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 * ...that a lost Roman villa was discovered in 1992 when a bulldozer remodeled the sand on a beach at the Rio Alto tourist area (pictured) in Portugal?
 * ...that a gymslip is a sleeveless tunic commonly associated with British schoolgirls and sportswomen of the early 20th century?
 * ... that Pakistani general Zahirul Islam Abbasi plotted a coup d'etat against then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995?
 * ...that Canadian pianist Glenn Gould produced three radio documentaries, collectively named the Solitude Trilogy, in which up to three people speak simultaneously in monologue?
 * ...that director Fei Mu's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005?
 * ...that France's Ford Vedette was the first car to feature MacPherson struts?
 * ...that the judicial reform of Alexander II involved the introduction of the jury to Imperial Russia?
 * ...that the first fossilised dinosaur eggs found in the world, which are also the oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered, belong to Massospondylus and were found in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa in 1978?
 * ...that the Claude Glass was a tinted mirror used by amateur artists in the 18th century in which they turned their back on the subject?
 * ...that Chinese premier Zhou Enlai barely evaded an assassination attempt on him in 1955, which killed 16 people?
 * ...that the Barranquilla Group is the name of a collection of writers and journalists based in the Colombian city of the same name, and that members of it included Gabriel García Márquez and Álvaro Cepeda Samudio?
 * ...that Simca 1000, a small French-made car, was manufactured for 17 years and that almost 2 million were produced?
 * ...that the 18th-century Águas Livres Aqueduct (pictured) was paid for by a special sales tax on beef, olive oil, and wine?
 * ...that in Jordan, two journalists who republished three of the twelve Danish Mohammad cartoons were sentenced to two months in jail?
 * ...that the direct-to-video release Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination featured singers like Billy Joel, LL Cool J, and Harry Connick, Jr. performing classic Disney songs?
 * ...that the Huanghuagang Uprising was the prelude to the Wuchang Uprising, the uprising that resulted in the transfer of China from a feudalistic country into a republic?
 * ...that Sakis Rouvas, who performed a sexually suggestive song "Shake It" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, engaged in an equally sexually suggestive conversation with Paul de Leeuw while hosting the Contest two years later?
 * ...that Resica Falls Scout Reservation contains a museum displaying 19th-century tannery village relics and local Native American artifacts going back to 500 BC?
 * ...that Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (pictured) composed Mahatma Gandhi's favourite devotional song, "Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram", which was sung daily during the salt march to Dandi?
 * ...that the self-made dress that Barbara Dex wore while performing "Iemand Als Jij" at the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest led to the creation of an award for the worst-dressed performer in the contest?
 * ...that in June 2001, Olga Kern became the first woman in over three decades to win the Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition?
 * ...that the native mammal fauna of Puerto Rico consists exclusively of bats?
 * ...that the macapat forms of Javanese poetry are classified on the basis of the patterns of syllables and the final vowels of each line?
 * ...that Alexander I of Russia acclaimed Peter Wittgenstein as the "Saviour of Saint Petersburg" for his victory at Klyastitsy
 * ...that Scotland Yard, one of the world's most iconic police institutions, was built overtop the site of an unsolved murder?
 * ...that the Nissan President, Nissan's top-of-the-range luxury limousine made for over forty years, remains largely unknown outside of Japan?
 * ...that Elena Paparizou, a member of the duo Antique which performed the song "(I Would) Die For You" at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest, went on to win the contest in 2005?"
 * ...that just over 50 kilometres above its surface, the atmosphere of Venus has very similar pressure and temperature as does Earth, making it the most Earth-like area in the solar system?
 * ...that Chicago Bulls founder Dick Klein rode on a flat bed truck with a live bull to promote his new basketball team?
 * ...that the Triumph 1800 Roadster's body (pictured) was built from aluminium using press tools from the Mosquito bomber fuselage?
 * ...that 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold has worked as an agent for actors such as James Gandolfini, Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, and Felicity Huffman?
 * ...that the Rose-Fruited Banksia is so named because its fruiting bodies resemble roses made of wood? [[Image:Triumph 1800 roadster FR.jpg|right|100px]]
 * ...that Jerzy Ziętek, a Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, later became a Polish communist and an important regional politician from Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland?
 * ...that the Natural Lands Trust is one of the oldest regional land conservation groups in the United States and that the Trust works in the suburban counties near Philadelphia to the Delaware Bay shore of New Jersey to the Poconos?
 * ...that George William Smith not only represented New Zealand in both codes of rugby football but was also a successful athlete winning fourteen national titles as a sprinter and hurdler?
 * ... that Tropical Storm Helene (pictured) of 2000 struck Florida just five days after Hurricane Gordon?
 * ...that the most powerful radio station in Imperial Russia operated from New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg?
 * ...that the manga Astra was originally conceived as a theatrical musical by American comic book artist Jerry Robinson?
 * ...that the popular hymn "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" is taken from a poem about hallucinogenic drugs by John Greenleaf Whittier?
 * ...that when the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in 1991, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
 * ...that the 1964 Saab Catherina prototype had a targa top that would fit into the luggage compartment?
 * ...that the French car Simca Vedette (pictured) was first marketed as a Ford and later manufactured as a Chrysler in Brazil?
 * ...that the bignose unicornfish can change colours when frightened or asleep to help camouflage itself from predators?
 * ...that the song "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?" consists of tongue twisters in an artificial German dialect and never answers the question in its title?
 * ...that Picasso's painting The Three Dancers depicts a real love triangle that caused one of Picasso's best friends to commit suicide?
 * ...that the Pechenga Monastery, founded in 1533, was for many centuries the northernmost monastery in the world?
 * ...that Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem was appointed directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1745 through the influence of Madame de Pompadour, who might have been his natural daughter?
 * ...that the Kamenny Monastery (pictured), the oldest in the north of Russia, was destroyed in 1937 in order to help with the construction of a local palace of culture?
 * ...that the Château de Saint-Cloud near Paris burned to the ground on 13 October 1870 after being hit by French artillery fire during the siege of Paris?
 * ...that the film crew of actress Revathi's directorial debut Mitr, My Friend was entirely composed of women?
 * ...that Dorothea Mackellar wrote her patriotic Australian poem "My Country", which contains the line I love a sunburnt country, while she was homesick when travelling in Europe?
 * ...that Daylight Saving Time was first legislated in North America in June 1917 by the former country of Newfoundland?

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