User:AllyUnion/Did you know archive

...that Jane Wenham was the last subject of a witch trial in England in 1712 and eventually exonerated? (Image:Hutchenson-witch.jpg)
...that Victoire Thivisol was the youngest winner ever of the Best Actress award at the Venice International Film Festival for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette?
...that Edward Falkingham ordered the construction of prisons in Ferryland, Bonavista and Carbonear in 1732 while he was Governor of Newfoundland?
...that Redline was the last game published by Accolade before being acquired by Infogrames in 1999?

...that Rapidan Camp, the rustic mountain fishing retreat of U.S. President Herbert Hoover located near Big Meadows in Virginia, was the forerunner of Camp David in Maryland? Image:Rapidan Camp President s Cabin The Brown House 1931.jpg
...that Basheba Spooner was the first woman to be executed in the United States of America ~~for the murder of a Minuteman who had raped her~~ subsequent evolution of the article shows that this description is incorrect?
...that the first James Bond gun barrel sequence, in the film Dr. No, was filmed through the barrel of an actual gun?
...that Withering Abalone Syndrome can cause an abalone to eat its own foot?

...that Mayanist scholar and archaeologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley was also an American secret agent in World War I? (Image:Sylvanus Morley copan.jpg)
...that the first unfurling of the new flag of the United States occurred at the Middlebrook encampment?
...that in 1878, Sam Lucas became the first African American actor to play the role of Uncle Tom in a serious production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, only to do the same for film 37 years later?
...that Bill Ranford, who won the 1990 Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie Miracle, as Team USA goaltender Jim Craig?

...that anticuchos are one of the most popular dishes in South America, consists of skewered pieces of cow hearts? (Image:Peru Anticuchos.jpg)
...that Euclid Beach Park, an amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio that was modelled after Coney Island, was home to a race riot in 1946?
...that E. Sreedharan, the managing director of Delhi Metro, earned the sobriquet of Metro Man for ensuring that the first phase of the metro project was executed without any cost or time overruns?
...that the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania was a failed plan by the Central Railroad of New Jersey to avoid certain taxes from 1946 to 1952?

...that Commodore Josias Rowley's campaign to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Reunion and Mauritius in 1810 was the source material for the exploits of Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's novel The Mauritius Command?
...that the Tucson Citizen is the oldest newspaper in Arizona?
...that Luis Ramirez was the 15th person executed in 2005 in the U.S. state of Texas?
...that the Busette, in 1973, was the first successful small school bus to be built on a cutaway van chassis with a low center of gravity and dual rear wheels?

...that a dream by Sergei Pankejeff, (pictured)whom Sigmund Freud dubbed the "Wolf Man", was considered to vindicate Freud's theory of the unconscious and psychosexual development?
...that Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is India's richest woman?
...that James Autry received a stay on his execution in October 1983 after the needles for his lethal injection had been inserted into his arms?
...that Torchwood will be the first spin-off from Doctor Who since an unsuccessful pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981?

...that after Joel Sweeney (pictured) popularized the banjo in the United States he did the same in Europe as a member of the Virginia Minstrels? (Image:Joel Sweeney.jpg)
...that with a dynamometer car in tow, the Northern Pacific Railroad was able to drive Timken 1111 on a demonstration run as fast as a sustained 142 km/h while pulling the North Coast Limited passenger train?
...that Roger Lemerre has won the Football World Cup, European Football Championship, Confederations Cup and the African Nations Cup?
...that a voluntary caregiver is an unpaid spouse, relative, friend or neighbor of a disabled person or child who assists with activities of daily living?

... that the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1888 warship Kotaka is considered as the first effective design of a destroyer?
...Miles Copeland, Jr., the father of Stewart and Miles III, was a CIA spy involved in several Mideast coups, but began his career as a trumpeter for big bands including Glenn Miller?
...that Cleveland may today still have been spelled "Cleaveland," were it not for a newspaper dropping the first 'a' to fit the name onto their masthead?
...that New Orleans street vendor Old Corn Meal is one of the earliest known African Americans to have had a documented influence on the development of blackface minstrelsy specifically and American popular music in general?"

...American artist Samuel W. Rowse's lithograph of escaped slave Henry "Box" Brown emerging from a shipping box in 1849 was used to raise funds by anti-slavery activists for the Underground Railroad?
...that the Adolph Beck case was the most notorious case of mistaken identity in British legal history, resulting in a conviction of an innocent man not once but twice?
...that the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906?
...that the 1959 court case K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was the last jury trial ever held in India?

...that the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 was one of the most destructive Nor'easters to ever impact the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, killing 40 people, injuring over 1,000, and causing hundred of millions in property damage in 6 states? (Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962)
...that the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force is the world's only police department outside of Nepal to be comprised of Gurkhas, and it is currently the only military or police unit in Singapore to be headed by a Briton?
...that the Canon Episcopi was inserted into canon law by Burchard of Worms in the 11th century and it demanded that Roman Catholics be skeptical about witchcraft?

...that David Laird negotiated the Qu'Appelle Lakes Treaty with resident natives of Saskatchewan in 1874 to procure land for the Canadian Pacific Railway? (Image:Davidlaird.png)
...that tradition credits King Gebra Maskal Lalibela with carving the monolithic churches of Lalibela from stone with his own hands, helped only by angels?
...that a strap-on dildo may be used by heterosexual couples for pegging?
...that the Liverpool Blitz was a sustained bombing campaign on the city of Liverpool, United Kingdom, by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War?

...that Nobuo Fujita of the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted the only wartime bombing on the continental United States in 1942?(Image:FujitaNobuo.jpg)
...that the Mandara kingdom of West Africa was conquered by Modibo Adama of the Fulani Empire, Muhammad Ahmad of Sudan, and Germany within a single hundred year span?
...that in Scots law the civil action known as lawburrows—in use since 1429 and intended to prevent violence—is a simple, bond-based alternative to interdicts or court orders?
...that Robert Meeropol, son of Communists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, was adopted by "Strange Fruit" lyricist Abel Meeropol following the Rosenbergs' execution for espionage?

...that the Victorian era parlour game of Snap-dragon involved children plucking raisins out of burning brandy and eating them? (Image:SnapDragon.jpg)
...that the Paragould Meteorite is the third-largest meteorite ever discovered in North America?
...that Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, an 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland, was one of the foundational texts of Wicca, but has been suspected of being a fraud?
...that more than 700 of the caricatures on display at Sardi's restaurant in New York City were drawn by a Russian refugee in exchange for meals at the restaurant?

...that identical Norwegian Lady Statues commemorating a shipwreck are located in the sister cities of Moss, Norway and Virginia Beach, Virginia facing each other across the Atlantic Ocean? (Image:Norwegian Lady figurehead postcard.jpg)
...that British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark discovered a site at Zambia's Kalambo Falls containing artifacts from over 250,000 years of human culture?
...that Operation Gibraltar was the name given to the failed plan by Pakistan to infiltrate Jammu and Kashmir, India and start a rebellion and that it eventually sparked the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965?
...that Francisco Pradilla Ortiz was a prolific Spanish painter who not only produced over 1,000 paintings but also was briefly the director of the Prado Museum?

...that Vermilion Lighthouse is a replica of the 1877 iron lighthouse that was forged from recycled smooth-bored cannons that had been obsoleted after the American Civil War? (Image:Vermilion Lighthouse in Vermilion, Ohio.jpg)
...that Naseeruddin Shah could not bag the title role in Gandhi, but later had opportunities to portray the Mahatma in a play and in a film?
...that the Tremont Street Subway in Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest subway tunnel in North America?
... that religious identity in Israel for Jews differs strikingly from that recognized in the Jewish diaspora?
... that Dolores Erickson, the woman on the album cover for Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, was actually covered in shaving cream?

...that Taprogge GmbH supplies cleaning systems to clean condenser tubes from debris with sponged rubber balls? (Image:CleaningBalls.jpg)
...that Abelisaurus had a lighter skull than other dinosaurs due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?
...that Papillon is a famous memoir written by Henri Charrière about his numerous escape attempts from a French penal colony in French Guiana?
...that Varina Farms, the plantation of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, was site of the first successful cultivation of export tobacco in the Virginia Colony in 1612?

...that the anabolic steroid Methandrostenolone was prescribed to women in the 1960s as a tonic, until its masculinising effects were discovered? (Image:Methandrostenalone.gif)
...that Iannis Xenakis wrote Metastaseis to represent the sounds of warfare and Einsteinian views of time?
...that parts of the first law passed by the U.S. Congress are still on the books?
...that Nagesh Kukunoor made Hyderabad Blues, the most successful independent film from India in just 17 days?

...that Hurricane Gordon was a Category 1 hurricane that killed 1,122 people in Haiti in 1994 and that the hurricane name was not retired by the World Meteorological Organization? (Image:Hurricane-gordon.gif)
...that Major League Cricket plans to launch a professional cricket league in the United States, with the goal of qualifying the U.S. for the Cricket World Cup by 2011?
...that the Valley Pike was a toll road managed by Harry F. Byrd which followed a Native American migratory trail in the Shenandoah Valley?
...that to prepare for future examinations, Singapore students use the ten year series to practice on past years' examination papers, some of which date back to before they were born?
...that "Toro Mata" ("The Bull Kills" in Spanish) is one of the most famous folk songs in Peru?

...that Common Short Codes are five-digit numbers that can receive Short Messaging Service messages, just like normal 10-digit numbers?

...that according to an old Polish legend, the sorcerer Pan Twardowski was the first man on the Moon? (Image:Barbara Radziwill ZjawaBarbary 19th century.jpg)
...that a single verb in the Nez Percé language, which is currently spoken by fewer than 100 people, can contain as much information as a complete sentence in English?
...that there are only 75 nonprismatic uniform polyhedra?
...that Norge, an unincorporated town in James City County, Virginia was established by Norwegian-Americans in the late 19th century?
...that the well-publicized defection of German agent Erich Vermehren in early 1944 led directly to the demise of the Abwehr?

...that the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway opened in 1904 as a leg of George J. Gould's planned transcontinental railroad, but went bankrupt in four years and later became part of the Alphabet Route? (Image:414px-P&WV map.svg.png)
...that amorphous ice is a solid form of water that, like glass, has no crystal structure?
...that American novelist Harold MacGrath had 18 of his 40 novels and 3 of his fictional short stories made into motion pictures?
...that the single "F.E.A.R." is based on Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise", which was in turn adapted from Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise"?

...that the Third Battle of the Aisne was the final battle of the Aisne river during WWI? (Image:Carte France Département 02.png)
...that when the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse was automated with solar cells by the United States Coast Guard in 1965, it was staffed by a uniformed mannequin officer in order to prevent vandalism?
...that Farkhor Air Base in Tajikistan is India's only extraterritorial military base?
...that Bertrand Russell is the longest-lived of any Nobel Prize in Literature winner?
...that in 1969, a world record number of 15 million people attended the funeral of C.N.Annadurai, the first non Congress Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India?

...that Glasgow's Wellington Church was founded in 1792 as an Anti-Burgher congregation? (Image:Wfm wellington church.jpg)
...that the contradictory term foot cavalry was first used to describe the rapid movement of infantry troops of General Stonewall Jackson during the American Civil War?
...that Elbert Frank Cox was the first black person in the world to get a Ph.D in mathematics?
...that Manga Sewa of Falaba surrendered his city to Mandinka conqueror Samori Ture by detonating himself and his family in the city's powder magazine?

...that the British Army used the Gatling gun in combat for the first time at the Battle of Ulundi during the Anglo-Zulu War? (Image:Gatling.gif)
...that former Moroccan prime minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi involved himself in socialist causes as early as the age of 20, by attempting to organize the Casablanca working class?
...that the New York-New Jersey Line War lasted more than half a century until it was finally settled by action of the King of Great Britain?
...that French officer Charles Mangin was despised by his troops during World War I due to his aggressive tactics, which earned him the nickname "The Butcher"?

...that Marguerite Clark left school at age 16, debuted on Broadway a year later, and then quickly became one of the major stage and film stars of the first two decades of the 20th century? (Image:ClarkMarguerite1916.jpg)
...that the Tu’i Tonga Empire was the most influential local empire in the history of Oceania?
...that Yunfa, a 19th-century ruler of the Africa kingdom of Gobir, made a personal attempt on the life of Fulani reformer Usman dan Fodio, triggering the Fulani War?
...that Ed Roberts became one of the founders of the disability rights movement when he lobbied for basic accommodations at the University of California, Berkeley?
...that Wash Woods is a lost town on Virginia's False Cape, which was built by survivors of a shipwreck using cypress wood that washed ashore?

...that the Sicilian cart is a colorful folk art form based on a cart design adopted from the ancient Greeks? (Image:Carretto.jpg)
...that not all Polish names end in -ski?
...that in 1930, the footballer Gerard Keizer played for both Arsenal and Ajax Amsterdam simultaneously, flying between England and the Netherlands to play in matches?
...that a sailor from the SS Thames owed his life to a cask of porter after the ship wrecked on the Isles of Scilly in 1841?
...that the town of Moronvilliers was totally destroyed in WWI and was also a site for French dry-nuclear testing?

...that Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookstore in left bank Paris, first published James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922, but the book was subsequently banned in the United States, United Kingdom and the author's home country Ireland? (Image:Shakespeare and Company store in Paris.jpg)
...that 1980s video game publisher BudgeCo was formed to distribute just two games?
...that the Reverend Dr. James Blair of Scotland was a clergyman and missionary to the Virginia Colony, and is best known as the founder in 1693 of the College of William and Mary, where he served as President for 50 years?
...that the Bombay Quadrangular cricket tournament originated in an 1877 game to foster interracial harmony, but was abandoned in 1946 over fears that its racial basis threatened Indian independence?

...that the 18th century Governor's Palace, originally completed in 1722 and last occupied by Thomas Jefferson in 1780, was carefully reconstructed, opening in 1934 as one of the two larger buildings at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia? (Image:Backpalace Williamsburg Virginia.jpg)
...that booth capturing is a kind of electoral fraud that is seen mainly in India, where armed gangs belonging to political parties try to "capture" a polling booth and indulge in bogus voting?
...that at the Second Battle of the Aisne in World War I, the French suffered over 187,000 casualties?
...that Lott Cary was an African American slave who became educated, bought his freedom, became a minister and physician, and helped found the Colony of Liberia in Africa in 1822?

...that Green Spring Plantation in James City County was home of Sir William Berkeley, who served three non-consecutive terms as governor of the Virginia Colony, and for whom Berkeley Plantation is named? (Image:Green Spring - NPS.jpg)
...that a young Aruna Asaf Ali had to commence the Quit India Movement in 1942 as all the major leaders were arrested the night before to prevent them from reaching the venue?
...that the Nivelle Offensive during World War I involved around 1.2 million French troops and over 7,000 guns?
...that American comics writer and artist Don Rico started his creative career in the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project during the Great Depression?

...that Batman's Treaty was a treaty made between settler John Batman and local Wurundjeri elders in 1835 for the sale of land around Port Phillip and that it was one of the few attempts made by white settlers to negotiate with Australian Aborigines? (Image:Ac.johnbatman.jpg)
...that the 1970 Ancash earthquake and the landslide that followed killed at least 47,194 people and was the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru?
...that Herman Ashworth was the fourth person to drop his appeals since the U.S. state of Ohio resumed the death penalty in 1999?
...that Indonesian women's rights organisation Gerwani was banned when General Suharto became President in 1965?
...that A. R. R. A. P. W. R. R. K. B. Amunugama has more initials than any other first-class cricketer?

...the Torre del Oro, a watchtower constructed in the 13th century by the Almohad dynasty, protected the entrance to Seville's port with a large chain that stretched underwater from the tower's base across the river to stop unwanted ships? (Image:Sewilla-TorreDelOro.jpg)
...that W. G. Collingwood, John Ruskin's secretary and assistant was a noted scholar of Norse history and art?
...that during the 1976 Pacific hurricane season three consecutive storms made landfall?
...that Vicente Leñero, a prominent Mexican novelist, journalist and playwright, was a screenwriter for El Crimen del Padre Amaro, one of Mexico's all-time highest grossing films?
...that the U.S. Navy has been training Bottlenose Dolphins to subdue terrorists as part of the Cetacean Intelligence Mission?

...that the extinct Australian dromornithids, which included the largest birds known, are related to ducks and geese? (Image:GenyornisSmall.jpg)
...Sir Conrad Hunte was a West Indian cricketer who in 1965 set the record (550 runs) for the highest Test series aggregate score without scoring a century?
...that when the eight-mile Texas and Northern Railway began operations in 1948, it was designated a Class I railroad, in the same class as giants like the Pennsylvania Railroad?
...that Carmen Boullosa is a leading Mexican novelist, poet, and playwright whose award-winning play Teatro herético satirically addresses the issue of gender roles?

...that in 1915, Hollywood actress Anita King became the first female to ever drive an automobile across the continental United States alone and whose only companions, according to the Los Angeles Times, were "a rifle and a six shooter"? (Image:AnitaKingNYC.gif)
...that Valrhona, a company based in the small town of Tain l'Hermitage in the Rhône Valley in France, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality chocolate?
...that the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which was passed by the Nazi regime on April 7, 1933, prohibited Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from working
...that it is estimated that more than 85 percent of all business information exists as unstructured data, commonly appearing in e-mails, memos, reports, letters, presentations and Web pages?

...that Elizabeth Taylor made her London stage debut in 1982 at the Victoria Palace Theatre in a revival of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes?
...that Adolf Hitler was a self-proclaimed vegetarian and had a large greenhouse built to keep him supplied with fresh fruits and vegetables throughout World War II?
...that John W. Peoples, Jr. tried to have his execution carried out by electric chair instead of lethal injection?
...that Science Service used to broadcast information from its Science News magazine on the radio?
... that Igor Spassky, the head of the Russian Rubin Design Bureau, was the chief designer of 187 submarines (91 diesel-electric and 96 nuclear) as well as Halliburton oil platforms and the marine part of the Sea Launch complex?

...that the Casino Goa in Goa is the only legal casino in India?
...that Lancelot Blackburne was thought to have spent time in the Caribbean as a buccaneer as a young man, and lived openly with his mistress whilst Archbishop of York?
...that Nağaybäk Tatars of Russia constructed their own Paris, with Eiffel Tower?
...that the current German Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Renate Schmidt was forced to quit school at the age of seventeen because of a pregnancy?
...that virtual plagues can infect and kill the characters in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and are usually caused by unexpected problems with the programming code?

...that the 1994 Rwandan genocide led to a Great Lakes refugee crisis, which ended when nearly two million refugees returned to Rwanda at the start of the First Congo War? (Image:Rwandan refugee camp in east Zaire.jpg)
...that the Shell Lake murders were committed by Victor E. Hoffman three weeks after his release from a mental hospital and that he claimed to have had fought the Devil just before committing the murders?
...that the Battle of Garibpur fought between India and Pakistan preceded the official start of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and was the first battle where dog fighting occurred over East Pakistan?
...that Maurice Tillet was disfigured by acromegaly from a young age, but cashed in on his appearance by becoming an early wrestler?
...that despite its federal mandate to provide only intercity rail service, Amtrak operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago, Illinois and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991?

...that the obscure T-44 Soviet medium tank, designed and first built in Kharkiv, Ukraine, was the missing link between the T-34 of WWII and the T-54/55 series of the Cold War? (Image:T44 2.jpg)
...that passengers aboard JetBlue Airways Flight 292 were able to watch their own malfunctioning aircraft circle Los Angeles International Airport on the satellite television screens at each seat until the flight crew disabled the system in preparation for the aircraft's successful emergency landing?
...that more than one thousand people are caned in Singapore each year using a bamboo cane that has been soaked in water overnight to prevent splitting?
...that Egyptian actor Farid Shawki starred in 361 films?
...that Harry Thomas Thompson, a former yeoman of the United States Navy, was the first American to be convicted of espionage since World War I?

...that Patience Cooper, an Anglo-Indian actress, was the first to play a double role in an Indian film? (Image:Patience Cooper.jpg)
...the original Norfolk Southern Railway was a small regional railroad in Virginia and North Carolina for 98 years before it became the namesake of the current Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982?
...that, as a tribute to Arthur Stace, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was lit up with the word "Eternity" as the new millennium began?
...that the first ever golden goal was scored in the Cromwell Cup final at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1868, giving Sheffield Wednesday a 1-0 victory?
...that Charles Butler McVay III, commander of the USS Indianapolis, was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the United States Congress posthumously in 2000?

...that the 1985 Nairobi Agreement called for a ceasefire between the Ugandan government and rebels, the demilitarization of the capital (Kampala) and the absorption of the rebel leadership into the government? (Image:Uganda flag large.png)
...that the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian object 2003 UB313 is native to a distant region of our solar system known as the scattered disc?
...that in 2004, the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures?
...that Ithaa iin Maldives is the world's first and only underwater restaurant?
...that Subramanian Swamy worked towards normalizing Sino-Indian relations and persuaded Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to open the Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet to Hindu pilgrims from India?

...that actor Mona Darkfeather, promoted as the first Native American movie star, was actually of English and Mestizo ancestry and a member of the prominent Southern California Workman family? (Image:MonaDarkfeather.jpg)
...that Baqa'a is the largest refugee camp for Palestinians in Jordan?
...that Henry Perky invented a machine to produce shredded wheat breakfast cereal and that he made his fortune selling the cereal rather than the machine?
...that in 1855 the Howard Association of Norfolk, Virginia received contributions during the yellow fever epidemic from the U.S. Gulf Coast areas and that 150 years later, they sent $50,000 of leftover funds to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Katrina relief?

...that the Buckingham Branch Railroad in Central Virginia was formed in 1989 and has expanded from a 16-mile railroad to operate over 200 miles of track? (Image:Charlottesville-2-20-2005---1.jpg)
...that the Flying Dragon is a lizard that has skin membranes which it uses to glide distances over 7 metres?
...that American photographer George W. Ackerman took over 50,000 photographs during a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture?
...that Serbia and Montenegro and Italy were co-hosts of the 2005 European Volleyball Championship?

...that the Emancipation Oak located on the campus of Hampton University is where the Virginia Peninsula's black community gathered in 1863 to hear the first Southern reading of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? (Image:Emanicipation oak hampton-cropped.jpg)
...that the modern Arms of the Principality of Wales are based on those borne by the 13th century Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great?
...that Dravidar Kazhagam formed in 1944 was the first fully Dravidian party in India?
...that conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States?

...that Hendrick ter Brugghen was the artist primarily responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio into Dutch painting? (Image:Hendrick ter Brugghen Flute Player.jpg)
... that the Old Well at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a neoclassical rotunda modelled after the Temple of Love at the Palace of Versailles?
...that the incisors of blesmols are visible even when their mouths are closed?
...that Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918?

...that the endangered American Burying Beetle is one of the only beetle species that exhibits parental care? (Image:American burying beetle.jpg)
...that the University of Dhaka is the oldest and largest public University in Bangladesh?
...that at 23.8 hours, The Hazards of Helen is believed to be the longest motion picture serial ever made?
...that Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, who helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1822, was only in London because he had fled France five years earlier to avoid prosecution for multiple counts of forgery and fraud?
...that Fort Story at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia was the site of the first landing of the Jamestown settlers in 1607, and the Cape Henry Lighthouse, first in the U.S., in 1792?

...that the Stavelot Triptych is a 12th century masterpiece of Mosan art created to display pieces of the True Cross? (Image:Stavelot.Triptych.jpg)
...that there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games, the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003?
...that Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan?
...that Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan consumers' brains in order to determine which products they subconsciously like?
...that change of venue is the legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant?

...that Raj Ghat and other memorials are sometimes considered India's modern day equivalent of Westminster Abbey? (Image:Gandhi's Tomb.jpg)
...that the remains of Mungo Man are the oldest anatomically modern human remains found in Australia?
...that the anti-smuggling activities of the British frigate HMS Rose in 1775, provoked the Rhode Island government to commission the first warship, the Sloop of War Providence in what became the United States Navy?
...that "Blue Tail Fly" or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is a blackface minstrel song dating from the 1840s, and that on the surface, it is a black slave's lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and may have killed him by deliberate negligence?

...that the Perth Mint is the oldest operating mint in Australia and that it has produced over 4,500 tonnes of refined gold which represents about 3.25 percent of the total tonnage of gold ever produced? (Image:Perth Mint.jpg)
...that in 1910 the Kalem Company became the first American film studio to ever make a motion picture outside the United States when a film crew went on location in Ireland?
...that there were three more cancelled Apollo missions planned to land on the Moon after Apollo 17?
...that Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I?

...that during the 1878 flood in Miskolc, Hungary, the water level rose 50 cm per minute and in some parts of the city water was 4 to 5 m high? (Image:Memorial of the Flood 1878.jpg)
...that the first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875?
...that the Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel?
...that the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?

...that in the next five years, 40,000 African soldiers will be trained to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program? (Image:ACRI.jpg)
..that in 1982, 68 kg of gold bars were stolen in a robbery that became known as the Perth Mint Swindle, and that seven years later 55 kg of the gold was found dumped outside a Perth television station?
...that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986, and that not a single shot was fired during this war?
...that Caesar Augustus, his wife Livia and numerous other members of Julio-Claudian dynasty were entombed in the Mausoleum of Augustus?

...that Ernst Litfaß was the inventor of the free-standing advertising column which bears his name?(Image:Litfaß column Feb05.JPG)
...that Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain's largest newspaper, El País?
...that Hazelwood power station is the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia, although it is only the sixth-largest power station?
...that the name of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U Tam'si means small paper, which speaks for a country in Zulu?
...that silent film actor Harrison Ford and present-day star Harrison Ford each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

...that the famous Wallace fountains in Paris were provided by English philanthropist Richard Wallace as a source of free water for the poor? (Image:Fontaine paris.JPG
...that the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?
...that the only remaining instance of active use of the death penalty in Europe is in capital punishment in Belarus?
...that Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River?

...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? (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 Frank Ryan earned a Ph.D. in mathematics while playing quarterback for the Cleveland Browns?
...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 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 architectural 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 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 comprised 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 were, 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?

...that Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896, & later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation? =Nichalp (Talk)= 09:00, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
...that the 1985 movie Into the Night is largely responsible for launching Michelle Pfeiffer to stardom? (self-nom) — Frecklefoot | Talk 18:27, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
... that the race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992? - 21:29, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
...that the song "Nights in White Satin", largely ignored on its first release in 1967, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was re-released in 1972? (Image: The_Moody_Blues.jpg) Mike H 18:56, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

... that Union Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland was once the longest suspension bridge in the world and is now the oldest surviving? (Image:055167 union bridge.jpg)
...that MTV Canada will be converted into a digital television station called Razer, now that it is owned by CHUM Limited? (Image:Logo_razer.jpg)
...that the virtual economy of massively multiplayer online games sometimes attracts virtual crime, which is punishable by real laws in some countries?
...that James Glynn, captain of the USS Preble, was the first American to negotiate successfully with Sakoku ("closed country") Japan, in 1848? (Image:USS Preble.jpg)

...that the Tarim mummies indicate that Caucasian populations lived in Xinjiang in western China during the 1st millenium BCE? (Image:SteinMummy.jpg)
...that Cherrapunji in India is the wettest place in the world?
...that there are sixteen candidates running in the June 14 Ohio Second Congressional District Election to replace representative Rob Portman?
...that Mick Mills was made captain of the England national football team which started the 1982 World Cup because Kevin Keegan was unable to play through injury?

...that Irish chemist Robert Kane (1809–1890) showed that hydrogen is electropositive? (Image:Robert Kane (chemist).jpg)
...that 1980s horror movie actress Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her typecasting by appearing the 1992 film A League of Their Own, but had to drop out because she became pregnant?
...that American country music singer Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor Dean Cain?
...that Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a Swiss chronicler, wrote a history of Berne from the Burgundy Wars to 1536 that remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years? (Image:Anshelm Berner Chronik.png)

...that anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) developed a set of anatomical models from human body parts by injecting them with wax? (Image:Caspar Wistar.jpg)
...that Saki's short story "Sredni Vashtar" plays an important role in Raymond Postgate's 1940 mystery novel Verdict of Twelve?
...that Kermit Roosevelt III, author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law, is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
...that there are parts of Canadian airspace where compasses aren't useful because they're too close to the magnetic north pole? (Image:Canadian-Control-Areas.gif)

...that the scientific collections of Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834) were seized by the British in 1793 as spoils of war, but were returned after lobbying by Sir Joseph Banks? (Image:Jacques Labillardière.jpg)
...that Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade?
...that the 1960s singing duo Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell?
...that the Brimstone Moth has a variable life cycle of either one generation a year or two generations every three years?

...that Carolus Linnaeus the younger was enrolled by his father at the University of Uppsala at the age of nine? (Image:Forslund, Linnaeus filius.jpg)
...that the bending of starlight around the Sun during the solar eclipse of 1919 was a testimony to the predictive power of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity? (Image:Einstein theory triumphs.png)
...that Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century, and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam? (Image:LeVoyageAuxIndes.jpg)
...that Firpo Marberry was the first relief pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 100 saves in his career?

...that the grunion is a sardine-sized fish only found off the coast of California and Baja California that comes up on sandy beaches at very high tides (during the new and full moons) to lay its eggs? (Image:Grunion CF&G -2 100% -a .jpg)
...that Bruce Webster was so burned out from writing the computer game SunDog: Frozen Legacy for the Apple II, that he gave up programming for four years? (Image:Sundogbox.JPG)
...that Jack-Jack Attack is the first Pixar short not to be given a theatrical release? (Image:Jack-jack-attack-1.jpg)
...that Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) signed an agreement in 1963 with Japanese company NEC which gave the latter partial ownership of PTV's network?

...that Barstow, California, and Strong City, Kansas, are both named in honor of William Barstow Strong, former president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway? (Image:William Barstow Strong.jpg)
...that in the music video for the Crazy Frog song "Axel F", the frog's genitalia have been censored for broadcasting? (Image:Crazy frog-axel f s.jpeg)
...that former England footballer Mick Channon is now a successful horse trainer?
...that Chinese BASIC is the name given to several Chinese versions of the BASIC programming language?

...that suffragist Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), publisher of Australia's first woman-run journal, The Dawn, was also the mother of the great Australian poet Henry Lawson? (Image:Louisa Lawson.jpg)
...that the Terik language of Kenya is classified as endangered by UNESCO because the Terik people have increasingly become assimilated to the Nandi people in recent decades?
...that facial symmetry is correlated with health, physical attractiveness, and beauty, and is a factor in interpersonal attraction? (Image:Ziyi Zhang mirrored.jpg)
...that a sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or record with a group of which he is not formally a member?

...that Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") was a popular 15th century text on the proper etiquette of how to die? (Image:Ars.moriendi.pride.a.jpg)
...that MOMO syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder characterised by macrosomia, obesity, macrocephaly and ocular abnormalities?
...that the reality television series Dr. 90210 got its name from the zip code for part of the Los Angeles suburb of Beverly Hills?
...that the U.S. airlifted 22,325 tons of military supplies to Israel for use in the Yom Kippur War under Operation Nickel Grass? (Image:Operation Nickel Grass.gif)

...that the Washington State Capitol has been hit by three major earthquakes since its construction? (Image:Washington State Capitol Legislative Building.jpg)
...that David Penhaligon (1944–1986) was a promising Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42? (Image:Davidpenhaligon.jpg)
...that macrosomia is a complication in pregnancy and childbirth when the fetus is dangerously big?
...that the Defaka people of Nigeria are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, their close neighbours?

...that Joseph Rainey became the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives on December 12, 1870? (Image:Ac.rainey.jpg)
...that the Runyang Bridge and the Jiangyin Suspension Bridge are the two largest suspension bridges in China and the fourth and sixth largest suspension bridges in the world? (Image:Jiangyin bridge.jpeg)
...that Brancaleon, a 15th century Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of Ethiopia, is an example of early contacts between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa?
...that the short-lived Maryland Constitution of 1864 emancipated the state's slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the Confederacy? (Image:Maryland state seal.png)
...that the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant, Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus?