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• ...that guards on the mail coach had to remain outside for the entire journey and sometimes froze to death?
• ...that Y Clwb Rygbi was the first Welsh language television programme to win a Royal Television Society Sports Award?
• ...that English Anglican clergyman Dr William Dodd was nicknamed the "macaroni parson" as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, and in 1777 became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn for forgery?
• ...that the money for the construction of the Washington Memorial Chapel (picturedImage:Washington Memorial Chapel.jpg) at Valley Forge was raised in small increments (nickels and dimes), raising the building a few feet at a time?
• ...that Tom Hickathrift is the East Anglian equivalent of Jack the Giant Killer?
• ...that the Golden Barrel is a popularly cultivated cactus from Mexico?
• ...that the libretto for Howard Hanson's opera Merry Mount was written without a composer in mind?
• ...that Nestorianism was one of the first forms of Christianity to be introduced in Mongolia?
• ... that harpoon reactions are chemical reactions that take place faster than predicted by collision theory because an electron is "thrown" from one molecule towards the other?
• ...that Sonoma Coast State Beach is one of California's longest beaches and has rocks that have evidence of rubbing by mammoths 40,000 years ago? (Image:Socoaststatebeachterracemammothrocks.jpg)
• ...that the Qiandao Lake Incident in 1994 caused 32 Taiwanese tourist deaths, and the government of People's Republic of China were ineffective on solving the case, which directly leads to the massive increase of Taiwanese supporters on Taiwan independence?
• ...that the PDSA Gold Medal is awarded to animals for gallantry and devotion to duty?
• ...that Dallas Smythe, an early researcher of the political economy of communications, earned an FBI file for his volunteerism with the American League for Peace and Democracy?
• ...that the Air Hogs Stormlauncher is a radio controlled model capable of operation on land, water...and even air?
• ...that John F. Mackie (pictured) was the first United States Marine to receive America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor?(Image:John F Mackie (framed).jpg)
• ...that while most tornadoes form from supercell thunderstorms, tornadogenesis is a widely varied process, and can even occur under a normal cumulus cloud?
• ...that William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?
• ...that according to legend, Saint Juthwara was beheaded by her stepbrother, Bana, because he believed her to be pregnant?
• ...that the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in London in 1946 as a national British academic institution to promote and advance legal research, and is now part of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London?
• ...that the former owners of the Château de Louveciennes include Louis XIV, the courtesan Madame du Barry, the Camondo family, the politician Louis Loucheur, the perfumer François Coty, and the Nissan Group? (Image:Pavillon Louveciennes - 1bis - Elevation côté rivière.jpg)
• ...that in 2001, Shelby Howard became the youngest driver to compete in an Auto Racing Club of America race at the age of 15?
• ...that John Frush Knox was the only law clerk of the United States Supreme Court ever to write a memoir documenting their time spent in this position?
• ...that Kaka Joginder Singh (alias Dharti Pakad) contested and lost over 300 elections in his 36 year political career?
• ...that Michał Dymitr Krajewski's first book, Podolanka wychowana w stanie natury, życie i przypadki swoje opisująca ("The Podolian Girl: raised in the natural state, describing her life and events"), was responsible for initiating the first literary debate in Poland, and had seven editions in one year?
• ...that the Rex Graham nature reserve, a disused chalk pit in Suffolk, supports 95% of the British population of Military Orchids?
• ...that Anne Juliana Gonzaga became a Servant of Mary following the death of her husband, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in 1595, after receiving a vision of the Madonna, to whom her parents had prayed to cure her of a childhood illness?
• that Rita Dove selected the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, co-edited by Nellie Y. McKay with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for a time capsule kept by the U.S. National Archives that will be opened in the 22nd century?
• ...that the destination hotel became popular in the 1800s, and their number has expanded to present times, along with the elaborateness of their amenities?
• ...that, subject to the resolution of litigation, Slovenian basketball player Miha Zupan will become the first deaf player to compete in Europe's principal club competition, the Euroleague?
• ...that Flow my tears by English lutenist John Dowland (1563–1626) is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period?
• ...that Beckomberga Hospital (pictured) in Stockholm was designed according to a strict symmetrical pattern and used to be one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Europe?
• ...that the Underwood Canning Company went to packing their food products in tin because glass makers in Boston, Massachusetts could not keep up with the company's demands?
• ...that the Rumsfeld Commission is considered by some foreign policy analysts to be the basis for the term "axis of evil", used by President George W. Bush in his 2002 State of the Union Address?
• ...that original copies of the Herefordshire Pomona, a 19th century catalogue of apples and pears, command prices of over $20,000 when they come up for sale?
• ...that the Thomas Organ Company not only helped invent the market for electronic organs for the home, but also at one time held the manufacturing rights to the Moog synthesizer?
• ...that Hurricane Bob was the first of a record-tying six hurricanes to hit the United States in 1985?
• ...that, the Château de Rosny, the birthplace and seat of Henri IV's minister Duc de Sully, was largely stripped of its furniture and neglected after it was acquired by a Japanese company in 1984? (Image:Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 008.jpg)
• ...that Indian author and journalist Peary Chand Mitra played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the "Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali prose?
• ...that Slant magazine said the Hilary Duff 2004 song "I Am" was "what Alanis Morissette might sound like if she had a lobotomy"?
• ...that Swedish post-impressionist painter Nils von Dardel died in 1943, shortly after he came to prominence in his native country?
• ...that Picardo Farm, one of two historical farms preserved within Seattle city limits, is the oldest P-Patch allotment garden?
• ...that the Soviet 76th "K. Y. Voroshilov" Division passed through 7,000 kilometres of former Soviet territory during the Second World War, liberating over 600 towns and cities from Axis occupying forces?
• ...that the Västgötalagen, a text describing medieval provincial laws, is the oldest example of Early Swedish literature to survive in its entirety?
• ...that artists of the Mission School, a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?
• ... that Ukrainian-language publication and education flourished in Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, despite battles between Ukrainian, Bolshevik, Russian, Polish, German, and Cossack forces, and various anarchist and paramilitary bands?
• ...that the Warrior arcade game is considered to be the first versus fighting game and was released over a decade before the genre became popular?
• ...that Kallol was perhaps, the first conscious literary movement to embrace modernism in Bengali literature?
• ...that in 1804, the frigate Apollo and forty merchant ships in her convoy were wrecked off Portugal, the result of a single badly adjusted compass?
• ...that, four years before her death, Madame de Pompadour paid almost 1,000,000 livres to buy the Château de Menars , selling some pearl bracelets to meet the first payment?
• ...that General Douglas MacArthur's staff threatened United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence with court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese-run firms in the Philippines, and the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan in early 1942?