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 * ...that the 1945 sinking of USS Eagle 56 was classified as a boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the Navy to reclassify it as a combat loss due to enemy action?
 * ...that 'Dus-rong Mang-po-rje acceded to the Tibetan throne in AD 676, when he was only six or seven years old?
 * ...that the Vincent Thomas Bridge (pictured)was named after Vincent Thomas, a California State Assembly politician, in honor of his foresight and work during its construction?
 * ...that the Great Wall of China has impacted the process of evolution in plants?
 * ...that the reconstruction of the Saalburg, Germany's most completely reconstructed Roman fort, began under Kaiser Wilhelm II?
 * ...that the 1832 capture and execution of Lucy and James Sample by burning was one of several minor attacks of the Black Hawk War?
 * ...that Rizwanur Rahman was charged with abducting his wife by West Bengal police after her father disapproved of the marriage?
 * ...that William Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways", an ode to loneliness and loss, is more concerned with his own emotions on the death of an unrequited love, than with the death itself?
 * ...that the U.S. state of Oregon has a rail network of over 2,400 miles?
 * ...that Ethiopian Abebe Aregai saved his resistance from defeat by repeatedly misleading the Italian occupiers into thinking he was about to join their side?
 * ...that Astronomische Nachrichten, founded by H. C. Schumacher (pictured) in 1821, is the world's oldest extant astronomical journal?
 * ...that the Mona Lisa is named for Lisa del Giocondo?
 * ...that Quentin L. Cook is the latest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles?
 * ...that the National Mint of Jubia was created in an attempt to counter a shortage of coin production in Spain during the Peninsular War?
 * ...that Gavrinis, an island in the Gulf of Morbihan off the coast of Brittany, France, has a rich abundance of megalithic art from the New Stone Age?
 * ...that Vernice Armour was the first female African-American combat pilot in U.S. military history?
 * ...that the "van" in the name of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is a remnant of his Flemish ancestry?
 * ...that Ann Moore - the fasting woman from Tutbury was actually from Rosliston in Derbyshire and she had not eaten "for nearly five years"?
 * ...that the Broomfield Rowhouse in Omaha, Nebraska was designed by a young African American architect for a 1909 competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine?
 * ...that Sloan’s Urania (Urania sloanus)  (pictured), a Jamaican day flying moth of the Uraniidae family, was last reported in 1894 or 1895?
 * ...that railroad water stops contributed to the development of bass fishing in the 19th century United States?
 * ...that Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in the 11th century, even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola?
 * ...that Emir Rodríguez Monegal had a cameo in Jorge Luis Borges's 1949 short story The Other Death?
 * ...that Friedrich Hayek's assertion that price fluctuations are an essential part of the economy was initially rejected by his peers?
 * ...that Finnish-American Klaus Nordling is best known for his work on comic books, including the 1940s masked crimefighter "Lady Luck"?
 * ...that St. Trudpert's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Münstertal in the southern Black Forest, was plundered during the Peasants' War and destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War?
 * ...that 17th century London printer Nicholas Okes printed the first quartos of Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello?
 * ...that future space tourists may use the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (Quid) as currency when traveling?
 * ...that the Züschen tomb (pictured) and the Lohra tomb in Hesse, Germany, are prehistoric gallery graves belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture?
 * ...that a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright?
 * ...that after his release from prison, Laurence McKeown, a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, earned a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast and co-founded the Belfast Film Festival?
 * ...that the Hillsboro Police was the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to collect demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling?
 * ...that the Michigan Wolverines are college football's most victorious program by total wins and percentage?
 * ...that early Seattle real estate developer George Kinnear served as the Captain of the "Home Guard" that put down the city's Anti-Chinese riots of 1885–1886?
 * ...that U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
 * ...that despite a Nazi ban on all sports, soccer matches with hooliganism still occurred in Poland?
 * ...that Isaac Jefferson was a valued slave at U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation?
 * ...that after the 1832 Native American attack at Ament's Cabin (pictured), a 16 year old boy was sent to Hennepin, Illinois by horseback for help?
 * ...that "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society?
 * ...that Tyolet is an anonymous 13th century Breton lai in Francien which shares elements with Chrétien de Troyes' Le Conte du Graal?
 * ...that Outhwaite Park in Auckland, New Zealand, is named after early settlers, the Outhwaite family?
 * ...that in 2000, Tony Blair established a commission to review how the British co-operative movement could be modernized?
 * ...that William H. Wilbur won the Medal of Honor while a colonel in the United States Army, for arranging an armistice with Vichy French forces in Casablanca and then leading an assault on an artillery battery during Operation Torch?
 * ...that the megalithic Altendorf tomb in Hesse, Germany contains bones from at least 235 individuals from the New Stone Age?
 * ...that Pennsylvania's Kinzua Bridge (remnants pictured) was the world's longest and tallest railroad bridge when built in 1882, became a state park in 1970, and was knocked down by a tornado in 2003?
 * ...that segregated seating known as ghetto ławkowe ("ghetto desks" or "ghetto benches") were introduced in Polish universities in the 1930s, primarily for Jewish students?
 * ...that the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island includes three books bound in human skin?
 * ...that $\det\left(\mathbf{A}\right) = \prod\limits_{i=1}^{N_{\lambda}}{\lambda_i^{n_i}} \!\ $?
 * ...that the Fehr Round Barn, the Otte Round Barn and the Harbach Round Barn are three of 21 round barns that were built in Stephenson County, Illinois during the early 20th century?
 * ...that the Susukino district was established as a red-light district in Sapporo, Japan in 1871 to keep labourers in Hokkaidō?
 * ...that most land south of latitude 40°S is part of the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, with plant species that remain closely related despite their physical separation, dating back to the prehistoric southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana?
 * ...that English clergyman Ralph Tollemache gave his many children increasingly eccentric names, such as that of British Army officer Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache?
 * ...that the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health (pictured) is one of the most frequented religious sites in India, drawing nearly 2 million pilgrims annually?
 * ...that in his book James the Brother of Jesus, Robert Eisenman contends that the Twelve Apostles were in fact an artificially expanded replacement of the factual smaller circle of the brothers of Jesus?
 * ...that Nellie Farren was best known for her roles as the "principal boy" in burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre in London?
 * ...that Simon Girty's son Mike called Potawatomi chiefs Waubonsee and Shabbona cowards when they opposed Sauk Chief Black Hawk in the 1832 Black Hawk War?
 * ...that a dispute about S$60 has led to a court appeal amounting to over S$120,000 in legal costs?
 * ...that moot hills in Scotland were mostly artificial mounds built as traditional meeting places for de facto lairdly courts and courts of law?
 * ...that an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day?
 * ...that English opera singer and actress Florence Perry (pictured) was best known for her performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 19th century?
 * ...that the Ephraim Smith House is the only unaltered Greek Revival rural house in Kane County, Illinois?
 * ...that construction of the Brussels-Charleroi Canal was ordered several times over nearly 400 years before work finally began in 1827?
 * ...that 16th century Scottish Bishop of Ross Henry Sinclair was simultaneously Lord President of the Court of Session, and was succeeded in that office by his brother, John Sinclair, Bishop of Brechin?
 * ...that Lake Karla is the only lake in the plain of Thessaly?
 * ...that South African rugby player Jannie du Plessis is both a physician and professional athlete?
 * ...that Godfrey Howitt had to wait over ten years for his family to visit him in Victoria and in the same year he also played host to three Pre-Raphaelite artists?
 * ...that the 13th century Prussian Crusade commanded by Hermann Balk led to the conquest and gradual Christianization of the Old Prussians by the Teutonic Knights?
 * ...that Ebenezer Rhodes (pictured), Sheffield's Master Cutler, was declared bankrupt after losing money publishing books about Derbyshire?
 * ...that Czech fighter pilot Otto Spacek survived three air crashes and won five Czechoslovak War Crosses during the Second World War, but then spent 40 years in exile in Canada after the Communists came to power?
 * ...that Dykes on Bikes have regularly participated at gay pride events, such as Pride parades, Dyke Marches, and other LGBT events, such as the Gay Olympics, since 1976?
 * ...that in the landmark decision United States v. Oppenheimer, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the common law principle of res judicata applies to criminal cases?
 * ...that Chicago Police Department Police Commander Jon Burge was absolved of responsibility for police brutality and torture by statute of limitations after a $17 million investigation of 148 cases?
 * ...that the first ever Ranji Trophy cricket match, played in the year 1933 between Mysore and Madras teams, is the only game in the history of the Ranji Trophy to have been completed in a single day?
 * ...that Sting won a Grammy Award for the 1980 The Police instrumental "Behind My Camel" (as a band member) even though he didn't play on it, hated it, and even buried the tape of it in a garden?
 * ...that the Akhtala monastery (pictured) was originally an Armenian Apostolic monastery that was converted into an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the 1200s?