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 * ...that Yoshiaki Yamashita, a pioneer of judo in the United States, was the first person to have been awarded 10-dan grading in Kodokan judo?
 * ...that the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus, founded in Australia in 1990, was the first organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere?
 * ...that Blackadder II, the first series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, contains many tongue-in-cheek references to the plays of William Shakespeare?
 * ...that the opening sequence to the 1983 Thai film, Gunman was shot by the director, Chatrichalerm Yukol, while riding on the back of a motorcycle?
 * ...that because of its system of ravines, Toronto has been described as "San Francisco turned upside down"?
 * ...that the Russian architect Afanasy Grigoriev is best known for his refined Empire style mansions in Moscow (Khrushyov House pictured)?
 * ...that the Roman Catholic Church objected to the English translations in the Tyndale Bible, believing them to be purposeful mistranslations to promote anticlericalism and heretical views?
 * ...that the Texas State University labor historian Gregg Andrews is also a folk musician performing under the name "Doctor G"?
 * ...that Irish poet John Keegan Casey was released from prison on the condition he leave for Australia, but instead he stayed in Dublin in disguise?
 * ...that Norwegian-born merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader in the United States?
 * ...that, thanks to a secret radio nicknamed the 'Old Lady' (pictured), POWs at Batu Lintang camp in Borneo knew about the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II before most of their guards?
 * ...that Dimitrie Gerota, who is considered to be Romania's first radiologist, was forced to abandon this field after his hand had to be amputated as a result of radiodermatitis?
 * ...that the retired United States Air Force lieutenant general Nicholas Kehoe became the President and CEO of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in 2003 after 34 years of military service?
 * ...that the Alexander Suvorov cruise ship stayed afloat despite its crash into a girder of Ulyanovsk railway bridge that lead to 177 deaths, and is still in working order today?
 * ...that a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
 * ...that the Grotto at Goldney House (pictured), Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with over 200 species of shell brought back from the Caribbean and African waters?
 * ...that the Balık sisters from Turkey are the only identical twins singing opera?
 * ...that the 1935 film Joymati, produced and directed by the noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala, was the first-ever Assamese language film?
 * ...that during the territorial history of Mexico, five states declared independence, though all but Texas returned to Mexico?
 * ...that in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the love between Acis and Galatea ended when a jealous suitor named Polyphemus killed Acis with a boulder?
 * ...that the U.S. Navy repair ship USS Mindanao (pictured) was severely damaged and almost a third of her crew killed or injured when the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood blew up nearby in Seeadler Harbor in 1944?
 * ...that Jamaican actress and singer Amru Sani appeared on the same 1956 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show as Elvis Presley?
 * ...that Carla Thorneycroft married Conservative Party politician Peter Thorneycroft in 1949, after their respective first marriages had both been dissolved and almost 20 years after the two were first engaged?
 * ...that Indian copper plate inscriptions play an important role in the reconstruction of  India's elusive history?
 * ...that plants in the genus Gillenia (Gillenia trifoliata pictured) are often planted as ornamentals and used as a herbal remedy?
 * ...that the first railway locomotive in China was in service for only 15 months between 1876 and 1877 before being purchased and deliberately destroyed by the ruling Qing Dynasty?
 * ...that the Presidential Palace in Kaunas was used as a movie theater during the Soviet rule of Lithuania?
 * ...that the eyespots of green algae and euglenids are the simplest and most common "eyes" found in nature?
 * ...that Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia claimed to have a tumor to hide the fact she was pregnant with the illegitimate child of her lover?
 * ...that Operation Queen was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the western front between Aachen and the Rur river in November 1944?
 * ...that USS Luzon (pictured) was an internal combustion engine repair ship, named after the Island of Luzon, the chief island in the northern Philippines?
 * ...that according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?
 * ...that, in mythology, iron is often associated with blood, or used as a protective or lucky charm?
 * ...that Yogesh K. Gandhi and his Gandhi Memorial International Foundation were investigated by the United States Senate and Department of Justice for contributions to the Democratic National Committee?
 * ...that Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980 film Zigeunerweisen across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese Academy Awards?
 * ...that United States Marine Sergeant Aubrey McDade (pictured) was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Iraq in 2004?
 * ...that the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?
 * ...that Edward Alleyn had to form a partnership with twelve others to meet the £1,000 cost to rebuild the Fortune Playhouse in London after it burned down in 1621?
 * ...that Sir Norman Hulbert claimed that That Was The Week That Was infringed Parliamentary privilege in 1963 when it named 13 MPs who had not spoken in the chamber of the House of Commons since they were elected in 1959?
 * ...that the musical Foxy was a total flop in Dawson City in 1962, costing its producers their $400,000 investment, but was revived on Broadway in 1964?
 * ...that Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (Parijs van Java) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street?
 * ...that the pocket billiards game cribbage (balls pictured), named after the card game, allows 134,120,448,000 possible racking configurations?
 * ...that Chester Wilmot, the Australian War correspondent and military historian of the Second World War, was killed in an air crash in 1954?
 * ...that Ashoka's Major Rock Edict was the first and most impressive of Ashoka's edits, and is the only one remaining unaltered in its original location?
 * ...that the Percival Petrel, a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage, was used as British communications aircraft in World War II?
 * ...that more than six thousand Japanese people settled in North Korea voluntarily in the 1960s, accompanying ethnic Korean spouses returning under a repatriation campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean governments?
 * ...that in 1977 United States President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech containing the local Geordie phrase "Ha'way-tha-lads!" at Newcastle Civic Centre (pictured), a civic centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England?
 * ...that Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children?
 * ...that TIME magazine's Gerald Loeb Award-winning article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" highlights the suicide of Noah Lottick?
 * ...that, after a heavy bomb raid on the city of Heilbronn, raining fragments of the blast were lodged in cattle in the surrounding countryside, and that this meant days of slaughtering for veterinarians?
 * ...that World Vision, an international charity organization, have developed various famine events that spread across the globe, notably the 30 Hour Famine?

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