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 * ...that the Chinese government requires any living Buddha who wishes to reincarnate to submit a Reincarnation Application?
 * ...that epidemiologist and science activist Tara C. Smith writes the award-winning science blog Aetiology, rated by a Nature study as the number 7 science blog out of 46 million blogs studied?
 * ...that the Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the earliest film studio of "race movies"?
 * ...that after his mother's death from diabetes, Giuseppe Moscati began experiments using insulin to treat the disease?
 * ...that the 2007 Brooklyn tornado was the strongest tornado on record in New York City and the first in Brooklyn since 1889?
 * ...that the song Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday has received more than five million views on YouTube and has generated thousands of covers, remixes, and parodies?
 * ...that literary critics credit William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a significant contributor to Sigmund Freud's idea of the Oedipus complex?
 * ...that Jamaican labor leader Helene Davis-Whyte was anti-union before being elected a delegate in her union?
 * ...that the Corbett hill Beinn Chuirn (pictured) has Scotland's largest known deposits of gold?
 * ...that Thomas William Bowlby (1818 - 1860), a British correspondent for The Times was captured and imprisoned by the Tartar General Sengge Rinchen whilst on correspondence in Tongzhou, Beijing?
 * ...that the bliaut, a fitted gown with flared sleeves, was an important item of both men's and women's fashion in Europe between 1100 and 1200?
 * ...that the Assyrian King Sargon II deported more than 100,000 rebels from Babylon as punishment?
 * ...that, in his book Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, Tom Wolfe famously called Jimmy Carter a "Missionary lectern­pounding Amenten-finger C-major chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha keyboard loblolly piney­woods Baptist"?
 * ...that Jay U. Gunter, professor of pathology, devoted his life to astronomy after he retired?
 * ...that the Roman province of Dacia ripensis contained eight fortresses developed by Trajan?
 * ...that the valley elderberry longhorn beetle (pictured) in the Central Valley of California is nearly always found on or close to elderberry shrubs, where females lay their eggs on the bark and larvae hatch and burrow into the stems?
 * ...that the Elagabalium was the center of a controversial religious cult established by the Roman emperor Elagabalus?
 * ...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record?
 * ...that by 1608, performances of William Shakespeare's plays had become popular enough that his playing company was able to act indoors, in the Blackfriars Theatre?
 * ...that the Kannada film Samskara, initially banned by the censor board, won the President's Gold Medal for the Best Indian Film of 1971?
 * ...that Dr. Ashbel Smith, who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, later established a college for African-Americans known today as Prairie View A&M University?
 * ...that Horace Walpole called John Trumbull's oil-on-canvas The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789 (pictured) "the finest picture [he] had ever seen painted on the northern side of the Alps"?
 * ...that the highest mountain in the Far Eastern Fells of the Lake District is High Street, rising up to 828 metres (2,718 ft)?
 * ...that Paradise Camp is a documentary, explaining how Nazi officials fooled the Red Cross into believing the Jews were being well cared for?
 * ...that the commanding officer of American soldier Matthias W. Day wanted to court-martial him for the actions that instead won him the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars?
 * ...that Somapura Mahavihara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bangladesh, was one of the best known Buddhist viharas in South Asia since King Dharmapala erected it in the 8th century?
 * ...that Manuel Benito de Castro assumed the Presidency of Cundinamarca, with the condition that he would be allowed to leave Congress at a certain time to feed his dog?
 * ...that South Korean actress Jang Jin-young was only the second winner of two Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, having won in 2001 for Sorum, and again in 2003 for Singles?
 * ...that the Bagbazar neighbourhood in north Kolkata (Bagbazar Ghat pictured) has long been a citadel of the Bengali aristocracy?
 * ...that Elihu Embree published the first newspaper in the United States devoted to abolishing slavery until his death in 1820?
 * ...that Feliks Kon started the Polish language section at Radio Moscow, had a Russian ship named in his honor, and the only member of the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee to die naturally?
 * ...that the Finnish company YIT was responsible for the construction of the Finnish National Opera house, the Helsinki Fair Centre and Cirrus, the tallest high-rise building in Finland?
 * ...that the residents of the suburb of Cameron Park in Newcastle, Australia, voted to rename the suburb after a local speedway?
 * ...that Alexander Eugen Conrady abandoned his native Germany in disgust, settled in England, and there designed optical instruments used by the British in World War I?
 * ...that the forthcoming CBS sitcom pilot Worst Week will be the third attempt to adapt the British series The Worst Week of My Life in the United States, having previously been attempted by Fox and NBC?
 * ...that German artist and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel is the first person known to have used triangulation in surveying?
 * ...that the Buddhist Library (pictured), which is located in a shophouse, is Singapore's first dedicated Buddhist library and is unique in that it is neither an association nor a temple?
 * ...that Buttercup Dickerson, who debuted for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds, is credited as the first Italian-American to play Major League Baseball?
 * ...that a report of high school students laughing during Schindler's List inspired a film-maker to create the 2003 documentary Marion's Triumph about a child Holocaust survivor?
 * ...that while other nations have marine aviators, only the United States Marine Corps has their own dedicated aviation arm?
 * ...that Anastasius of Alexandria, despite being forbidden to enter the city of Alexandria, helped arrange for the unification of the Coptic Church and the Church of Antioch?
 * ...that Steve Hamilton's A Cold Day in Paradise is the only book to win both the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for best first novel?
 * ...that 'Syādvāda is a Jainism Doctrine of Postulation which provides the teaching or instruction from which a postulate or axiom is provided to determine the truth of the matter?
 * ...that Eighteenmile Island (pictured) is the only privately owned island in the Columbia River?
 * ...that Patriarch Alexander II of Alexandria died trying to escape from the Umayyad government after having been brought before it for refusing to have a lion branded on his hand?
 * ...that one of the stories of the Jain teacher Haribhadra relates how he ordered some Buddhist monks to leap into a vat of hot oil for killing his nephew?
 * ...that 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner David Leeson was once shot in the face in Panama while covering the 1988 ousting of Manuel Noriega?
 * ...that in the peak days of Iranian migration to Japan, Iran Air flights to Tokyo were fully booked several years in advance?
 * ...that Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog was one of several of his paintings that were based upon the concept that self-expression was to be bonded with physical and spiritual isolation?
 * ...that Andrew Saul heads the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which manages the $158 billion Thrift Savings Plan for 3.7 million soldiers and Federal employees?
 * ...that despite two centuries of exploration nobody has found evidence of the legendary silver mine of Jonathan Swift?
 * ...that the Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships (pictured) was one of over 3,000 seascapes painted by Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky?
 * ...that the largest score and winning margin between the All Blacks and France at rugby union was a 61–10 victory by the All Blacks at Westpac Stadium in 2007?
 * ...that the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy showed remarkable religious tolerance towards its Arian, Chalcedonian Christian and Jewish citizens?
 * ...that at the 1832 Battle of Apple River Fort, a group of about 25 militia fought off Chief Black Hawk's warriors with the assistance of the nearby settlement's women?
 * ...that after Manuel Rodríguez Torices, an agitator for Colombian independence died in the gallows, his body was shot, beheaded, dismembered, and his head displayed in a metal cage?
 * ...that Tekka Mall is the first and largest modern shopping mall in Singapore's Little India?
 * ...that towns across the United States and Australia have memorials dedicated to the birth of their first white child?
 * ...that Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli (pictured) was the god of the planet Venus in Aztec belief?
 * ...that The Great Day of His Wrath, an oil-on-canvas by John Martin, is based on Revelation 6:12-17 in the Bible, which vividly describes the end of the world?
 * ...that Liang Wern Fook, a pioneer of Singapore's xinyao movement, has composed over 200 songs?
 * ...that the football (soccer) stadium at Tehelné pole, in Bratislava, was the largest in the former Czechoslovakia?
 * ...that the motorcycle racing couple of Jagat and Anita Nanjappa once completed a rally in which Anita sat on the bike's petrol tank to reduce the weight on the flat rear tyre?
 * ...that the Romanian crude oil tanker M/T Independenţa burnt for weeks in 1979 after colliding with a freighter?
 * ...that Ben Kuroki was the only Japanese-American in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific during World War II?
 * ...that Mother Frances Hospital, a part of Trinity Mother Frances Health System, opened a day early in 1937 due to the explosion of a nearby school?
 * ...that the band of Potawatomi that carried out the Indian Creek massacre kidnapped and ransomed two teenage girls during the attack?
 * ...that Churche's Mansion (pictured), Nantwich, United Kingdom, one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1583, bears a carved salamander, a traditional protection against fire?
 * ...that the song "See See Rider" was first recorded in 1924 by Ma Rainey and reached the top of the rhythm and blues charts twice in versions by Bea Booze and Chuck Willis?
 * ...that Tommy Sale scored 282 goals during 14 years at the English Football club Stoke City F.C.?
 * ...that Joshua Reynolds' Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers recently sold for £2.5 million (US $4.4 million) despite the artist's limited success during his lifetime?
 * ...that then-President of the United States Franklin Pierce and all of his cabinet attended the second wedding of playwright Anna Cora Mowatt?
 * ...that Alfred Tennyson's 1847 lyric poem "Tears, Idle Tears" is written such that readers often don't notice its lack of rhyme?