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 * ...that the Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca (pictured), built to defend the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba from pirate attacks, was captured and partially destroyed by pirates while it was being constructed?
 * ...that Free French Forces liberated all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France in November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon?
 * ...that the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion in Canadian libraries during 1974?
 * ...that U-F2 was a French submarine that was taken as a prize by the Germans in 1940 from a dockyard, and was later converted for German usage?
 * ...that prominent Russian sculptor Fyodor Kamensky worked as a farmer in Florida?
 * ...that the Monastery of Jesus (vault of main chapel pictured) in Setúbal, Portugal, the first building associated with the Manueline style, was built by Diogo Boitac?
 * ...that the National Art Museum of Ukraine's (pictured) collections were first exhibited outside the country after it reached independence in 1991?
 * ...that "Antietam" is misspelled on the facade of the Civil War Memorial in DeKalb County, Illinois?
 * ...that the majority of Assyrians in Finland live in Oulu, the sixth largest city in the country?
 * ...that for participating in the American premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal against the wishes of the composer's family, Milka Ternina was never again invited to perform at Bayreuth?
 * ...that the Grade I-listed St. Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, England, was described as a "monster excrescence", "a cheese warehouse" and a "brick parallelogram" by some of its detractors at a heated Council meeting in 1893?
 * ...that Albinus of Angers, who as bishop reportedly used diocesan funds to ransom people captured by pirates, thereafter became the patron saint against pirate attack and of coastal communities as far away as Poland and New Jersey?
 * ...that Saturn Devouring His Son (pictured), by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, was painted directly onto the wall of his house and never intended for public exhibition?
 * ...that Portuguese architect Mateus Fernandes is best known for his Manueline-style work at the Monastery of Batalha?
 * ...that the Winter Garden Atrium was the first major structure in New York City to be completely restored following the September 11, 2001 attacks?
 * ...that James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait, and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was?
 * ...that the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine was used as a House of Political Education and a Bolshevik Club after the Russian Revolution?
 * ...that the last Hungarian inhabitants of Niedzica Castle, Poland, (pictured) remained there until 1943 when the coming of the Soviet front in World War II inspired the last countess to abandon it with her children?
 * ...that the mummified fossil of an Edmontosaurus annectens was secured by the American Museum of Natural History for $2,000?
 * ...that the pool game of baseball pocket billiards borrows both language and aspects of form from the game of baseball, featuring a pitcher, a home plate, runs and is played to nine innings?
 * ...that Ousmane Sembène's 1966 Senegalese film Black Girl was one of the first Sub-Saharan African films to receive international acclaim?
 * ...that of the 95 Auk class minesweepers used in World War II only one was sunk by an enemy submarine and only 11 were lost in total?
 * ...that the Leo J. Ryan Federal Building, which opened in 1973, was named in honor of Congressman Leo J. Ryan, the first and only United States Congressman to die in the line of duty?


 * ...that in 1918 the issue of Lietuvos Aidas (pictured) containing the text of the Act of Independence of Lithuania was confiscated by the German authorities?
 * ...that "Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet?" received three perfect scores at the start of voting in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 before ultimately coming in fourth, making Hungary the only debuting nation to lead the voting?
 * ...that a shop drawing is not created by the architect or the engineer, but by the fabricator?
 * ...that Dr. Colin Skinner, a British molecular biologist, is attempting to walk around the world?
 * ...that wandering spleen is a rare medical disease caused by the loss or weakening of the ligaments that help to keep the spleen in the upper left part of the abdomen?
 * ...that the Stowe Recreation Path received the majority of its funding from selling of pieces of it, as small as an inch?
 * ...that the medieval bylaw, which states any Welshman loitering within Chester city walls (pictured) after sunset may be shot with a longbow, has never been officially repealed?
 * ...that the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie is the oldest continuously operating theater in New York State?
 * ...that the heart of Frederic Chopin is kept in an urn in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw?
 * ...that the Inuktun language, spoken by 1000 Inughuit people around Qaanaaq in northern Greenland, is closer to the Canadian Inuit languages?
 * ...that retired American football player William Fuller is one of the few players in National Football League history to record 100 career quarterback sacks?
 * ...that Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was the second railway in the world that was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?
 * ...that modern billiard chalk (pictured), which is not actually chalk but a compound of silica and corundum, was invented by player William A. Spinks and a chemist friend in 1897?
 * ...that Edyta Górniak sang part of "To Nie Ja" in English at the dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, which almost caused the song to be disqualified?
 * ...that Mount Omine is a sacred mountain in Nara, Japan, famous for its controversial ban on women and for its three tests of courage?
 * ...that the first gender reassignment surgery took place in Denmark in 1930?
 * ...that Tolay Lake has yielded thousands of charmstones thrown into the lake by prehistoric peoples to invoke health and high crop yields?
 * ...that the illumination method used in modern light microscope design was invented by 27-year-old German graduate student August Köhler in 1893?
 * ...that 1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + · · · (graph pictured), being the Cauchy product of two copies of 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · ·, is an example of a series that is Abel summable but not Cesàro summable?
 * ...that Goat Rock Beach in Sonoma County, California has a number of sea stacks and offers viewing of marine natural arches? ...
 * ...that Lou Ye's film Summer Palace was the first Chinese film to feature both male and female full-frontal nudity?
 * ...that Nicholas II of Russia, his wife and children have all been recognized as saints of the Russian Orthodox Church?
 * ...that Vitamin C megadosage is an alternative medical practice which advocates huge doses of vitamin C to cure a wide range of diseases?
 * ...that Jacob Dacian, a Franciscan missionary to the P'urhépecha Indians of Mexico, spoke 8 different languages and was probably a son of King John I of Denmark?
 * ...that 16-year-old Cory Kennedy became an "Internet It girl" in 2006 without her parents even knowing?

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