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 * ...that according to Allied intelligence, the 27th Infantry Division was one of the very best German divisions in World War I?
 * ...that amygdalohippocampectomy is the removal of the hippocampus and amygdala?
 * ...that Swiss born peasant-farmer Pierre Nicholas Dorsaz (pictured) led Napoleon and his army of over 60,000 men, cavalry and artillery through the Alps to Italy in 1800 as part of a plan to surprise the Austrians there?
 * ...that Robert E. Murray, a partial owner of Crandall Canyon Mine, which recently collapsed trapping six workers, says he was himself once trapped in a collapsed mine for 12 hours?
 * ...that the online encyclopedia glbtq.com has almost 2,000 entries categorized into Arts, Literature, and History and Social Sciences - and was called "the Britanniqueer Encyclopedia" by The Advocate?
 * ...that in his Pulitzer Prize-winning career as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, William Tuohy covered the Tet Offensive, the Fall of Saigon, The Troubles of Northern Ireland and the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
 * ...that in order to encourage more people to move from North to South Vietnam during the partition of 1954, CIA agent Edward Lansdale spread propaganda of a nuclear attack on the communist north?
 * ...that the only Egyptian Revival mausoleum to feature both a pyramid and a mastaba (pictured) is found in Newburgh, New York's Old Town Cemetery?
 * ...that Walter Braithwaite, who was dismissed for incompetence following the Battle of Gallipoli, was later commissioned to write an official report on the effectiveness of British staff officers during World War I?
 * ...that Howard Judd developed objective measures of the hot flushes experienced in menopause, which were later used to assess the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy?
 * ...that Dele Olojede's 2004 reports from Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan Genocide led him to become the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize?
 * ...that the perpetrators of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history spent almost all the US$6.7 million they embezzled on lottery tickets, in the hope of winning back even more than they had stolen?
 * ...that the social reform organization Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz has been labeled "un-Islamic" by upper caste Muslims?
 * ...that the Baths of Zeuxippus, built sometime around the 1st century CE in Constantinople, housed over 80 statues of important historical figures like Aristotle, Homer, Plato and Julius Caesar?
 * ...that the first trade union in Botswana was not recognised by the ruling Bechuanaland Protectorate until 1964, 16 years after its formation?
 * ...that Russians were the largest European community in pre-WWII Shanghai, leaving behind them a Beaux-Arts consulate building (pictured), a Orthodox cathedral, and a statue of Alexander Pushkin?
 * ...that British military engineer Major-General Sir John Capper helped develop both airships and tanks during his service with the Royal Engineers?
 * ...that actor S.J. Warmington had several supporting roles in Alfred Hitchcock films in the 1930s and was killed when the German Luftwaffe bombed London in 1941?
 * ...that photography in the Philippines was pioneered by a Spaniard named Sinibaldo de Mas in 1841?
 * ...that the Solar Sentinels, a NASA spacecraft designed to study the Sun, will have to survive at distances from the Sun only one-quarter of Earth's distance?
 * ...that the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has made rainwater harvesting mandatory to address a critical water shortage?
 * ...that Cornelius Canis was the music director at the imperial chapel of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V?
 * ...that the annual Suicide Race is a horse race where riders charge down a 225-foot (68.58m) slope at a 62-degree angle into and through the Okanogan River?
 * ...that Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt lectured at the short-lived Surrey Institution (pictured), and Goldsworthy Gurney won recognition there for his work on blowpipes?
 * ...that the dioptic lens at Start Point lighthouse was the first of this kind to be used by Trinity House?
 * ...that Andrew Clemens designed hundreds of elaborate sand bottles from 1880–1886 some of which are valued at more than US$25,000 today?
 * ...that astronomer Russell M. Genet founded the first totally automatic robotic observatory?
 * ...that the Tai chi classics are manuscripts and commentaries that are used as standards for the correct study and practice of the art of t'ai chi ch'uan?
 * ...that Sir Nicholas Nuttall, 3rd Baronet inherited the Edmund Nuttall engineering business and the Nuttall family baronetcy in 1941, aged 8?
 * ...that the first meeting between the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and the Wisconsin Badgers took place in 1890 and marked the beginning of the most played rivalry at the top level of NCAA competition?
 * ...that Jatindramohan Tagore, a theatre enthusiast, music and art-lover, and philanthropist, was the first Indian to be be a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1898?
 * ...that rebels from the South Vietnamese army fought the loyalists of Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) for the Presidential Palace in a 1963 coup, not realising that Diem had escaped through a tunnel in an attempt to evade capture?
 * ...that John W. Blassingame's The Slave Community (1972) is one of the first histories of slavery in the United States written from the perspective of African American slaves?
 * ...that Edward Filene, the American entrepreneur who built Filene's department store and Filene's Basement, also founded the 87-million member US credit union system in 1907?
 * ...that Holy Cross was the first Roman Catholic church built in Boston?
 * ...that Oregon's Salmon River is the only river in the 48 contiguous U.S. states to be a protected National Wild and Scenic River along its entire length?
 * ...that the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers lost 8,000 of its 15,000 members when Jamaica restructured local government services in 1984?
 * ...that the Roman emperor Augustus prevented Vedius Pollio from feeding a slave to his lampreys as punishment for breaking a glass?
 * ...that Oblate missionary Nicolas Coccola (pictured) spent 63 years in British Columbia working among the Shuswap, Kootenai, Dakelh, Sekani, Gitxsan, Hagwilget, Babine and Lheidli T'enneh First Nations?
 * ...that Bunocephalus is the most species-rich and widespread genus of the South American banjo catfishes?
 * ...that Minnie D. Craig, the first female speaker of a legislative body in the US, was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives just three years after gaining suffrage?
 * ...that the 30-mile (50-km) section of Interstate 15 in Arizona was the most expensive section of rural freeway through the Virgin River Gorge?
 * ...that when 400 RNs unionized with the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals on July 19, 2007, it was the largest successful organizing effort among nurses in the state since 2000?
 * ...that an Internalnet of Nanochondria could allow someone to exhale a Utility fog, in effect allowing them to breathe out a needed tool?
 * ...that the Church of Shawangunk (pictured), in Ulster County, New York, is the oldest continuously-used building in the Reformed Church of America?
 * ...that South America's eyeless Micromyzon akamai is the smallest species of banjo catfish?
 * ...that Mary Saunderson played several female Shakespearean characters previously portrayed only by men, including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Ophelia in Hamlet?
 * ...the South side of Chicago hosted a Black Renaissance that paralleled the Harlem Renaissance?
 * ...that pitcher Scott Bailes finished the 1997 MLB season with a career-best earned run average of 2.86 despite having not played in the Major Leagues for four seasons?
 * ...that the People's Park Complex was the first shopping mall in Singapore to incorporate a large internal atrium, based on the Metabolist Movement of the 1960s?
 * ...that Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha, in the city of Hubli, is the only unit in India authorised to manufacture and supply the national flag?
 * ...that the Snake River Bridge, in the U.S. state of Washington, was originally built in one location, completely dismantled, and reassembled in its current location?
 * ...that the Moscow Orphanage (pictured) controlled the largest bank and capital assets in 19th-century Moscow?
 * ...that Richard I's army of Crusaders braved heat exhaustion, Saladin's archers, and tarantulas on their march to the Battle of Arsuf?
 * ...that the Longsnout butterflyfish was given three scientific names by two separate scientists when it was first described in 1860?
 * ...that 141 buildings in Těrlicko were destroyed during the construction of Těrlicko Dam?
 * ...that to finance the musical Jelly's Last Jam, producer Margo Lion used a nude sculpture by Henri Matisse, which she inherited at age 18 when her parents died in a plane crash in Egypt, as collateral?
 * ...that metalwork accessories were the clearest indicator of high-ranking persons in early medieval European dress?
 * ...that Sir Ian Anstruther, 8th Baronet held two separate baronetcies which on his death went to different sons?
 * ...that the foam blocks used to lessen the impact of crashes at Flemington Speedway led to the development of the SAFER barrier?
 * ...that Dyesebel (pictured), a popular mermaid character in Filipino comic books, cinema and television, was based on Philippine folklore?
 * ...that before turning to acting, Ulrich Mühe, the star of the Academy Award-winning 2006 film The Lives of Others, was a border guard on the communist side of the Berlin Wall?
 * ...that the impresario Ernesto de Quesada invented an imaginary partner when he founded a classical music management agency in Berlin?
 * ...that Around the World is the oldest magazine still published in the Russian language?
 * ...that the introduction of chlorpromazine revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia in the 1950s?
 * ...that Pearl Bank Apartments was the tallest residential building in Singapore when it was completed in 1976?
 * ...that the once flourishing Indian port of Saptagram faded out as a result of river silting?
 * ...that Bahraini runner Tareq Mubarak Taher lost his medals from the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2006 World Junior Championships because he competed with a falsified age?
 * ...that John Y. Naka's bonsai masterpiece Goshin (pictured) consists of eleven trees representing Naka's eleven grandchildren?