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 * ...that Joachim Piccolomini (pictured) was repeatedly urged by his fellow Servites to become a priest, but felt unworthy to be anything more than an altar server?
 * ...that Neville Duke was the top Allied fighter ace in the Mediterranean theatre in World War II, having shot down at least 27 aircraft?
 * ...that the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball program is the only college women's team to appear in every NCAA Tournament and every Sweet 16?
 * ...that in the book Beyond Capricorn Peter Trickett claims that the Portuguese were the first to discover Australia, between 1519-24?
 * ...that Sir Charles MacCarthy, the British colonial governor of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, was killed by the Ashanti and his head kept as a trophy?
 * ...that Uruguayan footballer Víctor Rodríguez Andrade helped found Uruguayan Basketball Federation team 25 de Agosto?
 * ...that Zhang Chengzhi, who formed China's first group of Red Guards while a student at Tsinghua University Middle School, converted to Islam?
 * ...that bats comprise about 20% of all mammal species found in the Central Oregon Coast Range (pictured)?
 * ...that the traditional Bengali panjika, the Hindu astrological almanac, has come out with an interactive CD version?
 * ...that none of the storms of the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season in the Arabian Sea made landfall?
 * ...that as Charles I of Austria attempted to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921, Czechoslovakia nearly entered Budapest in order to prevent a Habsburg restoration?
 * ...that the study reported in Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training concluded that attending an LGAT seminar had minimal lasting effects, positive or negative, on participants' self-perception?
 * ...that Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans-Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges?
 * ...that only three works of Egardus, a fourteenth century composer whose music was known in Flanders, Italy, and Poland, are known to have survived?
 * ...that the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs (teams pictured) had an intense rivalry, during which the teams combined for six NBA championships in seven seasons?
 * ...that Gottlieb Ott changed Berne's cityscape both by constructing new buildings and removing a medieval tower?
 * ...that the All India Sikh Students Federation was a major part of the movement for a Sikh-majority state of Punjab in India?
 * ...that species of Prosaurolophus, a duckbilled dinosaur, have been described by Barnum Brown and Jack Horner, two of the most prominent paleontologists of the 20th century?
 * ...that Thrud the Barbarian, a comic character parodying Arnold Schwarzenegger's depiction of Conan the Barbarian, has the intelligence of a garden snail?
 * ...that the Free Belgian Forces fought in several theaters during World War II, including Great Britain, East Africa, the Mediterranean, and northwestern Europe?
 * ...that The Mather School (pictured) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, is the oldest free public elementary school in North America?
 * ...that Jerry Zimmerman was the last active Major League Baseball coach to umpire a major league game?
 * ...that the first recorded use of "mad as a March hare", which refers to the antics of hares during their breeding season, was written by Sir Thomas More in 1529?
 * ...that the defection of Polish secret police agent Józef Światło in 1953, shook the Polish United Workers' Party and led to the liberalization of Polish October?
 * ...that Mother Theresa University, in Vilpatti Panchayat, South India, is the nation's only university exclusively devoted to women's issues?
 * ...that the history of invasive and interventional cardiology began with catheters being placed into the right and left ventricles of a living horse in 1711?
 * ...that the Korean dialect spoken by ethnic Koreans in Japan has changed so much that some of its speakers don't think it can be properly referred to as "Korean" anymore?
 * ...that the lockstep walking (pictured) was a trademark of the American prison system of the 19th century and sometimes replaced the military step of inmates as a form of punishment?
 * ...that Berne's Christoffelturm, when it was over 500 years old, was pulled down in a political move that had 415 supporters and 412 opposers?
 * ...that in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., the United States Supreme Court declared that "nudity itself is not inherently expressive conduct"?
 * ...that Ninasam, a cultural organization in Karnataka, India, had a project sponsored by the Ford Foundation of the United States?
 * ...that the Cadillac Northstar LMP Le Mans prototype did not actually use an engine from a Cadillac, but instead an Oldsmobile?
 * ...that Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates, but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis?
 * ...that during the Battle of Dalmatia, Croatian forces were so ill-equipped that they stuffed with explosives into Coca-Cola cans to create hand grenades?
 * ...that French artillery officers were the most efficient at cannon operation (pictured) during the 18th century, firing 150 shots per cannon daily during siege, instead of the usual 100?
 * ...that the 1932 comedy Pojkarna på Storholmen, starring Fridolf Rhudin, is one of the most successful Swedish films in history?
 * ...that the White-eyed Gull, a rare gull endemic to the Red Sea, does not have white eyes?
 * ...that self-made American millionaire James Jesse Lynn became Rajarsi Janakananda, the leading disciple of the Hindu Guru Paramahansa Yogananda?
 * ...that the polymathic Thomas Shaw Brandreth invented the Cycloped, a horse-powered locomotive, and published a blank verse translation of the Iliad into English?
 * ...that chemist Hugo Stoltzenberg developed the poison gas used by Germany at the 1915 Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium, the first time it was used on the Western Front?
 * ...that former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?
 * ...that the Aichi D1A (pictured) was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
 * ...that a nonconvex polygon with three convex vertices is called a pseudotriangle?
 * ...that online data broker Intelius owns more than half of the people search market?
 * ...that Dorus Rijkers was a Dutch lifeboat-captain who saved of over 500 men, woman and children from drowning at sea?
 * ...that Kampong Sungai Teraban in Brunei was settled by a group of Malay fishermen who moved across the Belait River after a falling out with the inhabitants of Kuala Belait?
 * ...that Sue (pictured) is the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found?
 * ...that the Court of Civil Jurisdiction was the first civil court established in New South Wales, Australia?
 * ...that in 2005, the newly-upgraded RORO ferry Queen of Oak Bay lost power and crashed into a marina, damaging or destroying 22 other vessels?
 * ...that the history of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore dates back to the arrival of Lutheran Hakka refugees following the Taiping Rebellion in China?
 * ...that Operation Independence, which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP, was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War?
 * ...that the life of Han Dynasty poet and composer Cai Wenji (pictured) is depicted in Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute?
 * ...that the pyramid scheme Holiday Magic was investigated by the State of California, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission, and was later shut down for fraud?
 * ...that footballer Francis Lee earned his nickname Lee One Pen by setting an English record for the most penalties scored in a single season?
 * ...that Polish-Jewish and American historian Adam Ulam escaped The Holocaust by leaving to study in the U.S. only days before the Germans invaded Poland?
 * ...that the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside?
 * ...that the poem Fei hua qing han, attributed to 8th century poet Li Bai, was really a hoax that contains the hidden message, "Go to hell Japan, Junichiro will die"?
 * ...that the San Francisco Armory (pictured), a National Guard stronghold during the "Bloody Thursday" events of 1934, is now used as a BDSM porn studio?
 * ...that exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?
 * ...that John Downer, Premier of South Australia from 1885 to 1887, is the grandfather of Alexander Downer, the current Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs?
 * ...that Beighton Cup is the oldest field hockey tournament in the world?
 * ...that until 1861 Newton Abbot railway station had three separate train sheds for trains running on lines to and from Exeter, Plymouth, and Torquay?
 * ...that Canford Cliffs, an affluent suburb of Poole, Dorset, includes an exclusive branch of HSBC bank which requires that customers without large accounts or mortgages pay to enter?
 * ...that Reginald H. Thomson, the civil engineer responsible for "virtually all of Seattle's infrastructure", had a Ph.D. in philosophy?
 * ...that the enigmatic Ediacaran biota (fossil pictured) have been classified into every major group of lifeforms, including their own kingdom?
 * ...that like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal, David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?

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