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 * ...that arson was suspected when the last original boô (pictured), a building where a farmer rested when grazing cattle far from a village, burned down in the Netherlands? (Image:Boô.jpg)
 * ...that 6Q0B44E, a recently discovered satellite of Earth, is thought to be a large piece of space debris?
 * ...that Iranshah Âtash Bahrâm in Udvada, a town in Gujarat, India, is the holiest fire temple for the Parsi community?
 * ...that the stump speech of the blackface minstrel show was a precursor to modern stand-up comedy?
 * ...that a feature story is an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or a news website that is not meant to report breaking news, but rather to take an in-depth look at the background events, persons or circumstances behind a news story?
 * ...that the fictional Document 12-571-3570 was a hoax that purported to describe sex experiments done in space?
 * ...that several years prior to the downfall and execution of the Romanov dynasty, the image of God's Mother disappeared from their patron Fyodorovskaya icon? (Fyodorovskaya icon)
 * ...that Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy is the longest single-volume novel ever published in English?
 * ...that, as a consequence of the Russo-Polish War from 1654 to 1667, the cities of Kiev, Chernigov, and Smolensk were ceded to Russia?
 * ...that anti-gay protests following the selection of the song Samo Ljubezen by drag-group Sestre in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest led to criticism of Slovenia in the European Parliament?
 * ...that Merv Wood, a single sculls gold medallist and the only person to twice be Australian flagbearer at the Summer Olympics, later became the Police Commisioner of New South Wales?
 * ...that the Svinsky Monastery later changed its name to Svensky, in order to avoid connotation to the word "swine"?
 * ... that the ruins of the Carmo Convent (pictured) are some of the most impressive remains of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon? (Ruins of Convento do Carmo, Lisbon, Portugal)
 * ... that the Israeli band Ping pong were disendorsed by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority as the representative in the 2000 Eurovision after waving the Flag of Syria in their song "Sameyakh"?
 * ... that Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor will become the first Malaysian in space when he launches on board Soyuz TMA-11 towards the International Space Station in September 2007?
 * ...that Chiques Creek in Pennsylvania, named for the Lenape word Chiquesalunga (meaning place of crayfish), has 13 variant names according to the USGS?
 * ...that the 1672 treatise Loimologia is a rare first-hand account of the Great Plague of London, written by one of the few physicians to remain in the city during the plague?
 * ...that Willi Ninja's distinctive dance style was an inspiration for Madonna's 1990 song "Vogue"?
 * ...that a table bridge is a moveable bridge (pictured) that looks like an ordinary road when closed but appears monstrous when open, while a similarly appearing submersible bridge vanishes when open? (Pont levant Notre Dame)
 * ...that aluminium alloys developed by Russian metallurgist Igor Gorynin are claimed to have the highest specific strength of all known weldable metallic materials?
 * ...that Mauryan Emperor Ashoka had to stop the execution of his future spiritual adviser Moggaliputta-Tissa for touching his right hand?
 * ...that Virginia Congressman, John Floyd argued for settlement of the Oregon Territory twenty-eight years before it became an official United States territory?
 * ...that Estonian Margus Hunt won two gold medals at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, setting a world junior record in discus throw and a national junior record in shot put?
 * ... that Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh was also known as Jahangir Nagar?
 * ...that Sanborn Park (pictured) provided one of the first segments of the San Francisco Bay Area Ridge Trail, which is planned to encircle the Bay Area with a 500 mile long hiking trail? (Image:Sanbornsanadreasriftvalley.jpg)
 * ...that the Allied Bombing of Bucharest in World War II damaged the University of Bucharest and uprooted trees at the Botanical Garden of Bucharest?
 * ...that nearly 20,000 people visited a shrine in Bangalore in 2002 to see the Miracle Chapati, a flat unleaved piece of bread with the likeness of Jesus on it?
 * ...that Bobby Pearce won the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics despite stopping mid-race for a passing flock of ducks?
 * ...that the Peace of Rueil, signed 11 March 1649 between the court party and the party of the Parlement of Paris, brought to an end the first phase of France's first revolution, the Fronde?
 * ...that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was riding in a Gräf & Stift automobile at the time of his assasination?
 * ...that the Old Ministry of Labour Building (pictured) in Singapore housed the Chinese Protectorate before World War II, and has since been gazetted as a national monument? (Image:Subordinate Courts, Family and Juvenile Court 3, Mar 06.JPG)
 * ...that when the Menier company built the first mass production plant for chocolate in 1830, it was the largest chocolate manufacturing company in the world?
 * ...that Semaphore, South Australia, the home of Australia's largest carousel, is also the birthplace of renowned aviator Sir Ross Smith?
 * ...that, when translating Shakespeare into Russian, Mikhail Lozinsky attempted to convey the antiquated English language used by Shakespeare?
 * ...that "A-Ba-Ni-Bi", Israel's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, was performed partly in the Hebrew equivalent of Pig Latin?
 * ...that the De La Salle University-Manila College of Engineering was established in 1947 with the aim of providing young men with knowledge of science and technology to help rehabilitate the Philippines, which had been devastated during World War II?
 * ...that inventor Thomas Highs was never credited for his invention of both the spinning jenny (pictured) and the water frame, mostly due to his lack of funding to patent the devices? (Image:Thomashighsjenny.JPG)
 * ...that Easter Posey was the first American woman to be killed in the line of duty in World War II?
 * ...that the small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome is a rare complication of bariatric surgery for obesity?
 * ...that the Northeast Flag Replacement in 1928 ended the Chinese Warlord Era, in which Zhang Xueliang announced the replacement of all flags in Manchuria with the Nationalist Government's flag, thus nominally reuniting China?
 * ...that Brian Boitano narrowly won the Battle of the Brians, a 1988 Winter Olympics figure skating rivalry between two elite skaters named Brian?
 * ...that former Queensland House of Assembly member Tom Veivers was an Australian test cricketer?
 * ...that a protagonist of Albert Camus's play The Just Assassins was named after the Russian terrorist Ivan Kalyayev (pictured)?(Image:Ivan Kalyayev.jpg)
 * ...that Pope Pius XII's cousin, Ernesto Pacelli, was a financial adviser to Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius X, and Pope Benedict XV?
 * ...that the world's record auction price for a single piece of silver was achieved by a silver tureen made by the Parisian silversmith Thomas Germain in 1733, sold in November 1996 for US$ 10,287,500, triple the former record?
 * ...that the MacRobertson International Croquet Shield is the premier croquet teams event in the world and the 2006 series will be held in Australia in November?
 * ...that Sir Macpherson Robertson was an Australian philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's which invented the Freddo Frog chocolate bar?
 * ...that developmental biologist PZ Myers, who writes about evolution, cephalopods, politics, and atheism, is the top-ranked science blogger according to the journal Nature?
 * ...that Corporal Ernest Albert Corey (pictured) is the only soldier to have been awarded the Military Medal on four occasions? (Ernest Albert Corey)
 * ...that the Council of Lithuania declared the independence of Lithuania by signing an Act of Independence on February 16, 1918?
 * ...that cyclist Gerald Ciolek became the youngest ever German National Cycling Champion, aged just 18 in 2005?
 * ...that in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting?
 * ...that the first television set made entirely in Poland, the Belweder, cost 7000 złoty at the time when the average monthly salary ranged from 1 to 2 thousand?
 * ...that Ey Sham was the first entry in the Eurovision Song Contest from a country outside of geographical Europe?
 * mp...that French neoclassical architect Jean Chalgrin died before the completion of his most recognizable work, the Arc de Triomphe (pictured)? (Arc de Triomphe)
 * ...that Muhammad had engaged as a diplomat for a time during his call to Islam?
 * ...that the town of Rawalsar in Himachal Pradesh, India is sacred to three major religions -- Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism?
 * ...that the Old Fashioned, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail, was invented at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1880s?
 * mp...that Barbadian cricketer Sir Clyde Walcott became the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council in 1993?
 * ...that the history of communication was dependent on the acquisition of the FOXP2 gene in humans, which facilitated the development of speech 200,000 years ago?
 * ...that Rembrandt's portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III (pictured) has been stolen four times to date, the most recorded for any painting in the world? (Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III)
 * ...that on Mother's Day, May 14, 2006, the Louisville Slugger Company produced more than 400 pink baseball bats for game use by more than 50 professional baseball players?
 * ...that Hector Monro, Conservative and Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Dumfries for 33 years, was described by a Labour Party opponent as "the last of the decent Tories"?
 * ...that the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved?
 * ...that the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter is the latest of a four decade long series of massacres that has eliminated 97 percent of the Chadian elephant population of 300,000?
 * ...that many people enjoy singing in the shower because the bathroom acts as an echo chamber to enrich the sound of the singer's voice?

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