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 * ...that Doe Lang, who performed on Broadway and appeared in TV soaps, also authored best-selling self-help books and is the president of an image consulting firm?
 * ...that Saint Stephen of Perm invented the Permian alphabet for the Komi people in order to facilitate their education and eventual conversion to Christianity? [[Image:Stephenperm.jpg|Saint Stephen of Perm|100px|right]]
 * ...that a recent cricket match saw the record for highest team total for a single innings in One-day Internationals broken by both the teams, and has been called the greatest ODI match ever by much of the cricket media?
 * ...that the prosauropod dinosaur Efraasia was misidentified at least four times before being recognized as a separate genus?
 * ...that Hakeem Olajuwon was the last player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA men's basketball tournament while playing for a team that failed to win the title, earning the honor in the 1983 tournament?
 * ...that while the gold ceiling mosaics that gave the basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia its name are no longer present, it still contains tombs such as those of Saint Augustine mentioned by Dante in Il Paradiso? [[Image:Tomba di Severino Boezio.jpg|Tomba di Severino Boezio|100px|left]]
 * ...that the Daytona Beach Road Course was the site of fifteen world land speed records, and the course was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR?
 * ...that the Battle of Krasny Bor was a World War II battle in which neutral Spain assisted Germany with an all volunteer infantry division?
 * ...that Apple Computer's PowerBook 5300 got the nickname "HindenBook" after the Lithium ion batteries used in the original design were shown to burst into flames under certain circumstances?
 * ...that "The Grange" in Upper Manhattan was the only home ever owned by Alexander Hamilton, and that he died only two years after the Federal style house was completed in 1802? [[Image:Hamilton-Grange.jpg|100px|right|Hamilton Grange National Memorial]]
 * ...that the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States?
 * ...that cosmonauts such as Grigori Nelyubov, dismissed from the Soviet space program, were airbrushed out of official photographs, leading to early Cold War speculation of failed missions even when the actual reasons for dismissal were sometimes mundane?
 * ...that during the Gothic War in the 4th century, the Goths killed a Roman Emperor, destroyed a Roman army and laid waste large tracts of the Roman Balkans?
 * ...that the Ribbon of Saint George is worn in Russia on Victory Day as an act of commemoration of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War? [[Image:Ribbon of Saint George.svg|100px|left|Ribbon of Saint George]]
 * ...that the Wissenschaft des Judentums or "the scientific investigation of Judaism", was a 19th century movement by Jewish philosophers in Berlin premised on using scientific methods to analyze the origins of Jewish traditions?
 * ...that a house was held to be haunted by poltergeists as a matter of law in the 1991 New York case Stambovsky v. Ackley, making the Nyack, New York house the only legally haunted house in the United States?
 * ...that the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?
 * ...that the ASTRA National Museum Complex includes 90 hectares of exhibits about Transylvania, but also includes objects such as an Ancient Egyptian mummy? [[Image:ASTRA Sibiu Palace.jpg|100px|right|Astra Palace]]
 * ...that Norway's first regional theatre, the Hålogaland Teater, used to be housed in a disused margarine factory in the Arctic Circle town of Tromsø?
 * ...that several Turkic nomads of the Kipchak clan settled in Georgia in 1118 and served in the Georgian military ranks for nearly two centuries?
 * ...that Hurricane Felix in 1995 was a moderately powerful hurricane that, despite not making landfall, caused severe beach erosion and 8 deaths along the East Coast of the United States?
 * ...that the Ascension Convent in the Moscow Kremlin, known as a traditional burial place of Muscovite tsarinas, was dismantled in 1929 to make room for the Red Commanders School? [[Image:Chudov.jpg|100px|left|Ascension Convent]]
 * ...that folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's most famous book, 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, is named after a ghost that Windham believed haunted her home?
 * ...that William Burnet, Governor of New Jersey and New York, obtained his position of governorship by trading his job as comptroller of the customs with Robert Hunter?
 * ...that over 5,000 Rosenwald Schools in the United States were built primarily for the education of African Americans with funds donated by Julius Rosenwald, who was part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company?
 * ...that the spangenhelm was the most popular war helmet in Europe and the Middle East during the early Middle Ages? [[Image:Helm DSC02149.JPG|100px|right|Spangenhelm]]
 * ...that January 26, which in 1950 became the Republic Day of India, was also the day of the promulgation of Purna Swaraj Declaration in 1930?
 * ...that the Soviet ideologue and foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov denounced jazz and rock music as "wild cave-men orgies" and the "explosion of basic instincts and sexual urges"?
 * ...that the name Japanese War Tuba was a name applied to the acoustic locators used by Japan during World War II?
 * ...that Richard Ingoldesby, Governor of New Jersey, caused the defeat of a bill to raise 200 men for an invasion of Canada in order to remove the Quakers from all public offices in New Jersey?
 * ...that rumour had it that Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneer of British orthopaedic surgery, would attack people and break their bones in order to reset them? [[Image:Hugh Owen Thomas2.jpg|100px|left|Hugh Owen Thomas]]
 * ...that the race movie, a genre of films produced for black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the United States between 1915 and 1945?
 * ...that the aluminum smelting plant in Tursunzade is the largest aluminum manufacturing plant in Central Asia?
 * ...that the oldest written constitution of a Greek city was discovered in an inscription at Dreros in Crete?
 * ...that the Council of Nablus, held in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1120, established punishments for adultery, bigamy, homosexuality, and sexual relations with Muslims?
 * ...that the Allies broke through the largest German entrenched position in World War One at the Battle of the Hindenburg Line? [[Image:Battle of the hindenburg line.jpg|100px|right|Battle of the Hindenburg Line, 1918]]
 * ...that the compound 4-ethylphenol, produced by the spoilage yeast Brettanomyces, can make wine smell like band-aids?
 * ...that jazz singer Ilse Huizinga is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz?
 * ...that the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama is famous for the ghostly image of a murdered man's face that can be seen in one of its windows?
 * ...that the Afghan Church in Mumbai was built to commemorate the dead of the First Afghan War of 1838?
 * ...that the Ancient Greeks credited Broteas, the ugly son of Tantalus, with an ancient rock-cut cliff-face carving of the Great Mother of the Gods in modern Turkey?
 * ...that the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 destroyed 300 acres and nearly 2,000 buildings and was put out with help from fire engines as far away as Knoxville, Tennessee? [[Image:1917AtlantaFire.PNG|100px|left|The extent of Atlanta Fire, 1917]]
 * ...that Jerry Reuss was one of a few players in Major League Baseball history to play in four different decades?
 * ...that Super typhoon Nancy is one of the eight typhoons to receive a special name from the Japan Meteorological Agency?
 * ...that the recently discovered deep-sea decapod Kiwa hirsuta was dubbed the yeti crab by its discoverers on account of its hairy appearance?
 * ...that Matvei Muranov was one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive the Great Purge?
 * ...that although the Park Theatre was considered the highest-class playhouse in New York, Edgar Allan Poe criticized it for being infested by rats? [[Image:Park Theatre exterior.jpg|100px|right|Park Theatre, Manhattan]]
 * ...that Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Jew, was a close friend of Hitler and according to a MI6 report, perhaps the only woman who could exercise influence on him?
 * ...that the docu-drama The Road to Guantanamo, depicting the incarceration of three British detainees at Guantanamo Bay, is the first film to be released simultaneously in theatres, on DVD and on the Internet?
 * ...that the early contact lens pioneer August Müller demonstrated his technique for grinding scleral lenses by correcting his own severe myopia?