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... that
urushiol-induced contact dermatitis accounts for 10% of all lost-time injuries in the
United States Forest Service?
...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?
...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?
...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?
...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?
...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?
...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?
...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?
...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?
...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?
...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
UCSB Events Center, 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?
...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?
...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?