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... that India won only 9 medals in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, comparing with 76 medals in the previous edition of the Games?
... that Henry MacLauchlan recommended to the British parliament that Ordnance Survey maps should not use contour lines?
... that Bear Bryant played in the game against Tennessee with a broken leg as a member of the 1935 Alabama Crimson Tide football team?
... that Ratna Sarumpaet's singing of the Indonesian national anthem was called "proof" of a crime?
... that the extinct witchalder Fothergilla malloryi is the oldest confirmed member of the genus Fothergilla?
... that the animated short film Sex Life of Robots, showing sexual activity among robots, is described as "art-porn"?
... that it is customary for Viktor Tsoi's fans to leave a broken lighted cigarette in the special ash plate at the Tsoi Wall?
... that between 1800 and 1890, some 25,000 to 50,000 slaves were captured in present-day Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi and forced to work on plantations in Somalia?
... that the 1933 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the first Southeastern Conference football championship?
... that the Latvian mathematician Emanuels Grīnbergs lost his job and his doctoral degree for serving in the German Army during World War II, but then regained both by writing a new thesis?
... that when the feathers left in the Round Island Lighthouse keepers' living quarters were identified, the lighthouse cat was banished from that Scillonian island?
... that poet William Wordsworth said of the site of Holy Trinity Church, Brathay , "there is no situation out of the Alps, nor among them, more beautiful than that where this building is placed"?
... that the Maoist Youth Union demanded that a "Youth Charter" be included in the new Spanish constitution?
... that the video for Radiohead's "Lotus Flower", which features Thom Yorke's "spastic" dancing, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video?
... that Lady Llangattock, the mother of Charles Rolls, commemorated the centenary of Nelson's death at the Kymin?
... that a Punu-Lumbo mask from Gabon has been sold at Sotheby's for well over $400,000?
... that Indian matchmaker website Shaadi.com created an online game called Angry Brides to raise awareness of dowry deaths in India?
... that if an Abbott's Booby falls to the ground, it will starve unless it can catch the wind and take off again?
... that Texas' Ranch to Market Road 187 appears in the 2011 film Seven Days in Utopia as the road where actor Lucas Black wrecks his car?
... that Japanese comedian Neko Hiroshi was nominated by the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia to compete for Cambodia at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that the newly elected President of Senegal Macky Sall appointed the technocrat and banker Abdoul Mbaye as prime minister?
... that baseball player Josh Edgin won the Pennsylvania state championship in wrestling, finishing fourth in the national championship?
... that at its extreme, serfdom in Poland required a peasant to work eight days a week for his feudal lord?
... that prolific food writer and reality TV judge Mary Berry's first job was to visit consumers' homes to show them how to use their own electric cookers?
... that the first modern road connecting the Adriatic and Pannonian basins, spanning the Mountainous Croatia region, was completed in 1732?
... that the new Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, houses a pack of the writer's Pall Malls as well as his Purple Heart?
... that Yutyrannus huali is the largest known feathered dinosaur, the holotype measuring 9 metres (30 ft) long?
... that Philander and Francis Roots founded Roots Blower Company when one of them blew off his brother's hat?
... that Osgood Castle , in Redstone, Colorado, was the first real property seized by the Internal Revenue Service to be auctioned online?
... that TTAADC member Sridam Pal was one of the 13 victims killed in the 1988 Birchandramanu massacre in South Tripura?
... that last name of Peter Spani, one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, is derived from the Greek word spanos (Greek: σπανός) which means beardless?
... that the woodland at Dizzard Point in Cornwall, which is part of the Boscastle to Widemouth SSSI, is of international importance for its lichen communities?
... that the MV-1 is the first purpose-built taxicab to be approved for use as a New York City yellow cab since the iconic Checker Marathon?
... that eggs en cocotte are cooked by breaking eggs into ramekins and then baking them in a water bath?
... that while Chinese emperors had stone tortoises guard their tombs, some of their subjects in Fujian were laid to rest under plaster tortoises ?
... that the General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible was not written by John Wycliffe?
... that Hero Cup was the first cricket tournament to be broadcast on satellite television in India in 1993, prior to which state terrestrial broadcaster Doordarshan had a monopoly on cricket broadcasts?
... that Queensland softball catcher Kym Tollenaere narrowly missed out on the 2004 Summer Olympics and is trying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championships?
... that the Gabonese Socialist Union, initially an opposition party founded by formerly exiled student activists, aligned itself with the then incumbent president Omar Bongo?
... that Kyeong Kang was the first South Korean to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that a large number of street food vendors in Mumbai trade illegally without mandatory permits from the local municipality by bribing officials?
... that the statue of Shaka at Birth at Tōdai-ji is the largest example of a type of statue anointed with sweet hydrangea tea on April 8 in celebration of Buddha's Birthday?
... that Sister Jackie Hudson served six months in prison for painting "Christ lives, Disarm" on the side of a bunker?
... that the 1917–18 team was the University of Michigan's first basketball team after an eight-year hiatus and the only winless conference season in the school's history?
... that the comb star (Astropecten polyacanthus) contains a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin?
... that the Presbyterian Church of Victoria was formed in 1859 as a union of Church of Scotland, Free Presbyterian and United Presbyterian congregations?
... that with the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Alexandru Bârlădeanu went from house arrest to Senate President within a few months?
... that Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer William M. Gallagher once commandeered a police helicopter to cover a story?
... that Argentine celebrity Calu Rivero was the first actress from Catamarca Province to appear in national television, thus being named Illustrious Citizen of Recreo, her hometown?
... that former National Hockey League player Joel Otto credited Battle of Alberta rival Mark Messier as being the reason he made the Calgary Flames?
... that the Albanian nobility was absorbed into the Ottoman military class through the implementation of the timar system within not more than two generations?
... that upon release of Rihanna's Talk That Talk, "We All Want Love" was the album's lowest charting song on the UK Singles Chart, at number 188?
... that according to some sources, bulb-bearing water-hemlock is one of the most poisonous leafy plants native to North America?
... that former churches in Chichester, West Sussex, have been converted into a doll museum, a betting shop and a Chinese takeaway, among other things?
... that on the southern slopes of Maja e Thatë lies the Cave of Haxhia, a Nature Monument of Albania, explored by Polish speleologists?
... that Henry Hallowell Farquhar, the leading scorer on the first Michigan Wolverines basketball team in 1909, became a professor at Harvard Business School?
... that The Who's bassist John Entwistle kept skeletons in the bedroom of his Victorian mansion Quarwood to frighten guests?
... that British World War II fighter ace Noel Agazarian was rejected by Trinity College, Oxford, allegedly because its President objected to his ethnicity?
... that Polish writer Łukasz Orbitowski was one of the pioneers of setting horror stories in mundane, modern Polish cities?
... that the composite hull of the Beacon-class gunvessels was described by Admiral G. A. Ballard as built "along the lines of an extremely elongated packing crate"?
... that Manuel Gálvez promoted Juan Manuel de Rosas as an archetype of Argentine values?
... that Australian softballer Melinda Weaver missed the 2008 Beijing Games and a year later played professional softball in Italy?
... that the historiography of Juan Manuel de Rosas influenced much of the whole historiography of Argentina?
... that according to one critic, "Farewell" is a "shameless rewrite" of Adele's song "Someone like You"?
... that naval architect William K. MacCurdy developed the Hydra-Cushion rail coupling at SRI International, significantly changing freight transportation?
... that Audrey Withers, who edited the British Vogue for twenty years, lacked a personal interest in fashion and joined the London Fire Brigade?
... that over 16 million years ago, four species of parrot in the genus Nelepsittacus made their home in subtropical rainforest in what is now Otago, New Zealand?
... that Chinese-Indonesian writer Mira Wong may use the pen name Mira W. to cover her ethnicity?
... that many things related to Rhodesia, both physical and immaterial , can be considered Rhodesiana?
... that the steamer R. J. Hackett is recognized as the first Lake freighter?
... that the 1834 Epsom Oaks was won by a filly named Pussy?
... that both the 1997 and 2009 versions of TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time included episodes that were only aired two months prior?
... that at the Romanian Communist Party congress of November 1989, Emil Bobu countered delegates' flagging enthusiasm by shouting slogans and applauding vigorously, even interrupting leader Nicolae Ceauşescu?
... that Paul Chemetov built the French embassy in New Delhi in the 1980s?
... that composer and cellist Graham Waterhouse dedicated his Three Pieces for Solo Cello, described as "rhapsodic movements of great expressive strength", to Siegfried Palm?
... that 1907 Michigan football team gave up an average of only one point per game and shut out Vanderbilt in front of the largest crowd to see a football game south of the Mason–Dixon Line?
... that slavery in Poland existed during the Middle Ages, but eventually disappeared with the transformation of slaves into serfs?
... that Kookaburra Commonwealth gold medalist Chris Ciriello lost 18 kilograms (40 lb) because of his busy hockey schedule?
... that when Abdul Alkalimat wrote Malcolm X for Beginners, he was sued by the activist's widow?
... that the pandemonium in a pandemonium architecture simply represents the cumulative yelling of the "demons" within the system?
... that the Bach cantata for Easter Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen, BWV 145, was expanded after Bach's death by two leading movements, the second one composed by Telemann?
... that mackerel have vertical stripes on their sides which may help them stay in formation when they are schooling ?
... that in 1955 Marie Aspioti returned her MBE to Queen Elizabeth II in protest against the British policies on Cyprus regarding enosis with Greece?
... that infants are so motivated to engage in joint attention that they will turn away from interesting sights to do so?
... that prior to taking up athletics, Olympic long-distance runner Väinö Koskela was a member of the winning team at an under-18 cross-country skiing championship?
... that Matt Bomer suggested that Glee feature Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" in an episode, only to be cast a week later to sing it himself in the episode "Big Brother"?
... that the first non-white player in the National Basketball Association was an Asian-American who played in 1947?
... that Cat Creek was the site of the first commercially successful oil field in Montana, producing oil so pure it could be used in Model T cars straight from the ground?
... that Ada Initiative co-founder Valerie Aurora chose Anita as her middle name, after the computer scientist Anita Borg?
... that following the 2011 civil war in Libya, the Muslim Brotherhood founded the Justice and Development Party, which is said to be the country's most organised political force?
... that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, a white woman argues that the university discriminated against her based on race?
... that Hall of Fame baseball manager John McGraw signed Billy Gilbert to the Baltimore Orioles in 1902 and the New York Giants in 1903?
... that Chelsea Forkin has represented Australia in the World Cup of Baseball and World Cup of Softball?
... that an 80-km-long, 6-m-high mound formed by the 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake was known as the Dam of God?
... that in hot weather, the eastern spadefoot toad may aestivate in the deep burrow it has dug?
... that John Garrels of the 1906 Michigan football team threw the school's first legal forward pass, won Olympic medals in the hurdles and shot put, and set a world record in the discus throw?
... that the 2002 funeral of John Entwistle, bassist for rock band The Who, was held at St Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold?
... that Danville, Kentucky's Constitution Square State Historic Site features a replica of the first Presbyterian meetinghouse in the state?
... that in the 2011–12 Logan Cup, the Matabeleland Tuskers cricket team became the first to win consecutive titles during the franchise era of the competition?
... that Jamila and the President, submitted to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, was initially written after the director received a UNICEF grant?
... that celebrity chef and baker Paul Hollywood created what is thought to be the most expensive loaf of bread in Britain?
... that Radford University softball player and national team member Leigh Godfrey is from a softball family, with her aunt and mother both representing Australia in the sport?
... that Keith Meinhold, who came out publicly in 1992, was allowed to stay in the US Navy after a 1994 court decision as long as he did not say he was gay again?
... that the Alfaguara project has photographed and identified over 350 individual blue whales?
... that in 1821–22 Aaron Manby built the world's first seagoing iron-hulled steamship, named after him, and patented the design of its oscillating engine?
... that Estonia's first major industrial strike occurred in 1872 at the Krenholm Manufacturing Company?
... that the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of NASCAR driver Mikey Kile were all racing drivers as well?
... that the Indonesian internet community Fiksimini writes complete works of fiction in under 140 characters?
... that Edward Espe Brown, author of The Tassajara Bread Book, was inspired as a child by his aunt's baking of homemade bread?
... that before its restoration the Kasim Ağa Mosque in Istanbul was used as a shanty?
... that in his 1936 German melodrama, Schlußakkord, Douglas Sirk characterised and contrasted a Weimar new woman and a German expatriate mother through their reactions to Beethoven's 9th Symphony?
... that Stacey McManus represents Australia in softball, while her sister Brook plays softball for New Zealand's national team?
... that Christian rock band Casting Crowns' fourth studio album, Until the Whole World Hears, sold 167,000 copies in its first week?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Slamet Rijadi took the name Rijadi after there were too many students called Slamet at his school?
... that Fielding H. Yost opined that Germany Schulz gave "the greatest one-man exhibition of courage I ever saw on a football field" for the 1908 Michigan football team?
... that artist Sydney John Bunney created over 500 works depicting the city of Coventry?
... that Kookaburra gold medalist Jamie Dwyer met his girlfriend while playing professional field hockey in the Netherlands?
... that "Do Ya Thang" was described as a return to Rihanna's roots, which were notably present in the songs from her first studio album Music of the Sun?
... that with the help of the IDRF, Narayanan Komerath, a professor of aerospace engineering, launched a fund to aid families of people hurt in the war against terrorism?
... that Robert Hiester Montgomery, one of the founders of the world's largest accounting firm, never graduated from high school?
... that George V gave the cradle that was said to be that of Henry of Monmouth (later Henry V who was at Agincourt) to the London Museum?
... that the 1932 Alabama Crimson Tide football team's contest against Georgia Tech was the first Alabama football game that was broadcast live?
... that Milko Bambič had to escape from Trieste to Yugoslavia to avoid arrest after he had published the first Slovene comic strip, a parody on Benito Mussolini?
... that Ghost Story, a 1972–73 television anthology series, was renamed Circle of Fear after 13 episodes?
... that Giring Ganesha, the lead singer of Nidji, lost 11 kilograms (24 lb) for his role in The Enlightener?
... that until Judge Sonia Sotomayor ordered the creation of Krimstock hearings, there was often no way for thousands of owners to promptly recover their seized vehicles from the NYPD?
... that isochrone maps have been used since 1972 or earlier, and that since 2009 online versions have been used by house hunters wishing to evaluate residential areas?
... that the Portage Glacier Highway is made up of a series of eight roads, bridges, and tunnels?
... that Romanian politician Oana Niculescu-Mizil once wore a genuine prison uniform to the floor of the Chamber of Deputies as a sign of protest?
... that Margaret Wenzell's only home run in her professional baseball career was a game-winning inside-the-park home run, hit with her parents in attendance?
... that Samuel Barber derived his choral composition Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from his successful Adagio for Strings, showing "the work's sense of spirituality"?
... that journalist Ding Yu interviewed 226 death row prisoners for a popular television programme in China's Henan Province?
... that Bach's St Matthew Passion is structured in 67 movements, according to the NBA, and tells the Passion based on the Gospel of Matthew, Picander's contemporary poetry, and chorales?
... that the role of the Rhodesian head of government gradually evolved, between 1890 and 1970, from that of a company-appointed administrator to the prime ministerial office of a republic?
... that Nicholas Dukagjini is mentioned in a song about an Albanian Romeo and Juliet written by Girolamo de Rada?
... that in 1956 Cricket Records were promoted simultaneously with all Betsy Wetsy television advertisements?
... that when Roger Bresnahan adopted the use of shin guards in Major League Baseball on Opening Day in 1907, angry fans threw snow onto the field?
... that the Rukwa Valley in southwestern Tanzania is sparsely populated because of its difficult environment?
... that Nicolae Xenopol, who wrote a satirical novel about a Yankee visiting "disgusting" Romania, was later Romania's first ambassador to Japan?
... that the occurrence of the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake thirty minutes after the 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake was probably just coincidence?
... that the Radiohead song "True Love Waits" became a highly requested song at their live shows in the 1990s despite having never been released?
... that Roy Marten was one of the highest paid Indonesian actors in the late 1970s?
... that the largest of all billfishes, the Atlantic blue marlin , weighs up to 820 kilograms (1800 pounds) and has been classified as a vulnerable species?
... that softball player Brenda De Blaes represented Australia and Belgium at the Women's World Championship?
... that The Kinks' song "The Hard Way" was based on a true incident in which Kinks' guitarist Dave Davies was caned and expelled from school?
... that Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped convince both Senator Andrieus A. Jones and President Woodrow Wilson to support passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women suffrage?
... that the Swiss-South African Association tried to lobby the Swiss government to recognize the Bantustan state Transkei?
... that April the Fifth, the winning racehorse of the 1932 Epsom Derby, and his breeder, were both born on April the fifth?
... that the Devonian stem tetrapod Tinirau clackae, transitional between fish and land vertebrates, was named after the half-human half-fish character Tinirau in Polynesian legend?
... that the protagonist of the game Soft & Cuddly must reassemble his mother's dismembered body?
... that World Naked Gardening Day, celebrated in May to promote nude gardening, was first observed in 2005?
... that the Communist Party leader Umberto Barulli was appointed head of state in San Marino in 1988?
... that the Dynasphere monowheel was criticized for its poor braking and steering capabilities, as well as its gerbiling tendencies?
... that there were so many pubs in Monmouth's market place that they said "A gin court here, a gin court there, No wonder they call it Agincourt Square" ?
... that Soedjatmoko was expelled from medical school but went on to become rector of the United Nations University?
... that Atretochoana eiselti, the largest tetrapod to lack lungs, was until late 2011 known only from two museum specimens whose origin was unknown?
... that when U.S. President Johnson signed Executive Order 11375 in 1967 banning sex bias in federal government hiring, women held just 809 of more than 40,000 federal civil service jobs?
... that "Zou Bisou Bisou" sung by Jessica Paré as Megan Draper on the March 25 season 5 premiere of Mad Men, was a 1960s yé-yé song that can be translated as "Oh! Kiss Kiss"?
... that according to art-historical analysis the 9th-century illuminated manuscript Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868 was copied from a 3rd-century model?
... that film editing innovations by Lou Lombardo and Sam Peckinpah in 1969 still influence filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, and the Wachowskis?
... that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was the soloist in a recording of Max Reger's Requiem with the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg in 1990?
... that the ruins of the Maya city of Mixco Viejo in Guatemala received their name because they were believed to be the remains of another city entirely?
... that labor lawyer and activist Khaled Ali filed a landmark lawsuit against the Egyptian government in 2010 and won a higher minimum wage for all workers?
... that birdwatcher Lieutenant Colonel Jackson Miles Abbott bird ringed 1,400 birds in seven months?
... that the Singapore High Court once held that, by refusing berths to a company running gambling cruises, the port authority had not fettered its discretion – a form of illegality in administrative law?
... that when the Basque trade union movement ELA-STV suffered a split in the 1970s, the dissident ELA-STV (Askatuta) was accused of being bankrolled by Opus Dei?
... that Tristram Coffin led a group of investors who bought Nantucket for thirty pounds and two beaver hats?
... that various studies show prostitution exists among animals such as Adélie Penguins , chimpanzees, and crab-eating macaques?
... that the 1931 Alabama Crimson Tide football team competed in two charity games at the end of the season to raise money for unemployment relief?
... that Shuffle Master created the casino game Let It Ride to drive demand for its shuffling machine?
... that because of his escape from captivity in 1188 through a sewer, the medieval monk and future Abbot of Evesham Roger Norreis was nicknamed "Roger Cloacarius" or "Roger the Drain-Cleaner"?
... that 2012 National Player of the Year Anthony Davis was unknown locally and nationally through his junior year of high school basketball?
... that a controversy arose over the Tulsi Peeth edition of the Ramcharitmanas, when the author Rambhadracharya was accused of tampering with the epic?
... that the longnose spider crab disguises itself by sticking bits of unpalatable seaweed and invertebrates on its shell?
... that the racehorse St. Frusquin lost the 1896 Epsom Derby by merely a neck to his brother Persimmon, whose winning time of 2:42.0 set a new Derby record?