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... that unlike many other Agaricus species, Agaricus placomyces fruits from mid to late winter rather than during the typical late spring, summer and early fall?
... that Wacław Micuta was a Polish resistance fighter who liberated the Gęsiówka concentration camp and a UN diplomat who promoted renewable energy in developing countries?
... that the support website Get Satisfaction was created after its founders realized that on the Internet, when people had issues with companies, other people were often willing to help out?
... that Vice Admiral Rodney Taylor was one of the last officers to join the Royal Australian Navy as a 13-year-old cadet?
... that during the recording of their new album Old Crows / Young Cardinals, Alexisonfire recorded seven tracks in seven days?
... that extracts of the lichen species Cladonia furcata can kill leukemia cells?
... that former KGBR disc jockey Tom Lyons advised his son against a career in radio by saying "Sell coke, run guns ... but don't ever go into radio."?
... that R. G. Chandramogan, an entrepreneur from Sivakasi, is the head of Hatsun Agro Product Ltd, the largest private dairy in India?
... that the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers in that state?
... that Fredrik Georg Gade, a tuberculosis and cancer researcher, himself died of bronchial cancer?
... that Cherry Springs Airport in Potter County, Pennsylvania, was closed because the night sky there was too dark?
... that in the 18th century, prisoners in the Marshalsea prison in London, such as John Baptist Grano, not only had to pay a prison fee, but could also pay extra to be allowed out each day?
... that the South Park episode "Eat, Pray, Queef" conveys a pro-women's rights message by comparing men's contradicting opinions regarding farts and queefs?
... that 1890s portrait photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf's influence upon fine art photography went unacknowledged for nearly 100 years, possibly due to gender discrimination?
... that Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 was used in the James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me?
... that David Dean Shulman has been active as a leader of international campaigns to defend the Palestinians under threat of eviction from such villages as Susya in the South Hebron Hills?
... that the Franco-Ottoman alliance of 1536 between Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent has been called "the first nonideological diplomatic alliance" between a Christian and a non-Christian power?
... that Marguerite Rawalt was the first woman ever to be elected as president of the Federal Bar Association?
... that a 2009 study found that Polycap—a five-in-one polypill combining three high blood pressure medications, a cholesterol reducer and aspirin—could cut heart attack and stroke risk in half for many?
... that the tradition of a themed White House Christmas tree was started in 1961 by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy ?
... that egg whites, fish bladders and powder made from dried blood have been used as finings to clarify wine?
... that Elizabeth Lee Hazen developed the world's first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin?
... that the Wildlife Protection Society of India maintains a network of undercover agents and informants who gather intelligence to combat wildlife poaching and the illegal trade of wildlife parts?
... that I.C.C. Commissioner John J. Esch was accused of switching his vote in a case to secure renomination by President Coolidge and the Senate refused his confirmation, 39–29?
... that the Nidaros Cathedral West Front sculpture of Archangel Michael was based on Bob Dylan?
... that Harald Gram, father of World War II resistance fighter Gregers Gram, was stipendiary magistrate in Oslo for 21 years?
... that the U. S. Custom House in Charleston, South Carolina, resembles the U.S. Custom House in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by the same architect, Ammi B. Young?
... that Muhammad Habibullah was India's delegate to the first session of the League of Nations in 1919?
... that the Gray Mouse Lemur is one of the smallest primates in the world, weighing only 60 grams (2.1 oz)?
... that the coprophilous mushroom Conocybe rickenii may be found in large numbers in gardens where horse manure has been used to enrich the soil?
... that Grand Funk Railroad's epic 1970 song "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" about a troubled sea voyage, is most commonly associated with emotions surrounding the Vietnam War?
... that H. Vasanthakumar is a MLA in India, owner of an entertainment channel, Vasanth TV, and of Vasanth & Co, one of the largest electronics retail chains in Tamil Nadu?
... that the Salad Bowl strike of 1970–1971 caused the price of iceberg lettuce to triple overnight, and thousands of acres of lettuce were plowed under as crops spoiled on the ground?
... that the only American ship larger than a destroyer to survive the Dutch East Indies campaign was the light cruiser Marblehead ?
... that Jack Grout, a PGA Tour competitor from 1931 to 1953, was the first and only teacher of successful professional golfer Jack Nicklaus?
... that Harry Watson scored 36 goals at the 1924 Winter Olympics, making him the highest scoring male Canadian Olympic ice hockey player?
... that Ayya Nadar along with Shanmuga Nadar is credited for transforming the small village of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu, India, into a thriving industrial town?
... that radio station KTIL in Tillamook, Oregon, was renamed KMBD in honor of talk show host Mildred Berkey Davy?
... that Evan Vaughan Anwyl has proven patrilineal descent back to Owain Gwynedd, who claimed to be King of Wales?
... that when Ted Hough was signed by Southampton Football Club, his "transfer fee" was a round of 52 pints of beer?
... that the porcelain set Elka by the Czech designer Jaroslav Ježek was awarded the Grand Prix in design at the Expo '58 in Brussels?
... that the Norton P11 desert racing motorcycle was launched in the US under the advertising slogan Dynamite on wheels?
... that Sinikka Kukkonen was the first World Champion in ski orienteering?
... that the 1913 Street Car Strike in Indianapolis, Indiana, lasted eight days and left four dead and hundreds injured?
... that Mahatma Gandhi stayed at the house of publisher and journalist G. A. Natesan during his first visit to Madras on returning from South Africa in 1915?
... that Otto Preminger completed the film That Lady in Ermine after Ernst Lubitsch died, insisting the original director get sole screen credit out of "respect and admiration for the departed master"?
... that soprano Sylvia Cecil joined and left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company three times during her career?
... that World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea?
... that the Norwegian ice block expedition of 1959 drove three tons of ice from the Polar Circle to the Equator – with no refrigeration – and lost only around 11% of the original weight?
... that Concert Allegro, the only piano work Edward Elgar composed for concert performance, has been called a "marriage between Bach and Liszt"?
... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Fengji's eight associates were known as the "eight passes" for the difficulty involved in going through them to meet him?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Michigan v. Jackson that a confession made during a police-initiated interrogation, after a request for counsel was made, would be inadmissible in court?
... that Apolinary Hartglas was a leader of Polish Jews, a Zionist activist, and a deputy to the Polish Sejm during the interwar period?
... that architect Arieh Sharon , who had been a beekeeper on a kibbutz, later led a 180-person commission to plan the development of Israel?
... that the video game Marvel Trading Card Game portrays the Vs System ruleset exactly the same as the physical playing card version?
... that poet Olav Angell was awarded a prize from the Arts Council Norway for his translation of James Joyce's novel Ulysses into Norwegian?
... that a 1997 wrestling event at Chantilly High School was canceled because of the "cartoonish" sterotypes portrayed by such wrestlers as "Wiseguy" Jimmy Cicero?
... that Chablis was so devastated by spring time frost that the whole region only produced 11 cases of wine during the 1957 vintage?
... that Arthur MacMahon was one of the first political scientists to use empirical methods to study government?
... that in one of the major ancient Egyptian creation myths, the creator god Atum was said to have sneezed and spat out his offspring?
... that Salutat is an 1898 Thomas Eakins painting of a boxer, considered one of his finest achievements in figure-painting?
... that the poet, novelist and children's author Karin Bang is a passionate collector of ancient dolls?
... that due to their rich biodiversity, Sri Lanka montane rain forests are a globally important super-hotspot with a large number of endemic species?
... that conductor George Georgescu first made music as a child by playing a violin between his legs like a cello?
... that Ray Pickerell secured 17 first-place race wins on a Norton Dunstall motorcycle in 1968?
... that Mortuary Affairs, within the United States Department of Defense Quartermaster Corps, is tasked with the retrieval, identification, transportation, and burial of deceased military personnel?
... that the German lichenologist and taxonomist Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold had a personal herbarium of 150,000 specimens?
... that the smoking room of the D&C steamer City of Detroit III was put on display at a museum on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, after the ship was dismantled?
... that an Australian violist Richard Goldner founded Musica Viva Australia in 1945, the world's largest entrepreneurial chamber music organization?
... that Cross Seamount, a landform arising from the ocean floor southwest of Hawaii, is used by the NOAA to study tuna migratory patterns?
... that Kamal Naji, the PLO's deputy representative in Lebanon, was killed in a roadside bomb attack outside Mieh Mieh by unknown perpetrators?
... that in 1993 United States representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Maria Cantwell, and Blanche Lincoln became the first women to play in the starting lineup of the Congressional Baseball Game?
... that after being covered with plywood and stored due to their sexual content, Michael Spafford's murals, the Twelve Labors of Hercules, were transferred to Centralia College?
... that Irish international rugby union captain Dolway Walkington sometimes played matches wearing a monocle, removing it only when he needed to make a tackle?
... that Australian fighter pilot Lieutenant (later Air Vice Marshal) Adrian Cole was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 for attacking six enemy aircraft threatening Allied cavalry?
... that in high concentrations, the inorganic compound hydrogen disulfide can cause dizziness, disorientation and ultimately unconsciousness?
... that a library commemorating Gerard Corley Smith at the Charles Darwin Research Station houses the most comprehensive collection of material about the Galápagos Islands?
... that two of The Office protagonists quit Dunder Mifflin, the paper company they work for throughout the U.S. version of the series, in the episode "Two Weeks"?
... that race car driver Pocholo Ramirez raced competitively into his 70s?
... that in 1980, Eamonn Collins became the youngest player in a professional football match in England, when he played for Blackpool at the age of 14 years and 323 days?
... that a track on the Soviettes' LP III was included on Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1?
... that the 12th-century temple of Banteay Chhmar in Thma Puok District, Cambodia, covers more than half-a-million square feet?
... that Pointe des Almadies is the westernmost point on the continent of Africa?
... that the Raja of Perlis is the only hereditary Malay ruler in Malaysia accorded the title of "Raja"?
... that Tulsa's Art Deco landmark Boston Avenue Methodist Church was designed by architect Bruce Goff and Adah Robinson, his former art teacher at Tulsa's Central High School?
... that in his 1963 speech "Message to the Grass Roots", Malcolm X described the historic March on Washington as a "circus"?
... that Billy Joel's hit song "I Go to Extremes" was originally written as an apology to his wife, Christie Brinkley, for his erratic behavior?
... that concert film Liza with a Z was thought lost in the NBC vaults for almost thirty years, before its rediscovery and re-release in 2006?
... that all of the Grand Cru vineyards of Chablis are located on a single, southwest facing slope overlooking the town?
... that Geoffrey Cornish, a golf course architect, has designed a total 146 golf courses throughout his career?
... that the Kommissarische Reichsregierung is a label for multiple groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who assert that the German Empire continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders?
... that in 1863, Blackheath Proprietary School was one of the founder members of the Football Association?
... that Dorothy Liebes, known as "the mother of modern weaving", made fabrics out of feathers, bamboo, leather strips, plastic, and ticker tape?
... that the Czapski Palace in Warsaw has been the home of Frederick Chopin, Zygmunt Krasiński and Cyprian Norwid?
... that Sion Record Bostick was one of the Texas Army scouts who captured Antonio López de Santa Anna following the Battle of San Jacinto?
... that since 1947, the city of Oslo has donated the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree to the city of London, in gratitude for its support of Norway in WWII?
... that Governor of Indiana Samuel M. Ralston declared martial law in Indianapolis to end a workers strike in November 1913?
... that while there are over 1,300 Iron Age hill forts in England, Kelsborrow Castle is one of only seven in Cheshire?
... that after Arthur Richman chose Joe Torre as Yankees manager, skeptical owner George Steinbrenner asked Richman if Richman knew what he was doing, to which Richman responded "If I don't, fire me"?
... that the Norwegian legation in Stockholm increased its staff from four to about 1,100 from 1940 to 1945?
... that professional wrestlers and real-life best friends Jonny Storm and Jody Fleisch feuded with each other, before winning a tag team championship together?
... that the 1788 Old Brick Church in Fairfield County, South Carolina, is called the "mother church" of the ARP Church in the state?
... that the Blue Serpent Clock Egg is the first Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg to feature a working clock?
... that the first printing press in the Americas started operations in 1539 in a house in Mexico City that is still standing?
... that in 1980, planktologist Grethe Rytter Hasle was the only female representative of natural sciences in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters?
... that Ramsey's Draft Wilderness, a designated wilderness area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of Virginia, was established in 1984?
... that as much as a third of Niger's rural population travels as temporary labor during the seasonal migration in Niger between January and April, to avoid the Sahel dry season?
... that Edwards Dam in Maine was the first United States hydroelectric dam to be removed against the dam owner's wishes?
... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor/general Pei Du swore to Emperor Xianzong that he would not return to the capital Chang'an unless the warlord Wu Yuanji was destroyed?
... that the Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters was a bunker designed to be used by Japanese Imperial General Headquarters to direct forces against the Allied invasion of Japan?
... that the turtle is a symbol of steadfastness and tranquility in religion, mythology and folklore around the world?
... that Brawn GP's one-two finish at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix made it the first Formula One team to do so on debut at a Grand Prix since 1954?
... that Las fuerzas extrañas, Lugones' least successful work at the time, is now considered to be key in the development of the science fiction and fantasy genres in Argentina?
... that, as Fighter Project Officer for the United States Army Air Corps, Ben Kelsey crashed two P-38 Lightning aircraft including the only prototype built?
... that George Evans won his first of three Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Year awards as a 28-year-old sophomore?
... that many of the remaining willows of the Willow Palisade were cut by the Russian and Japanese troops during the Russo-Japanese War?
... that downloads from the Microsoft Update Catalog are accelerated with Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service, a technology that attempts to use as little bandwidth as possible?
... that in the Brazilian kidnapping of Abílio dos Santos Diniz the kidnappers were of various nationalities, including two Canadian university students?
... that the Washington & Jefferson College football team played the heavily favored California Golden Bears to a 0–0 tie in the 1922 Rose Bowl?
... that Thored, ealdorman of southern Northumbria, disappears from the historical records after being charged with leading a fleet against marauding Vikings?
... that the first classes of Illinois Valley Community College were held in LaSalle-Peru High School?
... that despite its name, the mangrove whipray does not usually inhabit mangroves?
... that Russian assassin Sergey Degayev was the first mathematics professor at the University of South Dakota?
... that after a recent re-analysis, a hurricane in 1924 was found to be the earliest known Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, as well as the strongest hurricane on record to strike Cuba?
... that SubGenius artist Joe Riley made masks and prosthetic makeups for gore movies as well as art and designs for children's animation franchises?
... that eight years before being cast in I Dream of Jeannie, Barbara Eden portrayed the former Marilyn Monroe role of Loco Jones in the syndicated TV series How to Marry a Millionaire?
... that the larvae of some species of the checkered beetle family Cleridae can consume several times their own body weight?
... that the Imperial German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz was nearly destroyed when a shell from HMS Lion penetrated a gun turret and caused a flash fire during the Battle of Dogger Bank?
... that Glenn D. Paige is the American political scientist known for developing the concept of nonkilling?
... that renal medullary carcinoma is found almost exclusively in individuals with sickle cell trait or sickle cell disease?
... that Ronald Reagan was propelled to stardom playing a double amputee in the 1942 film Kings Row?
... that part of a 700 kilometre long minefield is found in Svay Chek District, Cambodia?
... that during the midst of the Cold War, Alan Shulman and Dmitri Shostakovich were invited to join a Soviet–American composers' symposium organised by Nicolas Slonimsky for NBC?
... that Verpa bohemica is a saprobic species of fungi distinguished from other species by its enormous spores?
... that while a son of professional wrestler Aurelian Smith said his father hid the scripted nature of the business from his family, causing strain, three of his children became wrestlers?
... that Brian Statham shares his name with an England international cricketer and was himself a talented schoolboy cricketer, but opted to pursue a career in professional football?
... that 99% of Washington wine is grown in the eastern half of the state where a rain shadow effect created by the Cascades leaves the area dry and desert-like?
... that Torolf Elster, former Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), was also an awarded crime writer?
... that Vinny Castilla has won three Silver Slugger Awards at third base in four years for the Colorado Rockies?
... that the 13th century Sufi scholar Sayyid Abu Bakr Al-Aidarus was impressed with the stimulating effect of the coffee fruit and is credited with introducing it to the Hadhramaut region?
... that the Key thatch palm, which was long considered part of the genus Thrinax, was reclassified into its own genus, Leucothrinax, in 2008?
... that Australian First World War soldier Percy Black was described by Australian war historian Charles Bean as "the greatest fighting soldier in the A.I.F."?
... that with her thriller Nattdykk (1983), Kim Småge was the first of "a new female wave in Norwegian crime fiction"?
... that American inventor and engineer Robert Fulton negotiated a bounty of £40,000 for the first decked ship destroyed in the Raid on Boulogne in 1804?
... that Frédéric Chopin once said the middle section of his Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op 48, No. 2 should be played as if "a tyrant commands, and the other asks for mercy"?
... that because of the permanent damage it can cause to living tissue, the old world screwworm fly is not suitable for maggot therapy?
... that Mick Rathbone, now Everton F.C.'s head of sports medicine, was once simultaneously player, physiotherapist and assistant manager of Halifax Town A.F.C.?
... that the South Park episode "Margaritaville" portrays Kyle as a Jesus-like savior of the U.S. economy during the recession?
... that the Massachusetts House of Representatives refused to legislate until the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts was rescued from cod-nappers?
... that track and field star Bob Backus, who set world records in the hammer throw, wore ballet slippers while competing?
... that Sonia Chang-Díaz won a seat in the Massachusetts Senate after her opponent was accused of stuffing her bra?
... that in 1825, the Court of Exchequer declared all contracts by hobbits illegal and void in England?
... that if you go to a local store three weeks from today, you can probably find Asher Roth asleep in the bread aisle?
... that Caviar, Chardonnay, and Hot Cocoa compete for the love of Ray J?
... that baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby had his first plate appearance against King Lear?
... that after Wild West outlaw Big Nose George was hanged by a lynch mob, he was made into a pair of shoes?
... that in Disney's animated film The Story of Menstruation, the flow is snow white?
... that the idea of a two hooded coat to keep your date dry in the rain is genius?
... that sightings of Captain Cook were common around New Zealand as late as the 1950s?
... that two monkeys are employed as waiters at the Japanese Kayabukiya Tavern?
... that the cap of the thimble fungus, Verpa conica , resembles a thimble?
... that Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only known survivor of the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II?
... that Time magazine selected Billy C. Clark's autobiography A Long Row to Hoe as one of its Best Books of 1960, describing it "as authentically American as Huckleberry Finn"?
... that during her 2008 trip to Asia, the Ecuadorian tall ship Guayas took aboard an officer of the People's Liberation Army Navy for reefing training?
... that Isabella Grinevskaya was lauded by Leo Tolstoy for her play "Báb"?
... that a rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo, held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas, led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women?
... that contrary to popular myth, Robert E. Lee's face is not carved on the back of the 1920 statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.?
... that as a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history, by a post-Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics?
... that the pencil skirt was popularised by French designer Christian Dior in the late 1940s?
... that John Heald, the senior cruise director of Carnival Cruise Lines, began working in cruise ships as a bar waiter?
... that miniature pigs are bred and raised as pets and for medical research into organ transplants rather than for bacon?
... that Arses lorealis is the scientific name for a bird commonly known as the Frill-necked Monarch?
... that McFarland Mall in Tuscaloosa is the second oldest standing shopping mall in the US state of Alabama?
... that actress Kate Cutler walked out of the lead role in Noël Coward's The Vortex a week before it opened in 1924?
... that bacon vodka is vodka infused with bacon flavor, created based on the concept of a "meat and potatoes" pairing?