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 * ...that the Santa Fe courthouse ghost, the video of which got more than 80,000 hits on Youtube, appeared to be a bug?
 * ...that Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (pictured) was commissioned to Paul Delaroche after he criticised Jacques-Louis David's version for being unrealistic?
 * ...that Colne Cricket Club is the oldest club in the Lancashire League?
 * ...that curling is the provincial sport of Saskatchewan?
 * ...that W.N.T. Beckett, was presented the Royal Victorian Order for services to the British Royal Family during a cruise?
 * ...that Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger never won a domestic AVP event as partners despite winning silver at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships?
 * ...that Mozart never finished his composition for voice and piano to celebrate the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War?
 * ...that lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia is a syndrome secondary to autoimmune and other lymphoproliferative disorders?
 * ...that although Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania was named for a suspected Loyalist during the American Revolution, by 1838 his name was so controversial that Plunketts Creek Township was named for the creek instead?
 * ...that The Majestic (pictured) in Singapore was a opera house built by tin and rubber magnate Eu Tong Sen in 1928 for his wife who was a Cantonese opera fan?
 * ...that the Jack of the President of Poland was originally intended only for usage on naval vessels in the presence of the commander-in-chief?
 * ...that 24 Royal Marines cadets aged 10 to 13 were killed when a double-decker bus ploughed into their marching column in the 1951 Gillingham bus disaster, setting a new British record of fatalities in a road accident?
 * ...that the Sangam poems, an important source of ancient Tamil history, were composed by a total of 473 poets over a period of a few centuries?
 * ...that the title of ‘Raja’ was bestowed on Subodh Chandra Mullick by the people after he donated Rs. 100,000 in 1906 for the National Council of Education which later became Jadavpur University?
 * ...that Timothy Christian School was forced to move from Cicero, Illinois to enroll African American students?
 * ...that Buffalo Grove was the first settlement in Ogle County, Illinois?
 * ...that Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus (pictured), was a member of the Lithuanian World Community, which seeks to unite the Lithuanian diaspora?
 * ...that some rocks at the Kupgal neolithic site, near Bellary, India, produce gong-like musical tones when struck with boulders?
 * ...that Joe Hauser was the first player ever to hit 60 or more home runs in a season twice in a professional baseball career?
 * ...that the 457 visa is the most common way for employers to temporarily sponsor skilled overseas workers to come to Australia?
 * ...that Constantine Possiet was the first Russian minister to support the project of a Trans-Siberian Railway?
 * ...that legend has it that Benjamin I of Alexandria was escorted to heaven by Athanasius of Alexandria, Severus of Antioch, and Theodosius I?
 * ...that Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence during the War of the Eight Saints, disseminated Republican propaganda throughout the Papal States?
 * ...that snail races usually start with the words "Ready, Steady, Slow!"
 * ...that the Hull Maritime Museum of Kingston upon Hull, England, houses the largest collection of scrimshaw artwork (example pictured) in Europe?
 * ...that the 1979 arrest of Raymond Lee Harvey and Osvaldo Ortiz for being part of an alleged plot to assassinate President Jimmy Carter drew parallels to the name of Lee Harvey Oswald?
 * ...that Uncle Tupelo singers Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy got into several physical altercations during the promotional tour for Anodyne?
 * ...that the first tamaya, built in 1599 in the Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was destroyed by the Tokugawa?
 * ...that Protestants and Orthodox minorities gained significant concessions from the Catholics during the election sejm of 1632?
 * ...that in 1989, the Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo was the first race car to overcome Porsche's seven year dominance of the IMSA GT Championship's GTP category?
 * ...that the trolley believed to have been used in the film A Streetcar Named Desire is housed at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum?
 * ...that the United Nations has a collection of artworks (gift from former USSR pictured) which were donated by its member states?
 * ...that in his rookie year, Major league baseball pitcher Matt Kilroy set a record of 513 strikeouts, which still stands 131 years later?
 * ...that Japanese writer Makoto Oda wrote a book on his travels through Europe and Asia on a budget of a dollar a day?
 * ...that Michelle Morgan, a child abuse victim murdered by her stepmother at age four, was featured on an episode of Cold Case Files?
 * ...that Vitalian of Capua's refused to return to his post as bishop after being thrown into the Garigliano River in a leather bag?
 * ...that at 34 months, Georgia Brown became the youngest ever female member of Mensa?
 * ...that the Polish Home Army planned an uprising in Kraków in 1944 to complement the Warsaw Uprising?
 * ...that the Jurassic limestone formations of the Polish Jura Chain (pictured) upland contain some 200 caves?
 * ...that Oregon Supreme Court justice George Van Hoomissen wrote the decisions for both the most cited case of that court and the controversial overturning of a voter approved ballot measure?
 * ...that Edward Kozłowski, the second Polish-American bishop, died just one year after his appointment?
 * ...that the urban villages found in some of China's major cities are inner city slums with Chinese characteristics?
 * ...that Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was killed by the opening shots of the Battle of Magersfontein?
 * ...that El Güegüense, a theatrical play written by an anonymous author in the 16th century, is considered to be the first literary work of Nicaragua?
 * ...that Helmholtz pitch notation was developed by German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz for his work on acoustics and is one of two main systems for describing musical pitch?
 * ...that the Banner of Poland, despite its 1000-year old history, is not officially considered a Polish national symbol?
 * ...that in 1979, two men (Raymond Lee Harvey and Osvaldo Ortiz) were arrested as part of an alleged plot to assassinate President Jimmy Carter, drawing parallels to the name of Lee Harvey Oswald?
 * ...that Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's (pictured) film directing debut was on Torment, a 1944 film about a sadistic Latin teacher?
 * ...that the former head of the Royal Australian Navy, George Francis Hyde, was the first Australian naval officer to become a honorary aide-de-camp to King George V?
 * ...that the Swiss Vetterli rifles, a series of Winchester-derived repeating rifles, were Europe's most advanced service rifles at the time of their introduction in 1869?
 * ...that the Greek frigate Hellas, the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy, was burned by the Greek Admiral Andreas Miaoulis during a civil war in 1831?
 * ...that in 1981, Arizona's silver mining industry had produced a cumulative total of over 32m troy ounces of silver?
 * ...that two people died outside of San Francisco's Pier 26 during the 1934 Bloody Thursday Riots?
 * ...that novelist Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr's most successful body of work is called the "Cherry Croft novels", after the summer house in Cornwall on Hudson, New York where she wrote them?
 * ...that Oppa may have been both Bishop of Seville and King of the Visigoths at the time of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania?
 * ...that Tranby House is the oldest surviving brick building in Perth, Western Australia?
 * ...that the 1869 collapse of the 2,500-foot-long Hennepin Island tunnel (pictured) resulted in cementing over the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River?
 * ...that Francis Julius LeMoyne built the first crematory in the United States and was its third crematee?
 * ...that Bob Case named the cyclone known as The Perfect Storm?
 * ...that the RevoPower motorized bicycle kit was inspired by a visit to a bicycle taxi manufacturer?
 * ...that in 1904, H. Chandler Egan won the U.S. Amateur golf championship, and was a member of both the U.S. college championship and the gold medal-winning United States Olympic golf teams?
 * ...that Filipino Ilustrados originally demanded that the Philippines become a province of Spain instead of independence?
 * ...that Major Derek Cooper and his wife, Pamela, assisted with refugee relief efforts from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 to the Siege of Beirut in 1982, and established the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians in 1984?
 * ...that novelist Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis actively supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic, lived part of his life as a vagabond, and probably died in a Nazi concentration camp?
 * ...that the creators of stage musical Furry Tales (pictured) were inspired by Anthrocon, the world's largest furry convention?
 * ...that Catholic bishop and Visigothic political leader Masona built the first hospital in Spain and endowed it with farms to provide its patients with food?
 * ...that it has not rained at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning since they began performing a virgin ritual?
 * ...that the 850-ton Belle Tout lighthouse was pushed 17 metres (56 feet) away from a cliff face to save it from coastal erosion?
 * ...that the first reference to toilet paper was made in the year 589 AD by the Chinese scholar Yan Zhitui?
 * ...that the Beyoncé song "Suga Mama" features a sample of the song "Searching for Soul" by funk band Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers?
 * ...that Soviet diplomat Pyotr Voykov was assassinated in Warsaw for his part in the killing of Tsar Nicholas II and his family?
 * ...that high levels of ultraviolet colors on the neck of a male Platysaurus broadleyi, a type of lizard in the Cordylidae family, indicate dominance over other males?
 * ...that Éva Gauthier was the first classically trained singer to present the works of George Gershwin in concert?
 * ...that humans have lived near Nevada's Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD?
 * ...that Joaquín Camacho, an agitator for 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 demobilised 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 in place of execution, Saint Cerbonius was exiled after the bear brought in to kill him instead licked his feet?