Did you know????

[tukang_besi]

ergh, whats funny here

[valkemiere]

Where'd you get it?

[keoz]

he's a man nothing that he dunno...

i dunno many things

do u know?
*) musket rifle can only shots 3 bullets in a minute?4 times slower than a bow

*) soldiers in WWII carry the heaviest backpack in war history ever?

*) american natives was the first native people that use a rifle in their wars?

[MimiHitam]

Mi lo copy dari mana

english plz

# ...that Juliobriga was the most important urban centre in Roman Cantabria?
# ...that undefeated national champion 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team rushing leader and Hula Bowl MVP Chris Howard was released after fumbling five times in the preseason of the 1998 NFL season?
# ...that Jack Womack's novel Let's Put the Future Behind Us emerged from a failed Soviet-American film project of William Gibson that was to star the late rockstar Victor Tsoi?
# ...that surface science studies show that Stranski-Krastanov growth is one of three primary ways in which thin films grow on crystals?
# ...that though the Steel Military Egg and the Order of St. George Egg were relatively modest designs in the spirit of World War I austerity, the two Fabergé eggs made for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia were still priced at more than 13,000 rubles?
# ...that former Hampshire wicketkeeper Adi Aymes went on to manage football club Fleet Town F.C., and is the current fitness coach of Havant and Waterlooville?
# ...that both former German Federal Minister of Labor Norbert Blüm and former Secretary of State of France Alain Vivien have been recognized with the Leipzig Human Rights Award?

[keoz]

D' ya know...

*) the first company in the world is VOC?
*) Dutch was the first nation that build modern bank?
*) the Turks is the aslamic nation that conquers europe?
*) Japanese is the first nation that wins against Europe?and since then, all asian trying to revolt from colonial

[MimiHitam]

* ...that Jane Austen's (pictured) novels increased dramatically in popularity after the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1870?
* ...that the Stourbridge fair, first held in 1211 in Cambridge, England, was once the largest fair in Europe?
* ...that the dinosaur fossil Dakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs?
* ...that the north pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Borealis quadrangle?
* ...that of 36 merchant vessels that set out in June 1942 as part of Britain's disastrous Convoy PQ-17, 27 never returned including SS Pan Kraft?
* ...that Red Kellett, former President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts, was never a professional football player, but an infielder for the Boston Red Sox baseball club in his playing days?
* ...that the inshore marine fish Malabar jack (pictured) derives its name from Malabar in South India, but can be found in coastal areas in as far away as South Africa, Japan and Vanuatu?
* ...that Webb Miller, whose reporting of the Salt Satyagraha raid on the Dharasana Salt Works was credited for helping turn world opinion against British colonial rule in India, was kidnapped by Morton Salt co-founder Mark Morton?
* ...that the first major effort to study the climate of the Arctic was undertaken during the First International Polar Year in 1882-83?
* ...that in the 1947 college football rankings, southern voters refused to vote for the integrated Michigan Wolverines football team with black stars such as Gene Derricotte?
* ...that Qadas was one of seven Metawali villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war?
* ...that according to legend, the relics of Saints Ferreolus and Ferrutio were discovered in 370 by a military tribune whose dog chased a fox into a cave near present-day Besançon, France?
* ...that gender-bending party promoter Andre J. appeared on the November 2007 cover of French Vogue wearing a women’s neoprene trench coat and ankle boots?
* ...that The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (pictured) is actually composed of 110 letters between Gilbert White, and Thomas Pennant or Daines Barrington?
* ...that college football coach Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?
* ...that Out of the Blue, a BBC Television series, is set in Manly, near Sydney, Australia?
* ...that Elm Coulee Oil Field, Montana, is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years?
* ...that the cloven hoof is a characteristic of mountain goats, certain kosher foods and in some traditions, the Devil?
* ...that anarchism once was the strongest current in the Cuban labor movement?
* ...that alkaptonuria, a rare inborn error of metabolism, is over five times more common in Slovakia than in the rest of the world?
* ...that Bronze Age golden hats, including those of Berlin (pictured), Schifferstadt and Ezelsdorf, are tall gold head-dresses from circa 1,000 to 800 BC that also served as calendars?
* ...that actress Evelyn Venable, the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio, was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo?
* ...that Dennis Freeman, as the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana, worked for 16 years to keep the construction of a new bridge over the Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas as a high construction priority?
* ...that The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer, a book that analyzes the The Simpsons using philosophical concepts, is the main textbook in some university philosophy courses?
* ...that Jean Pouliot founded both major private TV networks in Quebec, TQS and TVA?
* ...that Are You There? was widely promoted because of its score by Ruggero Leoncavallo (best known for his opera Pagliacci), but the first-night audience were incensed when it turned out to have very little music?
* ...that according to Greek mythology, Adonis was slain by a boar at the foot of the waterfall in Apheca in modern-day Lebanon?
* ...that indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East traditionally worshiped the Raven deity Kutkh as a key figure in creation, as a fertile ancestor of mankind, as a mighty shaman and as a trickster?
* ...that the Environmental Theory by Florence Nightingale (pictured) emphasized how a patient's environment affects his recovery?
* ...that actor Michael Sellers, son of British actor Peter Sellers, died of the same cause (heart attack) and date, albeit twenty-six years later, as his father?
* ...that the original designation for Route 574 in Erie County, New York and its eastern terminus were removed four years apart?
* ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Quander belonged to one of America's longest and oldest free slave dynasties?
* ...that Medal of Honor recipient Captain Julien Gaujot became so jealous when his brother was given the Medal of Honor that he vowed that he would get one too?
* ...that the history of Nairobi includes the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing that killed 213 and wounded 5,000?
* ...that Graham Perrett, the Australian House of Representatives member for Moreton, was accused of calling his rival, Gary Hardgrave, "racist" during the 2007 election campaign?
* ...that the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?
* ...that the Houston Volunteers signed up to replace those lost aboard USS Houston (pictured) after its sinking in 1942 by the Japanese Navy?
* ...that pit vipers and some boas and pythons have specialized facial pits for sensing infrared radiation?
* ...that William Mainwaring argued that possession of holy scripture by British troops might be included in a list of documents liable to incite disaffection?
* ...that the Mount Sandel Mesolithic site in Coleraine, County Londonderry is the oldest archaeological site in Ireland?
* ...that Australian basketball player Patrick Mills is only the third Indigenous Australian male to ever play for his country's national team?
* ...that the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon was commissioned by Thomas A. Livesley?
* ...that Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg reportedly died of fright instilled by his own mercenaries?
* ...that the BAE Systems HERTI is the first and only fully autonomous UAV to have been certificated by the United Kingdom?
* ...that the free surface of a free liquid in zero-g forms a perfect sphere?
* ...that former Australian cricket captain Bill Brown (pictured) was the first player to be "Mankaded"?
* ...that maidams were burial sites of the Ahom Kingdom's royalty and aristocracy that were similar to the Egyptian pyramids, but much smaller in scale?
* ...that Jonathan Swift called his predecessor "that rascal Dean Jones" because he made such bad property leases whilst Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin?
* ...that during World War II, Marine Fighting Squadron 215 established four new U.S. Marine Corps records in the South Pacific including having the most ace pilots?
* ...that The Simpsons' history began when Matt Groening conceived of the dysfunctional family in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office?
* ...that in the 1896 Yamagata-Lobanov Agreement negotiations, Japanese Prime Minister Yamagata Aritomo proposed dividing Korea at the 38th parallel, should Japanese and Russian troops occupy the peninsula?
* ...that the Saraswati River, a distributary of the Bhagirathi in West Bengal, is now dead but was active till around the 16th century AD?
* ...that Wing Commander Stanley Goble and Flying Officer Ivor McIntyre, piloting a single-engined seaplane (pictured), became the first men to circumnavigate Australia by air in 1924?
* ...that Gerald Ford's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election?
* ...that the 1928 movie Gang War was overshadowed by the short film attached to it, Steamboat Willie, which marked the début of Mickey Mouse?
* ...that the White Mosque is the oldest mosque in Nazareth?
* ...that after losing his European Parliament seat, Roger Barton set up a group offering llama-trekking to young people from Sheffield?
* ...the Battle of Bhangani was the first battle fought by Guru Gobind Singh, the last human Sikh Guru?
* ...that during the 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike, 21 people were killed and the strike ended only after union leaders were accused of taking bribes?
* ...that before David Myatt converted to Islam in 1998 and endorsed Islamic terrorism, he had been active in Nazi satanism in the UK since the late 1960s?
* ...that the U.S. Coast Guard's Owasco class cutters Owasco, Winnebago (pictured) and Sebago were armed for World War II service but did not see combat until the Vietnam War?
* ...that Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for the Rosebud egg, the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna?
* ...that eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination, quarantine, and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease?
* ...that a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach?
* ..that Heroes actor David Anders was recognized with a Back Stage West Garland Award along with the ensemble cast of The Diary of Anne Frank, for their 2001 production?
* ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder, Marie Woolfolk Taylor was one of two African-Americans who assisted the Red Cross during the Great Atlanta Fire?
* ...that the Swedish military unit Kustjägarna has been working in Kosovo and Bosnia under the UN flag?
* ... the Safety Promotion Center, established by Japan Airlines after the worst single aircraft accident in history, has passengers' farewell letters and wreckage on display to educate employees about safety?
* ...that the timely arrival of Prussian troops led by Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq prevented a Russian defeat in the 1807 Battle of Eylau?
* ...that the surface diffusion of atoms on a material's surface (pictured) is governed by Fick’s law?
* ...that George Hoey still holds Michigan Wolverines football career, and single-season records 40 years after his best season?
* ...that Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens (The Raging Flame) was the first plebeian consul of the Roman Republic?
* ...that most Swiss immigrants to Russia, several thousand in all, left after the October Revolution in 1917?
* ...that Pete Muldoon allegedly put an Irish curse on the Chicago Blackhawks that prevented them from finishing first for 43 years?
* ...that DNA testing was used to confirm that the unidentified body known as "Baby Grace" was Riley Ann Sawyers?
* ...that English botanist John Parkinson included a pun on his name in the title of his monumental 1629 work Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris? (It translates as Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise.)
* ...that Shamsunnahar Mahmud and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain were Muslim feminists of the Bengal renaissance?
* ...that bead crochet (pictured) was a popular method of creating women's fashion accessories during the 1920s?
* ...that Golden Liberty, the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to federation and democracy, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding monarchies?
* ...that in 1979 University of Michigan tackle Ed Muransky set the all-time record at the traditional pre-Rose Bowl "Beef Bowl" by eating 16 pounds of prime rib?
* ...that the Wanganui Branch railway folded due to competition from trams in New Zealand?
* ...that Indian schoolteacher D. R. Kaprekar discovered properties in number theory including a number and a constant named after him?
* ...that Mount Harriet, in the Andaman Islands, is named after Robert Christopher Tytler's wife?
* ...that with the Trusty system of prison labor at Mississippi State Penitentiary, the 1,900-inmate prison was staffed and its 16,000 acres of crops farmed with only 150 paid employees?
* ...that Bennie Osler played 17 consecutive rugby union matches for South Africa between 1924 and 1933?
* ...that the German R&B band Soultans signed on with the same record label which wrote some of Elvis Presley's songs?
* ...that Horatia N. Thompson (pictured) was christened with Lord Nelson and Mrs Emma Hamilton as godparents and was later adopted by them as an orphan, even though they were her biological parents?
* ...that U.S. Representative Dale Alford, M.D. awarded one of his nominations for cadet at the United States Military Academy to Wesley Clark, who later became NATO commander?
* ...that the strategic bombing campaign used in the 1990 Operation Instant Thunder served as a model for subsequent American military conflicts?
* ...that an elaborate network of coastal batteries was built by British colonial authorities to protect Hobart Town, but it was never used to defend the Tasmanian port from attacks by enemy warships?
* ...that the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum, which was published at the insistence of the Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?
* ...that Mel Tolkin, lead writer for Your Show of Shows, served in the Canadian Army during World War II where he played the glockenspiel in a military orchestra?
* ...that Christie's purchase of the Haunch of Venison caused "shock and disbelief" in the art world?
* ...that the price of cocoa rose sharply following the June 29, 2007 assassination attempt against Prime Minister Guillaume Soro of Côte d'Ivoire?
* ...that the Galatasaray S.K. has origins from the Ottoman Empire era?
* ...that the Accession Day tilts were jousts held at the court of Queen Elizabeth I in which her courtiers appeared in elaborate allegorical disguises (pictured)?
* ...that Emperor Alexander III of Russia was billed 4,750 rubles for the Renaissance egg, the final Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Maria Feodorovna?
* ...that herpetologist Doris M. Cochran, the Smithsonian Institution's first female curator, died four days after her retirement?
* ...that the book The Psychology of The Simpsons uses the corresponding TV series to analyze topics in psychology including clinical psychology, cognition and Pavlovian conditioning?
* ...that Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
* ...that the spintronic manipulation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond crystals may facilitate the creation and functioning of quantum computers?
* ...that Kazimierz Pużak, once considered for president of Poland, was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State arrested by Soviets and sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen?
* ...that after their names became known, the first group known as the Four Crowned Martyrs was venerated with the second group of the same name?
* ...that the erotic depiction on the Oinochoe (pictured) by the Shuvalov Painter is one of the most frequently illustrated works of Greek vase painting?
* ...that archaeological excavation of Titelberg provides evidence of urbanisation in Celtic Luxembourg long before Roman expansion?
* ...that coconut charcoal is easy to light, burns longer and generates less smoke and ash than typical hardwood charcoal?
* ...that the wine industry in Nebraska remained dormant for decades after the local commercial grape industry was destroyed by the Armistice Day Blizzard in 1940, with no new winery opening till 1994?
* ...that eight small Norwegian municipalities were fooled into investing future income from hydropower plants into complicated financial products - now worthless - from Citigroup, in the so-called Terra Securities scandal?
* ...that although several Michigan Wolverines football wide receivers have eclipsed most of Jack Clancy's team records, they all have needed more games to do so?
* ...that the Rothschild Fabergé egg is the most expensive timepiece, Russian object and Fabergé egg ever sold?
* ...that French-Canadian historian Charles-Honoré Laverdière (pictured) believed that the Jesuits had falsified some of the original works of Samuel de Champlain?
* ...that Diodore of Tarsus mentored both the sainted John Chrysostom and the heretical Theodore of Mopsuestia?
* ...that the Brazillian endemic genus Philcoxia, which may represent another genus of carnivorous plants, was formally described in scientific literature 34 years after the first specimen had been discovered?
* ...that the Platypus Trophy, awarded to the winner of the Civil War college football game between Oregon and Oregon State, was lost for more than 40 years before being found in a closet in 2005?
* ...that Jays Foods changed its name during World War II to avoid being associated with the Japanese?
* ...that the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?
* ...that the Bishopsgate bombing, mounted at a cost of £3,000 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1993, caused over £350M in damages and almost led to the financial collapse of Lloyd's of London?
* ...that both the first black woman in Colorado and the "founding father" of the state's Korean American community are buried in Denver's Riverside Cemetery (chapel pictured)?
* ...that it is unclear whether Gungsrong Gungtsen ever ruled Tibet, although he was the only known son of the first Tibetan emperor, Songtsän Gampo?
* ...that Washington Senators outfielder Elmer Gedeon, who pulled a crew member from a burning wreck, died while piloting a B-26 bomber over France?
* ...that a possible local subsidence forced the Jalangi River, in West Bengal, to flow in a south westerly direction, reverting the earlier trend of rivers in the region flowing in a south easterly direction?
* ...that the 1751 revolt of Pima Indians in the Spanish colonial province of Sonora (in modern-day Arizona) was directly preceded by a revolt of Seri Indians?
* ...that some bacteria and parasitic protozoa escape extreme conditions like desiccation and unavailability of food by forming microbial cysts?
* ...that 12% of the world's gold supply, 78% of the world's platinum, and over 15.8 million carats of diamonds come from Mining in South Africa?
* ...that Knut Arild Hareide became Norwegian Minister of the Environment in 2004 at the age of thirty-one, only to step down from national politics three years later?
* ...that Christ Church in Macclesfield (pictured) was built by Charles Roe for the Rev. David Simpson, because he had been denied a curacy in another church?
* ...that former Michigan Wolverines football player Dan Dworsky designed Crisler Arena, the home of Michigan Wolverines basketball?
* ...that remnants of ancient amphorae indicate wine from Tuscany was exported to southern Italy and France as early as the 7th century BC?
* ...that in the 1806 George Sweeney Trial, the murderer of a founding father of the United States, George Wythe, went free because testimony from black witnesses against a white man was not allowed?
* ...that Chalan Beel, a wetland in Bangladesh, is getting vastly reduced in size with fast silting up caused by the inflow of 47 rivers and waterways?
* ...that Iordan Chimet, who opposed the Communist regime in Romania and authored fairy tales with subversive messages, was also one of the first professional copywriters in his country?
* ...that Wo Hing Society Hall (pictured) is one of two existing Chinese Society Halls left on the island of Maui?
* ...that **** Rifenburg was a Michigan high school state champion in basketball and track & field, but was drafted to play professional American football?
* ...that Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour is a computer-generated film that presents in 3-D a theoretical reconstruction of the ancient Khirbet Qumran site?
* ...that the first Trk receptor, which regulates synaptic strength and plasticity in neurons, was originally identified as part of a fusion gene with the cytoskeletal protein tropomyosin, forming an oncogene in colon and thyroid cancers?
* ...that in the wake of the Yen Bai mutiny of Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army, large numbers of Vietnamese troops who had served in France were sacked because it was felt that overseas travel made them more inclined to rebel?
* ...that the specifications for the U.S. Navy's World War II icebreakers were so imposing that Western Pipe & Steel was the only shipbuilder to bid?
* ...that the clapotis (illustrated) is a standing wave pattern formed at a vertical shoreline?
* ...that Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia?
* ...that a statue originally created in 1815 for The Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Gardens was carved from the bowsprit of the Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno, taken at the Battle of Trafalgar?
* ...that the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway was the first operating interurban railroad in the state of Michigan?
* ...that Julius Franks was the first African-American Michigan Wolverines football player to earn All-American honors?
* ...that seven followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were convicted for being part of a 1985 assassination plot to murder the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon?
* ...that the original plan for John Keane's painting of Mo Mowlam to include Gerry Adams, John Hume and David Trimble (key figures in the Good Friday Agreement), failed after four years of negotiation?
* ...that soldiers of the Red Army Oleksiy Berest, Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria of the 150th Rifle Division raised the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag for the well-known photograph (pictured)?
* ...that the Lincoln Snacks Company, a manufacturer of caramelized popcorn, was founded, in part, by a subsidiary of Sandoz Laboratories, the company that invented LSD?
* ...that the Indian novelist M. K. Indira started writing novels only after the age of forty-five?
* ...that American football guard Dean Dingman was only the third true freshman to start on the Michigan Wolverines football offensive line?
* ...that the Catalan lords Arnau Mir de Tost and his son-in-law Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà shared a scribe, Vidal, who helped introduce the use of written "conventions" for the feudal restructuring of western Catalonia?
* ...that in the 1850s the American architect Gamaliel King and his partner John Kellum erected in New York some of the the first fully cast iron-fronted buildings in the world?
* ...that David Lloyd George, UK Prime Minister during World War I, later said "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan"?
* ...that the first lieutenant Adolf Opálka, together with six fellow combatants, resisted 800 enemy soldiers for more than seven hours in the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodious in Prague on 28 June 1942?
* ...that the new Market Street Bridge (pictured) over the West Branch Susquehanna River between Williamsport and South Williamsport in Pennsylvania is the seventh on that site, and that three of the previous bridges were destroyed by floods?
* ...that Turkish serial killer Özgür Dengiz broke into fits of laughter when discussing his cannibalism?
* ...that Jarrett Irons was the second freshman to lead the Michigan Wolverines football team in tackles?
* ...that football player Eddy de Neve scored all four goals for the Netherlands against Belgium on April 30, 1905, the first match of the Dutch national team ever?
* ...that the Silver Centenary biplane, built in Beverley, Western Australia in 1930, received its airworthiness certificate 77 years after its first flight?
* ...that Genesis's rock epic "Get 'Em Out by Friday" is a criticism of the United Kingdom's council housing system?
* ...that a daughter of Philip Johnston, the first colonel of the New Jersey militia to die in battle during the Revolutionary War married the son of Nathaniel Scudder, the last colonel of the New Jersey militia to so die?
* ...that Irish indie rock band Ham Sandwich were encouraged by U2 frontman Bono to change their name in 2006?
* ...that Euphronios (work pictured), Hermonax and the Providence Painter were Greek vase painters of the early 5th century BC specialised in Red-figure pottery and that the Belly Amphora by the Andokides Painter‎ is one of the earliest works in that style?
* ...that football (soccer) player Law Adam of Grasshopper-Club Zürich played for Switzerland against Austria in 1929, but played for his native Netherlands against Switzerland a year later?
* ...that according to legend, Christian martyr Saint Getulius and his associates were clubbed to death after they had been thrown into flames but emerged unharmed?
* ...that Wayne Townsend cast the tie-breaking vote in 1977 in the Indiana State Senate for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment making Indiana the last state to approve the failed measure?
* ...that George Lilja once played a Michigan Wolverines football game wearing another player's jersey, confusing many of his fans?
* ...that the first sobering-up station in the world was invented by Jaroslav Skála in 1951 in Czechoslovakia?
* ...that the Dugway sheep incident and Operation CHASE increased public sentiment against the United States Army Chemical Corps during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
* ...that Kazakh dissident Rashid Nugmanov's directorial debut, Ilga, was one of the first films to break the taboo against talking about drug addiction in the former Soviet Union and initiated the "Kazakh New Wave" cinema movement?
* ...that the schooners San Antonio (pictured), San Bernard and San Jacinto of the Second Texas Navy were originally built in 1836 as Baltimore Clippers and fitted out for use in the slave trade in Havana?
* ...that when American football center Rod Payne broke his right wrist during a Michigan Wolverines football game, he started snapping the ball with his left hand?

* ...that Ricord's Iguana (Cyclura ricordi) of Hispaniola is the only known species of rock iguana to coexist with another Cyclura species, the Rhinoceros Iguana (Cyclura cornuta)?

* ...that Simonsbath on Exmoor is the largest parish in Somerset covering 56 square miles (145.0 km&#178 square miles but only has 75 houses?

* ...that after the American defeat at the Battle of Canyon Creek the soldiers of Samuel D. Sturgis were forced to slaughter and eat their tired horses?

* ...that Rev. Robert Shields maintained a diary chronicling every five minutes of his life for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, and only slept two hours at a time so he could record his dreams?

* ...that HMS Drake was so ill-prepared for action against John Paul Jones's Ranger that musket balls had to be passed round in a hat during the North Channel naval duel, 24 April 1778?
* ...that the Swedish-American entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad who led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica in 1966, for many years operated his own vessel, the MS Lindblad Explorer (pictured), in the region?
* ...that Republican Jerry Sonnenberg was the only member of the largest class of freshman legislators in the history of the Colorado House of Representatives to be elected to an open seat without opposition?
* ...that Somerset cricket captain Jack Meyer was entrusted with the education of seven Indian boys, six of them princes, and founded the Millfield School to do so?
* ...that the Alicante Bouschet is the only Vitis vinifera wine grape with red juice?
* ...that Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?
* ...that the Hudson River Historic District is, at 35 square miles (89 km&#178, the largest Registered Historic District in the contiguous United States?
* ...that the haor located in north-eastern Bangladesh, is a bowl-shaped depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a sea during a monsoon?
* ...that the United Overseas Bank's 20-story Bangkok headquarters (pictured) is shaped like a robot?
* ...that Eagle River, Wisconsin is known as the "Snowmobile Capital of the World" because it hosts the World Championship Snowmobile Derby?
* ...that Washington Ellsworth Lindsey became the third Governor of New Mexico after his predecessor died while in office?
* ...that a silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
* ...that the new airport being constructed near Islamabad, Pakistan will be named Gandhara International Airport, after the ancient kingdom Gandhara?
* ...that Haiti has the lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere, with only about 12.5% of the population having regular access to electricity?
* ...that Lesbian wines were some of the most highly sought after wines of the Ancient Greeks?
* ...that billionaire Leonore Annenberg (pictured, left), wife of business magnate Walter Annenberg, was the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1981 to 1982 under President Ronald Reagan?
* ...that in 1512, the 2nd Marquess of Dorset unsuccessfully led an English army to France to reconquer Aquitaine, which had been lost during the Hundred Years' War?
* ...that safety Don Dufek was cut from the Seattle Seahawks four times?
* ...that Alexandre Bontemps, senior head valet to Louis XIV of France, was a rich and powerful figure, feared by courtiers, whose behaviour was reported to him by the Swiss Guard?
* ...that no viable solution has yet been found to counteract radiation from space, which is a serious threat to astronauts on any future mission to Mars?
* ...that Norma Elizabeth Boyd, founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a United Nations observer in 1949 and supported the Principle 10 of the Declaration of Human Rights?
* ...that John Straffen, a triple child-killer who escaped from Broadmoor, served 55 years in prison becoming the longest-serving prisoner in British history?
* ...that the tallest building in Jersey City, New Jersey is the 781-foot (238 m) 30 Hudson Street (pictured)?
* ...that Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus?
* ...that although Ohio State Buckeye Archie Griffin defended the Heisman Trophy in 1975, Michigan Wolverines football player Gordon Bell won the 1975 Big Ten rushing championship?
* ...that certain biological neuron models are a spherical cow, in that the cell is approximated to be a sphere?
* ...that William Scrots, King's Painter to Henry VIII and his son Edward VI, was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor, Hans Holbein?
* ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder, Margaret Flagg Holmes and her husband were received by Pope Pius XI in 1931?
* ...that KGB head Ivan Serov did not go on tour in Britain as planned because the British press labelled him "Ivan the Terrible"?
* ...that Irena Iłłakowicz, a secret agent of the Polish resistance during WWII, was formerly married to a Persian prince?
* ...that Gazell Macy DuBois designed the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67 (pictured) which looked like "a mess of paper triangles or mentally disarranged envelopes"?
* ...that Michigan Wolverines football player Jim Pace not only won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten Conference, but also won the Big Ten 60-yard indoor dash title?
* ...that in 1866 Polish exilees to Siberia staged an uprising trying to escape to China?
* ...that Sam Little, a retired farmer from Bastrop, Louisiana, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives by a margin of only 9 votes out of 7,863 cast in a low-turnout contest?
* ...that as cricket in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis, a team representing Northern Ireland has appeared just once, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket tournament?
* ...that Queensland MP Peter Wellington held the balance of power for four months, until a by-election allowed the Australian Labor Party to form a majority government?
* ...that, after hitting another driver from behind in heavy traffic, screenwriter Jennifer Philbin and her husband Michael Schur raised $26,000 for charity in a retaliation campaign instead of paying $840 to fix the driver's broken bumper?
* ...that the 1300 identified Mesoamerican ballcourts used for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame (see drawing) were all built in the same basic shape despite a span of 2700 years?
* ...that in 1902, 23 years old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus?
* ...that Pundravardhana was a territory, mostly in present-day Bangladesh, of the Pundras, a group of non-Aryan people, dating back to 8th-7th centuries BC?
* ...that Neil Riser, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana, began working at the age of fourteen as a logger?
* ...that the urn atop Charles Bulfinch's grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, USA once stood at the center of Franklin Place, Boston?
* ...that the mythical Connla's Well, home to the Salmon of Wisdom, is the legendary source of the Shannon and Boyne Rivers as well as Irish poetic inspiration?
* ...that Etaples Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France, with over 11,500 burials?
* ...that on the banks of Shitalakshya River, in Bangladesh, there are artistic weaving (pictured) centres, where once the muslin industry flourished?
* ...that Fred Ryan was instrumental in the development of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library?
* ...that the Kiva Koffeehouse in the Canyons of the Escalante was designed by Bradshaw Bowman, the inventor of Bomanite, on property his family has owned since homesteading it in the 1860s?
* ...that James Wayne "Jim" Tucker of suburban New Orleans will in 2008 become the first Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction?
* ...that Betzy Kjelsberg, a Norwegian member of the international feminist movement, founded or co-founded six women's rights associations and organizations?
* ...that Jim Hermiston, a member of the Aberdeen FC "Hall of Fame", was cited for bravery after intervening in a bank robbery in Brisbane in 1999?
* ...that the surrender of Japanese troops in China was first announced in a Chinese language by Dr. Ernest B. Price (pictured) in October 1945?
* ...that the Bristol Packers American football team won every game in its debut season, but failed to win any in its final year?
* ...that Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos—Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968?
* ...that the Lachine massacre, in which Iroquois warriors destroyed a New France settlement on Montreal Island, was instigated by English forces in New York following the declaration of King William's War?
* ...that the field of DNA nanotechnology has used the unique molecular recognition properties of DNA to construct two-dimensional lattices, nanomechanical devices, computers, polyhedra, and even a smiley face out of DNA?
* ...that Henry Lomb became a co-founder of the Bausch & Lomb Company when he loaned $60 to his friend John Jacob Bausch?
* ...that Asit Kumar Haldar was the first Indian fellow at the Royal Society of Arts?
* ...that the allegorical Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (pictured) commemorates England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588?
* ...that in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States?
* ...that Frank Rennie joined the New Zealand Army at age 16, to prove to himself 20 months in hospital hadn't crippled him, and went on to become Colonel?
* ...that American federal judge James Alger Fee ruled in 1942 that Minoru Yasui lost his U.S. citizenship after Yasui had worked for the Japanese consulate until the attack on Pearl Harbor?
* ...that the 6th Canadian Infantry Division was raised in 1942 and disbanded in 1945 without having taken part in any World War II fighting?
* ...that Dennis Franklin was the first African American quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines football team?
* ...that the Lombardy wine region of Franciacorta produces a style of sparkling wine that is more bubbly than frizzante but has less carbon dioxide than most sparkling wines?
* ...that scientists have used microbaroms for inverse remote sensing of the upper atmosphere?
* ...that the first Earl of Wiltshire was a Breton viscount, Harvey of Léon, who served Stephen of England in the first phase of the civil war called the Anarchy?
* ...that Mahasthangarh (ramparts pictured) is the earliest urban archaeological site so far discovered in Bangladesh, dating back to at least the 3rd century B.C.?
* ...that royal favourites were often compared to mushrooms, as they sprang up overnight, and grew in excrement?
* ...that "Here I Am", the song chosen for the winner of Australian Idol 2007 to release as a single, has been heavily criticised by both finalists?
* ...that William Hopper became the founder Chairman of the Institute for Fiscal Studies with hopes that it would lead to a more rational system of taxation in the United Kingdom?
* ...that Bob Timberlake, an unsuccessful placekicker for the New York Giants who made only 1 of 15 field goal attempts in his NFL career, was an award-winning quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines before he was drafted in 1965?
* ...that the Mosque of the Rose in Istanbul is so named because on the day of the Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of roses?
* ...that the title of Dan Castellaneta's album of comedy sketches I Am Not Homer is a parody of Leonard Nimoy's first autobiography I Am Not Spock?
* ...that Dutch artist Folke Heybroek's works include stained glass windows (pictured), iron and concrete sculptures, paintings, and textile designs, decorating about 70 public spaces in Sweden?
* ...that in the 1659 English play The English Moor, noted for its use of blackface make-up, one main character implies that Blacks and Whites are created equal by God?
* ...that Project Lauren is the codename for an unannounced British airline that will provide service between the U.S. and continental Europe, bypassing the U.K. and that aircraft have already been acquired?
* ...that June Bride, filmed with two versions of a dialog naming the candidates to the 1948 U.S presidency, opened in theaters with the wrong future president named? Dewey seemed a sure win, so the Dewey line was retained in the original release. When Truman unexpectedly won the election, a revised reel was sent to theaters.
* ...that John Mawe, who studied the mineralogy of Derbyshire, was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil?
* ...that Richard Whitaker's research into the correlation between surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean and rainfall in Australia contributed to the discovery of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation?
* ...that there are more than 40 Community Rail Partnerships supporting local rail lines in the United Kingdom?
* ...that a summit, a spur, a wooden building and an avenue are named after Michel Croz, a mountain guide who died on the first ascent of the Matterhorn (pictured)?
* ...that double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from gastroenteritis in young children to bluetongue disease in livestock?
* ...that in Amgen v Hoechst, the House of Lords affirmed that an incredible similarity between two patents does not constitute patent infringement in the UK?
* ...that as Navy production chief during World War II, electric drive pioneer Samuel Murray Robinson became the first staff officer to attain the rank of four-star admiral in the history of the United States Navy?
* ...that Chris Dodd's 2008 presidential campaign has been endorsed by three members of the famed Kennedy family, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI), Edward Kennedy, Jr., and Eunice Kennedy Shriver?
* ...that the English engraver John Boydell (pictured) founded the fashionable Shakespeare Gallery in London in 1786, but had to sell it in a lottery in 1804 after he was bankrupted by the Napoleonic Wars?
* ...that some types of human learning can be described mathematically by Oja's rule, which is commonly used in image processing software?
* ...that Filipino film producer Narcisa de Leon did not start her career in the film industry till she was 61 years old?
* ...that the Pompallier Mission is New Zealand's oldest industrial building and printed some of the earliest texts in Māori?
* ...that xenobiotic metabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that detoxify xenobiotics, such as drugs and poisons?
* ...that Emma Cunningham was acquitted of the 1857 murder of her landlord because she falsely claimed to be pregnant by him, and Victorian morality prevented doctors from physically examining her?
* ...that the White House Entrance Hall (pictured) had the President's seal removed from its floor in the early 1950s because President Truman thought it inappropriate to walk across it?
* ...that a prokaryotic cytoskeleton has been found in prokaryote organisms by recent advances in visualization technology?
* ...that Roger Wilmut went on from typing out the episode list of a BBC comedy show to become a Guardian Top 10 author of books about British comedy?
* ...that Chambercombe Manor is said to be one of most haunted buildings in the United Kingdom?
* ...that the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company produced 90 navy tanker ships in two years, from 1943-1945 and employed over 18,000 people while doing so?
* ...that noitulovE, a cinema and television advertising campaign for Guinness draught stout, won more awards than any other commercial worldwide in 2006?
* ...that James Tennant took over from Sarah Mawe as "Mineralogist to Her Majesty" and he supervised the recutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond?
* ...that the hazardous Welland Canal Bridge 15 featured a bell ringing whenever a ship made contact, warning the crew to check for damage?

The Gus J. Solomon United States Courthouse in Portland, Oregon.

* ...that the Solomon Courthouse (pictured) has twice served as a post office, and was the setting for a courtroom scene in The Hunted?
* ...that Rob Carpenter retired from the National Football League after catching his second touchdown in the 1995 NFL playoffs?
* ...that Mel Rose, the runner-up on the seventh cycle of America's Next Top Model, dropped the "-issa" from her first name because she "didn't need it"?
* ...that the subject of sex was central to The Antipodes, an English Renaissance play by Richard Brome, first performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre in 1637?
* ...that Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade?
* ...that Bertram Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born chemist who founded a non-profit organization to find cures for tropical parasitic diseases like malaria?
* ...that the Champawat tigress and the Tsavo lions had suffered injuries that disabled them from pursuing their natural prey, leading them to become man-eaters?
* ...that the Barack Obama Muslim rumor has been circulating on the Internet since 2004?
* ...that a stone run (pictured) is a stable and conspicuous rock landform caused by a myriad of freezing-thawing cycles and also called a stone river, stone stream, or stone sea?
* ...that the Théâtrophone service (1890-1932) allowed the subscribers to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines?
* ...that the T.G. Richards and Company Store is the oldest brick building in Washington?
* ...that during the negotiations in Ostrów in 1392, the principal Polish negotiator, Henry of Masovia, bishop of Płock, fell in love with the sister of his opponent, Vytautas the Great?
* ...that a series of storms in south-east Queensland spawned two of the most powerful tornadoes in recorded Australian history?
* ...that Arthur Segal was prevented from exhibiting his art in Germany because of his Jewish background?
* ...that the massacre in Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD in the purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the German invasion of Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
* ...that U.S. activist Kit Bakke went on from being considered a terrorist with a 400-page FBI file to become a nurse for children with cancer?
* ...that Italian painter Parmigianino distorted nature for his own artistic purposes in the unfinished Renaissance oil painting Madonna with the Long Neck (pictured)?
* ...that forest brother Alfred Käärmann hid for 7 years from Soviet officials, spent 15 years in Siberian prison camps, had his passport stamped "annulled" and was banished from Estonia until 1981?
* ...that flutist Masakazu Yoshizawa was hired by John Williams to play the shakuhachi for the Jurassic Park soundtrack because the instrument sounded "like a dinosaur's cry"?
* ...that the Allegheny Arsenal explosion on September 17, 1862 was the single largest civilian disaster during the American Civil War?
* ...that Robert G. Pugh and his son, Robert, Jr., were the first father-son team to present oral arguments together before the United States Supreme Court?
* ...that the French chemist Louis Pasteur owned a vineyard in the Jura wine region that is still producing wine today?
* ...that Yegor Ligachev is renowned for being Gorbachev's main critic, even though he has repudiated that in many speeches and his memoirs?
* ...that the city of Union Valley, Texas, population 226, incorporated in 2007 out of fear of annexation by neighboring cities?
* ...that the Hyde Park Railroad Station (pictured) in Hyde Park, New York was a day away from demolition when it was leased to a local rail historical society?
* ...that football referees in England officiate at eleven different levels according to ability, activity and age?
* ...that Georgia Tech professor Mark Guzdial was the inventor of Swiki, one of the earliest wiki engines?
* ...that the state symbols of Indiana include water as the official beverage, Salem limestone as the official stone, and the Peony as the official flower?
* ...that Gordon K. Douglass qualified for the Canadian national canoe paddling team, but was not allowed to go to the 1936 Olympics because he was American?
* ...that the Telefon Hírmondó was the longest-running telephone newspaper?
* ...that the aphid Brevicoryne brassicae has been called a "walking mustard oil bomb" due to its use of glucosinolates as a chemical defense mechanism against predators?
* ...that the ill-fated Yen Bai mutiny proceeded because a messenger sent to delay the mutiny was intercepted?
* ...that 16th-century English diplomat Francis Bryan disgraced himself by throwing eggs and stones at the common people during a mission to Paris?
* ...that HMS Amphion (pictured) was sunk in the opening 36 hours of the First World War?
* ...that the River Bourne in Kent used to power a dozen mills in its 10 mile length?
* ...that stock investor Ronald S. Baron has nonetheless been nicknamed "the Count" since his student days?
* ...that the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was the first bioterrorism attack in the United States, and one of only two confirmed terrorist uses of biological weapons to harm humans?
* ...that Rapides-des-Joachims, Quebec has no paved road connection with the rest of Quebec?
* ...that the first McDonald's restaurant in Eastern Europe was opened March 24, 1988 in a former family house in Belgrade, constructed by Serbian architect Dimitrije T. Leko in 1893?
* ...that the Mongolian Stock Exchange in Ulaanbaatar, the world's smallest by market capitalisation, is housed in a refurbished children's cinema?
* ...that a Cambridge University society has launched high altitude balloons that have taken a picture of the earth's curvature from a height of 32 km?
* ...that, while a legislator in Colorado, Dan Gibbs trained as a volunteer firefighter and was deployed to fight the Santiago Fire during the October 2007 California wildfire epidemic?
* ...that Berlinka (pictured) was a partially constructed highway built by Nazi Germany that was intended to span the Polish Corridor from Berlin to Königsberg, Prussia?
* ...that the wallet of Scottish curate Arnold Spencer-Smith was found in Captain Scott's Antarctic hut in 1999, about 83 years after Spencer-Smith died in 1916?
* ...that the Battle of the Espero Convoy during the Mediterranean Campaign in World War II resulted in such a shortage of ammunition that planned Allied convoys to Malta had to be postponed for two weeks?
* ...that Florida has over 20 official state symbols, including a state soil and a state wildflower?
* ...that SantralIstanbul, a modern art museum in Istanbul, Turkey, is located in what was the first power station of the Ottoman Empire?
* ...that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Yasui v. United States and its companion case Hirabayashi v. United States that curfews for a minority group were constitutional during war time?
* ...that Rear-Admiral Horace Hood was posthumously knighted following his death in the destruction of HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland in 1916?
* ...that when Hugh Randall Syme won the George Cross in 1943 for bomb disposal work, he became the most decorated member of the Royal Australian Navy at that time, having already been awarded two George Medals?
* ...that, during World War II, an anti-submarine boom net (pictured) to defend against torpedoes and submarines spanned the entire length of Sydney Harbour, Australia?
* ...that U.S. General Omar Bundy, who was awarded the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre for his service in World War I, was a veteran of the Indian War campaigns against Crow and Sioux Indians?
* ...that Austrian film company Wien-Film was given its official mission statement in 1938 by Joseph Goebbels?
* ...that activist Terry Robbins inspired the name of the terrorist organization Weathermen with a Bob Dylan quote?
* ...that a Ghostbusters video game is scheduled for late 2008, quarter of a century after the original film?
* ...that painter and stage designer George Sheringham was one of the first recipients of the Royal Designers for Industry distinction?
* ...that the earliest Portuguese description of Malaysia, Tomé Pires's Suma Oriental (completed in 1515), lay unpublished and presumed lost in an archive until 1944?

* ...that tourism in Zimbabwe fell by seventy-five percent in 2000?

* ...that, among the medieval cathedrals of England, Winchester Cathedral (pictured) is the longest medieval church in the world?

* ...that Indologist Burton Stein was known for questioning the existence of the Chola Dynasty as an empire, referring to it as a "segmentary state"?
* ...that the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements had a combined cricket team from 1906 to 1961?
* ...that Pancha Carrasco became Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas rifle in hand and apron full of bullets?

* ...that after World War II, the Soviets took nearly 100 tons of uranium oxide as reparations from a facility of the company Auergesellschaft, accelerating their development of the atomic bomb by a year?

* ...that professor George E. Kimball gave a zero in physical chemistry to Isaac Asimov?
* ...that Virgil Walter Ross animated Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for decades under Tex Avery and Fritz Freleng and received the highest awards in his profession?
* ...that flamingos and other birds display homosexual behavior sometimes forming committed same-sex relationships that can involve sex, traveling, living together and raising young together?
* ...that the mythological sea creature Aspidochelone is so massive that it is said to have been mistaken for an island?
* ...that more than 200 species of mammals (male kob pictured) display homosexual behavior including oral sex and genital stimulation?
* ...that Angus Purden, regular presenter of the BBC's Cash in the Attic, was crowned Mr. Scotland as a teenager, and modelled for Giorgio Armani for three years in Milan?
* ...that under the leadership of its Ministry of Defense, Ukraine became the first country in history to voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons?
* ...that as his last words before succumbing to wounds caused by an assassination by political rivals, Arpiar Arpiarian, who is considered the founder of realism in modern Armenian literature, uttered the words "I am Armenian"?
* ...that John Gouriet organised the "Operation Pony Express" in 1977, where 100,000 films from the strikebound Grunwick laboratory were posted across the United Kingdom, getting around the refusal of the local postal workers to handle them?
* ...that after HMNZS Canterbury was decommissioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy, the frigate was sold to a trust for a symbolic NZ$1 and then scuttled in the Bay of Islands by a former crewmember?
* ...that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder Harriet Josephine Terry wrote the sorority's hymn, "Hail Alpha Kappa Alpha Dear"?

[keoz]

hey, u sure know lots of things...

hmm..let's see...

*) the first harddrive was only 4mb and sold $ 75000
*) the first name of pac-man is Puc-man

[MimiHitam]

# ...that the rehabilitation of the Union Trust Building (pictured) by architect Ralph Anderson set the pattern for reviving Seattle's rundown "Skid Road" neighborhood, Pioneer Square?
# ...that 1933 Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Ted Petoskey and Whitey Wistert debuted for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds two days apart in September 1934?
# ...that Anthony Browne was the first British illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award?
# ...that the Sussex Railroad was the last independently operated New Jersey railroad to be incorporated into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad system?
# ...that the nursing pin had its original design patterned after the Maltese cross of the Knights Hospitaller and the Order of Saint Lazarus?
# ...that ridges and escarpments in the Victoria quadrangle of the planet Mercury have been associated with the stresses caused by the sun slowing Mercury's rotation through tidal forces?
# ...that Tetsuya Ota won a lawsuit against race organizers of the now infamous 1998 JGTC race at Fuji Speedway, despite signing a pledge not to seek compensation?
# ...that Dominic de la Calzada is the patron saint of civil engineers because he built a causeway to aid pilgrims on the Way of St. James?

[golden-boy]

Oh my Ghostttt........how many hours do i need to finish it?
but it is a good thread, improve reading skill ,vocab and knowlegde.

[Kodomo]

oh s**t. give about some days to finish read that article.

[MimiHitam]

# ...that military engineer Thomas Phillips (pictured), is depicted in a 17th-century painting with Brave Benbow, but an almost identical painting has him replaced by the Earl of Orford?
# ...that the Emberá in Panama use the hard, durable trunks of Dictyocaryum palms to construct coffins?
# ...that Finnish film director Valentin Vaala was reportedly so disappointed with his first film that he dumped the original camera negatives into the sea?
# ...that over 90% of Lithuanian Jews perished in the first few months of Operation Barbarossa in the Holocaust in Lithuania?
# ...that Max Noether, called "one of the greatest mathematicians of the nineteenth century", learned advanced mathematics mostly through self-study?
# ...that rock edicts of Emperor Ashoka, found at Brahmagiri in the present-day Karnataka state of India, indicated the southernmost extent of the Mauryan Empire?
# ...that Mike Menosky, a probation officer who was a former baseball player, helped to dismiss a court case by proving the defendant could not have thrown a rock 250 feet (76 m)?
# ...that Kenneth Woollcombe, a former Bishop of Oxford, was a member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved when it granted a faculty for the controversial altar by Henry Moore?

[trogdor]

MimiHitam, one question.

Have you actually read all of them yourself or did you simply voodoo copy-paste them from hell knows where? =)

Because... although some of them are worth reading, I doubt anyone here would want to know that tourism in Zimbabwe fell by seventy-five percent in 2000. >.>