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...that the submarine
HMS Storm (
pictured ) was the first to be commanded by a British
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer?
...that the discovery of
Icadyptes salasi , a prehistoric five-foot-tall
penguin in
Peru , has caused scientists to reconsider the timeline of penguin evolution?
...that outlaws
John Dillinger ,
Machine Gun Kelly , and
Baby Face Nelson were tried in the historic
Landmark Center in
St. Paul ?
...that money donated in 1905 by the fans at
Celtic Park football stadium in
Glasgow, Scotland was given to the mother of international Scottish
footballer
Barney Battles, Jr. while Battles was still in the womb?
...that the newly-
merged Franco-Dutch firm
Unibail-Rodamco is the largest
public
real estate company in Europe?
...that a portion of the
Palatine Library returned to
Heidelberg in 1816, almost two centuries after it was looted from city by the
Catholic League ?
...that the
rotation of a star slows down as it grows older?
...that
Frank Lloyd Wright 's design for the
Francis J. Woolley House (
pictured ) was influenced by his first teacher,
Joseph Silsbee , and the
Arts and Crafts movement ?
...that although the first meeting of the
Indian Independence League took place in
Tokyo in
March
1942 , it was not formally proclaimed until
June of that year in
Bangkok ?
...that the
professional wrestling promotion
International Championship Wrestling was owned and operated by
Angelo Poffo , father of wrestling legend
Randy Savage , and starred Randy Savage and his brother
Lanny Poffo ?
...that abbot
Gerald of Sauve-Majeure began the practice of celebrating
mass and the
Office of the Dead for 30 days for the recently deceased?
...that opinion polls in
Armenia suggest that 64% of its population favors eventual
Armenian membership in the European Union ?
...that sexual
relations between a man and his daughter-in-law were fairly common in pre-
revolutionary rural
Russia ?
...that
The Lady with a Fan (
pictured ) is the only
Velázquez portrait in which the sitter has not yet been convincingly identified?
...that the
monopoly of
The Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne over
coal trade in the
Tyneside area raised questions in the
House of Commons in the 1620s?
...that the
bark of the African tree
Bombax buonopozense is burnt in
Ghana to drive away evil spirits?
...that because of
Salvatore Pincherle ,
German
mathematicians could attend the
Third International Congress of Mathematicians after a
World War I ban?
...that the
Cherokee Nation was induced to cede large portions of land in
Tennessee and
Georgia to the
United States in the
Tellico Blockhouse ,
Monroe County, Tennessee ?
...that one of the largest
rainwater harvesting projects in the world is being implemented in the rural areas of the state of
Karnataka ,
India ?
...that
Edward Rosewater (
pictured ) was the
telegraph operator responsible for sending out
Abraham Lincoln 's "
Emancipation Proclamation " in 1863?
...that the
Old National Library Building , a much-beloved national icon of
Singapore , was demolished despite a rare display of public opposition?
...that in
China ,
access to
water supply and
sanitation varies greatly between rural areas, where only 67% of the population has access to improved water supply, and cities, where 93% does?
...that
Demologos , the first warship powered by a
steam engine , saw only one day of active service in the
U.S. Navy , carrying President
James Monroe around
New York Harbor ?
...that the
Danish firm
Marcussen & Søn have built over 1000
organs since their foundation in
1806 ?
...that "
Comme Ci, Comme Ça " was performed in
French at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2007 , despite being the
Cypriot entry?
...that the prehistoric
mammal
Yanoconodon (
pictured ) was a
Eutriconodont , a group of early, ancestral mammals that in some cases, grew so big they were able to eat small
dinosaurs ?
...that the
Burgsvik beds , a geological
formation exposed on
Gotland ,
Sweden , contain the only
fossil
euglenid ever discovered?
...that
Paul C. Barth , former mayor of
Louisville, Kentucky , committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
...that despite sending 8000
ARVN soldiers from out of district to
stuff ballot boxes ,
South Vietnam 's President
Ngo Dinh Diem could not prevent his candidate from losing to
Phan Quang Dan in a 1959 legislative election by a ratio of 6-1?
...that
Akwasi Afrifa became
Lt. General and
head of state of Ghana after a
coup d'état , was detained after a second coup, won
parliamentary elections after a third and was executed after a fourth coup?
...that
Patchin Place (
pictured ), a
cul-de-sac in
Greenwich Village known for literary residents such as
Theodore Dreiser and
E. E. Cummings , is now a popular location for
psychotherapists ' offices?
...that former
University of Kentucky
basketball star
Dirk Minniefield smoked
marijuana the night before Kentucky's loss in the
1983 NCAA Tournament to the
University of Louisville ?
...that the
Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture commemorates a
Australian Army
general ,
physician and
historian who was killed in a plane crash during
World War II ?
...that
Tung Hua Lin led a team that designed and built
China 's first
twin-engine
aircraft in a
cave to avoid detection by the
Japanese during
World War II ?
...that American sculptor
Lynda Benglis sought to confront the
male ethos in the arts community with an advertisement in which she only wore a pair of sunglasses?
...that the recently
beatified
Paul Joseph Nardini died of pulmonary
typhus he contracted when giving the
last rites to a member of his parish?
...that the song "
Push The Button " was believed by some to relate to
Iran 's attempt to build
nuclear weapons ?
...that
King George III was overjoyed at the destruction caused to the home of
Joseph Priestley during the
Birmingham Riots (
pictured ) in 1791?
...that
Louise Pitre , a
Tony Award -nominated musical theatre actress, was turned down after auditioning for the role of Josephine in the
London musical
Napoleon ?
...that three years after tying for its final
Kentucky State
Football championship,
Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment?
...that the final episode of the 1986 television series
Outlaws recycled footage from The Oregon Trail , because actors
Rod Taylor and
Charles Napier appeared in both programs?
...that
income inequality increased in the
United States in 2005 with the top 1% of earners having roughly the same share of income as in 1928?
...that Lt. Gen.
Terry Gabreski is the first female to hold the
rank of
Lieutenant General in the
US Air Force ?
...that
catfish
species of the
genus
Hypophthalmus are unusual among
neotropical fishes because they feed on
plankton by straining water over a fine
sieve created by numerous long, thin
gill rakers
...the
Carney Hospital (
pictured ) in
Dorchester, Massachusetts has the record of carrying out the first abdominal surgery in the
United States ?
...that
Gabriele Kohlisch is one of only two people to ever win World Championship gold medals in
bobsledding and
luge ?
...that the
Mitcham and Morden by-election in 1982 remains the last to see a gain by the British
Conservative Party ?
...that the
Union Stockyards of
Omaha, Nebraska was the largest livestock market and meatpacking center in the
United States from 1955 until 1973?
...that
Carlos Morales Troncoso , the
foreign minister of the
Dominican Republic , has degrees in both
chemical engineering and
sugar engineering ?
...that the
Poltava Bandurist Capella , directed by
Hnat Khotkevych , was the first
Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour
North America ?
...that the
football song
Hampden in the sun celebrates the record scoreline of the 1957
Scottish League Cup final?
...that the
Lajkonik is an unofficial symbol of the city of
Krakow as well as an annual festival celebrated for over 700 years commemorating victory over the
Tatar invasion?
...that
Enguerrand Quarton 's Coronation of the Virgin (
pictured ) appears to be unique in 15th century art in depicting
Christ and
God the Father as identical figures?
...that
American Revolutionary War officer
William Stacy narrowly escaped death by burning at the stake and was given a gold
snuff box by
George Washington ?
...that the
Frosty Leo Nebula was so named because it is the only known
protoplanetary nebula whose circumstellar outflow is dominated by crystalline
ice in the
long-wavelength
emission spectrum ?
...that the
Australian town of
Bundarra, New South Wales is home to a breeding colony of endangered
Regent Honeyeaters , containing around thirty of the less than 1,500 birds remaining in existence?
...that
William Cooley was a
salvager and
pioneer whose family's 1836 murder during the
Second Seminole War led to the abandonment of the
New River Settlement near
Fort Lauderdale, Florida ,
United States ?
...that among the toughest fighters of the
Dahomey War were the
corps of female warriors armed with rifles and double-edged
machetes ?
...that the color signals of
Israel Broadcasting Authority television transmissions were erased until 1981, to insure equality for families who couldn't affored color-tv?
...that despite being a key building of middle
byzantine Architecture , the
mosque of
Eski Imaret (
pictured ) is still one among the least studied monuments of
Istanbul ?
...that
La Martiniere Boys' College in
Lucknow ,
India is the only school in the world to be awarded a
battle honour ?
...that
brownouts have claimed more helicopters in recent military operations than all other threats combined?
...that
Kannada is the only language in which a
Jain version of the epics
Ramayana and
Mahabharata exists?
...that
Julius Reubke composed his
Sonata on the 94th Psalm for
organ a year before dying aged 24?
...that
Scottish footballer
Billy McPhail launched a legal case claiming that heading heavy
leather footballs contributed to him developing
Alzheimer's disease ?
...that
Vancouver police Chief
Jamie Graham apologized for leaving a paper target riddled with bullet holes on the desk of the
city manager , his boss, as a joke?
...that the
New Zealand Railways Department dumped
tank locomotives of the
WB class in the
Mokihinui River to protect against erosion beside the route of the
Seddonville Branch line?
...that the Greek
Phlyax plays of South Italy might have been an influence on
Roman comedies of
Plautus ?
...that the
City and Town Hall (
pictured ) in
Rochelle, Illinois was constructed in 1884 following an 18-year disagreement over cost between the city and
Flagg Township ?
...that
Introitus et Exitus , a financial record of the
Apostolic Camera from
1279 to
1524 , has been used to authenticate the provenance of artworks and study past European
exchange and
interest rates ?
...that the
Salerno Mutiny of
1943 saw the largest number of men charged with
mutiny at any one time in all of
British military history ?
...that the third of four
expeditions sent in the late 19th century by
French nobleman
Marquis de Rays to an imaginary majestic colony called New France in present day
Papua New Guinea , saw 123
Italian settlers perish of disease and famine?
...that the
Bangalore based
SELCO company, which promotes
solar power in rural
India , has twice won an
Ashden Award ?
...that
Ben Abell provided the
St. Louis area with more than 120,000
weather forecasts ?
...that
The Secret Battle (1919) was the first novel by
A. P. Herbert , and the first
war novel to deal with the soldiers "
shot at dawn " during
World War I ?
...that the
Shtyki Memorial (
pictured ), which honors the defenders of
Russia in the
Battle of Moscow , is depicted on the flag and coat of arms of
Zelenograd ?
...that Dutch
publisher
Emanuel Querido published 110 works between 1933 and 1940 by
German
writers in exile ?
...that the rock band
The Sidewinders changed their name to the Sand Rubies after being sued by a
cover band over the use of their name?
...that
Lough Hyne is a marine lake that was probably freshwater until rising ocean levels flooded it about 4000 years ago?
...that
Omaha chief
Logan Fontenelle sold the Omaha land to the
U.S. government and was subseuqently killed by
Brulé and
Arapaho ?
...that in the 18th century the owners of
Tom King's Coffee House developed their own
argot , Talking Flash , to prevent informers learning of their misdeeds?