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 * ...that the City of London Yeomanry was a regiment of the British Territorial Army which served at various times as a cavalry, infantry, artillery, anti-aircraft, and armoured unit, and now forms a squadron of the Royal Corps of Signals?
 * ...that George Mason University basketball coach Jim Larranaga motivated his players in their 2006 NCAA regional final by telling them their opponents from the University of Connecticut didn't know what conference they were in?
 * ...that Rusumo Falls was a significant site during the 1994 Rwandan genocide as thousands of dead bodies flowed underneath the bridge while a simultaneous stream of refugees crossed over it, fleeing into Tanzania to escape the fighting?
 * ...that Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, now recognized as one of the leading poets of Polish baroque, considered his career as a courtier much more important than that of a poet?
 * ...that, before he was President of the United States, Herbert Hoover was married at the Royal Presidio Chapel in Monterey, California?
 * ...that Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States?
 * ...that Amantaní, an island on Lake Titicaca, is also known as the "Island of the Kantuta", the national flower of Peru and Bolivia? [[Image:Intikawan Amantani.jpg|left|100px|Amantani from a distance]]
 * ...that Jean Armand de Lestocq, a French physician, wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth?
 * ...that when Jester Center was built in 1969, it was the largest dormitory in North America, the largest building in Austin, Texas, and the largest building project by the University of Texas at Austin?
 * ...that the Lieven princely family claims descent from Caupo of Turaida, one of the first Livonians to convert to Christianity?
 * ...that we know about Latin profanity from both graffiti at Pompeii, and from the poems of Martial, Catullus, and Horace?
 * ...that Repnin Sejm of 1767-68 in Poland was so named after the Russian Empire ambassador Nicholas Repnin, who coerced the Sejm (Polish parliament) into accepting his demands? [[Image:Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin.jpg|right|100px|Repnin]]
 * ...that the recent Capitol Hill massacre is regarded as the worst mass-killing in Seattle since the 1983 Wah Mee Massacre?
 * ...that the Golden Charter of Bern — the bull that made Berne, Switzerland, an Imperial Free City in 1218 — is now considered to have been forged decades later by the Bernese themselves to confirm the rights they had seized?
 * ...that Adwaita, the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive, the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company?
 * ...that Cuicocha is a crater lake in the Ecuadorian Andes which was created by a massive Phreatic eruption in the 11th century BC? [[Image:Cuicocha, Ecuador.jpg|left|100px|Cuicocha]]
 * ...that Lantian Man, who was discovered in China in 1963, preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?
 * ...that The Impressions' 1967 single "We're a Winner", written by Curtis Mayfield, was a socially conscious song which became an anthem for the American Civil Rights Movement?
 * ...that ADMA, a chemical found in human blood, produces adverse effects that may lead to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and erectile dysfunction?
 * ...that Emperor Paul of Russia ordered the name of his mistress Anna Lopukhina to be given to warships and to be inscribed on the standards of his Leib Guard? [[Image:Princess Anna Gagarina (1777-1805) by Jean-Louis Voille.jpg|right|100px|Anna Lopukhina]]
 * ...that the seal emblazoned on the flag of Nashville, Tennessee displays a Native American holding a skull that is believed to be Oconostota, former leading Chief of the Cherokee Nation?
 * ...that the Westfield Brandon is one of five shopping malls in the U.S. state of Florida managed by the Australian Westfield Group?
 * ...that in an engagement on Lake Huron, a small British force captured two American gunboats in the summer of 1814?
 * ...that the arrano beltza, the black eagle flag of the Basque nationalist movement, derives from the seal used by Sancho III of Navarre a thousand years ago?
 * ...that soil conservation was first practiced by the Phoenicians, and today it embraces disciplines such as hydrology, microbiology and soil chemistry research?
 * ...that North Berwick Harbour was built in the 12th century as a ferry port for St. Andrews bound pilgrims, while Pagans believe "Satan himself" once worshipped on the Harbour's "Auld Kirk Green"?
 * ...that while Aleksandra Pakhmutova composed pieces for the symphony orchestra and a ballet, her fame in the former Soviet Union rests primarily on 400 songs she composed back in the 1960s and 1970s?
 * ...that Deneb is the only character to appear in all four of Quest's video games in the Ogre Battle series?
 * ...that Natalia Goncharova, the wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin, was rumoured to have had a liaison with Nicholas I of Russia after the death of her husband? [[Image:Natalia Pushkina by Brullov.jpg|right|100px|Natalia Goncharova]]
 * ...that in the 26 uses of the Page playoff system in championship curling tournaments, only once has a third- or fourth-placed team won the tournament?
 * ...that Sarat Chandra Bose, the brother of Subhash Chandra Bose attempted to obtain independence for a united Bengal with Muslim leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1947?
 * ...that the Washington Hebrew Congregation is a Reform Jewish congregation in the District of Columbia that has operated continuously since its formation on April 25, 1852, by twenty-one members?
 * ...that the long-running German TV show Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst is the only German television format to have entered the United States, where it is produced by Fox as America's Most Wanted?
 * ...that Polish bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski, founded Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th century European libraries? [[Image:Jozef_Andrzej_Zaluski.jpg|left|100px|Józef Andrzej Załuski]]
 * ...that the Korzhenevskaya Peak in Tajikistan is one of the five "Snow Leopard Peaks" of the former Soviet Union?
 * ...that an estimated 892 Edsel Bermuda station wagons were produced before the model was dropped after a single year of production?
 * ...that Gessius Florus became the Roman procurator of Judea due to his wife's friendship with Emperor Nero's wife Poppaea?
 * ...that the Royal Navy operated a secret training and anti-submarine warfare base at Seacliff in Scotland during World War I? [[Image:Seacliffview.jpg|right|100px|Seacliff, Scotland]]
 * ...that Andrey the Elder, brother of Ivan III, sponsored the construction of the first stone edifices in his capital, Uglich?
 * ...that Historic Jamestowne is a National Historic Site on Jamestown Island on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia operated by the Colonial National Historical Park of the U.S. National Park Service?
 * ...that the Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev, who sang with great success at La Scala and the Paris Olympia, was not allowed to pursue an international career by the Soviet Ministry of Culture?
 * ...that no fewer than a dozen people from western countries have been killed by crocodiles since 1990?
 * ...that the Peruvian village Písac gets its name from a ruined Incan citadel which represents the wing of a partridge? [[Image:Sun Temple at Pisac, Peru.jpg|left|100px|View from the Sun Temple at Pisac]]
 * ...that Marcos Daniel is the highest placed Brazilian tennis player on ATP's ranking despite not winning any official ATP tournament?
 * ...that the 1859 McLane-Ocampo Treaty would have given the United States extensive free trade and transit rights across Mexico and the right of military intervention, in exchange for a $4 million loan to the Benito Juarez government then fighting a civil war, but was never ratified by Congress?
 * ...that automated CPR machines such as AutoPulse are used to treat cardiac arrest in both humans and animals?
 * ...that in the course of the Crimean War, the British and French Navies undertook three attempts to lay a siege to the town of Taganrog?
 * ...that the official death date of the Soviet statesman Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878-1938) was changed to 1943 as part of Khruschev's policy to minimize the scope of the Great Purge by falsifying the dates of its victims' deaths?
 * ...that the Chinese House in Potsdam was Frederick the Great's attempt to follow the contemporary Chinese fashion, which originated in France?