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...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 ?
...that the
Shell Lake murders were committed by Victor E. Hoffman three weeks after his release from a
psychiatric 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
dogfighting 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 rail between
Chicago 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
World War II and the
T-54/55 series of the
Cold War ?
...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 ?
...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 B. McVay III , commander of the
U.S. Navy ship
USS Indianapolis , was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the
Congress
posthumously in 2000?
...that the 1985
Nairobi Agreement called for a
ceasefire between the
Ugandan government and
rebels , the
demilitarization of the
capital of
Kampala , and the absorption of the rebel leadership into the government?
...that the
trans-Neptunian object
Eris 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, with the
U.S. military budget comprising the
largest portion , at 41 percent?
...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 ?
...that
Baqa'a is the largest
Palestinian refugee camp in
Jordan ?
...that
Henry Perky invented a machine to produce
shredded wheat
breakfast
cereal and 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
Gulf Coast , and 150 years later sent $50,000 of leftover funds to
Louisiana for
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?
...that the
flying dragon is a
lizard that has
skin
membranes which it uses to
glide distances over 7 m?
...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 co-hosted the
2005 European Volleyball Championship ?
...that the
Emancipation Oak on the campus of
Hampton University is where the
Virginia Peninsula 's black community gathered in 1863 to hear the first
Southern reading of
Abraham Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation ?
...that the modern
Arms of the Principality of Wales are based on those borne by the 13th-century
Prince of Wales
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?
... 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?
...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 ?
...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 ?
...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?
...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 ten victories in 13 days during
World War I ?