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 * ...that Mexican scientist José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez (pictured) published work showing that the hallucinogenic effects of the pipiltzintzintli plant are due to natural causes, not the work of the devil?
 * ...that British graphic designer Alan Fletcher designed the logo of 84 dots used by Reuters from 1965 to 1992, the "V&A" logo for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1989, and the "IoD" logo of the Institute of Directors?
 * ...that the sole surviving portion of the work of 4th-century musical writer Alypius is the chief source of modern knowledge of Greek musical notation?
 * ...that, as a schoolboy, former Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King attended what is now Suddaby Public School?
 * ...that "Comme è ddoce 'o mare" was performed in the Neapolitan language, the only time the host country of the Eurovision Song Contest performed in a minority language?
 * ...that Astro Flight, Incorporated of Marina del Rey, California created the world's first practical electric-powered radio controlled model airplane and the world's first full-scale solar-powered airplane?
 * ...that the Deutschhaus building (pictured) in Mainz served as the seat of the first democratic-elected parliament in Germany during the Mainz Republic and is the seat of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag today? (Image:Landtagsgebaeude Rheinland Pfalz.jpg)
 * ...that Harry Brinkley Bass was awarded two U.S. Navy Crosses within a period of two months for combat actions in World War II and was killed in action two years later?
 * ...that the Silver Fish, the highest award in the Girl Guides and scouting movement, can be traced back to November 1909?
 * ...that Mikołaj Trąba, first primate of Poland, took part in the Battle of Grunwald and might have been a papal candidate during the Council of Constance?
 * ...that the rules of Swedish football played in the late 19th century were a mix of association football rules and the rugby football rules because of a misunderstanding?
 * ...that the famous ending to the M*A*S*H episode "Abyssinia, Henry" was kept a secret from the entire cast, with the exception of Alan Alda, until the moment of filming?
 * ...that the large number of Baroque buildings (Castle Mainau pictured) on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route are the result of immigration to depopulated areas of Upper Swabia, Germany and the following building boom at the end of the Thirty Years' War? (Image:Insel Mainau.JPG)
 * ...that the assassins of former Bangladeshi prime minister Mansur Ali were protected by the Indemnity Act and not arrested or tried for more than 20 years?
 * ...that Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham in 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub?
 * ...that Chickies Rock contains the largest exposed anticline on the East Coast of North America?
 * ...that PWS-10 designed in late 1920s was the first Polish fighter to enter serial production?
 * ...that the Indian Opinion was founded by Mahatma Gandhi and served as the main vehicle for the Indian civil rights struggle in early-20th century South Africa?
 * ...that the water crisis is the ongoing worldwide shortfall of drinking water, sanitation and ecological support that finds 1.1 billion people without safe water? (Image:Stilles Mineralwasser.jpg)
 * ...that some astrologers claim Earth has a second moon they call Lilith?
 * ...that the small Toyota Publica was available in a range of two-door body styles, including a pickup truck?
 * ...that Arthur Brooke's narrative poem The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet was the chief source for William Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet?
 * ...that only two prototypes of PWS-33 Wyżeł, a Polish trainer aircraft, were built before the production was interupted by German invasion of Poland?
 * ...that after France expelled the Vaudois Protestant group living in Piedmont in 1686, the latter fought their way back home during the War of the Grand Alliance?
 * ...that the rhinoceros botfly Gyrostigma rhinocerontis is the largest fly known in Africa?
 * ...that the legend of the Gold of Polubotok says that Cossack Pavlo Polubotok (pictured) deposited 200,000 gold coins at the Bank of England in 1723 and that the money owed to Ukraine is supposedly valued at twenty times the world's gold reserve?
 * ...that "Miss Lucy Long" was possibly the most popular American song of the antebellum period?
 * ...that the village of Naluvedapathy in Tamil Nadu, India remained unscathed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami because of a record 80,244 casuarina saplings planted on the coast two years earlier?
 * ...that Suriname's worst air disaster was Surinam Airways Flight 764, which crashed after the pilots ignored repeated warnings that they were flying too low?
 * ...that the Social Democrats under leader Hjalmar Branting won the Swedish general election in 1921, the first fully democratic parliamentary election in Sweden?
 * ...that the Kandariya Mahadeva (pictured) is one of the best examples of Hindu temples preserved from the medieval period in India? (Image:Kandariya mahadeva temple.jpg)
 * ...that Henry of Masovia, 14th-century bishop of Płock, might have been poisoned by his wife, sister of Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas the Great?
 * ...that the African-American dancer Lavinia Williams gave up ballet stardom in the United States to spend decades developing national schools of Caribbean traditional dance in Haiti, Guyana, and the Bahamas?
 * ...that during World War II, more than 10,000 Soviet soldiers and civilians, cut off from the mainland, resisted for 170 days in the Adzhimushkay quarries in Crimea?
 * ...that the first Prime Minister of Italy, Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour was also one of the first landowners in Italy to use chemical fertilizers?
 * ...that between 1938 and 1943, C$13 million worth of gold bricks were shipped out of the small Vancouver Island community Zeballos?
 * ...that the little-known 40th signer of the United States Constitution was the Convention's secretary, William Jackson (pictured)? (Image:Major William Jackson.jpg)
 * ...that the first Wearmouth Bridge in Sunderland was the longest single span cast iron bridge in the world when it opened in 1796?
 * ...that Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories, the world's largest manufacturer of Unani medicines, reinvests all its profits into charitable activities?
 * ...that the "Deluxe" version of Outrage! is the most expensive board game in the world?
 * ...that a series of scandals in the 1970s involving the Royal Canadian Mounted Police resulted in the permanent loss of their right to oversee Canadian intelligence operations?
 * ...that Dream Theater held a song contest to see who could write a song as similar as possible to "Stream of Consciousness," based solely on its arrangement charts posted from the studio prior to its release?

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