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 * ...that Tori Busshi, a Japanese artist, most likely learned to sculpt while working as a saddle maker? [[Image:Asuka dera daibutsu.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that Tristán de Luna y Arellano built the first European settlement within the continental boundaries of the United States at modern-day Pensacola?
 * ...that New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms was the first player to announce "I'm Going to Disney World!" after a Super Bowl?
 * ...that the fictional Anaheim Electronics docking ship La Vie en Rose is so named due to the fact that it opens up like a blooming rose when not docked with a spaceship?
 * ...that Teresa Pizarro de Angulo, Miss Colombia's organizer for more than 40 years, was also Cartagena's first female farm owner?
 * ...that William Shakespeare was an avid gardener and that modern Shakespeare gardens cultivate dozens of plant species mentioned in his plays?[[Image:Shakespeare garden.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that the Ancient Romans played a game called Trigon, which likely involved three players standing in a triangle and passing a hard ball back and forth?
 * ...that when the Etruscan bronze Chimera of Arezzo, carefully buried near the city walls of Arezzo some time in Antiquity, was rediscovered in 1553, it was quickly claimed for the collection of  Cosimo I de' Medici?
 * ...that among many historic landmarks at the Andrew's Descent in Kiev, there is a medieval Gothic style castle that locals call the "Castle of Richard the Lion Heart" due to the legend the 12th century King of England had visited the building?
 * ...that the St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church in North Miami Beach, Florida is a medieval Spanish monastery that was purchased by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, disassembled, and then kept in 11,000 crates in a warehouse in Brooklyn for 26 years? [[Image:St_bernard_de_clairvaux_church_cloisters_2006.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that Nikolay Danilevsky was the first writer to present an account of history as a series of distinct civilisations?
 * ...that the name teonanácatl, referring to a sacred mushroom of the Aztecs, translates to "the flesh of God"?
 * ...that the Trow Ghyll skeleton, found near Clapham in the West Riding of Yorkshire in August 1947, was claimed to have been the decomposed remains of a German spy who died during the war?
 * ...that SS Kościuszko, a former Russian passenger ship, mobilized by the Polish navy, was visited by Winston Churchill and King George VI during World War II? [[Image:SS Kosciuszko.jpg|left|100px|SS Kosciuszko]]
 * ...that according to UFO religions, aliens exist, and would reveal themselves in the future to enable humans overcome their ecological, spiritual and social problems?
 * ...that during the era of Ryūkyū Kingdom the noodle soup Okinawa soba could only be eaten by royalty until Okinawa's annexation by Japan in the late 19th century?
 * ...that Cambridge House on Piccadilly used to be home to Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
 * ...that three former Presidents of the United States currently appear on American currency two times each (one coin and one bill)? [[Image:United_States_penny,_obverse,_2002.png|right|100px|Abraham Lincoln as depicted on the US Penny]]
 * ...that the theory of the permanent arms economy is a Marxist theory to explain the long economic boom after World War II?
 * ...that Sonjo, a Bantu language of northern Tanzania, has been spoken for centuries in an isolated enclave in Maasai territory?
 * ...that les Brasseries du Cameroun controls 75 percent of the market for beer and soft drinks in Cameroon?
 * ...that Indiana Jones suffers from ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes?
 * ...that the expression Children of Lieutenant Schmidt has become a Russian cliché for con men who use false pretenses in order to extract money from the victims? [[Image:Schmidt-kids.jpg|left|100px|Children of Lieutenant Schmidt - An illustration]]
 * ...that in 1876, Edward Bouchet became the first black American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university?
 * ...that Xianxingzhe, China's first bipedal humanoid robot was satirized in Japan for having a joint that resembles a "crotch cannon"?
 * ...that Howard Thomas created three of the most popular wartime radio programmes for the BBC and discovered Vera Lynn, but was forced to resign from the company?
 * ...that two glazed shopping arcades of the 1840s — the Passage in St Petersburg and the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels — accommodated luxury shops, coffee houses, museums and even theatres? [[Image:Semechkin.jpg|right|100px|The Passage in St. Petersburg]]
 * ...that a large portion of the vocabulary of the coastal Mozambiquean language Ekoti derives from a past variety of Swahili?
 * ...that Thomas Brownrigg went from being a Midshipman to being Naval Aide de Camp to Queen Elizabeth II to creating Europe's first commercial television company, Associated-Rediffusion?
 * ...that the July 2005 NKF scandal led to a backlash from the donors to the charity, resulting in the resignation of the board of directors?
 * ...that the Roman de Fergus is the earliest piece of non-Celtic vernacular literature to have survived from Scotland? [[Image:DUNNOTTAR CASTLE Large.JPG|left|100px|Dunnottar Castle is in Roman de Fergus]]
 * ...that the Philharmonia Hungarica, an orchestra founded by Hungarian exiles and funded by the West German government during the Cold War, made the first complete recording of Haydn's symphonies?
 * ...that the dachas of the Russian poets Boris Pasternak, Korney Chukovsky, and Bulat Okudzhava in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow are open to the public as memorial houses?
 * ...that "La Vie en Rose" is the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf?
 * ...that an aerosan is a type of air-powered, armoured snowmobile, which was used for transport, reconnaissance, and raiding by the Red Army in the Winter War and the Second World War? [[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg -->|right|100px|NKL-26 armoured aerosan]]
 * ...that a Push-Pull Converter is a type of DC to DC converter that uses a transformer to step the voltage of a DC power supply?
 * ...that the Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez became famous with the painting "Virgen de Guadalupe", which represents Lopez's personal investigation into Virgen de Guadalupe's status in Mexican society?
 * ...that the actions of Australian soldiers at the Battle of Epehy during World War I led to German officers in the area saying that they would not fight Australian troops?
 * ...that Giles Mompesson was officially branded a "notorious criminal" by the House of Lords in 1623 after a career of graft and extortion as licensor of inns? [[Image:Giles_Mompesson.png|left|100px|An etching of Giles Mompesson]]
 * ...that the L'Arlésienne Suites were composed by Georges Bizet in 1872 to accompany the play of the same name by Alphonse Daudet?
 * ...that Lady Macbeth wore a crown of saucepan lids in the 1933 production of Shakespeare's play, staged by Theodore Komisarjevsky in Stratford-on-Avon and popularly dubbed "Aluminium Macbeth"?
 * ...that Sofia Petrovna, a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939-1940, and published in the West in 1960s, was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988?
 * ...that only three Super 14 rugby union teams ever won the Super 12?
 * ...that from 1858 Sydneysiders could set their clocks by the ball dropped at 1 pm each day at the Sydney Observatory and that the observatory replaced Fort Philip which was never needed to be used for defending Sydney? [[Image:SydneyObservatory1 gobeirne.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that the Brothertown Indians were the first tribe of Native Americans in the United States to become United States citizens, which caused the tribe to relinquish their tribal sovereignty?
 * ...that Jan Nagórski, Polish pioneer of aviation and the first person to fly an airplane over the Arctic, was presumed dead for 38 years?
 * ...that, for the Dutch Old Masters, still lifes were a great opportunity to show one's aptitude in painting textures and surfaces in great detail and with realistic light effects?
 * ...that Mikhail Lomonosov's granddaughter was the wife of General Nikolay Raevsky, one of the leading Russian commanders during the Napoleonic Wars?
 * ...that the 1939 cantata "Ballad For Americans" by John La Touche and Earl Robinson was performed that year at both the Republican National Convention and that of the American Communist Party?
 * ...that the Lagonda Straight-6 engine that vaulted Aston Martin to fame in the 1950s was designed by Walter Owen Bentley, who also created the Bentley automobile?
 * ...that Owasippe Scout Reservation, established in 1911, is the oldest continuously operating Boy Scout camp in the United States?