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 * ...that Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod commissioned the first complete Slavic translation of the Bible?
 * ...that Joaquín Camacho (pictured), one of the Precursors of the Independence of Colombia, was executed by firing squad when he was 50 years old, blind, and paralyzed?
 * ...that over 15,000 men of the battle-hardened 10th and 11th Divisions of the Imperial German Army were disbanded following World War I?
 * ...that Stanisław Patek, dropped from the Russian Empire's list of attorneys for defending political dissidents, was later involved in the creation of a new Polish legal system?
 * ...that RMS Dunottar Castle transported Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, Robert Baden-Powell, and Lord Roberts, among others, to and from Cape Colony, South Africa?
 * ...that Saint Cerbonius was exiled to Elba after the bear brought in to execute him instead licked his feet?
 * ...that humans have lived near Nevada's Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD?
 * ...that Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod commissioned the first complete Slavic translation of the Bible?
 * ...that Éva Gauthier was the first classically trained singer to present the works of George Gershwin in concert?
 * ...that one of the survivors of the Spafford Farm massacre (memorial pictured) hid in the forest for days after the attack because he erroneously thought that a local fort was overtaken by the Menominee?
 * ...that an image of Tesslynn O'Cull, a child abuse victim who was murdered by her stepfather at the age of two, was used in the Stop the Abuse poster for Oregon?
 * ...that St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in St. Paul, Oregon is the oldest brick building in the Pacific Northwest?
 * ...that while working for the Department of Justice attorney Jacob Tanzer worked on the case that led to the movie Mississippi Burning?
 * ...that there are 59 conjectured reconstructions of the Olympia Master's work on the East pediment of the Temple of Zeus?
 * ...that some species of the catfish genus Cetopsis are only known by a single specimen?
 * ...that Hutti Gold Mines Limited, located in the state of Karnataka, is the only company in India that produces gold by mining and extracting it from its ore?
 * ...that Jordan Park (pictured), set up in 1889 as Kraków's first public playground, gave free meals to children?
 * ...that following the Battle of Waddams Grove members of the Illinois militia returned to Galena with the scalps of two Sauk warriors?
 * ...that the Yangzhou riot of 1868 almost led to a Sino-British war because many Chinese believed that English missionaries were stealing children?
 * ...that 17.5% of the murders in Colombia in 1993 were vigilante "social cleansings" of gays, transvestites, and prostitutes?
 * ...that the New England Seamount chain was once at or above sea level off the Massachusetts coast?
 * ...that Robin Starveling, a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, may be a satire of one of Queen Elizabeth's suitors?
 * ...that Runme Shaw, philanthropist and founder of the Shaw Organisation, started his Singapore movie business in a makeshift timber cinema known as The Empire in 1927?
 * ...that Bob Meusel was best known as a member of the fabled "Murderer's Row" of the New York Yankees championship teams of the 1920s?
 * ...that Henry Wallis' The Stonebreaker shows a dead labourer who appears to be resting?
 * ...that the French lawyer and historian, Nicolas Chorier, was also a writer of erotic fiction (work pictured)?
 * ...that ACS Chemical Biology is the first peer-reviewed scientific journal to publish 3D interactive chemical structures replicating printed figures?
 * ...that the Polish Army in France continued to fight in the Battle of France despite Pétain’s call for armistice and demobilization?
 * ...that Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, king of Mysore, set up a factory to manufacture Mysore Sandal Soap because World War I prevented any export of sandalwood?
 * ...that Town Creek Indian Mound near Mount Gilead, North Carolina, preserves a ceremonial mound built by the Pee Dee with 563 burials?
 * ...that the four catfish species of the genus Pseudolithoxus are only found in the Amazonas and Bolívar states of Venezuela?
 * ...that in Puerto Rico alone, about two people die and 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire?
 * ...that even though Jefferson Smith had been shot three times he managed to escape an attack by Native Americans at Blue Mounds Fort?
 * ...that Weston-super-Mare's Birnbeck Pier has the longest lifeboat slipway (pictured) in England?
 * ...that in 2006, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested an ex-bodyguard of Kim Jong-il for trading fake aphrodisiacs?
 * ...that Russian émigré Jerzy Bulanow captained the Poland national football team through the 1920s and early 1930s?
 * ...that Colonel Johnston de Peyster raised the first U.S. flag over Virginia's Capitol Building since the state's secession in 1861?
 * ...that Archbishop Vasily Kalika of Novgorod was not appointed to the post, but was elected by the popular assembly?
 * ...that Albertan politician Joseph Unwin was arrested for producing an official leaflet urging the "extermination" of opposition leader David Milwyn Duggan and Senator William Griesbach?
 * ...that two Italian towns competed over who would receive pieces of Saint Paternian — one receiving a finger, while the other took the rest?
 * ...that when the roof of Dublin's Hellfire Club (pictured) blew off, locals attributed it to Satan's punishment for using a cairn as building material?
 * ...that Odile Crick sketched the DNA double helix for the 1953 paper in Nature by her husband Francis Crick and James Watson announcing its discovery?
 * ...that the 1758 British construction of Fort William in the heart of populous Gobindapur incited the whole colony to migrate north of Calcutta?
 * ...that folktales claim that 19th century Ethiopian poet Gebre Hanna spread rumors of his own death to trick Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia into sending money for a proper funeral?
 * ...that professional wrestler Norvell Austin was part of the first mixed race bad guy tag team in the Southern United States?
 * ...that, when playing the lead in Alexander Nevsky, actor Nikolai Cherkasov wore a replica of the helmet lost by Alexander's father in the Battle of Lipitsa?
 * ...that in 1899, Sir Samuel Gillott (pictured) lost the mayorship of Melbourne by one vote?
 * ...that the term Art Deco was derived by abbreviating the words Arts Décoratifs in the title of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes?
 * ...that Black Entertainment Television comedy series We Got to Do Better, had its name changed from Hot Ghetto Mess amidst allegations of enforcing negative stereotypes of African Americans?
 * ...that the buke shohatto, a Japanese code of conduct for feudal lords, served as the foundation of the bakuhan system of government?
 * ...that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the largest amphitheatre in Roman Britain, seating over 8,000 people?
 * ...that Kathleen Parlow (pictured) was the first foreigner admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she studied under Leopold Auer?
 * ...that during the First Siege of Rome by the Goths, the defenders were forced to use the statues of the Mausoleum of Hadrian as missiles?
 * ...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment?
 * ...that although trade unions in Benin represent up to 75% of the formal workforce, the large informal economy still includes both child labour and forced labour?
 * ...that Soferet is a documentary about the first and only female to become a sofer&mdash;a Jewish scribe that copies Torah scrolls in Hebrew calligraphy?
 * ...that despite being heavily outnumbered, Chief Black Hawk's forces held off the American militia at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights long enough for many civilians to escape?
 * ...that the only person killed in the Buffalo Grove massacre was buried by the group that would be killed during the following day's St. Vrain massacre?
 * ...that John Singleton Copley's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings?
 * ...that the U.S. state of Utah built the Wendover Cut-off (pictured) across the Great Salt Lake Desert in the early 1920s to force motorists to Southern California to take the Arrowhead Trail and remain in that state for about 200 miles (300 km) more?
 * ...that Jacques de Morgan in 1887-89 unearthed 576 ancient graves around Alaverdi and Akhatala, near the Tiflis-Alexandropol railway line?
 * ...that The Princess Anne was elected Chancellor of the University of London in preference to Nelson Mandela and Jack Jones in the first contest in the history of the position?
 * ...that 19th century cartoonist and artist Edward Jump gained a status of renown in the U.S. states of California and Washington, D.C. for his satirical caricatures?
 * ...that the childhood home of Emily Carr, one of Canada's most famous painters, is open to the public today as a museum known as Emily Carr House &mdash; and still contains the family Bible?
 * ...that Polish-American journalist and politician Michał Kruszka was at constant odds with the American Catholic Church, with reading his newspaper declared sinful and many lawsuits being filed by both parties?
 * ...that Bob Massie set a world record by being the first player to take 16 wickets on his Test debut in 1972?
 * ...that the Bull Stone House property (pictured) in New York, is home to the only surviving New World Dutch barn ?
 * ...that Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified audiences with his pioneering phantasmagoria shows and greatly influenced others with his ballooning feats?
 * ...that the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 killed four people and inspired Peter Benchley's novel Jaws (1974)?
 * ...that the pinhole camera model is an ideal camera without lensing aberrations?
 * ...that the West End Street Railway fired Cyrus S. Ching in 1901 after he was nearly electrocuted on the job, only to appoint him manager two months later?
 * ...that the Russian sailing ship STS Sedov features a glass-domed banquet hall with a stage and a movie theatre?
 * ...that Psalm 83 is cited by the Jehovah's Witnesses as a proof of Jehovah being God's personal name?
 * ...that the Boot Monument at Saratoga National Historical Park donated by John Watts de Peyster is the only American war memorial that does not bear the name of its honoree?
 * ...that the 10-day battle for the Festung Kolberg in March 1945 was one of the most intense urban battles of the Polish First Army, destroying most of the city?
 * ...that St James' and St Paul's Church, Marton (pictured) in Cheshire, England, is one of the oldest timber-framed churches in Europe?
 * ...that it has been suggested that using Incan agriculture technologies (such as the andenes) again, would solve the malnutrition problems of the modern Andean peoples for many decades?
 * ...that Old College, the first building on Northwestern University's campus, stood for over 100 years, despite being built as a temporary structure?
 * ...that fetal movement begins as early as seven weeks after conception?
 * ...that the character of Philostrate, the Master of Revels in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, may have been created as a way to poke fun at play censorship?
 * ...that Georgia Governor Carl Sanders declared May 16, 1964 to be George C. Griffin day, because of his service to Georgia Tech?
 * ...that the Alfathi brand of red meat from Nortura combines the strict Islamic rules concerning food preparation for slaughter with Norwegian cuisine?
 * ...that Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified audiences around the world with his pioneering phantasmagoria shows and greatly influenced others with his ballooning feats?
 * ...that the Former Asia Insurance Building (pictured) in Singapore was the tallest building in Southeast Asia when it was completed in 1954?
 * ...that the first word spoken from the moon to the earth would not have been "Houston", if Congressman Albert Richard Thomas of Houston, Texas had not brought the Johnson Space Center to Houston in 1961?
 * ...that the recent treasure recovery by Odyssey Marine Exploration prompted international media attention and controversy with the Spanish government over the rights to the treasure?
 * ...that at the age of 10, Megan Zheng became the first Singaporean to win a Golden Horse Award?
 * ...that during the American Civil War John Breckinridge Castleman was sentenced to death for spying, but his execution was suspended by Abraham Lincoln?
 * ...that the genus Prietella includes two threatened species of eyeless, unpigmented catfish adapted to living underground?
 * ...that the Trent Codices are the largest single music manuscript source of the entire 15th century?
 * ...that the Profane Oaths Act 1745, which criminalised "profane cursing and swearing" in the United Kingdom, was not fully repealed until 1967?
 * ...that Canadian sculptor John Hooper (sculpture pictured) previously lived in England, China, India, and South Africa, and was a captain in the British Army?
 * ...that while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements, the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post-World War I Portugal?
 * ...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 Gabriel Garcia Márquez based his book News of a Kidnapping on the fight by Colombian politician Alberto Villamizar against kidnappings in that country?
 * ...that the Former Singapore Badminton Hall was marked as a historical site by Singapore's National Heritage Board in 1999, as it held two Thomas Cup tournaments and was the vote counting station for a landmark 1962 referendum?