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1
...that the
Tarim mummies indicate that
Caucasian populations lived in
Xinjiang in western
China during the
1st millenium BCE?
...that
Cherrapunji in
India is the wettest place in the world?
...that there are sixteen candidates running in the
June 14
Ohio Second Congressional District Election to replace representative
Rob Portman?
...that
Mick Mills was made captain of the
England national football team which started the
1982 World Cup because
Kevin Keegan was unable to play through injury?
...that
Irish
chemist
Robert Kane (1809–1890) showed that
hydrogen is
electropositive?
...that
1980s
horror movie
actress
Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her
typecasting by appearing the
1992 film
A League of Their Own, but had to drop out because she became
pregnant?
...that
American
country music singer
Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor
Dean Cain?
...that
Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a
Swiss
chronicler, wrote a history of
Berne from the
Burgundy Wars to
1536 that remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years?
...that
anatomist
Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) developed a set of anatomical models from human body parts by injecting them with
wax?
...that
Saki's short story "
Sredni Vashtar" plays an important role in
Raymond Postgate's
1940
mystery novel
Verdict of Twelve?
...that
Kermit Roosevelt III, author of the
2005
legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law, is the great-great-grandson of
U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt?
...that there are parts of
Canadian airspace where compasses aren't useful because they're too close to the magnetic
north pole?
...that the scientific collections of
Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834) were seized by the British in 1793 as spoils of
war, but were returned after lobbying by Sir
Joseph Banks?
...that
Bono Manso, the capital of
Bono state, was an ancient
Akan trading town in present-day
Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from
Djenné as part of the
Trans-Saharan trade?
...that the
1960s singing duo
Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as
Marvin Gaye and
Tammi Terrell?
...that the
Brimstone Moth has a variable
life cycle of either one generation a year or two generations every three years?
...that
Carolus Linnaeus the younger was enrolled by
his father at the
University of Uppsala at the age of nine?
...that the
bending of starlight around the
Sun during the
solar eclipse of
1919 was a testimony to the
predictive power of
Albert Einstein's theory of
general relativity?
...that
Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a
Venetian merchant who traveled around the
Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early
15th century, and was made to relate an account of his travels as a
penance for converting to
Islam?
...that
Firpo Marberry was the first
relief pitcher in
Major League Baseball to record 100
saves in his career?
...that the
grunion is a
sardine-sized
fish only found off the coast of
California and
Baja California that comes up on sandy beaches at very high tides (during the
new and
full moons) to lay its eggs?
...that
Bruce Webster was so burned out from
writing the
computer game
SunDog: Frozen Legacy for the
Apple II, that he gave up
programming for four years?
...that
Jack-Jack Attack is the first
Pixar
short not to be given a theatrical release?
...that
Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) signed an agreement in
1963 with
Japanese company
NEC which gave the latter partial ownership of PTV's network?
...that
Barstow, California, and
Strong City, Kansas, are both named in honor of
William Barstow Strong, former president of
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway?
...that in the
music video for the
Crazy Frog song "
Axel F", the frog's genitalia have been censored for broadcasting?
...that former
England
footballer
Mick Channon is now a successful
horse trainer?
...that
Chinese BASIC is the name given to several
Chinese
versions of the
BASIC programming language?
...that
suffragist
Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), publisher of
Australia's first woman-run journal, The Dawn, was also the mother of the great Australian poet
Henry Lawson?
...that the Terik language of
Kenya is classified as
endangered by
UNESCO because the
Terik people have increasingly become
assimilated to the
Nandi people in recent decades?
...that
facial symmetry is correlated with
health,
physical attractiveness, and
beauty, and is a factor in
interpersonal attraction?
...that a
sideman is a professional
musician who is hired to perform or record with a
group of which he is not formally a member?
...that
Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") was a popular 15th century text on the proper etiquette of how to die?
...that
MOMO syndrome is a very rare
genetic disorder characterised by
macrosomia,
obesity,
macrocephaly and
ocular abnormalities?
...that the
reality television series
Dr. 90210 got its name from the
zip code for part of the
Los Angeles suburb of
Beverly Hills?
...that the
U.S.
airlifted 22,325 tons of military supplies to
Israel for use in the
Yom Kippur War under
Operation Nickel Grass?
...that the
Washington State Capitol has been hit by three major
earthquakes since its construction?
...that
David Penhaligon (
1944–
1986) was a promising
Liberal
Member of Parliament in the
United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42?
...that
macrosomia is a complication in
pregnancy and
childbirth when the
fetus is dangerously big?
...that the
Defaka people of
Nigeria are gradually
abandoning their language in favour of the language of the
Nkoroo, their close neighbours?
...that
Joseph Rainey became the first
black person to serve in the
United States House of Representatives on
December 12,
1870?
...that the
Runyang Bridge and the
Jiangyin Suspension Bridge are the two largest
suspension bridges in
China and the fourth and sixth
largest suspension bridges in the world?
...that
Brancaleon, a
15th century
Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of
Ethiopia, is an example of early contacts between
Europe and
sub-Saharan Africa?
...that the short-lived
Maryland Constitution of 1864
emancipated the state's
slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the
Confederacy?
...that the
1st century
Greek historian
Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from
India to the
Levant,
Athens and
Rome during the time of
Jesus?