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...that the Bordeaux winery Château Quinault was planned for destruction to build a new housing development?
...that soon after John Gabriel Jones helped convince the Virginia General Assembly to create Kentucky County, he was killed in an ambush led by Mingo chieftain Pluggy?
...that Robert Kennedy stayed at the Sportsmen's Lodge (sign pictured) (formerly the "Hollywood Trout Farms") in Studio City, California the night before his assassination?
...that Lee Bible had no experience in driving at land speed record speed when he was hired to drive the White Triplex in an attempt to take the record back from Henry Segrave?
...that Don Starkell and his son Dana paddled from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Belem, Brazil by canoe, a trip covering more than 12,000 miles (19,308 km)?
...that in 1877 the 4,000-seat Queen's Theatre staged a spectacular and expensive production of The Last Days of Pompeii that flopped: the earth did not quake, the volcano did not erupt, and acrobats fell onto the cast?
...that the Islamic Emirate of Bari in Southern Italy was conquered in 871 by Frankish and Lombard ground forces under Louis II of Italy, together with a Croatian fleet?
...that Kot Filemon is the hero of a Polish animated TV series by Academy Award-winning studio Se-ma-for?
...that leaders in Oswego, Oregon petitioned the United States Board on Geographic Names to change the name of the town's Sucker Lake to Oswego Lake (pictured)?
...that antiquarian Antonio Francesco Gori is alleged to have stolen Galileo's finger when the scientist's remains were transferred in 1737 to Santa Croce, Florence?
...that Gibraltar passports are full British passports which are particularly issued to Gibraltarians and only differ in some wording?
...that the 1901 Royal Norwegian Navy torpedo boat HNoMS Sæl was sunk by three German Schnellboots in 1940?
...that of Andrea Palladio's grand design for Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello, Vicenza, ca 1571, only two bays were ever completed?
...that Major General Douglas Alexander Graham was once rescued by Victoria Cross recipient Henry May?
...that sunflowers have been used in rhizofiltration to remove radionuclides from contaminated water?
...that 'Opaeka'a Falls (pictured) on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is named after the native freshwater shrimp ("rolling shrimp" in Hawaiian) that "roll" down the falls?
...that Vice-Admiral Samuel Story was forced to surrender his Batavian fleet to the British navy without a fight in August 1799 because his officers started a mutiny?
...that KILI-FM started broadcasting in 1983 as the first Native American-owned radio station in the United States?
...that the United Kingdom House of Commons serves an English white wine called Fumé, produced by Wickham Vineyards?
...that Mavia was an Arab queen who in 378 AD personally led her troops out of southern Syria in revolt against Roman rule?
...that the 1979 Dechmont Woods Encounter in West Lothian, Scotland, is the only UFO sighting in the United Kingdom to have become the subject of a criminal investigation?
...that according to his hagiography, Saint Severus of Naples temporarily brought a man back from death in order to testify on the size of his debt and save his widow from slavery?
...that, instead of being displayed at the British Museum, the Warwick Vase (replica pictured), a Roman vase discovered at Hadrian's Villa in about 1771, was restored and preserved in a greenhouse at Warwick Castle?
...that despite inundating Omaha, Nebraska for more than 26 days the Great Flood of 1881 killed only two people there?
...that Moses, the first Arab Orthodox bishop, administered his duties while journeying with a nomadic confederation of Arabs in the fourth century?
...that Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida?
...that during the English Civil War, the Crown Inn in Nantwich, Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison?
...that Alene B. Duerk, head of the Navy Nurse Corps, was the first woman in the U.S. Navy to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral?
...that some legislatures resort to literally stopping the clock in order to meet constitutional or statutory deadlines?
...that according to Muisca mythology, Bochica (statue pictured) saved his people from a flood by creating the Tequendama Falls with a strike from his staff?
...that the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Alabama included $127 million dollars (2005 USD) in damage and three injuries?
...that despite dramatically improving the quality of education at Transylvania University, Horace Holley was forced to resign as the university's president over doctrinal differences with the Presbyterian Church?
...that the history of winemaking in Luxembourg, primarily in vineyards overlooking the Moselle River, goes back to Ancient Roman times?
...that Edward Cocker's Arithmetick was such a popular textbook of mathematics that over 100 editions were published over a period of more than a century?
...that, when the Comintern appointed him general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, Alexander Danieliuk-Stefanski was still a member of the Communist Party of Poland and could not speak Romanian?
...that television critics have speculated as to how the 30 Rock episode "MILF Island" will avoid explaining the meaning of "MILF" since the last letter stands for an obscene word?
...that the Church of St Mary on the Rock, originally a house for the Céli Dé of St Andrews, was the first collegiate church in Scotland?
...that the Azov Cossack Host was the only Cossack Unit in the Russian Empire that had a naval role?
...that legendary Polish boxing champion Antoni Czortek fought for his life in boxing matches while at Auschwitz?
...that Puslinch Lake is the largest kettle lake in North America?
...that the authorship of the Declaration of Arbroath has been attributed by some to Bernard the Abbot of Arbroath?
...that the postmodernist Romanian writer Ruxandra Cesereanu retold Arthurian legends and co-authored poems through e-mail with the American Andrei Codrescu?
...that the cabinet of former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland resigned following a 1.9% drop in the popular vote?
...that Stalag fiction was a genre of Israeli pornography about concentration camp imprisonment, brutalization by female SS guards, and the prisoners' revenge?
...that Chorley Old Hall, the oldest inhabited country house in Cheshire, consists of two ranges, one medieval (c.1300) (pictured), the other Elizabethan (mid-16th century)?
...that the traditional Scottish folk song Ye Jacobites by Name was re-written by Robert Burns around 1791?
...that Amaranthus brownii, an endangered species of pigweed endemic to the Northwestern Hawaiian Island of Nihoa, was discovered in 1923, but has not been seen in the wild for twenty-five years?
...that although Desmond Lardner-Burke, Minister of Justice in Rhodesia, died in the 1980s, his name appeared on the electoral roll for the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008?
...that mutations of the ATN1 gene result in dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, a neurological disorder with diverse problems as dementia, ataxia, seizures and obstructive sleep apnea?
...that, by the time the Florida Supreme Court finally ruled that William D. Bloxham had won the 1870 Lieutenant Governor election, it was 1872 and the term was effectively over?
...that after being captured by the rebel ruler An Lushan, the Tang Dynasty general Geshu Han offered to write letters to persuade other Tang generals to surrender to An?
...that the Roanoke Building sits on the site of a former building by the same name that was once an official climate site for the National Weather Service?
...that Karl Schnibbe was one of a group of three Hamburg teenagers arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany during World War II for distributing anti-Hitler pamphlets?
...that Cuban Colonel Ramón Barquín, who unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in 1956, later founded Atlantic College and several other educational institutions while in exile in Puerto Rico?
...that after making the first ascent of the remote Mount Lucania, Robert Bates was forced to survive on squirrels and mushrooms during his 156-mile (251 km) trek out of the wilderness?
...that Hulme Arch Bridge in Manchester follows the design of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and rejoins two halves of a road that was sundered in 1969?
...that slate and stylus were invented by Louis Braille and Charles Barbier for blind people to write braille?
...that dairyman Henry W. Jeffers, a founder of Plainsboro Township, New Jersey, invented a bacteriology counter, a feed calculator, and an automated cow milking system?
...that Manitoba Provincial Road 373 became famous after a band from Norway House won an award for an album named after the highway?
...that Scottish footballer John Cushley was a modern languages graduate who acted as translator when Celtic F.C. attempted to sign Real Madrid striker Alfredo Di Stéfano in 1964?
...that the 1944 Appalachians tornado outbreak was the worst tornado outbreak in West Virginia history?
...that the edible mushroom Marasmius alliaceus tastes and smells like garlic?
...that Claire Clairmont blamed Lord Byron for the death of their daughter Allegra Byron?
...that scientists are unsure why Lake Phalen, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is home to a population of rainbow darters, a fish normally found in fast moving streams?
...that 50 years after winning A£100 in a fridge decorating competition, Australian artist Robert Dickerson commands from A$80,000 for a painting today?
...that approximately half of the distributed water in Ghana is lost as non-revenue water due to leakage and illegal connections?
...that the Comer Strait in the Canadian Arctic, and the Gallinula comeri, the flightless moorhen of Gough Island, were both named after whaling Captain George Comer?
...that Ince Manor and Saighton Grange Gatehouse are the only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire, UK?
...that the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the 792-foot (241 m) IDS Tower (pictured)?
...that the Tang Dynasty general Wang Zhongsi was raised inside the palace of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang after Wang's father was killed in battle in army service when he was still young?
...that the Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez was a restorer of African tribal masks before he began to create his models of fantasy cities?
...that due to the its economic growth, Taiwan served as a showcase for Japan's propaganda on the colonial efforts throughout Asia, as displayed during the 1935 Taiwan Exposition?
...that Miller's Court in Dorset Street was the location of the last murder by Jack the Ripper on November 9, 1888?
...that Omaha, Nebraska's Peony Park became famous after the Lawrence Welk Band made it their official headquarters during the Great Depression?
...that Hau Lung-pin, Mayor of Taipei, refused to update signage at nearby bus and metro stops to reflect the renaming of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall?
...that the Frédéric Chopin monument in Warsaw, Poland, was designed by Wacław Szymanowski in 1907, erected in 1926, destroyed by the Germans in 1940, and reconstructed in 1958?
...that a year after Richard William Briginshaw entered the House of Lords as a life peer, he wrote a pamphlet calling for it to be abolished?
...that Japanese film tycoon Haruki Kadokawa built a full-size replica of Columbus' flagship Santa Maria which sailed from Barcelona to Japan?
...that the Temple of Divus Augustus was a major temple in imperial Rome dedicated to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, and completed by his adoptive grandson Caligula?
...that Hans P. Kraus claimed he was the only bookdealer to have owned both a Gutenberg Bible and the two Mainz Psalters?
...that the Fiji Woodswallow (pictured) is highly aggressive to predators and will harass the much larger Fiji Goshawk and Peregrine Falcon?
...that the Bahá'í Faith is one of only a few non-Christian religions recognised by the government of Cameroon?
...that Governor of New York David Paterson chose Jon Cohen as his Chief Advisor, although Cohen briefly ran against him for Lieutenant Governor?
...that "Maphriyono" (Maphrian) meaning, "to make fruitful", or "one who gives fecundity" is another term for Catholicos of India?
...that Dodge Street in Omaha, Nebraska is often erroneously said to be a namesake of Union Pacific Railroad chief engineer Grenville Dodge, when it was actually named for Iowa Senator Augustus C. Dodge?
...that a biography of Saladin, the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria, written by his friend and confidant Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, is still in print after seven centuries?
...that Herm Doscher and his son Jack were the first pair of father and son to have both played Major League Baseball?
...that the earliest known portrait of Frédéric Chopin, painted by Ambroży Mieroszewski in 1829 when the composer was nineteen (pictured), was lost in the opening days of World War II?
...that Saint Paul, Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?
...that during the Third American Karakoram Expedition's attempt to climb K2, Pete Schoening saved the lives of six falling climbers?
...that Flora Sandes, who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I?
...that Sara Larraín, who finished in fifth place in the 1999 Chilean presidential election, was a founder and the first director of Greenpeace in Chile?
...that the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland both set rainfall records in 1950?
...that Mary Meader, best known for taking more than 1,000 aerial pictures, was also a major philanthropist, once giving US$4 million to Western Michigan University?
...that Chai Trong-rong, a Taiwanese legislator, was unable to return to Taiwan while studying abroad because he was placed on the Kuomintang's black list?
...that the parents of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of the revolutionary anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured)?
...that Myrialepis paradoxa, a species of palm trees native to Southeast Asia, is used to make thatched baskets?
...that, on a per capita basis, foreign aid donated by Saudi Arabia is one of the highest in the world?
...that at a cost of $7.9 billion, Meghna Bridge in Bangladesh is the single largest project with Japanese assistance in the world?
...that Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia released her first recording the same year as her brother Caetano Veloso, even though he was four years older?
...that in a Maranao myth, the Agus River was constructed to prevent Lake Lanao from becoming an ocean?
...that the Malay kite, a model of kite used for hundreds of years in the Far East and introduced to the West in 1894, is known to have provided the inspiration for the now very widespread and popular "Eddy" kite design?
...that Luis Palau, an evangelical minister based in Portland, Oregon, has collaborated with government leaders in Portland and neighboring cities, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness?
...that troco (pictured), also called "trucks" or "lawn billiards", is a traditional English lawn game played with wooden balls and long-handled cues at the ends of which are spoonlike ovals of iron?
...that the Colonel Wright was the first steamboat to run on the Snake River?
...that at the height of Wally Phillips' radio career, roughly half the entire Chicago listening audience, or about 1.5 million listeners, tuned into his show?
...that at the Council of Acre in 1148, the decision was made to attack Damascus, leading to the failure of the Second Crusade?
...that Scottish actor Russell Hunter was so concerned about being identified with "Lonely", the anxious, smelly sidekick he played in the 1960's spy series Callan, that he took pains to smell nice?
...that of the twenty-five clipper ships owned by the Loch Line, which operated between the United Kingdom and Australia, seventeen were lost at sea?
...that Pasquale Condello of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, recently captured by Italian police in February 2008, was previously sentenced in absentia to four life prison terms plus another 22 years in jail?
...that Charles D. Poston (pictured) petitioned the Shah of Persia for funds to build a Parsi fire temple near Florence, Arizona?
...that the utility of heavy water as a moderator in a nuclear reactor was demonstrated by Klara Döpel and her husband Robert in the 1940s?
...that Montréal Canadiens forward Maurice "Rocket" Richard was named the three best players of a National Hockey League playoff match, earning himself all three stars?
...that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang had the eunuch Gao Lishi strangle Consort Yang Yuhuan to prevent a rebellion by the imperial guards angry at her?
...that Gustav Christian Schwabe decided to finance Thomas Henry Ismay's venture, the White Star Line, during a game of billiards?
...that in the 2007 documentary film Autism: The Musical, five autistic children in Los Angeles develop and star in an original stage production?
...that the Palazzo Filangeri-Cutò, featured in Giuseppe di Lampedusa's bestselling novel The Leopard and the 1963 Luchino Visconti film of the same name, was almost totally destroyed in a 1968 earthquake?
...that that American showman Michael B. Leavitt staged the anti-Mormon play The Danites in the Mormon capital, Salt Lake City, Utah, as a publicity stunt?
...that Lytocaryum weddellianum, an endangered species of palm trees endemic to Brazil, may be saved from extinction as it has become a common potted plant in Europe?
...that the ancient Egyptians set up hundreds of ka statues in Abydos so the dead could participate in religious festivals?
...that the decision of a Pennsylvania provincial court in 1764, The King v. Haas, is one of the first attempts to apply the writ of habeas corpus in the Thirteen Colonies?
...that when Masashi Kishimoto was creating the characters of the Naruto manga, he used other shōnen manga as references, including Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball?
...that the former Australian Supreme Court justice and barrister, Sir John Vincent Barry, qualified as a lawyer after graduating from an articled clerk course?
...that the yellow livery of the German postal service was decreed by the Allied Control Council in 1946?
...that during a Viking funeral, human sacrifice was performed with sexual rites?
...that Foxy Brown namechecks Sean Combs on the song Pretty Girl Bullsh*t?
...that Woodside, Utah is a ghost town with a roadside cold water geyser?
...that Groucho Marx joined Hillcrest Country Club even though it was willing to have him as a member?
...that footballer Henry Martin scored on his Sunderland début against Liverpool, then again the following day against their neighbours Everton?
...that Retired Rear Admiral Roberta L. Hazard, once the highest ranking woman in the U.S. military, was a history teacher before she joined the navy?
...that every receipt issued by Taiwanese businesses, known as the Uniform Invoice, is also a lottery ticket?
...that part of the northern Oklahoma State Highway 92 is named after country singer Garth Brooks?
...that Judge James Yates resigned from the New York State Supreme Court to become General counsel to the Governor of New York David Paterson?
...that the Tegg's Nose Country Park in Cheshire has a collection of historical quarrying equipment (pictured) dating back to the 16th century?
...that Don Nicholson was so dominant that critics predicted the demise of the new Funny Car "craze"?
...that the New Guinean mouse Pseudohydromys germani is one of two rodent species to have only two molars in each jaw?
...that more than a dozen artists have recorded live albums in the back room of McCabe's Guitar Shop, including Tom Waits, Beck, and R.E.M.?
...that Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was nicknamed Teutonic in the British House of Commons after a steamship built by his company Harland & Wolff?
...that the Michigan Wolverines' practice of parading their live mascot Biff before matches was stopped as the animal grew larger and more ferocious?
...that Viet Nam Vong Quoc Su, a history text by Vietnamese nationalist Phan Boi Chau, changed the style of prose used in Vietnamese writing?
...that St Stephen's Church in Macclesfield Forest, Cheshire still practises a rush-bearing ceremony, largely abandoned in the 17th century?
...that at less than 11 feet (3.4 m) wide, the Skinny House (pictured) is the narrowest house in Boston, Massachusetts?
...that the fact that no one has been arrested in the murder of Indian ex-parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri is seen as evidence of government complicity?
...that Stone Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia was so steep, that in the 19th century bus passengers had to disembark in order for the bus to go over it?
....that attractions at Indianapolis, Indiana's White City Amusement Park included baby incubators and a Mount Vesuvius reenactment?
...that the Veterans for Peace erect a memorial called Arlington West every Sunday at Santa Monica Beach consisting of a cross in the sand for each U.S. military person who has died in the Iraq War?
...that since as early as the 10th century, Nabulsi soap, a traditional olive oil-based soap, has been exported across the Arab world and even to Europe?
...that prior to screening The Round-Up in Cannes, in order to appease the Hungarian government, director Miklós Jancsó had to declare the film was not an allegory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956?
...that the fire and explosion of SS Fort La Monte wrecked the nearby Royal Navy destroyer HMS Arrow (pictured)?
...that John Latenser, Sr., an early architect in Omaha, Nebraska, designed more than 12 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that Michigan State University, which gave technical assistance to South Vietnam from 1955 to 1962, provided cover for the CIA?
...that the globe in the initial release of the NT$1,000 fifth series of the New Taiwan Dollar banknote was mirror-reversed?
...that the Hatfield Government Center light rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon, was the busiest on the Westside MAX extension within a year of opening?
...that Giampietro Campana financed his collection of Roman sculpture, Greek vases and Etruscan and Greek gold jewelry in part by embezzling money from the Papal pawnbroker?
...that in 1976, people reported feeling a floating sensation as they jumped in the air, caused by a Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect?
...that King Lancelot ended his life in a monastery in Dijon?
...that Wiener sausages are named after the mathematician Norbert Wiener?
...that the winner of the Ernie Awards is the person who gets the loudest boos from the audience?
...that the 31 mi (50 km) West Rim Trail along the Grand Canyon was selected by Outside Magazine as the best hike in Pennsylvania?
...that although presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan have been requested to give technical advice about software patches in open-source computer operating systems, only the Ukranian president did so?
...that the World Snail Racing Championships were held annually for over 40 years, with only the 2007 event cancelled due to inclement weather?
...that James Garner sent two of his associates into a room filled with toxic chlorine gas?
...that Jan Wils won a gold medal in architectural design in art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics for his design of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam?
...that the 24 Hours of LeMons includes such penalties as tarring and feathering a racer's car and crushing a car via audience vote (crushing of a car pictured)?
...that John F. Kennedy was shot dead in an ambush by government agents who had foreknowledge of his whereabouts?
...that Weber kettle grills are actually made out of buoys cut in half?
...that American entrepreneur Timothy Dexter defied the popular idiom and actually made a profit when he sold coal to Newcastle?
...that six latrines at Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that Ben Affleck died while shoveling snow outside of his house, leaving behind an unexpectedly small estate speculated to be worth as little as US$20,000?
...that men are able to be insured against alien impregnation?
...that in a few villages and towns of southern France and Spain it is illegal to die, and that there are attempts to have the same law in a town in Brazil?
...that the student cheering section of the Penn State Nittany Lions men's basketball team is known as the Nittany Nation?
...that the species name of South Africa's Eastern Cape Blue Cycad (pictured), horridus, is Latin for 'bristly', after the plant's stiff, spiny leaflets?
...that Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was the founding professor of the Yale School of Public Health and the first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology?
...that the Roman fort Longovicium has one of the best preserved ancient aqueducts in Britain?
...that Crispin Sanchez, a pioneer of education and sports among Mexican Americans in South Texas, turned down an opportunity to play baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals in order to attend college?
...that a higher H-point in an automobile design would lead to more legroom in the vehicle?
...that numerous wells and springs were dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Neuss, who was invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, gout, and a siege of the city of Neuss during the Burgundian Wars?
...that in Medellín v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent an act of Congress or Constitutional authority, the U.S. President lacks the power to enforce decisions of the International Court of Justice?
...that Robert Mondavi recommended that Christian Moueix establish his Dominus Estate winery in the Napa Valley?
...that Zygmunt Szendzielarz (pictured), regarded as one of the persons responsible for the Dubingiai massacre in 1944, got a posthumous award from Polish president Lech Kaczyński in 2007?
...that Dauer Sportwagen converted Porsche 962C racing cars into street-legal road cars, then converted them back into race cars in order to exploit a rulebook loophole and win the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans?
...that Swedish–Ukrainian relations have long traditions and that the Swedish king Charles XII was named protector of Ukraine in the first Ukrainian constitution of 1710 and that Hetman Pylyp Orlyk lived in Sweden 1716–1720?
...that the practices of the Followers of Christ church in Oregon, United States, which include faith healing and forbid medical treatment, prompted a 1999 state law making parents liable if their children are harmed by a lack of treatment?
...that Georgia Tech professor Rebecca Grinter supervised a 2005 study which found that iTunes users in the workplace experience "playlist anxiety"?
...that Firestar's Quest, a book in the Warriors fantasy novel series, has been translated into Russian?
...that Mahendranath Gupta (pictured) was closely associated with two notable figures in Hinduism—as a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and as a teacher to Paramahansa Yogananda?
...that Captain Michael Heck was an American B-52 pilot in the Vietnam War who became a conscientious objector and refused to continue bombing North Vietnamese targets during the Christmas operation of 1972?
...that Acorn Antiques The Musical was directed by Trevor Nunn and opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with a three month sell-out run?
...that footballer Graham Lewis was nearly prevented from making his début for Belper Town F.C. when the referee and assistant referee failed to spot his name on the team sheet?
...that Tony Dungy is the winningest coach, among Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coaches?
...that Thomas Rawson Birks, Cambridge Professor, used science and theology to reason that other stars did not have their own planets?
...that, inspired by Sylvester Stallone's experience selling the script for Rocky, actor/screenwriter J. P. Davis refused to sell his script for the film Fighting Tommy Riley unless he was guaranteed to play the lead?
...that the 1947 song "Pico and Sepulveda" by Felix Figueroa & His Orchestra about an intersection along LA's Pico Boulevard (pictured) was frequently featured on Dr. Demento's syndicated radio show?
...that the steamboat Flyer, which by 1930 had covered more miles than any other dedicated inland vessel, had an imperfectly sealed hull, causing it to list to port throughout its working life?
...that the Haitian military leader and former slave Lamour Desrances allied with the enemies of Haitian Revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture in the War of the Knives?
...that when Demi Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair in the Joanne Gair/Annie Leibovitz body painting/photograph Demi's Birthday Suit, it commemorated More Demi Moore's one-year anniversary?
...that Shaw University’s Leonard Hall housed the first class of four year African-American medical students in the United States?
...that jazz drummer Butch Ballard was hired by Duke Ellington as a backup drummer due to the excessive drinking of his regular drummer Sonny Greer?
...that Evergreen Lutheran High School lost its lease in DuPont, Washington in 1988 and has been looking for another site while sharing land at a local church?
...that the Hofkirche (Court Church) in Innsbruck was built by Ferdinand I as a mausoleum for his grandfather, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor?
...that wine writer André Simon had only two magnums of claret in his cellar when he died in 1970, believing that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar"?
...that Hindus believe that god Vishnu falls asleep in the cosmic ocean of milk on the cosmic serpent, for a period of four months on the day of Shayani Ekadashi?
...that Gloria Shayne Baker and Noel Regney co-wrote the Do You Hear What I Hear? Christmas carol as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
...that Reginald Turvey, "The Father of the Bahá'ís of South Africa", spent 13 years unaware that there were fellow believers in the Bahá'í Faith in his country?
...that before the Second World War, the Synagogue in Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva apart from religious functions, was also used as a lecture hall for Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva?
...that stems and sheaths of Korthalsia palm trees, named after Dutch botanist P. W. Korthals who first collected them from Indonesia, can be made into rope?
...that the first Estonian stamps (example pictured) were put into circulation in November 1918?
...that Native American Thomas Wakeman organized the first Sioux Indian YMCA at Flandreau, Dakota Territory on April 27, 1879?
...that the incompleted Montana-class battleships would have had a heavier broadside than the