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 * ...that Mancs (pictured) the Hungarian rescue dog is commemorated by a statue (pictured) in his hometown Miskolc? (Image:Sculpture mancsdog miskolc.jpg)
 * ...that the Periyar National Park, Thekkady is located around the Periyar reservoir formed by the backwaters of the Mullaperiyar dam?
 * ... that the Chinese of Calcutta have established the only Chinatown in India?
 * ...that Charles Dadant emigrated from France to Hamilton, Illinois, where he became a founding father of modern beekeeping?
 * ...that Justice G.T. Nanavati headed a one-man commission to investigate the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots?
 * ...that the Swedish schlager singer Towa Carson competed in Melodifestivalen 2004 at the age of 68?
 * ...that William Makepeace Thackeray may have based the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon on exploits of the notorious soldier and duelist Tiger Roche?
 * ...that the Western Australian whaling industry (whalers pictured) operated for more than 140 years, until the last whaling station closed in 1978? (Image:Cheynes whale.jpg)
 * ...that the Bruce Tunnel is the only tunnel on the Kennet and Avon Canal and the second longest navigable tunnel on Britain's canals?
 * ...that the Tree of Hippocrates is a plane tree in Kos under which, according to legend, Hippocrates taught his pupils medicine?
 * ...that the comic series Bahadur focused on rehabilitation of dacoits at a time when dacoity was prevalent in many parts of rural India?
 * ...that excavations of the Roman castrum at Charax, Crimea revealed drains made of clay pipes and a reservoir with a mosaic portrayal of an octopus?
 * ...that "Giovanni Henrico Albicastro", the Baroque composer of music in a Corellian manner, was actually Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg, a cavalry officer born in Bavaria?
 * ...that Difficult Run is a tributary of the Potomac River in the United States?
 * ...that after three weeks of siege Kaunas Castle (pictured) was taken by the Teutonic Order in 1362? (Image:Kaunas Castle.jpg)
 * ...that the Athenian coup of 411 BC temporarily replaced the democratic government of Athens with a narrow oligarchy?
 * ...that New York, Texas is near Athens while Texas, New York is near Rome?
 * ...that at various times and in various cultures the first dance was the minuet, quadrille, waltz, or polonaise?
 * ...that Florence Mary Taylor was the first female architect in Australia?
 * ...that although the Pandora's Box album Original Sin was a commercial failure, some of the tracks have gone platinum with other artists?
 * ... that Kashmiriyat defines the way of life and identity of the Kashmiri people since medieval times, helping them preserve harmony amidst invasions of Kashmir?
 * ...that Catherine the Great (pictured) and other leaders of the Russian Enlightenment promoted further Europeanization of all aspects of Russian life? (Image:Katarina den stora.jpg)
 * ...that jewellery in the Pacific changed drastically when missionaries began converting many Pacific nations to Christianity?
 * ...that St. Nilus reportedly foretold to princess Aloara of Capua, for her part in the murder of her husband's nephew, that none of her offspring should reign in Capua&mdash;a prophecy that came true in 999?
 * ...that between 1955 and 1998, under Article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Code which entitled the Greek government to strip non-ethnic Greeks who left the country of their citizenship, 46,638 members of the officially recognized Muslim minority of Greece lost their citizenship?
 * ... that George J. Adler, one of the greatest linguists of the 19th century, went insane from the effort of publishing his Dictionary of German and English Languages?
 * ...that the Queen Elizabeth Walk in Singapore was built on reclaimed land in 1922 and that it was renamed in 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom?
 * ...that NASA engineer Harvey Allen's "Blunt Body Theory" made possible the design of heat shields that protected the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts? (Image:H Julian Allen.jpg)
 * ...that young celebrity chef Sam Stern joined fellow chefs including Jamie Oliver and Antony Worrall Thompson at the "BBC Good Food Show" in London when he was just 15?
 * ...that Louis Kaufman, an accomplished American classical violinist, played more than 400 solo performances in movie soundtracks, making him one of the world's most frequently heard violinists?
 * ...that on 2 January 1990, 26-year old Nivedita Bhasin of Indian Airlines became the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft?
 * ...that even though Michigan State football coach Muddy Waters got fired for his losing 10-23 record, his fans still carried him off the field after his final 24-18 loss to Iowa?
 * ...that prominent Soviet Armenian finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saved 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen from a dam into the Erevan reservoir?
 * ...that Jeûne genevois, a public holiday in Geneva, Switzerland, has its origins in the persecution of Protestants that took place in Lyon, France, over 400 years ago? (Image:Flag of Switzerland.svg)
 * ...that the Konevsky Monastery at Lake Ladoga takes its name from a huge boulder which was revered by pagan Finns?
 * ...that the Maya archaeological site of La Corona is the enigmatic and long-sought "Site Q"?
 * ... that the Portuguese film Ala-Arriba! features real-life fishermen from Póvoa de Varzim in starring roles?
 * ...that an attack on the USS Firebolt (PC-10) killed the first member of the United States Coast Guard to die in action since the Vietnam War?
 * ...that Interstate 10 in Texas is the longest continuous untolled freeway under a single authority in North America?
 * ...that in the medieval Greek monastery of Hosios Loukas (pictured) infirm pilgrims were encouraged to sleep by the side of the local saint's tomb in order to be healed by incubation? (Hosios Loukas)
 * ...that Giles Pellerin, known as the Super Fan, attended 797 consecutive USC football games over a period of 73 years?
 * ...that the first album of Taiwanese band 2moro includes a song which consists of excerpts from 23 songs by other singers?
 * ...that Henry Shelton Sanford, the founder of Sanford, Florida, was hired as an envoy to the United States by King Leopold II of Belgium?
 * ...that the Battle of Kelbajar was the first time Armenian military forces crossed and captured a region of Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
 * ...that the Boston Transportation Planning Review was declared by the U.S. Department of Transportation as the prototype urban transportation evaluation?
 * ...that the Caspian Gull (pictured) is regarded by some authorities as a subspecies of the Herring Gull or Yellow-legged Gull, and by others as a separate species? (Caspian Gull)
 * ...that the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 made broad and sweeping changes to women's rights in the United Kingdom, allowing women to enter the professions or serve on juries?
 * ...that stereotypes of animals are common in television and film and usually emphasise particular traits of the species?
 * ...that Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, had a peerage conferred upon him at the 3rd World Scout Jamboree?
 * ...that Scottish National Party politician Douglas Henderson was instrumental in passing the censure motion that led to the downfall of James Callaghan's Labour government in 1979, but narrowly lost his own seat in the ensuing general election?
 * ...that as a consequence of poverty in Pakistan 51% of tenants are bonded to their landlords in a feudal fashion?
 * ...that Great Cockup (pictured) is a fell in the English Lake District that has a stout named after it? (Great Cockup)
 * ...that over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam?
 * ...that Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid, a 9th-century "king of all Ireland", came to power after killing his brother?
 * ...that Justice Rana Bhagwandas was the first Hindu to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan?
 * ...that Tom Campbell was a popular radio personality on KYA San Francisco who used to loan his personal phonograph, record collection and even his personal automobile to his listeners?
 * ... that cricket was introduced to Slovenia in 1974 by a 13-year-old boy who had visited his pen pal in England and brought back a single bat and a copy of the Laws?
 * ...that Elizabeth Gould (pictured) completed much of the preliminary illustration of her husband's seminal work The Birds of Australia, but died during its production and was not credited for most of her contributions? (Image:Elizabeth Gould.jpg)
 * ...that racehorse Lil E. Tee, who was deemed so worthless that even an auction company rejected him as unsaleable, won the 1992 Kentucky Derby?
 * ...that Eketorp is an Iron Age ringfort on the island of Öland, Sweden that was mysteriously abandoned for three centuries and rebuilt as a Medieval castle?
 * ...that the Koichi Nakamura-designed computer puzzle game Door Door was the first game to be published by Enix?
 * ...that the Haryana Tourism Corporation names its tourist complexes after local birds in the Indian state of Haryana?
 * ...that the development of the Chrysler Sunbeam was funded by a British government grant?
 * ...that NicVax causes an immune response that prevents nicotine from reaching the brain?
 * ... that the French Military Mission to Japan (members pictured) of 1867 was the first Western military mission to that country, and that members of the mission participated on the rebel side to the ensuing conflict against the Meiji Restoration? (1867 French Military Mission to Japan)
 * ...that in their 1956 book Union Democracy, social scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and his colleagues describe how the International Typographical Union once defied Michels' iron law of oligarchy?
 * ...that the cast for the Academy Award-nominated movie Little Terrorist had never acted in a movie before and that the crew worked for the movie free of charge, and even travelled to India at their own expense?
 * ...that Garston Lock is the last remaining turf sided lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal and one of only two remaining in Britain?
 * ...that Russian painter Nikolay Karazin produced many works inspired by the Moscow Metro project that was rejected by the government in 1902?
 * ...that the most common food in Medieval cuisine for all social classes was bread and that almond milk and verjuice were among the most common ingredients? (File:Fabrication du verjus BnF Latin 9333 fol. 83.jpg)
 * ...that every proposal made by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 was defeated when placed before the voters?
 * ...that Narayan Debnath made the comic-strip character Batul The Great a superhero when the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 flared up?
 * ...that Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, a junior Foreign Office minister during the Suez Crisis in 1956, was sacked by new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957 for his private opposition to the invasion of Egypt?
 * ...that Italy's 1957 Eurovision entry, "Corde Della Mia Chitarra", was so long that it resulted in the introduction of length restrictions for competing songs?
 * ...that the Swallow's Nest (pictured), constructed in 1911-1912 and located on top of a 40 meter cliff in Crimea, Ukraine, is a medieval-type castle which has survived an earthquake measuring 6-7 on the Richter scale? (Image:Yalta swallowcastle.jpg)
 * ...that a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is a tool largely developed in the USA for analysis of real estate toxic liability, but its use has spread to much of the developed world?
 * ...that Wavefront Technologies developed some of the very first off-the-shelf computer animation software, for which it received Academy Awards?
 * ...that hemosuccus pancreaticus, a rare cause of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, can cause silver-coloured stools if the bleeding source obstructs the common bile duct?
 * ...that the Russian émigré writer Gaito Gazdanov earned a living by working as a tax collector and hosting a show at the Radio Liberty?

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