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• Vulcanized rubber was discovered by Charles Goodyear in 1839 after he accidentally mixed sulfur with rubber gum, which hardened when it splattered onto a hot stove.
• At the age of 16, Edward Woodstock, known as the Black Prince, commanded about a third of the English army, approximately 5,000 soldiers, during the Battle of Crecy in 1346.
• Earl was an Anglo-Saxon term, and after the Norman invasion in 1066, the Normans referred to the same rank as Count, leading to the adaptation of titles in England where the wives of earls have always been called countesses.
• Frank Miller's Sin City has been adapted into a five-reel, fifty-line slot game at PartyCasino.com, featuring art and story elements from the acclaimed comic series.
• Henry Cavendish is credited with the discovery of hydrogen and the determination of the composition of water, showing it to be a combination of oxygen and hydrogen.
• House Sparrows are a non-native, invasive species in North America and are not protected by law.
• Neville Chamberlain famously declared "peace in our time" after returning from a meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1938, believing the agreements reached would prevent future conflict between Germany and Britain.
• The Korean War occurred from 1950 to 1953.
• Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on a 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant for having unlawful sex with an underage girl.
• Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe invented the gyro-compass in 1904, which is a gyroscopic device, unlike traditional magnetic compasses.

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• The Meadow Brown is the most abundant butterfly species in many habitats, with hundreds often seen together at some sites.
• "Wicked Game" is a song by Chris Isaak that explores themes of desire and heartbreak, famously stating, "No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart)."
• The Mekong River is the longest river in Southeast Asia, measuring about 2,700 miles (4,350 km) in length, and it drains more than 313,000 square miles (810,000 square km) of land.
• ESPN will provide an unprecedented 1,000 live hours of Wimbledon coverage on ESPN3, allowing fans to choose from up to nine courts.
• J.K. Rowling wrote the crime fiction novel "The Cuckoo's Calling" under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, which was revealed to the public after it had already garnered positive reviews and sales.
• The Isle of Man has the oldest continuous parliament in the world, established in 979 with no breaks in its operation.
• Botswana's population density is incredibly low, at just 3 people per square kilometer (7 per square mile).
• Henry VIII, originally destined for the church, became known for his significant historical achievement: the destruction of the Roman Catholic faith in England.
• Before the invention of sandpaper, shark skin, known as shagreen, was used to smooth and polish wood due to its rough and abrasive properties.
• After defeating the Loyalists at Moore's Creek Bridge in February 1776, North Carolina troops seized 1,500 firearms, 150 swords and dirks, ammunition, two valuable medicine chests, and thirteen wagons.

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• Avionics has become increasingly important with the development of the space program.
• Deltas are usually triangular masses of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river where it flows into a body of standing water, such as a sea or lake.
• Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, sparked widespread protests that led to the toppling of autocratic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, igniting a wave of reform across the Middle East.
• The Kyoto Protocol, adopted on 11 December 1997, commits its Parties to internationally binding emission reduction targets, recognizing that developed countries are primarily responsible for high levels of greenhouse gas emissions due to over 150 years of industrial activity.
• "Fatal Attraction is based on a short film made for British TV, written and directed by James Dearden."
• The character of the Lone Ranger was portrayed as a figure who was believed to be dead, with only his companion Tonto knowing he was alive.
• Copper atoms are smaller than aluminum atoms, allowing more copper atoms to fit in the same volume, which contributes to the greater mass of a copper cube compared to an aluminum cube of the same size and shape.
• The movie "I'm Not There" features seven characters that embody different aspects of Bob Dylan's life and work.
• Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at standard conditions for temperature and pressure, with a melting point of −38.83 °C and boiling point of 356.73 °C, giving it one of the widest ranges of its liquid state of any metal.
• The Southernmost Hotel in Key West is located just a block away from the Southernmost Point in the U.S.

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• Greyhounds can reach speeds up to and exceeding 45 mph in just three strides.
• The term "broadsword" as a synonym for medieval blades actually originated with Victorian collectors in the early 19th century, and the term did not refer to wide-bladed medieval swords until later in the 19th century.
• Bryan Adams is celebrated as a favorite singer by fans, with personal connections such as concert tickets being cherished as memorable birthday gifts.
• The Green March was a strategic mass demonstration organized by the Moroccan government in November 1975 to force Spain to hand over the disputed Spanish Province of Sahara to Morocco.
• The word "robot" comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920, which introduced and popularized the term to refer to artificially created life forms.
• Arthur Conan Doyle, best known for creating Sherlock Holmes, was a Scottish-born author and physician who lived from 1859 to 1930.
• The second official Wonder Woman trailer is set against the backdrop of World War I.
• Bronski Beat was one of the first musical groups to address issues of gay people in their songs during the mid-1980s.
• Eddy Merckx, nicknamed "The Cannibal," is hailed as the greatest cyclist of all time, winning the Tour de France five times and being named Sports Person Of The Century in a Belgian poll in 2000.
• Napoleon I married Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, the widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, on 8 March 1796.

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• Obsidian is formed by rapidly cooling molten rock or lava, and is also known as volcanic glass.
• In 1974, "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas became a major hit, reflecting the popularity of martial arts in Western culture during that time.
• Toluca, Mexico, is a featured location for study abroad programs, highlighting opportunities for immersive cultural and educational experiences.
• Réunion was the first region in the world where the euro became legal tender due to its location in a time zone to the east of Europe.
• "Charlie Wilson's War" is based on a Texas congressman's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets resulted in unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
• Lord Peter Wimsey, a fictional character created by Dorothy L. Sayers, debuted in 1923 with the novel "Whose Body?".
• Las Vegas's first airfield, Anderson Field, opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1920, just months after the area's first airplane flight.
• Belgium's King Albert II's abdication on July 21, 2013, marked the first abdication in the country's history since gaining independence in 1831.
• Calabrese (Italian broccoli) produces tasty side shoots after the main head is harvested, making it a productive crop for late summer and autumn.
• Cheers, originally a low-rated debut in 1982, evolved into one of television's defining ensemble-driven workplace comedies, introducing iconic characters and story arcs that captivated audiences for years.

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• Natasha Richardson, a Tony-winning actress and member of the renowned Redgrave acting family, died at the age of 45 after suffering a ski accident while on a beginners' slope in Canada.
• The walls of Jericho collapsed after the Israelites marched around the city for six days and shouted on the seventh day, allowing them to capture the city.
• Hindus believe that the atman (spirit) is permanent and undergoes reincarnation, while the physical body is temporary and subject to change.
• Libreville is the largest city in Gabon, with an approximate population of 580,000.
• George Orwell is renowned for his classic political satire "Animal Farm" and the dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
• Sheridan Smith won two Laurence Olivier Awards in consecutive years, for Best Actress in a Musical in 2011 and Best Performance in a Supporting Role in 2012.
• The word "lean" can refer to both a verb meaning to bend or incline and an adjective describing something that is thin or contains little fat.
• Sikhism was founded in the 16th century by Guru Nanak in the Punjab district of what is now India and Pakistan, and has approximately 20 million followers worldwide.
• The flam is one of the three basic strokes in drumming, used to produce a thicker and longer sounding note compared to a single stroke.
• The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, marking the world's first artificial satellite.

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• Andy Murray and Laura Robson won an Olympic silver medal in mixed doubles, just after Murray secured a gold medal in singles, making it a remarkable day for the British tennis star.
• George Galloway was a Labour Party MP for Glasgow Hillhead and Glasgow Kelvin until his expulsion in 2003, after which he became a founding member of the Respect party.
• At the time of his passing on February 7, 1999, King Hussein bin Talal was the longest serving executive head of state in the world.
• About 100 million years ago, during the middle of the Cretaceous Period, the Amazon River flowed from east to west and even in both directions at once due to geological changes.
• The word "epigram" originates from the Greek word "epigramma," meaning "inscription."
• PDF is an open standard maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that was invented by Adobe in 1992 as part of a project initiated by cofounder Dr. John Warnock.
• Floella Benjamin was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 2001 and became a Liberal Democrat Life Peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List.
• The Monaco Grand Prix is known for its challenging street circuit, where overtaking is almost impossible, making local knowledge and precise driving essential for success.
• A gnomon, the term used in this context, refers to the pointer in a sundial, not the plural for garden gnome.
• The Old River Control Complex diverts 30% of the Mississippi River flow into the Atchafalaya River on an ongoing basis.

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• Gabon is a sovereign state located on the equator.
• Willie Dixon is credited with writing over 500 songs, making him one of the most prolific songwriters in American music history.
• Lindum Colonia became a major thriving settlement in Roman Britain, with advanced public buildings and the best-developed sewerage system in the province by the 2nd century.
• Humans require vitamin C from food because their bodies cannot synthesize enough of it, unlike dogs, which can produce sufficient vitamin C on their own.
• Vincent van Gogh produced about a thousand paintings and an equal number of drawings during the last ten years of his life, despite suffering from extreme poverty and mental health issues.
• Barack Obama is seen here in his senior year in 1979 at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• The pedestal for the Statue of Liberty was built with 54,000,000 pounds of concrete, making it said to be the largest concrete foundation of its time.
• In 1965, Charles de Gaulle became the first French president elected by popular vote since 1848.
• Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a large quasar group that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end, challenging the cosmological principle that suggests structures larger than about 1.2 billion light-years shouldn't exist.
• Kopassus, Indonesia's special forces group, was founded on April 16, 1952, and is known for conducting special operations such as counter-terrorism and intelligence gathering, gaining worldwide attention for its involvement in events like the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.

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• Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are unique constellations that never set below the horizon, making them visible all night, every night, throughout the year.
• During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana had a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
• Nauru is the world's smallest island nation, covering just 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi).
• The Blue Fairy originates from Carlo Collodi's book, The Adventures of Pinocchio, published in 1881, and was later adapted into Disney's 1940 animated film where she grants Pinocchio life.
• In the mid-seventeenth century, there were approximately 35,000 Ojibwa on the continent, and by the 1990 census, their population had increased to 104,000, making them the third-largest Native group in the U.S. after the Cherokee and Navajo.
• Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, after Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800 microcomputer.
• In 2009, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew celebrated its 250th anniversary, marked by a commemorative coin design featuring the famous Chinese Pagoda at Kew.
• Orville Wright travels 40 yards in the first successful powered flight, at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina.
• Hongi is a traditional Maori greeting that involves pressing noses together, symbolizing the exchange of breath and the visitor becoming one with the local people.
• Smokey Robinson delivered thirty-seven Top 40 hits for Motown between 1960 and 1987.

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• The fibula is much more slender than the tibia and is not directly involved in weight transmission, which highlights its lesser role in bearing weight compared to the tibia.
• Worm charming, also known as worm grunting or worm fiddling, is a method of attracting earthworms from the ground, often used for fishing bait and can even be a competitive sport.
• Gulliver falls into a swoon for grief when informed by his Houyhnhnm master that he must depart from their country.
• Garuda Indonesia is a certified 5-Star Airline that offers a fine-dining experience in-flight, featuring handcrafted meals like Grilled Lamb Cutlet in Rujak Sauce with Tumpeng Rice.
• The Nimrod was the first jet-powered maritime patrol aircraft to enter service, significantly enhancing anti-submarine warfare capabilities compared to traditional piston or turboprop aircraft.
• Playboy will no longer publish nude photographs of women, marking a significant shift for the magazine that featured Marilyn Monroe on its debut cover in 1953.
• Anne-Sophie Mutter was just 13 years old when she performed Mozart’s G major Concerto at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival under the direction of Herbert von Karajan in 1977, captivating audiences with her remarkable technique and artistic maturity.
• Yokohama became a major port of Japan in the 1870s, accounting for 70 percent of the country's foreign trade.
• A Spanish nurse has become the first person in the world to contract Ebola outside of Africa after treating a patient with the virus in Madrid.
• Margaret Thatcher, the real-life PM during the show's airing, was a huge fan of "Yes, Minister" and even "wrote" a sketch featuring herself alongside Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey.

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• "The Odd Couple," written by Neil Simon, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015.
• Young orangutans are captured during logging operations or forest clearance to serve as pets.
• The IAEA and UNMOVIC inspectors reported on March 7, 2003, that they had found no evidence or plausible indication of Iraq reviving its nuclear weapons program.
• Thor, the Norse god of thunder, was so popular that he surpassed his father Odin in worship, as he did not require human sacrifices.
• Prairie dogs have a vocabulary of about 11 distinct calls and perform a behavior known as "kissing" to recognize family members within their territory.
• China has overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest economy based on purchasing power parity (PPP), accounting for just over 16.5% of the global GDP, according to 2014 data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• Liquid helium remains a liquid at atmospheric pressure even at absolute zero and can only be solidified under higher pressure.
• John Nott served as defence secretary during the Falklands War.
• The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed approximately 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, and significant landmarks like St. Paul’s Cathedral, yet the verified death toll was only six people.
• The Krubera-Voronja Cave in Georgia is currently the deepest cave in the world, reaching at least 7,188 feet deep and being the only known cavern that extends more than 2 kilometers.

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• Addis Ababa's Bole International Airport is located about 7 kilometers from the city center.
• Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system that have no moons.
• Annie Oakley once shot a dime from between her husband's thumb and forefinger at a distance of thirty paces.
• The largest atoll in Kiribati, Kiritimati (Christmas) Atoll, has a land area of 150 square miles (388 square km) and accounts for almost half of the country's total area.
• The American Tree Farm System (ATFS) is the oldest forest certification program, established in 1941, focusing on private family forest landowners in the United States.
• The Lord Mayor's Show is one of the longest established and best known annual events in London, featuring a procession from the City of London to the Royal Courts of Justice, where the Lord Mayor swears allegiance to the Crown.
• Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" is facing a copyright lawsuit 45 years after its release, with allegations that the iconic riff was copied from Spirit's 1968 song "Taurus."
• The Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station's Unit 2 experienced a partial core melt, marking one of the most significant nuclear accidents in U.S. history.
• Joey Bishop was the last living member of the Rat Pack and the longest-lived member, passing away on October 17, 2007.
• Chocolate was first served in pots as a thick, dense drink by the Mayans over 2,500 years ago.

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• Five hours after President Reagan was shot, Vice-President George Bush led a Cabinet meeting that concluded there was no conspiracy to shoot Reagan, despite an ongoing investigation.
• The name "Acme" became popular for businesses by the 1920s, leading to a proliferation of companies using the name, including early Sears catalogs selling products like anvils that are often featured in Warner Bros. cartoons.
• In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal's forces, numbering around 40,000, inflicted over 60,000 casualties on the Roman army, despite being outnumbered nearly two-to-one.
• A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days, making it longer than a year on Venus, which is 224.7 Earth days.
• The very first rugby international match was played at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, on 27 March 1871.
• The "Arnold Palmer" beverage, a mix of half iced tea and half lemonade, has become a legendary drink associated with the iconic golfer and is known for its refreshing taste after a round of golf.
• The pancreas contains islet cells that produce insulin to lower blood sugar and glucagon to raise blood sugar, playing a crucial role in maintaining proper blood sugar levels for key organs like the brain, liver, and kidneys.
• The Menorah has been a symbol of Judaism for almost 3000 years and was used in the ancient Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
• "The Singing Detective," a six-part BBC series, features a protagonist, Philip E. Marlow, who is a writer suffering from severe psoriasis, leading him to drift between reality and the fictional world of his own detective novel.
• Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty, is an exclave of New York situated entirely within the boundaries of Jersey City, New Jersey.

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• About 40-50 people develop motor neurone disease in New Zealand each year, with an average age of onset being 55.
• Britain and Argentina fought a two-month-long war over the Falkland Islands in 1982, resulting in the deaths of 649 Argentinian servicemen and 255 British soldiers.
• Homophones are words that are pronounced alike but differ in spelling, meaning, or origin, such as "pair" and "pear."
• The Stasi had a staggering ratio of one secret policeman for every 166 East Germans, and when regular informers are included, it escalated to one informer for every 6.5 citizens.
• Peregrine Falcons can reach speeds of up to 200 mph during their hunting stoop, making them the fastest bird and one of the fastest animals on the planet.
• Charlie Chaplin could neither read nor write music, yet he composed film scores by whistling or humming melodies to others who would then develop them into finished works.
• The Audio Analogue Paganini CD player features a unique circular button layout and display, setting it apart from the typical horizontal command sequences found in most players.
• Gujarat recorded the lowest unemployment rate of only 1% compared to a national rate of 3.8%, as per the Labor Bureau of India in 2012.
• Titus Oates falsely claimed to have uncovered a Catholic plot to kill Charles II, leading to the execution of several innocent Catholics, including Archbishop Oliver Plunkett.
• Pigeons can produce squab ready for the table at just one month of age and can do so year-round, making them a highly efficient source of meat.

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• Ed Miliband proposed to Justine Thornton on Primrose Hill, known for its panoramic views of London.
• Ariane 1, the first European-built rocket, successfully completed its maiden flight on its third attempt from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana.
• The City of London is one of three premier financial centers in the world and has a history dating back approximately 2,000 years, originally established as a trading hub by the Romans known as Londinium.
• "Jack Bauer, portrayed by Kiefer Sutherland, returns in '24: Live Another Day' as a hardened, angrier version of himself after spending four years in exile."
• The London matchgirls' strike of 1888 involved approximately 1,400 women and girls who protested against poor working conditions, including fourteen-hour workdays and severe health risks from white phosphorus, ultimately laying the groundwork for modern labor rights and unions.
• The Neva River is the third largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge.
• Mahatma Gandhi is recognized as the Father of the Nation in India, and his birthday, October 2nd, is commemorated annually as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday.
• In the first half of the Twentieth Century, about 70% of the commercial poultry stock in the Netherlands consisted of Leghorns.
• Jim Moir, also known as Vic Reeves, originally planned to pursue a career in art before turning to comedy.
• Thomas Aquinas recognized four main kinds of law: eternal, natural, human, and divine, with eternal law being the highest and identical to the mind of God.

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• IHOP acquired Applebee’s International for $1.9 billion in cash, plus the assumption of debt, aiming to transform it into a franchised model similar to its own.
• Geri Halliwell named her daughter Bluebell Madonna, inspired by the rare bluebell flower and her admiration for singer Madonna.
• There are official release groups attributed to the artist Dylan Mills.
• Des O'Connor fronted a mainstream television program every year between 1963 and 2007, a record longer than anyone else in the world.
• Rembrandt declared bankruptcy in 1656 despite his financial success as an artist, teacher, and art dealer, leading to the auction of his extensive collection of art and antiquities.
• Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955 sparked a 381-day boycott of public buses, leading to the U.S. Supreme Court outlawing racial segregation on public buses in Alabama.
• Gavrilo Princip, one of the assassins, was able to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie von Chotkova after the royal car took a wrong turn, bringing it within five feet of him.
• The Cutty Sark, built in 1869, is the last clipper ship constructed for merchant purposes and is currently preserved in dry dock at Greenwich, London.
• Joseph was made a patriarch and given equal status with his brothers by Jacob, who adopted Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, thus adding them to the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
• Only one airframe of the TSR-2 aircraft flew, as the program was ultimately cancelled in 1965 due to rising costs and inter-service disputes over Britain's defense needs.

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• The term "Heavy Metal" in music is thought to have originally been coined in relation to a Jimi Hendrix performance, described as "...like listening to heavy metal falling from the sky" in a review, although the exact source remains unverified.
• The last wild thylacine was shot in Tasmania in 1930, and the last captive thylacine died in 1936.
• Postman Pat first emerged as a character when writer John Cunliffe was encouraged by a student's parent to submit his stories for a new pre-school children's series set in the countryside.
• Renée Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain (2003).
• The first Zionist Congress was held in Basle in 1897, where the World Zionist Organization was founded and Theodor Herzl was elected its president.
• Karen Carpenter's distinctive singing voice developed significantly by early 1966, attracting the interest of several music industry professionals.
• Sid Vicious' teddy boy suit, worn during the inquest into his girlfriend Nancy Spungen's murder, is expected to fetch between £10,000 and £15,000 at auction.
• John Edwards has reactivated his law license after more than a decade of inactivity and is scheduled to speak at a private retreat in Orlando, Florida, on June 6, 2013.
• Sonic booms can produce pressures on the ground ranging from 50 to 100 pascals, with very low flying aircraft capable of generating sonic booms of 1000 to 7000 pascals, potentially causing damage to buildings.
• The origin of All Hallows Eve goes back to an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival called Samhain, which marked the end of summer and the beginning of winter.

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• "Jaws was one of the first films to be widely released on a large number of screens across the country on a single day, effectively birthing the modern-day summer blockbuster."
• The Five Ks, which are essential symbols of Sikh identity, include unshorn hair, a comb, a steel bracelet, soldiers' shorts, and a sword, and are designed to foster unity among Sikhs while symbolizing their commitment to the values of their faith.
• Sting, born Gordon Matthew Sumner, is a former member of the band The Police and has won a Golden Globe Award, as well as being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
• Juliet's phrase "Parting is such sweet sorrow" captures the paradox of feeling deep sadness at saying goodbye while simultaneously experiencing joy in the anticipation of future reunion.
• The opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth features thunder and lightning, which contribute to an eerie atmosphere and foreshadow the unnatural events that unfold as Macbeth gains power.
• The Sistine Chapel features Michelangelo's early 16th century frescoes depicting scenes from the Book of Genesis, covering an area of approximately 12,000 square feet.
• First performed in 1951, Billy Budd is based on a short novel by Herman Melville and features a plot where the character Claggart, Master-at-arms, plots to destroy his younger shipmate Billy due to his repressed feelings, leading to tragic consequences.
• The rutabaga is a fertile tetraploid hybrid between the turnip and cabbage, with a total of 38 chromosomes.
• The 1980 film "Caddyshack" features a humorous reference to the Dalai Lama through the character Carl Spackler, who describes a fictional golf experience with him, culminating in the Lama promising "total consciousness" upon death.
• George Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950 at the age of 46.

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• More than 75% of all diamonds sold are round diamonds, officially called Round Brilliant, which have 58 facets that reflect maximum light and sparkle.
• Singapore will allow the sale of nicotine gum to help smokers quit, marking a partial lift of its famous chewing gum ban that has been in place since 1992.
• Socrates willingly drank hemlock, a deadly poison, rather than abandon his principles in the pursuit of wisdom.
• The traditional site designated as "Mount Sinai" in the Sinai Peninsula has little or no supporting evidence, with biblical references suggesting that the real Mount Sinai may actually be located in present-day Saudi Arabia.
• The snake emblem of Slytherin House symbolizes cunning and ambition, linking it to both the deceitful serpent in the story of Adam and Eve and the Celtic tradition that associated wise leaders with adders, reflecting the House's complex moral character.
• Between 1948 and 1976, MV Agusta motorcycles won over 3000 races and 63 world championships overall.
• There have been 43 people sworn into office as President of the United States, and 44 presidencies, due to Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms.
• The Cornish language was spoken locally up to the 18th century and is now spoken by less than 1% of the population, but has been gradually revived since the 1980s.
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is part of a three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy, which has sold more than 50 million copies in 46 countries.
• The Southern Cross is the best known and most represented star group in the Southern Hemisphere and can be seen all year round from almost anywhere in Australia.

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• On December 3, 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal leaked 40 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas, resulting in over 2,000 immediate deaths and injuring between 150,000 to 600,000 others, with 6,000 later succumbing to their injuries.
• New Jersey has confirmed its first cases of bluetongue virus in two deer, marking a significant development as the virus had not previously been found in deer within the state.
• Wings of Desire, the top-rated horse for the Epsom Derby 2016, is a full-brother to The Lark and has shown significant improvement by winning the Dante at York, making him a strong contender despite concerns about his limited experience.
• The earliest surviving stringed instruments, the Lyres of Ur, date back to 4,500 years ago.
• Jelly Roll Morton was the first jazz composer of importance, blending spontaneity and diversity in his music, which laid the groundwork for future jazz giants like Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus.
• Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis to secure success for the Greeks in the Trojan War.
• George Entwistle will earn £450,000 per year as the BBC's new director general, which is £221,000 less than his predecessor, Mark Thompson.
• The Queen's diamond jubilee river pageant achieved a new world record for the largest parade of boats, with 419 vessels participating, surpassing the previous record of 327 boats.
• Wanda Ventham became a sex symbol in the UK in the '70s after playing Colonel Virginia Lake in the sci-fi series "UFO."
• Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, South Dakota, while claiming it was an act of revenge for the alleged killing of his brother.

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• "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran is the first Bond theme to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top 100.
• Earth, Wind & Fire became the first black band to ever sell out Madison Square Garden during their 1979 I Am tour.
• Fish can extract a greater proportion of oxygen from water using gills compared to what lungs can extract from air, due to the lower concentration of oxygen in water.
• The first species to be domesticated was the dog.
• Storm, also known as Ororo Munroe, first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 in May 1975 and is one of the most prominent leaders of the X-Men.
• The conflict in "The Phantom Menace" revolves around a trade dispute and the fate of the planet Naboo, which many viewers found to be unengaging and vague.
• Vigo the Carpathian, a character in Ghostbusters II, was born in 1505 and died in 1610, having experienced a gruesome death involving poisoning, stabbing, shooting, hanging, stretching, disemboweling, and being drawn and quartered.
• Lady Godiva, known as Godgifu, Countess of Mercia, is said to have ridden naked through the streets of Coventry to persuade her husband to lower the town's taxes, leading to the origin of the term "peeping Tom."
• The cricket teams of India and Afghanistan came together for the first time in May 2010 to play a match in St. Lucia to raise awareness and solidarity in the fight against polio.
• LADE (Lineas Aereas del Estado) is a state-owned passenger airline managed by the Argentine military, offering often cheap flights to various destinations in Argentina, particularly in Patagonia.

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• Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth just days after the Confederate surrender, on April 14, 1865, and died the following morning.
• Duncan Jones' birth prompted his father, David Bowie, to write the song "Kooks."
• The Puget Sound king crab is the largest crab in Northwest waters, with adults reaching sizes of 2-12 inches across the carapace.
• Vitamin E is an antioxidant that protects body tissue from damage caused by free radicals, which are believed to play a role in certain conditions related to aging.
• By the end of World War II, over 400,000 individuals were sterilized under the Nazi eugenics program in Germany, many within the first four years of the law's enactment.
• Mata Hari, executed by a French firing squad on October 15, 1917, was a pioneering exotic dancer whose name has become synonymous with sensuality and betrayal.
• On 14 June 1941, over 10,000 Estonians were deported to Siberia in the first mass deportation from the Baltic States.
• King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria.
• Granulocytes account for about 60% of our white blood cells.
• Red Bull has agreed to pay over $13 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of making false and misleading advertising claims, specifically regarding its slogan "Red Bull gives you wings."

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• Chris Evert was engaged to fellow tennis champion Jimmy Connors in 1974, the year they both won the Wimbledon title, but they cancelled their wedding.
• Midas was granted the power to turn everything he touched into gold by Dionysus, but he later begged to be rid of this gift when even food turned to gold.
• Huddersfield Town sold 16,000 season tickets, which is remarkable for a League One club.
• Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 for his persistent efforts to illuminate the problem of human conscience in his time.
• Brass dates back to around 500 BC.
• Rod Stewart believes that his ex-wife Rachel Hunter leaving him in 2006 was his “comeuppance” after being a womanizer for many years.
• Some scorpions are born with two tails, which is considered a genetic abnormality.
• Alfred Hitchcock forwent his salary and agreed to take everything on the back end, including percentages and ownership of Psycho, which was considered one of the brilliant deals of all time.
• The rose family, Rosaceae, includes approximately 3,100 species across about 110 genera, making it economically significant for providing numerous temperate fruits such as apples, pears, and strawberries.
• Rupert Brooke's poem "The Soldier" expresses the idea that if he dies in a foreign land, his remains will enrich that soil, making it a part of England forever.

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• Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," first performed in 1689, is his only official opera despite his prominence as a great English Baroque composer.
• Queen Elizabeth I was considered illegitimate at birth because her father, King Henry VIII, divorced his first wife without papal sanction, which led much of Europe to view her as having no right to the English throne.
• Van Mildert College is part of Durham University.
• The V&A Paintings collection includes over 2,000 miniatures, for which the Museum holds the national collection.
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson aired from October 1, 1962, to May 22, 1992, making it one of the longest-running talk shows in television history.
• "Wild Thing, written by Chip Taylor in 1965, was made famous by The Troggs in 1966 and is considered one of the most easily recognizable songs of all time."
• Pony Express riders carried word of Abraham Lincoln’s election as President from Fort Kearney, Nebraska to Placerville, California in a record 5 days.
• The bunyip is a legendary spirit or creature in Aboriginal mythology that haunts water sources and is said to cause nocturnal terror by eating people or animals nearby.
• John Huston won Oscars for both director and screenplay for his film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), while his father, Walter Huston, won the "Best Supporting Actor" trophy for his role in the same film.
• Pakistan has told civil servants not to wear socks as the country turns off air-conditioners amid a chronic power crisis and soaring temperatures, with some areas experiencing blackouts of up to 20 hours a day.

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• Britain's only poisonous snake, the Adder, is now endangered and already extinct in some counties, including Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire.
• "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time includes the original Prince of Persia 1 and 2 as added bonuses in the Xbox version."
• The Grand Canyon displays a stack of sedimentary rocks that provides a chronological record of geological history dating back to the Paleozoic Era.
• Proverbs are popularly defined as "short expressions of popular wisdom."
• Grey Hulk was the original Hulk and could only transform at night.
• "Grease was released on June 16, 1978."
• Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963, and she was also the first civilian astronaut.
• Muhammad Ali's last professional fight was on December 11, 1981, where he lost to Trevor Berbick.
• Mytacism refers to the excessive use of or fondness for, or incorrect use of the letter "m" and the sound it represents.
• Kaiser Wilhelm II's remains are draped with a flag featuring the black eagle of Prussia, and his final resting place at House Doorn was designed to evoke the atmosphere of an Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb.

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• Iron Maiden performed "22 Acacia Avenue" in Dortmund in 1983.
• The Two Ronnies' sketch "Four Candles/Fork Handles," originally broadcast on September 4, 1976, was judged by a TV audience to be the favorite of all their sketches and voted the funniest comedy moment of the 1970s by viewers of UKTV Gold's "When Were We Funniest?"
• Bernie Madoff was sentenced to the maximum of 150 years in prison for orchestrating a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, the largest in history, which defrauded thousands of investors and destroyed countless lives.
• Origami is a Japanese traditional art form that involves folding square paper into various shapes without using cuts or glue.
• The fermentation process for Theakston's beer lasts 3 to 4 days, during which the fermentable sugars are converted into alcohol, followed by an additional resting period of 3 to 4 days before transferring to storage tanks.
• Josiah Bartlet, who served as President of the United States from 1999 to 2007, was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis in 1991 but concealed his condition during his presidential campaign until he publicly disclosed it in 2001.
• The famous Easter Island statues, known as "moai," have bodies that have been gradually buried by over 500 years of erosion, with excavations revealing complex carvings on their torsos.
• More than two million people gather at the plain of ‘Arafah during Hajj, all united in worship and supplication, making it one of the largest religious gatherings in the world.
• Alvin Harrison, who was sleeping in his car just a year ago, finished third at the U.S. trials and is now considered a definite medal threat in the 400 meters.
• The Niagara River features a diverse range of fish species, including Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, Lake Trout, and Steelhead Trout, making it a prime fishing destination.

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• Kola nuts are an integral part of social life in many West African cultures, where they are chewed for their stimulating effects and often presented ceremonially to guests or chiefs.
• By the time the Jones Horse-Drawn Streetcar was built in 1875, approximately 18,000 horse cars operated on 400 street railways throughout the United States.
• Canada recorded their ninth victory in as many games at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships.
• Stalactites form from mineral-rich water dripping from cave ceilings, while stalagmites build up from water dripping onto the cave floor, eventually creating columns when they meet.
• Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" won four Academy Awards in 1977, including Best Picture.
• Yellowstone National Park is the world's first national park, designated as a World Heritage Site and a Biosphere Reserve.
• Monaco is the second smallest independent state in the world, after the Vatican, and is the world's most densely populated independent country.
• Randolph Turpin is considered one of Britain's greatest middleweights, notably defeating the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson in their first fight.
• The goldcrest, Britain's smallest bird, has reached a population of approximately 1.5 million, the highest level in 15 years.
• Playboy magazine became the first gentleman’s magazine to be printed in Braille in 1970.

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• The Vulcan katra is described as the essential essence of a person, representing their inner consciousness or soul, with exercises available to strengthen and ground it against dissolution.
• Hamlet engineers the play-within-a-play to "catch the conscience of the king," using it as a pivotal method to confirm Claudius's guilt in his father's murder.
• The term "emerald" is derived from the Greek word "smaragdus," which translates to "green," and emeralds date back as far as 330 B.C., when they were discovered by the Egyptians.
• Christian Louboutin introduced his signature red sole in 1992 and registered it as a trademark in 2008.
• Elaine Benes was added to the cast of Seinfeld because NBC executives felt the show was too male-centric and threatened not to renew it without a female character.
• The 1908 Old Age Pensions Act in the UK introduced the first general old age pension, paying a non-contributory amount of between 10p and 25p a week, starting from age 70 on a means-tested basis.
• Agamemnon's decision to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia was essential to appease the goddess Artemis and allow the Greek army to sail to Troy.
• Hashim Amla became the third player to score ODI centuries against 11 different teams, joining Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar.
• The movie "Gangs of New York" portrays the violent and chaotic history of New York City during the 1840s to the Civil War, showcasing gang fights, ethnic mob violence, and a society where democracy emerged from a "bloody Darwinian struggle."
• The flag of Indonesia, adopted on August 17, 1945, has remained unchanged since its independence from the Netherlands and features colors that have been used in the region since at least the thirteenth century.

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• The Royal Academy of Arts was founded on 10 December 1768 by King George III, with a mission to promote arts education and contemporary art exhibitions in Britain.
• Britain was responsible for the first ever animal welfare legislation, the 'Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle', passed in 1822.
• The rank of sergeant, abbreviated as Sgt, is used by most militaries and police forces worldwide, with its origins traced back to the Latin word "serviens," meaning "one who serves."
• "Family Ties" aired from 1982 to 1989 and became a top 5 or 10 show each week after a slow start, highlighting the comedic generational divide between liberal parents and their conservative son, Alex P. Keaton, played by Michael J. Fox.
• Frank McGuinness's first internationally acclaimed play is the 1985 production of "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme."
• Pérez Prado is universally known as the King of the Mambo and was the single most important musician involved in the hugely popular Latin dance craze.
• Michael Caine took his stage name from "The Caine Mutiny," a film starring Humphrey Bogart, after originally being named Maurice Micklewhite.
• The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the first time the tournament was staged in Africa.
• Don't Push It, the 2010 Grand National winner, provided jockey Tony McCoy with his first National success at the 15th attempt.
• The name "Columbus Blue Jackets" was chosen to celebrate Ohio's Civil War history, as the state contributed more residents to the Union Army than any other state.

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• Tony Parks, a rookie goalkeeper, made crucial saves in the penalty shootout to help Tottenham Hotspur defeat Anderlecht and win the UEFA Cup in 1984, marking the club's last major European triumph as of 2014.
• The word "Taser" is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle.
• The Maltese Falcon cost $327,000 to produce and was completed $54 under budget in just six weeks.
• Research shows that people will talk three to four times more than usual when the listener nods their head using groups of three nods at regular intervals.
• Yosemite National Park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.
• Ed Cox from San Francisco invented the pot scrubbing S.O.S. pads in 1917. His wife came up with the name, which stands for "Save Our Saucepans."
• From 1961 to 1994, more than 3.5 million black South Africans were forcibly removed from their homes and relocated to Bantustans under apartheid policies.
• Ice Age: The Meltdown features a score by John Powell that is noted for its playful orchestration and innovative use of percussive effects with wind and string instruments.
• Adjusting for inflation, the highest-grossing movie ever domestically is Gone With the Wind, which grossed $1.6 billion in 2014 dollars and sold roughly 200 million tickets, compared to Avatar's 97 million tickets.
• Lynne Wake retired from professional ballet at the age of 28, after eight years of continuous dancing and touring, and later became a documentary filmmaker.

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• Zeus was the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus and is known to have usurped the kingdom of the immortals from his father Cronus after forcing him to regurgitate his siblings who were swallowed at birth.
• Barack Obama's campaign strategy was significantly shaped by polling data that indicated voters viewed him as a more defined candidate than John McCain, even on attributes core to McCain's reputation.
• Claude Monet, the founder of Impressionism, often painted a series of the same view under different light and weather conditions to convey the fleeting effects of atmosphere and time on color and light.
• On February 14, 1929, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre occurs in a Chicago garage, resulting in the deaths of seven rivals of Al Capone's gang.
• In 95% of right-handers, the left side of the brain is dominant for language.
• The youngest female human to give birth, according to documented records, was Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl who was just 5 years and 8 months old at the time of delivery in 1935.
• Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion just 18 months after its launch, valuing the company at approximately $77 million per employee.
• Leicester City FC has an official website that features the latest news, photos, and videos about the club.
• The six sacred abodes of Lord Murugan, known as "Aarupadaiveedu," are located in Tamil Nadu, India, and include Tirupparamkunram, Thiruchendur, Palani, Swamimalai, Thiruthani, and Pazhamudircholai.
• The collapse of North Korea's command economy in the 1990s led to widespread famine, resulting in an estimated one million deaths, approximately 5% of the population, and stunted the growth of an entire generation of North Koreans.

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• The Royal Guardsmen's 1966 novelty song "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron" sold one million records and earned a gold disc, despite being sued by the United Features Syndicate for using the Snoopy character without permission.
• The term "Cartesian" in Cartesian coordinates is derived from the mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes, who is also known for the phrase "I think, therefore I am."
• The slogan "Because I'm Worth It" originated in 1971 when L'Oreal needed to convince consumers to spend more on their products than competitor Clairol.
• Feargal Sharkey's biggest solo hit was "A Good Heart," released in 1985, which was written by Maria McKee and produced by David A. Stewart of Eurythmics fame.
• Cleopatra is said to have died from the bite of an asp, which was smuggled into her chambers, although some ancient sources suggest she may have actually taken poison instead.
• Entertaining Mr Sloane retains its power to provoke and startle, remaining a truly amoral piece even more than 40 years after its premiere in 1964.
• Dubai could host the start of the Giro d'Italia in the next few years, as event organizers seek new funding sources for major cycling events.
• Merak, also known as Beta Ursa Major, is one of the "Keepers" or "Pointers" that help guide observers to Polaris, the North Star.
• Timmy Turner’s character in "The Fairly OddParents" evolved from a likable good kid with occasional selfishness to a jerkass by the fourth or fifth season, before returning to a more affable characterization in later seasons.
• Shari Lewis is known as a classic children's entertainer, famous for her puppets like Lamb Chop and Charlie the Horse.

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• Tony Scott's film "Top Gun" became the highest-grossing picture of 1986, earning $176.7 million.
• A reservoir can be an underground mass of rock or sediment that is porous and permeable enough to allow oil or natural gas to accumulate in it.
• The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, resulted in the loss of 2,402 American lives and the sinking or damaging of multiple battleships, yet it did not destroy any of the U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers, which were at sea during the attack.
• The annual Freedonia Marxonia Marx Brothers Film Festival and Symposium at SUNY Fredonia celebrates the connection to the 1929 film "Duck Soup," which is set in the fictional country of Freedonia.
• The Higgs boson, often referred to as the 'God Particle,' was first predicted to exist 48 years ago by physicists.
• Southpaw boxers often have a significant advantage over orthodox fighters because they are more accustomed to facing right-handed opponents, allowing them to exploit angles and tactics that the orthodox fighter is not trained to defend against.
• The original iPhone, launched in 2007, was named the Invention of the Year by Time magazine and is widely regarded as having revolutionized the mobile phone market by popularizing touchscreens and app stores.
• Marbles can be made from a wide range of materials including glass, clay, stone, steel, and even real marble, and they can vary in size from less than 1/4-inch to more than 3 inches across.
• Approximately 5,000 supporters participated in a march in Union City, NJ, to show solidarity with the "Ladies in White" movement in Cuba, which protests the imprisonment and treatment of political prisoners.
• During their heyday in the 1980s, Cannon and Ball were barely on speaking terms and would completely avoid each other outside of performing and rehearsing.

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• Lena Headey will voice the character U.S. Secret Agent Jeopardy Mouse in the new reboot of the iconic 80s animation series Danger Mouse.
• King George Tupou V announced the dismantling of Tonga's semi-feudal political system in favor of a more democratically elected parliament during his coronation ceremony.
• Mozilla launched its first internet health report, aiming to raise awareness about the erosion of key aspects that made the internet great over the past five years.
• The 946 AD eruption of Mount Baekdu, known as the "Millennium eruption," was one of the largest and most violent eruptions in the last 5,000 years, with a Volcanic Explosivity Index rating of 7.
• Aretha Franklin's version of "Respect," originally by Otis Redding, includes the iconic "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" refrain that wasn't in the original, making her rendition arguably more famous than the original.
• Ahmed al-Bakr led a bloodless coup in 1968 that established the Baath Party in firm control of Iraq.
• The last time the River Thames froze over was in 1814, leading to the end of the tradition of "Frost Fairs" that had begun in 1607.
• Jack Palance did not see the movie "City Slickers" until after he won the Oscar for his role in it.
• The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper has an average heat level of over 1.2 million Scoville heat units, making it many thousand times hotter than a jalapeno.
• Thurso is mainland Scotland's most northerly town and is home to the country's most northerly railway station.

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• "Fritz Lang's 1931 film 'M' features Peter Lorre as a child-murderer who is almost portrayed as the hero, highlighting the ineptitude of police and the hypocrisy of society."
• Disney World, opened in the early 1970s in central Florida, became an essential yardstick for resort development across America and the world, outshining competitors like Sea World and Busch Gardens.
• On 25 June 2004, Janet Royall was created Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, becoming a member of the House of Lords.
• Rapunzel's story is rooted in Grimm fairy tales, highlighting themes of betrayal and confinement.
• Allan Quatermain first appeared in literature in 1885 and has influenced iconic characters like Tarzan and Indiana Jones.
• Oncologists often earn in the highest physician compensation range, making oncology one of the most financially rewarding medical careers.
• The French Republican Calendar, created during the French Revolution, was used by the French government for about 12 years and featured a system where each month consisted of three ten-day weeks called décades, replacing Sunday with a day of rest known as décadi.
• Lionel Bart, who could not read or write music, hummed the melodies for his musical "Oliver!" while Eric Rogers transcribed them into musical notation.
• Red Bull has agreed to reimburse over $6 million to consumers for false advertising related to its slogan "Red Bull gives you wings."
• Schengen countries normally do not require citizens to show their passports when crossing frontiers between one Schengen country and another.

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• On October 21, 2015, the date that Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to in Back to the Future Part II, will finally arrive, marking 30 years since the film's original release in 1985.
• Urtication involves the deliberate application of stinging nettles to the skin to provoke inflammation and enhance sexual sensation.
• Ottorino Respighi's children's opera, La bella dormente nel bosco (Sleeping Beauty), completed in 1921, is regarded as his best stage work.
• Apollo 13 was nominated for 9 Oscars and won 2, despite predictions that it would win the Best Picture Oscar, which ultimately went to "Braveheart."
• The Welsh gold royal tradition dates back 88 years to the marriage of Prince William's great-grandparents, with the original gold nugget used for royal wedding rings now reduced to just one gram.
• Tunis is the capital city of Tunisia, known for its rich history and attractions such as the Bardo National Museum and the ancient ruins of Carthage.
• A study published in the journal Laryngoscope found that ear candles did not produce a vacuum or negative pressure and that the waxy remains consisted of substances found in candle wax but not in ear wax.
• Japan's Selene lunar orbit explorer, also known as KAGUYA, is the country's first large lunar explorer and represents the largest lunar mission since the U.S. Apollo program.
• By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for seventy-two years
• The Río Negro Department in Uruguay has a population of 54,765 inhabitants and covers an area of 9,282 km² (3,585 sq mi).

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• Buxton was known as Aquae Arnemetiae, which translates to "spa of the goddess of the grove," during Roman times around AD 70.
• Elton John has sold more than 250 million records worldwide and holds the record for the biggest selling single of all time.
• The banjo is considered the only truly American instrument, evolving from the gourd banjer played by African slaves into its present form in the United States.
• Kid Ory was one of the first musicians to codify the role of the trombone in classic three-part contrapuntal jazz improvisation.
• Sandro Botticelli, originally named Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, was influenced by the monk Savonarola and reportedly destroyed some of his own paintings in the Bonfire of the Vanities in 1497.
• Pérez Prado's hit "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" spent ten weeks at number one on the pop charts, making it one of the biggest instrumental hits of all time.
• Vienna's Donaustadt district is home to the United Nations Headquarters and the largest development project in Central Europe at Aspern.
• At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home, and her family for the young woman she loves.
• A baby weasel was photographed riding a woodpecker in Essex, UK, which led to a viral internet phenomenon, but it was actually trying to kill the bird rather than simply enjoying a free ride.
• The whole plant of Meadow Buttercup is extremely acrid and can cause intense pain and burning of the mouth, mucous membranes, and skin.

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• Geoffrey Fletcher became the first black scriptwriter to win the Oscar for Best Screenplay, for Precious (2009).
• "Sing a Song of Sixpence features the unusual imagery of twenty-four blackbirds that sing when a pie is opened."
• Jan Christiaan Smuts was the only person to sign the peace treaties ending both the First and Second World Wars, as well as the charters of both the League of Nations and the United Nations.
• Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems, but was virtually unknown during her lifetime, with only a few published, often anonymously.
• The first UN Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, was elected as a compromise candidate after the United States and Soviet Union blocked each other's preferred candidates, highlighting the political tensions of the era.
• Arnold Schoenberg developed the "method of composing with twelve tones," which is known today as dodecaphonic serialism, fundamentally changing the landscape of modern music.
• Velvet Ants are actually flightless female wasps, and the family is known as Mutillidae.
• The Northern Ireland Assembly is unique among democratic parliaments because it requires separate majorities of Nationalist and Unionist members for certain decisions to be passed, rather than a single majority.
• The River Severn is 6 miles (10 km) longer than the River Thames, making it the longest river in Great Britain.
• West Side Story, completed in 1957, is a groundbreaking American musical that is a jazzy adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set against a backdrop of racial gang warfare in 20th-century New York.

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• Exeter was originally named Isca Dumnoniorum by the Romans and served as the center for the early British tribe, the Dumnonii.
• Algophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of pain, characterized by excessive anxiety beyond what is expected under the circumstances.
• The Masters Tournament is the only major golf tournament held at the same location every year, specifically at Augusta National Golf Club.
• The Republic of Turkey is defined as a democratic, secular, and social state governed by the rule of law, with its characteristics enshrined in the Constitution.
• Hilary Swank has won two Oscars, with her first win in 1999 for "Boys Don't Cry" and her second in 2004 for "Million Dollar Baby."
• The Sun comprises 99.87 percent of the mass of the solar system, with most of the remaining 0.13 percent residing in Jupiter.
• The character of Chewbacca was inspired by George Lucas’ big, hairy Alaskan malamute, Indiana, who would sit in the passenger seat of Lucas' car like a copilot.
• In a 2004 Internet poll, Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew were voted Britain's favorite cinematic scientists, beating Mr. Spock by a margin of 2 to 1.
• Chester Carlson invented the process of electrophotography, which led to the creation of xerography and the first successful plain-paper copier, the Xerox 914, which sold more units in six months than projected for its entire lifetime.
• Twickenham Stadium, widely regarded as the home of world rugby, has an all-seater capacity of 75,000, making it the second largest sports stadium in England after Wembley.

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• The music video for "Jump" by Kris Kross was originally released in 1992.
• The project "American Values through Film" involved collaboration from teachers and scholars across 23 institutions in 18 cities throughout the Russian Federation.
• Johnnie Ray became the first American performer to draw crowds in Australia in 1954.
• Prufrock's experience of time and space is so subjective that he exists in an "eternal present," where past, present, and future feel equally immediate, rendering him paralyzed and unable to take action.
• Max Mosley won a French privacy action against the News of the World and was awarded £32,000 in damages after the court found the newspaper guilty of violating his privacy with a false article about a Nazi-themed orgy.
• Croatia offers a unique variety of regions, including towns, mountains, islands, forests, and beaches, all within a comparatively small country.
• Harry Houdini died from a burst appendix after being unexpectedly punched in the stomach by a man who asked if he was strong enough to take punches.
• During the Peloponnesian War, a devastating plague broke out in Athens in 430 B.C., leading to the deaths of between one-third and two-thirds of the Athenian population, including the prominent general Pericles.
• Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche's censorship and manipulation of her brother Friedrich Nietzsche's works significantly contributed to the misinterpretation of his philosophy as supporting anti-Semitic and Darwinist ideologies, which later influenced Nazi ideology.
• The Portuguese may have been the first Europeans to discover Australia and New Zealand, predating the Dutch and English explorers.

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• BP was found at fault for 21 of the 35 factors contributing to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
• The tamaraw, a dwarf buffalo endemic to Mindoro, is in acute danger of extinction.
• In 1978, Georgi Markov was assassinated in London when a tiny hollow sphere containing ricin was injected into his leg using a specially designed umbrella, leading to his death within three days.
• Eggs Benedict can be made with slices of smoked salmon instead of bacon.
• Olga Korbut won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics while competing for the USSR team in 1972 and 1976.
• Peter Paul Rubens spent eight years in Italy, where he created some of the most important altarpieces for the Catholic church before returning to Antwerp.
• True Grit, a classic Western film from 1970, stars John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, who is hired by a young girl to find her father's murderer.
• The maillot à pois rouges, or polka dot jersey, is worn by the King of the Mountains in the Tour de France, awarded to riders who are first to reach the top of designated climbs categorized by difficulty.
• David Bowie's upcoming album, The Next Day, is his first in nearly a decade and marks his 30th studio recording.
• The episode "Jose Carreras: A Life Story" won the Huw Wheldon Award for the Best Arts Programme.

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• Corley Services, located near the M6 motorway in Warwickshire, England, was opened in 1972 and is operated by Welcome Break.
• Labyrinth was a box office disappointment, grossing only $12,729,917 against a budget of $25 million, which demoralized Jim Henson during a difficult period in his career.
• Cologne's cathedral is the largest gothic church north of the Alps, with twin towers standing 157 meters high.
• The Altamont concert is primarily remembered for the violence instigated by the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, including the murder of concert-goer Meredith Hunter by Hell's Angel Alan Passaro, who was later acquitted after claiming self-defense.
• The standard size for plywood or hardboard panels used in room paneling is 4×8 feet, but for high ceilings, 4×10 foot sheets can be ordered.
• Cubism marked a decisive break from representative painting over a period of seven years leading up to 1914, reflecting a radical fissure in politics, art, and culture.
• The lateen sail, which originated during the early Roman Empire, became the standard rig for Mediterranean vessels by the 6th century, largely replacing the square sail throughout the region.
• Absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature, is equal to -273.15°C (or 0 K), at which all molecular activity theoretically ceases, and it has never been reached in laboratory experiments.
• Harry Truman's middle name is actually "S," so there is no period after his initial.
• The Explorer’s Garden celebrates the efforts of Scottish plant hunters who took great risks to introduce various plants to gardens worldwide, with notable contributions including the monkey puzzle tree and numerous species of primulas and rhododendrons.

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• Hilary Mantel's next book, titled The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, will feature the former prime minister as a character but will not include Thomas Cromwell, the focus of her previous Man Booker Prize-winning novels.
• The Hood, the main antagonist of the Thunderbirds series, is known to have supernatural powers and operates from a hidden temple deep in the Malaysian jungle.
• Sophie Marceau's character, Elektra King, is the first female Bond supervillain in "The World Is Not Enough" (1999).
• By the fall of 1958, approximately 750,000 agricultural producers' cooperatives had been amalgamated into about 23,500 people's communes in China, each averaging 5,000 households.
• Recent forensic analysis suggests that the remains found at Masada, long believed to belong to Jewish heroes, may actually be those of Roman soldiers and a foreign woman who was captured by Zealots.
• The fastest 100 m egg-and-spoon race record is held by Ashrita Furman, completed in 19.39 seconds.
• The homebrew revolution has begun, with craft beer being made by individuals at home, often exceeding their expectations despite initial mishaps.
• Mountains cover over 90% of Tajikistan, making it one of the most mountainous countries in the world.
• Gyeongbokgung Palace was originally completed in 1395 and served as the heart of the capital of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty, but it was destroyed by fire during the Japanese invasion of 1592-1598 and left in ruins for the next 270 years.
• Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon four times outside the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan on December 8, 1980, and then began reading J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" while waiting for the police to arrive.

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• Saffron is still the most expensive spice in the world, with a pound representing 75,000 blossoms handpicked from each flower.
• Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind, which has sold more than 30 million copies and is one of the most popular books of all time.
• Calvin and Hobbes was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on December 31, 1995.
• Artemis was born one day before her twin brother Apollo and immediately assisted her mother in giving birth to him, marking the beginning of her role as the guardian of young children and patron of women in childbirth.
• The term ‘the ashes’ originated in 1882 when a journalist mockingly stated that after England’s defeat by Australia, “the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.”
• Betty Ford helped create the original celebrity rehab, paving the way for the treatment of Hollywood's elite at the center that bears her name.
• Ajax, known as "Telamonian Ajax" or "Ajax the Great," was considered the second strongest Greek warrior in the Trojan War after Achilles.
• Teampull Bheanain, located on the Aran Islands, is thought to be the smallest church in the world.
• Cascal soda uses a double-fermentation process to create juice-based flavor profiles that are lightly carbonated and free from sugar, artificial colors, and preservatives.
• SpongeBob SquarePants is an energetic sea sponge who lives in a sea pineapple and works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab.

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• The AB pod of resident killer whales has been recovering for 22 years since the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, but has still not reached pre-spill population numbers.
• Christina was the last Vasa monarch of Sweden, reigning from 1632 until her abdication in 1654 to convert to Catholicism.
• The Camaro was first shown at a press preview on September 12, 1966, and officially went on sale on September 29, 1966, for the 1967 model year.
• "On the Waterfront" won eight Academy Awards in 1954, matching two other films that also achieved eight wins, but those films had thirteen nominations.
• The Tian Shan mountain range extends 2,500 km east-to-west across Central Asia and features over 2,500 species of vascular plants, making it one of the most biodiverse desert mountain ranges in the region.
• The Ten Commandments were given by God to the Israelites as a foundational ethical code, emphasizing the importance of worship, moral conduct, and community responsibility.
• Approximately 300 species of Lessepsian migrants have been documented in the Eastern Mediterranean as a result of the Suez Canal's construction, allowing for the movement of marine species between the Mediterranean and Red Seas.
• Europe includes 51 independent states, with Russia being the largest and Vatican City the smallest.
• The second battle of Ypres marked the first use of lethal chlorine gas in warfare, creating an 8,000-yard gap in the Allied lines.
• The animated film Yellow Submarine, released in 1968, was designed to appeal more to hippies and adult fans of the Beatles than to children, breaking the traditional target audience for animated productions.

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• Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending was originally composed for piano and violin in 1914, but the orchestral version premiered in London on June 14, 1921, featuring an innovative combination of instruments including two flutes, two clarinets, and strings.
• Will Rogers is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records for simultaneously throwing three ropes at a horse—one around the rider, one around the neck, and one around all four legs.
• Mercury travels about 48 km (30 miles) per second, making it the fastest planet in the solar system.
• The term "Amanuensis" refers to a literary or artistic assistant, particularly one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts.
• The Welsh national anthem, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau," was composed by a father and son duo, Evan James and James James.
• The term "Mandarin" comes from the Portuguese word "mandarim," which was used to refer to Chinese bureaucratic officials, reflecting a misunderstanding of the connection between their role and the Sanskrit word for "official."
• Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes was published in 1917 and is the 22nd book in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books.
• In 328 BC, Alexander the Great introduced some form of genuflection already in use in Persia into his court etiquette.
• Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick, becoming the first player to do so in a World Cup final, leading England to a 4-2 victory over West Germany in 1966.
• Andy Murray aims to become the first player in the 126-year history of the Aegon Championships to win the tournament five times.

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• Lacrosse, one of the oldest team sports in the Americas, may have developed as early as the 12th century and was traditionally played by teams consisting of 100 to 1,000 men on fields that could stretch from 500 yards to a couple of miles long, with games lasting two to three days.
• Lisa Marie Presley gave birth to fraternal twin daughters on October 7, 2008.
• Ronald Reagan, nicknamed "The Gipper," was elected as California governor with 58 percent of the vote while the state was in a massive financial crisis, and he turned a significant deficit into a surplus by cutting government spending and surprisingly raising taxes.
• Cape Cod is home to Sandwich, which was incorporated in 1639 and is the oldest town on Cape Cod.
• The term "mu" is used in philosophy as the correct answer to the trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?", indicating that the question is based on incorrect assumptions.
• Richard III was granted Barnard Castle as part of the Neville inheritance in 1475, where he likely undertook some building work, evidenced by his boar badge seen on a slab over an oriel window.
• The horse has the largest eye of any land mammal.
• Rubus odoratus, commonly known as flowering raspberry, features fragrant, 2-inch wide, rose-purple flowers that bloom from June to August and can grow 3 to 6 feet tall with a spread of 6 to 12 feet.
• Golf manufacturers produce the equipment that fills up a golfer's bag.
• Bobby Cox managed for 29 seasons and holds the record for being ejected from games a record 158 times.

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• Thomas Hood is known for having mortgaged his brain with his publishers in return for a cash advance.
• The largest snowman in the world, named Olympia Snowe, was made in Bethel, Maine, USA, in 2008 and stood 122 feet 1 inch (37.21 m) tall.
• Rory McIlroy's sponsorship deal with Nike could be worth as much as $250 million over ten years, depending on performance incentives.
• Bono's real name is Paul Hewson.
• John Constable's most famous painting, "The Hay Wain," was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1821 but failed to find a buyer at that time.
• Several hundred civilians were shot dead by the Chinese army during a military operation to crush a democratic protest in Tiananmen Square.
• The ITV sitcom "George And The Dragon" aired 26 episodes over 4 series from 1966 to 1968, starring Sid James as the lecherous chauffeur George Russell.
• Jupiter has a mass of 1.898 octillion kilograms, which is more than 317 times the mass of Earth, making it the largest planet in the solar system.
• Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper depicts a dramatic moment not previously illustrated in art, capturing the apostles' varied emotional reactions to Christ's revelation that one of them will betray him.
• Foreigner's self-titled debut album sold four million copies in 1977, establishing the band as superstars almost immediately.

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• Tulisa was a member of the hip hop group N-Dubz, which released three studio albums before announcing their split in 2012.
• Jon Voight expressed pride in calling Brad Pitt his son-in-law, despite not being invited to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's secret wedding.
• Tchaikovsky's final opera, Iolanta, was originally composed as part of a double bill with his Nutcracker ballet.
• The theme song "GoldenEye" was written by Bono and The Edge, and performed by Tina Turner.
• The Killarney Park Hotel is one of the premier five-star hotels in County Kerry, set on its own private grounds and featuring 69 rooms and suites with stunning views.
• Knots have mathematical implications and are the subject of study in knot theory.
• Maggie Tulliver's most significant life event occurs when she discovers a book of Thomas a Kempis's writings during her family's bankruptcy, leading her to adopt a life of deprivation and penance.
• The annual world production of silk represents 70 billion miles of silk filament, a distance well over 300 round trips to the sun.
• The U.S. Mint sold only 177,339 medals of the 2011 September 11 National Medal from a maximum mintage of 2 million over two years, which is less than 9 percent of its allowable mintage.
• Many saints recognized by the Catholic Church were imperfect individuals who sinned and experienced doubt before their eventual turnaround.

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• Every seven years, the Flying Dutchman, condemned to roam the sea for defying God, is cast ashore to seek redemption through the love of a faithful woman willing to sacrifice her life for him.
• The stylised Silver Fern has been a New Zealand icon for over 160 years and symbolizes the growth of the nation and its multicultural society.
• The Avengers became the first British program to receive a primetime slot in the US.
• Some of the aliens from "The Outer Limits" later appeared in "Star Trek."
• Chris Froome, a Kenyan-born Brit, emerged as the Tour de France favorite in 2013 after a dominant performance at the Critérium du Dauphiné, where he did not lose to any overall rival in a time trial that year.
• "You Sexy Thing" is the only song to have reached the British top 10 in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.
• Rogers Centre, originally known as SkyDome, was Canada's first retractable-roof stadium and was completed in May 1989 at a final cost of approximately $570 million CAD.
• The Champion Target Sporting Clays Skeet & Trap Targets are designed in a high visibility solid orange color for improved visibility during use.
• Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier from "The Artist," demonstrated a remarkable understanding of acting by trying to pull a prop gun away from his co-star Jean Dujardin during a tense scene, showcasing an emotional response that surprised his trainers.
• Sean Connery was offered up to 15% of the worldwide box office receipts to play Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings series, which could have earned him as much as $400 million.

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• In 1983, Australia II won the America's Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year winning streak.
• Amr Shabana became the oldest professional to win a World Series title by defeating Gregory Gaultier in the finals of the Tournament of Champions in 2014.
• The San Siro Stadium, inaugurated on September 19, 1926, originally had an attendance of over 35,000 spectators for its inaugural match, where Inter defeated Milan 6-3.
• Charlie Chaplin's film "The Great Dictator" was released in 1940 and is notable for being a satirical take on Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.
• Dawn French will reprise her role as the vicar in a Comic Relief sketch for 2015, centering on the election of a female Bishop of Dibley, following the Church of England's decision to allow women bishops.
• Louie Bellson was the only white member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra during his tenure from 1951 to 1953.
• Malta's recorded history dates back to around 800 BC, but unique ruins show that the Islands were inhabited as far back as 5000 BC.
• Algeria is the second largest country on the African continent and the 11th largest country in the world by total area.
• Hal-an-Tow is an ancient ritual song from Helston, Cornwall, that is sung during the Furry Day celebration on May 8, which involves a procession and dancing through the streets.
• Elle Macpherson holds the record for the most number of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover photos.

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• Synchronised is aiming to be the first horse to complete the Gold Cup-Grand National double in the same season since Golden Miller in 1934.
• Sweden has won the Eurovision Song Contest six times, more than any other nation apart from Ireland.
• In 2010, not one of the ten highest grossing films was expected to win the Best Picture Oscar, with only Toy Story 3 considered a long shot for a nomination.
• Sugaring, a natural hair removal method, uses a mixture of water, lemon, and sugar and is applied at a lower temperature than traditional wax, reducing the risk of skin irritation.
• George Washington had a serious fear of premature burial, which he expressed on his deathbed by asking his attendants to leave his body out for two days in case he was still alive.
• Hildegard of Bingen is the first composer whose biographical details are known, and she was probably the most accomplished woman of her time, founding and administering convents while writing theological, botanical, medicinal texts, and the first surviving morality play.
• Millicent Martin became known to British television audiences as the resident singer of topical songs on the original British version of the weekly satire show That Was The Week That Was (1962-63).
• Kincade is the former gamekeeper of the Bond family estate in Glencoe, who remains at Skyfall Lodge despite no members of the Bond family continuing to live there.
• Rhode Island is the smallest US state in geographical area.
• Tanzania was formed as a sovereign state in 1964 through the union of the previously separate states of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

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• Chablis wines are made from 100% Chardonnay grapes that often never fully ripen due to the region's northern location, leading to varying quality levels.
• The unusual hardness of garnets, rated at approximately 7 on the Mohs scale, makes non-jewelry garnets effective for use in sandpaper.
• A Belgian Islamist group raided by police had potential attack targets in Antwerp, including the main railway station.
• The pituitary gland is often referred to as the "master gland" because it controls several other hormone-releasing glands in the body, including the thyroid gland, ovaries, testicles, and adrenal glands.
• Imelda Staunton is nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as a back-street abortionist in the film Vera Drake, a performance that has already garnered her multiple awards at prestigious film festivals.
• The Guru Granth Sahib is considered the Supreme Spiritual Authority of Sikhism, rather than a living person, and uniquely includes writings from both its own founders and other faiths.
• The name "Borshch" derives from the Slavic word "borshchevik," which means hogweed, historically used to add color to the soup.
• Dick Tracy made his debut in the Chicago Tribune on October 12th, 1931, and was inspired by real-life figures such as gangbuster Eliot Ness and fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
• Abraham Zapruder's film of the Kennedy assassination, which lasted 26 seconds, captured the most dramatic and horrific single event of the century and was filmed from a vantage point that he chose despite suffering from vertigo.
• 1 Farad (F) is equal to 1,000,000 Microfarads (µF).

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• Meatloaf stars as Travis W. Redfish, an engineering genius who becomes known as the greatest roadie that ever lived in the cult classic film "Roadie."
• Barney’s New York became the first clothing store in the U.S. to stock the full line of Giorgio Armani after signing an agreement in 1976, thus introducing the designer to the American public.
• The Sten gun was developed during World War II and named after its inventors, R.V. Shepherd and H.J. Turpin, using their initials.
• The first humans in Ireland crossed in wooden boats from Scotland to what is now county Antrim around 8000 BC, making it one of the last places in Europe to be settled by humans.
• The New Zealand national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks, has a winning record against every country they have played and has only been defeated by five nations since their international debut in 1903.
• In June 1997, volcanic eruptions on Montserrat killed 19 people and destroyed nearly 2.7 square miles (7 square km) of land, significantly altering the island's landscape and leading to the abandonment of its capital, Plymouth.
• Cyndi Lauper's official music video for "Time After Time" was uploaded to YouTube on October 25, 2009.
• Barbie, named after Ruth Handler's daughter, made her debut at the New York Toy Fair in March 1959, and more than 351,000 dolls were sold that year at $3 each, leading to her becoming the best-selling toy in the world with over one billion dolls sold since then.
• No two zebras have the same stripe pattern, making their stripes similar to human fingerprints.
• Strawberries can be grown in almost any type of container, including hanging baskets and stackable towers, as long as they have adequate drainage holes.

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• Current reverse osmosis desalinization facilities can produce potable water for 68 to 90 cents per cubic meter, making it increasingly affordable as technology improves.
• Michael Billington has been the drama critic for The Guardian since 1971, making him "Britain's longest-serving theatre critic."
• Skaro, the home planet of the Daleks, was said to have been destroyed when its sun went supernova, resulting in the planet being ripped apart, yet it was later claimed by the Daleks that Skaro had not actually been destroyed.
• Robin Williams voices a dog in "Almost Anything," one of his last performances, alongside the surviving members of Monty Python, marking their first appearance together in a feature film since "The Meaning of Life."
• The name Nike comes from the ancient Greek winged goddess of victory.
• Kodak introduced 8mm film for the home market in 1932, utilizing a special 16mm film design that allowed filmmakers to expose both halves of the film, similar to an audiocassette.
• The human eye contains about 6.5 million cones, which are responsible for detailed visual acuity and color perception.
• Norton Canes services is one of Roadchef's most profitable sites and operates under a 25-year contract that will expire in 2029.
• The Worcestershire A-Z County Atlas includes 136 pages of street mapping that feature all the major towns and villages in the county.
• A prefix is a word or letter(s) placed at the beginning of another word to adjust or qualify its usage or meaning.

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• Norman Rockwell painted a total of 321 original covers for The Saturday Evening Post over a span of 47 years.
• Basil Rathbone disguised himself as a tree to gather intelligence near the enemy camp during World War I, which led to his receiving the British Military Cross for outstanding bravery.
• Wouter Weylandt became the first cyclist to die during the Giro d'Italia since 1986, marking a rare and tragic occurrence in professional cycling.
• Founding Oasis guitarist Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs is set to join Liam Gallagher for a one-off supergroup performance alongside Roger Daltrey, Zak Starkey, and Ian Broudie, which will air in the U.K. on June 12, 2015.
• The highest point in Central America is the inactive volcano Tajumulco, which stands at 13,816 feet (4,211 meters).
• Malachite has been used since ancient times by Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans for jewelry and as a cosmetic, ground into powder for eye shadow.
• Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories in Canada, is located approximately 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle and was founded in 1934 after gold was discovered in the area.
• Chuck Berry's song "Maybellene," an adaptation of the country song "Ida Red," sold over a million copies and reached No. 1 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart after its release in 1955.
• Gardiner Dam is located at the latitude and longitude coordinates of 51.266667 and -106.866667 in Saskatchewan, Canada.
• The Davy lamp, invented by Sir Humphry Davy, uses a fine wire gauze to prevent flames from igniting flammable gases in coal mines, but if the flame is allowed to heat the gauze to white hot, it can cause an explosion.

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• Heligoland is the only German island not located in the immediate vicinity of the mainland, situated 46 kilometers off the German coastline in the North Sea.
• In Afrikaans, the idiom for heavy rain translates to "it rains old women with knobkerries" (clubs).
• More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States
• Half of patients with chronic glaucoma are unaware they have the condition due to the absence of warning symptoms.
• The Four Seasons violin concertos are widely considered among Vivaldi's greatest works.
• "Chi-mo" is a derogatory term for a child molester, considered the worst of the rapo class in the eyes of convicts.
• John Wayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in "True Grit" at the 42nd Annual Academy Awards in 1970.
• Raman microspectroscopy has been demonstrated as a useful method for visualizing the distribution of polysaccharides in the tomato cell wall, distinguishing between cellulose and pectins with minimally prepared samples.
• When estimating the standard deviation from a sample rather than the entire population, the formula changes to use "N-1" instead of "N," a correction known as "Bessel's correction."
• The 2000 U.S. presidential election was so close that Florida's final vote count changed from a margin of over 1,700 votes for Bush to just over 300 votes after recounts.

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• The Episcopal Church has 2 million members in 7,500 congregations across the United States.
• The Boston Celtics won 11 of 13 NBA championships from 1957 to 1969, a record for the four major North American team sports.
• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
• Commedia dell'arte established itself across the piazzas of Italy from the 1530s onwards, evolving from street performances into a popular form of entertainment embraced by both the public and the aristocracy.
• The idea of quality assurance in the Swedish health care sector began as a fad in the mid-1980s and was institutionalized as a law by 1997.
• The Peace of Utrecht, signed on April 11, 1713, consists of 22 treaties, marking a significant conclusion to the War of the Spanish Succession.
• The Nicola apple boasts an outstanding shelf life of up to five months without losing texture or juiciness.
• Yehudi Menuhin began playing the violin at the age of four and made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at seven.
• Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. President born an American citizen, as he was born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
• Richard Wagner was known for his extreme artistic ambitions, with one critic describing his music as "the art of translating, by subtle gradations, all that is excessive, immense, ambitious in spiritual and natural mankind."

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• The Manx Loaghtan sheep is a primitive breed that is on the watch list of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.
• Danny Glover stars as John Henry, the legendary steel-driving man of American folklore.
• The Black Eyed Peas' album "The E.N.D." features hit songs like "Boom Boom Pow," "I Gotta Feeling," and "Imma Be," which are known for their energetic beats that encourage dancing.
• Thor's hammer, Mjölnir, is so vital to his strength that when it was stolen by the giants, he disguised himself as a bride to retrieve it, ultimately killing the giant Thrym and his household upon its return.
• The abacus is thought to have originated in Babylon about 5,000 years ago and is still commonly used today in countries like Japan, China, the Middle East, and Russia.
• Feste, the fool in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, serves as a self-contained commentator on the actions of other characters, highlighting the contrast between his true wit and the unconscious foolishness of those around him.
• John Surtees is the only person in history to have won both the MotoGP and Formula 1 world titles.
• Gustav von Aschenbach, an aging writer, abandons his morality and dignity as he falls in love with the beautiful, innocent boy Tadzio while in Venice.
• Quicksilver, or mercury, is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
• Constantinople, founded by Emperor Constantine the Great, served as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire before being conquered by Turkish forces in the fifteenth century.

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• Sivan, the 3rd month of the Hebrew calendar, is significant as it marks the season of Pentecost (Shavuot), which commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and is also associated with the wheat harvest.
• Prior to 2006, Honey Nut Cheerios included actual nuts in its ingredients.
• The current version of the kyat was introduced in 1952, following a period of currency instability that included the introduction and subsequent withdrawal of several other currencies.
• Soave Classico wines are produced predominantly from a minimum of 70% Garganega grapes, with the remainder being Chardonnay and/or Trebbiano di Soave.
• The capital city of Afghanistan is Kabul.
• Roger Tilling is the voice of University Challenge, the world’s longest running quiz show.
• Atlanta is the primary transportation hub of the Southeastern United States, with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world's busiest airport since 1998.
• The rarest and costliest caviar comes from beluga sturgeon that swim in the Caspian Sea, with wild caviar production now surviving only in Azerbaijan and Iran.
• Finnish and Estonian began separating from each other as far back as the first century A.D.
• The term "hocus-pocus" is commonly associated with trickery or chicanery and originates as a sham-Latin invocation used by magicians.

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• Burkina Faso was originally called Upper Volta and gained independence from France on August 5, 1960.
• The Music Man KIDS is based on Meredith Willson's six-time Tony Award-winning musical comedy.
• Frank Sinatra's song "My Way" reflects a life lived with personal conviction and authenticity, emphasizing the importance of self-identity.
• Michael Gove apologized to his former French teacher 30 years after misbehaving in class, expressing regret for his behavior as a 15-year-old student.
• For every 12 jobs created in cities in the South of England between 2004 and 2013, only one job was created in cities elsewhere in the UK.
• Nagasaki Prefecture consists of 971 inhabited and uninhabited islands, making it a region of significant geographical diversity.
• The term "Neo-Impressionism" was coined by Felix Feneon in the 1880s to describe a movement of artists reacting to the Impressionist style, notably including Paul Signac and Georges Seurat.
• Funafuti is the most populated atoll of Tuvalu, encircling the Funafuti lagoon and home to approximately 4,500 people.
• Adele's "Skyfall" won an Oscar, highlighting the significant impact of title songs in the James Bond franchise.
• El Carnaval del Pais is Argentina’s version of Mardi Gras, celebrated with parades, elaborate costumes, and dancing, with the biggest celebration taking place in Gualeguaychu.

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• Mars may resurrect the Marathon chocolate bar 18 years after it was renamed Snickers in the UK.
• June Middleton held the Guinness World Record for spending the longest time in an iron lung, confined to it for 60 years.
• The Great Yorkshire Showground's proposed new exhibition hall will increase lettable event space from 5,372m² to 6,270m², with a project cost of £10 million, making it the largest investment ever undertaken by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.
• SpongeBob SquarePants is described as a character who is innocent, forgiving, honest, optimistic, loving, sensitive, and selfless, making him a rare and refreshing presence in television.
• The Flag of the Isle of Man features a triskelion, a symbol of three legs that represent the motto "quocunque jeceris stabit" (wherever you throw it, it will stand).
• Michael Schumacher's Benetton-Ford B191B, the car he drove to his first podium finish at the 1992 Mexican Grand Prix, is set to be auctioned for up to £300,000.
• Six Musical Moments, Op. 16, was composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between October and December 1896.
• Shivnarine Chanderpaul scored a 69-ball century against Australia in 2003, making him the fastest to reach three figures among left-handers, even faster than the aggressive Chris Gayle.
• Hotel Wawel occupies a 16th-century building that has been redesigned in Art Nouveau style.
• The Philippines is made up of 7,107 islands, totaling about 300,000 sq. km. (117,187 sq. mi.).

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• The secret ingredient in the Beef and Black Bean Chili recipe is cocoa powder, which adds deep flavor to the dish.
• The 'Green Jacket' is presented to the winner of The Masters Golf Tournament.
• The year 2013 is written in Roman numerals as MMXIII.
• Laurence Fox, best known for his role as Detective Sergeant James Hathaway in the British TV drama series "Lewis," was expelled from Harrow School shortly before his A-levels due to his rebellious behavior, which included smoking and fighting.
• Dai Greene won the gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
• Holy water is distinguished into four types in Roman Catholic rituals: holy water per se, baptismal holy water, Gregorian water, and Easter water.
• Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States on August 21, 1959.
• The Dave Clark Five was the first British band of the British Invasion to tour the US and made 18 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, the most of any British Invasion group.
• "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" theme, composed by Ennio Morricone, was included on the 1966 film's soundtrack and later became a pop hit with a cover version by Hugo Montenegro in 1968.
• The River Trent has been used as a navigation since Roman times and serves as a vital commercial link between the Midlands and the Humber Estuary.

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• The Albert Memorial, commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her husband Prince Albert, was designed in the Gothic Revival style and took over ten years to complete, costing £120,000 (equivalent to about £10,000,000 in 2010).
• Italy became a nation on 17 March 1861, uniting various states under King Victor Emmanuel II.
• The NSW contingent's deployment to Sudan in 1885 marked the first time that soldiers from a self-governing Australian colony fought in an imperial war.
• Dwayne Johnson was the first third-generation superstar in WWE history.
• Basil Rathbone was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1892 and fled the country with his family at the age of three due to his father's accusation of being a British spy amid the Boer War.
• Catherine Tate was born as Catherine Ford on May 12, 1968, in Bloomsbury, London, England.
• The Sunderland ferry, established by an Act of Parliament in 1710, operated continuously for almost 250 years until its closure in 1957.
• DFID nutrition interventions in Zambia have reached over 1.9 million children under 5 years old.
• The cuboid bone is one of the seven tarsal bones in the foot and is uniquely cube-shaped, providing stability and connecting the foot to the ankle.
• Len Deighton’s debut novel, The Ipcress File, introduced a working-class hero and a low-key, realistic portrayal of espionage, contrasting sharply with the glamorous depiction of spies in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.

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• Samuel Johnson believed that a truly intellectual man would never want to leave London, equating weariness of the city with weariness of life itself.
• Encephalitis lethargica is associated with conditions like akinetic mutism.
• In March 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history, floating outside his Voskhod 2 capsule for 10 minutes while facing life-threatening challenges to reenter the spacecraft.
• The E6B circular slide rule, created in the 1930s for aircraft pilots, is still in daily use around the world for tasks like converting time, distance, speed, and temperature values.
• Calcutta officially changed its name to Kolkata on August 24, coinciding with the city's 390th birthday, as part of a trend among Indian cities to remove colonial influences from their names.
• Spirograph was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.
• Pluto is so small that it is outsize by 7 of the solar system's moons, and its equatorial radius is only 1,151 km.
• Daniel was thrown into a lions' den for praying to God, but he was unharmed because God sent an angel to shut the mouths of the lions.
• The second Test match between England and the West Indies in Antigua was abandoned after just ten balls due to the pitch being deemed too sandy, marking a rare instance of play being halted so quickly in Test cricket history.
• UCLan's multi-million pound sports facilities served as a training venue for the Olympic Games and last year’s RFL world cup.

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• Couvade syndrome, or sympathetic pregnancy, affects between 10 to 65 percent of men whose partners are pregnant, causing them to experience symptoms like nausea, dizziness, and cravings.
• The chorus "Annie, are you okay?" from Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" is inspired by his CPR training on the Resusci Anne manikin.
• At 17,075,400 square kilometres, Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area.
• The Queen’s current corgis, Holly and Willow, are the 14th-generation descendants of her first corgi, Susan, who was given to her on her 18th birthday.
• Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing or injuring at least 140,000 people on August 6, 1945.
• Catalonia became the second region in Spain to ban bullfighting, with the ban taking effect on January 1, 2012, following a final event on September 25, 2011.
• The cattle herding Nuer tribe of southern Sudan allows a woman who cannot have children to marry another woman as a "husband" who is then impregnated by a secret boyfriend, making the barren woman the socially recognized father.
• Pocoyo's name is a combination of the Spanish words "poco" (little) and "yo" (me), meaning "Little me."
• Lucian Freud's painting "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" is predicted to sell for between £12.7m and £17.7m, potentially making it the most expensive painting by a living artist sold at auction.
• Hanley was an important manufacturer of china and earthenware from the 18th century onwards.

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• It is extremely rare for a pope to resign; the last time before Benedict XVI was in 1415.
• "Degrassi" has been reinventing itself for multiple generations since its launch in 1979, tackling contemporary issues affecting teens for 37 years.
• Christ was originally named "Yehoshua" and was never called "Jesus" during his earthly life.
• During the years 2002 through 2005, 23 of the 24 recorded terrorist incidents in the United States were perpetrated by domestic terrorists, primarily from animal rights and environmental movements.
• The Battle of Edgehill on 23 October 1642 was the first important battle of the English Civil War and marked Charles I's best chance for victory.
• Swiss wine consumers drink 98% of their own wine and import two-thirds of what they consume, resulting in very little Swiss wine being exported.
• Calvin Candie participates in a blood sport known as Mandingo fighting, where he forces male slaves to fight to the death for money.
• American whiskey and bourbon have become an $8 billion global industry, marking a significant resurgence in popularity.
• Thousands of beacons will be lit around the world on June 4, 2012, to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's 60-year reign.
• Shaun Cassidy's single "Da Doo Ron Ron" hit No. 1 in the U.S. and earned him a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.

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• James Blunt served as an officer in the Life Guards, a reconnaissance regiment of the British Army, and was deployed under NATO in Kosovo during the conflict in 1999.
• Justin Rose became the first Englishman to win the US Open Championship since Tony Jacklin in 1970.
• The Hallé Orchestra, founded in 1857, is Britain's first fully professional symphony orchestra.
• Lord Patten of Barnes, the new Chairman of the BBC Trust, was previously the Governor of Hong Kong, overseeing its return to China in 1997.
• The Colosseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, was constructed with the labor of tens of thousands of Jews who were brought to Rome as prisoners after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
• Katrina Amy Alexis Infield, also known as Jordan, was ranked #2 in a list of the "100 Worst Britons We Love to Hate" voted by viewers of Channel 4 in 2003.
• Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and inspired a powerful social movement that altered the course of American history.
• The Flower Pot Men, a British children's television program first broadcast in 1952, featured characters Bill and Ben who spoke their own unique language called Oddle Poddle, invented by one of the show's voice actors.
• Despite designing the majority of St. Peter's Basilica, the 71-year-old Michelangelo refused to be paid for his work on the church.
• Sepals are the usually green leaflike structures that compose the outermost part of a flower, forming the calyx which surrounds and protects the flower bud.

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• Ferdinand Marcos was the first president to be reelected to a second term in the Philippines, a process marred by allegations of election rigging.
• Pott's fracture, named after English physician Percival Pott, is a break in the fibula near the ankle, often associated with a break in the malleolus of the tibia or a rupture of the internal lateral ligament.
• "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" aired for seven years, covering just over four months of events during World War II, from May to September 1945.
• The Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile has led to various interpretations and parodies, including a Spanish short film where her sadness causes the entire world to forget how to smile.
• Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the number of people in heaven is limited to 144,000.
• Silicates are the most abundant minerals on Earth, formed by the combination of oxygen (46.6%) and silicon (27.7%), the two most abundant elements in the Earth's crust.
• The term "Abominable Snowman" originated in 1921 when a British army colonel translated the Sherpa term for a creature that left behind huge footprints in the Himalayas.
• Josip Broz, known as Marshal Tito, led the resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II and established Yugoslavia's independence from the USSR in 1948.
• Kanye West claimed he "owns" Wiz Khalifa's child during a Twitter feud, stating, "You wouldn’t have a child if it wasn’t for me."
• The wreck of the HMS Erebus, part of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 expedition, was discovered in 2014 after nearly six years of searching by Parks Canada archaeologists, using both crew information and Inuit testimony as guides.

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• John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier became the youngest president and first lady in American history seven years after their marriage.
• The Three-Cornered Hat is a ballet that captures Spanish folk music with vibrant rhythms and lively dances.
• On 30 July 1980, Vanuatu proclaimed itself a sovereign republic, with its name meaning "land independent" in the local bislama language.
• The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, generating the destructive power of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT.
• The Armenian nation was the first to declare itself a Christian nation in 301 AD, even before the time of Constantine.
• China's two major rivers, the Huang He (Yellow River) and the Chang Jiang (Yangzi River), have shaped agricultural development and population growth throughout China's history, with the Huang He historically being termed "China's Sorrow" due to its frequent and devastating floods.
• Granules on the sun's surface last only 10 to 20 minutes and are formed by convection beneath the photosphere, with centers that are considerably hotter and rising while the edges sink.
• The ancient Olympic Games date back to 776 BC, but many believe they were being held even earlier, dedicated to the God Zeus.
• Sir Michael Caine revealed he was drinking a bottle of vodka a day and smoking several packs of cigarettes before his wife, Shakira Baksh, helped him turn his life around after their marriage in 1973.
• Tidjane Thiam became the first black CEO of a FTSE 100 company when he took the top job at Prudential.

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• Ernest Shackleton may have led three Antarctic expeditions while suffering from an atrial septal defect, commonly known as a hole in his heart.
• On July 23, 1996, Kerri Strug completed a final vault with torn ligaments in her ankle, helping the U.S. women's gymnastics team secure their first-ever Olympic team gold medal.
• Shakespeare fits all of the material that would normally occupy a five-act play into just four acts in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, treating the fifth act as a joyful comic epilogue focused on the craftsmen's performance of Pyramus and Thisbe.
• Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, is serving a 7-year sentence for abuse of office, a conviction that has been condemned by the West as politically motivated.
• The Shooting Party, set in 1913 England, captures the tension of an upper-crust hunting weekend on the brink of World War I, foreshadowing the impending societal upheaval.
• Nanook, the Warden of Polar Bears, is a part man and part bear spirit who decides the success of hunters and enforces sacred rituals to honor the souls of animals killed.
• Truffles can command prices as high as $250 to $450 per pound, making them among the most expensive natural foods in the world.
• Scientology was started in the 1950s by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who aimed to create a religion primarily for financial gain.
• Rocky Marciano ended his boxing career with a perfect record of 49 wins in 49 professional bouts, including 43 knockouts.
• In June 1989, Solidarity won the maximum number of seats allowed in both houses of parliament in the first free elections ever in the communist bloc, leading to the formation of the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc.

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• The sinking of the General Belgrano by a British submarine during the Falklands War resulted in the single largest loss of life in the 10-week conflict, with 323 Argentinian sailors dying in the incident.
• The Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1883, spans 1.1 miles and is best experienced on foot, offering stunning views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.
• Georgie Fame’s hit song "Yeh Yeh" was the first recording to knock The Beatles off the number one spot in the charts.
• Marti Pellow, the former frontman of Wet Wet Wet, admitted to being a heavy heroin user for three years before a public collapse in 1999, shocking fans who had perceived him as a clean-cut pop star with no issues.
• The highest peak of the Pyrenees is Pico de Aneto, which stands at 3,404 meters (11,168 feet).
• Nurse Gladys Emmanuel had several different white Morris Minors on the show "Open All Hours," with the vehicles being slightly different from each other.
• The Gregorian calendar was first adopted in Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain in 1582, with 10 days dropped in October of that year to realign with the equinox.
• Bugs Bunny made his debut on 27 July 1940, in an animated short film called 'A Wild Hare.'
• The Chihuahua shares a DNA type unique to Mexican pre-Columbian samples, confirming its ancestry is linked to the ancient Techichi, a small desert canine from Mayan times.
• Dante's Divine Comedy is composed of tercets that follow a unique rhyme scheme of ABA BCB CDC, which is his own invention, allowing for a complex and interconnected flow of the poem.

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• Hájparfoss is one of several waterfalls in the Thjorsardalur valley, which is located north of the volcano Hekla in South Iceland.
• Burgess Meredith portrayed The Penguin in the 1960s Batman series and was so popular that the writers always had an episode script featuring the character ready whenever he was available.
• There is a wild guess estimating that there are around 750,000 GAA players in Ireland.
• Colonia del Sacramento is the only cultural site in Uruguay to have attained UNESCO World Heritage Status.
• Iran has increased the bounty for killing author Salman Rushdie to $3.3 million, reviving a death threat originally issued in 1989.
• Birds do not sweat, as they do not have sweat glands
• Charles Darwin was the first to study body language in humans and animals in his 1872 book "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals," establishing the foundation for the science of body language.
• The Möbius strip, invented by mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius in 1858, is a one-sided surface created by twisting a strip of paper and joining the ends.
• Chile won the Copa America for the first time in its history by defeating Argentina 4-1 on penalty kicks.
• About 50 million gallons of blood pass through the heart in an average lifetime.

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• The New Routemaster is the greenest diesel electric double deck hybrid bus in the world, emitting a quarter of the NOx and 20 percent less CO2 compared to the average hybrid bus.
• The Battle of Gettysburg lasted for 3 days in July 1863 and was the last Confederate invasion of the Union.
• The abbey church of St. Andrew in Hexham was founded around 673 AD by the archbishop of York and became the head of the new see of Bernicia in 678.
• Clint Eastwood does not provide director commentary tracks on any of his movies.
• The month of Ramadan is significant in Islam as it is the time when the Quran was revealed, and it includes Laylat al-Qadr, a night considered better than a thousand months.
• Gout displays a striking tendency to affect the foot, particularly the first metatarsophalangeal joint, which is involved in 56-78% of initial attacks and at some point in 59-89% of cases during the disease course.
• The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, resulted in the annihilation of five companies of the U.S. 7th Cavalry, with a total of 268 U.S. soldiers killed and 55 wounded.
• Sir Robert Wilson is credited with being responsible for the creation of the Russian bogy.
• Bjork's debut album, "Debut" (1993), climbed to No. 3 on the UK album charts and became a huge commercial success, spawning multiple dance hits and eventually earning platinum status in the United States.
• Patricia "Patty" Bouvier and her twin sister Selma are depicted as chain-smoking DMV employees who share a strong dislike for their brother-in-law, Homer Simpson.

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• Hinduism, with approximately 1 billion adherents, is one of the oldest religions in the world, with its earliest forms dating back to 1500 BCE or earlier.
• Astrakhan was formerly the capital of a Tatar khanate, a remnant of the Golden Horde.
• Balsamic vinegar was a prized family possession in Northern Italy, often handed down through generations and sometimes gifted to dignitaries, such as when Duke Boniface of Canossa presented it to Roman Emperor Henry III in 1046.
• If convicted of blackmail, the perpetrator faces up to 7 years in prison.
• The rial is the currency unit of Iran, comprised of 100 dinars, while Yemen's version is comprised of 100 fils.
• In 1967, Sandie Shaw became the first British act to win the Eurovision Song Contest.
• Bonnie and Clyde were shot a combined total of approximately 130 rounds by a posse of law enforcement officers during their ambush on May 23, 1934.
• The muscle cuirass was often used as a ceremonial armor to impress during military reviews and parades, rather than practical combat.
• Arlecchino, or Harlequin, the most famous character of the Commedia dell'Arte, is recognized as the ancestor of the slapstick, carrying a bat or wooden sword.
• The Communist Manifesto is the most widely read and influential document of modern socialism, originally published in London in 1848.

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• The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the surprise-hit film Romancing the Stone, which was 20th Century Fox's answer to Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom.
• Roger Federer became the third male player in the Open Era to achieve 1,000 career match wins.
• Goliath was a Philistine warrior who stood over nine feet tall and wore armor that weighed 125 pounds.
• Ivory Coast won their first Africa Cup of Nations since 1992 by defeating Ghana 9-8 in a penalty shootout after a goalless match.
• 100 puls equal 1 afghani in Afghanistan.
• Thailand offers over 3,699 discount hotels, making it one of the world's most popular travel destinations.
• Robben Island has served multiple purposes throughout its history, including housing a hospital, mental institution, leper colony, and military base, in addition to being the prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years of his incarceration.
• Hamadryas baboons can live in troops of several hundred individuals, showcasing complex social behaviors that include forming smaller groups called One Male Units (OMUs) for foraging.
• Ralph Vaughan Williams volunteered for military service at the age of forty-two during the First World War, joining the Royal Army Medical Corps and later becoming a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery.
• The Battle of Sidi Barrani resulted in the British capturing 38,300 Italian prisoners while suffering only 624 casualties.

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• The Swedish monarchy, which has traditions dating back more than a thousand years, changed its order of succession in 1980 to a fully cognatic system, allowing the eldest heir to inherit the throne regardless of gender.
• Doris Speed received more fan mail than any other actor on Coronation Street during her twenty-three years on the show.
• The definition of a good midwife has evolved from an emphasis on physical characteristics and moral appraisal in the past to a focus on theoretical knowledge, clinical competencies, and communication skills in contemporary practice.
• Bud Collyer logged more hours as Superman than any other actor in history, voicing the character in approximately 2000 radio episodes and several animated series from 1940 to 1951.
• The death of Möngke Khan in early 1260 prompted a pullback of Hülegü’s army, leading to a smaller Mongol force advancing on Egypt.
• Betsy Ross was paid by the Pennsylvania State Navy Board on May 29, 1777, for her work making American flags, indicating her involvement in the production of early American flags.
• Jean Metzinger was a key figure in the development of Cubism and co-authored the first major treatise on the movement, titled “Du ‘Cubisme’,” in 1912.
• Milton Bradley's first game, The Checkered Game of Life, was designed with a moralizing purpose, where landing on negative squares like "crime" would move players backward in "life," while positive squares like "honesty" would advance them.
• "Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose is a 2004 book co-written by Paris Hilton and Merle Ginsberg."
• Collagen is the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 25% to 35% of the whole-body protein content.

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• The kingdom of Navarre reached its zenith under Sancho III, who ruled over nearly all of Christian Spain during his reign from 1000 to 1035.
• About 25 million meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere every day, with approximately 1 million kilograms of dust settling to the Earth's surface daily.
• The Curie family has produced five Nobel laureates, including Marie Curie, who was the first woman to present a Physics dissertation and a double Nobel laureate.
• The term "astronaut" was coined in 1929 in science fiction and popularized by the U.S. space program starting in 1961.
• The South Downs National Park covers an area of 627 square miles and is home to around 120,000 people.
• The BBC sitcom "Marriage Lines" ran for five series and forty-six episodes between 1961 and 1966, originally debuting with a pilot episode in 1961 before a full series premiered in 1963.
• Sunflowers can be categorized into open-pollinated, hybrid, and pollenless varieties, each offering diverse colors, heights, and flowering habits.
• Wilfred Owen was killed in action just one week before the end of World War I, causing news of his death to reach home as the church bells declared peace.
• Johnny Rotten, the former punk icon, starred in a £5 million television commercial for butter, marking his first appearance in an advertisement.
• Fan Si Peak, at 10,312 feet (3,143 metres), is the highest point in Vietnam.

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• Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who faces trial for inciting hatred in the Netherlands, has been banned from entering the UK due to public security concerns, despite being invited to show his controversial film linking the Koran to terrorism in the House of Lords.
• Some biologists believe that there are more bobcats in the United States today than in colonial times.
• In "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Harry Potter is unexpectedly entered into a dangerous magic tournament despite being too young, as the Goblet of Fire spits out his name without his consent.
• Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most sub-Saharan African nations, despite high income inequality leaving a large proportion of the population in poverty.
• The USS Nautilus became the first vessel to achieve submarine transit underneath the North Pole in August 1958 during a mission named Operation Sunshine.
• "Go Set a Watchman," Harper Lee's second novel, was completed in the mid-1950s but remained unpublished for 60 years.
• Marc Chagall was appointed Commissar for Art in 1918 and founded the Vitebsk Popular Art School, where he served as director until 1920.
• BBC Worldwide is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
• The response to the 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill led to the unprecedented development of a "National Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties During Emergency Response Under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan."
• The system of imperial units was first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which replaced the Winchester Standards that had been in use since 1588.

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• Bolton FC is commonly known by the nickname "Trotters."
• Minos became one of the three judges of Hades in Greek mythology.
• The Sioux believed that white buffaloes were the most sacred animals in the world and therefore never hunted them.
• The production of Casino Royale (1967) was so chaotic that it involved multiple directors, and significant changes were made throughout filming, including firing the main star Peter Sellers before completing his role.
• In 1544, Italian herbalist Pietro Andrae Matthioli referred to tomatoes as "pomi d'oro," or apples of gold, likely due to the first European tomatoes being yellow.
• The heavy white Embden goose can weigh up to 34 lbs, while the tiny white Czech goose weighs only 9-11 lbs.
• Only in Wales, and some parts of Scotland and Ireland, is an edible seaweed known as laver gathered and processed commercially, commonly eaten as laverbread with bacon.
• The operetta Die Fledermaus, composed by Johann Strauss II, was initially misunderstood as a failure after its première on April 5, 1874, running for only sixteen performances due to scheduling conflicts, but it was later reinstated at the Theater an der Wien.
• Dick Grayson first appeared as Robin in Detective Comics #38 in 1940, created to lighten the tone of Batman stories and appeal to younger readers.
• The women's strike at the Dagenham Ford plant in 1968 directly led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970, marking the first legislation in the UK aimed at achieving equal pay for men and women in comparable jobs.

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• Ottorino Respighi's Sinfonia drammatica is rarely performed and recorded due to its epic length of over 58 minutes and its dark-hued, intense character, which contrasts with his more extroverted scores.
• Some tarantulas in captivity can survive for as long as 20 years.
• Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé performed "Barcelona" in 1988 to celebrate Barcelona being chosen for the upcoming 1992 Olympics.
• Antoine Louis is credited with designing a prototype of the guillotine, which was later named after Joseph Ignace Guillotin, an advocate for humane capital punishment.
• The peseta was replaced by the euro in 2002, with an exchange rate of 1 euro equal to 166.386 pesetas.
• Nanga Parbat is known as ‘The Killer Mountain’ due to the high number of mountaineer deaths during attempts to climb it, particularly in the mid 20th century.
• Adele's album 25 became the fastest to sell a million copies in UK history, achieving this milestone within just 10 days of its release.
• Australia has the world's largest population of feral camels, which are the only feral herds of their kind in the world.
• Great Slave Lake is the deepest lake in North America, with a maximum depth of 614 meters.
• Renault plans to produce 200,000 cars a year by 2007 at its Dacia plant in Romania, having already cut the workforce from 27,000 in the late 1990s to 14,000.

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• The Beautiful South's singles compilation album, "Carry On Up The Charts," has sold over 2.2 million copies in the UK, equating to roughly one in seven households owning a copy.
• Daniel Day-Lewis was considered for the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction before John Travolta ultimately landed the part.
• John McCain divorced his first wife, Carol, in 1980 and married his second wife, Cindy, just one month later.
• The Chinook wind in the Rocky Mountains can cause temperatures to rise by 20 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit in a matter of minutes after an intense cold spell.
• Harrods is the biggest department store in Europe, occupying over one million square feet of selling space across more than 330 departments.
• Guadalcanal was the site of intense fighting between Japanese and American troops during 1942-43, culminating in an American victory.
• Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the 20th century, holding office from 1979 to 1990, and was the only woman ever to have held the post.
• Retief Goosen is a two-time U.S. Open champion, having won the tournament in 2001 and 2004.
• Japan is home to the world's longest railroad tunnel, the Seikan Tunnel, which extends 54 kilometers (33 miles) and links the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
• Badminton is estimated to be the second-largest participatory sport in the world, ranking only behind soccer.

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• Basin Street was home to the Storyville red light district, which operated from 1897 until its closure in 1917 and was influential in the early development of jazz music.
• The Kelpie is a supernatural shape-shifting water horse from Celtic mythology that lures weary travelers to their doom by appearing as a beautiful tame horse before plunging them into the depths of rivers.
• The heptathlon consists of seven events contested over two days, while the decathlon features ten events, typically contested by men, also over two days.
• The Magic Roundabout features a mix of colorful characters including Florence, Dougal the grumpy dog, Ermintrude the opera-singing cow, and Zebedee, a magical jack-in-the-box.
• Wendy in Peter Pan grows up and tells her daughter, "Because I am grown up, dear. When people grow up, they forget the way."
• Dr. Doom is the arch-enemy of the Fantastic Four and the ruler of Latveria.
• Tiger Woods became the youngest winner of The Masters Tournament at the age of 21 years, 3 months, and 14 days in 1997, breaking the previous record held by Seve Ballesteros.
• Cork City is known as "Rebel Cork" due to its reputation for independence and stubborn resistance throughout its history.
• Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 78.
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the first African and Arab to hold the position of secretary-general of the United Nations when he assumed office on January 1, 1992.

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• Emma Thompson wrapped her Oscar trophy in socks and carried it in her carry-on luggage through LAX, where even the flight captain asked to hold it.
• Meadowhall has arguably the best public transport service of any shopping centre in the UK, featuring a Passenger Transport Interchange that accommodates local and regional bus, train, and Supertram services.
• Golda Meir was one of the 25 signers of Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948.
• Most modern versions of the Bible contain 66 books, consisting of 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.
• Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales have been translated into more than 150 languages and are used as textbooks in literacy programs worldwide.
• Reinhard Heydrich, known as "The Blond Beast," was the leading planner of Hitler's Final Solution, which aimed to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe.
• The name "Huguenot" may have originated as a term of derision, possibly derived from the German word "Eidgenosse," meaning a Confederate, and associated with the religious leader Besançon Hugues, who was involved in a failed plot for political power in France in 1560.
• The title "Commonwealth's Attorney" refers to the public officer elected in each city or county to conduct criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state.
• The largest recorded American alligator measured 5.8 meters (19 feet 2 inches) and weighed 473 kilograms (1,043 lbs).
• Since the early 13th century, more than half a million Coats of Arms have been recorded by individuals with their respective family names, which are still being researched and studied after over seven centuries.

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• The Albert Memorial, unveiled in 1872, commemorates Prince Albert, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 42, and features 187 exquisitely carved figures in its Parnassus frieze representing celebrated artists and intellectuals.
• In 1947, Raytheon demonstrated the world's first microwave oven, called the "Radarange," which weighed over 750 pounds and stood over five feet tall.
• St. Louis is known for its endangered fried brain sandwiches, a tradition considered so rare that they're likened to the white rhino of lunch.
• Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman doctor in the United States, graduating first in her class at New York's Geneva College in 1849.
• SEAT uses its own and third parties’ cookies to improve user experience on its website.
• Pope Francis declared the 1915 slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a planned "genocide," a statement that has continued to generate significant controversy and diplomatic tension with Turkey.
• Modern Chinese philosophy emerged in a relatively short period between 1901 and 1949, a time marked by significant cultural and intellectual transformation following centuries of stagnation due to military invasions and exploitation by Western powers and Japan.
• The original 1945 film "Brief Encounter," directed by David Lean, became a classic and is set around 1938, a time when a married woman having an affair was considered a scandal just below treason and murder.
• The trope name "You Can Leave Your Hat On" comes from the 1972 song of the same name by Randy Newman, popularized by Joe Cocker in the movie "9½ Weeks."
• Professional beer lover Sarah Warman used to hate beer but now promotes lesser-known beers that could appeal to various tastes.

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• Abraham is the first person directly named as a prophet in the Bible, as stated in Genesis 20:7.
• One girl brings intelligence - the challenge of her sparkling mind keeps me continually learning.
• NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has confirmed more than 3,300 exoplanets in just two decades, with a statistical estimate suggesting there may be at least one planet around every star in the Milky Way galaxy, totaling around a trillion planets.
• The Eagle Has Landed, released in 1976, is the final film directed by John Sturges.
• Tarragon was introduced to Europe in the Middle Ages and was known as "dragon's wort" before gaining its modern French name, estragon, which means "little dragon."
• The fastest 100 m egg-and-spoon race record is 19.39 seconds, held by Ashrita Furman.
• Richard Mantell will be out for at least six months due to a fractured fibula and dislocated ankle, potentially missing the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
• Screaming Lord Sutch stood for Parliament 39 times and polled approximately 15,000 votes, forfeiting over £10,000 in lost deposits and incurring £85,000 in campaign expenses.
• Charles Clarke, a former home secretary and Norwich South MP, regrets not fighting harder to stop Gordon Brown from becoming leader, stating it was his "biggest mistake in politics."
• The hongi, a traditional Maori greeting involving touching noses and foreheads, signifies "to share breath" and acknowledges the visitor as a member of the local people.

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• Bithynia was one of the few regions that successfully resisted complete conquest by Alexander the Great during his eastern campaigns in the 4th century BC.
• Nigel Farage's resignation as Ukip leader was rejected, allowing him to remain in the post despite his earlier announcement that he would step down if he failed to win a parliamentary seat.
• The Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency created the controversial "Labour Isn't Working" poster in 1978, which effectively provoked the opposition into a public reaction and became a pivotal moment in political advertising strategy.
• The Four Musketeers won 8 straight French singles titles from 1925 to 1932.
• "It’s a Wonderful Life" was initially a box-office flop, failing to recoup its $3.7 million cost with only $3.3 million in earnings during its initial run.
• The People's Physics Book aims to provide an inexpensive alternative textbook for high school and college physics students and teachers, promoting a cooperative approach to physics education.
• Carl von Linné, known as the 'Father of Taxonomy', published the first edition of his classification of living things in 1735, which evolved into a multi-volume work by 1758, fundamentally shaping how we classify organisms today.
• Mark Cavendish holds the record for the most successful British cyclist with a total of 48 Grand Tour stage wins and 30 Tour de France stage victories.
• Argentina invaded The Falkland Islands, leading to British forces recapturing the islands in June and Argentina's subsequent surrender.
• The three Billy Goats Gruff successfully outsmart a troll by leveraging their size differences to allow each goat to cross the bridge safely.

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• Ronaldinho, a two-time World Player of the Year, played for 70 minutes in a friendly match for Peru's Cienciano and impressed the crowd with a 25-yard, no-look pass that set up a goal.
• The Andaman Islands are administered as a union territory of India and are located west of Myanmar in the Indian Ocean.
• A scatter diagram is the most commonly used type of graph in experiments to analyze the relationship between two variables, where the independent variable is plotted on the x-axis and the dependent variable on the y-axis.
• The song "You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story was composed by Randy Newman.
• Tiger Woods has more total PGA Tour wins, more money titles, and more Player of the Year awards than Jack Nicklaus, despite not having surpassed Nicklaus' record of 18 major victories.
• Ronnie Barker plays the miserly shopkeeper Arkwright in the classic sitcom "Open All Hours."
• Johann Sebastian Bach, a composer of the Baroque Period, had 20 children.
• The length of an adult tennis court must be 78 feet, which is equivalent to 26 yards, to be legal for International Tennis Federation play.
• Loofah is derived from the Arabic word "luf," referring to various Old World tropical plants in the gourd family.
• Elton John charted a Top 40 hit single every year between 1970 and 1996, showcasing his ability to adapt to changing musical trends.

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• The human body contains more than 600 muscles, which are categorized into three types: smooth, cardiac, and skeletal.
• The Seven Days' Battles marked the end of Union general George B. McClellan's campaign to take Richmond, which was the last chance to end the Civil War under circumstances resembling the status quo of 1860.
• Gregor Mendel is known as the founder of modern genetics due to his discovery of the laws of heredity.
• Renoir's painting "The Umbrellas" features two distinct styles, with one side painted in the fast brushwork of Impressionism around 1881 and the opposite side completed four years later in a more defined, linear style, marking a significant juncture in both the painting and Renoir's career.
• Alison Steadman starred in the first lesbian kiss on British television in the 1974 BBC play "Girl."
• Weston Park Museum, previously known as the Sheffield City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery, underwent a £17.3 million redevelopment and reopened in October 2006 after closing for renovation in March 2003.
• Chlorophyll is the green pigment in plants that enables them to absorb sunlight and convert it into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis.
• The world's oldest known settlement, Jericho, was founded around 8000 BC in the Jordan Valley.
• The Island's mix of vintage electric trams, horse trams, and steam railways is truly unique in the world.
• Dick Tracy, created by Chester Gould in 1931, introduced a raw violence to comic strips and is suggested to be the first example of the police procedural mystery story.

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• Pygmy shrews consume about 125 percent of their own body weight in food each day to sustain their high metabolic rate.
• The name of the guitar maker can provide important details about when the guitar was made, as some companies are no longer in business and operated during distinct periods in history.
• John Dillinger, the infamous bank robber, was known for his discipline and efficiency, robbing banks for 13 months after escaping from prison without an exit strategy or retirement plans.
• Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone, which he exhibited in Paris in 1842, and it was patented in 1846.
• Philip B. Dusenberry, a highly influential figure in advertising, is retiring after spending the majority of his career at BBDO, where he helped shape memorable campaigns for major brands like Pepsi and Visa.
• Zhu Zhu Pets, which retail for $8 to $10, were being resold for as much as $95 each during their holiday craze.
• Salar de Uyuni, located in Bolivia, is the world's largest salt flat, measuring over 4,000 square miles (10,000+ square km).
• The volcanic eruption of Laki in 1783–1784 caused a famine that killed nearly a quarter of Iceland's population and created dust clouds that affected much of Europe, Asia, and Africa for several months.
• Francis Ford Coppola's magazine, Zoetrope Short Stories, launched with an initial press run of 50,000 copies, which is five to ten times the circulation of many established literary magazines.
• Shaun Murphy has given exhibitions in various unusual locations, including a horse auction ring.

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• Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation of "Rebecca" features the character Mrs. Danvers, who is portrayed as a deeply unsettling and multifaceted antagonist, contrasting sharply with the more naive second Mrs. de Winter.
• Each state, regardless of its population, elects two senators to serve six-year terms.
• The Barbican’s Transcender festival features the London debut of Sweden’s 28-piece Fire! Orchestra, known for their synthesis of groove-centric jazz and free improv.
• The Eurovision Song Contest 1995 featured Norway's winning song "Nocturne," which was notable for containing only 24 words accompanied by long violin solos.
• Tomato is considered the most basic sauce for pasta.
• Kathryn Morris is best known for her role as Detective Lilly Rush on the CBS television series Cold Case.
• Fontella Bass co-wrote the hit song "Rescue Me" but famously ripped up her royalty check in protest over its small amount.
• The Honeycombs had a million-selling hit with "Have I the Right?" in 1964, making them notable for being one of the few bands of that era with a female drummer, Honey Lantree.
• Sales of black pudding have surged due to its low cost and increased popularity among consumers, partly attributed to celebrity chefs promoting this traditional sausage.
• Jerome's translation of Scripture took over 40 years and included fresh translations from the Hebrew, despite initially revising existing Latin versions.

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• The average velocity of an object is calculated as the total displacement divided by the total time, which can result in an average velocity of zero if the object returns to its starting point, despite having traveled a distance.
• Bounderby, who claims to be a self-made man abandoned in the gutter by his mother, is ultimately revealed to be the son of a wealthy woman who he has forbidden to visit him.
• Don Juan, written by Lord Byron between 1819 and 1824, is considered one of English literature's great long poems and is recognized for its sharp social criticism, despite being unfinished.
• The Tiber River is the third-longest river in Italy at 406 km (252 miles) and historically served as a crucial transportation route and natural defense boundary in ancient Rome.
• The Chronicles of Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures.
• Napoleon’s armies invaded Spain and Portugal in 1807–1808, deposing the Iberian monarchies and severing the connections between Iberia and the Latin American colonies.
• The booklet showcases fashion dolls from around 1870 made of bisque with bodies covered in kid.
• Operation Market Garden, conducted in September 1944, was the largest airborne battle in history, surpassing the previous German airborne invasion of Crete in 1941.
• The axillary artery is a continuation of the subclavian artery that begins at the outer border of the first rib and changes its name to the brachial artery at the lower border of teres major.
• Bematists accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaign in Asia and their measurements of distances traveled by his army showed an overall accuracy with an average deviation of only 1.9% according to Pliny and 1.5% according to Strabo.

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• The phrase "Beat Generation" was coined by Jack Kerouac when he said, "So I guess you might say we're a beat generation" in a conversation with John Clellon Holmes.
• Lacrosse was declared Canada's national summer sport in 1994, while hockey was named the national winter sport.
• Our Mutual Friend was the fourteenth and last completed novel of Charles Dickens, published in monthly installments from May 1864 to November 1865.
• The maximum possible number of chess positions is estimated to be around 1.2 x 10^54, or 2.4 x 10^54 if you account for whose turn it is.
• Not all the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World existed at the same time, as the Great Pyramid of Egypt was built centuries before the others and is the only one still intact today.
• Madrid has been populated since the Lower Palaeolithic era, but it was not until 1561 that it became the capital of Spain under King Philip II.
• Reservations at Sukiyabashi Jiro are nearly impossible for foreigners and must be made in Japanese with a local address and phone number.
• Steve Buscemi's feature film directorial debut, 'Trees Lounge,' premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
• James Brindley designed and built the Barton Aqueduct, the first navigable aqueduct in England, which carried the Bridgewater Canal 13 metres above the River Irwell.
• An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don't act now.

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• The photograph "Rhein II" by Andreas Gursky sold for $4,338,500 in November 2011, making it the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.
• The Taiping Rebellion is considered the bloodiest civil war in history, with an estimated death toll of between 20 and 30 million people.
• The Beau Sancy diamond, weighing 34.98 carats, has been passed down through four royal families and has witnessed over 400 years of European history.
• The 1998 remake of Psycho by Gus Van Sant was a shot-for-shot recreation of Alfred Hitchcock's original film.
• Rishi Sunak, the son-in-law of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, is expected to win a seat in the UK election, representing a constituency previously held by former Foreign Secretary William Hague.
• David Dinsmore took The Scottish Sun's circulation to a market-leading 400,000-plus when he became Editor in 2006.
• Austin Powers is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's, where he must adapt to a world very different from his own while battling his arch-nemesis, Dr. Evil.
• Disney's Aladdin won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for "A Whole New World."
• Ian and Janette Tough, known as The Krankies, have been together for 50 years and have only spent seven days apart in their life.
• The NH Wien City hotel in Vienna is located in a spot that makes it difficult for guests to find the entrance, as it is situated between stores.

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• The French word "tapenade" comes from the Provençal term for caper buds, "tapeno," which historically were preserved in olive oil and transformed into a pungent mush for use in the dip.
• Edgar Lungu won the presidency of Zambia by the narrowest margin in the country's electoral history, defeating Hakainde Hichilema by just 27,000 votes.
• The Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park drains an area of approximately 41,070 square miles.
• The Grand National, held annually since 1839, features a challenging course that is four and one-half miles long with 16 bush fences, of which 14 are jumped twice.
• Edward Elgar was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924, a prestigious position held by notable composers.
• The Kraken, according to Scandinavian mythology, is a giant sea creature said to be 1 mile long that attacks ships and is so huge that its body could be mistaken for an island.
• In 1901, Tottenham Hotspur became the only non-League club to win the FA Cup since the formation of the Football League in 1888.
• Bitter orange has been linked to serious health risks, including strokes and heart attacks, and has been used as a substitute for the banned stimulant ephedra in weight-loss products.
• The Method of Loci is one of the oldest mnemonic devices, dating back to Ancient Greek times.
• The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) was a monopolistic trust that controlled film distribution, production, and exhibition, limiting films to one or two reels and charging exhibitors fees to use its equipment.

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• Henry VIII was named "Defender of the Faith" by the Pope before he declared himself head of the Church of England to facilitate his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
• Leprechauns are traditionally depicted in Irish folklore as cobblers and shoemakers, known for their craftsmanship and accumulating wealth, which they are said to bury in pots of gold at the end of a rainbow.
• The island of Menorca celebrates its most important "Fiesta," San Juan, on June 23 and 24, which has remained almost unchanged for 600 years and features a spectacular performance called "Jaleo" with horses and medieval costumes.
• In 1015, Cnut invaded England with an army of approximately 10,000 Vikings in 200 ships, gathering forces from all Scandinavian countries.
• Yttrium is the only stable isotope found in the Earth's crust, with the atomic number 39 and symbol Y.
• More than 50,000 people used an official night shelter for at least one night in November and December 2014 in Italy.
• Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister of Britain, serving as MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992.
• The San Andreas Fault trace is depicted on maps as a thin line, despite the actual fault location being approximate and generally accurate within about one hundred feet.
• "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was re-titled in 1982 when George Lucas realized where he could take his success."
• On May 15, 1930, Boeing Air Transport inaugurated the first airline stewardess service, with Ellen E. Church being the first female crew member aboard a commercial airliner.

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• At the age of 14, Mozart flawlessly transcribed Allegri’s Miserere from memory after hearing it just once, a piece that was famously guarded and rarely shared outside the Sistine Chapel.
• Rafael Nadal won all 21 sets on his way to his fifth French Open championship in 2010.
• Sebastian Vettel won the 2013 Formula One World Championship, marking his fourth consecutive title.
• The famous orchestral Intermezzo in Mascagni's opera "Cavalleria rusticana" marks the passage of time during the Easter service, which is never visually depicted but is heard through the music.
• Oliver Kahn made a crucial mistake during the 2002 FIFA World Cup final, which led to Brazil's first goal and ultimately resulted in Germany's 2-0 defeat, despite having been a standout performer throughout the tournament.
• The character Mike Ferris is revealed to have been confined in an isolation room for 484 hours and 36 minutes as part of a training simulation to test his sanity during a future trip to the Moon.
• The Aphrodite of Melos, also known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue from around 200 B.C. that is famous for its beauty and is currently housed in the Louvre, Paris.
• Late Night Woman's Hour will become a permanent monthly fixture on Radio 4, featuring discussions on various topics and complemented by an online video series called The Green Room.
• James II of England was the first Catholic monarch to reign over England since Mary I died in 1558 and over Scotland since the deposition of Mary I of Scotland in 1567.
• Sri Lankan troops captured the Tamil Tigers' rebel capital, Kilinochchi, for the first time in a decade, marking a significant blow to the separatist movement.

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• Dachshund literally means "badger dog," as they were originally developed in Germany to hunt and exterminate badgers.
• Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a bomb during an election campaign stop, which resulted in at least a dozen other fatalities and led to widespread violence and the postponement of the national parliamentary elections in India.
• Christopher Isherwood's book "Christopher and His Kind" made him a hero of gay liberation and a national celebrity by openly sharing the story of his life as a homosexual in 1930s Berlin.
• The female pelvis has evolved to be larger and broader than the male pelvis to create more space for childbirth.
• Copper was used by Native Americans as early as 2000 B.C.
• Mika Häkkinen scored points in the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time in 1996, at his fifth attempt, despite being involved in a collision five laps from the finish.
• Red maple is commonly found in eastern Canada and tolerates a wide range of temperature and precipitation, thriving most often in moist soils.
• Thou Shell of Death, published in 1936, is notable for introducing Inspector Blount of Scotland Yard, as well as for being one of the best stories by Nicholas Blake, a pseudonym for Cecil Day-Lewis, the poet laureate from 1968 to his death in 1972.
• "Kurt Weill, a German Jew, left Berlin in 1933 when the Nazis came to power and insisted he was not a 'German composer' but an American citizen."
• The pink triangle was originally used to denote homosexual men as a Nazi concentration camp badge, highlighting the persecution of an estimated 5–15,000 gay men and lesbian women during the Holocaust.

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• "Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Goode' was a US Top Ten hit in 1958 and became a defining moment in early rock and roll."
• The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal are noted as the most expensive Games ever organized to date, leaving the city in debt long after the event concluded.
• The 1934 "More Dick and Jane Stories" is the only Second Pre-Primer ever created for the Dick and Jane series in the 1930s and was never reprinted.
• Tom Stoppard has won an Oscar for Original Screenplay for his work on "Shakespeare In Love."
• Time magazine named "Ebola Fighters" as its Person of the Year in 2014 for their courage and efforts during the Ebola outbreak, which claimed more than 6,000 lives.
• The Bosporus Strait serves as a primary highway for the transport of energy to Europe from Russia and western Asia, with over 55,000 ships, including almost 6,000 oil tankers, passing through it in 2005.
• In Buddhism, the practice of generosity, known as dāna, is considered one of the perfections (pāramitā) and is characterized by unattached and unconditional giving.
• Abraham Maslow developed his Hierarchy of Needs model in the 1940-50s, which remains relevant today for understanding human motivation and personal development.
• Lake Placid hosted the Winter Olympic Games twice, in 1932 and 1980, and is known for the "Miracle on Ice" game where the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviet Union.
• Frida Kahlo painted nearly 200 works during her lifetime, despite enduring chronic pain from a near-fatal accident and undergoing 32 surgeries over 26 years.

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• The tragic plane crash on February 3, 1959, resulted in the deaths of three rock 'n' roll stars: Buddy Holly, J P ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson, and Ritchie Valens, marking the day as “The Day the Music Died.”
• Natural Law maintains that certain moral laws transcend time, culture, and government, forming universal standards applicable to all mankind.
• The uveal layer of the eye is the most common place for eye cancers to start.
• The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple admits over 500 student members every year.
• Quentin Crisp came out as a gay man in 1931, during a time when any sign of homosexuality shocked public sensibilities.
• The first humans to reach the Geographic South Pole were Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party on December 14, 1911.
• Rabindranath Tagore's song "Amar Sonar Bangla," which means "my golden Bengal," was chosen as the national anthem of Bangladesh, highlighting his deep cultural significance even among the country's predominantly Muslim population.
• Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, produced "The Departed," which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2007.
• Caroline of Ansbach was the queen consort of George II of England and had significant political influence over him until her death in 1737.
• Brian Close is the youngest player to have won a Test cap for England, making his debut at the age of 18 in 1949.

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• Christine Lagarde has been accused of "negligence by a person in a position of public authority" over a €400 million payout to a controversial tycoon while she was France's finance minister.
• Bradford had a population of 13,064 in the early 1820s.
• Portugal enjoys an average of more than 300 sunny days a year, making its winter season feel more like spring.
• Developers are planning to build ultra-luxury condo towers along the Miami River, with units priced from $850,000 to $12 million, as part of a significant transformation of the area from a polluted industrial backwater to a sought-after waterfront destination.
• James Herbert sold more than 50 million horror novels, making him one of the best-selling authors in the genre, second only to his friend Stephen King.
• Matt Lucas and Kevin McGee are the first celebrity gay couple to separate following a civil partnership, potentially setting a precedent for gay "divorces."
• Magwitch's identity evolves throughout Great Expectations as he transitions from a hardened criminal to a repentant sinner, illustrating the complex relationship between name and self-awareness.
• Huey Lewis scored a perfect 800 on his math SATs.
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks
• In 1633, Galileo Galilei was found vehemently suspected of heresy by the Holy Office for advocating the heliocentric model, which stated that the Earth moves and the Sun does not, contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church at the time.

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• Germany's highest mountain is the Zugspitze, which reaches an elevation of 9,718 feet (2,962 meters).
• The Guianas represent the most intact rainforest on the planet, encompassing one of the highest biodiversity regions in the world.
• The world famous Glasgow Willow Tea Rooms were designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1904.
• Today, Gaborone is a continually-growing city that is home to over 400,000 people, compared to being a dusty one-horse town fifty years ago.
• Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, remains popular for its humor, showcasing the enduring appeal of British wit nearly 130 years later.
• Scrooge's transformation occurs after he is visited by three ghosts, leading him to change from a mean, greedy man to someone who embraces the spirit of Christmas.
• Taylor Milne, a two-time Olympian, is competing in the 3,000-metre steeplechase at the 2016 Summer Olympics after previously participating in the 1,500-metre event at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
• Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649 after being found guilty of treason, marking the first time a reigning monarch was tried and executed by his own government.
• The overall size of a High School Basketball court is typically 84 feet long and 50 feet wide.
• The GEICO gecko, created in 1999, was developed due to a Screen Actors Guild strike that prevented the use of live actors in commercials.

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• Hydrocodone-acetaminophen may cause very serious side effects, including slow or shallow breathing, and is not recommended for children younger than 6 years.
• There are only five living monotreme species: the duck-billed platypus and four species of echidna, all of which are found only in Australia and New Guinea.
• A catalyst is a substance that causes or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected.
• Shakespeare explores three distinct father-child relationships in The Merchant of Venice, illustrating varying degrees of loyalty and conflict, with Portia being obedient to her controlling father's wishes while Jessica betrays her father Shylock by eloping and stealing from him.
• On New Year's Day 1946, Emperor Hirohito renounced the belief in his divine status, stating that the ties between him and the Japanese people were based on mutual trust rather than legends and myths.
• The Gordian knot was an intricate knot tied by King Gordius of Phrygia, which Alexander the Great cut with his sword after hearing an oracle's prophecy that the one who could undo it would become the next ruler of Asia.
• Anna Sewell wrote the children's novel "Black Beauty" in her fifties and sold it for GBP20, but she did not live to see its success.
• In December 1952, a double-decker bus made a split-second decision to accelerate and clear a 3 ft gap as Tower Bridge began to rise, resulting in no serious injuries.
• Alan Shearer holds the record for the most goals in the Barclays Premier League, with a total of 260 goals, which is 73 goals more than the second-highest scorer, Andy Cole.
• The world's only two airworthy WWII Lancaster bombers flew together over Britain for the first time in 50 years.

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• Most of an atom’s mass is concentrated in its nucleus, which is about 10^-5 angstroms in radius compared to the overall size of the atom, which is around 1 to 2.5 angstroms.
• Amphitrite was one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of Nereus and Doris, and the wife of Poseidon, with whom she had a son named Triton, a merman.
• Alice in Wonderland was originally released by Walt Disney Pictures on July 28, 1951, and despite receiving hostile reviews at the time, it later became one of the most popular and commercially successful Disney films of all time.
• The original Avengers theme was a jazz standard by Johnny Dankworth, and a novelty single titled "Kinky Boots" featuring Patrick MacNee and Honor Blackman wasn't a success until it was re-released in 1990, reaching the fifth spot in the charts.
• Brett Anderson's debut band Suede hit number one on the U.K. charts in 1993, achieving instant fame by combining Morrissey's homoerotic posturing with Bowie's glam theatrics.
• The Golden Rose television festival has moved to Lucerne after 43 years in Montreux and is honoring the late Sir Peter Ustinov for his 35 years of humanitarian work.
• Squash was invented in Harrow school around 1830, when pupils discovered that a punctured Rackets ball, which "squashed" on impact with the wall, created a game requiring greater effort and variety of shots.
• The Guy Fawkes horses are the only wild horses in Australia with heritage status, being descendants of the country's cavalry horses.
• eBay.com started as an auction site in September of 1995 under the name AuctionWeb.
• Pink's collaboration on the 2002 Moulin Rouge soundtrack with Christina Aguilera, Mya, and Lil' Kim for the remake of "Lady Marmalade" significantly contributed to her rise to pop superstardom.

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• The 1983 2p coin with 'New Pence' on the reverse is extremely rare, with the odds of finding one being over 1 in 14,000,000 due to all 1983 coins being issued only in special sets and not for general circulation.
• Duke Kahanamoku is generally regarded as having introduced surfboarding to the West around 1912.
• After severe flooding in Tbilisi, Georgia, dangerous animals including lions, tigers, and a hippopotamus escaped from the zoo, prompting a big-game hunt and warnings for residents to stay indoors.
• The River Trent is the UK’s third longest river and is historically regarded as one of the finest fishing rivers in Britain.
• Team GB finished third in the Olympic medal table at London 2012, achieving a total of 65 medals, surpassing their previous total of 47 at the 2008 Beijing Games.
• The film "10,000 BC" features photorealistic depictions of three extinct animals: woolly mammoths, giant flightless birds resembling New Zealand Moas, and a saber-toothed tiger.
• Yemen was formally unified as the Republic of Yemen in 1990 after the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) and the Marxist-dominated People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).
• Clarence the Cross-eyed Lion was born with a cross-eyed condition, which inspired the creation of the MGM feature film and the TV series Daktari.
• The Angel of the North is a notable public art sculpture created by British sculptor Antony Mark David Gormley.
• The Guadalquivir River drains an area of 22,318 square miles (57,803 square km) and is home to one of the richest and most varied areas of plant and animal life in Europe.

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• Just by recycling one aluminum can, enough energy would be saved to have a TV run for three hours.
• Dorothy Squires was the highest paid female singer in the UK after working on the BBC radio show Variety Bandbox in the immediate post-war period.
• Jim Jefferies first achieved international popularity after being attacked onstage while performing at the Manchester Comedy Store.
• The effective date of the Military Munitions Rule was 12 August 1997.
• In 2003, a constitutional referendum in Liechtenstein granted the monarchy sweeping new powers, including the ability to veto parliamentary decisions and dismiss the government.
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the third largest country in Africa and was formerly known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997.
• In 1928, Singer was Britain's third largest car maker after Austin and Morris.
• Sir Walter Raleigh was executed on 29th October, 1618, after being imprisoned for treason and betrayed by a supposed fellow prisoner.
• Marlon Brando's only foray into directing resulted in "One-Eyed Jacks," often described by Martin Scorsese as his favorite Western.
• Zeus was raised in secret by several figures, including the goat Amalthea and the nymph Adamanthea, who hid him from his father Cronus by suspending him from a tree.

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• The octagonal dome of Florence Cathedral was constructed without using a temporary wooden supporting frame, making it higher and wider than any previously built dome.
• Earth is the only planet not named after a Roman god or goddess, deriving its name from Old English and Germanic words meaning “ground.”
• Woody Allen expressed a desire to avoid being present at the moment of his own death.
• The slogan for Sara Lee, "Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee," was changed from "Nobody does it like Sara Lee" to avoid a potential double-entendre that could portray the brand's namesake as having sexual connotations.
• The Great Spotted Woodpecker's population in Britain has increased by over 350% since the 1970s, with an estimated current population of over 50,000 pairs.
• The London Underground is the world's oldest underground railway and the oldest rapid transit system, having opened its first line, the Metropolitan Railway, on January 10, 1863.
• Fibrous connective tissue consists mainly of collagen, a protein known for providing strength and stability, and plays a crucial role in supporting and absorbing shock for our bones and organs.
• Indonesia is comprised of approximately 17,000 islands, more than 6,000 of which are inhabited.
• The Pope only exercises infallibility on rare occasions, specifically when a decision is binding on the whole Church, pertains to matters of faith or morals, and is intended to teach.
• The word "sushi" was found in a Chinese dictionary around 200 A.D. and was first introduced in Japan in the 7th century A.D.

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• Harold Holt is the third Prime Minister of Australia to die in office, officially pronounced dead after drowning at sea in December 1967.
• Mount Kosciuszko, at 2,228 metres (7,310 ft), is the highest mountain in mainland Australia and was named in 1840 by Polish explorer Paul Edmund Strzelecki in honor of the Polish national hero General Tadeusz Kościuszko.
• McDonald’s serves products in over 117 countries, feeding millions of customers every day.
• Francisco de Goya created “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” as part of his “Los Caprichos” series, which served as scathing critiques of human errors and vices, risking his position as royal painter and facing potential banishment from the court and the Inquisition.
• The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, was a much-needed Union victory that turned back Lee’s invasion of Maryland and led indirectly to the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Mattel is known for iconic toys such as Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and UNO.
• A true museum piece, this uchikake (wedding kimono) features satin silk and refined embroidery typical of the Meiji Period (1868-1912).
• Magnesium is the eighth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, constituting about 2% of its weight, and it is the third most plentiful element dissolved in seawater.
• Fraternal polyandry, where multiple brothers marry a single woman, is practiced among the Nyinba people of northwestern Nepal, with virtually all brothers remaining in intact polyandrous marriages throughout their lives.
• Nike takes its name from the Greek goddess of victory.

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• "Digger" refers to an Australian soldier, especially one who served in World War I.
• Yo-Yo Ma's collaboration with Ennio Morricone on the album "Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone" features adaptations of Morricone's music that are uniquely created and conducted by Morricone himself.
• Gideon served as a judge for 40 years and led the Israelites in defeating the Midianites, who had oppressed them for seven years.
• The film features a cast of notable actors including Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, and Stephen Dillane, who portray East End villains gathered at a safehouse to deal with a betrayal involving one of their wives.
• The inaugural South Africa tour in 1906 coined the nickname "Springboks" for the South African rugby team, which won 26 out of 29 matches during the tour.
• The "Saw" franchise has grossed over $848 million at the box office worldwide.
• The South African Krugerrand, first produced in 1967, was responsible for 90 percent of the global market for gold coins by 1980.
• The film "Ordinary People" explores the emotional complexities of a family dealing with the aftermath of a son's tragic death, revealing deep-seated issues of love and self-worth among its characters.
• From 1 May 1876, Queen Victoria used the additional title of Empress of India.
• The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, built in the 15th century, is the oldest covered market in the world, covering an area of 54,653 square meters and housing over 4,000 shops.

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• The term "first-class cricket" was formally defined by the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in May 1947 as a match of three or more days duration between two sides of eleven players officially adjudged first-class.
• Harold Pinter's estate is managed by Lady Antonia Fraser Pinter, who must be contacted through Judy Daish Associates for permissions regarding the use of his work.
• Alexander McCall Smith has written and contributed to more than 100 books, including specialist academic titles, short story collections, and numerous popular children’s books.
• Pinetop Smith's 1928 recording of "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" helped popularize the boogie-woogie style and gave it its name.
• Many famous rappers use stage names that differ significantly from their real names, such as Eminem being Marshall Mathers, Jay Z being Shawn Carter, and Drake being Aubrey Graham.
• Bonobos, which are found in only one ecosystem in Congo DR, have seen their population decline from an estimated 50,000 to as few as 10,000 due to years of civil war, making them the most likely great ape species to become extinct without urgent action.
• Sarcoidosis is a chronic disease of unknown cause characterized by the formation of nodules resembling true tubercles, especially in the lymph nodes, lungs, bones, and skin.
• SOS was first adopted as the international Morse code distress signal by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard at the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention in 1906.
• In 1885, the Métis people of Saskatchewan staged the North-West Rebellion in response to the Canadian government's refusal to address their grievances, but they were quickly defeated by Canadian militia.
• Neil Armstrong holds the distinction of being the first man to walk on the moon.

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• "Brut" refers to the driest category of Champagne, with "brut natural" being the driest option that contains no added sugar.
• The Northern Cape Province of South Africa is renowned for its remarkable transformation in spring when the desert blossoms into a mass of colorful flowers.
• The name for Ivory Soap was inspired by a verse from the Bible. Harley Proctor got though of the name when the minister read from Psalms 45:8, "All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad."
• Mulhacen is the highest mountain in mainland Spain, standing at 3482 meters.
• The 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City marked the debut of drug testing in the Olympics.
• Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal glasses and organized the first successful American lending library.
• The Roman Empire comprised territories that are now part of several modern-day countries, including Portugal.
• Mike Tyson infamously bit off a part of Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match.
• William Wallace was murdered in Smithfield, London on 23rd August 1305 after being denied a defense in his trial for treason.
• The abductor muscles, primarily located around the hip area, play a crucial role in moving the body away from its sagittal plane and are essential for performing any physical activity.

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• Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's book "On Death and Dying," first published in 1969, has had a lasting impact on the understanding of the emotional experiences of dying, emphasizing the importance of listening to what the dying have to teach us about their needs.
• The Pantheon in Rome features a dome with a central opening (oculus) that allows natural light to illuminate the interior, creating a unique ambient lighting effect.
• More than a third of all corporations listed by the New York Stock Exchange are incorporated in Delaware.
• The land of Nod, where Cain settled after being banished, is derived from the Hebrew word for "wandering," reflecting his restless and unsettled condition.
• Ingrid Bergman was a three-time Academy Award-winning actress who won the Tony Award for Best Actress at the first Tony Award ceremony in 1947.
• "Oklahoma" features the iconic line, "Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain."
• The Douaumont ossuary in France contains the remains of more than 130,000 French and German soldiers who fell at the Battle of Verdun during World War I.
• The humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, also known as the reef triggerfish, is the state fish of Hawai’i and is often considered the longest word in the Hawaiian language.
• The components of the Halal industry include food, non-food (pharmaceutical and cosmetics), and services (logistics, banking, and tourism).
• The phrase "mad as a hatter," famously associated with Lewis Carroll's character the Mad Hatter, originated from the toxic effects of mercury exposure on hatmakers during the Industrial Revolution.

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• Shaznay Lewis was the principal songwriter for All Saints, and as a result, she now receives the lion's share of the royalties from their music.
• "Terms of Endearment won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Shirley MacLaine."
• The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 marked the beginning of Japan's rise as a global power, leading to the end of China's imperial rule and a significant shift in the balance of power in Asia.
• "I Will Survive" was originally released as the B-side to a cover of the Righteous Brothers' song "Substitute" but became a worldwide hit after disc jockeys played the B-side instead.
• The 1973 version of "Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band has been called "hip-hop’s national anthem" due to its extensive sampling in hip-hop, rap, and dance tracks since the 1980s.
• The 2010 Chile earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.8, ranks as the sixth largest earthquake ever recorded by a seismograph.
• Lassie is recognized as the ultimate famous TV dog name from a long-running TV show.
• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters is located at two addresses in Washington, D.C.: 700 19th Street, N.W., and 1900 Pennsylvania Ave NW.
• Sfumato is a painting technique characterized by the absence of harsh outlines, allowing areas to blend into one another through minuscule brushstrokes for a more realistic depiction of light and color.
• The Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship, was sunk by French agents in Auckland harbor in 1985, resulting in the drowning of a Dutch photographer and a significant international incident.

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• Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks were confirmed to be Saudi citizens.
• The identity of The Blue Boy was unknown for nearly two centuries, but art historians now recognize him as Jonathan Buttall, the son of a hardware merchant and friend of the artist.
• Compeyson, a character in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," is described as a cold, selfish con artist who left Miss Havisham at the altar and consistently used others, including Magwitch, to do his dirty work.
• Turpentine oil is classified according to its production method, with sulfate turpentine being a by-product of the kraft process used in making kraft paper.
• The beverage originally called Brad's Drink is now known as Pepsi.
• An equilateral triangle has three congruent sides and three congruent angles.
• The story of the Great Race in Chinese mythology explains that the Rat finished first in the Zodiac by tricking the Ox, which was carrying him and the Cat, causing the Cat to fall into the river and lose the race.
• In 1993, a United States team was admitted into the MacRobertson Shield tournament, marking the first time the competition included teams from outside Australia, England, and New Zealand.
• Joseph Conrad chose to write his first novel, "Almayer's Folly," in English, despite it being his third language.
• Ice hockey has been an Olympic sport since 1920 when it was part of the Summer Games program, and it became part of the Winter Olympics in 1924.

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• The word "banzai" literally means ‘ten thousand years (of life to you)’ in Japanese.
• The lavvu, used by the Sami people, has a design that allows it to be stable in high winds without needing stakes or guy-wires for support.
• Brewing in Bury St. Edmunds dates back to at least 1086, as recorded in the Domesday Book, making it a site of continuous ale production for nearly 1,000 years.
• The Victoria Cross is the UK's highest military award for bravery and has been awarded posthumously since 1902.
• The oldest inhabited house in Scotland is the Traquair Castle. The castle has had 27 kings as visitors
• John Wayne Airport, also known as SNA, is the only commercial service airport in Orange County, California, and it serves nearly ten million passengers annually.
• The MOSE project, the largest public works project in Italian history, involves the construction of 78 mobile floodgates designed to protect Venice from rising sea levels and increased flooding, with costs currently estimated at $7 billion.
• Joseph was given a colorful coat by his father Jacob, which incited jealousy among his brothers.
• The first steam-powered machine, called the “miner’s friend,” was built in 1698 by English engineer Thomas Savery to pump water from flooded mines.

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• Robert Zemeckis won the Oscar, Golden Globe, and a Director’s Guild of America Award for Best Director for the hugely successful film "Forrest Gump."
• Justin Rose became the first Englishman in 43 years to win the U.S. Open, finishing with a score of 1-over 281 at Merion Golf Club.
• Apollo was born on the rocky island of Delos after his mother Leto endured nine days of labor, aided by his twin sister Artemis and the goddess of childbirth, Ilithyia, who was brought to Leto by bribing the messenger Iris with a golden necklace.
• The standard tuning for a guitar from low to high is E-A-D-G-B-E.
• André Courrèges, a visionary fashion designer, introduced the iconic mini skirt and the revolutionary "Go-Go" Boot, significantly influencing women's fashion in the 1960s.
• BBC1's detective drama New Tricks has been cancelled after 12 years and 12 series on air.
• Francis Ford Coppola has two famous relatives in the film industry: his daughter Sofia Coppola, an Academy Award-winning writer and director, and his nephew Nicolas Cage, an Academy Award-winning actor.
• Clayton Moore is the only person to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that includes both his name and the character he was famous for playing, which reads, "Clayton Moore, The Lone Ranger."
• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the second-longest running Thanksgiving parade in America.
• Ingrid Bergman won her third Oscar for her performance as an African missionary in "Murder on the Orient Express."

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• The ostrich is the tallest of any bird, capable of reaching heights up to 9 feet, and it can run at speeds of up to 40 mph.
• John Buchan wrote his best-known book, The Thirty-Nine Steps, while recovering from illness in 1914, and it was published in 1915 as his 27th book.
• Adela of Normandy was the daughter of William the Conqueror and played a significant role in English history, as her son Stephen seized the crown of England, leading to a protracted civil war.
• Pawns are the only pieces in chess that capture differently than they move, allowing them to capture an enemy piece diagonally while moving straight forward.
• Correction fluid, originally called Mistake Out, was invented in 1951 by Bette Nesmith Graham, who was the mother of Michael Nesmith from the Monkees.
• Australia II's victory in the America's Cup on September 26, 1983, ended a 132-year winning streak for the USA, marking the first time a challenger had won the Cup since its inception in 1851.
• The zodiacal constellation Leo represents the Nemean Lion, which had impenetrable skin that Hercules defeated by wrestling and strangling it.
• The Mushroom Kingdom is the largest kingdom in the Mushroom World and serves as the setting for numerous games in the Mario series.
• Phar Lap's heart weighed 6.2 kg, which is almost double the size of a normal horse's heart, weighing 3.2 kg.
• Argentina is composed of 23 different provinces, each with its own government and laws, while the capital city, Buenos Aires, has a population of approximately 3.1 million inhabitants.

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• The silent treatment is considered one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in relationships, indicating its destructive impact on communication and connection.
• Alexander the Great used novel tactics and new kinds of armed forces to conquer the Persian Empire, transforming the Mediterranean into a more unified world of economic and cultural exchange.
• Prince Charles was formally invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle in 1969.
• The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, 70.7 degrees Celsius (159.3 degrees Fahrenheit), was measured in the Lut Desert in Iran by a NASA satellite in 2005.
• Queen Caroline of Brunswick became nearly as well known for her promiscuity as her husband, King George IV, highlighting a scandalous marriage that brought Britain to the brink of revolution.
• Claude Debussy is recognized as the creator of impressionism in music.
• The Enlightenment is characterized by a belief in the potential of human reason to solve societal problems through education and scientific progress, marking a shift from centuries of perceived darkness and ignorance.
• Tata Group bought Jaguar Land Rover in 2008 during the global financial crisis, but managed to turn the company around within three years, achieving a profit of £1.1 billion in 2011, equivalent to the amount paid for the acquisition.
• There are about 2,838 named species of damselflies worldwide, with an estimated 500 to 1,500 species that are still unnamed.
• Netball is reportedly played by over 20 million people in more than 70 countries.

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• Pittsburgh International Airport is ranked 8th out of the 10 best airports in the U.S. by Conde Nast Travelers: Readers' Choice Awards.
• The first composer to write music for the glockenspiel in an orchestra was Georg Friedrich Handel, who included it in his oratorio Saul in 1738.
• Fred Goodwin is the 35th person to have forfeited an honour since 1995.
• Dresden china, despite its name, was actually produced in Meissen, not Dresden.
• The Linotype machine, originally designed for newspaper operations, cast whole lines of type at once, requiring the resetting and recasting of entire lines for typographic corrections.
• Al Pacino is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Tony-, BAFTA-, Emmy- and SAG award-winning actor, widely considered one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time.
• Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota in 1998 by a margin of 3 percentage points over the second-place candidate, despite being a former professional wrestler with no prior political experience.
• Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus, leading to the birth of various mythological beings, including Aphrodite.
• The Battle of Naseby, fought on June 14, 1645, resulted in approximately 1,000 Royalist casualties and 5,000 captured, marking a turning point in the English Civil War.
• Rudolph Valentino was jailed on charges of bigamy after marrying Natacha Rambova while his divorce from his first wife, Jean Acker, had not been finalized.

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• Rowing debuted as a competitive sport at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, making it one of the oldest Olympic sports.
• In "The Curse of Fenric," the Doctor faces Fenric, the embodiment of evil, in a plot that involves turning people into modern-day vampires known as haemovores.
• The Tin Woodman expresses a preference for having a heart over brains, stating he once had both.
• It’s thought that 75 percent of Americans will have hemorrhoids at some time in their lives.
• Top of the Pops was a British music chart television programme that aired weekly from 1st January 1964 to 30th July 2006.
• ‘The Night Manager’ is the first spy novel by John Le Carré to be adapted for television in 20 years.
• Mr. Bean's Mini is a late 1970s MKIV British Leyland Mini that features an innovative pad-lock security measure and has become an iconic vehicle due to its association with the character.
• John Keats, who died at the age of 25, is considered one of the greatest English poets and a key figure in the Romantic movement, despite his brief life and career.
• Doi Inthanon, the highest mountain in Thailand, reaches an elevation of 2,565 meters and has a climate more similar to Canada than to Thailand, with temperatures that can drop as low as -8 degrees Celsius.
• Dandong is the largest border city in China, located directly across the Yalu River from North Korea's Sinuiju.

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• The story "Liar!" in Isaac Asimov's I, Robot contains the first published use of the word "robotics."
• Fin whales can reach lengths of up to 88 feet (26.8 m) in the southern hemisphere, making them the second-largest whale species after the blue whale.
• The most a bowler can score in one game is 300 points, which represents 12 strikes in a row.
• Adrian Edmondson's university nickname "Eddie Monsoon" inspired the name of Jennifer Saunders' character, Edina Monsoon, on Absolutely Fabulous.
• Peter Parker dies in 'Amazing Spider-Man No. 700' after losing a battle to Doctor Octopus, who then takes over Peter's body and assumes the role of Spider-Man.
• Legend has it that on St. Swithin's Day, July 15, if it rains, it will continue to rain for the next 40 days.
• The Mikado ran for 672 performances at the Savoy Theatre, making it the second longest run for any work of musical theatre at the time.
• 1 Ångström is equal to 1.0 x 10^-10 meters, which is about the size of a typical atom.
• Wesley Crusher resigned from Starfleet Academy in 2370 after receiving a vision from his deceased father, guided by The Traveller, who revealed his true identity and promised to mentor Wesley on a new journey beyond Starfleet.
• Despite being famous for his athletic roles, Errol Flynn was classified 4-F and deemed unqualified for military service during World War II due to numerous health issues, including an enlarged heart, chronic malaria, and drug abuse.

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• Madagascar is the 47th largest nation in the world, covering a total area of 587,041 square kilometers.
• Odessa is famous for the Potemkin steps scene from Eisenstein’s film The Battleship Potemkin.
• Zwiebelkuchen, or German Onion Pie, is traditionally made with a yeast dough base and a filling of caramelized onions, bacon, and sour cream.
• Mars, the god of War in Roman mythology, was considered the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.
• Researchers from Temple University have developed a method to reduce milk chocolate's fat content by 20 percent.
• The musical "Cabaret" features a sexually ambiguous Emcee who introduces the Kit Kat Klub and its performers amidst the rise of the Nazis in 1930s Berlin.
• Portugal is the oldest nation-state in Europe.
• Hans Christian Andersen is best known for combining traditional folk tales with his own imagination to create fairy tales that are widely recognized and loved by children today.
• The Swiss Re Tower, also known as the Gherkin, is 180 meters high and was designed to consume 50% less energy compared to similar buildings.
• Grantley Adams International Airport features the Barbados Concorde Experience, allowing visitors to explore a genuine British Airways supersonic plane.

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• Mario Puzo won 2 Oscars for his work on the screenplay of The Godfather and its sequel, The Godfather Part II.
• The first Monty Python movie was "And Now for Something Completely Different" (1971), which was a collection of upgraded comedy sketches from their TV series.
• Winston Churchill is credited with committing British, French, and untested Australian and New Zealand forces to the ill-fated campaign to seize control of the Dardanelles Straits during World War I.
• Samantha Cameron is a descendant of King Charles II.
• There are over 300 dialects and languages spoken in Pakistan, each distinctly different from the other.
• Sapphire and Steel ran from 1979 to 1982 and featured Joanna Lumley and David McCallum in a series that included a total of 6 stories spread over 34 episodes.
• Jesus taught that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister is subject to judgment, equating inner feelings of anger with the act of murder.
• Ray Charles' single "What'd I Say" became his first Top Ten pop hit and first Gold Record Award, significantly influencing the emergence of the soul sub-genre in R&B.
• Chepstow Racecourse is primarily known for its jump racing, with the Welsh Grand National being the highlight of the winter season.
• Andy Gibb became the first male solo artist to have three consecutive number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 within a year, from July 30, 1977, to July 29, 1978.

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• Banksy set up a stall in Central Park selling his original artworks for $60 each, which were actually worth up to £20,000.
• At its height in 1922, the Twin Cities' rail transit system comprised over 525 miles of track and operated 1,021 streetcars.
• The Westermarck effect suggests that individuals who grow up in close domestic proximity during their early years are desensitized to sexual attraction to one another, which has been observed in various cultures, including the Israeli kibbutz system.
• The Bridge of Sighs, built in 1600, was designed to connect the Doge's prisons with the inquisitor's rooms, and its name was popularized in the 19th century despite the fact that the era of executions had ended by the time it was constructed.
• German intelligence agents working against France increased significantly after the French defeat, with possibly three times as many agents by mid-1941 compared to mid-1940.
• The Periodic Table of Elements organizes all known chemical elements based on their atomic number and properties.
• By 1943, more than 80,000 women known as "Land Girls" were working in the Women's Land Army to support agricultural production during World War Two.
• OK Computer was the first self-produced album by Radiohead, with assistance from Nigel Godrich.
• Angola gained independence in 1975 after a protracted liberation war but subsequently descended into a civil war that lasted until 2002.
• On February 10, 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match against IBM's Deep Blue, a computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second.

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• Dum, a traditional Indian cooking method, involves steaming food in a tightly sealed pot, retaining moisture and flavor, and was historically done by sealing the pot with dough.
• The old Britons lived in huts made of wickerwork and mud, with no windows, and they used metal rings instead of coins for money.
• Georgia has the highest salamander diversity in the world, with numerous woodland salamanders found in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
• The first dramas specifically written for performance were created by the Greeks, and many modern drama terms derive from Greek origins.
• Termites do not bite red-and-yellow barbets, allowing the birds to nest near termite mounds without fear of attack.
• Georges Seurat's technique, known as Pointillism, involved using small dots of complementary colors to create a luminous effect, distinguishing his work from the more intuitive methods of the Impressionists.
• The world's highest waterfall is Angel Falls, which has an unbroken leap of 979 meters (3,212 feet).
• Members of the National Stuttering Project picketed at Warner Bros. Studios to advocate for Porky Pig to be used as a positive role model for stutterers instead of a negative stereotype.
• The roots of the Manhattan cocktail stretch back to the old Manhattan Club, established in 1874.
• Eric Liddell, the gold medalist at the 1924 Olympics, spent his final years in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, where he continued to embody his Christian ideals by leading services and helping fellow prisoners despite suffering from severe malnutrition and an undiagnosed brain tumor.

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• The Victoria line runs a remarkable 34 trains per hour, which is claimed to be the most frequent train service anywhere in the UK.
• "Seasons in the Sun" became the largest-selling single in Canadian history, with over 285,000 copies sold in a matter of weeks.
• Dylan Thomas began copying his early poems into notebooks at age 16, a practice that contributed to about two-thirds of his oeuvre.
• David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidians, was born Vernon Wayne Howell and memorized large parts of the Bible by the age of 12.
• Billy the Kid, also known as William Henry McCarty, was believed to have killed 21 men, but is generally accepted to have killed between four and nine.
• The Parthenon in Nashville is a full-scale replica of the original Athenian Parthenon, built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition, and it includes a re-creation of the 42-foot statue of Athena.
• William Somerset Maugham's novel "The Razor's Edge" has been a bestselling novel of the 20th century almost since its publication, despite being panned by critics.
• Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica, shortly after the island had been sold to France by the Italian state of Genoa.
• Assam tea is known for its unique growing conditions, which include a hot, humid rainy season and a cool, arid winter, making it one of the most prolific tea producing areas on earth.
• Man of La Mancha is based on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and is set in 16th-century Spain during the Inquisition.

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• Patricia Hodge began her acting career playing a 75-year-old grandmother and a 30-year-old prostitute in regional theater before gaining prominence in British television and film.
• The mandolin usually has four courses of doubled strings, with the strings in each course tuned in unison.
• The letter 'thorn' ('þ'), imported from the runic alphabet, was used in Old English to represent the 'th' sound until the fifteenth century.
• The children's TV show Rainbow ran on ITV from 1972 until 1992.
• Booking.com offers "Secret Deals" on hotels near Toronto Pearson International Airport that last for a limited time.
• The Philae lander successfully touched down on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, marking the first time a spacecraft landed on a comet.
• The central newt can go through three different adult phases: aquatic adult, terrestrial adult, and terrestrial eft.
• Evenweave fabric for counted thread embroidery is more expensive because it is woven with the same number of warp and weft threads per inch, ensuring that designs will be "square" when stitched.
• Paddington Bear will have his first taste of Marmite in a new TV ad after 50 years of favoring marmalade.
• Oktoberfest originated on October 12, 1810, to celebrate the marriage of the crown prince of Bavaria, who later became King Louis I, to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

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• A cigarette butt smoked by Greta Garbo once fetched $352 at a Hollywood auction.
• George Cohen, a Fulham full-back, was among the heroes of the 1966 World Cup, which England won.
• The first Chihuly Persians were made in 1986 and exhibited for the first time at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of the Palais du Louvre in Paris.
• Beijing is set to become the first city to host both the Summer Olympics (2008) and Winter Olympics (2022).
• Clare Balding has hosted five Olympic Games, four Paralympics, and three Winter Olympics, showcasing her versatility across various sports.
• Polar bears most likely evolved from brown bears, and although rare, they can breed with grizzly bears to produce fertile offspring.
• Enoch and Elijah are the only two people in the Bible who were taken to heaven without experiencing death.
• Edward VIII is the only British monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne.
• Yves Saint Laurent was the first living fashion designer to be honored with a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1983.
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir continued to paint even when he was old and suffering from severe arthritis, using a brush tied to his wrists.

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• Bismarck's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 created a France that seemed incorrigibly hostile to German policymakers.
• Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic Flame Tower during the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Olympic Games, a moment that remains vividly remembered by many.
• Billie Holiday became the first black woman to team up with a white orchestra when she was hired by Artie Shaw in 1938.
• Nathaniel Wyeth invented the PET plastic beverage bottle, which was the first plastic suitable for holding carbonated beverages that met food safety requirements.
• The Grand National features one of the longest national hunt run-ins on a UK racecourse at 494 yards, just one yard short of two and a quarter furlongs.
• The Buff Orpington breed originated in Orpington, Kent, United Kingdom in the late 1800s.
• "When You Wish Upon a Star" won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
• The day on which the novel Ulysses is set, June 16, 1904, is now celebrated as Bloomsday, marking the first date of James Joyce and his wife, Nora Barnacle.
• The next-generation Skoda Roomster has reportedly been delayed until 2016, despite being scheduled for introduction later in the year.
• Mick Jagger kept a Native American teepee in the Rolling Stones' office for peaceful contemplation and showed genuine interest in the hippie counterculture, studying astrology and the I Ching.

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• “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
• Shakespeare's works often feature complex female characters, with discussions highlighting their roles as interesting members of the human race, arguably better represented than in many modern Hollywood movies.
• On Christmas Day 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation, effectively acknowledging the United States as the sole remaining superpower on the face of the earth.
• Feral honey bee populations can become self-sustaining and may differ genetically from managed bee populations, potentially serving as sources of genetically useful "survivor stock."
• Tight Fit, a British pop group, achieved a UK number 1 hit for three weeks in 1982 with their cover of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," despite having two completely different line-ups within a year.
• Real Madrid won the European Cup five times in a row from 1956 to 1960, a record that remains unmatched in the tournament's history.
• The 12th-century vineyard terraces of Lavaux, which run along Lake Geneva, are a UNESCO World Heritage site.
• Piz Gloria, a rotating restaurant atop the 2,970-meter (9,745-feet) Schilthorn summit, served as Blofeld's lair in “On Her Majesty's Secret Service” and now offers Bond-themed buffet breakfasts and vodka martinis to skiers.
• The term "quadruped" comes from the Latin words "quadru," meaning four, and "ped," meaning feet.
• Franz Schubert's six settings of the Mass are notable for omitting the phrase "unam sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam," which disqualifies them for actual liturgical use in many churches.

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• Bob Hope authored a book titled "Confessions of a Hooker: My Lifelong Love Affair with Golf."
• The release of Beaujolais Nouveau occurs precisely at midnight on the third Thursday of November, with celebrations taking place in the Beaujolais region and around the world.
• The BBC is reviving the classic 1970s prison comedy "Porridge" with a new pilot centered around the grandson of the original character, Norman Fletcher, who will now be serving time for computer hacking.
• The House of Oldenburg has occupied the Danish throne since 1448, making it one of the longest-reigning royal houses in Europe.
• Marlon Brando was granted a 99-year lease to the island of Tetiaroa by Tahiti's government, making him its sole owner.
• Brentwood has become a popular destination for TOWIE fans, with nine shops owned by reality stars and more on the way.
• "Death Magnetic was recorded at multiple studios, including Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, CA, and Shangri La Studios in Malibu, CA, from April 2007 to May 2008."
• The Battle of Blenheim, fought on August 13, 1704, was a significant engagement during the War of the Spanish Succession, involving numerous military units and commanders from various nations.
• In 2000, Kylie Minogue's song "On A Night Like This" reached number one in Australia.
• Princess Margaret became the first member of the royal family to appear on a British soap, making a visit to Grey Gables for a charity fashion show in 1984.

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• Pikachu evolves from a Pichu when it levels up with high friendship, and evolves into a Raichu with a “Thunder Stone.”
• Bob Geldof co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", one of the best-selling singles of all time.
• The Everly Brothers documentary 'Harmonies From Heaven' includes a previously unreleased, 14-track concert recorded in 1968 at Sydney's Chequers Nightclub.
• Spike Milligan was known for his humorous and witty quotes.
• The Chancellerie des Universités de Paris plays a central role in higher education in France and significantly contributes to the reputation of research in the Île-de-France region.
• The Easter Rising in 1916 resulted in the executions of 16 leaders, most of whom were young, and their burial without ceremony generated an outpouring of poetry from almost every poet involved in the literary revival.
• The largest species of seal, the southern elephant seal, can grow up to about 13 feet in length and weigh more than 2 tons.
• The first issue of 'Playboy' magazine was published on December 1, 1953, featuring a completely naked Marilyn Monroe as the first centrefold.
• Coleen and Wayne Rooney welcomed their second son, Klay Anthony Rooney, who was born at 2:11 am and weighed 7 lbs 11.5 oz.
• Bing Crosby was a direct 11th generation descendant of Elder William Brewster, one of the passengers on the Mayflower in 1620.

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• The Catacombs of Paris house the bones of over six million people, making it one of the largest ossuaries in the world.
• Saddam Hussein took over the presidency of Iraq from Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr on 16 July 1979, amid allegations that Hussein had threatened to remove al-Bakr by force if he did not resign.
• The English forces in Holland discovered gin during the Dutch War of Independence and nicknamed it "Dutch courage."
• The term "hidalgo" originated in the 12th century as a contraction of "hijo de algo," meaning "son of something," and initially applied to all nobles, particularly the lesser nobility in Spain.
• The Blue Lagoon in Iceland, recognized by National Geographic as one of the 25 wonders of the world, attracts over 400,000 visitors annually and features six million liters of geothermal seawater that is renewed every 40 hours.
• Apsley House, also known as Number One, London, is the only preserved example of an English aristocratic town house from its period.
• Ossuaries, which are facilities used to store human bones, were commonly utilized in areas with limited grave space, allowing bodies to be exhumed after decomposition and their bones to be transferred to permanent storage.
• Mahmoud Abbas won the Palestinian presidential election on January 9, 2005, defeating six other candidates.
• "Few Good Men, A (1992) features an iconic cast including Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore."
• Shirley Temple's signature song "On the Good Ship Lollipop" is performed in the film "Bright Eyes" while she sings to fellow aviators on an airplane as it taxis on the runway.

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• The main Trans-Siberian route is 9288 kilometers long, connecting Moscow to Vladivostok on the Pacific Ocean.
• Kate O'Mara, best known for her role as Cassandra "Caress" Morrell in the 1980s soap opera "Dynasty," died at the age of 74 after a short illness.
• Since its debut in 1986, The Phantom of the Opera has been enjoyed by 100 million people in 124 cities across 25 countries and has grossed £1.7 billion.
• The Little Shop of Horrors was shot on a budget of $30,000 in just two days using sets left over from another film, A Bucket of Blood.
• The Woman's Hour Power List 2015 identifies the ten women with the most influence in the United Kingdom today.
• Eddy Shah was cleared of six counts of raping a schoolgirl under 16 after a jury deliberated for 17 hours and 46 minutes at the Old Bailey.
• The Civil Rights Movement utilized the song "We Shall Overcome" to unite and empower protesters, creating a powerful social phenomenon through music.
• Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN Secretary-General, was killed in a plane crash on September 18, 1961, during a mission to negotiate a ceasefire in the Congo crisis, and there are claims that the crash was the result of an attack by another plane.
• James Bowie, a prominent figure in the Texas Revolution, died at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
• Baltimore Orioles can hybridize with Bullock’s Orioles, resulting in offspring that are brighter orange than a typical Bullock’s but duller than a typical Baltimore, which can confuse bird watchers.

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• Rembrandt's drawings of his wife Saskia on her sick and death bed are considered among his most moving works.
• Vaughan Williams wrote a Concerto for Bass Tuba in F minor in 1954, showcasing his experimentation with unusual instruments during the last decade of his life.
• King Farouk of Egypt was the last king of Egypt, reigning from 1936 until his abdication in 1952 following a coup d'état led by Gamal Nasser.
• The Whitsunday Islands are home to 74 islands, most of which are uninhabited national parks, with four islands offering a variety of resort accommodations.
• The University of Bologna, established in 1088, is recognized as the oldest university in the world that has never been out of operation.
• Baleen whales can filter out thousands of prey items from the water, sometimes consuming up to 4 tons of food each day.
• USS Constitution, commissioned in 1798, is the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat.
• The 1965 Academy Awards marked the first year that the ceremony was broadcast in color on television.
• The Ford Probe was initially considered as a possible replacement for the iconic Ford Mustang, but ultimately, it fell short of sales expectations, selling only 837,273 units during its eight-year production run.
• The Wieliczka salt mine has produced approximately 50 million tons of salt over its 700 years of operation, creating a labyrinth of pathways that extends 350 km in length.

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• Sania Mirza is the highest ranked female player ever from India, achieving a career-high ranking of 27 in singles and 5 in doubles.
• The clove hitch is only effective when there is tension on both sides of the knot.
• Uraninite is a type of uranium ore from which uranium, a heavy toxic radioactive element with atomic number 92, can be extracted.
• The successful atomic detonation at Alamogordo under the code name Operation Trinity occurred on the same day that the leaders met at the Potsdam Conference.
• Robert Powell won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival in 1982 for his role in the film Imperativ.
• In 2007, electric power generation accounted for 69 percent of total sulfur dioxide emissions and 20 percent of nitrogen oxides in the U.S., highlighting the significant impact of energy production on acid rain.
• The B-52's were formed in 1976 after an impromptu jam session inspired by a tropical drink shared at a Chinese restaurant.
• The "black drop" effect occurs during a transit when the disc of a planet appears to stick to the solar limb for a few seconds, creating a deformation that resembles a black drop.
• Mouse Morris achieved his first Grand National victory with Rule The World, just 12 days after winning the Irish equivalent with Rogue Angel, in a remarkable comeback following the tragic death of his son Christopher.
• The Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1920, after which the Yankees went on to appear in 39 World Series and win 26 of them, leading to the belief in "The Curse of the Bambino."

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• The English language has assimilated words and phrases from a variety of other languages over the centuries.
• The opal from near Mezezo, Ethiopia features a leopard skin-patterned nodule with bright opalescence displaying a play of colors from green to red.
• The Solar Impulse 2 has unlimited range and duration, surpassing the long-distance capabilities of current American military aircraft.
• The Sugababes are the UK's most successful female act of the 21st century, with six number-one singles and at least platinum certification for five of their albums.
• Saffron Walden County High School is located on Audley End Road in Saffron Walden, Essex.
• Anne Brontë's first novel, "Agnes Grey," exposes the exploitation and hardships faced by governesses in Victorian England, a plight drawn heavily from her own experiences as a governess.
• A chess set consists of 32 pieces, with 16 white and 16 black pieces used in the game.
• Actaeon was transformed into a stag by the goddess Artemis after he accidentally saw her bathing, leading to his death at the hands of his own hunting dogs.
• The Daur people helped repel Cossack invaders from Tsarist Russia in 1643 AD and 1651 AD, earning them honor in China.
• Dupion is a light to medium weight silk known for its crisp slubbed finish and is available in endless shades.

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• On October 27, 2011, a fifteen-foot Burmese python in the Florida Everglades was found to have swallowed a 76-pound doe, which led to the snake being shot by wildlife officials after they noticed its unusually large midsection.
• Sam Burgess was considered one of the biggest cross-code flops in history after leaving rugby league to play rugby union for just one year.
• At their peak in 1967, The Monkees outsold The Beatles and The Rolling Stones combined.
• Francois Mitterrand, leader of the Socialist party, was elected president in May 1981, marking the first socialist government in the Fifth Republic of France.
• A.A. Milne's stories about the adventures of Christopher Robin and his toy animals, particularly Winnie-the-Pooh, have endured into the 21st century as timeless classics of children's literature.
• The badminton net is 5 feet & 1 inch high on the edges and 5 feet high in the center of the court.
• Brazil was one of the last countries in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery, doing so on May 13, 1888.
• The soft pedal, or una corda pedal, on a grand piano shifts the entire action slightly to the right, allowing hammers to strike only two of the three strings for a note, which softens the sound and modifies its tone quality.
• "The Curse of Frankenstein is notable for being Hammer Film Productions' first color horror film and the beginning of their Frankenstein series."
• The last time Royal Assent was given by the Sovereign in person was in 1854.

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• The margarita is one of the most popular cocktails in Florida.
• Ghana is the only African team to reach the last 16 of the 2010 World Cup, carrying the hopes of the continent after the elimination of all other African representatives.
• The first performance of Lohengrin in Italy marked the first performance of any Wagner opera in the country.
• DFID nutrition interventions have reached over 1.9 million children under 5 in Zambia.
• AstraZeneca is cutting 2,150 jobs in George Osborne's constituency, including the closure of its Alderley Park research center, just five months after receiving a £5m government grant to develop the facility.
• Matthew Paris was an English Benedictine monk and chronicler known for his extensive writings, which are one of the most important sources of knowledge about events in Europe from 1235 to 1259.
• Catherine Howard was likely born in Lambeth, London, circa 1521-1523, but her exact date of birth is unknown because people of her social class were not considered important enough to have their births recorded.
• Before the Classical concept of the nine Muses, there were only three original Muses named Melete (Practice), Mneme (Memory), and Aeode (Song).
• The story of the Harmonious Blacksmith being inspired by a blacksmith in Edgware is a fabrication first proposed by Richard Clark in 1836, without any supporting evidence.
• Corfu Airport, technically named Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport, is located about 3km from Corfu Town and serves as a direct alternative for international flights, bypassing Athens.

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• Sulphur is the primary source for producing sulphuric acid, which is the world's most used chemical.
• An acre is approximately 4046.9 square meters, which is about 3/4 of a football field.
• The Taj Mahal took more than 15 years to complete and is believed to have employed 20,000 laborers.
• Mount St. Helens is classified as a composite volcano, which tends to erupt explosively and poses considerable danger to nearby life and property.
• Salvador Dalí was expelled from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando for declaring the examining Tribunal incompetent.
• In 2002, 78 bodies were discovered in Aokigahara Forest, which is renowned as a popular suicide spot at the base of Mount Fuji.
• Don Adams changed his name from Yarmy because he got tired of being last during alphabetical auditions.
• Dulcie Gray wrote around two dozen murder mysteries, including seventeen detective stories featuring her own character, "Inspector Cardiff."
• The Himalayas are the youngest and highest mountain range in the world, with over 30 peaks exceeding 7,315 meters (24,000 feet).
• The ancient Britons used metal rings as money instead of coins.

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• Anna Nicole Smith married oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II when she was 26 and he was 89.
• Anthony Bourdain once ate the raw eyeball off a bloody seal carcass on a kitchen floor.
• In the late '80s, the Stasi had nearly 175,000 official informants on their books, roughly one informant for every 100 people in East Germany.
• Lauren Bacall won two Tony Awards for her performances in the musicals "Applause" (1970) and "Woman of the Year" (1981).
• GM Holden built more than seven million vehicles and over 10 million engines for both local and overseas sale since the introduction of the Holden 48-215 in 1948.
• During the Vargas years, Brazil's industrial output more than doubled as the economy grew at an average rate of nearly 4 percent annually from 1930 to 1945.
• Ai Weiwei collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.
• The largest recorded sculpture is the 2002 Chinese Spring Temple Buddha, which stands at 128 meters (420 feet) tall.
• The National Rugby League (NRL) is the world's most attended rugby league competition and is often considered the most competitive.
• Chicken Tikka Masala is the UK's favorite curry.

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• Steven Spielberg considered Peter Pan his favorite tale as a child and had his first taste of directing it at age 11 in a school production.
• Dunnet Head is the most northerly point on mainland UK, located 11 miles west/northwest of John o' Groats.
• The pituitary gland is often referred to as the "master gland" because it produces hormones that regulate many body functions and stimulates other endocrine glands to produce hormones.
• The Marine Corps adopted the motto "Semper Fidelis" in 1883, signifying the dedication of individual Marines to "Corps and country," as well as to their fellow Marines.
• In 2006, German Greenpeace had 550,000 supporters and generated annual returns of approximately 40 million Euros, making it the highest income-generating national branch of Greenpeace worldwide.
• Louisa May Alcott wrote 'Little Women' in just ten weeks, becoming so consumed with it that she sometimes forgot to eat or sleep.
• J.R.R. Tolkien's writings on "The Silmarillion" were continually revised until his death in 1973, forming the foundational mythology for his later works, including "The Lord of the Rings."
• Julius Caesar was born in 100 B.C. to a patrician family that claimed descent from Aeneas, the mythical founder of Rome.
• Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," often considered one of the most requested rock songs of all time, drew inspiration from Celtic mythology and is renowned for its musical and lyrical complexity.
• Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia became the first black African to win a gold medal at the Olympics, achieving this historic feat while running barefoot in the marathon at the 1960 Rome Games.

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• Radiohead pioneered the concept of surprise album releases, notably dropping "In Rainbows" in 2007 with just 10 days' notice and a pay-what-you-want download model.
• Sergey Bubka set a total of 35 world records during his pole vault career.
• King Lear is about to divide his kingdom among his daughters, which is a pivotal event in the play.
• Kleptomania is classified as an impulse control disorder where individuals experience an uncontrollable urge to steal items that hold little or no value to them.
• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the public execution of his defense chief Hyon Yong Chol with an anti-aircraft gun for complaining about him and sleeping during a cabinet meeting.
• Evander Holyfield is the only 4-time World Heavyweight Champion, having won the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles multiple times throughout his career.
• M&M's were initially exclusive to the military during World War II, providing heat-resistant chocolate in soldiers' rations.
• A traditional brachioplasty, or arm lift, involves an incision along the inner aspect of the arm to reduce excess skin and fat, and the surgery typically takes two to three hours under general anesthesia.
• "Albert Herring was premiered on 20 June 1947 at Glyndebourne, conducted by the composer Benjamin Britten."
• Larry Parks was the only actor among the original 19 people accused by the House Un-American Activities Committee of being Communists.

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• Kepler's first law states that the path of each planet around the sun is an ellipse, with the sun located at one of the foci of the ellipse.
• By the end of 2009, some 43.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution, the highest number since the mid-1990s.
• Adidas was founded in 1948 by Adi Dassler, who created the brand after separating from his brother Rudolf, who went on to establish Puma.
• Beverley Unwin controversially split her fiancé Fred Elliott's ashes into two halves, presenting Ashley with his share in an instant-gravy jar.
• Seventy-five percent of commercial fish species depend on estuaries for their primary habitat, spawning grounds, and nursery areas.
• The forest in 'As You Like It' is depicted as a place of healing and honesty, contrasting with the deceptive and envious nature of the court, suggesting a need for balance between nature and political life.
• Kylo Ren kills his father, Han Solo, at the climax of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
• "Three Times a Lady" was the only Motown song to reach the Top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, and it was the Commodores' first number-one hit, topping the chart for two weeks.
• Carlos Tévez's transfer from Corinthians to West Ham United in 2006 was marked by controversy, as it involved a record £5.5 million fine imposed on West Ham for breaching Premier League rules regarding the signings of Tévez and Javier Mascherano.
• The list includes acronyms from various health care associations and organizations, such as the American Association of Health Plans and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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• The Old Testament was composed and edited by members of the Hebrew-Jewish community over a span of several centuries, beginning in the twelfth century B.C. and concluding at the start of the Christian era.
• Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened
• The Cosmopolitan cocktail became widely popular due to its association with the television show "Sex and the City."
• Jaffa is one of the oldest functioning harbors in the world, historically significant as the port from which cedars were transported for the construction of Solomon’s Temple.
• Hawaii's Department of Education has been unable to find Barack Obama's kindergarten records, which is unusual for a specific student.
• Christopher Plummer became the oldest person in Academy history to win an Oscar at the age of 82.
• St. Mark's Basilica, nicknamed the "Church of Gold" for its opulence, has been the seat of the Patriarch of Venice since 1807.
• Rabies virus has a single-stranded, antisense RNA genome of approximately 12 kb that encodes five proteins: N, P, M, G, and L.
• Bobby Seale was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, which created the Ten Point Program advocating for civil rights and social justice.
• There are 293 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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• Heidi Klum has insured her legs for two million dollars.
• George Orwell fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded, later fleeing for his life when Communists attempted to eliminate their allies on the far left.
• The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer, purchased by a collector of broken laser pointers.
• Dionysius the Areopagite identified nine distinct orders of angels, categorized into three major choirs within the celestial hierarchy.
• The 2014 Badminton Uber Cup took place at the Siri Fort indoor Stadium in India.
• Arthur Conan Doyle's investigations into the wrongful conviction of George Edalji led to the establishment of the Court of Criminal Appeal.
• Ian Fleming wrote his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952 while on vacation at his home in Jamaica, which he named Goldeneye after a military mission.
• Alfred Lord Tennyson was a significant English poet, known for his influential works and quotes.
• Sabatier knives are fully-forged from a single piece of steel, a manufacturing process that is considered superior to the more common method of knife production.
• Camille Saint-Saëns was the first major composer to write music specifically for cinema.

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• Bingo number 57 is called "Heinz varieties" because it refers to the Heinz 57 varieties of canned beans.
• Carpaccio is a dish made from thinly sliced raw meat, often tenderloin, which can be safely eaten if prepared in a clean environment.
• Bouvet Island is an uninhabited volcanic island that has been a Norwegian possession since 1928 and is almost completely covered by glacial ice.
• El Greco, originally named Domenikos Theotokopoulos, moved to Spain where he created the monumental "Burial of the Count of Orgaz" between 1586 and 1588, which became a major work of European painting.
• The Ionian Islands were significantly influenced by various powers, including the Venetians and Franks, even while the rest of Greece was under Byzantine or Turkish rule.
• Yoga is traditionally taught orally, allowing for a natural movement between the four paths of Yoga rather than a rigid, linear structure found in books.
• Two Assyrian Christian children, Raneed Raad (16) and her sister Raphid (6), were murdered in Baghdad by terrorists who had previously threatened their family.
• The tentative name for the program aimed at fostering local musicians in Greenville is the "10,000 Hour Project," based on Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve proficiency in a skill.
• Desflurane and sevoflurane are low-soluble inhalation anesthetics that offer clinical advantages over isoflurane, including faster induction and quicker recovery during long procedures.
• Betelgeuse is a "pulsating" star with a diameter that varies from 550 to 920 times that of the sun, making it one of the largest known stars in our galaxy.

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• Roy Orbison requested a string section for his rock 'n' roll recordings, a highly unusual choice at the time, as he aimed to record his music exactly how he had always dreamed it to sound.
• Rene Magritte believed that his paintings evoke mystery and are meant to be seen as images that conceal meaning, inviting viewers to question their significance.
• Bucharest features a diverse array of establishments, including multiple museums, gyms, spas, and night clubs, highlighting its vibrant cultural and social scene.
• "The Pit and the Pendulum" was first published in 1842 and tells the story of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who faces a terrifying ordeal involving a large blade-like pendulum that threatens to cut him.
• New Zealand has dropped in global rankings on the Global Gender Gap Index from seventh to 13th place, highlighting a widening gap in economic participation and pay equality between men and women.
• Kelly Holmes became the first British athlete to win a double Olympic gold in the 800m and 1500m since Albert Hill in 1920.
• The Sound of Sleat is a stretch of water in Scotland that separates the Isle of Skye from the mainland areas of Glenelg, Morar, and Knoydart.
• Jennifer Lopez, known as "Jenny from the block," emphasizes her humble beginnings in the Bronx despite her success and wealth.
• The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range, stretching 4,500 miles (7,242 km) across seven countries.
• The Temple of the Emerald Buddha serves as the personal place of prayer for the King of Thailand and has been maintained since its construction in 1785.

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• Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens together cover an area of 253 hectares (630 acres), making them larger than the Principality of Monaco.
• Pott's fracture, named after English physician Percival Pott, is a break in the fibula near the ankle, often associated with a break in the malleolus of the tibia or a rupture of the internal lateral ligament.
• The Bunyip is a legendary Australian creature that is believed to live in or near bodies of water and has numerous regional variations, with characteristics including tusks, flippers, and a horse-like tail.
• The Parthian Empire, which lasted from 247 B.C. to 224 A.D., grew into a dominant power in the Near East through a series of campaigns against the Seleucids, the Romans, and other neighboring kingdoms.
• The earliest odobenid fossils date back to the middle Miocene, approximately 14 million years ago.
• Mary Jane Seacole established the British Hotel near Balaclava during the Crimean War at her own expense to provide care for sick and convalescent officers after being denied by the British War Office to serve as a nurse.
• The softest sound we can hear has about one millionth the intensity of the loudest sound we can bear, representing a wide range of possibilities in audible sound.
• Jelly Roll Morton was one of the first musicians to capitalize on the growing market for sheet music and to master the art of creating music for recordings, significantly contributing to the development of jazz.
• The Foo Fighters told John McCain to stop using their song "My Hero" for his campaign.
• Herpetologists study snakes, lizards, and other reptiles, focusing on various aspects such as their behavior, anatomy, and conservation.

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• Under Geoffrey Howe's stewardship, Britain repaid $3,600 million of international debt, some of which was paid before it was due.
• Gandhi wore a dhoti, a Hindu loincloth, as a way of identifying with the poorest Indians.
• The piano used for the song "As Time Goes By" in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca" is estimated to fetch up to $1.2 million at an auction.
• On this day in 1866, an act of Congress made it lawful throughout the United States to employ the weights and measures of the metric system in all contracts, dealings, or court proceedings.
• K2 has a fatality rate of 27%, making it one of the most dangerous 8,000-meter peaks in the world.
• The Battle of Wounded Knee, which took place on December 29, 1890, resulted in the deaths of 84 Sioux warriors, 44 women, and 18 children, marking the last battle of the American Indian Wars.
• Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Greek mythology, was said to have a mane made of live snakes and was known to eat only live meat.
• "The Color of Money" is a sequel that was twenty-five years in the making, featuring Paul Newman reprising his role as Fast Eddie Felson from the 1961 film "The Hustler."
• Phoenix Park is one of the largest walled city parks in Europe, spanning 1752 acres and home to a herd of wild fallow deer since its establishment as a royal deer park in 1662.
• Aegean wall lizards enhance their camouflage by choosing rocks that closely match the color of their backs, improving their chances of avoiding predation from birds.

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• Hendrik Verwoerd was the prime minister of South Africa from 1958 to 1966 and is considered the principal architect of the apartheid system.
• Dick King-Smith did not become a published author until he was in his 50s, despite having a prolific output of more than 100 titles and sales of around 15 million copies worldwide.
• Springfield, Vt., won the competition to host The Simpsons Movie premiere by receiving 15,367 votes, beating out 13 other Springfields nationwide.
• The inaugural Ferrari Tribute to Mille Miglia took place from May 6-9, 2010, featuring 130 modern and classic Ferraris driving a total of 1,180 kilometers along the historic Mille Miglia route.
• Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971 for inventing holography, a system of lensless, three-dimensional photography.
• Adrenal tumours are very rare, and the most common type in the adrenal medulla is called a phaeochromocytoma, which can be benign or malignant.
• Peter walked on water to go to Jesus before beginning to sink.
• The facelifted Toyota Avensis will be the first model to feature Toyota’s Safety Sense collision avoidance kit and active safety technology.
• The poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas is structured into three parts, with the final stanza becoming intensely personal as the speaker addresses his father, urging him to fight against death.
• Björn Borg is the only player to have won both Wimbledon and the French Open in the same year for three consecutive years.

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• Guava is an excellent source of vitamin C and also contains iron, calcium, and phosphorus.
• "The Incredibles features a family of undercover superheroes who are forced into action to save the world while trying to live a quiet suburban life."
• Boxing Day originated in England in the middle of the nineteenth century under Queen Victoria.
• The song "White Christmas" first appeared in the 1942 film Holiday Inn, not the 1954 film White Christmas.
• In 2005, Greeks consumed an average of 58.7 pounds of cheese per capita, making them the highest cheese consumers in the European Union.
• The Gold and Silver Pawn shop allegedly melted down a stolen coin collection worth approximately $50,000 that was sold to them for $9,550 by a person who took it from a family member.
• New Zealand won its first America's Cup in 1995, marking a significant achievement in the country's sailing history.
• The 'Blue Jacket' Hyacinth grows approximately 10" tall and features a bright purple strip adorned with a silvery cast at the petal edges and tips.
• The mechanism by which sugars are transported through the phloem from sources to sinks is called pressure flow, which relies on turgor pressure created by water following sugar molecules into the phloem.
• The statue "Discobolos" by Myron, created around 460 B.C., has survived in numerous copies, indicating its popularity in ancient times.

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• Thelma & Louise was directed by Ridley Scott and features an Oscar®-winning screenplay by Callie Khouri.
• Whidbey Island is the longest island on the Pacific coast of the contiguous United States.
• The famous Iwo Jima photograph features six flag raisers, but it was later confirmed that Harold Henry Schultz, not John Bradley, was one of the six depicted in the iconic image.
• James McAvoy's only marriage lasted 10.2 years.
• Al Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as the blind Colonel Slade in "Scent of a Woman."
• The Colosseum was capable of seating 50,000 spectators and is estimated to have been the venue where about 500,000 people and over a million wild animals died during its games.
• The Befana is an ancient Santa Claus-like figure in Italy who delivers presents to children on the Epiphany, celebrated on January 6th, symbolizing the end of the Christmas season.
• The BMW 5 Series is considered a hugely important car for the company, despite not being its best-selling model, which is the 3-Series.
• Estonia has hosted a variety of significant European Athletics events over the past 12 years, including the European Juniors and European Under-23 Championships, European Cups, and the European Athletics Convention in 2013.
• Professional sumo wrestling can trace its roots back to the Edo Period in Japan as a form of sporting entertainment, with current tournaments beginning in 1684 at the Tomioka Hachiman Shrine.

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• The military coup in Mali in March 2012 led to the swift takeover of northern territories by the Mouvement National pour la Libération de l’Azawad (MNLA) and its allies, creating a political vacuum that resulted in the country's de facto partition.
• Wasim Akram is renowned for his "Unplayable" delivery bowled to Alan Lamb and his ability to deceive Sachin Tendulkar with a beautiful slow ball.
• Yosemite National Park is renowned for its granite cliffs and waterfalls, including the famous formations Half Dome and El Capitan.
• The "Malpensa Shuttle" coach service runs every 20 minutes from Milan Central Station to Malpensa Airport, operating from 4:30 AM until 12:15 AM.
• The Titanic's fourth funnel was a dummy used solely to vent the engine room and kitchen galleys.
• Anders Celsius was the first person to connect the aurora borealis to the Earth's magnetic field, publishing his findings in 1733.
• English has a large number of cognates with various languages, particularly Spanish, French, and Italian, due to its extensive borrowing from Latin.
• Chess is played on a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.
• Mark David Chapman used hollow-point bullets to shoot John Lennon because they were "more deadly."
• Nour El Sherbini became the sport's youngest and Egypt’s first women’s world squash champion during the 2016 Women’s World Championship final.

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• Thoth is credited with the invention of the 365-day calendar, having won the extra 5 days by gambling with the moon.
• Carthage was founded in approximately 814 BC by Phoenician settlers from the city of Tyre, who brought with them the city-god Melqart.
• The Laughing Cavalier revolves around Diogenes, an ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel, who is said to be the real subject of the famous painting by Frans Hals.
• Alec Baldwin's role in "Glengarry Glen Ross" was created specifically for the film by playwright-screenwriter David Mamet.
• The Victoria Cross is a prestigious British military medal awarded for valor in the face of the enemy.
• Ben Jonson is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey.
• St. George's Day is England's National Day, though it is not a national holiday, unlike the patron saint days of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
• Solomon spoke 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs, demonstrating his exceptional wisdom, which was regarded as a direct gift from God.
• Elgar's first major orchestral work, the ENIGMA VARIATIONS, premiered in 1899 at the age of 42, establishing him as the pre-eminent British composer of his generation.
• Statins may slow the aging process by reducing the rate at which telomeres shorten, potentially activating telomerase in white blood cells.

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• Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and later joined them, taking part in a bank robbery under the alias "Tanya."
• The space shuttle has been essential to the repair and maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope, including a significant mission in December 1993 where astronauts restored its functionality after it was deployed with a defective mirror.
• TAROM Airlines became the 13th member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance on June 25, 2010, enhancing its network reach by adding 11 new destinations.
• The normal viscosity of synovial fluid is due to the high content of hyaluronic acid, which is a nonsulfated polysaccharide composed of equimolar quantities of D-glucuronic acid and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues.
• J.M. Barrie effectively "invented" the name Wendy for the character of Wendy Darling in Peter Pan, derived from a phrase used by a young girl who called him "fwendy-wendy."
• A Pithivier pie is a traditional French puff pastry pie that is always round and features a distinctive 'sunbeam' pattern cut into the pastry lid before baking.
• The Battle of the Saintes on 12th April 1782 was the final naval action of the American War of Independence, which helped save Jamaica from invasion.
• Children can have a fear of dogs due to being more sensitive to stimulating experiences, which results in a lower threshold for feeling distress when encountering something new or unexpected.
• MotoGP is the summit of the Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix, with a history dating back to 1949.
• The KGB was the world’s largest spy and state-security organization, employing more than 500,000 people and having thousands of agents abroad.

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• Hotel Plaka is located only two blocks from Monastiraki metro station, providing direct lines to both the airport and the port of Piraeus.
• An equilateral triangle has all three sides of equal length and all three interior angles equal to 60°.
• In 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
• Evidence provided to the Iraq Inquiry by former intelligence official Michael Laurie supports the BBC's 2003 report that the Government had "sexed up" an Iraqi weapons dossier.
• Camp David, originally called "Shangri-La," was established in 1942 as a presidential retreat for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who sought relief from the summer heat of Washington, D.C.
• The present thesaurus contains only the more common names of specific types of paper and excludes commercial brand names.
• Harry Houdini died of peritonitis, secondary to a ruptured appendix, after being struck multiple times in the abdomen by a student who wanted to test Houdini's claim of being able to withstand any blow to the body.
• In 1643, no less than eighteen languages were spoken in New Amsterdam, showcasing its early cosmopolitan character.
• Ailsa Craig curling stones, made from blue hone granite, can last 40 to 50 years, significantly longer than stones made from other granites.
• Oregon's LaMichael James set a Pac Ten record with 1,476 rushing yards during the season.

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• The America's Cup is the oldest active trophy in international sport.
• Charles Dickens is reckoned to have created and named 989 characters during his career, many of which have given rise to defining personality terms still recognized today.
• The Beatles performed "All You Need Is Love" for the first time on the "Our World" project, the first worldwide TV special, which was broadcast in 24 countries on June 25, 1967.
• Ronnie Biggs, one of the Great Train Robbers, escaped from prison in 1965 and spent 36 years on the run, living a life of luxury in Australia and Brazil before returning to the UK in 2001, broke and in poor health.
• Georges Braque played a pivotal role in the development of Cubism alongside Pablo Picasso, with their respective works being indistinguishable for many years.
• Paul Eddington, who played James Hacker, was a tall, debonair actor who achieved international success in the 1970s.
• In 2009, the character Biff Tannen from "Back to the Future" was named after producer Ned Tannen.
• Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese wife of Charles II of England, is often associated with the introduction of tea into England, although this connection is not significantly substantiated by contemporary sources.
• Galileo was accused of heresy by the Church for supporting the Copernican theory, which posits a sun-centered solar system, and spent his remaining years under house arrest after being convicted.
• With the exception of Shirley Jones and David Cassidy, none of the actors on "The Partridge Family" actually sang or played on the group's records; this was done by professional studio musicians and singers, while the family lip-synched to the tracks on camera.

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• Fantasia, released in 1940, was responsible for the creation of an entirely new theatrical sound system known as Fantasound.
• Barbara Hulanicki founded the Biba label in the 1960s, which made high fashion accessible to the general public.
• Stephen Hester, chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, turned down a bonus of shares worth close to £1 million amidst public outrage over pay restraint.
• Thomas Linley junior, a promising composer and violinist, drowned in a boating accident at the age of 22, with Mozart describing him as "A true genius... had he lived he would have been one of the greatest ornaments of the musical world."
• Channing Tatum produced the film "Magic Mike," which is based on his own experiences as a male stripper.
• Madras was the only Indian city attacked during World War I when the German light cruiser 'SMS Emden' targeted an oil depot, disrupting shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean.
• The shortest pangram is "Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex," which contains only 28 letters.
• None of the five main Beat writers—Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Gregory Corso—fought in World War II, which set them apart from many of their contemporaries.
• Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells, released in 1973, was groundbreaking as it featured him playing more than twenty different instruments and became the inaugural album of Richard Branson's Virgin Records label.
• Methuselah lived to be 969 years old, making him the longest-lived human figure mentioned in the Bible.

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• William the Conqueror was known as "William the Bastard" because his parents were not married; he was born to Richard II, Duke of Normandy, and his mistress, Herleva.
• A Vestal Virgin swore a sacred vow of chastity for 30 years, and if the vow was broken, the Vestal was buried alive in the Field of Wickedness (Campus Sceleris).
• The 1950s marked the birth of rock’n’roll, transforming music from a parent-friendly zone to a genre characterized by a virile, passionate sound led by artists like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry.
• Richard Rodgers created a remarkable output of approximately 40 Broadway musicals, including 26 with Lorenz Hart and 9 with Oscar Hammerstein, fundamentally changing the course of the Broadway musical.
• Bela Lugosi was buried in his Dracula costume, with a lightweight cape he used for personal appearances rather than the original.
• Corstorphine is home to one of Scotland's best-preserved late medieval parish churches, the Collegiate Church of St. John the Baptist, which features several well-preserved stone effigies of the local noble family, the Forresters of Corstorphine.
• Google Chrome has surpassed Internet Explorer to become the most used browser worldwide, achieving a market share of 41.67%.
• The amethyst, the birthstone for February, is associated with qualities of peace, courage, and stability.
• Burma no longer exists as a recognized country.
• Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed Boston Strangler, was stabbed to death in prison on November 26, 1973, and many experts believe his confessions were actually the product of a delusional mind.

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• The Saola, known as the "Asian Unicorn," had not been seen alive since 1999 before its capture in Laos, making it an exceedingly rare species.
• Namibia's coastline features the Skeleton Coast, known for its shipwrecks and dramatic landscapes, and is home to Africa's largest colony of cape fur seals, numbering between 100,000 and 200,000.
• During the informal Christmas truce of 1914, opposing soldiers from different armies joined together to sing carols, exchange greetings and gifts, and even played soccer in no man's land.
• Hawke's Bay is the oldest wine region in New Zealand and the second largest.
• The Battle of Naseby, fought on 14 June 1645, was a decisive victory for Parliament's New Model Army, which ultimately ensured that the monarch would never again be supreme in British politics.
• Gorillas share 95–99% of their DNA with humans, making them our closest living relatives after chimpanzees and bonobos.
• Protests against corporate greed and public austerity took place in 82 countries, marking the beginnings of a worldwide movement.
• Many Clouds aimed to become the first horse since Red Rum in 1974 to win the Grand National back-to-back.
• The human ear contains the ossicles, which are the three smallest bones in the body: the malleus, incus, and stapes.
• Uggie the Dog, a Jack Russell Terrier, starred in the Oscar-winning film The Artist.

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• Leonardo DiCaprio was named after the artist Leonardo da Vinci because his mother was looking at a painting by him when he first kicked in her womb.
• There are 7 eclipses in a period of 365 days 29 times in the 21st century.
• Icadyptes salasi, a giant spear-beaked penguin from the Eocene, had a remarkably long beak that made up nearly two-thirds of its skull, suggesting a unique feeding strategy that involved spearing prey.
• Cardinal Richelieu founded the Académie Française, the institution responsible for regulating the French language.
• St. Bernadette of Lourdes was the subject of a well-researched account published in 1904.
• The Manchester Giants opened the 1995-96 season in front of a record 14,251 fans at the NYNEX Arena, marking the largest crowd to ever watch a basketball match in Britain.
• Gumbo is consumed year-round in New Orleans despite being perceived as a cold weather dish.
• Charles Saatchi received a formal police citation for his actions after a June incident where he was photographed grasping Nigella Lawson's throat.
• Black Sabbath's debut album, released on Friday the 13th in February 1970, is often regarded as one of the first heavy metal albums.
• In 2014, Germany became the first European team to win a World Cup in South America, defeating Argentina with a last-gasp goal in extra time.

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• Hydrochloric acid, mixed with nitric acid (3:1), is a powerful oxidizing agent that can dissolve metals like gold and platinum while generating toxic and/or flammable gases.
• Jean-Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte, a marshal of France under Napoleon, was elected crown prince of Sweden in 1810 and became king as Charles XIV John in 1818.
• In 1966, Northampton Town spent their only season in the top flight of English football after a remarkable rise from the Fourth Division to the First Division in just five years, which led Manchester City manager Joe Mercer to declare it "the miracle of 1966."
• The greatest political impact of Bruce Springsteen's album "Born in the U.S.A." was on Springsteen himself, transforming him from a relatively apolitical performer into a passionate advocate for the rights of the disenfranchised, largely due to Ronald Reagan's attempt to co-opt his popularity.
• Donald Peers was Britain’s first super-celebrity singer, receiving 3,000 fan letters a week and requiring a police escort due to the overwhelming crowds during his peak in the late 1940s.
• Spinach was historically favored by Catherine de Medici, who brought her own cooks to France to prepare it, leading to dishes served "a la Florentine."
• Vladimir Lenin's older brother, Aleksandr, was hanged in 1887 for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Czar Alexander III.
• Nena has sold over 25 million records worldwide, making her one of the most successful artists in German music history.
• The Tote, historically a publicly-owned bookmaker established by Winston Churchill in 1928, was sold to Fred Done for £265 million in June 2011.
• In 1874, General George Custer's expedition discovered gold in the Black Hills, leading to a massive influx of miners and settlers that violated the Treaty of Fort Laramie and escalated tensions between the U.S. government and Native American tribes.

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• Shahid Afridi received a two-match ban in 2010 for ball tampering after he admitted to trying to smell the ball during a match against Australia, leading to significant ramifications for his team.
• About 30 metric tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) escaped from the tank into the atmosphere in 45 to 60 minutes during the Bhopal disaster.
• "La Boheme" is the most popular opera in the repertory, consistently bringing audiences to tears with the tragic story of Mimi.
• The Children of the New Forest, published in 1847, is set during the English Civil War and follows four orphaned children who hide in the New Forest, adapting from an aristocratic lifestyle to that of simple foresters.
• Carlisle was the most besieged place in the British Isles, having been held under siege 10 times in its history.
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason features a plot where Bridget is incarcerated in Thailand for drug trafficking.
• Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced
• The Xerox Star workstation, introduced in 1981, was the first commercial implementation of the graphical user interface, inspiring the Mac and other GUIs that followed.
• Joe Telicak was killed at the age of 27 when he was struck by a freight train in Dilliner, Greene County, on August 11, 1935.
• Newgate Market in York is open 7 days a week and features a variety of stalls and street entertainers, making it a vibrant shopping destination in the city center.

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• The cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit) can grow vine tendrils as long as 25 feet if not kept pruned.
• The FAA call sign for the American Airlines flight carrying Pope Francis in the United States is "Shepherd One."
• The character DCI Mark Lapslie in Nigel McCrery's "Still Waters" has synaesthesia, which allows him to taste sounds.
• The national anthem of Azerbaijan, "Azerbaijan Marsi," was originally written in 1919 during a brief period of independence but did not become the official anthem until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992.
• Brunei became fully independent on January 1, 1984, after being a self-governing British protectorate since 1971.
• Cecil the Lion was tracked for 40 hours after being shot with a crossbow before he was finally killed with a gun.
• Every human being begins life as a single cell, formed when a father's sperm fertilizes a mother's egg.
• The lateral blast from Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, reached initial velocities of about 220 miles per hour and quickly increased to approximately 670 miles per hour, causing devastation over an area of 230 square miles.
• Father Wolf discovers a naked human baby, referred to as a "man's cub," in the jungle, which is a rare occurrence for wolves.
• Jo Nesbø's crime series featuring the Oslo detective Harry Hole has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

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• Asil Nadir, once ranked Britain's 36th richest man, is facing trial for 66 counts of theft totaling £34 million after living in exile for nearly 20 years in northern Cyprus.
• The Australian Dingo Fence is the world's longest fence, stretching 5,614 kilometers across southeastern Australia.
• The album "Education, Education, Education & War" was created after the departure of founder member and drummer Nick Hodgson, leading the remaining members to generate nineteen or twenty new song ideas in just one week.
• The 1955 British Open was the first to be televised on the BBC, broadcasting parts of the final round.
• In 2014, a Canadian search team located HMS Erebus, one of the ships from Franklin's lost expedition, west of O'Reilly Island in the Arctic archipelago.
• The Jackson 5 became the first group ever to have four number one hits in a row.
• Charles Bronson, often referred to as "Britain's most notorious prisoner," has spent significant periods in high-security psychiatric hospitals due to his violent behavior, including attempts to strangle a fellow inmate.
• Rod Laver's victory over Tony Roche in the 1969 Australian Open semifinals included a 42-game second set and was played in extreme heat, with temperatures reaching up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
• George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was originally titled Last Man in Europe before being renamed for unknown reasons, possibly a mere reversal of the last two digits of the year it was written.
• The Wombles are the most famous residents of Wimbledon Common, known for tidying up after humans and recycling rubbish to create useful items for their burrow.

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• An 11-year-old reticulated python named Thelma produced six female offspring without mating, marking the first recorded instance of virgin birth in her species.
• The term "Cuban Motion" refers to a hip motion initiated by using the inside edge and ball of the foot during weight transfer, achieved by bending and straightening the knee before and after the step.
• Kingsbarns Golf Links is considered a "must play" course for those visiting St. Andrews, Scotland.
• The Royal Marines were the first ever military unit to perform an air assault insertion by helicopter, during the Suez Crisis in 1956.
• Aquae Sulis Hotel, built in the early 1900s, combines old-world charm with modern conveniences such as free WiFi and a bar.
• Dick King-Smith, the author of "The Sheep-Pig," which inspired the Oscar-winning movie "Babe," published over 100 books that sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.
• Douglas is home to one of the only camera obscuras in all of the British Isles, projecting 360-degree views of the surrounding area.
• Tiger Woods became the youngest-ever player to win the US Masters Championships at the age of 21, with a winning margin of 12 strokes, breaking the previous record held by Jack Nicklaus.
• The three four-time winners of the Indianapolis 500—A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears, and Al Unser—led the fan-selected lineup of "The Greatest 33" drivers in the race's history.
• For the first time in Bulbtronics’ 27-year history, the company has compiled information about its entire product line of bulbs, batteries, and related lighting products into a single comprehensive guide.

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• Darren Walsh won the Edinburgh Festival's top joke award for his pun "I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free," receiving 23% of the votes.
• The film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" won 7 Oscars and received an additional 23 wins and 7 nominations.
• The fruit of the Fragaria vesca 'Semperflorens' alpine strawberry is sweet and succulent with an exquisite taste, considered far superior to cultivated strawberries, and it is produced abundantly from early summer until autumn frosts.
• Pete Seeger was instrumental in popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome," which became the anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, and he altered the lyrics from "We will overcome" to "We shall overcome" for singability.
• Scrying has been used for thousands of years by different cultures, including ancient Egyptians, who incorporated it into their initiation rituals.
• David Copperfield is considered an autobiographical novel reflecting the life of Charles Dickens, whose own experiences inspired many elements of the story.
• Jane Seymour is best known for her role as Dr. Michaela Quinn in the hit CBS series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, which attracted 22 million viewers at its peak despite being initially dismissed by critics.
• The yen was first introduced in 1871 as part of a major monetary reform and completely replaced the clan notes of Japanese feudal lords by 1879.
• The Amazon River is the world's largest river by volume and has a drainage basin that includes portions of five countries, supporting an extraordinary variety of wildlife, including 4,000 species of butterflies.
• Babe Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season (1927), setting a record that stood until it was broken by Roger Maris in 1961.

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• Bette Davis received her second and final Oscar for her role in "Jezebel," which marked the beginning of an unparalleled streak of five consecutive Best Actress nominations.
• Within 24 hours of the euro's introduction in Slovenia, the value of euro banknotes in circulation surpassed that of tolar banknotes.
• Edouard Daladier, a three-time premier of France, was a signatory of the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler, which he joined in an effort to avoid war.
• The distance of one nautical mile is defined as one minute of arc along a line from the pole to the equator, which is approximately 1852 meters.
• Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a large family of professional musicians, with his father and uncles all having significant musical careers.
• Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610, but Simon Marius, who observed them earlier on December 29, 1609, did not receive credit due to the use of different calendars—Galileo used the Gregorian Calendar while Marius used the Julian Calendar.
• La Boheme debuted in Turin, Italy on February 1, 1896, and is considered one of the "three or four most popular operas in the repertory."
• The Hagia Sophia is considered one of the world's most magnificent Byzantine structures.
• Shooting live pigeons was once an Olympic sport at the 1900 Summer Games in Paris, where nearly 300 birds were killed during the competition before the event was replaced with clay targets.
• Aluminium is the world’s most abundant metal, comprising 8% of the earth’s crust, and is the third most common element.

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• The Battle of Antietam is known as the bloodiest single day in American history, with its outcome allowing President Abraham Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Anthony Burgess composed over 250 musical works, although he is best known for his literary contributions.
• Terry Pratchett, the author of the Discworld novels, has sold more than 55 million books worldwide.
• Red Rum, trained by Ginger McCain, achieved a historic hat-trick by winning the Grand National three times, making him a legendary figure in horse racing.
• The Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Alabama, was built in 1919 to commemorate the significant damage the boll weevil beetle caused to the region's cotton crops and the resilience of farmers in overcoming this adversity.
• At its height, The Crystal Maze attracted 6 million viewers, making it the most watched show on Channel 4.
• The tradition of associating specific materials with wedding anniversary years is believed to have begun in Victorian times, when discovery, classification, and cataloguing were popular.
• On its premiere night on January 26, 1907, The Playboy of the Western World sparked a near riot at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, leading to the actors not finishing the play and the author being threatened by audience members.
• Salt Lake City was founded on July 24, 1847, by a group of 148 Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young, marking the first permanent non-Indian settlement in the Salt Lake Valley.
• The recipe suggests using a Stanley or Craft knife to make slashes in the pork skin for optimal crackling.

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• Samuel Adams founded the Sons of Liberty, a group dedicated to methodically resisting English rule in all of its American colonies.
• The Karnak temple area is the largest ancient religious site in the world, covering about 60 acres and developed over nearly 2,000 years with contributions from approximately 30 pharaohs.
• The Ulsan plant is the world’s single largest automobile plant, occupying 1,200 acres and employing over 34,000 workers capable of producing 5,600 vehicles daily.
• The term "postmortem" refers to both the examination of a body after death and evaluations or discussions that occur after the end of an event.
• George Fox was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers.
• Obsidian is a natural glass formed by the rapid cooling of viscous lava, and it can contain spherical clusters of radially arranged, needlelike crystals called spherulites.
• The borders of U.S. states, often believed to be defined by straight lines along latitude and longitude, are actually irregular polygons with hundreds of sides due to historical surveying errors.
• Hay fever affects up to 30% of all people worldwide, including up to 10% of U.S. children under 17 years of age and 7.8% of U.S. adults.
• Finland Steam Baths, established in 1928, is the last steam bath of its kind in Quincy and has remained a family-owned operation since 1969.
• As of December 1, 2013, Iran had 35 journalists imprisoned, highlighting the country's crackdown on press freedom.

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• The Naghol ceremony on Pentecost Island, part of an annual yam festival, involves men diving from wooden towers with liana vines secured to their ankles, symbolizing a rite of passage and fertility for the land.
• The East India Company, originally a private trading company, evolved into a powerful military and diplomatic organization that effectively ruled India until it was dissolved by the British government following the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857.
• The Queen’s House in Greenwich features the first stone spiral staircase in Britain built without any central support.
• The first class marksman for the Lewis gun and the Hotchkiss gun wore the initials LG and HG respectively over laurel sprays starting in 1917.
• Salvador Dali was one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, known for both his striking and provocative works and his eccentric behavior.
• British soldiers did not wear powdered wigs as part of their uniform during the Revolutionary War.
• The Battle of Santiago de Cuba resulted in the complete destruction of the Spanish fleet, with Cervera losing all six ships and suffering 323 killed and 151 wounded, while the US Navy had only 1 killed and 10 wounded.
• The script for The Peanuts Movie was created in 2006 by Charles M. Schulz's son and grandson, Craig Schulz and Bryan Schulz.
• The reboot version of Freddy Krueger is depicted as a child molester, a detail that Wes Craven had originally wanted to include in the first film but was dropped to avoid controversy.
• William II of England, also known as William Rufus, was in direct confrontation with Archbishop Anselm over the rights of the church versus the rights of a monarch's sovereignty.

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• Bastinado is a form of punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick or cudgel.
• The number of global polio cases has plummeted from 350,000 in 1988 to 1,263 in 2004.
• Fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers exist today, a significant decline from an estimated 1,000 in 1978.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, along with William Wordsworth, was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England.
• At the Battle of Agincourt, the English forces, outnumbered more than three to one, suffered only around 400 deaths while inflicting nearly 6,000 fatalities on the French army.
• One World Trade Center has been recognized as the tallest skyscraper in the United States, measuring 1,776 feet tall, a height symbolically linked to the founding year of the United States.
• Gru, the world's greatest villain, plans to steal the moon with a vast secret hideout and an army of minions, but his life changes when he encounters three orphaned girls who see him as a potential dad.
• In most old legends, vampires are essentially walking corpses, which has been downplayed in recent media where they often appear as slightly pale humans.
• The dish being prepared is a cassoulet, a traditional French casserole known for its rich flavors and hearty ingredients, including duck, sausage, and beans.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived from 43 B.C.E. to approximately 17 C.E.

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• Alfred Matthew Yankovic, known as 'Weird Al' Yankovic, first took up the accordion after a salesman approached his family about music lessons.
• The South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was responsible for virtually all bus services in South Yorkshire from 1974 to 1994.
• The title track "Eye of the Tiger" catapulted the band Survivor to fame as it was used as the theme song for the hit movie Rocky III in 1982.
• The word "dipsomania" specifically refers to alcoholism characterized by intermittent bouts of craving for alcohol.
• The song "I'm Getting Married In The Morning" is performed by Charlie Killeen (Alfred Doolittle) in the Kilrush Choral Society's inaugural production of My Fair Lady.
• "Crocodile Rock" became Elton John's first U.S. number-one single, reaching the top spot on February 3, 1973, and staying there for three weeks.
• The Taj Mahal was built as the final resting place for Mumtaz Mahal, the third wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, and its construction took around 20 years, from 1632 to 1653.
• Ben Kingsley became the first South Asian performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Mohandas Gandhi in the film "Gandhi."
• Kym Marsh first gained public attention in 2001 by participating in the talent show Popstars, which led to her becoming a member of the musical group Hear’Say.
• The album title "Education, Education, Education & War" is derived from a speech by Tony Blair.

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• Modern Greek architecture began after the establishment of the Modern Greek state following the country's war of independence in 1821.
• The kelvin unit of temperature is defined based on the triple point of water, which is exactly 273.16 kelvins, corresponding to 0.01 °C.
• Agrippina the Younger was the mother of Nero, who ultimately ordered her death after becoming emperor.
• Beyoncé Knowles emerged as a top student and world-class performer at St. Mary of the Purification Montessori, where her talents first flourished.
• The Barossa Valley is home to some of the oldest vineyards in the world.
• The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is the oldest overseas U.S. Naval base and is located in a country with which the U.S. does not maintain diplomatic relations.
• Dr. John Sentamu was arrested in Uganda in 1974 for criticizing the Amin regime's human rights violations, leading to his departure for the UK.
• Charles Lindbergh was the first person in history to fly nonstop from New York to Paris, completing the journey in the single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis in May 1927.
• Muhammad Ali became the youngest boxer to unseat an incumbent heavyweight champion when he won the title for the first time in 1964 by defeating Sonny Liston.
• George Gershwin's musical "Of Thee I Sing" was the first musical production to win a Pulitzer Prize.

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• Leonardo DiCaprio received his first Oscar nomination at age 22 for his role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? but lost to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive.
• Benito Mussolini ruled Italy as Prime Minister from 1922 until 1943, establishing a legal dictatorship and abandoning the pretense of democracy in 1925.
• On May 28, 2008, Nepal was declared a Federal Democratic Republic, officially abolishing its 240-year-old monarchy.
• Karl Benz patented the first true, modern automobile, the three-wheeled Motor Car, in 1886.
• Daniel Ek founded his first company, a website-building service, at the age of 14.
• Richard Branson sold his Virgin Megastores in Britain and Ireland, transforming them into the largest independent entertainment retailer in the region, which was rebranded as Zavvi.
• The Sedlec Ossuary contains the skeletal remains of approximately 40,000 individuals, creatively arranged into elaborate decorations by a Czech woodcarver named Frantisek Rint.
• The Japanese word "anime" refers to all forms of animation in Japan, but in English, it specifically denotes Japanese animation.
• Londoners voted to remain in the EU despite 52 percent of the overall British electorate voting to leave.
• The cashew tree produces an edible, pear-shaped fruit called the cashew apple, which is extremely rich in vitamin C and can be made into jam, marmalade, candy, and juices, but it spoils quickly and cannot be exported.

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• At least 12 women have been executed in Saudi Arabia over the past 32 months, with most of these executions being carried out secretly and often following unfair trials that denied them legal representation.
• The American victory at Saratoga in October 1777 was a major turning point in the Revolutionary War, convincing France to enter the war as an ally of the fledgling United States.
• Henry VIII was a king of England known for having six wives and for initiating the English Reformation.
• The only word in the English language that ends with the letters -mt is "dreamt."
• The Chihuahua is the smallest dog breed and the oldest North American breed, with a typical shoulder height of 15-23 cm (6-9 in) and a weight of 1-3 kg (2-5.5 lbs).
• Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated book, On Chesil Beach, is told in under 200 pages and centers on a couple's honeymoon evening.
• England played in the first Test match in 1877 and has had more Test matches and captains than any other team.
• The Panic of 1873 marked the beginning of the Long Depression in the United States, a severe economic downturn that lasted until 1879.
• Juan Domingo Peron was deposed in a military coup on September 19, 1955, after a decade of increasingly authoritarian rule in Argentina.
• In the episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina," Mr. Garrison undergoes a sex change operation, prompting another character, Kyle, to desire a "negroplasty" to change his race and height for basketball.

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• The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee, and quickly evolved from a fraternal organization into a violent group that used terrorism to oppose civil rights for African Americans.
• Rafael Nadal won his record-breaking 7th French Open Championship on June 11, 2012.
• The long name 'Tikki Tikki Tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo' is noted to sound more Japanese than Chinese, despite being presented as a Chinese folktale.
• The Chalice of Ardagh, discovered in 1868, is a remarkable example of Irish metalwork, made of silver alloyed with copper and capable of holding nearly three pints of liquid.
• Davis Love III returned from a 27-week injury absence to compete at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open after undergoing surgery for a torn left hip labrum.
• Morrissey stated he would "rather eat my own testicles than reform the Smiths," reflecting his strong aversion to reuniting the band.
• The film "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" features Nicolas Cage as a sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan who mentors a young physics student, Dave Stutler, believed to be the prime Merlinian destined to inherit Merlin's powers.
• The introduction of electronic authentication and digital encryption technologies has led to a more than 75% reduction in wireless phone cloning incidents.
• In nine trips to the lottery since 1994, the Boston Celtics have never improved their pre-lottery position.
• Bridgeport is the most populous city in Connecticut, with an estimated population of 137,912 in 2006, making it the fifth largest city in New England.

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• Most fleas do not live past a year old
• Manicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 years
• The Taj Mahal was actually built for use as a tomb
• On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day
• Cubic Zirconia is 55% heavier than real diamonds.
• An average person consumes the equivalent of 26 gallons of milk a year, including almost 28 pounds of cheese
• Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, their bodies dyed blue from head to toe
• There have been over fifty million Mr. Potato Heads sold since it came out in 1952
• A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour
• The murder rate in the United States is about four times greater than in Japan. In Japan, no private citizen can buy a handgun legally

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• In a year, Americans eat approximately 20 billion pickles
• The Olympics were originally held for the Greek god Zeus
• Reptiles do not perspire, and do not have any oil glands
• There is a Hamburger hall of fame in Seymour, Wisconsin
• New Mexico is known as the "Land of Enchantment."
• Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer. new
• An individual coral animal is called a polyp

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• There are over 2,000 different types of cheese in the world
• There is cyanide in apple pips
• The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup bone, which is located in the ear
• Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers, and lawns
• The meaning of Siberia is "sleeping land."
• Some arthritis medications contain gold salts, which is used as an anti-inflammatory
• Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year
• The real name of Toto the dog in "The Wizard Of Oz" was Terry
• In Britain, there are approximately 50,000 pubs with 17,000 different names
• The game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyed

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• The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937
• The Popsicle was invented by 11 year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. He left his drink outside with a stir stick in it and he noticed that it had frozen. He applied for a patent in 1923 and named it "Epsicle." The name was later changed to Popsicle
• In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year
• Cows do not have any upper front teeth. Instead they have a thick pad on the top jaw
• In New York City there are 6,374.6 miles of streets
• The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean
• By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours
• The name of the first menthol cigarette in the United States was "Spud."
• The first United States president to visit China was Richard Nixon

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• The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men
• Montreal was named after a local mountain "Mont Royal."
• There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres.
• JELL-O was declared The "Official State Snack" of Utah in January 2001
• The state that has the most diners in the world is New Jersey, which is referred to as the "Diner Capital of the World."
• Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever
• Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.
• The largest coral reef in the world is the Great Barrier Reef located in Australia. The reef is approximately 2023 kilometers long
• Only 4% of babies are born on their actual due date
• A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder

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• A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old
• The longest recorded duration of a total solar eclipse was 7.5 minutes.
• There is a town in Norway called "Hell"
• Totally Hair Barbie is the best selling Barbie of all time. It sold over ten million units
• One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs 11 pounds
• Termites are roasted and eaten like popcorn in South Africa
• The name of the famous snack "Twinkies" was invented by seeing a billboard in St. Louis, that said "Twinkle Toe Shoes."
• Initially golf balls were made out of wood. After that they were made out of leather which was stuffed with feathers
• Researchers have developed odourless socks. The sock fabric is made by attaching molecules that contain chlorine called halamines to textile fibers
• The average ear grows 0.01 inches in length every year

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• Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
• Even though red roses looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses
• Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body
• When explorers first arrived in Venezuela, they were reminded of Venice. They named the country "Little Venice", which translated into Spanish is Venezuela
• The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left
• Albert Einstein was cremated and his ashes were spread over a river located in New Jersey
• The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee
• The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world
• Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China
• The Lemon shark grows about 24,000 new teeth a year. A new set of teeth grow approximately every 14 days

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• The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards
• Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States
• A house cat spends 70% of its time sleeping
• Cimeti?re du P?re Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison
• Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA
• A drink used to be made by the Aztecs for the gods which had the ingredients of ground cocoa mixed in with spices and corn
• Over 175 million cubic yards of earth was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal
• Pancakes are served for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Australia
• Lake Baikal, in Siberia, is the deepest lake in the world
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple

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• Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
• The silk that is produced by spiders is stronger than steel
• In a day the blue whale calf drinks approximately 130 gallons of milk
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
• One bushel of wheat can make enough sandwiches that you could eat three sandwiches a day for over six months
• People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs
• Irish Wolfhound dogs have a short lifespan and live about 7-8 years
• 7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world. Click Here For More Details
• Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918
• The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes

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• Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996
• The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark
• In 1936, the first practical helicopter was invented. It was the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61.
• In Alabama, it is against the law to wear a fake mustache that could cause laughter in the church
• Over 20 million BluBlocker sunglasses have been sold since its debut in 1986. They now come in over 100 different styles
• Sports Illustrated has the largest sports magazine circulation
• It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
• Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do
• The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth
• It is estimated that over fifty-four million people died in World War II, which was the bloodiest war in history

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Today's facts:

• The human liver performs over 500 functions
• One ounce of chocolate has about 20 mg of caffeine in it
• Close to 50% of the water used in a home originates from the bathroom
• The Food and Drug Administration says the most common injury from cosmetics comes from scratching the eye with a mascara wand
• Billiards used to be so popular at one time that cigarette cards were issued featuring players
• Pigs have no sweat glands, which is why they stay in water or mud to keep cool
• An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year
• The word "walkman" was included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986

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• The fleshy bulbs on each side of your nose are called the Alea (AY-lee) singular Ala (AY-luh)
• The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail
• Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, JohnHancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, butthe last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
• The first music video ever played on MTV Europe was by Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing."
• There is a "cemetery town" in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1
• The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867
• The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide
• In 1884, Dr. Hervey D. Thatcher invented the milk bottle.
• In a five card poker game there are 2,598,960 possible hands

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• The name "Grey Poupon" used for mustard comes from two people: Maurice Grey and Auguste Poupon. Grey was the inventor of a machine that mass produced fine textured mustard, and Poupon was an already established maker of mustard. In 1886 the Grey-Poupon firm was formed
• Seven asteroids were especially named for the Challenger astronauts who were killed in the 1986 failed launch of the space shuttle
• A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt
• The monogram "RR" for Rolls-Royce has never been altered, except for when Sir Henry Royce passed away in 1933. Then it was changed from red to black.
• In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• The name Hasbro was invented by the name of the founders: HASsenfeld BROthers
• The fins of the Spiny Dogfish Shark are sometimes used as sandpaper for wood products
• On September 3, 1970, a hailstone was found in Coffeyville, Kansas that was eight inches in diameter and weighed 1.67 pounds.
• To make one glass of orange juice, 50 glasses of water are needed to grow enough oranges to make the juice

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• A honey bee has four wings
• The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer
• The heart of an adult giraffe weighs on average 26 pounds
• Chewing gum has rubber as an ingredient
• When former Texas Governor James Hogg was on his deathbed he made a special request that a pecan tree be planted at the head of his grave instead of a tombstone. The governor passed away on March 2, 1906, which is Texas Independence Day. The pecan tree is now the state tree of Texas
• After the U.S Civil War, about 33%-50% of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit
• Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959
• Swiss engineer George de Mestral, who got the idea after noticing burrs were sticking to his pants after his regular walks through the woods, invented Velcro.
• The first Olympic games only had one event - a foot race
• The first television newscaster was Kolin Hager, who used to broadcast farm and weather reports in 1928

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• There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.
• Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas
• When Nylons first went on sale in the United States in 1940, four million pairs were sold in only a few days
• During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex
• Someone gets divorced every ten to thirteen seconds
• The song with the longest title is "I?m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin? Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues" written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945. He later claimed the song title ended with ?Yank? and the rest was a joke
• On average, 749 pounds of paper products is used by an American individual annually
• Retail sales for soft drinks in the United States in 2001 were more than sixty billion dollars
• The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko
• Spartacus led the revolt of the Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 B.C

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• The only English place that has a name that ends with an exclamation mark is "Westward Ho!"
• Oprah Winfrey was the first black woman to anchor a newscast in Nashville at WTVF-TV
• Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific
• It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat
• Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a chimpanzee has
• Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.Click Here For More Details
• Some desert snails have been known to sleep for three to four years
• Montreal has an underground city, which has over 2,000 shops and 26 kilometres of walkways. This is the largest underground network for any city
• The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through
• It takes 72 minutes for the restaurant at the top of the CN Tower to make one revolution

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• In Japan, by the time man reaches the age of 60, he is commemorated with a special ceremony. This ceremony features the man wearing a red kimono, which denotes that he no longer has the responsibilities of being a mature adult
• The five Olympic rings represent the five continents linked together in friendship
• Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees farenheit
• The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "water displacing" substance
• An American chews an average of 300 sticks of gum in a year
• Over 80% of the brain is water
• The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour
• To make butter more attractive in colour, carrot juice was used by people in the Middle Ages
• A snake charmer in Bangladesh once found 3,500 poisonous cobras and their eggs hidden underneath the floors of two suburban homes
• The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of about 108,000 km per hour

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• American President John Tyler had 15 children
• The rarest coffee in the world is Kopi Luwak, which is found in Indonesia. It cost about $300 a pound
• Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute. He landed on the steep side of a snow-covered mountain with only a fractured pelvis and slight concussion
• The ruby red slippers in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" were sold off at an auction for $660,000
• The country of Bolivia is named after a fighter Simon Bolivar
• When blue whales are first born, they gain as much as 200 pounds a day while they are calves
• In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes
• James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang
• The Canandian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839.

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• The parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow because it took him a long time to learn how to speak
• A newly hatched fish is called a "fry."
• The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893
• In the U.S. there are approximately 65.8 million cats
• The Goliath beetle is about the size of your fist and can weigh as much as 3-4 ounces
• In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made out of human bones
• The word "umbrella" is derived from the Latin root word "umbra", which means shade or shadow
• Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death
• The Chihuahua was named after the Mexican state where they were discovered
• Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder

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• Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs
• Walter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849. He later sold the patent rights for only $400.
• Coffee has about five times the amount of caffeine as a can of Coke
• The first penny candy to be wrapped in America was the Tootsie Roll in 1896
• In the UK, one third of accidental deaths that happen occur in the home
• Three consecutive strikes in bowling is called a turkey
• The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles
• The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers

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• Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes
• On average, a person has two million sweat glands
• Fossilized bird droppings are one of the chief exports of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific
• The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair
• Whale eyes are the size of a grapefruit
• In 1949 UNICEF produced the first charity Christmas card. The picture shown on the card was painted by a seven year old girl
• Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star
• On average, pigs live for about 15 years
• Lightning strikes the Empire States Building about seven times a year

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• Before 1883, the three-cent U.S. stamp was also used for advertising. The advertisment was located on the back of the stamp for various products
• Ever year, Americans spend close to $25 billion on beer
• Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister
• In the 20th century, over three million people have died from earthquakes
• Robert Wadlow is the tallest man recorded in history. He grew to be eight feet and eleven inches and weighed 490 pounds when he died
• The artist Vincent Van Gogh sliced part of his ear off in madness
• On average, an American family sends and receives 28 Christmas cards each year

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• Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket
• Dieting can cause bad breath since less saliva is produced which leads to dry mouth
• The sex of a baby crocodile is determined by the temperature in the nest and how deeply the eggs are buried
• Earthworms have 5 hearts
• A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds
• Musk is extracted from the bottom of a civet, and is used as an ingredient to make perfumes.
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air
• Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns.
• The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head
• The A.A. Milne character of Winnie the Pooh made his animated film debut in 1966 in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

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• On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day
• Hockey pucks were originally made from frozen cow dung
• Mangos are known throughout the world as the "King of Fruits."
• The little circles of paper that are cut out after a paper has been punched by a hole puncher are called "chad."
• The amount of Kit Kat chocolate bars that are made at the York factory every 15 minutes are enough to outstack the Eiffel Tower
• The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered "fool's gold" because it looks very similar to gold.
• Some Ribbon worm will eat themselves if they cannot find food. This type of worm can still survive after eating up to 95% of its body weight
• The average person can live about a month without eating any food, but can only live about a week without water
• The word "Nazi" is actually an abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which refers to the National Socialist German Workers Party
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

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• Dumbest Dog: Afghan hound
• Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States
• There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes
• The ostrich has two toes on each feet which gives it greater speed
• Racecar driver Lee Petty once left a pitstop and did a full lap at Nascar with a pit crew member still on the hood
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
• There are over 2,000 species of butterflies in the rainforests of South America
• In the late 1800's, washing machines and butter churners were sometimes powered by dogs walking on treadmills.

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• A leech can gorge itself up to a maximum of five times its body weight
• The search engine Google got its name from the word "googol," which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it
• The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
• The popular chocolate bar "Three Musketeers" got its name because when it was first introduced in 1932 there were three individual bars. The flavours were strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla
• Peanut butter is an effective way to to remove chewing gum from hair or clothes
• In one night, an adult hippopotamus eats approximately 150 pounds of grass
• Tobacco contains over 50 chemicals that can cause cancer
• The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
• In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001
• Most American car horns honk in the key of F

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• The longest acceptance speech in the history of the Oscars was by Greer Garson in 1942. She received an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Mrs. Miniver, and her speech was five minutes and 30 seconds long
• A colony of bees have to fly almost fifty-five thousand miles and tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
• The sun is approximately 149 million kilometres from the earth
• Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania
• George Washington grew hemp in his garden
• Belize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserve
• There are over 200 parts in a typical telephone
• There were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987
• In 1946 Danon Yogurt were the first to add fruit to commercially produced yogurt in U.S
• The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries

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• Every person has a unique tongue print
• The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver"
• The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
• Fourteen people die each day from asthma in the United States
• In approximately 18 months, the papaya tree can grow to be 20 feet tall
• Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego
• About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry
• The Bank of America was originally called the Bank of Italy until the founder, Amedeo Giannini, changed the name in 1930
• A Singapore singing group by the name of "The Oriental Singers," sang non-stop for 74 hours and five minutes
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair

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• The average lifespan of a human taste bud is ten days
• There are over 9 million beef and dairy cattle in New Zealand
• Camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible
• Certain female species of spiders such as the Australian crab spider, sacrifice their bodies as a food source for their offspring
• One average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving
• In 1968, Abbie Hoffman played with a yo-yo while testifying before a congressional committee. He was found in contempt
• Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand
• In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs
• Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil
• Tarantulas can live up to 30 years

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• To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets
• The Nike swoosh was invented by Caroline Davidson back in 1971. She received $35 for making the swoosh. The first shoe with the swoosh was introduced in 1972
• A regulation baseball has exactly 108 stitches
• In the Victoria era, red tulips were a declaration of love
• The real name of actress Whoopi Goldberg is Caryn Elaine Johnson
• In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders
• When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened
• There are about 61,300 pizza restaurants in the United States of America
• In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony
• Before the fur trade had started in Canada, it was estimated that there were over 6 million beavers

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• Since 1950, over 230 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold
• In a day, a mature oak tree can draw approximately 50 gallons of water
• "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters
• It takes approximately 12 years for Jupiter to orbit the sun
• The Chihuahua Desert is the largest desert in North America, and is over 200,000 square miles
• Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches
• A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless
• Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away
• Males account for 60% of toy injuries that occur in the U.S
• Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined

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• A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere
• Tomatos were once referred to as "love apples." This is because their was a superstition that people would fall in love by eating them
• The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames
• The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.
• The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India and has over 25,000 students in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to college
• 898 tornadoes were recorded to have occurred in the United States in the year 2000.
• The Olympic torch weighs about 3 pounds
• The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells

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• Ketchup originated in China as a pickled fish sauce called ke-tsiap
• Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin
• Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated
• The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand
• "dous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
• Huge Moore, the inventor of Dixie cups got the idea for the name from a neighboring factory, the Dixie Doll Company
• The spider used in the 2002 movie Spider-Man was a Steatoda spider, not a black widow. The spider was given anaesthesia, and was then painted blue and red
• Cleopatra married two of her brothers
• In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey
• Dexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household living

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• In the 1920's, Q-Tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick.
• Eating dandelions can make you urinate more
• Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes
• Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers
• The name "Muppet" was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word "marionette" and "puppet."
• The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material
• One pound of maple syrup can make eight pounds of candy or sugar
• Whooping cranes are born with blue eyes that change to bright gold by the time they six months old
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple

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• Koalas sleep up to 19 hours a day
• The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish
• Colonel Sanders original white suit was auctioned off for $80,000 in February 2002
• On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months
• Moscow was founded in 1147 by Yury Dolgoruky
• In 1391, China began producing toliet paper for use by its Emperors

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• The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma
• Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world
• Over 50% of the wedding in the U.S. occur in the afternoon
• A surfer once sued another surfer for "stealing his wave." The case was thrown out because the court was unable to put a price on "pain and suffering" endured by the surfer watching someone else ride "his" wave
• The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, which is seventy straight days
• In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a year
• Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone
• Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality
• Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary

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• Earl Dean developed the bottle design for Coca-Cola
• Between 1997-2002, there was an increase of 228% in cosmetic procedures in the United States
• Namco, who are the manufacturers of Pac Man the video game, has estimated that the original arcade game has been played over 10 billion times by individuals
• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
• A glockenspiel is a musical instrument that is like a xylophone. It has a series of metal bars and is played with two hammers
• The makers of Crayola produce over 2 billion crayons in a year
• From 1967-1976, the town of Tororo located in Uganda had thunder 251 out of the 365 days in a year for those years.
• African Baobab tree's circumference can reach 180 feet. If the trunk is hollow, 20 people would be able to fit inside of it.
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years
• The first German car to be built solely outside of Germany is the BMW Z3.

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• The state of Alaska has almost twice as many caribou as people
• On April 4, 1974, John Massis of Belgium pulled two New York Long Island railroad passenger cars totaling 80 tons with a thick rope, with a small bit attached, using only his teeth
• The name "Tonka" trucks was named after Lake Minnetonka located in Minnesota. Tonka means "great" in Sioux
• The banana was officially introduced in 1876 in the U.S. at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. The bananas were wrapped in tinfoil and were sold for 10 cents each
• In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects. These insects became extinct thirty years later
• Adult earwigs can float in water for up to 24 hours
• Passion fruits have a tranquilizing effect on the body
• The majority of cats do not have any eyelashes
• The first TV commercial advertisement was by the Bulova Watch company on July 1, 1941. The watch company paid $9.00 for an announcement that was 10 seconds long
• The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk

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• NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
• The New Zealand Kiwi bird cannot fly
• Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald
• A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day
• Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam
• Boeing completed more than 15,000 hours of wind-tunnel testing on the first 747
• Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998

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• 215 jeans can be made with one bale of cotton
• The longest bout of sneezing recorded was by Donna Griffith. It began in January 13 1981 and continued until September 16 1983 and lasted for 978 days
• There is a law in the state of Idaho that does not permit one citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that is heavier than 50 pounds
• A myrmecologist studies ants
• An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime
• The word "dexterity", to do with skill is related to the right hand. The opposite of the word "deter" is "sinister", to do with evil, it is related to the left hand
• The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles
• Lemon juice can aid in reducing the swelling caused by insect bites
• Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life
• Singer Billy Joel tried to commit suicide when he was 21 by drinking furniture polish

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• The full name of the Titanic ship is R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship
• The music band UB40 got its name from an unemployment form in England
• NASDAQ stand for, "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations."
• Enough paper is recycled in the USA every day, that a 15 mile long train of boxcars could be filled up with paper.
• There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996
• An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more
• The reason why some people get a cowlick is because the growth of their hair is in a spiral pattern, which causes the hair to either stand straight up, or goes to a certain angle
• The mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler was accused of being a witch
• In an average lifetime, people spend four years traveling in cars and six months waiting for red light to turn green
• It only takes a male horse 14 seconds to copulate

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• The Library of Congress, located in Washington D.C., is the largest library in the world
• A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size
• Missouri has been to most NCAA tournaments than any other college without reaching the final four
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music
• On August 21st, 1911, someone stole the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, from the Louvre Museum. It was recovered two years later
• Canadians eat more Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) per capita than any other country in the world
• The longest freshwater shoreline in the world is located in the state of Michigan

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• Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density
• The coliseum in Rome was used regularly for about 400 years
• Pumpkins contain potassium and vitamin A
• The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897
• A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every year for good luck
• Hens will produce larger eggs as they grow older
• In one day, the Tootsie Roll Industry makes over 16 million lollipops
• Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays

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• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten
• There are five years in a quinquennium
• An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 - 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period
• The average price for a major league baseball game in 2004 is $19.82
• Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs
• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury
• Goat meat contains up to 45 percent less saturated fat than chicken meat
• In a year, an average person uses the toilet 2500 times a year
• At the White House, president John Adams was said to be the first to display fireworks there
• Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on the cartoon show "Scooby-Doo." Casey Kasem, being a strict vegetarian, also requested that Shaggy follow the same diet on the show

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• Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympic games while hosting the event
• Cricket chirping can tell the temperature outside. Counting how many times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds and then adding 40 to that number will approximately tell you what the temperature is in Fahrenheit
• Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner
• To manufacture a new car approximately 148,000 liters of water is needed.
• The Pentagon has 284 restrooms
• While still in college, Bill Gates and Paul Allen once built a special purpose machine called "Traff-O-Data." It was a machine that would analyze information gathered by traffic monitors. They never found any buyers.
• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton
• Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow
• The reason why the Mexican sombrero hat is so wide is to provide shade for the entire body

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• Other than London, Liverpool is the most filmed British city, and was used to film more than 140 films in 2002
• An egg shell can have up to 17,000 tiny pores on its surface
• Spiders have claws at the ends of their legs
• Scatologists are experts who study feces. (aka. crap, dung, dookie, dumps, feces, excrement, etc.)
• The first jet engine was invented by Frank Whittleof of England in 1930.
• In 1933, Mickey Mouse is believed to have received 800,000 fan letters
• In 1902, the game table tennis was brought to the U.S. from Europe by Parker Brothers
• Polar bears are excellent swimmers. They have been known to swim more than 60 miles without a rest
• In 1986, a drunk fan got into a pace car at Talladega Superspeedway, and started joyriding on the track in front of a nationwide audience. The police cruisers who had to chase him around the track were not amused when they caught and arrested him
• By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors

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• In 1747, the first American mention of the Christmas tree occurred. However, it was a not a tree but instead a pyramid made out of wood and decorated with apples and evergreen boughs
• Flu shots only work about 70% of the time
• The hydra, which is related to the jellyfish, can grow its body back in a couple of days if it is cut in half
• The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.
• Sir John Harington, the godson of Queen Elizabeth I, was the inventor of the toilet
• There was a book written fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic happened titled "Futility" by Morgan Robertson. This book was remarkably similar to the tragedy that happened to the Titanic in 1912
• The average human head weighs about eight pounds
• Uranus? winter and summer seasons last the equivalent of 21 Earth years
• The chewing gum Juicy Fruit has 10 calories. This is approximately the same as a bite of whole wheat bread
• Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations

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• Every year, more than one million miles of Twizzlers licorice is made
• Astronauts get taller when they are in space
• Urophobia is the fear of urine or urinating
• Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else
• A species of earthworm, "Megascolides australis," in Australia can grow up to fifteen feet in length
• In China, fish is eaten more than three times what it is in the United States
• An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler after watching her daughter play with baby dolls imagining then in grown up roles
• The beeswax that is produced by Honey bees comes from eight paired glands that are located on the underside of their stomach
• Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do
• Iguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangers

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• Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay. This is because the extra saliva helps in keeping the mouth clean
• The most popular brand of raisins is Sunmaid
• If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one
• Studies show that divorced women have more trouble starting new relationships than divorced men
• Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had
• There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars
• There are more than 2,400 flea species in the world
• There are 400 species of bacteria in the human colon

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• In August 1999, Lori Lynn Lomeli set a record by spinning 82 Hula Hoops at the same time for three full revolutions
• The largest diamond that was ever found was 3106 carats.
• The world camel population is close to 19 million
• In Ireland, a prime minister is a called a Taoiseach
• In his youth, United States president George W. Bush used to play for the Midland (Texas) Central Little League. He played the position of the catcher
• In North America there are approximately 618 roller coasters
• A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
• TWIX Caramel Cookie Bars were first introduced in 1979
• Annually, an Australian eats 15 kg of bananas, which comes out to 27 meters of bananas
• The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day

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• The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel
• Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time
• An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham
• A baby kangaroo is called a joey
• On average, 81% of Americans 16 years of age and older watch television at least once in a day
• Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world
• In Canada, the $1 and $2 come in the form of coins. The $1 is nicknamed a "loonie" because it contains a loon on it and the $2 is nicknamed the "twonie" because it is the equivalent of two "loonies."
• St. Patrick never really drove out any snakes from Ireland. This story was an analogy of how he drove paganism out of Ireland
• The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella
• On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced

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• St. Patrick explained the Holy Trinity to King Laoghaire, using the shamrock to illustrate the trinity
• People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache
• The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C
• Hair will fall out faster on a person that is on a crash diet
• The largest fish in the world is the whale shark. It can weigh several tons and grow to more than fifty feet in length
• The reason why golf balls have dimples on them is because it helps in the ball to move a farther distance by reducing drag
• False Bay, on the southern tip of Africa and close to Cape Town, South Africa, is a breeding ground for great white sharks, which feed off the thousands of seals in the bay. However, it is the only area in the known world in which these sharks are known to breach - they attack the seals by coming up vertically, often leaping clear of the water with their prey in their mouths
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
• 98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set
• The phrase "Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride," actually originates from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash from 1924

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Today's facts:

• In the Middle Ages, peacocks and swans were sometimes served at Christmas dinners
• January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time
• The greatest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, extending 64,374 km from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean
• It is common in Israel and Egypt to eat watermelon with feta cheese
• Popeye is 34 years old, weighs 158 lbs, and is 5 feet 6 inches tall
• The founder of JC Penny had the middle name of Cash
• Some brands of toothpaste contain glycerin or glycerol, which is also an ingredient in antifreeze
• There is a city called Smackover located in Arkansas
• Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
• A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon

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Today's facts:

• Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water
• Canada is an Indian word meaning "village" or "settlement."
• It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation
• In just one drop of liquid, 50 million bacteria can be present
• Harley Proctor got the idea to name the soap "Ivory" while he was listening to a bible reading at a church in 1879
• It would take 29 million years for a car travelling 100 miles per hour to reach the nearest star
• In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.
• Approximately 50% of Americans admit they have ran a red light
• Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache
• Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year

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Today's facts:

• In 1969, the American side of Niagara Falls was stopped completely for several months
• The 1912 Olympics was the last Olympics that gave out gold medals that were made entirely out of gold
• When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment
• A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9
• The tridacna clam can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds
• Ray Kroc bought McDonalds for $2.7 million in 1961 from the McDonald brothers
• In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England. The cost of chocolate was about 13 shillings per pound and was a drink that only the elite enjoyed
• A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.
• In 2002, the most popular car color in North America was silver.
• The longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old

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Today's facts:

• Teflon was accidently discovered by scientist Dr. Roy Plunkett while he was conducting a coolant gas experiment in 1938
• Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice
• Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie
• In 1902, the coat hanger was invented Albert Parkhouse who was frustrated at the lack of hooks available to hang up his coat at work. His company thought it was a good idea and patented the invention and unfortunately, Parkhouse never received any money for his idea
• There are more recreational golfers per capita in Canada than any other country in the world
• The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in
• Basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain holds 56 NBA records
• The word "diastema" is the word for having a gap between your teeth
• A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed

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Today's facts:

• In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services(two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number theotherchannel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, butnochannel 1.
• In the United States birds and planes collided more than 22,000 times between the years of 1990 and 1998
• A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born
• The word Himalayas means the "home of snow."
• Nylon is a man-made fibre that is made from coal and petroleum
• Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. And, rightfully so
• Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13
• Over one million Pet Rocks were sold in 1975, makine Gary Dahl, of Los Gatos, California, a millionaire. He got the idea while joking with friends about his pet that was easy to take care of, which was a rock
• The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose

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Today's facts:

• The average number of people that go to a party for the Super Bowl is 17
• Panthers are known as black leopards, as they are the same species of leopard. If looked at closely, black spots can be seen on a panther
• Mice will nurse babies that are not their own
• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
• Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character
• Four billion pounds of watermelon were grown in the United States in 1999
• There is enough water in American swimming pools to cover the whole city of San Francisco seven feet deep
• Navel oranges got their name because the bottom of this type of orange resembles a belly button or navel
• A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905. updated