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 * ...that the little-known Xiaosaurus may be an evolutionary missing link between Lesothosaurus to Hypsilophodon?
 * ...that flutamide is a medicine used to treat prostate cancer?
 * ...that on Christmas Eve 1969, when California lawyer and noted political activist Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School, he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?
 * ...that Baltimore, Maryland has a permanent Rumor Control Center?
 * ...that Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" Gail Halvorsen would wiggle the wings of his plane to identify himself to children below? [[Image:Gail-halvorsen-wiggly-wings.jpg|right|100px]])
 * ...that selective yellow is a colour for automotive lamps, defined by UNECE Regulations, and that it was designed to improve vision and reduce glare by removing blue wavelengths from the projected light?
 * ...that Senegalese marabout Mahmadu Lamine was executed by French soldiers for leading an 1886 rebellion against the French colonial government?
 * ...that 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess?
 * ...that the little borgo of Settignano, near Florence, Italy, was the birthplace of four sculptors of the Florentine Renaissance&mdash; Desiderio da Settignano, Bernardo Rossellino, Antonio Rossellino and Bartolomeo Ammanati? [[Image:Telemaco Signorini 001.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. was an African Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years before being rededicated last year?
 * ...that the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales of the Mexican-American War occurred after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was already signed?
 * ...that the New Testament's "camel passing through the eye of a needle" is an example of adynaton, an extreme form of hyperbole used to imply impossibility?
 * ...that Robert E. Brown was the ethnomusicologist credited with coining the term "world music"? [[Image:RobertEBrown.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that the Havengore is a ceremonial vessel that was used to carry the body of Winston Churchill during his state funeral on 30 January 1965?
 * ...that the first gang injunction to make headlines was obtained by Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn against the West Los Angeles-based street gang the Playboy Gangster Crips in 1987?
 * ...that the song "The Show Must Go On" by the British rock band Queen was written by guitarist Brian May, and is about lead singer Freddie Mercury's desire to continue making music even as his health was deteriorating?
 * ...that Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, founder of the United States Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team, chose the name based on a nightclub advertisement in The New Yorker magazine? [[Image:Butch Voris 1941 Flight Training Oakland CA.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000, he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis, who replaced him as IU coach?
 * ...that Hurricane Alma was a rare June major hurricane in the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the earliest Continental U. S. hurricane strike since 1825?
 * ...that the Gleason score is a measure of how different prostate cancer cells are from normal cells?
 * ...that the island of Pseira, off the coast of Crete, has an archaeological history from the end of the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age, with Minoan ruins being the most studied? [[Image:Map Minoan Crete-en.svg|right|100px]]
 * ...that César Sampaio is a former Brazilian football player who played offensive midfielder for Palmeiras and the Brazilian national team?
 * ...that Felipe Pinglo Alva is known as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla, and is best known for his often covered song "El Plebeyo"?
 * ...that Pastoral Care was a book written by Pope Gregory I around A. D. 590 to address the responsibilities of the clergy?
 * ...that Steve Steen was given a role in the movie version of Porridge, but his character did not say anything during the film?
 * ...that the mattenklopper was used not only for cleaning rugs, but also for spanking naughty children on the buttocks, leaving behind a distinctive pattern? [[Image:Mattenklopper.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
 * ...that during World War II, the United States developed Who me?, a top secret stench weapon designed to humiliate German officers?
 * ...that The Clash's single "Complete Control" was actually produced by famed dub and reggae musician Lee "Scratch" Perry?
 * ...that the Battle of Gingindlovu showed for the first time that the British Army could defeat the Zulu tactics that had wiped them out at the famous Battle of Isandlwana?
 * ...that sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal infection that commonly affects farmers?
 * ...that footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?
 * ...that the Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers is a union that represents pizza-delivery drivers, and is one of the first unions in the United States to operate entirely over the Internet?
 * ...that Hurricane Fico caused significant damage in Hawaii without making landfall?
 * ...that the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat is a manuscript of medieval music made in a Catalan monastery for pilgrims to sing? [[Image:Mariam matrem virginem.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that prostate cancer staging is the process by which physicians evaluate the spread of prostate cancer?
 * ...that Christine Witty is both a speed skater and a cyclist who has won three Olympic medals in speed skating and holds the 1000-metre world record?
 * ...that Jack Jouett, known as the "Paul Revere of the South", saved Thomas Jefferson and other Revolutionary leaders in Virginia by warning them of a British cavalry raid meant to capture them?
 * ...that St Martin Orgar, a church in the City of London most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons, was all but destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666? [[image:St_Martin_Orgar.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that Kasturbhai Lalbhai represented the mill-owners when Mahatma Gandhi undertook his first ever fast for a political cause in support of the mill workers during the 1918 Ahmedabad strike, but later became Gandhi's staunch follower?
 * ...that Rabbi Judah ben Ilai was a second century Talmudic scholar who said "Who teacheth his son no trade, guideth him to robbery"?
 * ...that Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon Kim, the Angry Little Asian Girl after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation?
 * ...that Bangor Cathedral in North Wales was completed without a tower or spire because of a cracking foundation? [[Image:Bangor Cathedral from Bangor Mountain.jpg|left|100px|Bangor Cathedral]]
 * ...that the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?
 * ...that Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal predominantly with Belarus's history, including the January Uprising?
 * ...that Socks was one of Bill Clinton's two pets while President of the United States?
 * ...that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"? [[Image:St Leonard's, Shoreditch.jpg|right|100px|St Leonard's, Shoreditch]]
 * ...that geographical renaming can take place to change the name of a city or country for many reasons, including as part of a sponsorship deal?
 * ...that a Hi-point 995 Carbine Rifle was used in the Columbine High School massacre?
 * ...that fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly?
 * ...that the Bowery Theatre in New York City was burnt down five times in 17 years?