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 * ...that endangered arthropods (example pictured) are becoming extinct in such large numbers that many are not catalogued?
 * ...that free-diver Herbert Nitsch can hold his breath for over nine minutes?
 * ...that the Norte Chico civilization is the oldest known civilization in the Americas?
 * ...that the fictional planet Zenn-La, homeworld of the Silver Surfer, has been destroyed at least three times?
 * ...that the Kaleva, a Finnish passenger plane carrying diplomatic post, was shot down by Soviet bombers in an act of aggression?
 * ...that even though the Mooney aircraft company bears Albert Mooney's name, upon his death he held no ownership in the company?
 * ...that in 2003-2004, ANA had to pay almost ¥100 m for flying too many passengers to Noto Airport?
 * ...that the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter, a British deputy in Calcutta, earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?
 * ...that the Duchy of Veragua, granted to the grandson of Christopher Columbus, is a perfect square of land 25 leagues to a side?
 * ...that the Berlin Stadtbahn (pictured) is built mostly as an elevated railway line with viaducts totalling eight kilometres of length, including 731 masonry viaduct arches?
 * ...that the Polish cochineal gave its name to the color red and the month of June in many Slavic languages?
 * ...that John Perlman, one of South Africa's most popular radio presenters, resigned after blowing the whistle on political censorship at the South African Broadcasting Corporation?
 * ...that the 1916 Lorado Taft work, The Soldiers' Monument, constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?
 * ...that Disco D specialized in hip hop music and was a 2005 pioneer in composing original ring tone works for cell phones?
 * ...that Lauren Nelson, newly crowned Miss America 2007, is the second consecutive winner from Oklahoma?
 * ...that Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania?
 * ...that the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran not only proclaim the gospel in the pulpit but also on stage in songs and dances?
 * ...that tourism in Cameroon (bush taxi pictured) centers around wildlife such as elephants, giraffes, and gorillas?
 * ...that Guy de Rothschild temporarily moved to New York when the French government under François Mitterrand nationalized his bank?
 * ...that Mount Burgess is nicknamed the Ten Dollar Mountain because it was featured on Canadian currency?
 * ...that Antoni Bohdziewicz, a Polish film director, was a member of the Armia Krajowa Polish resistance and worked on a documentary film made and shown entirely in besieged Warsaw?
 * ...that one of Atomic Games' most successful titles, Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far, topped their previous sale record by a factor of ten?
 * ...that the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in the United Kingdom was found at Aveline's Hole, one of the Caves of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England?
 * ...that French historian Augustin Cochin was the son of Denys Cochin, a prominent right wing Deputy in the National Assembly of France?
 * ...that as a teenager, Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov (pictured) was convicted of stealing mail and sentenced to three months in a monastery?
 * ...that the Swedish spelman Anders Ljungqvist, according to rumors, had a contract with the Nix, signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?
 * ...that ball culture, as seen in Paris is Burning, has drag houses which compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
 * ...that one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
 * ...in 1293, the Bartian tribe of Prussia asked Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytenis for protection against the Teutonic Knights?
 * ...that according to Germanic legends, the cruel king Níðuðr captured the divine smith Weyland and had him hamstrung to prevent escape?
 * ...that Egyptian actor Omar Sharif's first film role was in the 1954 film Sira` Fi al-Wadi?
 * ...that Old St Paul's Cathedral (pictured) in the City of London, destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire of London, had one of the tallest spires in the world?
 * ...that French soprano Germaine Lubin was imprisoned for three years after World War II for her alleged support of Nazi Germany?
 * ...that Emperor Frederick II ran an experiment which involved raising infants in isolation to discover what language God spoke?
 * ...that the life of Polish ship captain Mamert Stankiewicz was immortalized in a popular book series?
 * ...that William Frederick Yeames' painting, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, has been reproduced as a waxwork at Madame Tussauds, London?
 * ...that the discovery of Archaeamphora longicervia, the first known carnivorous plant, suggests that flowering plants should have originated much earlier than previously thought?
 * ...that John Murray of Broughton was a Jacobite turncoat, whose evidence led to Lord Lovat's execution for high treason?
 * ...that students who finish a doctorate at the Georg-August University of Göttingen traditionally kiss the Gänseliesel, a statue in the center of Göttingen?
 * ...that the Golden Conure (pictured) is also known as the Queen of Bavaria conure?
 * ...that Jonas Vileišis was a member of the Council which proclaimed Lithuania's independence in 1918?
 * ...that the charity Facing the World offers cosmetic surgery to children with facial disfigurements who live in countries where effective treatment is unavailable?
 * ...that Julius Caesar appears in Norse mythology as the legendary king Kjárr?
 * ...that Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire?
 * ...that Samuel T. Wellman built the first commercially successful open-hearth furnace in the United States?
 * ...that Charles Leach is the only British Member of Parliament to be disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act 1886?
 * ...that Japanese author Mushanokōji Saneatsu emulated Leo Tolstoy in establishing a commune based on humanism and utopian socialism?
 * ...that Komati Gorge (pictured) has colourful bluffs which harbor the threatened Southern Bald Ibis?
 * ...that Archibald Cameron of Locheil was the last man to be executed for his part in Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion?
 * ...that the Piraeus Lion is an ancient Greek statue "embellished" with runic graffiti by Vikings?
 * ...that Lithuanian collective farm workers were 50% more productive than the Soviet average?
 * ...that the Strangeways Prison inmate Gordon Park was convicted of murdering his first wife 38 years after the fact?
 * ...that Humshaugh in Northumberland, England, is acknowledged as the site of the first official Scout camp?
 * ...that economist J. C. Kumarappa coined the term Gandhian economics to describe a school of thought based on Gandhism?
 * ...that the Loch Arkaig treasure, a large amount of specie provided by Spain to finance the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, is said to be still hidden at Loch Arkaig (pictured) in the Scottish Highlands?
 * ...that New Zealand rugby player Andy Dalton suffered an injury which kept him from captaining the All Blacks side which went on to win the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup?
 * ...that about 1,400 people of Fryštát died in 1623 because of bubonic plague?
 * ...that the standing army created during the Thirty Years' War by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, developed into the Prussian Army?
 * ...that the Suzuki MR Wagon was previewed as a concept car called Mum's Personal Wagon?
 * ...that construction of Żarnowiec, Poland's only nuclear power plant, was cancelled as the project neared completion?
 * ...that a banjee (pictured) is a young Latino or Black man who has sex with men and dresses in thuggish urban fashion?
 * ...that since the first Urdu language typewriter was created in 1911, the Urdu keyboard layout has evolved to accommodate the needs of the digital age?
 * ...that historian Henry William Carless Davis once served as a member of the British contingent to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?
 * ...that the PEI Tenant League was an agrarian populist movement created in 1863 which overthrew the proprietary land system created by King George III in Prince Edward Island?
 * ...that Jeannette Piccard piloted a hydrogen balloon to the stratosphere for Jean Piccard, likely namesake of Captain Picard of Star Trek?
 * ...that St. George's Cathedral (pictured) in Lviv, Ukraine served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the 19th and 20th century?
 * ...that a Lithuanian Heavy Draught horse could weigh up to 920 kilograms?
 * ...that Gandhian economics, centering around the values of trusteeship, human dignity and equality, has been viewed as an alternative to left-wing and right-wing economic models?
 * ...that the Bellefonte Central Railroad once carried passengers and freight to Pennsylvania State University?
 * ...that John McShain was a successful American contractor known as The Man Who Built Washington?
 * ...that Bodysgallen Hall sits on the site of the home of a 5th century AD Welsh king?
 * ...that New Zealand rugby union player Mark Hammett won four Super 12 titles with the Crusaders between 1996 and 2003 before being appointed as their assistant coach for 2007?
 * ...that Ralphie (pictured), the live mascot of the Colorado Buffaloes, is actually a female American bison?
 * ...that the Abukuma, a veteran of the Pearl Harbor raid, was sunk in 1944 when her own Long Lance torpedoes exploded in the torpedo room?
 * ...that the Paço Imperial, a Baroque palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, served as a main government seat for almost 150 years?
 * ...that the German actor Heinz Rühmann was 42 years old when starring as a high school student in the 1944 film Die Feuerzangenbowle?
 * ...that lyrics from the B-52's song Love Shack were quoted in a 2005 majority opinion by Eleventh Circuit Court judge William H. Pryor, Jr.?
 * ...that most of the trees in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in Belize burnt down just five years after the reserve was established?
 * ...that the Polish writer Gustaw Morcinek survived three Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War?
 * ...that the Palala River bluffs in Limpopo province, South Africa have 10,000 year old rock art (pictured) from the Stone Age?
 * ...that Bhai Taru Singh was a Sikh martyr who was executed for refusing to cut his hair?
 * ...that feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan's draconian Peace Preservation Laws?
 * ...that the gene which creates the crest of the Bali Duck also causes physical defects which can kill it before it hatches?
 * ...that JMWAVE was a secret CIA base on University of Miami campus grounds during the 1960s?
 * ...that African American economist Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in economics?
 * ...that the Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 28 in New York City negotiated the first pension plan in the construction industry?
 * ...that the George's Block in Sycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes of Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and Charles Sumner?
 * ...that an example of a proposed United States aluminum cent (pictured) dropped by a US Congressman was found by a US Capitol Police officer ?
 * ...that Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the Cricket World Cup award of Man of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup after he scored a record 673 runs?
 * ...that 1979's Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a hurricane in the Atlantic basin?
 * ...that Donald Cameron of Lochiel, a major figure in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, was nicknamed the "Gentle Lochiel"?
 * ...that the ultra-modern disposable female urination device, which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922?
 * ...that Oil Creek State Park in Pennsylvania is the site of the world's first commercial oil well?
 * ...that Bolli Bollasson, a character in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdœla saga, is credited as the first West Norse member of the Varangian Guard (pictured)?
 * ...that as an art student, Soviet painter Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on an Arctic expedition aboard the doomed Chelyuskin steamship?
 * ...that in 1955, What's the Story, an American game show, was the last television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network?
 * ...that the Siege of Lathom House during the First English Civil War ended in victory for the Cavaliers because the lady of the house, Charlotte de la Tremoüille, defended it defiantly?
 * ...that the 1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire resulted in 25 deaths and prison sentences for the owners?
 * ...that Lord Nolan was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life?
 * ...that Leonard Crofoot, a dancer in The Singing Detective, has had three Star Trek roles?
 * ...that George Pocock invented a kite-drawn carriage (pictured) which could outstrip the horse-drawn mail coach?
 * ...that the medieval Margraviate of Brandenburg was called "the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire"?
 * ...that the Mayan ruins in Belize called Nim Li Punit take their name from the "big hat" headdress on an 8th century stela?
 * ...that the yaw string, a simple tuft of yarn used as a flight instrument by the Wright brothers, is still in use today?
 * ...that Larantuka is an Indonesian district known for Roman Catholic Holy Week processions?
 * ...that in 1973, an experiment successfully demonstrated that spiders can spin webs in space?
 * ...that William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcropping which eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces of gold?
 * ...that human amyloid precursor protein (pictured), when cleaved by specific types of proteases, generates the amyloid beta peptide which may be a cause of Alzheimer's disease?
 * ...that Manseibashi Station in Tokyo was rebuilt after a 1923 earthquake and later became a museum?
 * ...that although the official cause of the 2007 Balad aircraft crash is fog, the insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq says they shot it down?
 * ...that former NCAA American football quarterback Wyatt Sexton's career for the Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did pushups in the street and proclaimed he was God?
 * ...that the Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic lime kilns in the U.S. state of Illinois?
 * ...that Queen band members teased Freddie Mercury for looking like a prawn in the video for It's a Hard Life?
 * ...that according to Themba Mabaso (pictured), the State Herald of South Africa, the flag of the republic is like a written document?
 * ...that the Nusa Kambangan, "the Alcatraz of Indonesia", has held a son of former President Suharto and terrorists of the 2002 Bali bombing?
 * ...that when the Kälvesten Runestone was rediscovered in the walls of a church, it was removed and again used as building material?
 * ...that the Union forces in the American Civil War won the Battle of Simmon's Bluff without inflicting casualties?
 * ...that the Akhurian River is said to have turned completely red because of a major battle nearby?
 * ...that the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines was temporarily abolished during the Japanese occupation?
 * ...that labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?
 * ...that Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist of My Fair Lady, also co-wrote a disastrous musical version of Nabokov's Lolita?
 * ...that Soviet actor Pavel Luspekaev played in the classic Russian Ostern movie White Sun of the Desert with both feet amputated?
 * ...that NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created by Germany in 1922 to illegally manufacture submarines?
 * ...that snow in Florida has been reported at least 34 times, including as far south as Homestead?
 * ...that Surgeon General William Alexander Hammond (pictured) both founded the National Museum of Health and Medicine and wrote the first American treatise about neurology?
 * ...that actor Edward Chapman, known for his role as "Mr. Grimsdale" in many Norman Wisdom films, tried to have Sir John Gielgud thrown out of Equity?
 * ...that in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the railway built in the United Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?
 * ...that Herkus Monte, one of the most famous leaders of the Great Prussian Uprising, was kidnapped in the 13th century by the Germans as a boy?
 * ...that Rachel Paulose is the first woman in Minnesota to become a District Attorney?
 * ...that Simplicity Patterns has been a leader in home pattern sewing since 1927?
 * ...that Poecilostomatoida (pictured) are parasitic crustaceans?
 * ...that the word jazz was originally a California baseball slang term and was first applied to a style of music in Chicago?
 * ...that Stephan Körner's major philosophical work was in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of "exact" and "inexact" concepts?
 * ...that La Casa Pacifica, President Richard Nixon's private retreat in San Clemente, California, became known as the "Western White House"?
 * ...that criminal and boxer, James Field, was so feared by the police force of London in the 18th century, that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him?
 * ...that 60 percent of Carnatic musicians in Karnataka come from Rudrapatna?
 * ...that poet and epistolary novelist Ann Eliza Bleecker (pictured) lost three generations of her family fleeing to Albany during Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign?
 * ...that Serenade No. 10 for winds by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is scored for twelve wind instruments and double bass and consists of seven movements?
 * ...that former British Member of Parliament Walter Scott-Elliot was murdered by "Monster Butler" Archibald Hall?
 * ...that Munir Bashir, known for his mastery of the maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the Middle East during the 20th century?
 * ...that the Heinkel He 50, designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1931, was used operationally by Germany almost until the end of World War II?
 * ...that Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes hired some painters and sculptors as assistants even though they didn't have experience as pastry chefs?

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