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...that Joachim Piccolomini (pictured) was repeatedly urged by his fellow Servites to become a priest, but felt unworthy to be anything more than an altar server?
...that Neville Duke was the top Allied fighter ace in the Mediterranean theatre in World War II, having shot down at least 27 aircraft?
...that the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball program is the only college women's team to appear in every NCAA Tournament and every Sweet 16?
...that in the book Beyond Capricorn Peter Trickett claims that the Portuguese were the first to discover Australia, between 1519-24?
...that Sir Charles MacCarthy, the British colonial governor of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, was killed by the Ashanti and his head kept as a trophy?
...that Uruguayan footballer Víctor Rodríguez Andrade helped found Uruguayan Basketball Federation team 25 de Agosto?
...that Zhang Chengzhi, who formed China's first group of Red Guards while a student at Tsinghua University Middle School, converted to Islam?
...that bats comprise about 20% of all mammal species found in the Central Oregon Coast Range (pictured)?
...that the traditional Bengali panjika, the Hindu astrological almanac, has come out with an interactive CD version?
...that none of the storms of the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season in the Arabian Sea made landfall?
...that as Charles I of Austria attempted to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921, Czechoslovakia nearly entered Budapest in order to prevent a Habsburg restoration?
...that the study reported in Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training concluded that attending an LGAT seminar had minimal lasting effects, positive or negative, on participants' self-perception?
...that Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans-Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges?
...that only three works of Egardus, a fourteenth century composer whose music was known in Flanders, Italy, and Poland, are known to have survived?
...that the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs (teams pictured) had an intense rivalry, during which the teams combined for six NBA championships in seven seasons?
...that Gottlieb Ott changed Berne's cityscape both by constructing new buildings and removing a medieval tower?
...that the All India Sikh Students Federation was a major part of the movement for a Sikh-majority state of Punjab in India?
...that species of Prosaurolophus, a duckbilled dinosaur, have been described by Barnum Brown and Jack Horner, two of the most prominent paleontologists of the 20th century?
...that Thrud the Barbarian, a comic character parodying Arnold Schwarzenegger's depiction of Conan the Barbarian, has the intelligence of a garden snail?
...that the Free Belgian Forces fought in several theaters during World War II, including Great Britain, East Africa, the Mediterranean, and northwestern Europe?
...that The Mather School (pictured) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, is the oldest free public elementary school in North America?
...that Jerry Zimmerman was the last active Major League Baseball coach to umpire a major league game?
...that the first recorded use of "mad as a March hare", which refers to the antics of hares during their breeding season, was written by Sir Thomas More in 1529?
...that the defection of Polish secret police agent Józef Światło in 1953, shook the Polish United Workers' Party and led to the liberalization of Polish October?
...that Mother Theresa University, in Vilpatti Panchayat, South India, is the nation's only university exclusively devoted to women's issues?
...that the history of invasive and interventional cardiology began with catheters being placed into the right and left ventricles of a living horse in 1711?
...that the Korean dialect spoken by ethnic Koreans in Japan has changed so much that some of its speakers don't think it can be properly referred to as "Korean" anymore?
...that the lockstep walking (pictured) was a trademark of the American prison system of the 19th century and sometimes replaced the military step of inmates as a form of punishment?
...that Berne's Christoffelturm, when it was over 500 years old, was pulled down in a political move that had 415 supporters and 412 opposers?
...that in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., the United States Supreme Court declared that "nudity itself is not inherently expressive conduct"?
...that Ninasam, a cultural organization in Karnataka, India, had a project sponsored by the Ford Foundation of the United States?
...that the Cadillac Northstar LMP Le Mans prototype did not actually use an engine from a Cadillac, but instead an Oldsmobile?
...that Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates, but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis?
...that during the Battle of Dalmatia, Croatian forces were so ill-equipped that they stuffed with explosives into Coca-Cola cans to create hand grenades?
...that French artillery officers were the most efficient at cannon operation (pictured) during the 18th century, firing 150 shots per cannon daily during siege, instead of the usual 100?
...that the 1932 comedy Pojkarna på Storholmen, starring Fridolf Rhudin, is one of the most successful Swedish films in history?
...that the White-eyed Gull, a rare gull endemic to the Red Sea, does not have white eyes?
...that self-made American millionaire James Jesse Lynn became Rajarsi Janakananda, the leading disciple of the Hindu Guru Paramahansa Yogananda?
...that the polymathic Thomas Shaw Brandreth invented the Cycloped, a horse-powered locomotive, and published a blank verse translation of the Iliad into English?
...that chemist Hugo Stoltzenberg developed the poison gas used by Germany at the 1915 Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium, the first time it was used on the Western Front?
...that former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?
...that the Aichi D1A (pictured) was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
...that a nonconvex polygon with three convex vertices is called a pseudotriangle?
...that online data broker Intelius owns more than half of the people search market?
...that Dorus Rijkers was a Dutch lifeboat-captain who saved of over 500 men, woman and children from drowning at sea?
...that Kampong Sungai Teraban in Brunei was settled by a group of Malay fishermen who moved across the Belait River after a falling out with the inhabitants of Kuala Belait?
...that Sue (pictured) is the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found?
...that the Court of Civil Jurisdiction was the first civil court established in New South Wales, Australia?
...that in 2005, the newly-upgraded RORO ferry Queen of Oak Bay lost power and crashed into a marina, damaging or destroying 22 other vessels?
...that the history of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore dates back to the arrival of Lutheran Hakka refugees following the Taiping Rebellion in China?
...that Operation Independence, which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP, was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War?
...that the life of Han Dynasty poet and composer Cai Wenji (pictured) is depicted in Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute?
...that the pyramid scheme Holiday Magic was investigated by the State of California, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission, and was later shut down for fraud?
...that footballer Francis Lee earned his nickname Lee One Pen by setting an English record for the most penalties scored in a single season?
...that Polish-Jewish and American historian Adam Ulam escaped The Holocaust by leaving to study in the U.S. only days before the Germans invaded Poland?
...that the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside?
...that the poem Fei hua qing han, attributed to 8th century poet Li Bai, was really a hoax that contains the hidden message, "Go to hell Japan, Junichiro will die"?
...that the San Francisco Armory (pictured), a National Guard stronghold during the "Bloody Thursday" events of 1934, is now used as a BDSM porn studio?
...that exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?
...that John Downer, Premier of South Australia from 1885 to 1887, is the grandfather of Alexander Downer, the current Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs?
...that Beighton Cup is the oldest field hockey tournament in the world?
...that until 1861 Newton Abbot railway station had three separate train sheds for trains running on lines to and from Exeter, Plymouth, and Torquay?
...that Canford Cliffs, an affluent suburb of Poole, Dorset, includes an exclusive branch of HSBC bank which requires that customers without large accounts or mortgages pay to enter?
...that Reginald H. Thomson, the civil engineer responsible for "virtually all of Seattle's infrastructure", had a Ph.D. in philosophy?
...that the enigmatic Ediacaran biota (fossil pictured) have been classified into every major group of lifeforms, including their own kingdom?
...that like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal, David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?