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 * ...that the Cumberland Gap Tunnel between Kentucky and Tennessee replaced a stretch of road that had been called "Massacre Mountain" because of the number of motorists killed there?
 * ...that Sesame Beginnings was spun-off the long-running Sesame Street, and is designed to increase family interactivity?
 * ...that The Berghoff restaurant in Chicago closed on February 28, 2006 after 107 years of operation by three generations of the Berghoff family?
 * ...that the Imperial Railway Company of Ethiopia attempted unsuccessfully to build a railroad from Djibouti to Addis Ababa in the 1890s?
 * ...that Wilson Peak in Colorado has been used in dozens of national and local advertising campaigns because of its characteristically rugged mountain appearance?
 * ...that, in 1974, intruder Marshall Fields drove a vehicle through the gates of the White House, prompting a review in security measures by the Secret Service?
 * ...that Jöran Persson, King Eric XIV of Sweden's most trusted counselor, was executed by King John III of Sweden for his role in suppressing the nobility?
 * ...the Stadion Graz-Liebenau in Austria was renamed after controversy over Arnold Schwarzenegger's decisions in recent death penalty cases in California?
 * ...that the Moika River in Saint Petersburg was originally spanned by four bridges only: the Blue, the Green, the Yellow, and the Red?
 * ...that Dimba was the top goalscorer of the 2003 Brazilian football championship?
 * ...that PSUC viu was formed by a group of hardline communists in Catalonia, Spain in 1997, as the historical Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) became dormant?
 * ...that Kellie Castle in Scotland dates back to 1150 and it is rumoured that the 5th Earl of Kellie hid there in a burnt-out tree stump for the entire summer following the Battle of Culloden in 1746?
 * ...that the 14th-century Lennoxlove House in East Lothian, Scotland contains many important artworks and artefacts, including the death mask of Mary, Queen of Scots?
 * ...that ministeriales formed the core of the knightly class in the 15th-century Germany?
 * ...that Garo Yepremian was voted Kicker of the Decade by the Pro Football Hall of Fame between 1970 and 1980?
 * ...that the 13th-century Grœnlendinga saga ("Saga of the Greenlanders") is one of the main sources of information for the Norse colonization of the Americas?
 * ...that it was at Petersberg where the Bonn Agreement concerning Afghanistan was actually negotiated and signed?
 * ...that Frank Ticheli is an American composer whose works have become standards in concert band repertoire?
 * ...that Corry v. Stanford was a California court case that declared Stanford University's speech code illegal under the freedom of speech protections of the state's Leonard Law?
 * ...that Mifune Chizuko, a Japanese clairvoyant, was reported to have read messages written inside hidden envelopes?
 * ...that the American Bridge Company, builders of four of the world's tallest buildings, was founded on land in Ambridge, Pennsylvania that was bought from the Harmony Society, whose celibacy practice led to their decline?
 * ...that Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet was Franklin's proposal for a spelling reform of the English language?
 * ...that several cases of interactions between Buddhism and the Roman world are documented by Classical and early Christian authors?
 * ...that veduta was the most popular genre of landscape painting in the 18th century?
 * ...that the Dunmore Pineapple was a folly where pineapples were grown in Scotland from 1761 and that it was built by the 4th Earl of Dunmore, John Murray, who later became governor of Virginia Colony in North America?
 * ...that Murray Raney, who developed the Raney nickel catalyst, did not attend high school?
 * ...that the greatest shrine of the Pochayiv Lavra in Ukraine is centered on a footprint that followers believe to be left by the Theotokos on the rock after Mary appeared to the monks in the shape of a column of fire?
 * ...that the short-lived Apple Network Servers were the last non-Macintosh computers manufactured by Apple?
 * ...that Cassiobury Park is the principal amenity area of Watford, Hertfordshire, in England?
 * ...that Nottinghamshire and England cricketer Charles Wright was the first captain to declare an innings closed?
 * ...that Rickard D. Gwydir, an early settler of the state of Washington, was born in Kolkata and served in the Confederate States Army before being named Indian agent of the Colville Indian Reservation?
 * ...that the English football player Eric Brook is the all-time record goalscorer for Manchester City F.C. with 178 goals?
 * ...that Italian Renaissance architect and stage designer Nicola Sabbatini discovered that the l'œil du prince ("the prince's eye") has the best perspective of the stage of any seat in a theater's audience?
 * ...that the first Superman character, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, was not a hero but a villain?
 * ...that the 1966 New York City transit strike at the start of the mayoralty of John Lindsay was led by the defiant Irish-born Transport Workers Union of America founder Mike Quill, who was briefly jailed for leading the illegal strike, and died before the month was out?
 * ...that sand festivals are held all over the world and not only on sandy beaches?
 * ...that John Kemble, hanged in 1679 for his part in the Popish Plot, was subsequently canonized by the Roman Catholic Church and is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales?
 * ...that a 19th-century utopian socialist intentional community known as Kaweah Colony identified the world's largest tree, called the General Sherman, and named it after Karl Marx?
 * ...that the song "Wildwood Flower" evolved from a 19th-century parlor song called "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets," and that the song was most famously performed by the Carter Family?
 * ...that Khabarovsk Railway Bridge, the longest in Eurasia, was originally named Alekseyevsky after Tsesarevich Alexis?
 * ...that Dan Brown's depictions of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Roman Catholic Church in his most famous novel have generated numerous criticisms of The Da Vinci Code among critics who feel that much of what he wrote is factually inaccurate?
 * ...that a new free trade agreement between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore, called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership, came into effect on January 1, 2006?
 * ...that electrogas welding is an arc welding process commonly used in the shipbuilding industry?
 * ...that Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac sponsored the construction of Pažaislis Monastery, one of the finest examples of Baroque architecture in Lithuania?
 * ...that Kampong Ayer, a historic "water village" built on stilts above a river, is home to ten percent of the population of Brunei?
 * ...that while the Berber scholar Arsène Roux of France collected and studied an enormous amount of Sous Berber texts and manuscripts, almost nothing from his scholarly work actually saw publication during his lifetime?
 * ...that the defeat of the Welsh army in the Battle of Orewin Bridge effectively ended the independence of medieval Wales?