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 * ...that Gatke Hall (pictured), a former post office, was moved completely intact on rollers down a city street over a six month period in 1938 to its new home at Willamette University?
 * ...that the founding of Phenomena Research Australia, in response to a surge of unidentified flying object sightings in 1947, was the first gathering of Australian UFO enthusiasts?
 * ...that Marilee Jones, the disgraced former dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was called "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy" by the New York Times?
 * ...that until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, the 2nd century CE work Against Heresies was the best surviving description of Gnosticism?
 * ...that poet Anna Williams's works include the whimsically titled On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon?
 * ...that the avifauna of Lithuania includes a total of 342 species, of which 2 have been introduced by humans?
 * ...that the Achelous-class repair ship USS Atlas (pictured) was used to repair damaged landing craft after D-Day in 1944?
 * ...that a special kind of soil from Bidar fort is an essential ingredient in making Bidriware, a metal handicraft of Karnataka, India?
 * ...that United States Senator Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by Representative Preston Brooks in the Old Senate Chamber of the United States Capitol?
 * ...that maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods?
 * ...that the low alcohol beer Buckler was taken out of the market in the Netherlands after sales dropped as a result of the negative image created by comedian Youp van 't Hek in 1989?
 * ...that orographic rainfall, one of the three types of rainfall, is caused when cool air is forced upward by mountains to form clouds which then produce rain?
 * ...that Company style paintings (example pictured) were made by Indian artists for patrons from the British East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries?
 * ...that St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's oldest churches and a prime example of the 'Polish Cathedral' style?
 * ...that nomadic eagle falconers maintain that "as the man trains the eagle, so does the eagle train his man"?
 * ...that Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern architecture?
 * ...that ten case forms can be traced in the Lithuanian language, seven of which are preserved in the standard language version?
 * ...that Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimwehr, a fascist organization in Switzerland, because he advocated an annexation by Italy?
 * ...that the Brown Rock Chat sometimes nests in the rafters of inhabited houses?
 * ...that Japanese painter Takeuchi Seihō (work pictured) was one of the first to receive Japan's Order of Culture when it was established in 1937?
 * ...that Copadichromis borleyi is a type of mouthbrooding fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa?
 * ...that the first Director of Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department, Glenn Knight, was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for corruption?
 * ...that a British submarine flotilla dominated the Baltic Sea for a major part of WWI, but the loss of the Socialists in the Finnish Civil War forced the crews to scuttle the fleet outside Helsinki?
 * ...that the term "a feather in your cap" comes from the traditional rights bestowed upon warriors or hunters who have killed their enemy or prey?
 * ...that the teponaztli (pictured) is an Aztec wooden slit drum?
 * ...that Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township, Pennsylvania, survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War, despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
 * ...that Chitrakala Parishat, an art institution and a cultural organization in Bangalore, was the brainchild of famous Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city?
 * ...that Peter of Tarentaise started the charitable tradition of giving food to poor farmers in the spring called pain de Mai (May-bread), which continued for over 600 years?
 * ...that Copadichromis borleyi is a type of mouthbrooding fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa?
 * ...that no two of the more than 1000 windows in the Waldspirale residential complex (pictured) in Darmstadt, Germany are identical?
 * ...that the people of the Bronze Age Elp culture (in the present-day Netherlands) lived in longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today?
 * ...that MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
 * ...that the Arab Socialist Action Party, the main secular opposition group in Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
 * ...that William Firmatus, a Norman hermit, is said to have led a wild boar by the ear from a farmer's plot and instructed it to fast for the night in a solitary cell?
 * ...that Mormon leader Charles Shreeve Peterson (pictured) was the first settler of Utah's Morgan Valley?
 * ...that the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 established the first peacetime draft in the United States?
 * ...that Philip Whistler Street was a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia -- as were his son Kenneth and his grandson Laurence?
 * ...that the Common Skullcap, a perennial plant found throughout Eurasia, is traditionally used as a mild sedative?
 * ...that the Potawatomi, a tribe of Native Americans, were evicted from land near Indiana’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
 * ...that the Lutheran Church of China was created from the union of no less than 25 separate Lutheran missionary agencies?
 * ...that the Ibirapuera Auditorium (pictured) in São Paulo, Brazil, features a reversible stage that can play concerts to audiences inside and out?
 * ...that 18% of all deaths occuring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures?
 * ...that Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?
 * ...that Dr. Andrew Rochford, a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You, got his break after he won the popular show The Block?
 * ...that the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism"?
 * ...that according to Ronald Enroth's book Churches That Abuse, "spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible-preaching, fundamentalist, conservative Christianity"?
 * ...that Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look," a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
 * ...that the pedestal of the The Bronze Horseman (pictured) is believed to be the largest stone ever moved by humans?
 * ...that the port of Kuala Belait, one of the two ports in Brunei, is located in Kampong Sungai Duhon?
 * ...that Benedict Arnold learned about the capture of his fellow-conspirator John André while living on Sugarloaf Hill, from which he then fled?
 * ...that Japanese painter Shimomura Kanzan came from a family of Noh actors, and that themes from Noh drama frequently appeared in his works?
 * ...that participants in the Sterling Institute of Relationship dance naked in a ritual while being videotaped?
 * ...that Jim Hutchinson, who died in 2000, was the longest-lived first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days?
 * ...that Edward R. Bradley was the preeminent owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses in the Southern United States during the early 20th century?
 * ...that the attack transport USS Bayfield (pictured) served as headquarters for planning the D-Day landings on "Utah Beach" in 1944?
 * ...that there are 618 species of birds in Belize?
 * ...that the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?
 * ...that American comic book artist Art Saaf also made storyboards for The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated Highlights for Children?
 * ...that the Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish research institute on modern Polish history, has been in a center of recent Polish politics?
 * ...that the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israeli history up until that time?
 * ...that when Reprise Records signed 17-year-old Chris Cummings to a record contract in 1992, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed?
 * ...that the Oxtotitlán grottoes feature some of the few existing examples of Olmec culture paintings (pictured)?
 * ...that ceramics expert Otto Natzler perfected over 2,000 colours and styles of glazes?
 * ...that the enrollment rate of girls in schools in Yemen is the lowest out of all Middle Eastern countries?
 * ...that gay pornographic film director Scott Masters directed more than 100 loops before founding his own company, Nova Studios?
 * ...that more than one million Koreans moved to Arab countries and Iran between 1975 and 1985?
 * ...that nearly 3 million rupees worth of property was stolen from the house of Kannada cinema actor Srinath on the day of his daughter's marriage in 2001?
 * ...that the Japanese diplomat Tatsuo Kawai (pictured) was sacked as an official spokesman at the Foreign Ministry after leading a strike there in 1940?
 * ...that the 1914 comic strip Abie the Agent, the first American comic with a Jewish protagonist, has been called the first adult comic?
 * ...that Kveldulf Bjalfasson, a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandson of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson, was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf?
 * ...that Nabisco Brands, Inc. sold the US Shredded Wheat operations to General Foods, and the international Shredded Wheat operations to General Mills?
 * ...that between her marriage to Marcus Garvey and her relationship with President of Liberia William Tubman, Pan-Africanist activist Amy Ashwood Garvey ran a club on London's Carnaby Street?
 * ...that a cyclic cellular automaton is a system of simple mathematical rules that can generate complex patterns mixing random chaos, blocks of color, and spirals (pictured)?
 * ...that reification is a logical fallacy that occurs when qualities of a living being are attributed to an abstract concept?
 * ...that Whistling Kites in Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in New Guinea are principally scavengers?
 * ...that the Poplar Tree Elementary School building was damaged by boulders from blasting works during its construction, and it initially had no playground?
 * ...that the women courtiers in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom were expected to be adept in 64 arts, with Kasuti embroidery being one of them?

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