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 * ...that during the 1878 flood in Miskolc, Hungary, the water level rose 50 cm per minute and in some parts of the city water was 4 to 5 m high?
 * ...that the first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875?
 * ...that the Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1|1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel?
 * ...that the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?
 * ...that in the next five years, 40,000 African soldiers will be trained to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program?
 * ...that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986, due to a diplomatic irregularity, and that not a single shot was fired during the war?
 * ...that Caesar Augustus, his wife Livia, and numerous other members of Julio-Claudian dynasty were entombed in the Mausoleum of Augustus?
 * ...that Ernst Litfaß was the inventor of the free-standing advertising column which bears his name?
 * ...that Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain's largest newspaper, El País?
 * ...that Hazelwood power station is the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia, although it is only the sixth-largest power station?
 * ...that the name of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U Tam'si means small paper, which speaks for a country in Zulu?
 * ...that silent film actor Harrison Ford and present-day star Harrison Ford each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
 * ...that the famous Wallace fountains in Paris were provided by English philanthropist Richard Wallace as a source of free water for the poor?
 * ...that the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?
 * ...that the only remaining instance of active use of the death penalty in Europe is in capital punishment in Belarus?
 * ...that Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River?
 * ...that the Grandfather's House mentioned in the song "Over the River and Through the Woods" is a real house on the Mystic River in Medford, Massachusetts?
 * ...that Hershey Chocolate Company was the primary producer of United States military chocolate during World War II?
 * ...that the shipwreck of the HMS Orpheus was the biggest maritime disaster in New Zealand history?
 * ...that Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on March 7, 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh's Liberation War?
 * ...that the 1980s CBS sitcom Frank's Place was set in New Orleans, Louisiana?
 * ...that Jimmy Matthews is the only Test cricketer to have bowled two hat tricks in one match, a feat achieved during the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England?
 * ...that Green Mountain on Ascension Island is one of the world's very few large-scale artificial forests?
 * ...that during the 1970s the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts were broadcast live on CBS during primetime and was syndicated in over 40 countries?
 * ...that in a landmark case, Dutch-born Jetta Goudal, one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract?
 * ...that there have been many attempts to deliver mail by rocket, but none have met with much success?
 * ...that Ruth Riley, an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association, also wrote a children's book?
 * ...that Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu, India was called the "Troy of the East" by the British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?
 * ...that Yiddish-language writer David Bergelson moved from Berlin to the Soviet Union after the Nazi rise to power and believed that the future of Yiddish literature lay in Soviet Union, but was ultimately executed during Joseph Stalin's antisemitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans"?
 * ...that recently-retired indigenous Australian rules footballer Darryl White was once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero?
 * ...that in the Ukrainian Canadian internment of 1914 to 1920, about five thousand Ukrainian immigrants from Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada?
 * ...that Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for boxing?
 * ...that "Flood," the sixth episode of The Young Ones, was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a lion tamer?
 * ...that the Black Seminoles are descendants of free blacks and fugitive slaves traditionally allied with Seminole Indians in Florida and Oklahoma?
 * ...that land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres (1600 km²) in 1976 to more than eight million acres (32,000 km²) in 1993 due to better irrigation in Saudi Arabia?
 * ...that the United States maintains border preclearance facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports, where travelers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat?
 * ...that, before Wayne Rooney made his debut in February 2003, England's youngest football player ever was James F. M. Prinsep, who had held the record for more than 123 years?
 * ...that the soybean cyst nematode is a significant pest affecting soybean production on three continents?
 * ...that Massimo Morsello was the most prominent far-right Italian songwriter?
 * ...that Eddie Gilbert was an Australian Aboriginal cricketer who bowled Don Bradman out for a duck during a match in 1933 and was later described by Bradman as the fastest bowler he'd ever faced?
 * ...that the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban Tucson, Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world?
 * ... that the anabolic steroid Oxandrolone was granted orphan drug status in treatment of alcoholic hepatitis, Turner syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome?
 * ...that teams in the International Basketball League  scored nearly 130 points per game in its first season?
 * ...that a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922, after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom?
 * ...that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India's highest sporting honour?
 * ...that the Bassein Fort was at the centre of Portuguese operations in India during the 16th century?
 * ...that Mount Pantokrator is the highest mountain on the island of Corfu at 914 metres tall?
 * ...that the Beehive House was constructed as a home for Brigham Young, a polygamist, and his wives?
 * ...that Colin H. Campbell won re-election to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 1907 election by a single vote?
 * ...that the California Pacific Conference has school members that range from members of the California State University system to religious and liberal arts colleges?