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 * ...that the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s?
 * ...that Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910-1912?
 * ...that Bitòn Coulibaly transformed a Ségou youth organisation into an army that he used to found the eighteenth-century Bambara Empire?
 * ...that Johnny Rodgers was voted the University of Nebraska's college football "Player of the Century" and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?
 * ...that the soleus muscle is a leg muscle important for standing, walking, and running?
 * ...that the Peul preacher and social reformer Seku Amadu led a jihad against the Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century West Africa to found his own theocratic Massina Empire?
 * ... that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN?
 * ...that adjustable gastric banding is a form of weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the digestive system?
 * ... that Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to be on one of the trains bombed during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel's restaurant to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
 * ...that the poems of Richard Dehmel were set to music by composers like Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Arnold Schönberg and Kurt Weill, or inspired them to write music?
 * ...that Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with shipping, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
 * ... that NASA, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the "virtual globe"?
 * ...that the Super Buddies, a team of DC Comics superheroes, were a comedic Justice League offshoot who first appeared in the Eisner Award-winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League?


 * ... that Yogi Rock is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head?
 * ... that California Certified Organic Farmers was one of the first US based organizations to certify organic farmers?
 * ... that the St'at'imcets language, and endangered language of British Columbia, is like Semitic languages in that it has also has pharyngeal consonants?
 * ...that businessman Ginery Twichell started in stage lines before transitioning to railroads and three terms in the U.S. Congress?
 * ... that the Wallkill River is one of the few rivers that drains into a creek, because it is impounded just before the confluence?
 * ... that Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time?
 * ... that the Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?


 * ...that the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna is the longest single residential building in the world and spans four tram stations?
 * ...that khash is a traditional Armenian dish from the Shirak region which has cow's feet as its main ingredient?
 * ...that the first known classical fiction in Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in Chinese characters?
 * ...that the Swedish Bikini Team, an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women?


 * ...that First Monday was a U.S. television program about a moderate U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed to a court evenly divided between conservatives and liberals?
 * ...that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?
 * ...that legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?


 * ...that the Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the International Cricket Council until 1993, despite having played first-class cricket matches since 1902, including games against Scotland, Australia and New Zealand?
 * ...that King Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and Sharif of Mecca in 1924, only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the House of Saud?
 * ...that "Jive Talkin'" is considered to be the "comeback" song for the Bee Gees, after an absence of three years from the Top 40 charts?


 * ...that Argentinian painter Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol (right), was adopted at the age of 6 from an orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on March 21, 1890?
 * ...that the Gwenn ha du organisation made a bomb out of a condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in Rennes?
 * ...that the composer Johannes Brahms premiered his Academic Festival Overture, a musical fantasy based on several student drinking songs, at the University of Breslau's convocation to thank the institution for granting him an honorary doctorate?


 * ...that foxtail millet has the longest history of cultivation among the millets, having been grown in China since between three and four thousand years ago?
 * ...that Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss, Georgetown University economics professor, coined the term "petrodollars" to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973?
 * ...that Chingay Parade in Singapore, a display of floats, music and dances, is a major festival in Asia attended by more than 200,000 people and watched by millions on TV across Asia?
 * ...that tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of marketing, along with alcohol, and is banned in many countries?


 * ...that research on U.S. compulsory sterilization legislation by American eugenicist E.S. Gosney was cited by officials in Nazi Germany as the basis of their own forced sterilization policy?
 * ...that like many desert rodents, kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get water from their food?
 * ...that Ronald Bass, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Rain Man, taught himself to read by the age of three?
 * ...that Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
 * ...that the Tarot of Marseilles is the source of most contemporary designs of tarot cards?
 * ...that Malian fashion designer Chris Seydou pioneered the use of bògòlanfini, a traditional Bamana mudcloth, in international fashion?
 * ...that Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I?


 * ...that Charles Darwin's illness, which afflicted him for 40 years, could have been Chagas disease, an exotic South American parasitic infection transmitted by the bite of the assassin bug, a hematophagous insect, while he was exploring the Andes during the famed voyage of the Beagle?
 * ...that Huchoun was one of the earliest Scottish poets and wrote a number of important alliterative verse romances in the early 14th century?
 * ...that the Indian Railways Fan Club is the Internet's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent?


 * ...that William Dudley Chipley first brought rail lines to Pensacola, Florida, connecting the Atlantic coast of Florida with other Gulf Coast states for the first time?
 * ...that Barbara Cassani founded the budget airline Go Fly before becoming the initial leader of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
 * ...that the genetically modified plum C5 is the only Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease plum pox?
 * ...that Ferrellgas, the largest propane retail distributor in the United States, started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas?