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 * ...that Ateas, the best attested king of the Scythians, was killed in a battle with Philip II of Macedon at the age of 90?
 * ...that it is customary in Jewish homes to decorate the wall in the direction of prayer&mdash;mizrah&mdash; with artistic wall plaques (pictured) inscribed with the word mizrah, passages from scripture, kabbalistic writings, or pictures of holy places?
 * ...that an area of 500 hectares in the centre of Bucharest erased in the 1980s at the orders of Nicolae Ceauşescu was called Ceauşima by the Bucharest residents?
 * ...that shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some sharks when they perceive they are in danger?
 * ...that the Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in Japan, because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
 * ...that Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, the grandson of the late President of the Philippines Sergio Osmeña, was a Vice President of SEROS, Inc. and Apex Realty and Developers in California?
 * ...that the Swedish art collector Rolf de Maré (pictured) created the world's first museum and research institute for dance?
 * ...that the his genitive was a briefly-used form for possessive nouns in the 17th century and may have given rise to the use of the apostrophe for genitives in Modern English?
 * ...that electrothermal-chemical technology can now almost double the muzzle energy of a tank gun?
 * ...that when first introduced to England there was confusion over whether the Rouen duck was named after the Rhône region, Cardinal de Rohan, the colour roan, or the town Rouen?
 * ...that Blair Cherry was the first high-school coach in Texas history to lead his team to three consecutive state championships?
 * ...that Carl Westman (pictured) was one of the first Swedish architects to design according to the Nordic National Romantic Style?
 * ...that despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the Indian city of Kolkata, British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave the country India on at least one occasion?
 * ...that Mandø, a Danish island in the Wadden Sea, has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land?
 * ...that the most important source for early Irish history, the Chronicle of Ireland, is not an actual single chronicle but a hypothesized collection of ecclesiastical annals reconstructed from later, derivative works, because no original copies survived?
 * ...that the simultaneous invasion of Georgia by the Soviet and Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in 1921?
 * ...that the concept of thermal death time was originally part of the canning industry but has also found applications in the cosmetics and pharmaceuticals?
 * ...that during World War II, Château de Valençay (pictured) housed the statues Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo?
 * ...that, according to Eastman Kodak, the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues in Bemidji, Minnesota are the second most photographed statues in the United States, behind only Mount Rushmore?
 * ... that Peter, the Lord's cat is the only animal to be given an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack?
 * ...that in the Battle of Seattle (1856), the native attackers' only common language was Chinook Jargon, so the settlers were able to hear and understand the attackers' shouted orders?
 * ...that when the Transylvanian shepherd Badea Cârţan was found sleeping at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome in 1896, he was at first jokingly referred to as a Dacian who had fallen off a sculpted panel on the column and come to life?
 * ...that at 49, Douglas A. Warner III became the youngest-ever CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc.?
 * ...that the influential architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, who had amassed a handsome fortune working on the notoriously unpopular Wall of the Farmers-General (pictured), was arrested and thrown in La Force Prison during the French Revolution?
 * ...that Channa, charioteer of Gautama Buddha, became a bhikkhu upon his master's attainment of buddhahood, and was frequently chastised for his arrogance?
 * ...that Yury Dmitrievich was responsible for the destruction of the Tatar trade emporium at Zhukotin on the Kama River?
 * ...that the cry "For our freedom and yours," one of the unofficial mottos of Poland, has been popularized by Polish soldiers, exiled from the partitioned Poland, who fought in various independence movements all over the world?
 * ...that Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?
 * ...that Princess Marie Adélaïde (pictured), the fourth daughter and sixth child of Louis XV of France and his queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, died in exile in 1800 having outlived all nine of her siblings?
 * ...that Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire sold its principal roof to an American new town that wished to emulate the appearance of a medieval European village?
 * ...that Lyman Run State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of logging operations, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and a World War II prisoner-of-war camp before becoming a Pennsylvania state park in 1951?
 * ...that the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway, once promoted to connect the Pennsylvania-New York oil fields with New York City, instead became part of the New York Central's line to the coal mines around Clearfield, Pennsylvania?
 * ...that the Polish capture of Wilno in 1919 set the stage for the future Polish-Soviet and Polish-Lithuanian Wars?
 * ...that Honoré de Balzac once observed that "the heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue du Faubourg Montmartre"?
 * ...that a fire that broke out a few days before Hiralal Sen (pictured) died destroyed all his films including India's first political film?
 * ...that a hurricane-sized cyclonic storm over 1500 km in diameter was spotted near the Martian north pole in 1999?
 * ...that California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BCE by indigenous Native Americans?
 * ...that "Splice the mainbrace" is an order given aboard naval ships to allow the crew an extra ration of rum?
 * ...that the small herds of marble cows that can be found in several locations around Texas are the work of Dallas sculptor Harold F. Clayton?
 * ...that the exploitation film Mom and Dad, grossed an estimated $40-100 million, and is the third highest grossing film of the 1940s?
 * ...that Stan McCabe, who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
 * ...that if the 2005 Azores subtropical storm (pictured), identified by the National Hurricane Center in post-season reanalysis, had been named then Hurricane Wilma would have been named "Hurricane Alpha"?
 * ...that Tingmissartoq, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius, was so christened by an Eskimo boy in Greenland, and that its name means "one who flies like a big bird"?
 * ...that the Phoenician alphabet was transmitted to ancient Greece in the 8th century BCE through Greek trading colonies such as Al Mina on the Syrian coast?
 * ...that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
 * ...that August Zaleski, president of the Polish government-in-exile, refused to leave his office and for almost 20 years was opposed by the Council of Three?
 * ...that William Franklyn was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973?
 * ...that when the Brother Jonathan (pictured) sank off the coast of California in 1856, it was the worst shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the United States at the time?
 * ...that Forward Pass, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?
 * ...that Samuel A. Goldblith was able to publish a paper for the journal Science after World War II on malnutrition suffered at Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in the Philippines and Japan observed during the war while he was a POW in those camps?

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