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 * ...that diamond magnate Woolf Barnato won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times, and in 1930 won a race across France in his Bentley against Le Train Bleu?
 * ...that the TV Land Awards have been awarded annually since 2003 by the TV Land network to reward classic television?
 * ...that New Mexico's Carson National Forest, named after Kit Carson, contains Anasazi artifacts?
 * ...that the global stratotype for the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary is a cliff at Fortune Head, southeastern Newfoundland?
 * ...that Tom Stoppard's play Rough Crossing is a loose adaptation of Hungarian dramatist Ferenc Molnár's Play at the Castle?
 * ...that due to the legend which states that "as long as Davie Poplar doesn't fall, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will continue to prosper," the tree has been filled with cement? [[Image:Davie Poplar.jpg|100px|right|Davie Poplar]]
 * ...that the scarf worn by members of the Young Pioneers, the national youth organization of the Communist Party of China, corresponds to a triangle that is missing from one of its flags?
 * ...that the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering of the Pennsylvania State University, founded in 1908, was the first industrial engineering department in the world?
 * ...that the Boy Scouts of America 50-Miler Award, given to those who hike or paddle 50 or more miles, is designed to encourage personal fitness, self-reliance, and a practical understanding of conservation?
 * ...that Marcel Boulestin, who appeared on the BBC's experimental television broadcasts in 1937 was the first television chef?
 * ...that environmental noise health effects place millions of people at risk of hearing loss, cardiovascular disease or even abnormal fetal development? [[Image:Earcov.JPG|100px|left|Human ear]]
 * ...that the play Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson explores the disillusionment of former American anti-war activists in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate?
 * ...that Surendranath Banerjea founded the Indian National Association, the first Indian political organization in British-ruled 19th-century India?
 * ...that Langley Park makes Perth the only city in the world where aircraft can land in the central business district?
 * ...that Commander Edwin Taylor Pollock became the first American governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands by beating the commander of the USS Olympia in a race to Saint Thomas?
 * ...that the White House Tee Ball Initiative was created by President George W. Bush to promote baseball and softball by allowing youth Tee Ball events on the grounds of the White House in 2001? [[Image:Tee Ball.jpg|right|100px|Tee Ball at White House]]
 * ...that Prasoon Joshi, an award-winning advertising executive is also a lyricist for Bollywood movies?
 * ...that the Vanessa Carlton song "A Thousand Miles" became popular amongst U.S. troops serving in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and was the most requested song on the radio station BFBS Middle East in April 2003?
 * ...that only 6% of Pacific hurricanes make landfall on the United States, and that the state of Arizona is affected by a tropical cyclone only about once every five years?
 * ...that Ludwig Fahrenkrog was a German artist who founded one of the first neopagan religious groups, the Germanic Faith-Community, in 1907?
 * ...that Gideon Brecher (1797 - 1873) was a Jewish Austrian physician and writer who wrote what is most likely the first scholarly article on circumcision, Die Beschneidung der Israeliten, etc., in 1845?
 * ...that Marie Palace (1839-44) was the last Neoclassical imperial palace to be constructed in Saint Petersburg, Russia? [[Image:Marie palace.jpg|100px|left|Marie Palace]]
 * ...that some elements of the Jules Verne adventure story Two Years' Vacation are to be found in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, written 66 years later?
 * ...that Satyajit Ray, the noted Indian film director, also wrote popular fiction, especially detective stories and science fiction in Bengali?
 * ...that a cuttie-stool is the Lowland Scots name for a three legged stool that was thrown by Jenny Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk, in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637?
 * ...that Beekman Winthrop, the third American Governor of Puerto Rico, was a direct descendant of both John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts, and John Winthrop, the Younger, the first Governor of Connecticut?
 * ...that the French inventor Félix du Temple accomplished in 1874 a short flight with his steam-powered aircraft Monoplane, often considered the first manned powered flight in history? [[Image:1874DuTemple.jpg|right|100px|Monoplane]]
 * ...that Sillustani is a pre-Incan burial ground with burial towers known as chullpas?
 * ...that when the British Army attacked the Agra Fort in 1803, a cannon ball fired by the artillery struck the Takht-i-Jahangir (throne of Jahangir), but only caused a superficial crack on one side?
 * ...that Parlophone's "₤" trademark, made famous on The Beatles UK records, is actually not the British pound sign, but a Germanic "L" for the Lindstrom in Carl Lindstrom Company?
 * ...that though the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth decreased from 1620s till its end, the number of its provincial governors kept increasing, as the offices of a lost province could not be dissolved?
 * ...that Balchug island opposite Moscow Kremlin takes its name from the Tatar word for "marsh"? [[Image:Moskvarech.JPG|100px|left|Balchug]]
 * ...that Sanford N. McDonnell, the chairman emeritus of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, is also a past national president of the Boy Scouts of America?
 * ...that most knights of the Middle Ages wore chausses as leg protection?
 * ...that Tony Saunders was the first player selected in the expansion draft when Major League Baseball added teams in 1997?
 * ...that Georgia’s capital Tbilisi functioned as the center of an Islamic emirate under the Arab rule from 736 to 1122?
 * ...that historian Doane Robinson conceived of the idea of Mount Rushmore in order to attract greater tourism to South Dakota?
 * ...that Imbabura is an inactive stratovolcano in northern Ecuador which is revered in local folklore as a protective parent? [[Image:Imbabura Volcano, Ecuador.jpg|right|100px|Imbabura]]
 * ...that the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to former United States President Ronald Reagan?
 * ...that in 1978, the nitrate-base film vaults of both the US National Archives and George Eastman House autoignited?
 * ...that the Vietnamese "poet of love" Xuân Diệu wrote a poem about the love affair between the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, fueling speculations that he himself was homosexual?
 * ...that the Washoe Theater in Anaconda, Montana was the last Art Deco theater constructed in the United States?
 * ...that Alonso Manso was the first bishop to arrive in the New World and also the first Inquisitor General of the Indies?
 * ...that a 1906 football match between a team of youngsters from Kraków and the troupe of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is one of the milestones in the history of football in Poland? [[Image:Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.jpg|100px|left|Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]]
 * ...that the history of Berne, the Swiss capital, begins not with her founding in 1191, but with the Helvetian oppidum Brenodor that Caesar conquered in the Gallic Wars?
 * ...that Sir Henry Segrave's accomplishments inspired the Segrave Trophy, which is awarded to the British subject who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water?
 * ...that the boojum phenomenon in superfluidity physics is named after an imaginary monster in a poem by Lewis Carroll?
 * ...that in 1977, K. Leroy Irvis of Pennsylvania became the first Black American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States?
 * ...that The Falling Man is a photograph by Richard Drew depicting a man who had jumped from the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York?
 * ...that the eminent Russian culinary writer William Pokhlebkin was in fact a notable expert in the history of diplomacy, but also the author of A History of Vodka, and that his name was thought to be a pen name?