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- ...that the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, one of the most destructive Nor'easters to ever impact the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, killed 40 people, injured over 1,000 and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage in six U.S. states? (Image:AshWedStormDamageMarch62.jpg)
- ...that the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force is the world's only police department outside of Nepal to be composed of Gurkhas, and it is currently the only military or police unit in Singapore to be headed by a Briton?
- ...that the Canon Episcopi, which was inserted into canon law by Burchard of Worms in the 11th century, demanded that Roman Catholics be skeptical about witchcraft?
- ...that the Grandfather's House mentioned in the song "Over the River and Through the Woods" is a real house on the Mystic River in Medford, Massachusetts?(Image:Grandfather's House, Medford, Massachusetts.JPG)
- ...that Hershey Chocolate Company was the primary producer of US Army military chocolate rations during World War II?
- ...that the shipwreck of the HMS Orpheus was the biggest maritime disaster in New Zealand history?
- ...that Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on March 7, 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh's Liberation War?
- ...that the 1980s CBS sitcom Frank's Place was set in New Orleans, Louisiana?
- ...that Jimmy Matthews is the only Test cricketer to have bowled two hat tricks in one match, a feat achieved during the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England? (Image:Jimmy Matthews.jpg)
- ...that Green Mountain on Ascension Island is one of the world's very few large-scale artificial forests?
- ...that during the 1970s the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts were broadcast live on CBS during primetime and was syndicated in over 40 countries?
- ...that in a landmark case, Dutch-born Jetta Goudal, one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract?
- ...that there have been many attempts to deliver mail by rocket, but none have met with much success? (Image:Regulus missile.png)
- ...that Ruth Riley, an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association, also wrote a children's book?
- ...that Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu, India was called the "Troy of the East" by the British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?
- ...that David Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer, who believed that the future of Yiddish literature lay in the Soviet Union and that he moved there from Berlin when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, but was ultimately executed during Josef Stalin's anti-semitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans"?
- ...that recently-retired indigenous Australian rules footballer Darryl White was once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero? (Image:Darryl white.jpg)
- ...that in the Ukrainian Canadian internment of 1914 to 1920, about five thousand Ukrainian immigrants from Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada?
- ...that Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for boxing?
- ...that "Flood," the sixth episode of The Young Ones, was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a lion tamer?
- ...that the Black Seminoles are descendants of free African Americans and fugitive slaves traditionally allied with Seminole Indians in Florida and Oklahoma?
- ...that land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia?
- ...that the U.S. maintains border preclearance facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports, whereby travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat?
- ...that, before Wayne Rooney made his debut in February 2003, England's youngest ever football player was James F. M. Prinsep, who had held the record for more than 123 years?
- ...that the soybean cyst nematode is a significant pest affecting soybean production on three continents? (Image:Soybean cyst nematode and egg SEM.jpg)
- ...that Massimo Morsello was the most prominent far right Italian songwriter?
- ...that Eddie Gilbert was an Australian Aboriginal cricketer who bowled Don Bradman out for a duck during a match in 1933 and was later described by Bradman as the fastest bowler he'd ever faced?
- ...that the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban Tucson, Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world?
- ... that the anabolic steroid Oxandrolone was granted orphan drug status in treatment of alcoholic hepatitis, Turner's syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome? (Image:Oxandrolone.gif)
- ...that teams in the International Basketball League scored nearly 130 points per game in its first season?
- ...that a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922, after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom?
- ...that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India's highest sporting honour?
- ...that the Bassein Fort was at the centre of Portuguese operations in India during the 16th century? (Image:Vasai-fort-ruins.jpg)
- ...that Mount Pantokrator is the highest mountain on the island of Corfu at 914 metres tall?
- ...that the Beehive House was constructed as a home for Brigham Young, a polygamist, and his wives?
- ...that Manitoba politician Colin H. Campbell is said to have won his seat in the 1907 election by a margin of one vote?
- ...that the California Pacific Conference has school members that range from members of the California State University system to religious and liberal arts colleges?
- ...that Simeon Solomon was a British painter who regularly had works displayed at the Royal Academy in the 1860s? (Image:Simeon Solomon - Shadrach Meshach Abednego.JPG)
- ...that the jihad of Modibo Adama led to the spread of Islam
- ...that the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Labrador was the first ship to circumnavigate North America?
- ...that the last African American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby was James Winkfield in 1902?
- ...that on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
- ...that the Minchiate was a deck of playing cards similar to the tarot, but with forty trumps? (Image:Minchiate08.jpg)
- ...that bulk vending machine operators often spray Mike and Ikes and Hot Tamales with cooking spray to keep them from sticking together?
- ...that Yrausquin Airport in the Caribbean island of Saba has commercial air service despite prohibition for airline airplanes to land there?
- ...that Minnesota congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion at campaign events?
- ...that a Starets is a spiritual leader unique to the Russian Orthodox Church?
- ...that the only active volcano in South Asia is on Barren Island, one of India's Andaman Islands? (Image:Barren Island.jpg)
- ...that the Muslim state of Ifat was completely annexed by Ethiopia in 1415?
- ...that the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films, as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical, Where's Charley?
- ...that the Mongols, led by Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu Khan, executed Al-Musta'sim, the Abbasid caliph of the Islamic state, following the 1258 Battle of Baghdad?
- ...that Cherubina de Gabriak, subject of the famous duel between the two first-rank Russian poets Maximilian Voloshin and Nikolai Gumilyov, did not even exist? (Image:Gabriak.jpg)
- ...that Charles Brooks, Jr., was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States?
- ...that Roger Penzabene, co-author of the 1968 Temptations hit "I Wish It Would Rain", used a real-life breakup as inspiration for the song and then committed suicide when the song was released?
- ...that the Presidio of Santa Barbara, built by the Spanish in 1782, is the second-oldest building in the U.S. state of California?
- ...that Liugong Island is considered the "birthplace of China's first navy" and is also the site of its defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War? (Image:Liugongisland warmemorialhall.jpg)
- ...that Closer Economic Relations is a free trade agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia?
- ...that in Elizabethan England anyone opening a message in a bottle without the approval of the Queen could face the death penalty?
- ...that Antarctosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs ever to live in South America?
- ...that the Hungry i nightclub was instrumental in launching the careers of Lenny Bruce, Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen?
- ...that the American toad is a common species of toad found throughout the eastern United States and Canada? (Image:Bufo americanus1.jpg)
- ...that in 2001 Watercolour Challenge won a Royal Television Society award in the category of Best Features - Daytime television?
- ...that Phil Spector considered the song "River Deep - Mountain High", his 1966 production for Ike & Tina Turner, his best work, despite its commercial failure in the United States?
- ...that the War of Canudos was an armed conflict in the 1890s in the Northeastern village of Canudos, Brazil, that was started by a Christian mystic and messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and a band of fanatic followers and resulted in the death of more than 15,000 people?
- ...that Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences is a 1792 work of American art that depicts the Goddess of Liberty and is the first known painting to celebrate the emancipation of slaves in the United States? (Image:Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences.jpg)
- ...that although Archibald Leitch was the foremost football stadium architect in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century, only two of his works have been listed for preservation?
- ...that men who practice snake charming often also use their skills as a form of pest control?
- ... that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003?
- ...that the border between Nilo-Saharan and Bantu languages among the languages of Uganda roughly coincides with the Victoria Nile? (Image:Languages of Uganda.png)
- ...that the defeat of Vijayanagara Empire at the Battle of Talikota in 1565 ended one of the last great Hindu kingdoms in South India?
- ...that the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, founded in 1968, is one of the three inaugural satellite launch sites of the People's Republic of China?
- ...that Charles Atangana was the first Ewondo to be baptised Catholic in German Cameroon?
- ...that the largest organism in the world is a honey fungus which covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old?
- ...that a sea fan is a form of sessile colonial cnidarian, similar to a sea pen or a soft coral, found in tropical and subtropical seawater? (Image:Iciligorgia schrammi.jpg)
- ...that the Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg is the oldest Olympic speed skating champion, winning gold at the 1928 St Moritz games at the age of 35?
- ...that umchwasho is a traditional chastity rite in Swaziland that restricts the sexual relations of unmarried women?
- ...that detonating nuclear weapons is specifically forbidden in Britain under the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998?
- ...that the 1888/9 South African cricket season marks the beginning of first-class cricket in South Africa?
- ...that the Devil's Beef Tub was used to hide cattle stolen by the Border Reivers?(Image:Wfm kr beeftub.jpg)
- ...that Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was independent India's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki games?
- ...that Sergio Blass was the only singer to be a member of both Los Chicos and Menudo, Puerto Rican rival boy bands during the early 1980s?
- ...that the Battle of Asal Uttar fought between India and Pakistan was the largest tank battle in the history of the Indian subcontinent?
- ... that Lake Enriquillo is the only saltwater lake in the world inhabited by crocodiles?
- ...that about half of Ireland's citizens live outside of the Republic of Ireland? (Image:Ireland flag large.png)
- ...that the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan is the tallest dam in the world, and in 1994 generated enough hydroelectric power to supply three-quarters of that country's generation capacity?
- ...that Stalking Cat is a San Diego man who has spent more than 150,000 US dollars on tattoos and cosmetic surgery working towards his goal of resembling a live tiger?
- ... that the Narita Shinkansen from Tokyo to Narita Airport, which took nine years to build 9 km of track bed, is the only bullet train line ever officially cancelled?
- ...that Canadian media cannot legally reprint their own stories mentioning the name of convicted school shooter Todd Cameron Smith?
- ... that urushiol-induced contact dermatitis accounts for 10% of all lost-time injuries in the United States Forest Service? (Image:Poisonoak.jpg)
- ...that day beacons and other navigational aids vary in standard designation worldwide much like driving on the right or left?
- ...that three of the stars named after people, often thought to have traditional Arabic names, were in fact named for members of the Apollo 1 crew?
- ... that Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa has rare ice age snails that survive living on rock formations cooled from underground ice?
- ...that the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer?
- ... that the Khardungla Pass is the highest motorable road in the world? (Image:KhardungLa.jpg)
- ...that Brendon Kuruppu was the first Sri Lankan cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century) in a Test innings?
- ...that Foundation 9 Entertainment is the largest independent [[video *...that the Indian Shaker Church is a Christian denomination founded by an American Indian in 1881 which incorporates Catholic, Protestant, and indigenous beliefs, but traditionally rejects the Bible and other written scriptures?
- ...that the Islamic Spaniard Judar Pasha led 4,000 Moroccans to victory against more than 40,000 Songhai troops at the Battle of Tondibi, putting an end to West Africa's Songhai Empire?
- ... that the Cotswold Games were organized by Robert Dover as a protest against Puritanism in the early 17th century? (Image:CotswoldGames01.jpg)
- ...that Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson's poem "At Lord's"?
- ...that Henri Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, averted a war between the French Third Republic and the German Empire in 1875?
- ...that the African Grove theater was founded by free blacks in New York City in 1821—when New York was still a slave state—and that it launched the career of the great black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge?
- ...that several countries, including Sweden and Germany have started a nuclear power phase-out, with the goal of gradually shutting down all nuclear power plants? (Image:Nuclear plant at Grafenrheinfeld.jpg)
- ...that sociocracy is a form of government relying on principles of consensus?
- ...that the Philadelphia Metro is a free daily newspaper that was first published in 2000?
- ...that the Ever Victorious Army, consisting of Chinese imperial forces led by a European officer corps, was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion?
- ...that adjustable pedals as well as an adjustable driver's seat were luxury features of the Renault Spider?
- ...that the leg break bowled by Shane Warne to Mike Gatting that turned around the 1993 Ashes cricket series is widely known as the Ball of the Century? (Image:Cricket ball G&M.jpg)
- ...that the most popular deity worshipped by the Duala peoples of Cameroon is a mermaid called a jengu?
- ...that though only 14% of all U.S. nuclear testing was conducted at the Pacific Proving Grounds, they comprised nearly 80% of the total explosive yields of all U.S. tests?
- ...that the Mauritania Railway transports iron ore on trains up to three kilometers long?
- ...that the Swan Bells is an 82.5m belltower in Perth, Western Australia containing the largest set of change ringing bells in the world, several of which are 280 years old? (Image:SwanBells5.jpg)
- ...that Liberia is the only nation in the history of West Africa never to have been colonised?
- ...that the Spined Loach is able to breathe through its intestine during times of oxygen scarcity, and can inflict an excruciating sting with the two-pointed spike under its eyes?
- ...that DC Comics sued Fawcett Comics in 1941 over Fawcett's Captain Marvel being a Superman rip-off, and the resulting National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications lawsuit took thirteen years to settle?
- ...that Andrew Ellicott taught Meriwether Lewis the art of surveying? (Image:Andrew Ellicott.jpg)
- ...that Juan Esteban Pedernera was interim President of Argentina in 1861, following the death of Santiago Derqui?
- ...that Plumpy'nut is a peanut-based food supplement that is being used to combat malnutrition in Niger?
- ...that the Baltusrol Golf Club, the golf course that is the site of this week's PGA Championship, is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for its managing of its lands with concern to the environment?
- ...that John Brown's Fort in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was built there in 1848, moved to Chicago in 1891, and then returned to its original site in 1968?
- ...that Silvio O. Conte was a U.S. Congressman who once donned a pig mask in order to protest pork barrel spending?
- ...that the Kittlitz's Murrelet nests in isolated locations on inland mountaintops, unlike most other seabirds, which nest in seashore colonies?
- ...that Peter de Noronha was the first Indian to become an envoy of the Legion of Mary and was later knighted by Pope Paul VI?
- ...that the Capitoline Museums are housed in a complex of palazzi surrounding a piazza in Rome, designed by Michelangelo in 1536 but not fully completed until Mussolini ordered it in 1940? (Image:CampidoglioEng.jpg)
- ...that 1999's Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom was the first commercial Scooby-Doo computer game for the Windows platform?
- ...that Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is estimated to have lost tens of millions of U.S. dollars gambling in casinos?
- ...that the Saskatchewan town of Macklin erected a 32-foot-high statue of a horse's anklebone to commemorate the sport of Bunnock?
- ...that Margaret Roper, daughter of Thomas More, purchased his head after his execution and preserved it in spices until her own death? (Image:Margaret-Roper.jpg)
- ...that Iowa's Black Hawk Purchase is named for the Sac chief Black Hawk, despite that fact that he was in prison when the land-transfer treaty was signed?
- ...that oakmoss is a type of lichen used extensively in modern perfumery?
- ...that the recent massive flooding in Mumbai could have been avoided if the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had upgraded the city's drainage system by building the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal System?
- ...that the United States Army managed Yellowstone National Park for 32 years from Fort Yellowstone? (Image:Fortyellowstone.jpg)
- ...that the Liga Indonesia is the top football league in Indonesia ?
- ...that Vote-OK, a pro-fox hunting group, claimed to have helped defeat 29 Members of Parliament at the 2005 British general election?
- ...that the Thunderdome, the home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the University of California, Santa Barbara, is famous for a tortilla-throwing incident in a men's basketball game televised on ESPN?
- ...that attempts have been made to produce rubber from Common Milkweed latex? (Image:Asclepias syriaca.jpg)
- ...that the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 was seen as formally demonstrating Australia's independence to the world?
- ...that Mantle Hood was an ethnomusicologist known for the idea that students should learn to play the music from the cultures they study?
- ...that chuño is a freeze-dried potato product made since before the time of the Inca empire by a five-day process of alternately freezing, sun-drying, and trampling under foot?
- ...that Saint Anthony's nut, popular with pigs as well as humans, is named for Anthony of Padua, patron saint of swineherds? (Image:Illustration Conopodium majus British Flora.jpg)
- ...that in response to the 1852 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, writers in the Southern United States produced a body of anti-Tom literature which attempted to show that slavery was not evil?
- ...that at the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532 the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Pizarro's conquistadors and that the battle was a decisive victory in the Spanish conquest of Peru?
- ...that famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine?
- ...that the height of clouds is measured using a ceiling balloon? (Image:Ceiling balloon.JPG)
- ...that Maurine Brown Neuberger was the third woman elected to the U.S. Senate and that as a U.S. Senator she sponsored one of the first bills to require warning labels on cigarette packaging?
- ... that the 1985 comedy film Head Office has established stars such as Danny DeVito starring in roles that are little more than bit parts?
- ...that Republican California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore wrote a book that was banned in the People's Republic of China?
- ...that the Revolt of the Comuneros, an uprising against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is considered by some to be the first modern revolution? (Image:Comuneros.jpg)
- ...that comic-book writer Stan Lee, novelist/historian Winston Groom, and district attorney Jim Garrison have all been victims of Hollywood accounting?
- ...that the "Victory Tests" were a series of cricket matches between a team of Australian servicemen and an English national side played just two weeks after World War II ended?
- ...that Ronald E. Neumann the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan is the first ambassador since John Q. Adams in 1817 to be appointed to the same country where his father was also ambassador?
- ...that American Wimbledon champion, Alice Marble was shot in the back while working as a spy in Switzerland during World War II?
- ...that Nashville radio station WWTN launched the career of the nationally-syndicated financial advisor Dave Ramsey?
- ...that Hertfordshire puddingstone is a comglomerate rock named after its resemblance to Christmas pudding?
- ...that Wayne McLaren, an American model who portrayed the Marlboro Man in the famous cigarette advertising campaign, died of lung cancer?
- ...that Republican California State Assemblyman Van Tran is the first Vietnamese-American to serve in a state legislature in U.S. history? (Image:VanTran.jpg)
- ...that Johnson composed music for some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, including Perumthachan and movies directed by Padmarajan?
- ...that the American's Creed was written in 1917 as an entry into a patriotic contest, and was adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives the next year?
- ...that the Australian Giant burrowing frog does not croak, but rather hoots like an owl?
- ...that the opera King Arthur is unusual because the principal characters do not sing, rather they recite dialogue accompanied by music? (Image:Henry Purcell.jpg)
- ...that alcohol advertising is heavily restricted in some countries to avoid associating the drinking of alcoholic beverages with sexual success and physical attractiveness?
- ...that during the 1937 Louisville, Kentucky flood the town's Brown Hotel was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby?
- ...that Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit?
- ...that all of the publishing royalties the Bee Gees' song "Too Much Heaven" earned went to UNICEF? (Image:Toomuchheaven.jpg)
- ...that the Houston Ballet has one of the largest endowments of any dance company in the U.S.?
- ...that the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas?
- ...that the German prisoners of war built part of the Stade de Gerland stadium in Lyon, France, after the First World War?
- ...that the Optimus keyboard is a prototype keyboard that uses OLED technology to make each of its keys act as a small display?
- ...that John Dryden created the genre of heroic drama as a way of reconciling plays with epic poetry? (Image:J-Dryden.jpg)
- ...that Augustiner Bräu is Munich's only German-owned brewery?
- ...that Alexander Selkirk was travelling on the British galleon Cinque Ports when he was abandoned on the uninhabited Pacific island of Juan Fernández in 1704 and that his tale inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe?
- ...that Suudu is a culture-specific syndrome of painful urination and pelvic "heat" familiar in south India, especially in the Tamil culture?
- ...that despite apparently predicting that future naval warfare would rely on boarding actions, Kipling's satirical poem The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", was taken seriously when published in 1892?
- ...that the Ampelmännchen (German: little men on the traffic signal) of East Germany had a confident stride, thought to evoke enthusiasm in moving toward an ideal socialist future? (Image:Ampelmaenner.jpg)
- ...that there are at least 60 different human and alien technologies in the fictional Stargate universe?
- ...that Marn Grook is the name of ball game played by Australian Aborginals which is thought to be the basis for the modern game of Australian Rules Football?
- ...that superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse and can lead to twins with different fathers?
- ...that Toktogul Satilganov was the most famous of the Kyrgyz Akyn storytellers?
- ...that California State Senator Abel Maldonado ran for election to the Santa Maria City Council in 1994 after being involved in a building dispute? Image:AbelMaldonado.jpg)
- ...that the Dakar-Niger Railway was the site of a 1947 strike celebrated by author Ousmane Sembène as a turning point in West Africa's anti-colonial struggle?
- ... that the Mokola virus is a relative of the rabies virus and was first isolated in tree shrews?
- ...that there have only been two tied Tests in the 128 years of Test cricket, both involving the Australian cricket team?
- ...that misdirected letters are a common plot twist in the 19th century genre of theatre called the Well-Made Play?
- ... that the Tatara Bridge in Japan has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge in the world? (Image:TataraOhashi.jpg)
- ...that California's current State Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman ran for State Attorney General in 2002?
- ..that the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College is a rabbinical seminary established by Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist Judaism movement?
- ...that the BBC1 sitcom Grace & Favour was the sequel series to the long-running programme Are You Being Served?
- ...that 1980's Rescue at Rigel by Epyx was one of the first science fiction computer role-playing games?
- ...that the Carte Orange is a pass for the public transportation system in Paris and the surrounding region? (Image:Carte Orange front 1.jpg)
- ...that Department S was an ITC Entertainment production which not only led to a successful spin-off, Jason King, but was also a large source of inspiration for Austin Powers?
- ...that patients with acrocyanosis have dark or bluish hands and feet but are otherwise normal?
- ...that Andy Ducat suffered a heart attack and died whilst playing in a wartime cricket match and is the only person to have died during a cricket match on the Lord's Cricket Ground?
- ...that Frank Ryan earned a Ph.D. in mathematics while playing quarterback for the Cleveland Browns?
- ...that Department S was an ITC Entertainment production which not only led to a successful spin-off, Jason King, but was also a large source of inspiration for Austin Powers? (Image:DepartmentS.jpg)
- ...that patients with acrocyanosis have dark or bluish hands and feet but are otherwise normal?
- ...that Andy Ducat suffered a heart attack and died whilst playing in a wartime cricket match and is the only person to have died during a cricket match on the Lord's Cricket Ground?
- ...that Country-comedian and Hee Haw star Archie Campbell's childhood home has been preserved as a "tourism complex and museum" in Bulls Gap, Tennessee
- ...that children's book The Gruffalo was made into a play; it played the National Theater and NYC's Broadway?
- ...that the powerful ancient Egyptian courtier Yuya is thought by some scholars to have been the historical Joseph of Genesis?
- ...that Internet entrepreneur Pete Ashdown is running against incumbent Orrin Hatch for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Utah?
- ...that the Russian musical group Terem Quartet performs classical works on folk instruments in a humorous, virtuosic style?
- ...that the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s?
- ...that Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910-1912?
- ...that Bitòn Coulibaly transformed a Ségou youth organisation into an army that he used to found the eighteenth-century Bambara Empire?
- ...that Johnny Rodgers was voted the University of Nebraska's college football "Player of the Century" and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?
- ...that the soleus muscle is a leg muscle important for standing, walking, and running?
- ...that the Peul preacher and social reformer Seku Amadu led a jihad against the Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century West Africa to found his own theocratic Massina Empire?
- ... that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN?
- ...that adjustable gastric banding is a form of weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the digestive system?
- ... that Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to be on one of the trains bombed during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel's restaurant to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
- ...that the poems of Richard Dehmel were set to music by composers like Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Arnold Schönberg and Kurt Weill, or inspired them to write music?
- ...that Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with shipping, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
- ... that NASA, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the "virtual globe"?
- ...that the Super Buddies, a team of DC Comics superheroes, were a comedic Justice League offshoot who first appeared in the Eisner Award-winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League?
- ... that Yogi Rock is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head? (Image:Yogi Rock2.jpg)
- ... that California Certified Organic Farmers was one of the first US based organizations to certify organic farmers?
- ... that the St'at'imcets language, and endangered language of British Columbia, is like Semitic languages in that it has also has pharyngeal consonants?
- ... the the Perioikoi were free inhabitants but not citizens under Spartan rule?
- ...that businessman Ginery Twichell started in stage lines before transitioning to railroads and three terms in the U.S. Congress? (Image:The Unrivaled Express Rider, Ginery Twichell.jpg)
- ... that the Wallkill River is one of the few rivers that drains into a creek, because it is impounded just before the confluence?
- ... that Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time?
- .... that the Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?
- ...that the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna is the longest single residential building in the world and spans four tram stations? (Image:Wien_KarlMarxHof.jpg)
- ...that khash is a traditional Armenian dish from the Shirak region which has cow's feet as its main ingredient?
- ...that the first known classical fiction in Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in Chinese characters?
- ...that the Swedish Bikini Team, an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women?
- ...that First Monday was a U.S. television program about a moderate U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed to a court evenly divided between conservatives and liberals? (Image:Seal of the United States Supreme Court.gif)
- ...that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?
- ...that legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?
- ...that the Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the International Cricket Council until 1993, despite having played first-class cricket matches since 1902, including games against Scotland, Australia and New Zealand? (Image:ICC-cricket-member-nations.png)
- ...that King Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and Sharif of Mecca in 1924, only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the House of Saud?
- ...that "Jive Talkin'" is considered to be the "comeback" song for the Bee Gees, after an absence of three years from the Top 40 charts?
- ...that Argentinian painter Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol (right), was adopted at the age of 6 from an orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on March 21, 1890? (Image:BQM Dia de Sol (1958).jpg - Dia de Sol by Quinquela Martín)
- ...that the Gwenn ha du organisation made a bomb out of a condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in Rennes?
- ...that the composer Johannes Brahms premiered his Academic Festival Overture, a musical fantasy based on several student drinking songs, at the University of Breslau's convocation to thank the institution for granting him an honorary doctorate?
- ...that foxtail millet has the longest history of cultivation among the millets, having been grown in China since between three and four thousand years ago? (Image:Setaria italica0.jpg)
- ...that Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss, Georgetown University economics professor, coined the term "petrodollars" to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973?
- ...that Chingay Parade in Singapore, a display of floats, music and dances, is a major festival in Asia attended by more than 200,000 people and watched by millions on TV across Asia?
- ...that tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of marketing, along with alcohol, and is banned in many countries?
- ...that research on U.S. compulsory sterilization legislation by American eugenicist E.S. Gosney was cited by officials in Nazi Germany as the basis of their own forced sterilization policy? (Image:Ezra Seymour Gosney.jpg)
- ...that like many desert rodents, kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get water from their food?
- ...that Ronald Bass, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Rain Man, taught himself to read by the age of three?
- ...that Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
- ...that the Tarot of Marseilles is the source of most contemporary designs of tarot cards? (Image:2-II-Papesse.jpg)
- ...that Malian fashion designer Chris Seydou pioneered the use of bògòlanfini, a traditional Bamana mudcloth, in international fashion?
- ...that Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I?
- ...that Charles Darwin's illness, which afflicted him for 40 years, could have been Chagas disease, an exotic South American parasitic infection transmitted by the bite of the assassin bug, a hematophagous insect, while he was exploring the Andes during the famed voyage of the Beagle? (Image:Charles_Darwin.jpg)
- ...that Huchoun was one of the earliest Scottish poets and wrote a number of important alliterative verse romances in the early 14th century?
- ...that the Indian Railways Fan Club is the Internet's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent?
- ...that William Dudley Chipley first brought rail lines to Pensacola, Florida, connecting the Atlantic coast of Florida with other Gulf Coast states for the first time? (Image:Chipleyobeliskbase.jpg)
- ...that Barbara Cassani founded the budget airline Go Fly before becoming the initial leader of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
- ...that the genetically modified plum C5 is the only Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease plum pox?
- ...that Ferrellgas, the largest propane retail distributor in the United States, started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas?
- ...that many of the scenes Louisa May Alcott depicts in her book Little Women took place when her family was living in The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts? (Image:The Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts.JPG)
- ...that Watson's Hotel is India's oldest cast iron building and is among the "100 Most Endangered Sites"?
- ...that the French battleship France sank after hitting an uncharted rock during a patrol of Quiberon Bay on August 26, 1922?
- ...that measuring the levels of certain enzymes called transaminases can help to diagnose some liver diseases?
- ... that according to Scientology doctrine, the inhabitants of the alien Marcab Confederacy liked to race high-speed automobiles on tracks booby-trapped with atom bombs? (Image:Fangio moss monza.jpg)
- ...that the Olympic Javelin is a high-speed rail service announced as part of the public transport regeneration of London in readiness for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
- ...that the Indian Meteorological Department was set up as a result of a tropical cyclone that hit Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to failing monsoons?
- ...that Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeated Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina in 1240, securing the future of the Mali Empire?
- ...that the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight contains the world's oldest airworthy survivor of the Battle of Britain, alongside ten other historic aircraft - two of which fought over Normandy on D-Day? (Image:Spitfire.planform.arp.jpg)
- ...that shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics through their wastewater?
- ...that the Plan of Saint Gall is the only surviving architectual drawing from the 700-year period between the fall of Rome and the 13th century, and is a national treasure of Switzerland?
- ...that Cyrus K. Holliday was a founder of the city of Topeka, Kansas, as well as the first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad?
- ...that the main work of the Swedish painter Ernst Josephson, Strömkarlen ((the Nix), was refused by the Swedish Nationalmuseum in 1884, and later bought by Prince Eugén, the youngest son of king Oscar II? (Image:Josephson.jpg)
- ...that soap opera actor Cameron Mathison suffered from Perthes disease as a child, requiring him to wear leg braces for nearly four years?
- ...that Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne was the only British artillerist to command an army in World War I?
- ...that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency supported the Chushi Gangdruk guerilla fighters in their attempts to overthrow the Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s?
- ...that Carolingian art permitted the drawing of human figures during the Iconoclasm controversy of the 9th century? (Image:Ebbo.Gospels.St.Mark.jpg)
- ...that five teams in cricket's 2005 ICC Trophy will be granted official one-day international status for the next four years?
- ...that in the 1850s, El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea, Senegal, and Mali?
- ...that PC Stephen Tibble had been in the Metropolitan Police Force of Greater London for six months before he was killed by an IRA gunman?
- ...that the only effective way to manage the bacterial plant disease citrus canker is to destroy all infected citrus trees? (Image:Citrus canker on fruit.jpg)
- ...that panel painting was the primary painting medium used in the West, from about the 13th to the 16th century, before canvas and oil paint became the norm?
- ...that George Gershwin selected tap dance innovator John W. Bubbles to play a major role in his opera Porgy and Bess, even though he did not even read music?
- ...that after actor Philip Loeb committed suicide, an article in the New York Times noting his passing commented that "He died of a sickness commonly called 'the blacklist'."?
- ...that the Siglas Poveiras are a proto-writing system inherited from the Vikings and have been used for more than a thousand years by the fishermen of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal? (Image:Siglaspoveirasbase.png)
- ...that Massachusetts Avenue, home of Washington D.C.'s Embassy Row, is both the longest and widest avenue in the city?
- ...that the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (1989) is the largest English language encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, covering over 100,000 topics?
- ...that J. Willard Marriott grew a small root beer stand to a huge hotel and resort chain, Marriott International?
- ...that Malian playwright and novelist Massa Makan Diabaté was the descendant of a long line of Malinké griots?
- ...that Sabine Ehrenfeld, the Overstock.com spokesmodel, is fluent in German, French, English, and Italian and that she is an experienced pilot and equestrian? (Image:Sabine_ehrenfeld.jpg)
- ... that two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both called Historical Atlas of China?
- ...that in 1990, Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen?
- ...that the largest solar plant of the Alps was built on Loser mountain in Austria at 1,838 meters above sea level? (Image:Loser (Berg).jpg)
- ...That the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center located in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is the oldest astronomical observatory in the Caribbean?
- ...that the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee is the largest non-casino hotel in the world?
- ...that the late Shana Alexander was the first female columnist for Life magazine?
- ...that the Right Hegelians took the philosophy of Hegel in a politically and religiously conservative direction? (Image:Hegel.jpg)
- ...that the Waterloo Vase is a massive marble urn, 15 feet (4.6 metres) high and weighing 15 tons (13.6 metric tons), which was commissioned by French leader Napoleon but ultimately became an ornament in the British monarch's Buckingham Palace Gardens?
- ...that, in addition to hearing the landmark Napster and Bernstein cases, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel vacated the World War II-era conviction of Japanese American Fred Korematsu?
- ...that French Army soldiers killed between 15,000 and 45,000 Algerian civilians in the Setif massacre of May 8, 1945, the same day as V-E day in Europe?
- ...that the 1984 Murray Head hit "One Night In Bangkok", from the musical Chess, gained new-found popularity in 2005 due to a remix by the dance act Vinylshakerz?
- ...that the Canadian postage stamp of Acadian Deportation 1755-2005 encorporates a stamp of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, from 1930?
- ...that mastoiditis is an infection that can result from untreated middle ear infections? (Image:Ear-anatomy-text-small.png)
- ...that the Turin Papyrus, prepared about 1160 BC for Ramesses IV's quarrying expedition to Wadi Hammamat near the Red Sea, is the earliest known geologic map?
- ...that actor and amateur racing-car driver Skipp Sudduth performed almost all the high-speed driving done by his character in the movie Ronin?
- ...that The Heart of Midlothian, the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverly novels, was the first in the series to have a female protagonist? (Image:Walter_scott.JPG)
- ...that in 1911, Charles Rosher, working for David Horsley's production company, became Hollywood's first full-time cameraman?
- ...that Nickajack was the name of a proposed neutral state made up of Unionist areas of North Alabama and East Tennessee in the period leading up to the U. S. Civil War?
- ... that in the United States, a federal court can be classified as either an Article I or Article III tribunal?
- ...that Japan and Poland are the world's largest krill fishing nations since Russia abandoned its operations in 1993? (Image:Krill swarm.jpg)
- ...that jockey Kent Desormeaux and his horse Real Quiet missed thoroughbred horse racing immortality by a few inches?
- ...that Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981?
- ...that Love Israel, a cult in northern Washington, filed for bankruptcy and then sold their commune to the Union for Reform Judaism to become their 13th summer camp?
- ...that I Love to Singa, an Al Jolson song written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, is also the title of a popular 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon?
- ...that Franco-Japanese relations were initiated by the 1615 visit of the Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga to the Southern France city of Saint Tropez? (Image:Faxicura.jpg)
- ...that, after being defrocked as a Church of England priest, Harold Davidson became a seaside entertainer and was killed in 1937 by a lion when he trod on its tail?
- ...that distinguished recipients of the Grawemeyer Award for music composition have included Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and John Adams?
- ...that the General Council of the Valleys, the parliament of Andorra, has only 28 members? (Image:Andorra_flag_large.png)
- ...that Jesuit priest John Nobili founded Santa Clara University in 1851?
- ...that both the Silver Jubilee and Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II fell on the official Queen's Birthday holiday?
- ...that Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association?
- ...that Packet Storm is a non-profit organization composed of computer security professionals whose goal is to provide the information necessary to secure computer networks?
- ...that a postage stamp the United States Department of the Treasury issued in 1962 that commemorated the centennial of the Homestead Act featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand? (Image:Homestead Act Stamp.jpg
- ...that prosector's wart is a skin lesion caused by contamination with tuberculosis of a diseased cadaver during its preparation for autopsy by a prosector, a preparator of dissections?
- ...that Roza Robota was hanged for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt?
- ...that American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?
- ...that the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf?
- ...that the Australian Blue Ant is not an ant at all, but a large solitary wasp? (Image:100 6644.jpg)
- ...that American patriot John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, in imitation of Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy? (Image:Milledge.jpg)
- ...that the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf? (Image:Oyoda alongside Zuikaku.jpg)
- ...that Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the 9th Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004?
- ...that Swiss cyclist Hugo Koblet, a Tour de France winner and the first non-Italian to win the Giro d'Italia, died at age thirty-nine under mysterious circumstances? (Image:HugoKoblet.jpg)
- ...that HMS Adventure was the first ship to circumnavigate the globe from west to east? (Image:Hodges, Resolution and Adventure in Matavai Bay.jpg)
- ...that for actress KaDee Strickland's role in The Grudge, she was inspired by Jane Fonda's Academy Award-winning performance in the 1971 film Klute? (Image:KaDee_Strickland_in_The_Grudge.jpg)
- ...that the Blondie song "Call Me" was only the third song from a soundtrack to be the highest-selling single in the United States? (Image:Callmecover.jpg)
- ...that classical compounds make up much of the technical and scientific lexicon of Western European languages?
- ...that whole grains are often more expensive than refined grains because their higher oil content is susceptible to oxidation, complicating processing, storage, and transport?
- ...that Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot? (Image:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg)
- ...that unlike many of the Bee Gees' singles, which were recorded in Miami, Florida, "Stayin' Alive" was recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville in Paris? (Image:Bee Gees Stayin Alive.jpg)
- ...that in the computer game Crush, Crumble and Chomp! the player controls a disaster movie monster and destroys cities?
- ...that the Minnesota State Constitution initially had two versions: one signed by Republicans and the other by Democrats?
- ...that Doc Cheatham (1905–1997) has been called the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70? (Image:DocCheathamGoodForWhatAils.jpg)
- ...that Captain Henry Trollope (1756–1839) of the Royal Navy, commanding the frigate Glatton, defeated a French squadron that outnumbered him six to one?
- ...that no Punch and Judy performer can consider himself a Professor until he has swallowed his swazzle at least twice?
- ...that the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque of Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the sixteenth century and the marble dado was carried off to Istanbul by Ottoman conquerors?
- ...that in 1978, Governor of Florida Reubin Askew gave the Bee Gees "honorary citizenship" after the success of their single "Night Fever"? (Image:Nightfevercover.jpg)
- ...that chromoblastomycosis is a fungal skin infection that can be caught from a thorn or splinter?
- ...that Alan Mullery became the first England association football player to be sent off in a full international match during the 1968 European Championship semi-final against Yugoslavia?
- ...that Samuel Green was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
- ...that the history of nuclear weapons and the United States includes around 1,054 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992? (Image:Castle Bravo Blast.jpg)
- ...that Philip of Poitou, Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208, quarelled so fiercely with his monks that he tried to burn them out of a church, and later excommunicated the entire chapter?
- ...that singer Maureen McGovern was a secretary before she was signed to perform the Academy Award-winning song "The Morning After"? (Image:Maureen mcgovern-the morning after s.jpg)
- ...that the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England predated, by 12 years, the first tour to England by white Australians?
- ... that Otokichi (1818–1867) was a Japanese castaway, who circled the globe as he tried unsuccessfully to return to Japan? (Image:Otokichi.jpg)
- ... that Xihoumen Bridge, a suspension bridge planned for the Zhoushan Archipelago in China will be the third largest suspension bridge in the world when completed?
- ...that after Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits, and their children born after the recruitment, were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created Garrison schools? (Image:Peter_der-Grosse_1838.jpg)
- ...that the US children's television series Romper Room aired for over forty years?
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