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 * ...that double cloth or double-woven cloth (pictured) is a type of weaving used in Pre-Columbian Peru and Victorian furnishing textiles in which two or more sets of warps and one or more sets of weft or filling yarns are interconnected to form a two-layered cloth?
 * ...that Jews of Iran is the first documentary film about Iran's Jewish minority?
 * ...that Carpenter's Coffee House in Covent Garden, London, became known as "The Finish" as it was the place revellers went when all the other coffee houses and taverns closed?
 * ...that subjective logic can help you deal with uncertainty?
 * ...that Choir is the site of the longest runway in Mongolia?
 * ...that while under construction the Lena Water Tower in Lena, Illinois had to be demolished and rebuilt because it began to crumble?
 * ...that there were no police in Cascade City, British Columbia in 1897 and when thieves broke into a store, taking 150 pounds of tobacco, a book-keeper was sent to arrest the suspects?
 * ...that Edgar Allison Peers was an English Hispanist who coined the term "red-brick university"?
 * ...that prominent pops conductor and arranger Jeff Tyzik released six albums from 1981–1990 as a solo trumpeter?
 * ...that Erasmus Darwin's sexualized poem The Loves of the Plants (illustration pictured) was a defense of Carl Linnaeus's botanical classification scheme?
 * ...that former sumo wrestler Asahikuni Masuo suffered from chronic pancreatic trouble and sometimes commuted to tournaments from a hospital?
 * ...that in the years 1936–1939 about 3 million Poles gave their personal savings, jewelry and valuables to the Fundusz Obrony Narodowej (National Defence Fund), to improve the equipment of the Polish Army?
 * ...that Pareuchiloglanis catfishes can be distinguished from other members of the Sisoridae family only by their premaxillary tooth bands?
 * ...that the Cody Caves are part of the setting of the children's book, The Kootenay Kidnapper by Canadian author Eric Wilson?
 * ...that the story of the video game Code Age Commanders is set in a fictional "intraglobular world" similar to a Dyson sphere?
 * ...that road maintenance depots have been used as fronts to disguise entrances to military installations?
 * ...that Count Vladimir Lambsdorff managed to talk Nicholas II of Russia out of the projected Russian-German alliance against Britain?
 * ...that John Beckett is the only American football player to have been the team captain for two different Rose Bowl teams: the University of Oregon in 1917 and Mare Island in 1918?
 * ...that of the sixty delegates to the Oregon Constitutional Convention, (Oregon Territory Seal pictured) thirty-four were farmers, while eighteen were lawyers, including three justices of the Oregon Supreme Court?
 * ...that the medieval Irish narrative The Sickbed of Cúchulainn gave its name to the first song on The Pogues' 1985 album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash?
 * ...that the Bilbie family produced more than 1,350 bells, from the late 1600s to the early 1800s?
 * ...that the BBC reported that the John West Salmon's "Bear Fight" videos have been viewed over 300 million times making it the sixth most viewed online video?
 * ...that according to a legend, Polish-Lithuanian noble Mikołaj Sapieha stole a Holy Painting from a private Papal chapel in Rome?
 * ...that horses hauled both passenger and goods trains to Weston-super-Mare railway station, England, from 1841, when the railway opened, until 1851?
 * ...that The French Connection led the Buffalo Sabres to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the 7 full seasons they were together except the one Gilbert Perreault's broken leg limited him to 55 games
 * ...that in 1078 the Chinese statesman and poet Su Shi (1037-1101) wrote a memorial to the throne warning of the potential danger of bandits overrunning the iron industry of Xuzhou?
 * ...that Motza (pictured), founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem?
 * ...that the Christina Lake in British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps?
 * ...that Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity?
 * ...that the 29 species in the fish genus Sillago are so similar they can only be positively identified by the shapes of their swim bladders?
 * ...that Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers was set at a party hosted by composer Leonard Bernstein in which Manhattan socialites mingled with the Black Panther Party?
 * ...that 64Cu-ATSM (diacetyl-bis(N4-methylthiosemicarbazone)), a chemical with a radioactive isotope of copper, has been shown to increase the survival time of tumor-bearing animals with no acute toxicity?
 * ...that Motza, founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem?
 * ...that papal conclaves from the 14th to 17th centuries attempted to use capitulations to influence the popes they elected in matters from the appointment of cardinal-nephews to papal travel and construction projects?
 * ...that Len Waters was the first Australian Aboriginal military pilot, flying P-40 "Kittyhawk" fighter planes during World War II?
 * ...that part of the first line of the Berlin U-Bahn was built as an elevated railway (pictured), because the City of Berlin feared that an underground railway would damage one of its new trunk sewers?
 * ...that the Stuart Oil Shale Project, the world’s first application of the Alberta-Taciuk Processor technology on oil shale, was in operation only five years?
 * ...that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov, who brought the country into World War I, was the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin?
 * ...that, except in 1987, the United States presidential candidate who wins the Ames Straw Poll has always gone on to win the Republican Party's Iowa Caucus?
 * ...that a Cossack community existed in Beijing as early as 1685?
 * ...that in the Polish-Ottoman War of 1672-1676, a few years before crippling the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was forced to sign an unfavorable treaty with the Empire?
 * ...that Thomas L. Bromwell is a former Maryland State Senator who, along with his wife, pleaded guilty to public corruption charges?
 * ...that poet Sekou Sundiata taught alternative musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty and was a significant influence on both?
 * ...that the Gangetic whiting (pictured) is the only known species of fish to host the intestinal parasite Dichelyne alatae?
 * ...that the Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 was the largest protest movement against the Communist regime in Romania before the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
 * ...that Silas Rhodes co-founded what would become the School of Visual Arts in order to help returning World War II veterans transition back to civilian life?
 * ...that General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate, an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England?
 * ...that Catherine Troeh, a Native American activist, often signed her letters "member of the Chinook Tribe Allottee 1865 Quinault reservation" as a reference to 80 acres of land granted to her by the U.S. federal government?
 * ...that Taiwanese alternative musician Deserts Chang wrote her first song at the age of 13 before she learned how to play a musical instrument?
 * ...that the discovery of the dinosauromorph Dromomeron, from the Late Triassic of New Mexico, indicates that dinosaurs did not rapidly replace their close relatives?
 * ...that Tang Choon Keng, who established Tangs and built the former Dynasty Hotel (pictured), was also known as the "Tin Trunk Man" in Singapore for his rags to riches legacy?
 * ...that Byzantium under the Komnenoi was the Medieval continuation of the Roman Empire, and played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land?
 * ...that Rani Abbakka, who fought the Portuguese in the 16th century is regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India'?
 * ...that David Feldman, philatelist, achieved the world’s record price of 2.5 million Swiss Francs for a single postage stamp, the Treskilling Yellow for which he appeared in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records?
 * ...that Captain Austin M. Knight was court-martialed for allowing the USS Puritan to sink, but nevertheless became a four-star admiral whose textbook Modern Seamanship was a standard shiphandling reference for over eight decades?
 * ...that after reading the Vietnam War memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Oliver Stone realized that his films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July lacked a Vietnamese perspective, leading to his directing of Heaven & Earth?
 * ...that John Salminen is an award-winning American watercolorist well-known for his realistic urban landscapes?
 * ...that the landowner and grazier Joshua John Moore (pictured), was the first pastoralist to occupy the current day location of Canberra, Australia?
 * ...that Vikkamabahu was the first Sri Lankan monarch to mount an organised campaign to expel the Chola army which invaded the island in the 12th century?
 * ...that pioneer claim clubs were used in the American Old West to protect land claims by settlers against claim jumpers and to promote claim jumping against absentee land owners?
 * ...that The Land of the Settlers is a five-part documentary series made by Chaim Yavin, dubbed "Israel's Walter Cronkite" was so controversial that his station refused to air it?
 * ...that Fort Greble was built so fast that there was no time to construct proper earthen magazines for artillery, and three years later company quarters had to be demolished to add them?
 * ...that the seeds of Prunus mahaleb, a spice, contain coumarin?
 * ...that one of the most influential people in Polish-French relations was Napoleon Bonaparte, still considered a hero in Poland and mentioned in the Polish national anthem?
 * ...that Fancy Farm, Kentucky is recognized as the home of the world's largest picnic?
 * ...that the Roman marble head of a Polyclitan Diadumenos (pictured) found at the Abbey of Vauluisant in Bourgogne suggests that the site was once a Roman villa?
 * ...that British general Frederick Barton Maurice was forced to resign after writing a letter accusing David Lloyd George of misrepresenting the strength of British forces during the Spring Offensive? Carom 19:53, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * ...that Samson was made by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda and blends the Biblical tale of Samson with his Holocaust coming-of-age story?
 * ...that on January 27, 1987 83 workers of a shrimp farm in Kokkadichcholai, Sri Lanka were shot, allegedly by Special Task Force officers?
 * ...that pioneer James Harrod established the first permanent settlement in the U.S. state of Kentucky on June 16, 1774?
 * ...that construction of ‘Tagore Castle’ in Pathuriaghata, a Calcutta neighbourhood, was modelled on that of an English castle, a departure in the way of building residences in India?
 * ...that Artine Artinian was used as a fictional character by two of the most prominent American writers of the 20th century?
 * ...that the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA) filed for the largest bankruptcy of a religious organization in U.S. history after its 600 million dollar fraud went undetected by the same Big Five firm that audited Enron?
 * ...that it took four sword strokes for St. Bademus' (pictured) terrified executioner to sever his head?
 * ...that the Gestapo and NKVD convened four conferences discussing the elimination of the Polish resistance movement?