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 * ... that NASA test pilot Joe Walker's X-1E and record-setting X-15 were two of the very few research aircraft to have nose art? (pictured: Joe Walker and the X1-E) [[Image:Joe Walker X-1E.jpg|Joe Walker and the X1-E|right|100px]]
 * ...that fuel burned by combustion equipment in large industrial plants is channeled to the atmosphere by large vertical pipes or vents called flue gas stacks?
 * ...that the only recorded use of the phrase "We who are about to die salute you" in Ancient Rome was at a naumachia, a theatrical naval spectacular, not said by gladiators as is widely believed?
 * ...that the disastrous Battle of Beroia resulted in the disappearance of the nomadic Pecheneg people from eastern Europe?
 * ...that Betsey Stockton, the first unmarried female foreign missionary, was a manumitted slave who established schools in Hawaii and Canada?
 * ...that tissue transglutaminase antibody testing has superseded all older blood tests in the diagnosis of coeliac disease?
 * ...that Ulriksdal Palace (pictured) was originally named Jakobsdal, after Jacob De La Gardie, and was one of the first buildings in Sweden with mansard roofs?[[Image:Ulriksdals slott fran vattnet.jpg|Ulriksdals palace|left|100px]]
 * ...that professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria?
 * ...that Piscataway Park was created to prevent development and protect the view across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon?
 * ...that Sabantuy is a Tatar summer festival which features such contests as Tatar wrestling, horse racing, race-in-sack, pillar-climbing, egg-in-spoon-in-mouth-racing, and finding a coin in a bowl of sour milk?
 * ...that a Roman man once received the surname of "Tricongius" for his ability to drink three congii of wine (9.8 litres; 2.6 gallons) in one sitting in a feat that he once performed before Emperor Tiberius?
 * ...that Akira Endo received the 2006 Japan Prize for his discovery of the popular statin drugs, used to treat high cholesterol?
 * ...that the Greenbrier Ghost (Zona Heaster Shue, pictured) is the only ghost in American history whose alleged testimony influenced a jury trial? [[Image:ZonaHeasterShue.jpg|Zona Heaster Shue, the Greenbrier Ghost|right|100px]]
 * ...that when NASCAR driver David Gilliland won his first career Busch Series race in 2006, driving for an unsponsored part-time team, commentator Hermie Sadler called it "the biggest upset in Busch Series history"?
 * ...that in 2003, the Cuban town of San Antonio de Los Baños had no water for 2 days while a 100-year old aqueduct supplying the city was being repaired?
 * ...that Ah Meng, a Sumatran Orangutan and tourism icon of Singapore, had breakfast with celebrities including the Duke of Edinburgh and pop star Michael Jackson?
 * ...that hydrological transport models are computer simulations analyzing the movement of water pollution in rivers, and have played a role in aiding endangered species?
 * ...that the breakfast room at Tullgarn Palace in Sweden is furnished like a south German Bierstube, possibly reflecting the fact that King Gustav V's queen consort came from Baden?
 * ...that Artrain USA is a 5-car art gallery that tours the U.S. 11 months of the year, visiting small towns whose residents may not otherwise have a chance to see art up close?
 * ...that Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, creator of the National Bank of Poland and author of many economic reforms in Congress Poland, also laid foundations for the industrialization of the city of Łódź?
 * ...that the Swedish term yrast, meaning "dizziest", is used in nuclear physics to refer to nuclear states of high angular momentum?
 * ...that J. Dringwell Rymbai had to discontinue his education due to poverty, but became the head master of a school and eventually the Chief Minister of Meghalaya?
 * ...that Roman Emperor Trajan was heavily criticized for giving extravagant donations, called congiaria, to every citizen?
 * ...that Captain William Reynolds, a veteran of the American Civil War, formally claimed the Midway Atoll for the United States in 1867 due to its abundance of guano?
 * ...that the American Buffalo gold bullion coin (pictured) will be the first .9999 fine 24-karat gold coin released by the United States Mint? [[Image:2006 American Buffalo Proof Reverse.jpg|American Buffalo coin|right|100px]]
 * ...that Ashta Pradhan, a council formed by Shivaji in 1674 to help him in administration, was one of the first instances of ministerial delegation in India?
 * ...that the name of the Azeri settlement Ramana, with natural gas vents where Zoroastrians still hold fire rites, might, according to conjecture, be derived from Roma, the Latin word for Rome?
 * ...that Joseph Krumgold was the first author to win the Newbery Medal twice?
 * ...that Czech basketball player George Zidek is the younger of the only father-and-son pair to have each played in European club basketball title games?
 * ...that the 1900 Paris Exposition's Mareorama (pictured) was a simulated sea voyage using two 2,460-foot-long (750 m) panoramic paintings and a giant motion platform? [[Image:Mareorama (Scientific American).jpg|Mareorama|left|100px]]
 * ...that Governor James B. A. Robertson called out the Oklahoma National Guard in order to restore law and order during the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921?
 * ...that Union for Active Struggle was a secret paramilitary organization dedicated to reclaiming Polish independence, with support by Austria-Hungary against the Russian Empire?
 * ...that the Kutiyapi is a two-stringed, fretted boat-lute with beeswax frets?
 * ...that Russian composer Ella Adayevskaya took her pseudonym from the notes played by the kettledrum in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmila?
 * ...that although Ernst Neizvestny 's work had been denounced by Nikita Khrushchev as degenerate art, he was commissioned to sculpt Khrushchev's tomb? (pictured: Kruschev's tomb)
 * ...that the Kell antigen system is a group of antigens on the human red blood cell surface that are important determinants of blood type and targets for autoimmune or alloimmune diseases that destroy red blood cells?
 * ...that Ann Hasseltine Judson was the first Protestant to translate a scripture into Siamese, and legitimized the missionary calling for Christian women?
 * ...that the Motown recording "Do You Love Me" by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987?
 * ...that American sculptor Luis Jiménez, known for his large Southwestern and Hispanic polychromed fiberglass sculptures, was killed when a large piece of his work fell on him?
 * ...that the Banksia menziesii (pictured), named after 18th-century physician and naturalist Archibald Menzies, is also known as the Firewood Banksia for its burning properties and abundancy? [[Image:B menziesii gnangarra 15.jpg|Banksia menziesii|left|100px]]
 * ...that the A8(M) motorway is the shortest motorway in Northern Ireland at only one mile long, and has no junctions with any other roads along its entire length?
 * ...that the Lviv tram, opened on May 5, 1880 in Galicia (then part of right|100px, is one of the last urban transit systems in the former Soviet Union to still use grooved rail?
 * ...that people protested outside NASCAR's headquarters after African-American driver Bobby Norfleet was not allowed to qualify for a 2000 Craftsman Truck Series race at Pikes Peak International Raceway?
 * ...that Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, said to be Christopher Wren's favourite decorative painter, nevertheless did not secure the commission to paint the dome of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, finished in 1708?
 * ...that one of the shotguns used by the all-male pep squad RUF/NEKS of the University of Oklahoma during football games is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution?
 * ...that Australian boxer Jim Hall (pictured) was buried in an unmarked grave, apparently to elude the man to whom he had sold his skeleton? [[Image:Jim Hall (boxer).jpg|Australian middle-weight boxer Jim Hall|right|100px]]
 * ...that Tarquin the Proud modified the Roman festival of Compitalia to include the sacrifice of children's heads, but upon his expulsion, Brutus substituted heads of garlic and poppies instead?
 * ...that Aleksandra Piłsudska, a Polish revolutionary and second wife of dictator Józef Piłsudski, helped plan the Bezdany train raid?
 * ...that the Finnish tango is an established variation of the Argentine tango and one of the most enduring and popular music forms in Finland?
 * ...that Russian playwright Yakov Knyazhnin was once thought to have been tortured to death after presenting a libertarian play to Catherine the Great?
 * ...that future High Court judge Sir John Vinelott sat by during an argument in a Karl Popper lecture as his mentor, Ludwig Wittgenstein, brandished a red hot poker before storming out?

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