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 * ...that there are many multi-headed animals in mythology and fiction, but there have also been numerous real animals that had two heads? [[Image:Hydra 04.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that the fighter pilot Aleksandr Kazakov destroyed 32 German and Austro-Hungarian planes during WWI, while his formal tally of 17 is explained by the fact that only planes crashed in the Russian-held territory were officially counted?
 * ...that the asteroid 7796 Járacimrman, discovered in 1996 on Kleť Observatory and named after the famous fictitious Czech genius Jára Cimrman, proved to be the lost asteroid that had already been observed in 1973 on Brera-Merate Observatory in northern Italy?
 * ...that the Russian singer Alla Bayanova, who celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage performance back in 2003, recently collaborated with Marc Almond on several duets?
 * ...that Albert Einstein's brain was preserved after his death, and has been used in debates about the correlation between neuroanatomy and genius? [[Image:Albert_Einstein_Head.jpg|left|100px|Albert Einstein]]
 * ...that botanist Edgar Anderson was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Evolution and an active member of the Religious Society of Friends?
 * ...that Chester Racecourse is the oldest horse racing course in the England, built on the site of a blocked harbour in 1533?
 * ...that after Tony Kiritsis was declared "not guilty by reason of insanity" in 1977, Indiana legislators amended the law to provide for verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill" and "not responsible by reason of insanity"?
 * ...that a Knox County, Ohio, tradition credits members of the Snowden Family Band with writing the song "Dixie"? [[Image:Lew Snowden portrait.jpg|right|100px|Lew Snowden from the Snowden Family Band]]
 * ...that Paul Posluszny, a linebacker for Penn State's football team, was recently named college football's best defensive player of the year?
 * ...that Variation and Evolution in Plants is one of the four canonical texts of the modern evolutionary synthesis and that all four texts were compiled following the authors' presentation of the Jesup Lectures at Columbia University?
 * ...that Drayton Hall, built 1738–42, near Charleston, South Carolina, is considered one of the most handsome Neo-Palladian houses in North America?
 * ...that Central Fire Station, the oldest existing fire station in Singapore, had only four portable water pumps when it was completed in 1908? [[Image:Central Fire Station, Dec 05.JPG|left|100px]]
 * ...that Henry Paget, known as "the dancing Marquess", inherited his peerage at the age of 23 and spent so much on clothes, jewelry and parties that he went bankrupt with debts of £544,000 at the age of 28?
 * ...that the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division was a Ukrainian military formation in the German armed forces during the World War II and that it fought against the Red Army in Graz, Austria?
 * ...that Aliwalia is the earliest known carnivorous dinosaur, and was huge for its time?
 * ...that the Pentastomida are parasitic invertebrates commonly known as tongue worms because of their resemblance to vertebrate tongues? [[Image:Linguatula taenioides.jpg|right|100px|Linguatula taenioides a tongue worm]]
 * ...that Rattlesnake James, the last man to be hanged in California, was convicted of drowning his wife after a failed first attempt to kill her with rattlesnake venom?
 * ...that Robin Williams' A Night at the Met won a Grammy for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical?
 * ...that Richard Butler and his father were 31st and 23rd Premiers of South Australia, respectively?
 * ...that a palinode is a type of retraction poem championed by Chaucer? [[Image:Geoffrey_Chaucer.jpeg|left|100px]]
 * ...that although there are 75 West Indian women who have played one-day international cricket, only 54 of them have represented the West Indies?
 * ...that the same visual hallucinations of geometric patterns, known as form constants, are seen in near-death experiences, synesthesia, and drug-induced hallucinatory visions?
 * ...that Ampelosaurus was a European dinosaur that bore spikes on its back up to 20 cm long?
 * ...that the Marian column on which Our Lady stands on Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome originally supported the vault of the Basilica of Constantine at the Roman Forum and was the only one such column to survive the Basilica's destruction in an earthquake? [[Image:Rome_Santa_Maria_Maggiore_1.JPG|right|100px|Marian column in Rome]]
 * ...that as part of Fukubukuro, a New Year's custom in Japan, merchants offer bags of merchandise for prices much lower than the normal value of the items inside?
 * ...that the first Australian national sporting team to wear the now traditional green and gold team colours were the Australian cricket team that toured England in 1899?
 * ...that Estela Ruiz claims to have seen and spoken with the Blessed Virgin Mary in South Phoenix, Arizona continually from 1988 to 1998?
 * ...that using an orthotropic deck instead of a concrete deck reduced the mass of the Golden Gate Bridge by 11,160 metric tons? [[Image:GoldenGateBridge.jpg|left|100px|The Golden Gate Bridge now has an orthotropic deck]]
 * ...that Alice Nelson and Sam the Butcher were engaged to be married in the final season of the sitcom The Brady Bunch?
 * ...that Space.com is a space and astronomy news website launched in 1999 by CNN anchor Lou Dobbs?
 * ...that James McClinton was the first African American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, appointed by the city council in December 2003, but that the electorate of the city passed a referendum the following year to strip the office of political power?
 * ...that the Chickens War of 1537 was a protest in Kingdom of Poland, and it was named so by the victorious opposition, who claimed that the instigators only succeeded in nearly total consumption of chickens in Lesser Poland? [[Image:Roast chicken.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that the Miranzai Valley is a fertile mountain valley in the Kohat district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan?
 * ...that the Cowboy Trail is the longest rails to trails conversion project in the United States?
 * ...that James Sadleir was expelled from the British House of Commons in 1857 after helping his brother take £288,000 from the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, fled from justice, and ended up murdered in Geneva?
 * ...that the campus of Michigan State University has 676 buildings, with a total of 2.073 million m² of floor space? [[Image:MSU South Campus skyline.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that Teatro Campesino or "farmworkers theater" began performing in 1965 on flat bed trucks in the fields with the United Farm Workers in Delano, California and still puts on performances today?
 * ...that The Squirrels, Seattle-based practitioners of the "Frankenstein method of song arrangement", recorded a "Stars on 45"-style medley of songs from The Wizard of Oz, which was among the 142 7-inch records that British DJ John Peel set aside in a box to grab if his house ever caught fire?
 * ...that a quadrature phase booster is a specialised form of transformer used to control the flow of electric power on electricity transmission networks?
 * ...that the Sky Ride at the 1933 Chicago Century of Progress carried 4.5 million fairgoers in "rocket cars" 60 m above ground, before being demolished in 1934? Sky RideTower.png
 * ...that Earl Morrall was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1968, after replacing the injured Johnny Unitas, and led the Colts into Super Bowl III?
 * ...that Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was renowned for his expertise at artificially inseminating mares?
 * ...that some scientists, in response to the popular idiom dismissing the possibility, have conducted experiments to compare apples and oranges?
 * ...that the Family Viewing Hour was mandated by the FCC to keep the earliest one hour in U.S. prime-time television "safe" for the entire family?
 * ...that by the time American football player Nat Moore retired in 1986, he had broken almost every receiving record of the Miami Dolphins?
 * ...that Go.com partnered with Goto.com in 2001, even though a judge had ordered Go.com to pay Goto.com $21.5 million earlier for having a similar logo?
 * ...that a dead-rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches?