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 * ...that the site of the Observatory (pictured) on Clifton Down in Bristol is likely to have been used as a lookout post since at least the Iron Age?
 * ...that Werner Erhard named his company Erhard Seminars Training after the science fiction book est: The Steersman Handbook?
 * ...that of 43 people on board, the sole survivor of the 2006 Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash was in the toilet at the time of the crash?
 * ...that, fearing his life was threatened, Ottoman Dragoman Alexander Hangerli crossed the Black Sea into Russia and started a career as a linguist?
 * ...that plant collector Mary Strong Clemens sometimes paid for field-trip accommodation with scripture lessons and hymn-singing?
 * ...that native Tennessean Peter Ellis Bean (pictured) fought with José María Morelos in the Mexican War of Independence and with Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans?
 * ...that ancients thought that the river Himera divided the island of Sicily in half, when in reality Himera was the name of two separate rivers, the Grande River and the Salso River?
 * ...that Malaysian Army Corporal Maniam Moorthy, a member of the first team of Malaysians to summit Mount Everest, fell during army training a year later and became a paraplegic?
 * ...that though the Origin of the Western Ganga Dynasty of Talakad (in modern Karnataka, India) is debated, they made rich contributions to the polity, culture and literature of the region?
 * ...that historical demography, popularized in the 20th century by French historian Louis Henry, is the study of historical records leading to estimations of past human population?
 * ...that Australian cricketer John Elicius Benedict Bernard Placid Quirk Carrington Dwyer was the great-grandson of transportee Michael Dwyer, a leader in the Irish Rebellion of 1798?
 * ...that Flaschenhals was a micronation created in the Rhineland after the Armistice of 1918?
 * ...that Hurricane Tico (pictured), a Pacific hurricane of the 1983 season, caused flooding and record rainfall in Oklahoma?
 * ...that there are eleven disused railway stations between Exeter St Davids and Plymouth Millbay, Devon, England, at eight of which there are visible remains?
 * ...that the website of the defunct magazine Child was so successful, it has become a portal to the publisher's other parenting magazines' sites?
 * ...that Marc-André Raffalovich, a French poet, writer on homosexuality, and patron of the arts, had a life-long relationship with John Gray, the purported model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray?
 * ...that PZL-106 Kruk (pictured) is a Polish agricultural aircraft designed and built by WSK-Okęcie?
 * ...that Hispanics in the United States Naval Academy account for the largest minority group in the institution?
 * ...that the non-fiction book A Doctor's Report on Dianetics criticized L. Ron Hubbard's prescription of vitamins and glutamic acid to Dianetics subjects?
 * ...that a scandal caused by the suicide of French politician and suspected murderer Charles de Choiseul-Praslin helped foment the 1848 Revolution?
 * ...that Wiborada, a spiritual mentor of Ulrich of Augsburg, was the first female saint to be canonized by the Vatican?
 * ...the tiger's prey in Henri Rousseau's painting, Tiger in a Tropical Storm (pictured), is not shown but Rousseau said it was a group of explorers?
 * ...that in 1843 the German missionary Hermann Mögling published the first ever newspaper in the Kannada language?
 * ...that a regiment of Spanish troops served in the French Army from 1809 to 1813, despite France and Spain being at war with each other in the Iberian Peninsula?
 * ...that mine drainage from the Iron Mountain Mine toxic waste site in Northern California was measured to have a pH of -3.6?
 * ...that stars must have at least 9 times the mass of the Sun in order to undergo a core collapse and become a Type II supernova (example pictured)?
 * ...that Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood, a classic Australian novel, hasn't been out of print since it was edited into a single volume 1889?
 * ...that at Traverse Gap, a valley in Minnesota and South Dakota, water originating in the watershed of the Gulf of Mexico can flood across the continental divide into the watershed of Hudson Bay?
 * ...that endocrinologist Sir Raymond Hoffenberg was forced to leave South Africa in 1968 due to his opposition to apartheid, and was later President of the Royal College of Physicians and President of Wolfson College, Oxford?
 * ...that the Very Reverend Anthony Bridge, brother of former Law Lord Lord Bridge of Harwich, gave up a career as an artist to become a Church of England priest?
 * ...that the duckbilled dinosaur Hypacrosaurus is known from the largest collection of hatchling remains for any duckbill, due to the discovery of nests belonging to H. stebingeri?
 * ...that French explorer Christian de Bonchamps (pictured) proposed breaking a stalemate in treaty negotiations by capturing and holding hostage Msiri, King of Katanga?
 * ...that Hugh O'Bryant, the first mayor of Portland, Oregon, was elected into office by a mere four votes?
 * ...the Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley, a World Heritage Site, is considered to be the "spiritual heart" of Andorra?
 * ...that Catherine Lim's 1994 essay The PAP and the people - A Great Affective Divide invoked such a strong response from the Singapore government, its then-PM Goh Chok Tong outlined which topics were permissible for public discussion?
 * ...that Chinese immigration to the Russian Far East has led to fears of Chinese irredentism in Russia, even though there are under 35,000 Chinese in all of Russia?
 * ...that neonatal nurses are in high demand in the United States because the number of nurses has not kept up with the 27 percent rise in premature births (premature infant pictured) over the last 20 years?
 * ...that the congress hall on the site of the former Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg has been converted into a museum?
 * ...that in 1775 military-minded Empress Maria Theresa of Austria dedicated the Schönbrunn Palace Garden Gloriette as a monument to Just War?
 * ...that the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature of New South Wales was the first Supreme Court in Australia and that its first judge evaded hearing any cases?
 * ...that American aircraft designer Clyde Vernon Cessna's most famous inventions included the cantilever wing and the V-shaped tail configuration?
 * ...that the ghost fungus (pictured) from southern Australia is so named as it is bioluminescent?
 * ...that cricketer Les Jackson played in two Test matches for England, one in 1949 and a second in 1961, the longest gap between Test appearances for any player with only two caps?
 * ...that Thomas MacNutt, the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, was also one of the original eight people who formed the precursor of the Progressive Party?
 * ...that the Way of Human Rights in Nuremberg, Germany has a sculpture and engraving dedicated to each article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
 * ...that in 1927, Oregon congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker drowned in San Francisco Bay after claiming he had been poisoned?
 * ...that cricketer Dick Motz took one wicket in his last Test match in August 1969, becoming the first New Zealand bowler to take 100 Test wickets?
 * ...that the current rendering of the mermaid in the coat of arms of Ustka (pictured) is the result of a two-year debate over the size of her breasts?
 * ...that from around 900 to 1500 the Mixtec people wrote using pictorial representations and symbols?
 * ...that Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center archivist Larry Pile has a military intelligence background with the U.S. Army Security Agency?
 * ...that Philadelpian Nelson Graves was only 14 years old when he made his first-class cricket debut?
 * ...that the Kentucky bar examination is the only one in the United States that uses the Multistate Essay Examination without also using the Multistate Performance Test?
 * ...that The Man Who Came Early, a 1956 time travel short story by Poul Anderson, was written as the antithesis of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
 * ...that Nihonga watercolor painting Dance of Flames (pictured) by Japanese artist Hayami Gyoshū was the first art work of Showa period Japan to be accorded the status of "Important Cultural Property" by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs?
 * ...that since its founding in 1948 Israel has had twelve Attorneys General?
 * ...that John F. Davis, who served for ten years as Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, had previously worked as a defense lawyer for perjury defendant Alger Hiss?
 * ...that Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan, which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters?
 * ...that former journalist Walter Hayes developed the business case for the development of the Ford Cosworth DFV, the most successful engine in Formula One history?
 * ...that the fish Coreoleuciscus splendidus had a movie named after it in 1999?
 * ...that the Rufous Hornero (pictured), a common species in the ovenbird family, is the national bird of Argentina?
 * ...that the Monument of Liberty in Istanbul, the gathering place for the second rally of the Republic Protests, is a memorial for the 31 March Incident that took place in 1909?
 * ...that the creation of Kannada Sahitya Parishat, an Indian non-profit organization to promote the Kannada language, was first initiated by Bharat Ratna Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah, the Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom?
 * ...that during the drive to emancipate Russia's serfs, one scurrilous rumor held that committee member Grand Duke Constantine Nikolayevich was insane thanks to too much masturbation?
 * ...that the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's 2004 collective bargaining agreement with the Mt. Olive Pickle Co. marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers?

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