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 * ...that the Altdeutsche Tracht (example pictured), a Renaissance-influenced fashion, was popular in Germany during the last years of the Napoleonic wars as a sign of resistance against "French fashion foolishness"?
 * ...that Hilda Hewlett was the first British female aviator to earn a pilot's licence?
 * ...that Peter Knowles, a popular English football player,  voluntarily ended his football career at the age of 24, after becoming a Jehovah's Witness?
 * ...that an inquiry into Sidhom Bishay's execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and recounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor?
 * ...that ABC-TV's Broadcast Standards and Practices department placed a gagging order on the song "Jihad" by American thrash band Slayer during its live US network broadcast?
 * ...that Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
 * ...that Katsuhiko Nakajima, a Japanese professional wrestler, represented as a freelancer by Kensuke Office, is the youngest junior heavyweight champion in history?
 * ...that the citadel that once stood on the mountain of Tâmpa in Transylvania was never captured by an enemy force?
 * ...that the paintings of the Giant's Causeway by Irish artist Susanna Drury were so detailed that the authors of the French Encyclopédie used an engraving of one as a reference, and included it in a supplementary volume?
 * ...that Vodka Belt, an informal term for the territory where vodka is the most popular alcoholic beverage, correlates with the growing region of vodka's traditional ingredients?
 * ...that Hurricane Katrina in 1981 caused two deaths?
 * ...that the endangered Syncaris pacifica (pictured) uses variable translucency and color changing crypsis for underwater camouflage?
 * ...that the charity song "The Magnificent" became a protest anthem of the Serbian anti-Milošević resistance?
 * ...that the pen-name of the Kannada poet, Karnataka Ratna and Jnanpith Award winner Kuvempu, was derived from his full name "Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa", Kuppalli being his native place?
 * ...that following its industrialization, Bridgeport, Connecticut became a manufacturing center producing such goods as the famous Bridgeport milling machine, brass fittings, carriages, sewing machines, saddles, and ammunition?
 * ...that tradition indicates Nicasius of Rheims completed saying his prayer at his execution after he had been beheaded?
 * ...that the 1989 secret files scandal in Switzerland resulted from the revelation that police had been engaged in illegal surveillance?
 * ...that the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force's Demonstration Squadron, selected Brigadier General Ricardo Aponte (pictured) as their Spanish language narrator for the Latin America Tour of 1992?
 * ...that during the 72 day session of the First State Duma in 1906, a total of 391 requests about illegal actions of the Russian government were filed, but only two laws were passed?
 * ...that in 1990, it was revealed that a stay-behind army had been active in Switzerland throughout the Cold War, preparing for a Soviet invasion?
 * ...that the 1957 film La Anam in 1996 was selected as one of the best Egyptian films in history by the Egyptian Film association?
 * ...that Fort Senneville, built in 1671 near Montreal, included the most fortified windmill in New France, along with a machicolation and other castle-like features?
 * ...that the Phyllodon, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic found in present-day Portugal, may have been closely related to North American dinosaurs?
 * ...that Russian philanthropist and financier Alexander von Stieglitz (pictured) was the first governor of the State Bank of the Russian Empire?
 * ...that the Kalka-Shimla Railway track, a narrow gauge rail track in Himachal Pradesh, has a length of 96 kilometres, passing through 102 tunnels and crossing 864 bridges?
 * ...that bergamottin, a chemical found in grapefruit, is believed to be responsible for drug interactions known as the "grapefruit juice effect"?
 * ...that aussieBum, an Australian swimwear manufacturer, was founded by Sean Ashby in 2001 when he couldn't find the "Aussie cozzie" style of swimwear he grew up with?
 * ...that Otto Orseolo became Doge of Venice in 1006 at the age of 16, the youngest in history?
 * ...that copies of the 1982 biopic Will: G. Gordon Liddy, about a Watergate co-conspirator, are stored in the Nixon Presidential Materials collection at the U.S. National Archives?
 * ...that Piers Corbyn claims that he can predict the weather a year in advance by observing solar activity?
 * ...that the Laigh Milton viaduct (pictured), built in 1812, is the oldest surviving railway viaduct in Scotland and one of the oldest in the world?
 * ...that Shenxiu, one of the most influential Chan Buddhist masters of his day, is known as the “loser” in modern Zen circles?
 * ...that the F-111 fighter, the B-1 bomber, the Space Shuttle, and the Boeing fleet of commercial airliners were all tested at the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel?
 * ...that Danish painter Carl-Henning Pedersen was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall"?
 * ...that the island sub-species of the Tomtit are much larger than their mainland relatives?
 * ...that when builders told Lou Henry Hoover, who designed her own house, that some of her architectural ideas weren't done, she responded, "Well, it's time someone did"?
 * ...that the gravestone of Abraham von Franckenberg, a 17th century mystic, is covered with as yet undeciphered mystical symbols?
 * ...that the La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial (pictured), dedicated to the missing British dead killed in the first few months of World War I, was built on land donated in memory of the 19th century French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau?
 * ...that Billy Walkabout is thought to have been the most highly decorated Native American in the Vietnam War?
 * ...that during the 1690 Battle of Québec, a group of French paddled a canoe up to the English flagship and under a hail of musket shots managed to return its ensign to the city unscathed?
 * ...that forensic scientist Paul Kirk, who is known for his work on the Sam Sheppard case, worked to isolate fissionable plutonium on the Manhattan Project?
 * ...that a 1934 survey of Japanese language education in the United States found only thirteen professors in the whole country fluent in Japanese?
 * ...that the Fenari Isa Mosque (pictured) in Istanbul represents one of the first examples of edifices with a quincuncial plan in Byzantine architecture?
 * ...that silent film star Norma Talmadge started a famous Hollywood tradition when she accidentally stepped into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater?
 * ...that the Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, Géraud Réveilhac ordered artillery to shell his own troops in order to force them to attack?
 * ...that until 1947 in Spain, Eurosia was the patron saint of demonic possession?
 * ...that Julius Fromm invented the latex condom in 1914 and marketed his invention under the name Fromms Act until he was forced to sell his business under Nazi rule?
 * ...that legendary Łysa Góra is the site of an ancient pagan temple, a ruined monastery (pictured) that gave its name to the local mountain range and province and the tallest TV tower in Poland?
 * ...that VolgaGES in Russia is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe as it produces 2541 KW?
 * ...that the U.S. Navy's Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment, a combined whole-body dry suit and one-man life raft, allows submariners to escape from depths of up to 600 feet (180 meters)?
 * ...that Ralph "Petey" Greene overcame a drug addiction and prison sentence to become an Emmy Award-winning radio and television talk show host and a guest at the White House?
 * ...that the French torpedo boat La Combattante ferried General de Gaulle and other Free French leaders across the English Channel from Portsmouth to Courseulles in Normandy on 14 July 1944?

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