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... that despite what its scientific name implies, the perennial garden plant Salvia indica is not naturally found in India?
... that the indigenous flora of Saskatchewan is used for jellies, jams, pies, herbal teas, medicinal decoctions and technological products?
... that art and architecture collective Fashion Architecture Taste designed a bicycle shelter in the shape of a castle in Scheveningen that appeared on the 69c Dutch postage stamp?
... that Jack Brennan's accidental interruption of the Frost/Nixon interviews allowed Richard Nixon's staff to convince Nixon to offer a mea culpa?
... that the medieval Old Punch Bowl in Crawley, England, has been a house, a dairy farm, a tearoom, an officers' mess, a YMCA and a bank, and is now a pub?
... that Carol Hutchins, coach of the first eastern team to win the Women's College World Series, is the winningest coach in the history of the University of Michigan in any sport?
... that, according to the Book of Tang, the Tang Dynasty official Wang Shuwen first became a staff member of then-Crown Prince Li Song because of his Go abilities?
... that some Dartmoor crosses were probably used not for religious purposes, but rather to mark the tracks between Buckfast Abbey, Tavistock Abbey and Buckland Abbey?
... that despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco?
... that Shirley Chisholm was the first African American candidate for president of the United States for a major political party when she campaigned during the 1972 election?
... that in 1018, Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles entered the stronghold of Ibatzes of Bulgaria and blinded and captured him, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance to the Byzantine conquest?
... that although it was founded in 1924, Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley, California, did not hire its first rabbi until 1963?
... that the monuments of the ancient Maya city of Seibal in Guatemala display an unusual mix of Maya and foreign elements?
... that unlike most other lemurs, the Collared Brown Lemurs do not demonstrate female dominance?
... that it has been claimed that Clan Schaw descends from cup bearers to the Scots kings Alexander II or Alexander III; and that the clan's heraldry alludes to the office of cup bearer?
... that Peter Tsiamalili, the first chief administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, also served as Papua New Guinea's ambassador to Belgium?
... that in 2008, Unionsexpressen started a luxury intercity train service between Oslo and Stockholm, in competition with the state-owned SJ?
... that Bateay District in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia, was the site of an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus in 2006?
... that Flip Saunders is the only Minnesota Timberwolves head coach to have been to the playoffs with the Timberwolves?
... that during the reign of Emperor Shunzong of Tang, who was debilitated by a stroke, his concubine Consort Niu was one of the key decision-makers?
... that William Henry Ellis's tenure as Master Cutler of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire lasted for four years instead of just one because of the First World War?
... that to survive during Prohibition, some winemaking families in what is now California's Russian River Valley AVA converted to bootlegging operations that sold a water-based wine known as "jackass brandy"?
... that Karl Graul, former director of Leipzig Lutheran mission and a Tamil scholar, believed that Christian missionaries in India should not interfere with the local traditions including the caste system?
... that American football player Buddy Burris was the first Oklahoma Sooner to be named an All-American three times?
... that Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule, Cairo's oldest German school, has been running since 1873?
... that Sammy Stephens, an internet sensation for his "It's just like a mini-mall" rap advertisements for Flea Market Montgomery, got his start in broadcasting at WMGY in Montgomery, Alabama, USA?
... that the trees that gave Maple Lawn , a Frederick Clarke Withers-designed house in Balmville, New York, its name were later destroyed in a hurricane?
... that television chef Ingrid Espelid Hovig is considered the "culinary mother" of Norway?
... that the prolific author Maxwell Gray, whose real name was Mary Gleed Tuttiett, was a permanent invalid who seldom left her home in Newport, Isle of Wight?
... that, when the München RFC played the Bad Tölz US Army in June 1978, it was the first game of rugby union played in Munich in almost 50 years?
... that the film Dark Habits was rejected by the Cannes Film Festival because the organizing committee considered it sacrilegious, blasphemous and anti-Catholic?
... that S. Muthiah Mudaliar spent Rs. 4 lakhs on a propaganda campaign against consumption of liquor in the late 1920s?
... that although it has not been formally assessed by the IUCN, the plant Justicia flaviflora is considered critically endangered because it can only be naturally found on one mountain in Trinidad and Tobago?
... that Derek Forster became the youngest Sunderland footballer to have made a first team appearance when he was 15 years 185 days old?
... that the Maryland Residence in Bethesda, USA, one of the few houses designed by César Pelli, consists of five pavilions linked by a central gallery?
... that 11th-century "minister of war and peace" Durgasimha wrote the Kannada language version of the Panchatantra, the first Indian vernacular adaptation of these fables?
... that the Apalachia Dam in North Carolina has an underground conduit carrying water from the dam's reservoir to its hydroelectric powerhouse 12 miles (19 km) away in the neighboring state of Tennessee?
... that Empress Dowager Wang, the mother of Tang Chinese Emperor Xianzong, was to be a concubine of his great-grandfather Daizong, but as she was young, was instead given to Xianzong's father, Shunzong?
... that most of U.S. Route 2 in Vermont was originally part of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, an early transcontinental North American auto trail?
... that in 1946, Welsh international footballer Bert Turner became the first player to score for both sides in an FA Cup Final?
... that Chamkar Leu District in eastern Cambodia is home to a 6,000-hectare (15,000-acre) rubber plantation?
... that David Yuile and his brother William attempted to control the Canadian glass manufacturing sector by founding the Diamond Glass Company, which did not make any glass?
... that Skuon town in Cambodia's Cheung Prey District is famous for fried spiders seasoned with garlic and salt?
... that Lucien Galtier, the first Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota, was responsible for renaming the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from its previous name of Pig's Eye?
... that NSB Gjøvikbanen won the first, and so far only, rail transport public service obligation tender in Norway in 2005?
... that Angus Goetz played for Buffalo in the National Football League on the weekends while attending medical school at the University of Michigan?
... that the commune of Gory in south-western Mali is the subject of a $950,000 UNESCO–Mali educational project, funded by the Norwegian government?
... that singer Phil Ochs wrote "The War Is Over" in 1967 to declare that the Vietnam War was over, eight years before the war actually ended?
... that the World Wide Fund for Nature rates the Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests bordering India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma) as "Globally Outstanding" in biological distinctiveness?
... that in 1785, men between 16 and 50, who were not ministers, were required to help build Bardstown, Kentucky's Cobblestone Path or be subject to a fine?
... that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels warned that their boycott of Jewish businesses "will be resumed... until German Jewry has been annihilated", if the Anti-Nazi Boycott of 1933 was not ended?
... that Sinuessa, the last town of Latium on the Appian Way, was famous for its springs whose visitors included Horace, Virgil, and Julius Caesar?
... that John Calvin's works include some 1,300 letters, making him "the great letter-writer of the Reformation age" according to B. B. Warfield?
... that during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Palmach referred to the Palestinian Arab village of Burayr as "the village of the killers"?
... that Victor Vacquier escaped Russia by sleigh across the frozen Gulf of Finland and went on to pioneer the use of submarine detectors for investigating plate tectonics?
... that Joan Snyder, a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, has had her paintings exhibited at Jewish Museum in New York?
... that every household in the Dhaniakhali bloc of West Bengal, India, has at least one loom, where handloom saris are made?
... that Three Crosses were built on the same hill in Kalnai Park as the Crooked Castle, destroyed during the Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392)?
... that John Isaacs, signed out of high school by the all-Black New York Renaissance team, led the Rens over the Oshkosh All-Stars to win the first World Professional Basketball Tournament, held in 1939?
... that the critically endangered Philippine eagle is the namesake of the Agila 2 communications satellite?
... that a civil rights lawsuit brought by Andrew W. Cooper led to the election of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
... that sex workers across the world have organised since the mid-1970s to demand sex workers’ rights, including the decriminalisation of prostitution and equal protection under the law?
... that Senegalese long jumper and triple jumper Ndiss Kaba Badji was the only person from his country to reach a final at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that the Irish romantic comedy Little White Lie followed the attempts of an actor to attract the attention of a television presenter by pretending he was a psychiatrist?
... that prior to becoming a chocolatier, Louis Barnett trained birds of prey at a falconry centre to gain permission to keep a pet eagle owl?
... that English embroidery includes styles called Opus Anglicanum, stumpwork, crewel work and art needlework?
... that an episode of the documentary series Hostage detailed Saddam Hussein's placing of two Irish civilians as "human shields" at sites of strategic importance during the Gulf War?
... that the Parc de Belleville is the highest park in Paris and also contains the city's longest cascading water fountain?
... that Michael Watson took six days to complete the London Marathon in 2003, an achievement that won him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award that year?
... that Russian historian and scientist Vladimir N. Beneshevich was arrested on charges of spying for Germany and executed because one of his books was translated into German in 1937?
... that to open the swing door on the General Aircraft Hamilcar glider and allow vehicles to emerge, pilots had to climb out of the glider's cockpit and slide down 15 feet (4.6 m) of fuselage?
... that Romanian professional armwrestler Ion Oncescu is the current world champion for both the left and the right arms?
... that the endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago consists of 59 plant species, including one that was last collected between 1786 and 1791?
... that Laurie D. Cox performed the first comprehensive tree census in New York City in 1915, finding that most street trees in Manhattan were in bad condition?
... that a predominance diagram purports to show the conditions of concentration and pH where a chemical species has the highest concentration in solutions in which there are multiple acid-base equilibria?
... that the largest ship sunk by the Austro-Hungarian U-boat SM U-32 during World War I was carrying onions from Karachi, Pakistan?
... that the Wilkinson motorcycle failed to impress the British military – despite having a Maxim machine gun mounted on the handlebars?
... that Thriller – Live is a new West End musical, directed by the creator of a Michael Jackson fansite?
... that the recently defunct Pacific Magazine, a current affairs publication focusing on the Pacific Islands of Oceania, was the region's longest continuously published magazine?
... that Adolph C. Miller served as United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior before being appointed as an original Governor of the Federal Reserve System?
... that the account of the death of 12,000 prisoners aboard the Gulag ship Dzhurma has been disproven?
... that the Japanese band Daisy × Daisy provided the song "Brave your truth" as the opening theme song of the episodes of the Chrome Shelled Regios anime?
... that Maurice Catarcio, at age 69, pulled an 80-foot (24 m) boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming 300 feet (91 m) in a lake, which earned him a place in The Guinness Book of World Records?
... that singer Amy Winehouse gained entry to the Guinness World Records in 2009 for having the most Grammy Awards won by a British female act?
... that Premier of Alberta John Edward Brownlee was forced to resign in 1934 due to a sex scandal?
... that the Jamaican Gun Court Act of 1974 mandated a sentence of indefinite imprisonment with hard labor for all firearms offenses, including possession of unlicensed guns?
... that then-President Bill Clinton's selection to give the 2000 Jefferson Lecture, the U.S.'s highest humanities honor, was criticized as a politicization of the National Endowment for the Humanities?
... that Indonesia's largest container terminal, handling more than 3.5 million TEU's of freight in 2007, is in the Port of Jakarta?
... that Dutch architect Kees Christiaanse, a proponent of mixed communities, has described his buildings as "socializing machines"?
... that the television series Use It or Lose It documented the return of former association footballers Niall Quinn and Ronnie Whelan to their respective youth teams?
... that the largest kilns for Ancient Roman pottery fired up to 40,000 pieces at a time?
... that the first head coach of the NBA club now known as the Atlanta Hawks was Roger Potter, whose tenure only lasted seven games into the team's inaugural season in 1949?
... that of the ten Brough Superior Austin Four motorcycles built—eight in 1932 plus one each in 1933 and 1934—a total of eight have survived to this day?
... that according to US and Turkish officials, the MV Kısmetim-1 was deliberately sunk in December 1992 by its crew in order to prevent the capture of the illicit drug load?
... that James Brady, who wrote a celebrity profile for nearly 25 years in Parade magazine, won the Bronze Star Medal for his Korean War service and wrote a Pulitzer Prize-finalist book about his war experiences?
... that landscape architecture firm West 8 designed the so-called "Reptile Bridge" between Leidsche Rijn and Utrecht in the Netherlands?
... that the burning sensation caused by red hot chili peppers or the warmth caused by camphor are due to the activation of different TRPV ion channels , which are also thermosensitive?
... that two members of the Boston Red Sox's Golden Outfield have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
... that ruins from Bradenstoke Abbey in Wiltshire, England, were bought by William Randolph Hearst and used in alterations to St Donat's Castle in Wales?
... that the GDP of the Ming Dynasty was 31 percent of the world's GDP, a percentage which is relatively higher than the GDP of the United States in 1997?
... that the Old L & N Station in Bardstown, Kentucky, was the state's only dry stone railroad station?
... that British economist Gilbert Slater suggested in the Madras Legislative Council that a committee be appointed to investigate the introduction of a common script for the Madras Presidency?
... that in Cheney v. United States District Court, Supreme Court Justice Scalia was alleged to have had a conflict of interest because he had recently hunted ducks with Dick Cheney, a party to the case?
... that Stephen Neill, former bishop of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, suffered from insomnia which helped him to author his magnum opus, History of Christianity in India?
... that Salvia fruticosa or Greek sage was depicted on a 1400-BCE Minoan fresco on the island of Crete, and is still grown and used widely today?
... that Eddie Tolan, the first African-American to be the "world's fastest human" after winning double gold at the 1932 Olympics, returned home jobless and appeared in vaudeville with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson?
... that General Motors's pioneering CAD system, DAC-1, could digitize hand-drawn diagrams, turn them into 3D models, and then build models of them on milling machines?
... that Hungarian ballerina Nora Kovach's 1953 defection to the West was the first highly publicized Cold War-era defection of individuals in the field of dance?
... that the controversial 1982 anti-racism film White Dog was director Samuel Fuller's last American film due to his disgust with Paramount Pictures' refusal to release the film?
... that the small Croatian town of Jastrebarsko was home to two cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, who were also both archbishops of the country's capital Zagreb?
... that the St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame is the only professional wrestling hall of fame that lets fans select the inductees?
... that in addition to his academic work, Norwegian history professor Øystein Sørensen is considered an expert on the Donald Duck universe?
... that Callianassa subterranea is a burrowing shrimp that ingests sediment particles and digests their organic coating?
... that Maurice Maeterlinck threatened legal action and physical violence against Claude Debussy after he did not cast Maeterlinck's lover, Georgette Leblanc, in the title role of their opera Pelléas et Mélisande?
... that the Willow Creek Transit Center in Oregon has artwork with a reading theme for a planned library branch nearby that was never built?
... that celebrated Azerbaijani activist of the French Resistance Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov was persecuted by the NKVD upon his return to the USSR?
... that Bob Foster’s win on a New Imperial in the 1936 Isle of Man TT was the last time that Great Britain won a Lightweight TT?
... that during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson reportedly stopped discussing important matters at Cabinet meetings because of the indiscretions of Interior Secretary Franklin Knight Lane?
... that the hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe naematoliformis was first discovered in a tropical rain forest in the Uxpanapa Region of Veracruz, in southeastern Mexico?
... that the Ricky Hatton vs. Manny Pacquiao boxing match was confirmed only because Manny Pacquiao's friend drank three bottles of beer?
... that the roughtail stingray is the largest stingray in the Atlantic Ocean, at up to 2.2 metres (7.2 ft) across and weighing 300 kilograms (660 lb)?
... that Ebba Haslund's adolescence novel Nothing Happened was virtually ignored by the press when it was first issued in Norwegian in 1948, but was later regarded as one of her most important books?
... that the community of Weed Heights, Nevada, was built to support the open pit mining operation at the Anaconda Copper Mine?
... that Ælfhelm, ealdorman of York, was the grandfather of Harold Harefoot, king of England?
... that the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show (1956–1957) featured Virginia Gregg as Mary Surratt, the woman hanged for conspiracy stemming from the Lincoln assassination?
... that Tang Dynasty official Wei Chun changed his name to Wei Guanzhi to observe a naming taboo for Emperor Xianzong, whose personal name was Li Chun?
... that the Chattri in Brighton, England, stands on the site of the ghat where Hindu and Sikh soldiers of the First World War were cremated after dying while being treated at the Royal Pavilion?
... that ballerina Jocelyn Vollmar danced as the Snow Queen in the first American production of The Nutcracker?
... that the original Sinhalese Sports Club Ground was situated on land of Victoria Park with sandy soil and covered with cinnamon trees?
... that future A.B.A. president Loyd Wright represented Mary Pickford in her divorce of Douglas Fairbanks and Jane Wyman against Ronald Reagan?
... that the property of Sjøholmen in Bærum, Norway, started out as a farm, was suburbanized and is now, in part, an alternative school where children are taught to be mariners?
... that during his study of the palm family, Harold E. Moore collected all but 18 of the approximately 200 genera of palms, and earned membership in The Explorers Club?
... that the Galápagos hotspot, located in the east Pacific Ocean, is responsible for the creation of the Galápagos Islands?
... that association footballer Mikkel Diskerud played both for and against the United States national youth team in the spring of 2008?
... that Konstantin Danzas was arrested for his role as Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's second in his fatal duel with d'Anthès and sentenced to hanging?
... that phylogenetic relationships between the mushroom Bovista nigrescens and species of Lycoperdaceae were established based on ITS and LSU sequence data from north European taxa?
... that Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky, at the time Ambassador of the Russian Empire to the Austrian Empire, commissioned three string quartets from Beethoven?
... that in 1709, Ninguta, an important center of commerce, provided government-sponsored ginseng-harvesting expeditions?
... that Native American sculptor Willard Stone became a master wood carver despite an accidental explosion that cost him his right thumb and two fingers when he was 13 years old?
... that the Ludowy Theatre in Kraków gained countrywide notability in the People's Republic of Poland by staging performances evoking death camp experiences of Auschwitz?
... that Grammy-nominated CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards?
... that footballer Chic Brodie's professional career ended when he collided with a dog on the playing field?
... that Gerhard Schøning's historical research papers documented travel through Norway in 1773–1775, becoming a "minor travel classic?"
... that of the 55 miles (89 km) of railways on the Isle of Wight inherited by British Railways in 1948, only 14 miles (23 km) are in use today?
... that The New York Times said that trumpeter Stephen Burns "uses his instrument with the lightness and flexibility of a singer in operatic arias"?
... that the willow-leaved cotoneaster, Cotoneaster salicifolius, is a woody plant which is native to Western China, with over 30 cultivars which range from tiny groundcovers to large shrubs?
... that in 1953, Christen Gran Bøgh administered the inaugural Bergen International Festival?
... that the PlayStation Portable video game Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem had a shorter development cycle than the film it was based on?
... that footballer Bob Wilson was the last player to captain the original Accrington Stanley club in a professional match?
... that Oregon radio station KBZY is the flagship station for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Northwest League of Professional Baseball?
... that Sir Ronald Holmes, the acting Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, made no compromise with the Communists during the 1967 Leftist Riots in that city?
... that video game Bloody Fun Day's theme of slaying cute creatures was inspired by the short story Everything Can Be Beaten by Jhonen Vasquez?
... that Debbie Kruger based her 2005 book Songwriters Speak on interviews with songwriters when publicising the 2001 Top 30 Australian songs list for the at the APRA Awards?
... that the McClellan Committee served 8,000 subpoenas, took testimony from 1,526 witnesses (343 of whom invoked the Fifth Amendment), and compiled almost 150,000 pages of evidence?
... that Gerhard Gran was appointed professor in the history of literature at the University of Kristiania in 1899, despite there being remarks about "the holes present in his knowledge"?
... that the 1933 film Design for Living is about three Americans in Paris and their risqué ménage à trois?
... that Daniel Thompson, poet laureate of Cuyahoga County, published work in the street newspaper Homeless Grapevine ?
... that the Ruby Cycle Co Ltd was bankrupted when a large motorcycle order from the Imperial Russian Army was stopped by the Russian Revolution?