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 * ...that the Eastgate Clock (pictured) in Chester is the second most photographed timepiece in the United Kingdom, after Big Ben?
 * ...that the location of tropical cyclone formations are traditionally divided into seven basins?
 * ...that Hernando Arias de Saavedra was the first native-born governor of a New World colony and issued the order leading to the modern-day partition of Argentina and Paraguay?
 * ...that Kavirajamarga, the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language, was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar?
 * ...that many Australian wool, dairy, and wheat towns were created overnight when demobilized WWI and WWII soldiers accepted Crown land in otherwise uninhabited rural locations?
 * ...that the Life Assurance Act 1774, still in force in Britain today, closed a legal loophole which had allowed life insurance policies to be used as a form of gambling?
 * ...that the Spartan Cruiser (pictured) was originally designed as mail plane and even flew a test flight to Karachi as such, but was then transformed into a passenger airplane in 1932?
 * ...that Stefan Báthory assisted Vlad Dracula to reclaim the throne of Wallachia in 1476?
 * ...that when it was shown at the Metropolitan Opera, Diana von Solange by Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was so poorly received that three hundred people signed a petition demanding that it be removed from the repertory?
 * ...that Beata Brookes, Conservative MEP for North Wales for ten years, has been nicknamed "the Celtic Iron Lady"?
 * ...that the actions of Captain Alfred C. Haynes and the crew of United Airlines Flight 232 are often cited as an exemplar of good airmanship?
 * ...that the 22 Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the Iliad, as well as early versions of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John?
 * ...that the Red and Green Kangaroo Paw (pictured) is the floral emblem of the state of Western Australia?
 * ...that The Christian by Hall Caine (published 1897) was the first novel in Britain to sell over a million copies?
 * ...that British Conservative MP Norman Miscampbell turned down knighthood because he thought it would prevent him enjoying his retirement from politics?
 * ...that the former KGB agent Yuri Nosenko was incarcerated for five years by the CIA including 1,277 days of interrogation, because the American agents did not believe he had truly defected?
 * ...that Leon Wasilewski, first Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, was one of the chief supporters of the Prometheism policy aimed at breaking up the Soviet Union?
 * ...that Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden wrote three biographies about the Russian imperial family and about her own escape from Russia in 1917?
 * ...that in 1952 the Russian mathematician Veniamin Kagan (pictured) resigned from his post at Moscow State University partly as a result of anti-Semitic practices there?
 * ...that, when first built, the Chicago Board of Trade Building became the second structure located at 141 West Jackson Boulevard to bear, for a time, the title of tallest building in Chicago?
 * ...that just 51 days after Adam Air's loss of Flight 574, Adam Air Flight 172 snapped in half after a hard landing, but there were no casualties?
 * ...that George Cecil Ives created the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society to promote gay rights, and left 122 volumes of diaries and 45 of scrapbooks?
 * ...that approximately 300 pieces of mail a day are still being sent to 10048, the ZIP code assigned to the former World Trade Center complex?
 * ...that the legend of the smuggler Cruel Coppinger was embellished by Reverend Robert Stephen Hawker when he published it in 1866?
 * ...that the proposals for a new Crimean flag after the collapse of the Soviet Union included a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top and a blue-white-red tricolor design (pictured), which was officially adopted in 1999?
 * ...that the fast bowling during West Indies' tour to England in 1984 was so hostile that England Test cricketer Andy Lloyd was struck on the head and hospitalised, despite wearing a helmet, and Paul Terry's arm was broken?
 * ...that Tropical Depression One in June 1992 produced 100-year floods in portions of southwestern Florida?
 * ...that Romanian politician Teohari Georgescu was dismissed from his post as Interior Minister after being simultaneously accused of left-wing and right-wing deviationism?
 * ...that the fourth Nordic Football Championship tournament was started in 1937 but did not end until eleven years later as it was interrupted by the Second World War?
 * ...that Jennifer Pike was the youngest person to ever win the BBC Young Musician of the Year award, at twelve years of age?
 * ...that a Drascombe (Drascombe Dabber pictured) is a class of small sailing boats designed by John Watkinson?
 * ...that Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford flew Catalina flying boats in the Second World War, and was involved in the last sinking of a German U-boat on 8 May 1945?
 * ...that the National Language Authority in Pakistan is the first autonomous regulatory institution to have internationally standardized the Urdu language code table and Urdu keyboard for typewriters, teleprinters, and computer software?
 * ...that in the Lithuanian calendar, three months are named for birds and two for trees?
 * ...that Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was, in 1920, the first American comic strip to have a working woman as the main character?
 * ...that the Volga Tatars believed that the Volga Bulgarian medieval city of Aşlı was founded there by Alexander the Great?
 * ...that Louis IX of France resided in the walled city of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne (pictured) before departing on the Eighth Crusade, during which he died in 1270 near Tunis?
 * ...that A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant had its name changed due to threats of litigation from the Church of Scientology?
 * ...that the official recognition of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Transylvania in the late 18th century was the result of the activity of an Orthodox monk who was canonized two centuries later as Saint Sofronie of Cioara?
 * ...that the Ludlow Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution requiring a national referendum for declaration of war?
 * ...that despite using sharp needles, bird control spikes do not harm the animals, and are recommended by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds?
 * ...that Jim Zumbo was forced out of a 30-year career at Outdoor Life magazine, had his television show pulled from the air, and was dropped from sponsorship by companies including Remington and Cabelas due to a single blog post?
 * ...that Kanawha (pictured) was a steam-powered luxury yacht aboard which industrialist Henry H. Rogers met Booker T. Washington to secretly fund the education of African Americans?
 * ...that the Haitian palm, Attalea crassispatha, is so rare that there were only 25 of them left in 1991?
 * ...that Belarusian political authorities denounced Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy 's book History of Belarus in 1926 as a "Cathechesis of Belarusian National Democratism", banned it and confiscated its manuscript?
 * ...that British Member of Parliament George Chetwynd seconded a Private Member's Bill to ban toy weapons because he believed they were an incentive to acquire a "gangster mentality"?
 * ...that Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa committed murder, kidnapping, racketeering, and tax evasion during the 1990s, all in an attempt to establish a chain of gas stations in New York City?
 * ...that one of the statues at the erotic temple Candi Sukuh (pictured) in Java, Indonesia, is a 1.82 m (6 feet) standing phallus with four balls placed below the tip?
 * ...that Derek Gardner became a leading British painter of marine subjects after retiring from a civil engineering career due to deafness?
 * ...that Kobe Bryant's agent, Rob Pelinka, was the only person to play in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship for both the 1989 champion Michigan and for both of the 1992 and 1993 runners-up known as the Fab Five teams?
 * ...that Fort William College, set up for the training of British officials, fostered the development of Indian languages?
 * ...that the lower species diversity among certain mammals of New England compared to mammals of the American West is thought to be due to fewer glacial refugia in the Eastern United States?
 * ...that according to legend, Joseph Stalin's remained in Moscow during World War II partly due to a prophecy from Matryona Nikonova, whom he covertly visited while she was hiding from his government?

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