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 * ...that on a clear day visitors to Holy Hill (pictured) can view the Milwaukee skyline, located 30 miles (48 km) away?
 * ...that the beach where Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967, and presumably drowned, was named after the SS Cheviot that was wrecked nearby in 1887 with the loss of 35 lives?
 * ...that Roman trade with India was so large as to drain gold resources from Rome and involved the despatch of 120 ships every year?
 * ...that Australian rules footballer Tom Lonergan returned to the sport ten months after losing a kidney as the result of an injury?
 * ...that Sergeant George Jordan received the Medal of Honor for repulsing 100 Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Victorio with 25 Buffalo Soldiers in the Battle of Tularosa?
 * ...that Sir John Gilmour Bt emulated his father by also winning the Distinguished Service Order, becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament, and twice serving as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland?
 * ...that some dragonflies avoid overheating on sunny days by assuming a "handstand" position known as the obelisk posture (pictured)?
 * ...that capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?
 * ...that baseball player Jack Lelivelt's International League-record hitting streak set in 1912 was not recognized by the International League until 2007, the year it was broken?
 * ...that Richard Hanley's book South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating analyzes issues of applied ethics as presented in South Park?
 * ...that British Labour MP Harry Ewing was joint chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, formed in 1989 to plan for the devolution of Scotland?
 * ...that Lake Ceauru in southwestern Romania does not exist, despite appearing on maps today?
 * ...that, along with many other scientific discoveries made during its course, the Morea expedition confirmed the presence of jackals in Greece?
 * ...that St Andrews Church (pictured) in Chew Stoke, England, includes 156 statues of angels?
 * ...that temperature extremes in Minnesota have varied from &minus;60 °F (&minus;51 °C) to 114 °F (46 °C)?
 * ...that HNoMY Norge, one of only two Royal Yachts left in the world, was produced by Camper and Nicholsons, the oldest leisure marine company in the world?
 * ...that Francisco F. Sionil José is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language, and has been translated into 22 other languages?
 * ...that Czech saint Zdislava Berka ran away from home to live as a hermit when she was only seven years old?
 * ...that in the Calgary Flames' 1988-89 season, they became the only visiting team to defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup in the Montreal Forum?
 * ...that the Lakshminarayana Temple in Hosaholalu, Karnataka state, India is mounted on a platform (jagati), a style unique to Hoysala architecture?
 * ...that U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, a known Stalwart, signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, a piece of legislation that was drawn up by the rival Half-Breeds?
 * ...that Barthélemy d'Eyck was an Early Netherlandish artist, famous in the 15th century, who has only been attributed specific works (one pictured) in recent decades?
 * ...Swedish emigration to North America was so high around 1900 that the Swedish Emigration Commission produced a 21-volume report on curbing it?
 * ...that pioneering African American journalist Larry Whiteside was part of an expert panel that chose the Major League Baseball All-Century Team?
 * ...that football players Billy and John McPhail are the only brothers to have both scored hat-tricks for Celtic F.C. against their Old Firm rivals, Rangers F.C.?
 * ...that, prior to developing the Elder Scrolls series, Bethesda Softworks was primarily known as a sports game company?
 * ...that the Kisima Music Awards recognise talent from across East Africa?
 * ...that American writer Elbert Hubbard traveled about McLean County, Illinois to collect past due fees from his father's clientele to complete the Hubbard House (pictured) in 1872?
 * ...that Jeż Jerzy is a popular Polish comic, a satire on modern life, often making fun of subcultures like skinheads or dresiarze?
 * ...that the initials of former Canadian Football League executive J.I. Albrecht stand for "Just Incredible"?
 * ...that during the Soviet deportations from Estonia in 1940-1941 and 1944-1951 the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonian citizens to Siberia?
 * ...that the USS Sandpiper, originally built as a minesweeping ship, was redesignated a seaplane tender?
 * ...that Omaha, Nebraska's Little Italy neighborhood was largely the result of two brothers' efforts to help their countrymen?
 * ...that Shivappa Nayaka, a king in 17th-century Karnataka, India, introduced a unique and variable tax system called Sist?
 * ...that African American Methodist preacher and missionary John Marrant undertook a mission to the Cherokee while he was a teenager?
 * ...that the anticancer agent Salinosporamide A (skeletal formula pictured), which recently entered clinical trials, is produced by marine sediment-dwelling bacteria?
 * ...that sports agent David Falk represented Michael Jordan for the whole of the player's career?
 * ...that Joseph Bowman was the only American officer killed during George Rogers Clark's campaign to capture the Illinois Country in the American Revolutionary War?
 * ...that in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational to set up base in Bangalore?
 * ...that E.E. Roberts' Oak Park, Illinois architecture firm rivaled the studio of fellow architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
 * ...that a man was crushed to death during the construction of the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol?
 * ...that Don White was the first ever coach of the England national rugby union team?
 * ...that the sea pineapple (pictured), an edible sea squirt, has been described as "something that could exist only in a purely hallucinatory eco-system" and its taste as "rubber dipped in ammonia"?
 * ...that Texas settlers at the Council House Fight ambushed and killed 13 Comanche chiefs at what was originally a peace treaty negotiation, provoking the Great Raid of 1840?
 * ...that Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937?
 * ...that in 1876, Paul Zweifel became the first to demonstrate that the fetus in utero consumes oxygen?
 * ...that, despite its name, the Pygmy Blue Whale reaches lengths of 24 m (79 ft)?
 * ...that John Candy improvised the famous "Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips." line from The Blues Brothers, after a set designer's father asked for the mention?
 * ...that while the name of the Pomme de Terre River (pictured) in western Minnesota translates as "Potato River", it was actually named for the prairie turnip?
 * ...that U.S. Route 322 in New Jersey used to be concurrent with state highways on its entire route?
 * ...that after publishing his first book, magistrate James Mudie, was so hated in Sydney that he was horsewhipped in the street?
 * ...that the uniforms of United Nations tour guides are designed by internationally famous fashion designers such as Hollywood’s Edith Head, Christian Dior and Benetton?
 * ...that the 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, grandson of the Liberal Party Lord Chancellor 1st Viscount Buckmaster, served as diplomat in the Middle East until 1981?
 * ...that for New York City to receive up to $500 million from the Department of Transportation, its congestion pricing plan must be approved by August 2007?
 * ...that the courses in bioethics and journalism are a part of the academic curriculum of The Pontifical Academy of Theology (pictured) in Kraków, Poland?
 * ...that a military coalition from 4 countries helped the British colonial government to quell the 1915 Singapore Mutiny?
 * ...that the Bucharest school of Jean Alexandre Vaillant contributed to Westernization in Wallachia during the 1830s?
 * ...that the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”?
 * ...that Puerto Rican singer Tito Gómez once shared vocal duties in Ray Barretto's band in the 1970s with Rubén Blades?
 * ...that it was common for the Roman Emperor to be elected to one of two offices of the highest judicial magistrates known as duumviri, and the other position was left up to the emperor for the appointment of a praefectus?
 * ...that "Giovinezza" (pictured), the official hymn of Mussolini's National Fascist Party, was played by the Palatine Guard at the coronation of Pope Pius XII?
 * ...that Horace Liveright published the works of numerous important authors, including Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot, and hired Béla Lugosi for Dracula, but still died penniless?
 * ...that Vishvakannada.com was the first Internet magazine in Kannada and also the first website in an Indian language to use dynamic fonts?
 * ...that Nebraska Highway 14 became a cross-Nebraska highway with the completion of the Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge over the Missouri River in 1998?
 * ...that the arms of Ferry de Clugny are featured in the Clugny Annunciation, attributed either to Rogier van der Weyden or Hans Memling?
 * ...that even though a 1959-1961 survey showed that the Central African Republic's Bakouma sub-prefecture contained phosphatic sediment with the highest uranium content in all of sub-Saharan Africa, exploitation didn't start until 2006?
 * ...that the Charles E. Roberts Stable was converted from a barn into a garage by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1896?
 * ...that miniature scale for naval wargames (ships pictured) is worked out almost exclusively in ratios, rather than the millimetre-based scale preferred by land-based miniature wargaming?
 * ...that had it moved into production as scheduled, the Bede BD-10 would have been the world's first kit-built jet-powered general aviation aircraft?
 * ...that the Pagal Panthis were a religious order who led the peasants of the Mymensingh region of Bengal in armed revolts against the British East India Company and zamindars?
 * ...that factors affecting the preservation of textiles include ambient heat, light, and humidity, and the presence of pests, airborne chemicals and pollutants?
 * ...that during the 1950s, when the Soviet training model barred students from participation in professional theatre, Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts maintained its close ties with it?
 * ...that the initial publication of the The Highfield Mole (since dubbed "the next Harry Potter") was financed by the sale of the house of one of the authors?
 * ...that Chicago's Crown Fountain (pictured) displays LED images of faces, which typically create the illusion of puckered lips spouting water?
 * ...that, after the wife of the liberal journalist Aleksey Suvorin was shot dead by her lover, Suvorin experienced a conversion to virulent conservatism?
 * ...that Rīgas Satiksme is the largest provider of public transport in Riga?
 * ...that riots broke out among Azeris in Iran after a newspaper published a cartoon about a cockroach?
 * ...that the Naniwa class cruisers were the first protected cruisers designed in Japan?
 * ...that existence of arbitrarily many primes in arithmetic progression was proven in 2004, but it took 75 computers to find an example with 24 primes?
 * ...that Australian deputy judge advocate Richard Dore once ordered several hundred lashes be given to suspected Irish insurrectionists before a verdict had been made?
 * ...that stockbooks (pictured) are often used by stamp collectors to store both postage stamps and other philatelic items such as plate blocks, miniature sheets, covers, and lettersheets?
 * ...that French mathematician André Bloch murdered his brother, produced all his mathematical work from an insane asylum, and published under aliases to avoid the interest of Nazi occupiers?
 * ...that Eocursor, a small bipedal herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, is the most completely known Triassic ornithischian (beaked dinosaur)?
 * ...that to speed up patent cases, United States federal judge T. John Ward uses a chess clock to time opening and closing arguments?
 * ...that the 2004 USC Trojans football team went undefeated, becoming the tenth team to win consecutive Associated Press National Championships?