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• ...that Franco-Japanese relations were initiated by the 1615 visit of the Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga to the Southern France city of Saint Tropez?
• ...that, after being defrocked as a Church of England priest, Harold Davidson became a seaside entertainer and was killed in 1937 by a lion when he trod on its tail?
• ...that distinguished recipients of the Grawemeyer Award for music composition have included Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and John Adams?

 

• ...that the General Council of the Valleys, the parliament of Andorra, has only 28 members?
• ...that Jesuit priest John Nobili founded Santa Clara University in 1851?
• ...that both the Silver Jubilee and Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II fell on the official Queen's Birthday holiday?
• ...that Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association?
• ...that Packet Storm is a non-profit organization comprised of computer security professionals whose goal is to provide the information necessary to secure computer networks?

 

• ...that a postage stamp the United States Department of the Treasury issued in 1962 that commemorated the centennial of the Homestead Act featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand?
• ...that prosector's wart is a skin lesion caused by contamination with tuberculosis of a diseased cadaver during its preparation for autopsy by a prosector, a preparator of dissections?
• ...that Roza Robota was hanged for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt?
• ...that American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?
• ...that the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf?

 

• ...that the Australian Blue Ant is not an ant at all, but a large solitary wasp?

 

• ...that American patriot John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, in imitation of Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?
• ...that Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the 9th Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004?

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• ...that Swiss cyclist Hugo Koblet, a Tour de France winner and the first non-Italian to win the Giro d'Italia, died at age thirty-nine under mysterious circumstances?

 

• ...that HMS Adventure was the first ship to circumnavigate the globe from west to east?

 

• ...that for actress KaDee Strickland's role in The Grudge, she was inspired by Jane Fonda's Academy Award-winning performance in the 1971 film Klute?

 

• ...that the Blondie song "Call Me" was only the third song from a soundtrack to be the highest-selling single in the United States?
• ...that classical compounds make up much of the technical and scientific lexicon of Western European languages?
• ...that whole grains are often more expensive than refined grains because their higher oil content is susceptible to oxidation, complicating processing, storage, and transport?

 

• ...that Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot?

 

• ...that unlike many of the Bee Gees' singles, which were recorded in Miami, Florida, "Stayin' Alive" was recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville in Paris?
• ...that in the computer game Crush, Crumble and Chomp! the player controls a disaster movie monster and destroys cities?
• ...that the Minnesota State Constitution initially had two versions: one signed by Republicans and the other by Democrats?

 

• ...that Doc Cheatham (1905–1997) has been called the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70?
• ...that Captain Henry Trollope (1756–1839) of the Royal Navy, commanding the frigate Glatton, defeated a French squadron that outnumbered him six to one?
• ...that no Punch and Judy performer can consider himself a Professor until he has swallowed his swazzle at least twice?
• ...that the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque of Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the sixteenth century and the marble dado was carried off to Istanbul by Ottoman conquerors?

 

• ...that in 1978, Governor of Florida Reubin Askew gave the Bee Gees "honorary citizenship" after the success of their single "Night Fever"?
• ...that chromoblastomycosis is a fungal skin infection that can be caught from a thorn or splinter?
• ...that Alan Mullery became the first England association football player to be sent off in a full international match during the 1968 European Championship semi-final against Yugoslavia?
• ...that Samuel Green was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

 

• ...that the history of nuclear weapons and the United States includes around 1,054 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992?
• ...that Philip of Poitou, Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208, quarrelled so fiercely with his monks that he tried to burn them out of a church, and later excommunicated the entire chapter?

 

• ...that singer Maureen McGovern was a secretary before she was signed to perform the Academy Award-winning song "The Morning After"?
• ...that the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England predated, by 12 years, the first tour to England by white Australians?

 

• ... that Otokichi (1818–1867) was a Japanese castaway, who circled the globe as he tried unsuccessfully to return to Japan?
• ... that Xihoumen Bridge, a suspension bridge planned for the Zhoushan Archipelago in China will be the third largest suspension bridge in the world when completed?

 

• ...that after Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits were, and their children born after the recruitment were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created Garrison schools?
• ...that the US children's television series Romper Room aired for over forty years?

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• ...that Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896, & later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation?

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• ...that the 1985 movie Into the Night is largely responsible for launching Michelle Pfeiffer to stardom?

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• ... that the race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992?

 

• ...that the song "Nights in White Satin", largely ignored on its first release in 1967, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was re-released in 1972?

 

• ... that Union Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland was once the longest suspension bridge in the world and is now the oldest surviving?

 

• ...that MTV Canada will be converted into a digital television station called Razer, now that it is owned by CHUM Limited?
• ...that the virtual economy of massively multiplayer online games sometimes attracts virtual crime, which is punishable by real laws in some countries?

 

• ...that James Glynn, captain of the USS Preble, was the first American to negotiate successfully with Sakoku ("closed country") Japan, in 1848?