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 * ...that the 1927 silent film The Scar of Shame is an early example of a "race movie," in which a feature film was made by a black cast exclusively for black audiences?
 * ...that quarterback Bill Kenney is the only player named Mr. Irrelevant (an "award" traditionally given to the last selection of the NFL Draft) to appear in the Pro Bowl?
 * ...that sculptor Pavel Sokolov designed sphinxes for Egyptian Bridge, griffins for Bank Bridge, and lions for Bridge of Four Lions in Saint Petersburg? [[Image:Sankt Petersburg Banken Brücke 2005 b.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that the history of Judaism in Japan started in 1861 when approximately fifty Jewish families settled in Yokohama?
 * ...that Kishan Shrikanth, age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada-language feature film, C/o Footpath, which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film?
 * ...that John Crocker, a British corps commander in World War II, served as a both a private and a general in the British Army?
 * ...that the North American Phalanx was a mid-19th century Utopian community in Monmouth County, New Jersey based on the idea of French socialist Charles Fourier? [[Image:Phalanxary colt nj.jpg|North American Phalanx|left|100px]]
 * ...that prolific designer Adrian created costumes for over 200 films during his career at MGM?
 * ...that Walther Flemming, a German histologist, discovered mitosis (cell division), chromatin and chromosomes, and that this is considered one of the 100 most important scientific discoveries in history?
 * ...that The Chesterfield Kings, a veteran garage rock band from Rochester, New York, are currently suing their longtime record label over nonpayment of royalties, and are being represented by a lawyer who played keyboards on several of their albums?
 * ...that Anatoly Durov was one of the founding fathers of the Soviet circus? [[Image:AnatolyDurov Serbia 1921.jpg|right|100px|Anatoly Durov]]
 * ...that the history of writing began in the 4th millennium BC out of neolithic proto-writing?
 * ...that Chemmeen, a popular Malayalam novel, was made into a colour Cinemascope film, one of the first in Malayalam film industry?
 * ...that the official title of the "Stars on 45 Medley", which names a total of 11 different songs, makes it the longest-titled song ever to make the Billboard charts in the United States?
 * ...that the Capitol Theatre in Melbourne was once described as "the best cinema that was ever built or is ever likely to be built"? [[Image:Capitol_Theatre,_Swanston_Street,_Melbourne.JPG|left|100px|Capitol Theatre]]
 * ...that in 1911 baseball player Ed Konetchy and the St. Louis Cardinals were involved in a train wreck that killed 12 and injured 47, and Konetchy and manager Roger Bresnahan led the rescue effort?
 * ...that the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor is a US$1 billion biotechnology initiative that gets its funding from Michigan's settlement with the tobacco industry?
 * ...that many Russians celebrate the new year twice: once on the January 1 New Year of the Gregorian calendar and again on the Julian calendar Old New Year in mid-January?
 * ...that Indonesia is the world's fourth largest producer of coffee? [[Image:Coffeeroasting woodfired.jpg|right|100px|Roasting of Coffee]]
 * ...that although Thomas S. Hamblin preferred ballet and opera, he staged low-brow melodrama, farce, and variety acts at the Bowery Theatre?
 * ...that the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, though not written by Saint Jerome himself, was the most widely-used martyrology during the Middle Ages?
 * ...that Gilles Joye, a Renaissance composer, was known for brawling and frequenting brothels—but later became a priest?
 * ...that Dawn Steel was the first woman to head a major Hollywood film studio?
 * ...that at Cirque d'hiver (the "Winter Circus") in Paris, the idea of stylish evening circus performances for fashionable audiences was invented by Louis Dejean? [[Image:Le cirque d'hiver Paris 01.jpg|left|100px|Metropolitan Board of Works]]
 * ...that "truthiness," a word made up by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, was selected as the 2005 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society?...that Yaroslav of Halych's repudiation of his wife led to a popular uprising, in the course of which his favorite concubine was burnt alive?
 * ...that alligation is a practical method for solving arithmetic problems related to mixtures?
 * ...that Frederick Marrable resigned his post as Chief Architect to the Metropolitan Board of Works in London when they offered him a derisory salary raise? [[Image:Metropolitan Board of Works in Spring Gardens 1860 ILN.jpg|right|100px|Metropolitan Board of Works]]
 * ...that hypostatic abstraction is the name given to the process describing how the proposition "X is Y" is transformed to "X has Y-ness"?
 * ...that the city of Barreiras in Bahia, Brazil remained isolated for nearly a decade in the 1960s when the power plant closed?
 * ...that Zhang Mao became the ruler of Former Liang when a magician had his brother (the then-governor) assassinated?
 * ...that Tegernsee Abbey in Bavaria was founded by the nobleman Otkar, supposedly after his son had been killed during a game of chess by the son of King Pippin III with the chessboard? [[Image:Schloss Tegernsee.jpg|left|100px|Tegernsee Abbey]]
 * ...that in the iconic 1955 Richard Avedon photograph, supermodel Dovima posed wearing a Dior evening dress standing with circus elephants?
 * ...that four EU-Russia Common Spaces were articulated during the Moscow EU-Russia summit in May 2005?
 * ...that Count Orlov's Marble Palace, decorated with 32 shades of Russian marbles, currently houses the largest exhibition of Pop Art in Saint Petersburg? [[Image:Beggrov2.jpg|right|100px|Marble Palace]]
 * ...that Australian sprinter Stanley Rowley is the only Olympic participant to win medals for two countries at the same Olympic Games?
 * ...that Kanyasulkam, written by Gurajada Apparao in 1892, is the first Telugu play dealing with social issues?
 * ...that the Seleucid era was a system of numbering years from the return of Seleucus I Nicator to Babylon in 312 BC?
 * ...that the French submarine Plongeur, built in 1863, was the first submarine in the world not to use human power for propulsion? [[Image:Plongeur.jpg|left|100px|Plongeur submarine]]
 * ...that L. V. Prasad had the unique distinction of acting in the first talkies in three different Indian languages: Hindi, Telugu and Tamil?
 * ...that the Mount Victoria Tunnel is 623 metres long and was the first New Zealand tunnel to have air conditioning?
 * ...that the Caribbean Club in Key Largo, Florida was built by former millionaire promoter Carl Graham Fisher as "a poor man's retreat" and became famous as a filming site for the 1947 film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall?
 * ...that Brutus de Villeroi was a French engineer who created the USS Alligator, the U.S. Navy's first submarine, in 1862? [[Image:USS_Alligator_0844401.jpg|USS Alligator|right|100px]]
 * ...that the Zagreb mid-air collision over Croatia in 1976 was one of the deadliest mid-air collisions?
 * ...that apart from cellmate George McKnight, U.S. Navy officer George Thomas Coker was the only POW to escape from the "Hanoi Hilton"?
 * ...that New York City authorities asked the Museum of Sex not to locate itself within 500 feet of a church or school?
 * ...that the Khreschatyk is the main street of Ukrainian capital Kiev on which Orange Revolution and other historical events mainly took place? [[Image:Kreschatik classic.jpg|left|100px|Khreschatyk]]
 * ...that the Ramona Valley in San Diego County California is the country's 162nd American Viticultural Area, and only the third such AVA designated in Southern California by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau?
 * ...that the nature of the female orgasm is a field of research for academics studying female sexuality?
 * ...that the All Sky Automated Survey is a Polish astronomical project based in Chile, controlled remotely from Poland through the Internet, and that it has discovered two comets since 1996 with a tiny budget?