter Island?
 * ...that the carom billiards game, cushion caroms, was enjoyed on occasion by Mark Twain?

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