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 * ...that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan severely injured his back while filming the blockbuster hit Kal Ho Naa Ho?
 * ...that iron deficiency anemia is the final stage of iron deficiency?
 * ...that fetal hemoglobin synthesis is used to treat adults with sickle-cell disease?
 * ...that the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is about three revellers who set out to kill Death?
 * ...that Assyriologist Archibald Sayce discovered that the Hittite hieroglyphic system was predominantly syllabic?
 * ...that writer Panait Istrati is known for his line, "All right, I can see the broken eggs. Where's this omelet of yours?"
 * ...that the heavyweight class in boxing has no maximum weight limit?
 * ...that the descent of Queen Elizabeth II leads back directly 1500 years and 50 generations to Cerdic of Wessex?
 * ...that Anglo-German novelist Elizabeth von Arnim was a cousin of New Zealand short story writer Katherine Mansfield?
 * ...that one way to calculate distances in terms of latitude and longitude is the Haversine formula?
 * ...that the longest NHL overtime game in the history of hockey was a 116-minute 1936 match between the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons?
 * ...that lumpsuckers are fish that have modified pelvic fins which have evolved into adhesive discs that allow them to adhere to their substrate?
 * ...that the satiric New Zealand McGillicuddy Serious Party wanted to return to a medieval lifestyle and establish a monarchy based on the Scottish Jacobite line?
 * ...that Eric Coates was an English composer who wrote some songs for lyrics written by Arthur Conan Doyle?
 * ...that Chinese Taipei is the designated name the Republic of China (Taiwan) uses in most international organizations?
 * ...that a suikinkutsu is both a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?
 * ...that Kimono de Ginza are a group of kimono and Japanese clothing enthusiasts in Tokyo that meet monthly in full-dress in front of a department store and then later in an izakaya?
 * ...that the unmanned Apollo 6 space capsule was recovered by the USS Okinawa (LPH-3) 380 miles north of Kauai, Hawaii?
 * ...that some plants have tentacles, but octopuses have none? (they have arms instead)
 * ...that the founders of College of Charleston included three signers of the Declaration of Independence and three signers of the United States Constitution?
 * ...that a chroot is a sandbox "jail system" environment on a Unix system?
 * ...that the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the heptathlon was Denise Lewis?
 * ...that Queen Elizabeth I of England may have been named for her grandmother Elizabeth Boleyn?
 * ...that Knecht Ruprecht, a figure in Germanic folklore, is often depicted as traveling with Santa Claus?
 * ...that the Genghis Khan defeated Jelal ad-Din Mingburnu, sultan of the Khwarezmid Empire, at the Battle of Indus in 1221?
 * ...that Bartlesville, Oklahoma's Price Tower is one of the only two Frank Lloyd Wright skyscrapers ever built?
 * ...that a dichroic prism splits light into two beams of different color, or wavelengths?
 * ...that image intensifiers, which are similar to night vision, were invented by Vladimir Zworykin, a World War II-era RCA employee?
 * ...that the journalistic practice of muckraking began at McClure's magazine?
 * ...that Pieter de Hooch, a genre painter from the Dutch Golden Age, died in an insane asylum?
 * ...that the Zhang Zhung culture of Tibet is the source of the pre-Buddhist, shamanistic Bön religion?
 * ...that Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park was originally an ostrich farm?
 * ...that in cat coat genetics, two different X-chromosome alleles must be expressed to create a calico?
 * ...that the site of the Franklin Dam was blockaded for seven months by protesters before its construction was halted by the High Court of Australia?
 * ...that one of the three Hoenn starter Pokémon is Torchic?
 * ...that the Fairey Seafox was a World War II reconnaissance floatplane of the Fleet Air Arm?
 * ...that Connie Mack managed for 53 Major League Baseball seasons, winning nine pennants and five World Series?
 * ...that Peter Mitchell called for mercy on Louis Riel and blamed John A. Macdonald for causing the Riel Rebellion?
 * ...that a 2002 BBC World Service global poll voted A Nation Once Again the world's most popular tune?
 * ...that a theme in Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land is group marriage?
 * ...that Pope Stephen VI exhumed the remains of Pope Formosus for the Cadaver Synod?
 * ...that circles and Reuleaux triangles are examples of curves of constant width?
 * ...that the Antarctica ecozone cannot support vascular plants?
 * ...that a diplomatic bag is a term of art in both international relations and cryptography?
 * ...that Prambanan, on Java, is the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia?
 * ...that the scandalous murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor has never been solved?
 * ...that Benguela current of the Southern Ocean has a small El Niño effect?
 * ...that the fundamental complexity of chemical synthesis impedes many efforts at drug design?
 * ...that the Jerusalem cricket is sometimes called "the old bald-headed man"?
 * ...that autonomic ganglions are cell bodies within the autonomic nervous system?