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 * ...that the Makuleke region of Kruger National Park is a natural history area with almost 75% of the diversity of the whole park?
 * ...that the April 1920 Polish-Ukrainian agreement became the legal justification of the Kiev Offensive against Bolshevik Russia?
 * ...that there is a mass grave of over 5,500 mental patients in the English countryside near the site of the former Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum (pictured)?
 * ...that a galloping horse must breathe with every stride, due to the movement of the gut contents pushing forward and back on the diaphragm?
 * ...that Artabanes was a 6th century Armenian noble who served both the Sassanid Persians and the Eastern Roman Empire, and became involved in a plot against Emperor Justinian I?
 * ...that the famous black-and-white striped shirts of Italian football club Juventus were based on the kit of English Notts County, replacing the club's initial pink and black colours in 1903?
 * ...that the Brand Junction shopping centre development in Melbourne, Victoria, is located on land known from 1937 until 1962 as the Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives?
 * ...that Thomas Creede printed ten editions of William Shakespeare's plays, several of them poorly-written bad quartos?
 * ...that even though the 1952 steel strike lasted 53 days and cost the U.S. $4 billion in lost economic output, it was settled on nearly the same terms offered by the union at the strike's beginning?
 * ...that any two friends who live together more than three years may be legally considered partners in an adult interdependent relationship in Alberta, just like spouses in a common-law marriage?
 * ...that Assyrian soldiers (pictured) were used in Xerxes' expedition to Greece?
 * ...that Polycarp was a fictional Cajun character who hosted a local children's TV program in south Louisiana and lived in the swamp?
 * ...that the proposed underground car park at the northern end of Lal Dighi will be the biggest in Calcutta and is located in a heritage zone?
 * ...that the launch of the protected cruiser Chitose in 1898, one of the few ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy built by the United States, was filmed by Thomas Edison?
 * ...that Canada's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?
 * ...that the planned Marina Coastal Expressway is Singapore's most expensive expressway, and will cost S$2.5 billion for the 5-kilometre route?
 * ...that United States Indian Agent Felix St. Vrain had his head, hands, feet and heart removed during the St. Vrain massacre?
 * ...that the writer and actor, Henryk Grynberg, is known as the "chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews"?
 * ...that congressman Cyclone Davis earned his moniker after demolishing an opponent in a debate?
 * ...that Dang Hyang Nirartha founded the Hindu priesthood in Bali?
 * ...that the Khmer Rouge of the 1970s influenced Cambodian clothing by strictly prohibiting brightly colored clothing and forcing all Khmer people to wear a checkered krama (pictured)?
 * ...that the St. Eugene Mine in Moyie, British Columbia produced ten million dollars worth of ore between 1895 and 1905 and was considered to be the most important silver–lead mine in Canada?
 * ...that Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer was a legendary disciplinarian and martinet whose funeral instructions directed his former flag secretary to bury him with his hindquarters facing the Pentagon?
 * ...that the period of Colonial Assam began with the Treaty of Yandaboo?
 * ...that the siege of Anatoly Pepelyayev's forces in the Pacific port of Ayan in June 1923 was the last military action of the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War?
 * ...that singer Larry Stewart originally moved to Nashville, Tennessee in search of a career in baseball, but instead ended up as the lead singer of country-pop band Restless Heart?
 * ...that the coach in which King Philip II of Portugal travelled from Spain to Portugal in 1619 is preserved at the National Coach Museum in Lisbon?
 * ...that the date of the translation (pictured) of a Christian saint's relics was often observed as a separate feast day?
 * ...that in 1926, author Helen Dore Boylston and Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter Rose Wilder Lane drove from Paris to Albania in a Model T Ford called "Zenobia"?
 * ...that some catfishes of the subfamily Glanapteryginae live exclusively in sand?
 * ...that just as there is a "Fifth Beatle", Phillip Wilcher is called the "fifth Wiggle" for leaving The Wiggles shortly before they became Australia's highest grossing entertainers?
 * ...that writer and publisher Bernard d’Abrera is a fervent creationist who blames environmental problems on the "waste" of studying evolution?
 * ...that Bernard de Neufmarché was the first of the Norman conquerors of Wales, who annexed the Kingdom of Brycheiniog to England?
 * ...that the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Leela Gandhi, is a senior lecturer at La Trobe University in the English program?
 * ...that the two versions of Manfred on the Jungfrau, a watercolour by John Martin (pictured) and an oil by Ford Madox Brown, were painted just five years apart?
 * ...that on 28 April 1285 at Girona, Jean Cholet crowned Charles of Valois with his galero and pronounced him King of Aragon, earning Charles the affectionate moniker roi du chapeau (king of the hat)?
 * ...that Ed Trice, creator of the chess variant known as Gothic Chess, helped Jonathan Schaeffer solve the game of checkers, the most complex game ever solved?
 * ...that the Australian solicitor and politician, Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott was a Freemason, and the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT?
 * ...that all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?
 * ...that when Nizah Morris, an African American transgender woman, was murdered, the medical examiner immediately labeled it a homicide, but the Philadelphia police took over a month to do so?
 * ...that Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the World Series of Poker, won two Emmy Awards for the work he did as NASCAR's marketing director?
 * ...that several British Royal Air Force Stations were used by the U.S. Strategic Air Command (emblem pictured) for almost 20 years?
 * ...that Thai actor Mitr Chaibancha died while filming a stunt for the final scene of the 1970 film, Insee thong?
 * ...that Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania was America's first student union?
 * ...that the last archbishop of Bordeaux of the Hundred Years' War, Pey Berland, built annexed to the cathedral a tower that still bears his name: the Tour Pey Berland?
 * ...that East Perth Cemeteries' first recorded burial was of Private John Mitchell from the 63rd regiment who died on 6 January 1830?
 * ...that the praetorian prefecture of Africa, a Byzantine province established after the Vandalic War, saw continuous warfare and two major military mutinies during its first 15 years of existence?
 * ...that most species of catfishes of the subfamily Sarcoglanidinae are small and transparent?
 * ...that Mozart was a frequent guest at the villa Bertramka on the outskirts of Prague and that the house is now a museum in his memory?
 * ...that Singapore's Burmese Buddhist Temple has the largest white marble statue of the Buddha (pictured) outside of Myanmar?
 * ...that in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution, giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom?
 * ...that Oscar the Cat was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the terminally ill?
 * ...that when severely disturbed, catfish of the genus Acrochordonichthys may release a milky-white mucus-like substance that can kill other fish?
 * ...that Abraham Lincoln helped bury the dead at Kellogg's Grove following the second Battle of Kellogg's Grove during the Black Hawk War?
 * ...that the online business term Enterprise 2.0 originated with Participate Systems CEO Alan Warms in 2001 and has spawned annual collaborative technologies conference of the same name?
 * ...that children who turn 16 during the validity of a Family Railcard may still travel at child fares until the card expires?
 * ...that the Jerusalem city hall at Safra Square (pictured) was rebuilt in 1993 with help from Brazilian-Lebanese financier Edmond J. Safra?
 * ...that the Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008 has been endorsed by both Chuck Yeager and Ann Coulter?
 * ...that Ed Bruneteau was traded twice to the Detroit Red Wings within two years?
 * ...that the children's group The Wiggles, Australia's most successful entertainers, have franchised their image and songs to groups in Taiwan and South America?
 * ...that the winners at the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe in September, 2007, will receive the first WSOP bracelets ever awarded outside of Las Vegas?
 * ...that Auburn Tigers offensive coordinator Al Borges wrote both a book and an instructional video titled Coaching the West Coast Quarterback?
 * ...that members of the genus Breitensteinia have a longer body than other stream catfishes due to an increase in number of vertebrae?
 * ...that the influence of singer Jeff Tweedy's side group Loose Fur on Wilco's 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot led to the dismissal of two other Wilco members?
 * ...that the homosexual relationship between Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone only became a major on-screen plot line on All My Children after the series fans demanded it?
 * ...that the Cleeves Cove caves were used as a refuge for the local Covenanters, a religious group seeking religious freedom, during the time of their persecution by Charles II's government?
 * ...that Johnny Ramensky was a Scottish criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities to help the British Army?
 * ...that in 1999, John Pollack quit his job as a Congressional speechwriter to build a boat made entirely out of corks?
 * ...that State Route 69 (road sign pictured) in the U.S. state of Utah was renumbered State Route 38 in 1993, due to sign theft caused by the connotation of the number?
 * ...that catfish of the genus Leporacanthicus are also known as vampire plecostomus because of the presence of very long teeth on their upper jaw?
 * ...that Russian parliamentarian Vasily Maklakov is suspected of having procured the poison that was used to murder Grigory Rasputin?
 * ...that Christopher Wright, one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, could be the source of the letter that betrayed the plan?
 * ...that the Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important constitutional documents of the Commonwealth of Nations, is thought to have been unenforceable until the Harare Declaration twenty years later?
 * ...that besides writing 3000 songs during his life, Clifford Grey also competed for the United States in bobsledding while still a British citizen?
 * ...that the Esplanade in Calcutta, which formed a favourite promenade for "elegant walking parties" in the eighteenth century, now sees some 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles pass through during rush hour?
 * ...that the windowless skyscraper at 33 Thomas Street (pictured) in New York City was designed to resist nuclear fallout and be self-sufficient for up to two weeks?
 * ...that William Gaskell, husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, was a pioneer in the education of the working classes?
 * ...that Tan Howe Liang is Singapore's only Olympic Games medallist?
 * ...that Algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
 * ...that the Austrian government gave the American soprano Teresa Stich-Randall the title of Kammersängerin given to esteemed artists?
 * ...that the Javanese Damarwulan legend may be based on events during the reign of Queen Suhita of the Majapahit Empire?
 * ...that the Calendar of saints of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa includes feasts for a number of individuals from Africa, including Bernard Mizeki, Robert Gray, Manche Masemola, and Charles Frederick Mackenzie?