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• ...that Poliphilo (pictured), the main character in the Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was said to have felt "extreme delight," "incredible joy," and "frenetic pleasure and cupidinous frenzy" when he saw the buildings depicted in the book?
• ...that complaints about the presence of liberal Catholic theologians such as Joseph Ratzinger at the Second Vatican Council led to the creation of the conservative study group Coetus Internationalis Patrum?
• ...that Hitler's Cross was a Hitler-themed restaurant in Navi Mumbai that was causing so much controversy that it had to drop its name after less than a week?
• ...that Canadian scientist Shiv Chopra was terminated from Health Canada for informing the Senate of the health effects of Bovine Growth Hormone?
• ...that a school bus crossing arm is a safety device intended to protect children from being struck while crossing in front of a school bus?

• ...that the Simca Aronde (pictured) was named after the French word for swallow, a bird which appeared on the Simca logo when the model was presented?
• ...that Sesame Street's street scenes were centred around the fictional African-American Robinson family in early seasons, before the Muppets took on an increased role?
• ...that the 1917 Silvertown explosion may have been the largest explosion to ever occur in London?
• ...that Jacek Dukaj's Black Oceans, a Polish science-fiction novel, received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award Polish award for sci-fi literature in 2001?
• ...that the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when defrocked Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars?

• ...that Banks' Florilegium is a series of 743 engravings of plants collected by Joseph Banks (pictured) and Daniel Solander on Cook's Pacific voyage between 1768 and 1771?
• ...that the Kullaberg Nature Reserve contains the brightest lighthouse in Sweden and is home to many rare species of plants and animals including the Red Kite?
• ...that Fernando Alonso became the youngest ever polesitter and first ever Spaniard to attain a podium finish at the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix?
• ...that the Bangabhaban has served as the official residence for the Viceroy of India, Governor of East Pakistan and the President of Bangladesh?
• ...that City is a massive work of earth art by Michael Heizer that has been under construction for over thirty years in the Nevada desert?
• ...that surgeon William Brydon was the only European of 16,500 British troops to survive the retreat to Jalalabad from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War?

• ...that the reconstruction of Kecharis Monastery (pictured) in Armenia was delayed a decade due to an earthquake, war, blockade, and the collapse of the USSR?
• ...that, had it been completed, the Trinity Shoal Light would have been among the most exposed lighthouses in the United States?
• ...that acute fatty liver of pregnancy is a rare but life-threatening disease of pregnancy that is treated with urgent delivery?
• ...that Hendren v. Campbell was a forerunner to the 1987 Supreme Court decision Edwards v. Aguillard to forbid the teaching of creationism in American public schools?
• ...that freestyle wrestler William Kerslake, who competed in three Olympiads and got a gold medal at the 1955 Pan American Games, was also a NASA engineer and co-inventor of the first ion thruster for space propulsion?
• ... that capillary action of molten brass or silver is used to greatly increase the strength of lugged steel bicycle frames?

• ... that the expression "pay on the nail" originated from the practice of closing deals by payment on brass tables called "nails" (pictured), which can still be seen at The Exchange, Bristol?
• ...that the Matra Murena was the world's first car to have the entire chassis galvanized?
• ...that the Baharistan-i-Ghaibi is the only extensive historical document accounting the wars, events and life in Bengal during the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir?
• ...that the Egyptian National Railways can trace its origin to the first railway in Africa and the Middle East, which began operating in 1854?
• ...that Gibbon's Tennis Court, a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England?
• ...that Beinn a' Ghlo is a large mountain in Scotland that has three Munro summits, and is an SSSI?

• ... that Fowlsheugh cliffs (pictured) attract 170,000 breeding seabirds annually, and may be one of the few nature reserves with more vertical than horizontal land area?
• ...that one factor in the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was that his assassin claimed Rabin was liable to an extrajudicial death sentence as a rodef under Jewish law?
• ...that Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) by Dorothy Wordsworth—her "masterpiece"—was never published in her lifetime?
• ...that a fielder in cricket may only alter the ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of an artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering?
• ...that the gravestone of executed murderer, Floyd Allen supposedly read in part, "judicially murdered by the State of Virginia over the protests of more than 100,000 of its citizens"?
• ...that the Matra Bagheera sports car was named after the Jungle Book character?

• ...that the 17th century Biaroza monastery (pictured) in Biaroza, Belarus, has in its time been adapted into military barracks and a prison, and currently its ruins are an important baroque relic in the town?
• ... that the government in exile at Mujibnagar proclaimed Bangladesh's independence and coordinated the Mukti Bahini during the liberation war?
• ...that an attack on the flanks of an enemy is known as a flanking maneuver and that this type of attack has been used in both land and naval battles?
• ...that the Holland Island Bar Light in Maryland was once accidentally used for target practice by the United States Navy?
• ...that Rafael Buenaventura, once-governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and one of the world’s top central bankers, was largely responsible for removing the Philippines from an FATF black list?
• ...that the right-hand drive Simca 1300/1500 came with floor-mounted gear shifters having an inverted gear shift pattern?

• ...that there are many unfinished buildings throughout the world that may never be completed or demolished because of the costs involved?
• ... that Singapore's Police Coast Guard is a coast guard and water police service that is also responsible for maintenance of order on most of Singapore's off-shore islands?
• ... that the Kadam Rasul shrines are believed to display stone imprints of the footprints of Muhammad?
• ...that the Malayalam movie Moonnamathoral was the first high-definition film to be digitally distributed to theatres via satellite?
• ...that the Council House in Bristol, England features a blue and gold wall clock, encircled by the signs of the zodiac and equipped with its own wind indicator?
• ...that in 1943, avant-garde Frenchfilmmaker Marcel L'Herbier founded a film school that was attended by Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud and Volker Schlöndorff?

• ...that the LORAX project to build an Antarctic rover (pictured) shares a name with a Dr. Seuss character?
• ...that one of the first churches in Vilnius, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos, was once used by the local university as an anatomical theatre?
• ...that in the papal Rome each fish monger had to give to the city councillors the heads of the fishes longer than a marble plaque which had been hung on a wall of the fish market, in Sant'Angelo?
• ...that Hurricane Kyle lasted 22 days, thereby becoming the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic basin?
• ...that the song "Congratulations" was almost banned from being performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 by Silvia Night due to an expletive in the lyrics?
• ...that Featherston prisoner of war camp was the site of a riot that lead to the death of 47 Japanese prisoners of war during World War II?