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... that the characteristic star-shaped dehiscence of the fungus Geastrum saccatum is thought to be due to the buildup of crystalline calcium oxalate?
... that no federal law ever banned stem cell research in the United States, but under Congress's power to spend, only placed restrictions on funding and use?
... that Powhatan Henry Clarke, an officer with the Buffalo Soldiers, received a Medal of Honor for rescuing a wounded soldier and died while rescuing another?
... that the Qedarites, a prominent Arab tribal confederation between the 8th and 4th centuries BC, were named after the second son of Ishmael named Qedar?
... that after U.S. Attorney Charles Turner investigated illegal activities in the 1980s at Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, high-ranking followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh plotted to assassinate him?
... that the original name of the 2000 film Tully was The Truth About Tully, but was changed to avoid confusion with Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie?
... that historian Jacob S. Worm-Müller was a delegate to the San Francisco Conference that resulted in the foundation of the United Nations in 1945?
... that all four of the Royal Navy's Bulldog class survey vessels were built by Brooke Marine?
... that Dr. Jo Riley explored Chinese exorcism and ancient animation rites at the tomb, to better document actor performance in Chinese theatre?
... that before he became president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Henry I. Harriman had received several patents for automatic looms?
... that low-lying Chol Kiri District in Cambodia suffers flooding for six months of the year which then contaminates safe water sources?
... that Jørgen Mathiesen was the first Norwegian member of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique?
... that Fernando Valenzuela won the Cy Young Award, the Rookie of the Year Award, and the Silver Slugger in his first full major league season?
... that former Disney animator Jack Dunham created the official rooster mascot for St-Hubert, a Canadian BBQ restaurant chain?
... that the Otłoczyn railway accident on August 19, 1980, was the biggest railway crash in the post-World War Two history of Poland?
... that in 1997 one campus of Gadsden State Community College was designated a historically black college by the U.S. Department of Education?
... that Paolo Giovio bribed some of the most powerful men of his day to assemble the Giovio Series of portraits ?
... that the Russian historian B. P. Polevoy called for a reassessment of Yerofei Khabarov's role in the abortive Russian colonization of the Amur in the 17th century?
... that Paul Molitor, Edgar Martinez and David Ortiz are tied for the most Silver Slugger Awards among designated hitters?
... that Charles X Gustav of Sweden waged war with the intent to vanquish Denmark and raze Copenhagen in 1658?
... that three-term member of the Oregon House of Representatives Paul E. Walden worked at radio station KODL for 27 years?
... that Haagen Mathiesen campaigned for a Norwegian union with Sweden in 1814, inviting King Charles XIV John of Sweden to his manor?
... that Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are among the world leaders mocked in the South Park episode "Pinewood Derby"?
... that the Merrill Lock No. 6 , located on the Ohio River in Pennsylvania, was converted from a lock complex to a restaurant?
... that Jacob Liv Borch Sverdrup established the first agricultural school in Scandinavia?
... that Howard A. Chinn, while working as chief audio engineer at CBS in 1943, wrote a classified report about enemy radar?
... that La Merced Cloister, a monastery complex in Mexico City, is known for its Baroque and Moorish architectural elements?
... that the first Catholic priest to be appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire, Father Dalton, presented the King with a Catholic religious medal?
... that the Huey Lewis and the News song "Walking on a Thin Line" is about Vietnam War soldiers and veterans?
... that Texas author Lou Halsell Rodenberger focused most of her literary works on biographies of her fellow female writers?
... that Honoré de Balzac based the title character of his 1846 novel La Cousine Bette (English: Cousin Betty) in part on his mother?
... that the family of Ian Tomlinson thanked The Guardian for posting footage of an alleged assault on him?
... that eight times since 1980, pairs of major league baseball teammates have won Silver Slugger Awards for outfielders?
... that despite being a close friend of Sweden's Crown Prince, Haaken L. Mathiesen supported the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905?
... that the westerlies steer warm water currents, such as the Gulf Stream, from west to east across the oceans of Earth?
... that during 2008 U.S. servicemen offered humanitarian assistance in Cambodia's Kampong Chhnang District as part of Operation Pacific Angel?
... that actor Idris Elba guest starred in The Office episode "Michael Scott Paper Company", but did not watch it on television because he is very critical of his own work?
... that Major General Robert Lee Howze once threatened to dismiss an entire class from the United States Military Academy?
... that Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle's performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" gained her worldwide attention?
... that Lê Chiêu Thống, last king of the Vietnamese Lê Dynasty, died in China?
... that several abolitionist come-outers put on trial in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1851 were called "poor deluded beings" in The Barnstable Patriot?
... that one journalist described the simultaneous release of Elvira Nikolaisen's Quiet Exit and Marit Larsen's Under the Surface as the peak of a "girl war" in Norwegian music?
... that Michael Stern was one of two journalists to enter Rome on June 3, 1944, one day ahead of American forces?
... that in the 1950s, midget professional wrestlers Sky Low Low and Little Beaver wrestled in a match for the UK's Queen Elizabeth and Egypt's King Farouk?
... that after the Collins Line steamer Baltic won the coveted Blue Riband in 1851, no American ship would regain the honor for a century?
... that Germany's lowest recorded temperature of −45.9°C (−50.6°F) was recorded at the Funtensee?
... that in 1972 the Australian submarine HMAS Onslow survived a crash dive to almost double her safe operating depth?
... that the Broadway play Irena's Vow tells the story of Irena Gut, a Polish nurse who during World War II saved twelve Jews from the Holocaust at the risk of her own life?
... that King Nissanka Malla of Sri Lanka carried out a refurbishment of the Dambulla cave temple, in which 50 Buddha statues and the temple's interior were gilded?
... that Nintoku Seamount, an underwater volcano in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, is over 56.2 million years old?
... that Lou Marson hit his first major league home run on the final day of the Philadelphia Phillies’ World Series-winning 2008 season?
... that Mexico City's La Santisima Church has sunk nearly 3 metres (9.8 ft) since it was built in the 1780s?
... that Thomas Christian Wyller is regarded as one of the founders of political science as an academic discipline in Norway?
... that the 1979 Easter flood was among the most costly and devastating ever to occur in Mississippi, with over $1.4 billion in damages?
... that besides commanding the Bulgarian First Army during World War II, Vladimir Stoychev was an Olympic equestrian and Bulgarian Olympic Committee chairman?
... that Bob Dylan was familiar with folk singer Dillard Chandler in 1969, when Chandler's album Old Love Songs & Ballads had sold only 50 copies?
... that the spores of the Column Stinkhorn fungus are formed as a bad-smelling gleba smeared on the inside of several column-like appendages?
... that the Brazilian dreadnoughts Minas Gerais and São Paulo "outclassed the entire Argentine fleet" when they were built?
... that the professional wrestling stable Poder Mexica was formed after two of the founding members, Sangre Azteca and Dragón Rojo, Jr., wrestled to a draw?
... that Alexander Hamilton Bowman helped build Fort Sumter and later served as the superintendent at West Point during the American Civil War?
... that Johanne Dybwad´s acting career spanned sixty years, from 1887 to 1947?
... that the WW2 Royal Enfield WD/RE motorcycle was known as the Flying Flea as it was designed to be dropped by parachute from bomber aircraft?
... that ends Tom Maentz and Ron Kramer, known as the "touchdown twins," were the first University of Michigan athletes to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
... that Moose A. Moose is a fictional cartoon moose who hosts TV shows on Nickelodeon's educational spin-off Noggin?
... that despite a career lasting only four years, HMS Jason managed to capture at least six French warships, including two that went on to become Royal Navy vessels?
... that there are only 0.5–1.5 tigers per 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi) in India's Palamau Tiger Reserve?
... that the stand-off at the Fords of Arkaig ended a deadly feud between Clan Cameron and Clan Mackintosh that had continued for 360 years?
... that Niels Christian Ditleff initiated the White Buses rescue operation, recruiting Folke Bernadotte to negotiate with Heinrich Himmler?
... that Bulgarian volleyball coach Radostin Stoychev won the Italian Volleyball League and the CEV Champions League in his debut seasons?
... that the 1929 eruption of the Gareloi Volcano created a fissure running down the mountain's southern summit?
... that mushroom species Mycena haematopus , also known as the "Bleeding Mycena", oozes a red latex when cut?
... that an uprising led by local chapter of the Jewish Combat Organization occurred in the Będzin Ghetto during its final liquidation in early August 1943?
... that Axel Otto Normann, a theatre critic and director of the National Theatre in Norway, did not hold a degree of higher education?
... that populations of the butterfly Henry's Elfin are growing in New England due to the introduction of buckthorn, which the butterflies now use as a host plant?
... that although large designs in earlier Roman mosaics were mostly floors, Late Antique and medieval mosaics in Italy are found mainly on walls and ceilings?
... that baseball pitcher Darryl Scott was demoted to the minor leagues in 1993 while at a hospital with his wife and newborn son?
... that when it opened in 1776, the punishment for vandalism to Richmond Bridge was seven years of exile in America?
... that actress India de Beaufort prepared for her exotic dance in the Kröd Mändoon episode "Golden Powers" by studying pole dancing at a Hungarian strip club?
... that desert snail Sphincterochila boissieri spends 95% of its lifetime in "summer sleep" (also called estivation)?
... that when Morcar was given lands including Weston-on-Trent in Derbyshire 1,000 years ago, he was unusually given freedom from the threefold tax?
... that C. S. Schilbred was among the founders of both the Norwegian Genealogical Society and the Norwegian Heraldry Society?
... that professional wrestling promotion Chikara hosted La Lotería Letal, a tag team tournament composed of randomly paired teams?
... that German-born Henry Schwarzschild—after emigrating in 1939—was a Freedom Rider and helped found the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty?
... that the SCTV character Edith Prickley has been described as "an amalgam of Rona Barrett, Joan of Arc, and Auntie Mame?"
... that one event of the United States Academic Decathlon can include questions like "How would you alert someone that their zipper is down?"
... that aside from owning the publishing rights to The Beatles' songs, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, co-owned by Michael Jackson , controls the music of Eminem and Akon?
... that Melidectes is a genus of honeyeater birds endemic to the mountains of New Guinea and New Britain?
... that Francis Augustus Cox, who started preaching in his teens, was a Baptist minister in Hackney for 42 years?
... that the 2002 Pacific hurricane season and the 1994 Pacific hurricane season are currently tied for the number of Category 5 hurricanes in the same season with three each?
... that Karl Bull was present at the negotiations in Karlstad between Norway and Sweden in 1905 as a military representative?
... that "Dream Team", an episode of The Office, marked the return of writer and actor B.J. Novak, who departed to film his role in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds?
... that in the 1970s, the average Argentine consumed nearly 24 gallons (equal to 120 standard 750 ml bottles) of Argentine wine a year?
... that the punishment for treason in Ancient China was the extermination of one's entire family?
... that the Phil Collins song, "That's Just the Way It Is", was written about the conflict in Northern Ireland called "The Troubles"?
... that film historian Donald Bogle has identified six basic stereotypical film roles available to African-American actors and actresses: toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, bucks, and sidekicks?
... that scientists believe construction of the Rengali Dam and barrier in Orissa, India, negatively impacts plant species in the Bhitarkanika Mangroves?
... that hours before the curtain raised on his debut opera Guntram, composer Richard Strauss was reportedly engaged in a heated discussion of John Henry Mackay's Die Anarchisten?
... that music critic Craig Seymour claimed stripping gave him the confidence he needed to interview major celebrities?
... that semi-domes are a typical focus for mosaic or fresco icons in Byzantine art?
... that the observational documentary Teens in the Wild followed the journey of six teenagers with "behavioural difficulties" into the wilderness of Connemara?
... that Lady Inger’s daughter’s scandalous behavior enabled Jens Tillufssøn Bjelke, while of lesser nobility, to marry into leading Norwegian nobility?
... that the 12th-century guide to Rome's wonders, De mirabilibus urbis Romae, survived in a single copy?
... that last year, Perfume was the first technopop group since Yellow Magic Orchestra to have a number-one album in Japan?
... that the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) consider the TNA X Division Championship to be a world championship when most are heavyweight titles?
... that before becoming milliner to Christian Dior, Stephen Jones's first commercial commission was a hat for a cough medicine advertisement?
... that Richard Perceval, who was born at Nailsea Court, deciphered Spanish documents for Queen Elizabeth about the Spanish Armada invasion plans?
... that when Eisenhower told Nixon that he was unsure if Nixon would stay on the ticket if the Checkers speech succeeded, Nixon replied that there are times “when you've either got to shit or get off the pot”?
... that goat meat is becoming a more common food in North America, especially in upscale restaurants?
... that the Swaminarayan temple in Cardiff replaced a synagogue when it opened in 1982 and then an Irish club when it moved in 1993?
... that philanthropist Dorothy Cullman and her husband, Lewis Cullman, donated over $250 million in support of the arts, science, and education?
... that the steamship SS Makambo was built in Scotland, caused an environmental disaster on Lord Howe Island by introducing Black Rats there, and was sunk by a British submarine?
... that the murder of Rie Isogai was the first single-killing in recent years in Japan for which multiple convicts were sentenced to death?
... that the present-day Bevill State Community College is the result of the merger of four institutions?
... that Canadian Harvey Lowe won the first World Yo-Yo Contest in 1932 at age 13?
... that in 1934, the Soviet high-altitude balloon Osoaviakhim-1 set a flight altitude record during its maiden flight but crashed during the descent?
... that tetraconch churches, with four apses spreading from a central dome, are a speciality of medieval Armenian and Georgian architecture?
... that Sapria himalayana , found in the Eastern Himalayas, is dependent on its host plant for water, nutrients and products of photosynthesis?
... that the reconstructed Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the main tourist attractions of Warsaw, Poland?
... that when Zionists and the Jewish Anti-Zionist League clashed in Cairo in 1947, Egyptian police sided with the Zionists?
... that since 2006, Irish TV programme One to One's interviewees have included a former head of UN Monitoring and a US Supreme Court judge?
... that after World War II, only 168 of 444 trams in Munich, Germany, were in operational condition?
... that the erstwhile capital of the Qing Heilongjiang was built on the site of a town formerly belonging to the Ducher people, whose ethnic identification remains controversial?
... that singer Jordy van Loon was offered six different record deals after he gave an unplanned performance on Mooi! Weer de Leeuw while he was glued behind a piece of wallpaper?
... that Lake Manzala had to be expanded to allow the building of the Suez Canal, as it was previously less than 5 feet (1.5 m) deep?
... that the discovery of a population of Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Volcano in the Aleutian Islands prevented their extinction?
... that three songs written by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel peaked at number-one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in 1986?
... that a focus group report heavily critical of the "Pilot" episode of the NBC show Parks and Recreation was leaked to the media one month before the show aired?
... that the 24 buildings with Grade I listed status in Brighton and Hove, England, include the ruined West Pier—damaged by a succession of fires and storms?
... that actress Sela Ward was not initially interested in playing Stacy Warner on FOX's House, but changed her mind after watching tapes of the show?
... that Torolf Prytz, a Norwegian architect turned goldsmith, also served as Minister of Industrial Provisioning for the Liberal Party?
... that the name of basketball player Aulcie Perry has become a generic phrase for a tall person in Hebrew?
... that due to a mental illness, Greek sculptor Yannoulis Chalepas was inactive for almost 15 years (1888–1902), and did not fully return to his art until 1918?
... that academic Anastasios Christodoulou was named 'Anastasios' ('Resurrection') by his parents as he was born on Easter Day?
... that the Golden-scruffy Collybia mushroom has been placed in 14 different genera?
... that walkers were encouraged to use the Buntingford Branch Line on Sundays by being offered cheap tickets?
... that the members of R&B girl group Electrik Red appeared together in Ciara's music video for "Like a Boy"?
... that thousands of Olive Ridley turtles are found dead at the mouth of the Devi River every year?
... that brothers Jim Perry and Gaylord Perry made Opening Day starts for the Major League Baseball Cleveland Indians?
... that Gunvald Tomstad, a double agent for Norwegian resistance in World War II, acted as a local "ideologist" of the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling?
... that George Whitaker, president of Willamette University in Oregon, banned talking between boys and girls at the school?
... that bomb vessels in the Royal Navy have tended to be named after volcanoes, or things associated with fire or Hell?
... that the original U.S. Forest Service ranger's cabin at Allison Ranger Station in the Ochoco Mountains of Oregon was built in 1911?
... that the flowers of the bamboo species Bambusa lako of Timor have yet to be scientifically observed?
... that actor Billy Bob Thornton provides drums and vocals for the country rock band The Boxmasters?
... that Thomas Johannessen Heftye co-founded the Norwegian Trekking Association in 1868?
... that one critic wrote that Jivin' in Be-Bop includes "one of the worst ballets ever put on film"?
... that The Independent's reaction to Ireland's recent emergency budget included a cartoon of the country's Taoiseach measuring a dead tiger?
... that American race car driver Scott Gaylord asked his future wife out for their first date while competing against her in a race?
... that although it produces its spores on gills, the mushroom Panus conchatus is more closely related to species with pores?
... that in 1995, René Fasel of Switzerland became the first ever representative of ice hockey to become a member of the International Olympic Committee?
... that Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in A-flat major, Op. 32, No. 2, originally written for piano, was orchestrated in the ballet Les Sylphides?
... that LtCol. John F. Bolt, Korean War Navy Cross recipient, remains the only U.S. Marine Corps jet aircraft flying ace?
... that Sprout Creek, whose subwatershed covers 29,342 acres (11,874 ha) of land, is the largest tributary of the Fishkill Creek?
... that Ove Gjerløw Meyer is recognized as the 1772 founder of the Norwegian Society?
... that the Orange-winged Amazon and Red-bellied Macaw mostly eat fruit from the royal palm Roystonea oleracea from July to September?
... that the defunct Portland University in Oregon had only one building, so the school bookstore was a nearby general store?
... that the Modjeska Monteith Simkins House in Columbia, South Carolina, honors the life and work of the civil rights activist Modjeska Monteith Simkins?
... that Professor Harald Noreng led a project to list every word used in Henrik Ibsen's oeuvre?
... that the Río Pilcomayo National Park in Argentina is included in the Ramsar Convention's list of wetlands of international importance?
...that during World War II, William D. Alexander helped produce more than 250 newsreels concerning African-American soldiers and sailors?
... that during the Mexican Revolution, Metropolitan Magazine sent reporter John Reed to Mexico where he stayed with Pancho Villa?
... that despite signing over 100 affiliate TV stations, the NTA Film Network never developed into a major television network?
... that professional wrestler Dragón Rojo, Jr. is one of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's "ambassadors" against tuberculosis?
... that 21-year-old Isuru Udana of the Wayamba province cricket team was adjudged Man of the Match and Series of the 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament?
... that the spring orange peel fungus infects caches of pinecones collected by squirrels?
... that George W. Barrett was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent?
... that the Mendoza wine region produces nearly two-thirds of all the wine made in Argentina?
... that the 1998–99 NBA lockout forced the cancellation of 464 regular-season National Basketball Association games?
... that Herbert Kisza owns one of the largest private one-artist galleries in Central Europe in Kadaň, Czech Republic?
... that at age 61, Ludvig Munk fathered Kirsten Munk with whom King Christian IV entered into a morganatic marriage?
... that KHSN, one of Oregon's first radio stations, began broadcasting in 1928?
... that author Jeanette Winterson was upset at being asked to rewrite the ending of her 1994 film Great Moments in Aviation?
... that Michigan's All-American quarterback Archie Weston was once tackled during a game by an irate female fan?
... that Koko Guyot, an underwater volcano in the Hawaiian volcanic chain, was named for the 58th emperor of Japan, Emperor Koko?
... that Waldschmidt Hall at the University of Portland in Oregon is the oldest building on campus, and older than the school?
... that Phú Xuân was the capital of the Nguyễn Lords, the Tây Sơn Dynasty and the Nguyễn Dynasty?
... that before a cavalry charge, Charles A. May told his soldiers, "Remember your Regiment and follow your officers!", which today remains a motto of the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment?
... that the first successful flat panel display, the Aiken tube, was originally developed as an interactive plotting table for U.S. Navy anti-submarine helicopters?
... that after decades as an anarcho-syndicalist, Maksim Rayevsky suddenly left the anarchist movement and went to work for the Soviet government?
... that Chinese citizen Ma Cheng has encountered difficulties with the naming laws in China because the character for her given name, Cheng , is so rare?
... that genetic monitoring of the DNA from feathers shed by the Eastern Imperial Eagle shows it is shorter lived than other long-lived raptors?