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 * ...that 78 soldiers of the Soviet 25th Rifle Division were awarded the title,
 * ...that the under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049?
 * ...that the Fabergé invoice for the Karelian Birch egg addressed the abdicated Nicholas II of Russia as "Mr. Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich" instead of the previous "Tsar of all the Russias"?
 * ...that college football running back Butch Woolfolk was named MVP of both the Rose Bowl and the Bluebonnet Bowl in the same year?
 * ...that the Chilean wine grape Pais is believed to have descended from the "common black grape" that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought to Mexico in 1520?
 * ...that apparel incorporating homemade granny squares (pictured) was a 1970s fashion fad?
 * ...that Jaroslav Jiřík became the first player from an Eastern Bloc nation to play in the National Hockey League when he appeared in three games with the St. Louis Blues in 1970?
 * ...that the French Committee of National Liberation formed by Gens. Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle officially became the provisional government of France after its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944?
 * ...that Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, as the first Health Minister of Bangladesh, worked to eradicate mosquitoes from that country?
 * ...that when yellow crystals of mosesite, a very rare mineral found in deposits of mercury, are heated to 186oC, they become isotropic?
 * ...that Joseph R. Bodwell, the 40th governor of Maine, worked on the farm and also as a shoemaker when he was a child?
 * ...that systematic mapping of the Michelangelo quadrangle on Mercury has revealed the presence of four nearly obliterated multi-ring impact basins, possibly the oldest features in the mapped areas of the planet
 * ...that a team of Canadians assembled to play for the new Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team in England were sent home without playing a game due to the outbreak of World War II?
 * ...that crystals of Paulingite, a rare zeolite mineral found in vesicles in the basaltic rocks from the Columbia River, form a perfect clear rhombic dodecahedron?
 * ...that scarps, ridges, and troughs, such as the 650 km long and 2 km high Discovery Rupes cutting through the Rameau crater, are common features in the Discovery quadrangle on the planet Mercury?
 * ...that in 1578 the 3rd Dalai Lama converted the Mongol leader Altan Khan, who persuaded Mongols to convert, built Mongolia's first monastery, and within 50 years most Mongols were Buddhist?
 * ...that the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme (pictured) is a preserved railway in France that has dual gauge track with four rails?
 * ...that the visual novel Myself ; Yourself was adapted into an animated television series consisting of thirteen episodes?
 * ...that a nutating disc engine is a novel internal combustion engine comprising fundamentally only one moving part?
 * ...that Jamie Morris of the Washington Redskins, originally considered too short to be a running back, holds the NFL record for the most rushing attempts in a game with 45?
 * ...that the Beethoven crater in the Beethoven quadrangle on Mercury is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System?
 * ...that before penning Number Ones for Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts, country music songwriter Neil Thrasher charted a country single in 1997 as half of the duo Thrasher Shiver?
 * ...that the Mold cape (pictured) is a solid sheet-gold cape found in 1833 over the upper body of a skeleton in a Bronze Age burial mound at Mold in Flintshire, North Wales?
 * ...that the Zentrale Stelle (Central Office) was established in 1958 by the West German government to investigate war crimes committed outside Germany by Nazi forces?
 * ...that Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne was an unpaid assistant to the Quartermaster General during World War I, and won the Distinguished Service Medal for reorganizing the U.S. Army's supply system?
 * ...that the bells of St Giles Church in Wormshill, England were restored in 1995 after a collection started in 1944 with only ten shillings?
 * ...that when Frankish Crusaders ran out of food after the Siege of Maarat in 1098, they proceeded to massacre the city's Saracen inhabitants and eat them?
 * ...that in Steve Morrison's first year as Brother Rice defensive coordinator they won a MHSAA football championship and in his first year as Western Michigan linebacker coach one of his linebackers led the nation in sacks?
 * ...that the Kuiper crater in the Kuiper quadrangle, named after after Dutch American astronomer Gerard Kuiper (pictured), has the highest albedo recorded on Mercury?
 * ...that recent studies estimated that 34% of total electricity consumption in the Dominican Republic was not paid for, as poor service and high prices have induced theft through illegal connections and non-payment of electricity bills?
 * ...that Shaun Alexander, the 2005 NFL MVP Award winner, was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft?
 * ...that Fernandina's Flicker (Colaptes fernandinae), a woodpecker endemic to Cuba, is threatened by habitat loss and now there are fewer than 800 left in the world?
 * ...that the amorphous phosphate mineral santabarbaraite was named after the Italian mining district Santa Barbara where it was discovered in 2003, but its name also honors Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners?
 * ...that the Transcontinental Motor Convoys inspired Dwight D. Eisenhower to support the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956?
 * ...that Garter King of Arms William Segar (pictured) was imprisoned for confirming a coat of arms to someone who was not a gentleman?
 * ...that the 1994 Intelligence Services Act revamped the Apartheid-era security agencies of South Africa and ensured the future preservation of civil liberties?
 * ...that the Caloris Basin on Mercury, one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System, is surrounded by a series of geological formations believed to have been produced by the basin's ejecta?
 * ...that former United States Border Patrol Agent Jose Compean is the focus of a 130,000 name petition seeking to free him from prison?
 * ...that in 1886, Wilhelm Steinitz won the first official World Chess Championship?
 * ...that the Odriíst National Union was a 1960s Peruvian political party based on a cult of personality focussed on former President Manuel A. Odría?
 * ...that British historian Plantagenet Somerset Fry refused treatment for bowel cancer and suffocated himself with a plastic bag?
 * ...that the Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist views to enter the United States?
 * ...that HMS Benbows' (pictured) class, the Iron Dukes, were the first Royal Navy battleships to mount anti-aircraft guns?
 * ...that former Governor Samuel Cony served twice as a member of the Maine House of Representatives&mdash;first as a Democrat, and nearly 30 years later as a Republican?
 * ...that Colura zoophaga, a species of liverwort native to Kenya, traps ciliates in microscopic structures formed by fusion of the leaf edges, but scientists do not know whether it is a carnivorous plant?
 * ...that José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy?
 * ...that jerrygibbsite ((Mn,Zn)9(SiO4)4(OH)2) is a rare mineral of which there are only five known samples in the world?
 * ...that the first volume of printed strips from the furry "Slice-of-life" webcomic A Doemain of Our Own won the 2006 Ursa Major Award for "Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work"?
 * ...that the suffering caused by 19th century floods and famines in Mymensingh District, presently in Bangladesh, led to the sale of human beings for around the price of a maund of rice?
 * ...that during a disastrous battle leading 6000 counter-revolutionaries during the French Revolution, Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye (pictured) fled by ship to England, claiming he needed to save official correspondence?
 * ...that the US Coast Guard cutters Seneca and Ossipee endured a collective total of five torpedo near misses in World War One?
 * ...that Simone Ortega has received prizes from both France and her native Spain for her bestselling range of cookery books, one of which has been updated 48 times and sold millions of copies in Spanish and English?
 * ...that although Howard Johnson became an opponent of animal cruelty, he had earlier called for the British army to deploy flamethrowers to eliminate the seaweed breeding grounds for a type of fly?
 * ...that Paul Hornung, an NFL Hall of Famer, was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 1957 NFL Draft?
 * ...that the south pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Bach quadrangle?
 * ...that Eddie Hasha's (pictured) death led to board track racing being compared to Roman gladiators, contributing to the sport's demise?
 * ...that the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous layer of dust containing nanophase ferric oxides?
 * ...that Żeligowski's Mutiny, which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Central Lithuania in late 1920, was in fact staged and carried out with the knowledge of Polish leader Józef Piłsudski?
 * ...that Glafira Dorosh is the only recipient of a Soviet Order for a culinary recipe?
 * ...that Portland General Electric CEO Peggy Y. Fowler is blind in one eye?
 * ...that Yoky Matsuoka, a neuroscience and robotics researcher, was once the 21st ranked tennis player in Japan?
 * ...that Augustine Podmore Williams, a British mariner who urged his fellow-officers to abandon a crowded vessel in stormy seas in 1880, served as the inspiration for Joseph Conrad's fictional character Lord Jim?
 * ...that after the Fall of Constantinople, the Ottomans demolished the Column of Justinian to symbolize their capture of the city?
 * ...that Italian aerodynamicist Antonio Ferri took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the Allies?
 * ...that despite being Porsche's primary factory-backed competitor in the World Endurance Championship from 1983 to 1986, the Lancia LC2 won only two races?
 * ...that crème brûlée (pictured) was invented in the 1690s by François Massialot, who recommended melting and burning the sugar topping with a red-hot fire shovel?
 * ...that the work of Cornificia, a Roman poet of the first century BC, was read for centuries, but has been lost entirely?
 * ...that snocross riders travel up to 130 feet (40 meters) off jumps before they touch the ground?
 * ...that in 1759, François Thurot's ship set out to create a diversion from an invasion of Britain only to learn, after months of storms and starvation, that the invasion fleet had been defeated before it even left France?
 * ...that Congolese dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula is the winner of the 2007 Principal Award of the Prince Claus Foundation?
 * ...that India's Red and White Bravery Awards were renamed the Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards after protests claimed it provided surrogate advertising for Red and White brand cigarettes?
 * ...that Garland Rivers was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?
 * ...that despite the torpedoed Soviet merchant SS Stalingrad sinking in under four minutes, 66 of her crew still managed to survive?
 * ...that Bradford Kelleher started the Metropolitan Museum of Art's gift shop?
 * ...that Singletary Lake (pictured), a Carolina Bay in Bladen County, North Carolina, has been protected since the 1800s, but the land around it only became Singletary Lake State Park in 1939?
 * ...that the spread of Christianity in Asia is believed to have reached China during the Tang Dynasty, where it was known as the Luminous Religion?
 * ...that Clarence Williams had 646 rushing yards and 102 receiving yards without scoring a touchdown during the 1998 NCAA college football season?
 * ...that the most recent of the six different methods of total synthesis of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel, a drug originally derived from the rare Pacific Yew, was developed at the Tokyo University of Science in 1999?
 * ...that one egg laid in a clutch of two by the White-breasted Robin of Western Australia is much paler than the other?
 * ...that the first major anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany took place in 1975 in opposition to the construction of a proposed nuclear power station in Wyhl?
 * ...that Dave Murray, a Canadian alpine skier and member of the Crazy Canucks, was ranked third in the world in downhill skiing in 1979?
 * ...that the dominant feature in the Shakespeare quadrangle is the 1300-km wide Caloris Planitia, the largest and best preserved impact basin on Mercury observed by the spacecraft Mariner 10?
 * ...that surface plasmons are the basis of a spectrography technique known as surface plasmon resonance?
 * ...that St Barnabas Church, one of the few Grade II-listed churches in the city of Brighton and Hove, was dismissed by its architect John Loughborough Pearson as "one of my cheap editions"?
 * ...that a design for the Hoyt Library (pictured) in Saginaw, Michigan, which was rejected as too monumental, wasteful of space, and not functional as a library, was used to build the Public Library of New Orleans, Louisiana?
 * ...that the Tolstoj crater, a 400-km (240 mile) wide impact crater on the planet Mercury has an extensive, and remarkably well-preserved, radially-lineated ejecta blanket?
 * ...that Eduardo Serra Rexach is the only person to have held public office with all three governing parties of democratic Spain?
 * ...that Aloysius C. Galvin, a former president of the University of Scranton, served aboard a U.S. Navy submarine chaser in the Aleutian Islands during World War II?
 * ...that ornithologist Charles Foster Batchelder's last words to one of his friends were "Glad to have known you"?
 * ...that Operation Resurrection was the planned take-over of Paris in May 1958 by French Army paratroopers and armored units to overthrow the French government and facilitate the return of Charles de Gaulle to power?
 * ...that Russell Walter Fox, a former chief judge of the Australian Capital Territory, wrote what is considered in Australia as the most extensive environmental report on uranium mining?
 * ...that Edward Barrett played rugby union for England, and cricket for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States?
 * ...that each time Eric Kattus caught more than three receptions in a game during his Michigan Wolverines football career, at least one of them was a touchdown?
 * ...that the rehabilitation of the Union Trust Building (pictured) by architect Ralph Anderson set the pattern for reviving Seattle's rundown "Skid Road" neighborhood, Pioneer Square?
 * ...that 1933 Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Ted Petoskey and Whitey Wistert debuted for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds two days apart in September 1934?
 * ...that Anthony Browne was the first British illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award?
 * ...that the Sussex Railroad was the last independently operated New Jersey railroad to be incorporated into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad system?
 * ...that the nursing pin had its original design patterned after the Maltese cross of the Knights Hospitaller and the Order of Saint Lazarus?
 * ...that ridges and escarpments in the Victoria quadrangle of the planet Mercury have been associated with the stresses caused by the sun slowing Mercury's rotation through tidal forces?
 * ...that Tetsuya Ota won a lawsuit against race organizers of the now infamous 1998 JGTC race at Fuji Speedway, despite signing a pledge not to seek compensation?
 * ...that Dominic de la Calzada is the patron saint of civil engineers because he built a causeway to aid pilgrims on the Way of St. James?
 * ...that Juliobriga (ruins pictured) was the most important urban centre in Roman Cantabria?
 * ...that undefeated national champion 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team rushing leader and Hula Bowl MVP Chris Howard was released after fumbling five times in the preseason of the 1998 NFL season?
 * ...that Jack Womack's novel Let's Put the Future Behind Us emerged from a failed Soviet-American film project of William Gibson that was to star the late rockstar Victor Tsoi?
 * ...that surface science studies show that Stranski-Krastanov growth is one of three primary ways in which thin films grow on crystals?
 * ...that though the Steel Military Egg and the Order of St. George Egg were relatively modest designs in the spirit of World War I austerity, the two Fabergé eggs made for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia were still priced at more than 13,000 rubles?
 * ...that former Hampshire wicketkeeper Adi Aymes went on to manage football club Fleet Town F.C., and is the current fitness coach of Havant and Waterlooville?
 * ...that both former German Federal Minister of Labor Norbert Blüm and former Secretary of State of France Alain Vivien have been recognized with the Leipzig Human Rights Award?
 * ...that Jane Austen's (pictured) novels increased dramatically in popularity after the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1870?
 * ...that the Stourbridge fair, first held in 1211 in Cambridge, England, was once the largest fair in Europe?
 * ...that the dinosaur fossil Dakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs?
 * ...that the north pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Borealis quadrangle?
 * ...that of 36 merchant vessels that set out in June 1942 as part of Britain's disastrous Convoy PQ-17, 27 never returned including SS Pan Kraft?
 * ...that Red Kellett, former President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts, was never a professional football player, but an infielder for the Boston Red Sox baseball club in his playing days?
 * ...that the inshore marine fish Malabar jack (pictured) derives its name from Malabar in South India, but can be found in coastal areas in as far away as South Africa, Japan and Vanuatu?
 * ...that Webb Miller, whose reporting of the Salt Satyagraha raid on the Dharasana Salt Works was credited for helping turn world opinion against British colonial rule in India, was kidnapped by Morton Salt co-founder Mark Morton?
 * ...that the first major effort to study the climate of the Arctic was undertaken during the First International Polar Year in 1882-83?
 * ...that in the 1947 college football rankings, southern voters refused to vote for the integrated Michigan Wolverines football team with black stars such as Gene Derricotte?
 * ...that Qadas was one of seven Metawali villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war?
 * ...that according to legend, the relics of Saints Ferreolus and Ferrutio were discovered in 370 by a military tribune whose dog chased a fox into a cave near present-day Besançon, France?
 * ...that gender-bending party promoter Andre J. appeared on the November 2007 cover of French Vogue wearing a women’s neoprene trench coat and ankle boots?
 * ...that Jane Austen's (pictured) novels increased dramatically in popularity after the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1870?
 * ...that due to both lengthening seasons and freshmen eligibility, college football statistical leaders such as Michigan Wolverines football receiving or passing leaders are controversial?
 * ...that the Stourbridge fair, first held in 1211 in Cambridge, England, was once the largest fair in Europe?
 * ...that the dinosaur fossil Dakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs?
 * ...that the north pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Borealis quadrangle?
 * ...that of 36 merchant vessels that set out in June 1942 as part of Britain's disastrous Convoy PQ-17, 27 never returned including SS Pan Kraft?
 * ...that Red Kellett, former President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts, was never a professional football player, but an infielder for the Boston Red Sox baseball club in his playing days?
 * ...that The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (pictured) is actually composed of 110 letters between Gilbert White, and Thomas Pennant or Daines Barrington?
 * ...that college football coach Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?
 * ...that Out of the Blue, a BBC Television series, is set in Manly, near Sydney, Australia?
 * ...that Elm Coulee Oil Field, Montana, is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years?
 * ...that the cloven hoof is a characteristic of mountain goats, certain kosher foods and in some traditions, the Devil?
 * ...that anarchism once was the strongest current in the Cuban labor movement?
 * ...that alkaptonuria, a rare inborn error of metabolism, is over five times more common in Slovakia than in the rest of the world?
 * ...that Bronze Age golden hats, including those of Berlin (pictured), Schifferstadt and Ezelsdorf, are tall gold head-dresses from circa 1,000 to 800 BC that also served as calendars?
 * ...that actress Evelyn Venable, the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio, was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo?
 * ...that Dennis Freeman, as the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana, worked for 16 years to keep the construction of a new bridge over the Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas as a high construction priority?
 * ...that The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer, a book that analyzes the The Simpsons using philosophical concepts, is the main textbook in some university philosophy courses?
 * ...that Jean Pouliot founded both major private TV networks in Quebec, TQS and TVA?
 * ...that Are You There? was widely promoted because of its score by Ruggero Leoncavallo (best known for his opera Pagliacci), but the first-night audience were incensed when it turned out to have very little music?
 * ...that according to Greek mythology, Adonis was slain by a boar at the foot of the waterfall in Apheca in modern-day Lebanon?
 * ...that indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East traditionally worshiped the Raven deity Kutkh as a key figure in creation, as a fertile ancestor of mankind, as a mighty shaman and as a trickster?
 * ...that the Environmental Theory by Florence Nightingale (pictured) emphasized how a patient's environment affects his recovery?
 * ...that actor Michael Sellers, son of British actor Peter Sellers, died of the same cause (heart attack) and date, albeit twenty-six years later, as his father?
 * ...that the original designation for Route 574 in Erie County, New York and its eastern terminus were removed four years apart?
 * ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Quander belonged to one of America's longest and oldest free slave dynasties?
 * ...that Medal of Honor recipient Captain Julien Gaujot became so jealous when his brother was given the Medal of Honor that he vowed that he would get one too?
 * ...that the history of Nairobi includes the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing that killed 213 and wounded 5,000?
 * ...that Graham Perrett, the Australian House of Representatives member for Moreton, was accused of calling his rival, Gary Hardgrave, "racist" during the 2007 election campaign?
 * ...that the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?
 * ...that the Houston Volunteers signed up to replace those lost aboard USS Houston (pictured) after its sinking in 1942 by the Japanese Navy?
 * ...that pit vipers and some boas and pythons have specialized facial pits for sensing infrared radiation'''?
 * ...that William Mainwaring argued that possession of holy scripture by British troops might be included in a list of documents liable to incite disaffection?
 * ...that the Mount Sandel Mesolithic site in Coleraine, County Londonderry is the oldest archaeological site in Ireland?
 * ...that Australian basketball player Patrick Mills is only the third Indigenous Australian male to ever play for his country's national team?
 * ...that the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon was commissioned by Thomas A. Livesley?
 * ...that Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg reportedly died of fright instilled by his own mercenaries?
 * ...that the BAE Systems HERTI is the first and only fully autonomous UAV to have been certificated by the United Kingdom?
 * ...that the free surface of a free liquid in zero-g forms a perfect sphere?
 * ...that former Australian cricket captain Bill Brown (pictured) was the first player to be "Mankaded"?
 * ...that maidams were burial sites of the Ahom Kingdom's royalty and aristocracy that were similar to the Egyptian pyramids, but much smaller in scale?
 * ...that Jonathan Swift called his predecessor "that rascal Dean Jones" because he made such bad property leases whilst Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin?
 * ...that during World War II, Marine Fighting Squadron 215 established four new U.S. Marine Corps records in the South Pacific including having the most ace pilots?
 * ...that The Simpsons' history began when Matt Groening conceived of the dysfunctional family in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office?
 * ...that in the 1896 Yamagata-Lobanov Agreement negotiations, Japanese Prime Minister Yamagata Aritomo proposed dividing Korea at the 38th parallel, should Japanese and Russian troops occupy the peninsula?
 * ...that the Saraswati River, a distributary of the Bhagirathi in West Bengal, is now dead but was active till around the 16th century AD?
 * ...that Wing Commander Stanley Goble and Flying Officer Ivor McIntyre, piloting a single-engined seaplane (pictured), became the first men to circumnavigate Australia by air in 1924?
 * ...that Gerald Ford's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election?
 * ...that the 1928 movie Gang War was overshadowed by the short film attached to it, Steamboat Willie, which marked the début of Mickey Mouse?
 * ...that the White Mosque is the oldest mosque in Nazareth?
 * ...that after losing his European Parliament seat, Roger Barton set up a group offering llama-trekking to young people from Sheffield?
 * ...the Battle of Bhangani was the first battle fought by Guru Gobind Singh, the last human Sikh Guru?
 * ...that during the 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike, 21 people were killed and the strike ended only after union leaders were accused of taking bribes?
 * ...that before David Myatt converted to Islam in 1998 and endorsed Islamic terrorism, he had been active in Nazi satanism in the UK since the late 1960s?
 * ...that the U.S. Coast Guard's Owasco class cutters Owasco, Winnebago (pictured) and Sebago were armed for World War II service but did not see combat until the Vietnam War?
 * ...that Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for the Rosebud egg, the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna?
 * ...that eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination, quarantine, and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease?
 * ...that a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach?
 * ...that Heroes actor David Anders was recognized with a Back Stage West Garland Award along with the ensemble cast of The Diary of Anne Frank, for their 2001 production?
 * ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder, Marie Woolfolk Taylor was one of two African-Americans who assisted the Red Cross during the Great Atlanta Fire?
 * ...that the Swedish military unit Kustjägarna has been working in Kosovo and Bosnia under the UN flag?
 * ... the Safety Promotion Center, established by Japan Airlines after the worst single aircraft accident in history, has passengers' farewell letters and wreckage on display to educate employees about safety?
 * ...that the timely arrival of Prussian troops led by Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq prevented a Russian defeat in the 1807 Battle of Eylau?
 * ...that the surface diffusion of atoms on a material's surface (pictured) is governed by Fick’s law?
 * ...that George Hoey still holds Michigan Wolverines football career, and single-season records 40 years after his best season?
 * ...that Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens (The Raging Flame) was the first plebeian consul of the Roman Republic?
 * ...that most Swiss immigrants to Russia, several thousand in all, left after the October Revolution in 1917?
 * ...that Pete Muldoon allegedly put an Irish curse on the Chicago Blackhawks that prevented them from finishing first for 43 years?
 * ...that DNA testing was used to confirm that the unidentified body known as "Baby Grace" was Riley Ann Sawyers?
 * ...that English botanist John Parkinson included a pun on his name in the title of his monumental 1629 work Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris? (It translates as Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise.)
 * ...that Shamsunnahar Mahmud and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain were Muslim feminists of the Bengal renaissance?
 * ...that bead crochet (pictured) was a popular method of creating women's fashion accessories during the 1920s?
 * ...that Golden Liberty, the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to federation and democracy, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding monarchies?
 * ...that in 1979 University of Michigan tackle Ed Muransky set the all-time record at the traditional pre-Rose Bowl "Beef Bowl" by eating 16 pounds of prime rib?
 * ...that the Wanganui Branch railway folded due to competition from trams in New Zealand?
 * ...that Indian schoolteacher D. R. Kaprekar discovered properties in number theory including a number and a constant named after him?
 * ...that Mount Harriet, in the Andaman Islands, is named after Robert Christopher Tytler's wife?
 * ...that with the Trusty system of prison labor at Mississippi State Penitentiary, the 1,900-inmate prison was staffed and its 16,000 acres of crops farmed with only 150 paid employees?
 * ...that Bennie Osler played 17 consecutive rugby union matches for South Africa between 1924 and 1933?
 * ...that the German R&B band Soultans signed on with the same record label which wrote some of Elvis Presley's songs?
 * ...that Horatia N. Thompson (pictured) was christened with Lord Nelson and Mrs Emma Hamilton as godparents and was later adopted by them as an orphan, even though they were her biological parents?
 * ...that U.S. Representative Dale Alford, M.D. awarded one of his nominations for cadet at the United States Military Academy to Wesley Clark, who later became NATO commander?
 * ...that the strategic bombing campaign used in the 1990 Operation Instant Thunder served as a model for subsequent American military conflicts?
 * ...that an elaborate network of coastal batteries was built by British colonial authorities to protect Hobart Town, but it was never used to defend the Tasmanian port from attacks by enemy warships?
 * ...that the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum, which was published at the insistence of the Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?
 * ...that Mel Tolkin, lead writer for Your Show of Shows, served in the Canadian Army during World War II where he played the glockenspiel in a military orchestra?
 * ...that Christie's purchase of the Haunch of Venison caused "shock and disbelief" in the art world?
 * ...that the price of cocoa rose sharply following the June 29, 2007 assassination attempt against Prime Minister Guillaume Soro of Côte d'Ivoire?
 * ...that the Galatasaray S.K. has origins from the Ottoman Empire era?
 * ...that the Accession Day tilts were jousts held at the court of Queen Elizabeth I in which her courtiers appeared in elaborate allegorical disguises (pictured)?
 * ...that Emperor Alexander III of Russia was billed 4,750 rubles for the Renaissance egg, the final Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Maria Feodorovna?
 * ...that herpetologist Doris M. Cochran, the Smithsonian Institution's first female curator, died four days after her retirement?
 * ...that the book The Psychology of The Simpsons uses the corresponding TV series to analyze topics in psychology including clinical psychology, cognition and Pavlovian conditioning?
 * ...that Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
 * ...that the spintronic manipulation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond crystals may facilitate the creation and functioning of quantum computers?
 * ...that Kazimierz Pużak, once considered for president of Poland, was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State arrested by Soviets and sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen?
 * ...that after their names became known, the first group known as the Four Crowned Martyrs was venerated with the second group of the same name?
 * ...that the erotic depiction on the Oinochoe (pictured) by the Shuvalov Painter is one of the most frequently illustrated works of Greek vase painting?
 * ...that archaeological excavation of Titelberg provides evidence of urbanisation in Celtic Luxembourg long before Roman expansion?
 * ...that coconut charcoal is easy to light, burns longer and generates less smoke and ash than typical hardwood charcoal?
 * ...that the wine industry in Nebraska remained dormant for decades after the local commercial grape industry was destroyed by the Armistice Day Blizzard in 1940, with no new winery opening till 1994?
 * ...that eight small Norwegian municipalities were fooled into investing future income from hydropower plants into complicated financial products - now worthless - from Citigroup, in the so-called Terra Securities scandal?
 * ...that although several Michigan Wolverines football wide receivers have eclipsed most of Jack Clancy's team records, they all have needed more games to do so?
 * ...that the Rothschild Fabergé egg is the most expensive timepiece, Russian object and Fabergé egg ever sold?
 * ...that French-Canadian historian Charles-Honoré Laverdière (pictured) believed that the Jesuits had falsified some of the original works of Samuel de Champlain?
 * ...that Diodore of Tarsus mentored both the sainted John Chrysostom and the heretical Theodore of Mopsuestia?
 * ...that the Brazillian endemic genus Philcoxia, which may represent another genus of carnivorous plants, was formally described in scientific literature 34 years after the first specimen had been discovered?
 * ...that the Platypus Trophy, awarded to the winner of the Civil War college football game between Oregon and Oregon State, was lost for more than 40 years before being found in a closet in 2005?
 * ...that Jays Foods changed its name during World War II to avoid being associated with the Japanese?
 * ...that the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?
 * ...that the Bishopsgate bombing, mounted at a cost of £3,000 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1993, caused over £350M in damages and almost led to the financial collapse of Lloyd's of London?
 * ...that both the first black woman in Colorado and the "founding father" of the state's Korean American community are buried in Denver's Riverside Cemetery (chapel pictured)?
 * ...that it is unclear whether Gungsrong Gungtsen ever ruled Tibet, although he was the only known son of the first Tibetan emperor, Songtsän Gampo?
 * ...that Washington Senators outfielder Elmer Gedeon, who pulled a crew member from a burning wreck, died while piloting a B-26 bomber over France?
 * ...that a possible local subsidence forced the Jalangi River, in West Bengal, to flow in a south westerly direction, reverting the earlier trend of rivers in the region flowing in a south easterly direction?
 * ...that the 1751 revolt of Pima Indians in the Spanish colonial province of Sonora (in modern-day Arizona) was directly preceded by a revolt of Seri Indians?
 * ...that some bacteria and parasitic protozoa escape extreme conditions like desiccation and unavailability of food by forming microbial cysts?
 * ...that 12% of the world's gold supply, 78% of the world's platinum, and over 15.8 million carats of diamonds come from Mining in South Africa?
 * ...that Knut Arild Hareide became Norwegian Minister of the Environment in 2004 at the age of thirty-one, only to step down from national politics three years later?
 * ...that Christ Church in Macclesfield (pictured) was built by Charles Roe for the Rev. David Simpson, because he had been denied a curacy in another church?
 * ...that former Michigan Wolverines football player Dan Dworsky designed Crisler Arena, the home of Michigan Wolverines basketball?
 * ...that remnants of ancient amphorae indicate wine from Tuscany was exported to southern Italy and France as early as the 7th century BC?
 * ...that in the 1806 George Sweeney Trial, the murderer of a founding father of the United States, George Wythe, went free because testimony from black witnesses against a white man was not allowed?
 * ...that Chalan Beel, a wetland in Bangladesh, is getting vastly reduced in size with fast silting up caused by the inflow of 47 rivers and waterways?
 * ...that Iordan Chimet, who opposed the Communist regime in Romania and authored fairy tales with subversive messages, was also one of the first professional copywriters in his country?
 * ...that Wo Hing Society Hall (pictured) is one of two existing Chinese Society Halls left on the island of Maui?
 * ...that Dick Rifenburg was a Michigan high school state champion in basketball and track & field, but was drafted to play professional American football?
 * ...that Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour is a computer-generated film that presents in 3-D a theoretical reconstruction of the ancient Khirbet Qumran site?
 * ...that the first Trk receptor, which regulates synaptic strength and plasticity in neurons, was originally identified as part of a fusion gene with the cytoskeletal protein tropomyosin, forming an oncogene in colon and thyroid cancers?
 * ...that in the wake of the Yen Bai mutiny of Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army, large numbers of Vietnamese troops who had served in France were sacked because it was felt that overseas travel made them more inclined to rebel?
 * ...that the specifications for the U.S. Navy's World War II icebreakers were so imposing that Western Pipe & Steel was the only shipbuilder to bid?
 * ...that the clapotis (illustrated) is a standing wave pattern formed at a vertical shoreline?
 * ...that Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia?
 * ...that a statue originally created in 1815 for The Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Gardens was carved from the bowsprit of the Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno, taken at the Battle of Trafalgar?
 * ...that the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway was the first operating interurban railroad in the state of Michigan?
 * ...that Julius Franks was the first African-American Michigan Wolverines football player to earn All-American honors?
 * ...that seven followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were convicted for being part of a 1985 assassination plot to murder the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon?
 * ...that the original plan for John Keane's painting of Mo Mowlam to include Gerry Adams, John Hume and David Trimble (key figures in the Good Friday Agreement), failed after four years of negotiation?
 * ...that soldiers of the Red Army Oleksiy Berest, Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria of the 150th Rifle Division raised the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag for the well-known photograph (pictured)?
 * ...that the Lincoln Snacks Company, a manufacturer of caramelized popcorn, was founded, in part, by a subsidiary of Sandoz Laboratories, the company that invented LSD?
 * ...that the Indian novelist M. K. Indira started writing novels only after the age of forty-five?
 * ...that American football guard Dean Dingman was only the third true freshman to start on the Michigan Wolverines football offensive line?
 * ...that the Catalan lords Arnau Mir de Tost and his son-in-law Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà shared a scribe, Vidal, who helped introduce the use of written "conventions" for the feudal restructuring of western Catalonia?
 * ...that in the 1850s the American architect Gamaliel King and his partner John Kellum erected in New York some of the first fully cast iron-fronted buildings in the world?
 * ...that David Lloyd George, UK Prime Minister during World War I, later said "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan"?
 * ...that the first lieutenant Adolf Opálka, together with six fellow combatants, resisted 800 enemy soldiers for more than seven hours in the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodious in Prague on 28 June 1942?
 * ...that the new Market Street Bridge (pictured) over the West Branch Susquehanna River between Williamsport and South Williamsport in Pennsylvania is the seventh on that site, and that three of the previous bridges were destroyed by floods?
 * ...that Turkish serial killer Özgür Dengiz broke into fits of laughter when discussing his cannibalism?
 * ...that Jarrett Irons was the second freshman to lead the Michigan Wolverines football team in tackles?
 * ...that football player Eddy de Neve scored all four goals for the Netherlands against Belgium on April 30, 1905, the first match of the Dutch national team ever?
 * ...that the Silver Centenary biplane, built in Beverley, Western Australia in 1930, received its airworthiness certificate 77 years after its first flight?
 * ...that Genesis's rock epic "Get 'Em Out by Friday" is a criticism of the United Kingdom's council housing system?
 * ...that a daughter of Philip Johnston, the first colonel of the New Jersey militia to die in battle during the Revolutionary War married the son of Nathaniel Scudder, the last colonel of the New Jersey militia to so die?
 * ...that Irish indie rock band Ham Sandwich were encouraged by U2 frontman Bono to change their name in 2006?
 * ...that Euphronios (work pictured), Hermonax and the Providence Painter were Greek vase painters of the early 5th century BC specialised in Red-figure pottery and that the Belly Amphora by the Andokides Painter‎ is one of the earliest works in that style?
 * ...that football (soccer) player Law Adam of Grasshopper-Club Zürich played for Switzerland against Austria in 1929, but played for his native Netherlands against Switzerland a year later?
 * ...that according to legend, Christian martyr Saint Getulius and his associates were clubbed to death after they had been thrown into flames but emerged unharmed?
 * ...that Wayne Townsend cast the tie-breaking vote in 1977 in the Indiana State Senate for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment making Indiana the last state to approve the failed measure?
 * ...that George Lilja once played a Michigan Wolverines football game wearing another player's jersey, confusing many of his fans?
 * ...that the first sobering-up station in the world was invented by Jaroslav Skála in 1951 in Czechoslovakia?
 * ...that the Dugway sheep incident and Operation CHASE increased public sentiment against the United States Army Chemical Corps during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
 * ...that Kazakh dissident Rashid Nugmanov's directorial debut, Igla, was one of the first films to break the taboo against talking about drug addiction in the former Soviet Union and initiated the "Kazakh New Wave" cinema movement?
 * ...that the schooners San Antonio (pictured), San Bernard and San Jacinto of the Second Texas Navy were originally built in 1836 as Baltimore Clippers and fitted out for use in the slave trade in Havana?
 * ...that when American football center Rod Payne broke his right wrist during a Michigan Wolverines football game, he started snapping the ball with his left hand?
 * ...that Ricord's Iguana (Cyclura ricordi) of Hispaniola is the only known species of rock iguana to coexist with another Cyclura species, the Rhinoceros Iguana (Cyclura cornuta)?
 * ...that Simonsbath on Exmoor is the largest parish in Somerset covering 56 sqmi square miles but only has 75 houses?
 * ...that after the American defeat at the Battle of Canyon Creek the soldiers of Samuel D. Sturgis were forced to slaughter and eat their tired horses?
 * ...that Rev. Robert Shields maintained a diary chronicling every five minutes of his life for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, and only slept two hours at a time so he could record his dreams?
 * ...that HMS Drake was so ill-prepared for action against John Paul Jones's Ranger that musket balls had to be passed round in a hat during the North Channel naval duel, 24 April 1778?
 * ...that the Swedish-American entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad who led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica in 1966, for many years operated his own vessel, the MS Lindblad Explorer (pictured), in the region?
 * ...that Republican Jerry Sonnenberg was the only member of the largest class of freshman legislators in the history of the Colorado House of Representatives to be elected to an open seat without opposition?
 * ...that Somerset cricket captain Jack Meyer was entrusted with the education of seven Indian boys, six of them princes, and founded the Millfield School to do so?
 * ...that the Alicante Bouschet is the only Vitis vinifera wine grape with red juice?
 * ...that Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?
 * ...that the Hudson River Historic District is, at 35 square miles (89 km²), the largest Registered Historic District in the contiguous United States?
 * ...that the haor located in north-eastern Bangladesh, is a bowl-shaped depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a sea during a monsoon?
 * ...that the United Overseas Bank's 20-story Bangkok headquarters (pictured) is shaped like a robot?
 * ...that Eagle River, Wisconsin is known as the "Snowmobile Capital of the World" because it hosts the World Championship Snowmobile Derby?
 * ...that Washington Ellsworth Lindsey became the third Governor of New Mexico after his predecessor died while in office?
 * ...that a silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
 * ...that the new airport being constructed near Islamabad, Pakistan will be named Gandhara International Airport, after the ancient kingdom Gandhara?
 * ...that Haiti has the lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere, with only about 12.5% of the population having regular access to electricity?
 * ...that Lesbian wines were some of the most highly sought after wines of the Ancient Greeks?
 * ...that billionaire Leonore Annenberg (pictured, left), wife of business magnate Walter Annenberg, was the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1981 to 1982 under President Ronald Reagan?
 * ...that in 1512, the 2nd Marquess of Dorset unsuccessfully led an English army to France to reconquer Aquitaine, which had been lost during the Hundred Years' War?
 * ...that safety Don Dufek was cut from the Seattle Seahawks four times?
 * ...that Alexandre Bontemps, senior head valet to Louis XIV of France, was a rich and powerful figure, feared by courtiers, whose behaviour was reported to him by the Swiss Guard?
 * ...that no viable solution has yet been found to counteract radiation from space, which is a serious threat to astronauts on any future mission to Mars?
 * ...that Norma Elizabeth Boyd, founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a United Nations observer in 1949 and supported the Principle 10 of the Declaration of Human Rights?
 * ...that John Straffen, a triple child-killer who escaped from Broadmoor, served 55 years in prison becoming the longest-serving prisoner in British history?
 * ...that Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poem "January God" is about a stone sculpture called the Boa Island Janus figure (pictured)?
 * ...that R Family Vacations offered the first all-gay and lesbian family vacation packages where LGBT parents can bring their children?
 * ...that Thomas Bancroft's Times out of Tune (1658) includes verses against whoring, gluttony, alcoholism, hedonism, lying, pride in clothing, betrayal, ambition, cowardice, and the abuse of poetry?
 * ...that Hadspen House has been owned by the family of Henry Hobhouse since 1785?
 * ...that Michigan Wolverines football player Bill Yearby was an All-American football player as well as a champion shot putter who the coaches felt could have starred for the Wolverines basketball team?
 * ...that until Darren Cheeseman's win in 2007, the Australian seat of Corangamite had not been won by a Labor candidate in over 70 years?
 * ...that during the winter the Romans of the Mosel wine region would drink their wine hot like a tea?
 * ...that the green-flag wielding Republican Army defeated the Spanish forces during the Battle of Rosillo at Salado Creek in San Antonio and established the first Texas Republic in April 1813?
 * ...that the tallest building in Jersey City, New Jersey is the 781-foot (238 m) 30 Hudson Street (pictured)?
 * ...that Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus?
 * ...that although Ohio State Buckeye Archie Griffin defended the Heisman Trophy in 1975, Michigan Wolverines football player Gordon Bell won the 1975 Big Ten rushing championship?
 * ...that certain biological neuron models are a spherical cow, in that the cell is approximated to be a sphere?
 * ...that William Scrots, King's Painter to Henry VIII and his son Edward VI, was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor, Hans Holbein?
 * ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder, Margaret Flagg Holmes and her husband were received by Pope Pius XI in 1931?
 * ...that KGB head Ivan Serov did not go on tour in Britain as planned because the British press labelled him "Ivan the Terrible"?
 * ...that Irena Iłłakowicz, a secret agent of the Polish resistance during WWII, was formerly married to a Persian prince?
 * ...that Gazell Macy DuBois designed the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67 (pictured) which looked like "a mess of paper triangles or mentally disarranged envelopes"?
 * ...that Michigan Wolverines football player Jim Pace not only won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten Conference, but also won the Big Ten 60-yard indoor dash title?
 * ...that in 1866 Polish exilees to Siberia staged an uprising trying to escape to China?
 * ...that Sam Little, a retired farmer from Bastrop, Louisiana, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives by a margin of only 9 votes out of 7,863 cast in a low-turnout contest?
 * ...that as cricket in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis, a team representing Northern Ireland has appeared just once, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket tournament?
 * ...that Queensland MP Peter Wellington held the balance of power for four months, until a by-election allowed the Australian Labor Party to form a majority government?
 * ...that, after hitting another driver from behind in heavy traffic, screenwriter Jennifer Philbin and her husband Michael Schur raised $26,000 for charity in a retaliation campaign instead of paying $840 to fix the driver's broken bumper?
 * ...that the 1300 identified Mesoamerican ballcourts used for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame (see drawing) were all built in the same basic shape despite a span of 2700 years?
 * ...that in 1902, 23 years old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus?
 * ...that Pundravardhana was a territory, mostly in present-day Bangladesh, of the Pundras, a group of non-Aryan people, dating back to 8th-7th centuries BC?
 * ...that Neil Riser, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana, began working at the age of fourteen as a logger?
 * ...that the urn atop Charles Bulfinch's grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, USA once stood at the center of Franklin Place, Boston?
 * ...that the mythical Connla's Well, home to the Salmon of Wisdom, is the legendary source of the Shannon and Boyne Rivers as well as Irish poetic inspiration?
 * ...that Etaples Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France, with over 11,500 burials?
 * ...that on the banks of Shitalakshya River, in Bangladesh, there are artistic weaving (pictured) centres, where once the muslin industry flourished?
 * ...that Fred Ryan was instrumental in the development of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library?
 * ...that the Kiva Koffeehouse in the Canyons of the Escalante was designed by Bradshaw Bowman, the inventor of Bomanite, on property his family has owned since homesteading it in the 1860s?
 * ...that James Wayne "Jim" Tucker of suburban New Orleans will in 2008 become the first Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction?
 * ...that Betzy Kjelsberg, a Norwegian member of the international feminist movement, founded or co-founded six women's rights associations and organizations?
 * ...that Jim Hermiston, a member of the Aberdeen FC "Hall of Fame", was cited for bravery after intervening in a bank robbery in Brisbane in 1999?
 * ...that the surrender of Japanese troops in China was first announced in a Chinese language by Dr. Ernest B. Price (pictured) in October 1945?
 * ...that the Bristol Packers American football team won every game in its debut season, but failed to win any in its final year?
 * ...that Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos—Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968?
 * ...that the Lachine massacre, in which Iroquois warriors destroyed a New France settlement on Montreal Island, was instigated by English forces in New York following the declaration of King William's War?
 * ...that the field of DNA nanotechnology has used the unique molecular recognition properties of DNA to construct two-dimensional lattices, nanomechanical devices, computers, polyhedra, and even a smiley face out of DNA?
 * ...that Henry Lomb became a co-founder of the Bausch & Lomb Company when he loaned $60 to his friend John Jacob Bausch?
 * ...that Asit Kumar Haldar was the first Indian fellow at the Royal Society of Arts?
 * ...that the allegorical Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (pictured) commemorates England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588?
 * ...that in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States?
 * ...that Frank Rennie joined the New Zealand Army at age 16, to prove to himself 20 months in hospital hadn't crippled him, and went on to become Colonel?
 * ...that American federal judge James Alger Fee ruled in 1942 that Minoru Yasui lost his U.S. citizenship after Yasui had worked for the Japanese consulate until the attack on Pearl Harbor?
 * ...that the 6th Canadian Infantry Division was raised in 1942 and disbanded in 1945 without having taken part in any World War II fighting?
 * ...that Dennis Franklin was the first African American quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines football team?
 * ...that the Lombardy wine region of Franciacorta produces a style of sparkling wine that is more bubbly than frizzante but has less carbon dioxide than most sparkling wines?
 * ...that scientists have used microbaroms for inverse remote sensing of the upper atmosphere?
 * ...that the first Earl of Wiltshire was a Breton viscount, Harvey of Léon, who served Stephen of England in the first phase of the civil war called the Anarchy?
 * ...that Mahasthangarh (ramparts pictured) is the earliest urban archaeological site so far discovered in Bangladesh, dating back to at least the 3rd century B.C.?
 * ...that royal favourites were often compared to mushrooms, as they sprang up overnight, and grew in excrement?
 * ...that "Here I Am", the song chosen for the winner of Australian Idol 2007 to release as a single, has been heavily criticised by both finalists?
 * ...that William Hopper became the founder Chairman of the Institute for Fiscal Studies with hopes that it would lead to a more rational system of taxation in the United Kingdom?
 * ...that Bob Timberlake, an unsuccessful placekicker for the New York Giants who made only 1 of 15 field goal attempts in his NFL career, was an award-winning quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines before he was drafted in 1965?
 * ...that the Mosque of the Rose in Istanbul is so named because on the day of the Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of roses?
 * ...that the title of Dan Castellaneta's album of comedy sketches I Am Not Homer is a parody of Leonard Nimoy's first autobiography I Am Not Spock?
 * ...that Dutch artist Folke Heybroek ' s works include stained glass windows (pictured), iron and concrete sculptures, paintings, and textile designs, decorating about 70 public spaces in Sweden?
 * ...that in the 1659 English play The English Moor, noted for its use of blackface make-up, one main character implies that Blacks and Whites are created equal by God?
 * ...that Project Lauren is the codename for an unannounced British airline that will provide service between the U.S. and continental Europe, bypassing the U.K. and that aircraft have already been acquired?
 * ...that June Bride, filmed with two versions of a dialog naming the candidates to the 1948 U.S presidency, opened in theaters with the wrong future president named? Dewey seemed a sure win, so the Dewey line was retained in the original release. When Truman unexpectedly won the election, a revised reel was sent to theaters.
 * ...that John Mawe, who studied the mineralogy of Derbyshire, was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil?
 * ...that Richard Whitaker ' s research into the correlation between surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean and rainfall in Australia contributed to the discovery of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation?
 * ...that there are more than 40 Community Rail Partnerships supporting local rail lines in the United Kingdom?
 * ...that a summit, a spur, a wooden building and an avenue are named after Michel Croz, a mountain guide who died on the first ascent of the Matterhorn (pictured)?