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 * ...that Cavenagh Bridge, the only suspension bridge in Singapore, was originally designed as a drawbridge but on its completion in 1869 was found to be suitable only as a fixed structure, and is now a pedestrian bridge? [[Image:Cavenagh Bridge 6, Dec 05.JPG|right|100px]]
 * ...that forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered as part of war reparations to cover the damages inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the World War II?
 * ...that in 1994, Greg Landry was a key reason why Illinois had the second-best passing offense in the Big Ten, which eventually carried the team to a 30-0 win in the Liberty Bowl over East Carolina, the school’s first bowl appearance in 16 seasons?
 * ...that dead yellow patches in suburban Australian lawns are often the work of Christmas beetle larvae?
 * ...that the Nativity Church at Putinki was the last pyramidal church constructed in Muscovite Russia? [[Image:Putinki.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that the film I'm No Angel (1933) starred Mae West as a circus lion tamer, and that West did her own stunts including riding an elephant into the ring and putting her face between the lion's jaws?
 * ...that the Housing Act 1980 was an Act of Parliament that gave residents of council houses in Great Britain the right to buy their residence?
 * ...that the early Italian composer Gherardello da Firenze belonged to the Benedictine order of the Vallombrosa?
 * ...that Francis Wayland Parker, creator of the Quincy Plan and founder of the School of Education at the University of Chicago, was called the "father of progressive education" by American educational reformer John Dewey? [[Image:Francis W Parker.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that the Karamanli dynasty of 18th century Tripoli depended almost entirely on piracy for its income?
 * ...that the In Soviet Georgia advertisements for Dannon yogurt helped to reverse negative growth in the company's United States division?
 * ...that David Tweed is an Australian share market trader who has attempted to purchase shares from small investors for less than the market price?
 * ...that the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc was inscribed on the World Heritage List as "one of the most exceptional examples of the apogee of Central European Baroque artistic expression"? [[Image:Holy Trinity Column.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that Clinton v. Jones established that a President of the United States was not exempt from being sued by private citizens in civil lawsuits?
 * ...that the Kanembu, an ethnic group of Chad, are generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem-Bornu Empire?
 * ...the chess Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann is one of the world's leading experts on the French Defence?
 * ...that the doshpuluur is a two-stringed lute of Tuva commonly used to accompany throat singing? [[Image:Doshpuluur.png|right|60px]]
 * ...that the National Museum of Mali is housed in a traditional mud brick structure?
 * ...that Serge Chermayeff and Erich Mendelsohn designed the De La Warr Pavilion in 1934, and that the Pavilion is a significant work in the British modernist movement of architecture?
 * ...that California's Leonard Law applies the United States Constitution's First Amendment protections to students at private colleges and universities?
 * ...that Palace Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is lifted every night, making communication between the downtown and Vasilievsky Island virtually impossible? [[Image:Sankt Petersburg Dworzowy-Bridge 2005 b.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that the Indian cricketer Bapu Nadkarni got the nickname Bapu&mdash;literally, father, and Mahatma Gandhi's sobriquet&mdash;for the curious reason that he used to wear loincloths (langotis) instead of modern underwear?
 * ...that a violent incident at Pont-de-Montvert in the Cévennes, July 24, 1702, sparked the rebellion of the French Protestant Camisards?
 * ...that the Adrar des Ifoghas, a sandstone massif in Mali's Kidal Region, is half the size of France?
 * ...that the American photographer Arthur Rothstein is famous mostly for his photographs of Gee's Bend in Alabama, a poor African American tenant community? Pettway Plantation Gees Bend Alabama.jpg
 * ...that French naturalist and explorer Théodore Monod had the same great-grandfather as biologist Jacques Monod and director Jean-Luc Godard?
 * ...that string instruments are bowed, plucked, or have their strings struck, with three exceptions : the Aeolian harp uses air movement, the Hurdy gurdy a rotating wheel and for Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument it will take rosined hands?
 * ...that it took half a century to construct Bolshoi Kamennyi Bridge, which was the first stone bridge in the city of Moscow?
 * ...that prior to the construction of the Colonial Building the first legislative assembly for the Newfoundland government was held at a tavern and lodging house owned and operated by a Mrs. Travers? [[Image:Colonial riot 500.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that John Drainie was a Canadian actor and television presenter, who was called "the greatest radio actor in the world" by Orson Welles?
 * ...that Steadicam camera magazines are specially designed with a pair of moving spindles that gradually change position as the film rolls through the camera in order to maintain a steady center of gravity?
 * ...that Yusuf ibn Ali Karamanli, pasha of Tripoli, declared war on the United States in 1801 by ordering the flagpole of Tripoli's United States consulate cut down?
 * ...that the Château de Lusignan, now in ruins, was so impressive that a 14th-century legend credited its construction to a water faery, Melusine&mdash;as a love-gift? [[Image:Les_Tr%C3%A8s_Riches_Heures_du_duc_de_Berry_mars.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that broadcasting in the Soviet Union was so secretive that they didn't disclose the frequencies the domestic radio stations operated on, thus leaving SWLs wanting to tune into Soviet radio to memorize the frequencies and remember where the sites were?
 * ...that Seattle-based company Sur La Table is the second-largest specialty cookware retailer in the United States, after Williams-Sonoma?
 * ...that Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was only twenty-eight years old when he helped found Pan American World Airways?
 * ...that the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and design represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions that had dominated Russian architecture for almost a millennium? [[Image:Pan Am 747 LAX.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that the Inca Dove is a small New World dove that ranges from the southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica?
 * ...that Tom Bauer is a lawyer and politician from Saint Louis, Missouri who was recalled after supporting several redevelopment proposals using eminent domain?
 * ...that Huangshan Pines are venerated in China for their unique rugged shapes, and are frequently portrayed in traditional Chinese paintings? [[Image:Huang shan resa huangshan6.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that Negro League catcher Biz Mackey was regarded in his prime as superior to Josh Gibson, won two batting titles, and mentored the young Roy Campanella?
 * ...that there are more than 100 nature reserves in Russia, which cover an area of about 33 million hectares?
 * ...that Rabbi David Wolpe proposed that the name of Conservative Judaism be changed to Covenantal Judaism to better encompass the view that rabbinic law is both binding and evolving?
 * ...that Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator were both filmed in the ksar Aït Benhaddou in Morocco? [[Image:Aït Benhaddou, a Kasbah.JPG|right|100px]]
 * ...that Jorge Isaacs' only novel, María, became an immediate success in his native Colombia and is considered a representative work of the Spanish Romantic movement?
 * ...that the exhumation of Yagan's head in 1997 first required a sophisticated geophysical survey of the gravesite to ensure that the remains of 22 stillborn babies would not be disturbed?
 * ...that the tiny municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec was set up in 1722 to protect its only occupant, a hospital, from taxes?
 * ...that the Cave Bath of Miskolc, Hungary is an unusual thermal bath with low salt content, in a natural cave, that allows people to take a bath for a longer time? [[Image:Mtapolca_cave_bath_entrance.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that the Afro-Brazilian trader Octaviano Olympio dominated the politics of Lomé, Togo, for the first 50 years after its inception?
 * ...that the race horse Flockton Grey did not even run in the race for which it is best remembered?