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... that according to the Adhyatma Upanishad an intelligent person avoiding truth gets into an illusory state, in the same way as a reed pulled out does not remain straight?
... that when it was built as a private house in 1902, Tower HouseinBrighton(pictured) had such unusually modern features as underfloor heating and a combined shower and bath?
... that it is thought ClearSign Combustion may have been the first publicly-traded company to take advantage of JOBS Act rules allowing avoidance of Sarbanes–Oxley Act accounting standards?
... that Chris Wu lost 8 kilograms (18 lb) in ten days when he was cast in The Third Wish as a skinny farmer with ALS disorder?
... that although Brown Creek is usually dry, it can sometimes experience intense floods?
... that in 1902, Admiral Hammerton Killick went down with his ship during a civil war waged in support of Anténor Firmin's bid to become president of Haiti?
... that Ralph Benatzky wrote the libretto and music for Meine Schwester und ich, a "more intellectual, more cabaret-style" operetta which premiered in Berlin in 1930?
... that the 1-mile (1.6 km) long Paddy Run has been used as an industrial water supply?
... that Bagboy is a "spin-off of a spin-off of a show within a show"?
... that Mano Blanca was an anti-communist death squad set up and run by the Guatemalan military with considerable assistance from the United States?
... that four of the twenty publicly-owned streambeds in the Upper Susquehanna–Lackawanna basin are Elk Run and its three named tributaries: Long Run, Hog Run, and Gallows Run?
... that the short story Old LovebyJeffrey Archer is a tale about two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry ending up in a tragic love story?
... that during the Iran–Iraq War, an Iraqi major told his prisoner Aboutorabi, "if Khomeini is like you, I will follow him"?
... that a telegram marking a century-old beheading prompted Austrian authorities to charge the leadership of the Arboroasa student society with treason?
... that Ladislaus I of Hungary, who was canonized in 1192, admitted in a letter that he could not "promote the cause of earthly dignities without committing grave sins"?
... that the fasciated tiger heron is named for the black and buff stripes on its neck and back?
... that French track cyclistFrédéric de Civry(pictured) was considered an amateur in France, but a professional in England?
... that for the Orphan Black episode "Instinct", the show's own writing offices were used as a filming location?
... that Le Salon de Madame AronbyÉdouard Vuillard was stolen from Alfred Lindon by the Nazis in 1940 and not returned to his family until 2006?
... that 40% of Gardens Alive's revenue comes from non-gardening merchandise?
... that a surveillance video of Elisa Lam acting strangely in an elevator drew three million views in its first ten days on Youku, though many viewers said it disturbed them?
... that the Aruneya Upanishad says that an itinerant monk should practise chastity, nonviolence, truthfulness, and indifference to material possessions?
... that Karl Jenkins derived Palladio, a concerto grosso for string orchestra named after Palladio, from his TV commercial for De Beers diamonds?
... that Emin Xhinovci was given the nickname "Hitler" because of his uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler?
... that The Sirens and Ulysses(detail pictured)byWilliam Etty was described in 1837 as "a disgusting combination of voluptuousness and loathsome putridity"?
... that a church in Leipzig with many names, destroyed in a bombing in 1943, had served two denominations, and was also used for storage, as a prison, and as a hospital?
... that the manuscript of Harper Lee's forthcoming novel, Go Set a Watchman—written before To Kill a Mockingbird but featuring its key characters—was lost until rediscovered by her lawyer in 2014?
... that the Pine Creek watershed contains the only Approved Trout Waters in the Solomon Creek drainage basin?
... that Ukraine still relies on Soviet-era laws and standards to designate the status of cities of district significance, as it does not have a current law of its own?
... that the Castaing machine(pictured), a seventeenth-century device created by Jean Castaing, was said to be capable of applying edge lettering to 20,000 coins daily?
... that the references to Ganesha in the popular devotional song Sukhakarta Dukhaharta are described as "remarkable", considering he was not the patron god of its poet?
... that film producer Anne Rosellini wrote her first screenplay because "I didn't have the money to hire a writer, so I just decided to do it myself"?
01:30, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
... that Alfred Sisley's The Port of Moret-sur-Loing (1884) (pictured) was one of nearly 1,000 items looted from the Lévy de Benzion collection by Nazi agents during the Second World War?
... that the Plaka Bridge(pictured) in western Greece, formerly the largest single-arch stone bridge in the Balkans, survived bombing by the Luftwaffe, but was destroyed by floods on 1February 2015?
... that the sea battles of the Echinades and of Amorgos in 322 BC led to the defeat of Athens in the Lamian War, ending Athenian naval power and independence?
... that Masanobu Takayanagi was inspired to move to the U.S. and become a cinematographer after seeing a book about the subject in a Japanese bookstore?
... that Gotlandsdricka is essentially the same everyday brew that the Vikings drank?
00:04, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
... that the bookwheel(pictured) was one of the earliest devices that allowed a person to read multiple books in one location?
... that a nineteenth-century author wrote, "there is not a more complete system of fortifications extant, in any part of the world, than the cordon of defensive structures at Malta"?
... that Henry Ford was a "comparative nonentity" who got various jobs because his wife's uncle was a bishop?
01:05, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
... that the "goddess of music" on the Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar(pictured) has been described as having "the same appeal of a dancer with cramps"?
... that the T28E1 Combination Gun Motor Carriage, a version of the M15 Half-Track(pictured), shot down 39 aircraft during the Battle of Kasserine Pass?
... that two and a half years before the Tonkin Gulf Incident, the Sigma I-62 war game concluded that American intervention in Vietnam would be unsuccessful?
... that Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans' Affairs Francisco Urena was the state's Veterans Services Director of the Year in 2008?
... that the hairstyle, sideburns, life and death of Austrian poacher Pius Walder inspired the Tatort police procedural film Elvis lebt! (Elvis lives!)?
00:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
... that the green hellebore(pictured) was used as a folk remedy to treat worms in children, and topically for lice?
... that Newton Aduaka was the first independent black filmmaker to get a national release in the UK, for Rage in 1999?
... that after announcing his retirement, Australian MP Clive Shields publicly attacked his own constituents, saying he was "fed up with oiling the parish pump"?
... that male and female Potomac sculpins prefer to live in different habitat conditions?
... that in retaliation for trains' killing of their cattle, farmers would spread lard on the tracks of the Lake Simcoe Junction Railway?
01:55, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
... that The Abbot's Fish House(pictured) is the only surviving monastic fishery building in England?
... that the Anglo-Norman baron William Pantulf cleared himself from suspicion of murdering his lord's wife by undergoing a trial by ordeal?
... that with a 20-million-year fossil record, Acer chaneyi has the longest fossil record of the Western North American maples?
... that Christian Socialism in Utah prompted a debate on whether "socialism or individualism was taught by the New Testament as a basis for Christian government"?
... that Hans Rosenfeldt(pictured)—creator of the Scandinavian crime series The Bridge, which has spawned two international adaptations—briefly worked as a sea lion trainer?
... that Ralph Benatzky wrote both libretto and music of the musical comedy Bezauberndes Fräulein, inspired by the French farce La petite chocolatière?
... that the position of ThomaskantorinBach's time has been described as "one of the most respected and influential musical offices of Protestant Germany"?
... that the Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo eight-engine, nine-wing flying boat prototype was intended to become a 100-passenger transatlantic airliner, but crashed on its second flight?
... that the 1890 Jolly Darkie Target Game(cover pictured), one of many games of its time having themes of violence against black people, is now part of collectable black memorabilia?
... that No. 300 Group of the British Royal Air Force was formed in Australia in 1944, and many of the personnel in one of its squadrons were Australian?
... that the Garuda Upanishad, dedicated to the "Lord of birds", includes spells claimed to cure wounds inflicted by poisonous snakes, ghosts, and demons?
... that Hurricane Fay caused about 3.8 million USD in damage in 2014?
... that the French satirical cartoonist Charb(pictured), a victim of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris in January, had been on Al-Qaeda's "most wanted list" since 2013?
... that as head of the rabbinical court in Tripoli, Libya, Abraham Hayyim Adadi levied a 5 percent tax on local merchants to pay for teachers for poor children?
... that the tail of the ornate shrew is bicolored?
... that after Lionel de Jersey Harvard(pictured) died in World WarI, a fellow officer wrote, "If Harvard College made him what he was, I want my sons to go there that it may do the same for them"?
... that the rare clouds that shower in the desert are called "Uttanka's clouds"?
... that Tomislav Smoljanović's "guerrilla science approach" uncovered financial ties between medical researchers and an American pharmaceutical company?
... that The Guardian's iOS game of 2014, Vainglory, was chosen to demonstrate the iPhone 6's graphics capabilities at the phone's launch event?
... that with two 1,600-gallon (6,056-liter) cisterns and a filtering system, Brock Environmental Center is the first project in the US to receive a commercial permit to use rainwater as drinking water?
... that in the early 1970s, Bow Creek was nearly devoid of aquatic life, but within five years had substantial fish populations and is now Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that Macedonian journalist Tomislav Kezarovski was sentenced to 4½ years for allegedly revealing the identity of a protected witness?
... that William Egon of Fürstenberg was a Prince in the Holy Roman Empire, and making 90,000 livres a year as a French agent, when he was arrested for treason?
... that the pipe organ at the Old Salem Visitor Center (pictured) was constructed by David Tannenberg, who has been called "the most important eighteenth-century American organ-builder"?
