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 * ...that 1960 mystery film Scent of Mystery was the first and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision?
 * ...that Rasik Krishna Mallick, a student at Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges?
 * ...that Henry Ford helped stop construction of a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in order to gain admission to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club?
 * ...that Joost van Dyk, a 17th century Dutch privateer and sometimes pirate and slaver, established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands?
 * ...that Sigrid Hjertén (picturedImage:Hjerten.jpg), a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, suffered from schizophrenia and died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy?
 * ...that the Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?
 * ...that the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean yet on a grassy knoll in an open green field?
 * ...that Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouses?
 * ...that in 1943, Prigat, a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the British Army in Israel?
 * ...that the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?
 * ...that modern digital sundials display the current time with numerals rather than marking it with position?
 * ...that the seemingly irrational composition of El Greco's painting Opening of the Fifth Seal (picturedFile:El Greco, The Vision of Saint John (1608-1614).jpg) is a result of its having been trimmed by about two meters in 1880?
 * ...that Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic?
 * ...that the Rhodes blood libel &mdash; the accusation that the Jews of Rhodes ritually murdered a Christian boy in 1840 &mdash; enjoyed active support from the consuls of several European countries?
 * ...that in 1994, a wild Bottlenose dolphin in Brazil named Tião killed one man and seriously injured a second after they had been harassing the animal?
 * ...that temperance leader William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson lost his right eye after he was captured by a mob of medical students and paraded through the streets of London?
 * ...that Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, nearly thirty years after filming the original?
 * ...that the Shell Service Station (picturedImage:Shell Service Station-WS NC.JPG) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was chosen for the National Register of Historic Places as an example of folly architecture, and over $50,000 has been spent restoring it to its original condition?
 * ...that Metop-A is the first polar orbiting satellite launched by Europe, and is the largest satellite launched since ENVISAT in 2002?
 * ...that during the Mexican-American War, a revolt by the Californio and Mexican residents of Los Angeles forced American Marines to surrender Fort Moore?
 * ...that the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois, a Registered Historic Place, is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?
 * ...that the early musical influences of Austrian jazz-fusion guitarist Alex Machacek, who has been praised by legends like John McLaughlin, included heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and KISS?
 * ... that the Valley Forge Pilgrimage, held every year since 1913, is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States?
 * ...that, despite the name, Mrs. Chippy, the ship's cat on Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was actually male?
 * ...that Main Market Square (pictured) in Kraków is the biggest medieval market square in Europe?
 * ... that Matthew Robinson, older brother of Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, was a world-class sprinter and won a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin?
 * ...that the outside of the Great Western Hospital is covered in 7600 m² (9090 sq yd) of cream-coloured precast concrete cladding panels, each weighing around 14 tonnes?
 * ...that Hood Mountain has high canopy mixed oak forests, pygmy forests and expanses of rock outcrop, and also has a vulnerable plant species named for it?
 * ...that Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
 * ...that although Scottish socialist John McGovern was the treasurer of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, he later became an Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament?
 * ...that in 1964, British historian Arnold Hugh Martin Jones wrote what's still considered the definitive history of the late Roman and early Byzantine empires?
 * ...that Charles Edward Magoon (pictured) was appointed as Minister to Panama while already serving as the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to prevent any further disagreements between those two offices?
 * ...that the Black Book, a dissident manuscript, was written by Sudanese in a covert cell, who later helped form the rebel Justice and Equality Movement?
 * ...that Milt Gross, writer of comics that used Yiddish-inflected English, also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novel He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too?
 * ...that RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap Rudolf Hess who was captured while parachuting into Scotland?
 * ...that the Peoria State Hospital grounds are said to be haunted by the ghost of "Old Book" who possessed the form of a graveyard elm tree?
 * ...that the Count d'Orsay's poodle inspired Edwin Landseer to paint Laying Down The Law?
 * ...that Sail Rock (pictured) is a federally protected natural monument, located among village health resorts on the eastern shore of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Krai, Russia?
 * ...that Domenico Pino, an Italian General of Division in Napoleon's Grande Armée, married a ballerina and sold the villa in Como that she inherited from her rich first husband to Caroline of Brunswick?
 * ...that Duxton Hill in Singapore used to be a notorious slum area with brothels, opium and gambling dens, but now belongs to a conservation area known as Tanjong Pagar?
 * ...that Tropical Storm Bertha, the second tropical storm of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season, was one of only 3 tropical cyclones to make landfall on both Louisiana and Texas, with the others being Allison in 2001 and Fern in 1971?
 * ...that jury nullification became a recognised part of Scots law after Carnegie of Finhaven was found not guilty in his 1728 trial of murdering Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne?
 * ...that in the 1970s, Tatar painter Baqi Urmançe painted Islamic calligraphy in the Soviet Union, something which was prohibited?
 * ...that the The Wild Goose‎ (picturedImage:WildGooseDocument1.JPG) was a hand written newspaper read aloud to entertain and encourage the last convicts transported to Australia?
 * ...that the Tent City of Persepolis of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy was inspired by the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold meeting between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England?
 * ...that The Cenotaph is Singapore's first major war memorial built in memory of the people who gave their lives in World War I, and was unveiled by the young Prince Edward of Wales, later King Edward VIII?
 * ...that purple drank is a mix of codeine-containing cough syrup and soda that was popularized by Southern rap songs, and was implicated in the overdose of a popular rap producer?
 * ...that Roald Dahl Plass, a plaza in Cardiff Bay, has been used as the setting for both Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood?
 * ... that the Longfin Bannerfish are a popular marine fish that can clean parasites off other fish?
 * ...that the Battle of Vyazma (picturedImage:Battle vyazma.jpg) had a discombobulating impact on the entire Grande Armée, as the disorder it engendered spread, in chain reaction fashion, to the center of Napoleon’s long retreating column of troops?

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