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 * ...that alongside the many honours, awards and medals bestowed upon him during his lifetime Winston Churchill (pictured) was offered a dukedom, which he declined?
 * ...that Grey's Scouts, despite starting off as a small provision group, became one of the most effective and successful Special Forces units in the Rhodesian Bush War?
 * ...that although the modern trumpet is a recent invention, primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia?
 * ...that the Amoy dialect of Chinese formed the basis of Taiwanese?
 * ...that the Chaga mushroom has been used as a folk remedy in Eastern European countries for ulcers, cancer and gastritis since the 16th century?
 * ...that Dr. John Billings was an Australian neurologist who developed the Billings ovulation method of family planning?
 * ...that the Poznań International Fair is the largest trade fair in Poland?
 * ...that the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park (logo pictured) is the first national tribute to home front American women?
 * ...that 18th century prostitute Sally Salisbury was sent to prison after a riot but was released by a judge who was infatuated with her?
 * ...that the city of Mysore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, has been called the "Cultural Capital of Karnataka"?
 * ...that Neil McLean persuaded the British government not to recognise the Yemen Arab Republic takeover of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen during the North Yemen Civil War?
 * ...the 1765 cookery book The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete woman cook by English author Susannah Carter was republished in Boston in 1772, illustrated with engravings by Paul Revere?
 * ...the AT&T Corporate Center is the tallest building built in Chicago in the last quarter of the 20th century?
 * ...that a view from the Plaza Mayor (pictured) in Trinidad, Cuba, is featured on the 25 centavo convertible peso coin?
 * ...that the Century apartments is one of the first residential buildings to be built in the Art Deco style, causing it to stand out from its Beaux-Arts neighbors on Central Park West?
 * ...that despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences?
 * ...that convicted American felon Matthew Cox was so bold in committing over $15 million of mortgage fraud that he allegedly even took out a mortgage under the name of The Simpsons character "C. Montgomery Burns"?
 * ...that The Wordless Book was invented by the London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon and employs religious symbolism and color psychology in evangelism?
 * ...that the Bangladeshi filmmaker Alamgir Kabir was imprisoned by Ayub Khan for being a leftist?
 * ...that Eagle Grange No. 1 (pictured) in Clinton Township, Lycoming County was the first grange to be established in Pennsylvania?
 * ...that upon completion of Central Reclamation Phase 1 of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project in Hong Kong, the coastline of Central, Hong Kong was extended up to 350 metres beyond the original coastline?
 * ...that Eugene Antonio Marino became the first African American Catholic archbishop in the United States in 1988?
 * ...that Hungerford Market, a food market in London for nearly 200 years, was demolished in the 1860s to make way for Charing Cross railway station?
 * ...that George B. Schwabe served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1921 to 1922 and was the first and only Republican to hold that position until 2005?
 * ...that Jaina Island, a Maya necropolis, contains over 20,000 burials, with every one excavated having one or more ceramic figurines (example pictured)?
 * ...that the LST-1-class tank landing ship USS Benzie County was featured in a World War II-era Camel cigarettes advertisement?
 * ...that the 1903 Vagabond Hurricane is the most recent Atlantic hurricane to strike the state of New Jersey, and briefly threatened the life of President Theodore Roosevelt?
 * ...that large reredos above the altar in St. Martin's Church in Brighton, England, includes 20 pictures and 69 statues, all of which were carved in Oberammergau, Germany?
 * ...that 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster case, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California schools?
 * ...that architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building, in New York City, when it opened in 1929?
 * ...that a sculpture of Jesus near Tiškevičiai Palace (pictured) in Palanga was torn down in 1948 and not reconstructed until 1993?
 * ...that Al Sobotka, who drives the Zamboni for Detroit Red Wings games, is the namesake of the team mascot Al the Octopus?
 * ...that naturalist Remington Kellogg used his time serving in France during World War I to collect specimens for universities in the United States?
 * ...that archaeologists discovered bones of at least seven people sacrificed by druids in Havránok, Slovakia?
 * ...that the Imperial Castle in Poznań was to be a symbol of Prussian power but was lost to Poland only eight years after its completion?
 * ...that the Poznań 1956 protests (memorial pictured) were the first major demonstration against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland?
 * ...that in five years of operation during World War II, more than 747 vessels were built in the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California&mdash;a feat not equaled anywhere else in the world, before or since?
 * ...that Stylidium graminifolium was one of only four Stylidium species collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander in Botany Bay on their 1770 voyage with James Cook?
 * ...that newly appointed Roman procurator Lucceius Albinus had not reached Judea when he learned that James the brother of Jesus had been stoned without Roman authorization?
 * ...that the geology of Gloucestershire (Garden Cliff pictured) is one of the most diverse in England, with rocks from the Precambrian through to the Jurassic represented?
 * ...that The Crystals did not actually sing on their 1962 #1 hit "He's a Rebel"?
 * ...that Pectinaria australis, a marine ice cream cone worm of New Zealand, builds a delicate tube home from sand grains only one grain thick?
 * ...that New York City's Central Park West Historic District contains only one building not felt to contribute to its historic character?
 * ...that Brazilian bull rider Adriano Moraes is one of only three men to ride ten out of ten bulls at the U.S. National Finals Rodeo?
 * ...that Ellis Bent was the first barrister appointed as a judge in Australia?
 * ...that the fossil of Ichthyornis (pictured) discovered by Benjamin Franklin Mudge was the first bird recognized to possess teeth?
 * ...that despite the relatively low level of academic output by Professor Gary Chaison, he is widely cited in the American mass media?
 * ...that Le Quang Tung, the Catholic head of South Vietnam's special forces had his CIA funding threatened because he concentrated on repressing Buddhists and raiding temples instead of fighting communists?
 * ...that press passes grant the bearer access to crime scenes or other restricted areas unless it would interfere with the duties of emergency personnel?
 * ...that Innocence, a 2005 documentary film about a school in rural northern Thailand, influenced the Thai government to reverse cuts it had made in the education budget?
 * ...that after Antoninus of Sorrento and Catellus of Castellammare both resigned from the same bishopric, Saint Michael appeared to tell them to found a new church?
 * ...that Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invented what is now known as BASE jumping by parachuting from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in 1783 (jump illustrated), and also coined the word parachute?
 * ...that bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński was one of the leaders of the Bar Confederation, the first Polish uprising?
 * ...that Dr Brewer's A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar is a 19th century example of the persistence of the caloric theory of heat transfer?
 * ...that poison, over its 6500-year history, has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination?
 * ...that the Banat Bulgarian Stefan Dunjov participated in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification, and was the first Bulgarian to be promoted to the rank of Colonel?
 * ...that Anuruddha, one of the leading five disciples of Gautama Buddha, was his cousin?
 * ...that Tillamook Cheddar (pictured), a Jack Russell Terrier from Brooklyn, New York, is the world's most successful and widely shown animal artist?
 * ...that Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets is believed to have been the first professional painter of Chechen origin ever?
 * ...that the Gortyn code is the largest surviving piece of ancient Greek epigraphy?
 * ...that aquarium filters are necessary to support life as aquaria are relatively small, closed volumes of water compared to the natural environment of most fish?
 * ...that British architect Jan Kaplický escaped from Prague to London in the wake of the Prague Spring, carrying only US$100 and a few pairs of socks?
 * ...that the cornerstone of moral syncretism is that religion cannot be the only arbiter of morality?
 * ...that Chabad rabbi Milton Balkany misappropriated more than $700,000 of federal grant money from a charitable organisation that cared for disabled children?
 * ...that, 23 years after explorer Charles Sturt found and named the Murray River, his brother Evelyn Sturt (pictured), a Police Magistrate and notable grazier, declared it absurd that the area would ever become agricultural?
 * ...that the Australian cricket team's world record of 16 consecutive wins ended during its 2002 India tour, when India recorded only the third win in Test cricket history by a side forced to follow-on?
 * ...that Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the oldest church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was originally built by a Universalist Society but soon acquired by a Catholic French Canadian congregation?
 * ...that Adolfo Holley was the first Minister of War and Navy of the victorious revolutionary congressional junta in the Chilean Civil War?
 * ...that Assaji, the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant, converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples?
 * ...that the Woodward & Lothrop Service Warehouse in Washington, D.C. still features a large pink neon sign identifying it as a Woodward & Lothrop property, even though the company is defunct?
 * ...that pattens (pictured) were wooden-soled overshoes worn from the 14th to 19th centuries to raise the wearer above mud and dirt?
 * ...that Work, painted over 13 years from 1852 to 1865, is generally considered to be the most important painting by Ford Madox Brown?
 * ...that the units of the Red Army and the Afghan army fought the Battles of Zhawar in 1985-86 to destroy a mujahideen supply base near the Pakistani border?
 * ...that numerous common idioms feature one of the various slang meanings of 'dime'?
 * ...that when Birmingham-based early-music choir Ex Cathedra founded its Baroque orchestra in its 1983–1984 season, this was the first period instrument orchestra to be established in an English city outside London?
 * ...that Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam after a fraudulent 1955 election run by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, polling 133% of registered voters in Saigon?
 * ...that Sara Gruen’s historical novel Water for Elephants recounts that circus workers were sometimes thrown off the circus train in the middle of the night, a practice known as "redlighting"?
 * ...that the term reserve heads (pictured) found in Ancient Egyptian tombs is derived from the prevalent theory that they serve as an alternate home for the spirit of the dead owner should anything happen to the body?
 * ...that an entire army had to retreat during the Cádiz Expedition of 1625 because almost all had become drunk on wine taken from a village they were raiding?
 * ...that The Best Bet, a film by Singaporean gambling addict Jack Neo, was intended to warn people of the perils of gambling?
 * ...that the July Theses, a set of proposals found in a speech by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, were inspired by his visits to Communist China, Korea and Vietnam?
 * ...that a boycott of Juanes' song "La Camisa Negra" was organized after it was used by neo-fascists?
 * ...that Squirrel Systems introduced the first touch screen point of sale terminal in 1984?
 * ...that the mother of Jamila Massey, an Indian actress and writer, refused to allow her to attend drama school, after the death of her father?
 * ...that the rare Pitkin Marsh lily is limited today to three small colonies, due to cattle overgrazing of its habitat (pictured) and the flower's popularity with humans?
 * ...that bishop Barbatus of Benevento is thought to have helped the city's resistance to Byzantine Emperor Constans II by destroying a Temple of Isis in the city, reusing the materials in building the city wall?
 * ...that Dumitru Dămăceanu was a Romanian Army officer prominent in the royal coup of 1944, and later was a signatory to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947?
 * ...that the late-15th century Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, is one of the most famous works composed by Josquin des Prez?
 * ...that the Brabham BT19 driven by Jack Brabham was the first car bearing its driver's name to win a Formula One world championship race?
 * ...that during his tenure as India's cricket coach, Kapil Dev, broke down in a BBC interview about alleged match-fixing?
 * ...that the California Wine Country (pictured) is known for its cuisine, recreation and history as much as viticulture?
 * ...that Ajit Wadekar was the first Indian to represent the country as Test Cricket player, captain, coach/manager and Chairman of Selectors?
 * ...that Alexander of Bergamo is thought to have survived the decimation of the Theban Legion for their conversion to Christianity only to be individually beheaded later for the same reason?
 * ...that as part of a successful flattery campaign to persuade Ngo Dinh Diem's loyalist general Ton That Dinh to defect, his colleagues bribed his soothsayer to predict his elevation to political authority?
 * ...that British barrister Sir Tony Hetherington was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service after it was founded in 1986?
 * ...that it is estimated that 40% of the Tamil and Malayalam Nadar caste are Christians?
 * ...that the priest Leopold Moczygemba (pictured) was responsible for the founding of Panna Maria, Texas, the first Polish community in the United States?
 * ...that the SS in Nazi Germany were above civilian law, answering only to the SS-run Hauptamt SS Gericht?
 * ...that after his 1967 film Branded to Kill, contract director Seijun Suzuki was fired by the Nikkatsu Company for making films "that make no sense"?
 * ...that retired LAPD homicide detective "Jigsaw John" St. John was posthumously reinstated to active duty after his death in 1995 so that he could be buried as a detective?
 * ...that the Chronicle of Huru, a 19th century forgery advancing Moldavia's independence, claimed that a Moldavian federal republic emerged from the Roman province of Dacia in 274?
 * ...that Patacara, who became a Buddhist while disconsolately wandering naked through the Indian city of Savatthi, rose to become the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in her mastery of the Vinaya?
 * ...that the 16th-century Castillo de la Real Fuerza in Havana is the oldest stone fortress in the Americas?

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