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 * ...that during the Battle of Hel, one of the longest battles in the 1939 Polish September Campaign, Polish forces temporarily separated the peninsula from the mainland, forming an island?
 * ...that Greyfriars Kirkyard, famed for its association with Greyfriars Bobby, is haunted by the spirit of "Bluidy Mackenzie" and featured in the early photography of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson?
 * ...that when Edwin J. Cohn gave public demonstrations of the newly-invented blood fractionation machine, he used his own freshly-drawn blood which, when the machine exploded after clogging, led to the first several rows of the audience being covered in blood?
 * ...that the Capitoline Wolf, the icon of the founding of Rome, is actually an Etruscan bronze statue depicting a she-wolf suckling the infant twins Romulus and Remus? [[Image:She-wolf suckles Romulus and Remus.jpg|The Capitoline Wolf|left|100px]]
 * ...that Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso was murdered while investigating the privatization of the country's largest bank?
 * ...that although archaeologists in Singapore have discovered many artifacts, they do not have government support for their work, and there is no centralised place to store the artifacts?
 * ...that the Battle of Zhuolu, fought in the 26th century BC and the second recorded battle in Chinese history, is often considered a pivotal moment in the establishment of the Han Chinese civilization?
 * ...that Nikolay Glazkov, a Soviet poet, is credited with having coined the term samizdat, which has come to be internationally known?
 * ...that Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, a castle in the Rhine that Victor Hugo described as a "ship of stone," also used its well as a dungeon? [[Image:Rhein.Pfalz.jpg|Burg Pfalzgrafenstein|right|100px]]
 * ...that on Christmas Eve 1942, in the Tatsinskaya Raid, the Red Army's 24th Tank Corps captured the German airfield that was conducting the Stalingrad relief airlift?
 * ...that the Yellow-shouldered Blackbird, a bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico, engages in anting, a behavior in which birds rub ants on their feathers?
 * ...that the mummified remains of outlaw Hazel Farris helped raise funds for the Bessemer Hall of History in Bessemer, Alabama?
 * ...that The Stewardesses, the most profitable 3-D film in history, was notorious for still being edited during the first year of its showing in theaters?
 * ...that French singer Édith Piaf dedicated her recording of the song, Non, je ne regrette rien, to the French Foreign Legion?
 * ...that, during half a millennium, the Croÿ family produced two cardinals, seven bishops, nine field marshals, twenty generals, and thirty two knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece? [[Image:Croyblazon.jpg|Arms of Philippe I de Croÿ|left|100px]]
 * ...that the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry suffered 330 casualties, including 120 dead, in eight minutes at the Second Battle of Bull Run, the largest number of fatalities received by any federal infantry unit in the entire American Civil War?
 * ...that the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a medieval didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the 19th century?
 * ...that in Miller v. Jackson the Court of Appeal of England and Wales found that a cricket club was liable in negligence and nuisance when sixes were hit over the boundary onto neighbouring property, and that it is best known for the lyrical dissenting judgment of Lord Denning, MR?
 * ...that the English Sundew, a carnivorous plant with wide distribution in the northern hemisphere, originated from a hybrid involving a plant with localized distribution in the Great Lakes area? [[Image:Drosera anglica ne2.jpg|Drosera anglica with prey|right|100px]]
 * ...that pitcher-outfielder Clint Hartung was hyped as Cooperstown-bound but played so poorly for the New York Giants that his name has become synonymous with rookies who flop?
 * ...that Protmušis is a quizbowl competition that has been taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania since 1997
 * ...that a private citizen, Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, entirely funded the construction of the Mahim Causeway, a major thoroughfare connecting the island city of Mumbai (Bombay) with its north-western suburbs?
 * ...that the Kryvbas economic region in Ukraine is one of the largest iron ore and steel industry centers in Europe?
 * ...that the Willow Tearooms, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is the most famous of many new Glasgow tearooms opened in the early 20th century due to the emergence of the Temperance movement? [[Image:Room de Luxe.jpg|left|100px|The Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms]]
 * ...that in the Battle of Gdynia during the Polish September Campaign, the German armed forces captured Gdynia, an important port and industrial center of the Second Polish Republic?
 * ...that the SS leader Felix Landau temporarily spared the life of the Jewish artist Bruno Schulz, because Landau liked his art and wanted the artist to paint a set of murals for his young son's bedroom?
 * ...that the Ford Mustang SSP, in addition to being advertised by Ford as "chasing Porsches for a living", was also used as a pursuit car for the Lockheed U-2 spy plane?
 * ...that in the Night Attack skirmish, Vlad III Dracula is said to have been "one of the first European crusaders to use gunpowder in a deadly artistic way"?
 * ...that a bull terrier named Stubby attained the rank of sergeant during World War I? [[Image:Hoya_I_1927_Domesday_with_player_legs.jpg|Sergeant Stubby|right|100px]]
 * ...that Kongara Jaggayya was the first Indian film actor to be elected directly to the Parliament?
 * ...that Camille Gravel, a Louisiana Democrat and civil rights advocate, was highly influential in state and national politics despite never holding office?
 * ...that the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?
 * ...that the Battle of the Lower Dnieper is considered to be one of the largest battles in world history, involving almost 4 million men on both sides and stretching on a front 1,400 km wide?
 * ...that the Senyavin Islands of Micronesia were named after Dmitry Senyavin, who destroyed the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos in 1807? [[Image:Athosbattle.jpg|left|100px]]
 * ...that The Tanganyika Rifles mutinied in 1964, seizing control of Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the Royal Marines?
 * ...that the calls of the Red-throated Ant-tanager, a noisy passerine bird native to the Caribbean, include a scolding raaah or nasal pip pik, and the song is a throaty whistled cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick?
 * ...that Jefferson Pier in Washington, D.C. was a survey monument for the first meridian of the United States, replacing one set by Thomas Jefferson in 1793, and that it was later used as a mooring bollard on the Potomac River?
 * ...that, during the Battle of Königsberg, German troops were subjected to Soviet propaganda, telling them that they were trapped in a pocket and that their resistance was pointless?
 * ...that Isaac Newton was so unhappy with the publication of his Arithmetica Universalis, he considered buying all the copies of the first edition so he could destroy them? [[Image:arithmetica.jpg|Arithmetica|right|100px]]
 * ...that a pioneer automobile manufacturer, August Duesenberg, went bankrupt after his failure to sell his first mass produced vehicle, although his race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920 Indianapolis 500-mile race?
 * ...that the Battle of Domstadtl during the Seven Years' War was the first big military success of Ernst Gideon von Laudon, which made Prussian King Frederick the Great finish the siege of Olomouc and leave Moravia?
 * ...that Robin Philipson, former President of the Royal Scottish Academy, was particularly renowned for his cockfight paintings?
 * ...that in 1132 George of Antioch was given the title ammiratus ammiratorum, which translates as Admiral of Admirals in modern English, but meant Emir of Emirs to contemporaries?
 * ...that the world's earliest-known reservoirs were constructed by the people of the ancient city of Dholavira, which is located on an island in Kutch?
 * ...that, in the history of wound care, the ancient Greeks were the first to differentiate between acute and chronic wounds, calling them "fresh" and "non-healing," respectively?
 * ...that the sepoys lost the Central India Campaign (1858) because most of their officers were elderly men who had attained rank through seniority while seeing little action and receiving no training as leaders?
 * ...that the Birdsville Races in Queensland, Australia used to have separate races for horses that ate grass and those that ate corn?
 * ...that in his poem "Dushenka," the 18th-century Ukrainian-born poet Ippolit Bogdanovich changed the setting of Apuleius's story about Cupid and Psyche to a contemporary Russian village?
 * ... that the 1065-m long Črni Kal Viaduct on the A1 motorway is the longest viaduct in Slovenia?
 * ... that a bouchon is a type of traditional restaurant in Lyon, serving such delicacies as pig's head cheese, tripe soup and andouillette?