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 * ...that Japanese painter Tomioka Tessai (work pictured) was encouraged by his mentor, Buddhist nun and poet Otagaki Rengetsu, to synthesize Buddhist and Shinto elements in his works?
 * ...that former Ghana MP Eric Amoateng was arrested in the United States and has pled guilty to drug trafficking-related charges?
 * ...that the town of Channapatna in India is known as the "toy-town of Karnataka" due to the popularity of the wooden toys manufactured there?
 * ...that the eight surviving medieval Bulgarian royal charters are among the few available secular documents from the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire?
 * ...that the performance of "Let Me Try" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 featured performers banging on what appeared to be drums of industrial waste?
 * ...that during the Toronto Raptors 2006-07 season (team pictured), the National Basketball Association team won their first division title in franchise history?
 * ...that there are 254 Hewitts and Nuttalls in England?
 * ...that Yalchik Lake is the biggest lake in Mari El, Russia?
 * ...that Anne Hyde Choate was the second president of the Girl Scouts of the USA and also an international Scouting leader in WAGGGS for fifty years?
 * ...that Marbrianus de Orto was one of the first composers to write a completely canonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass?
 * ...that Tejashwini Sreeramesh, an Indian Member of Parliament from the Kanakapura constituency of Karnataka, was previously an anchor of a talk show on Udaya TV?
 * ...that the International One Design for yachts (pictured) was developed so that sail racing would be decided by the skill of the crew?
 * ...that microfinance organization FINCA International is known as the "World Bank for the poor"?
 * ...that Alex Stevenson is the only footballer to play for both the Republic of Ireland and Rangers F.C.?
 * ...that the non-fiction book Est Playing the Game was almost blocked from publication because it described techniques used in Erhard Seminars Training?
 * ...that one of the liturgies of the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, a part of Western Rite Orthodoxy, is a modified form of the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer?
 * ...that John Bower was the first non-European to ever win anything at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1968?
 * ...that Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women’s College) was the first women’s liberal arts college in India?
 * ...that Winter Quarters Bay (pictured) is the southern-most port in the Southern Ocean?
 * ...that Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in California was initially built and run in the 1970s by the Newhall Land and Farming Company?
 * ...that the 1934 film Sati Sulochana was the first ever talkie produced in the Kannada language?
 * ...that despite a requirement for scientists to share data, over a quarter of geneticists could not access data required to validate research?
 * ...that Andrew N. Meltzoff ' s research revealed that infants of only a few weeks of age can imitate facial expressions and hand gestures?
 * ...that Alexandru Ghika, the founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis, was the great-great-grandson of Grigore IV Ghica, Prince of Wallachia?
 * ...that Marthe Richard was a former prostitute and spy who worked to make brothels illegal in France?
 * ...that the villagers of Kotor referred to Dominican visionary and anchoress Osanna of Cattaro as "the trumpet of the Holy Spirit" and the "teacher of mysticism"?
 * ...that it is said that the name for Gilbertstone in Birmingham derives from a man named Gilbert lifting an erratic, now displayed at Blakesley Hall, to extend the boundaries of his land?
 * ...that the Ruben M. Benjamin House (pictured) was built by John Long Routt, the first governor of Colorado?
 * ...that Amsterdam's Prostitution Information Center provides the city's visitors with information and advice about prostitution?
 * ...that the Lieutenant Governor's Court was the first real civil court in Tasmania and that a judge-advocate presided in the court rather than the lieutenant governor?
 * ...that Terry Major-Ball, elder brother of the former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, wrote an "exquisitely funny" autobiography detailing his mishaps running the family's garden ornament business in the 1950s?
 * ...that the Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation is the first attempt at recording the complete history of Russian and Soviet animation?
 * ...that the father of Nguyen Van Cu, the Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot who led the 1962 Presidential Palace bombing, was a dissident jailed by Ngo Dinh Diem?
 * ...that the David Bowie song "Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)" was inspired by Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies, which was also the basis for the film Bright Young Things?
 * ...that Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club was the site of Tiger Woods’ record third consecutive amateur championship?
 * ...that Very Light Jet entrepreneur Jim McCotter founded a religious movement?
 * ...that the land holdings of Henry Newhall (pictured) formed the basis of what is now Santa Clarita, California?
 * ...that 25 of the 368 Cuban bird species are endemic?
 * ...that according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt?
 * ...that the 2,000 American soldiers who fought in the Battle of Short Hills against 17,000 British men suffered only minor casualties and were able to inflict considerable damage on the enemy?
 * ...that there are two radio stations in Brunei that broadcast partially in Gurkhali for the Nepalese speakers of the First Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles stationed in Brunei?
 * ...that Jiang Rong was inspired to write his 2004 novel Wolf Totem during China's Cultural Revolution after a failed attempt to domesticate a wolf?
 * ...that the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (pictured) in Paraná, Brazil was reinaugurated to honor its famous architect Oscar Niemeyer, who completed his design for the museum's annex at the age of 95?
 * ...that Donald Stephens, mayor of Rosemont, Illinois for 51 years, is believed to be the longest-serving mayor in the United States?
 * ...that in economics, the kinked demand curve theory was the first attempt at explaining sticky prices?
 * ...that French mycologist and naturalist Lucien Quélet claimed in his book, Mycologic Flora of France, that the human race as a whole was becoming more and more primitive?
 * ...that James T. Brand of the Oregon Supreme Court was the presiding judge for most of the Judges' Trial, in which 10 German lawyers and judges were convicted of war crimes after World War II?
 * ...that the Lykaia in Arcadia was a primitive rite of passage centered upon a threat of cannibalism and the possibility of a werewolf transformation?
 * ...that the LWD Szpak (pictured) was the first Polish-designed post-World War II airplane?
 * ...that the Romanian artist Ion Valentin Anestin was censored and ultimately arrested by the Communist regime for publishing caricatures of Joseph Stalin during World War II?
 * ...that a British Gurkha Battalion has been maintained in Brunei at the request of the Sultan of Brunei after the 1962 Brunei Revolt?
 * ...that Kerry Lynch is the only nordic combined skier to ever be disqualified for doping and stripped of his medal at the Winter Olympics or Nordic skiing World Championships?
 * ...that Charles Menzies established Newcastle, New South Wales as a settlement, when he was only 21 years of age?
 * ...that Jacqui Oatley is the first female football commentator in the history of BBC football programme Match of the Day?
 * ...that the students of Jagiellonian University tore the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I to pieces at the Collegium Novum (pictured) while rallying for independence from the Austrian Empire?
 * ...that the Avinguda Diagonal, a street in Barcelona, Spain, is so named because it cuts the central district Eixample in two diagonally?
 * ...that Dan Jones heard Joseph Smith, Jr.'s "final prophecy" the day before Smith was killed?
 * ...that the Vietminh named the grenades they made and used against the French after Phan Dinh Phung, who led a rebel army in the initial colonisation of Vietnam?
 * ...that Australian Test cricketer Ray Lindwall played in two rugby league grand finals for the St. George Dragons?
 * ...that Annette Akroyd an orientalist, is remembered primarily for her early efforts at women’s education in India?
 * ...that a German-American was aboard the German submarine, U-94, when she was sunk by United States Navy and Canadian Navy forces?
 * ...that the oligopoly of Pillsbury, Northwestern Consolidated (pictured) and General Mills in Minneapolis before the Great Depression was the world's largest flour miller?
 * ...that the Royal Brunei Navy formed as the Boat Section of the Brunei Malay Regiment?
 * ...that Eduard Bloch was a Jewish doctor whose life was saved out of "everlasting gratitude" by Adolf Hitler?
 * ...that on May 3, 2002 a military MiG-21bis aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight?
 * ...that the later far right political writer Armin Mohler was once refused entry to the SS and forced to return to his native Switzerland, where he was arrested for desertion, a year later?
 * ...that Lyndon Johnson declined to respond to the Vietcong's Christmas Eve 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing, fearing that fighting during the holiday season would damage morale?
 * ...that Julian Salomons was only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office?

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