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- ...that there are many mythology and fiction, but there have also been numerous real animals that had two heads?
- ...that the fighter pilot WWI, while his formal tally of 17 is explained by the fact that only planes crashed in the Russian-held territory were officially counted?
- ...that the asteroid 7796 Járacimrman, discovered in 1996 on Kleť Observatory and named after the famous fictitious Czech genius Jára Cimrman, proved to be the lost asteroid that had already been observed in 1973 on Brera-Merate Observatory in northern Italy?
- ...that the Russian singer Alla Bayanova, who celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage performance back in 2003, recently collaborated with Marc Almond on several duets?
- ...that Albert Einstein's brain was preserved after his death, and has been used in debates about the correlation between neuroanatomy and genius?
Albert Einstein - ...that botanist Religious Society of Friends?
- ...that harbour in 1533?
- ...that after not guilty by reason of insanity" in 1977, Indianalegislators amended the law to provide for verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill" and "not responsible by reason of insanity"?
- ...that a Knox County, Ohio, tradition credits members of the Snowden Family Band with writing the song "Dixie"?
- ...that Paul Posluszny, a linebacker for Penn State's football team, was recently named college football's best defensive player of the year?
- ...that modern evolutionary synthesis and that all four texts were compiled following the authors' presentation of the Jesup Lectures at Columbia University?
- ...that Drayton Hall, built 1738–42, near Charleston, South Carolina, is considered one of the most handsome Neo-Palladian houses in North America?
- ...that water pumps when it was completed in 1908?
- ...that £544,000 at the age of 28?
- ...that the German armed forces during the World War II and that it fought against the Red Army in Graz, Austria?
- ...that Aliwalia is the earliest known carnivorous dinosaur, and was huge for its time?
- ...that the parasitic invertebrates commonly known as tongue worms because of their resemblance to vertebrate tongues?
Linguatula taenioides a tongue worm - ...that venom?
- ...that Grammyfor Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical?
- ...that Premiers of South Australia, respectively?
- ...that a Chaucer?
- ...that although there are 75 West Indian women who have played one-day international cricket, only 54 of them have represented the West Indies?
- ...that the same geometric patterns, known as form constants, are seen in near-death experiences, synesthesia, and drug-induced hallucinatoryvisions?
- ...that Ampelosaurus was a European dinosaur that bore spikes on its back up to 20 cm long?
- ...that the Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome originally supported the vault of the Basilica of Constantine at the Roman Forum and was the only one such column to survive the Basilica's destruction in an earthquake?
Marian column in Rome - ...that as part of Fukubukuro, a New Year's custom in Japan, merchants offer bags of merchandise for prices much lower than the normal value of the items inside?
- ...that the first ?
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- ...that using an orthotropic deck instead of a concrete deck reduced the mass of the Golden Gate Bridge by 11,160 metric tons?
- ...that Alice Nelson and Sam the Butcher were engaged to be married in the final season of the sitcom The Brady Bunch?
- ...that Space.com is a space and astronomy news website launched in 1999 by CNN anchor Lou Dobbs?
- ...that city council in December 2003, but that the electorate of the city passed a referendum the following year to strip the office of political power?
- ...that the Chickens War of 1537 was a protest in Kingdom of Poland, and it was named so by the victorious opposition, who claimed that the instigators only succeeded in nearly total consumption of chickens in Lesser Poland?
- ...that the Miranzai Valley is a fertile mountain valley in the Kohat district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan?
- ...that the Cowboy Trail is the longest rails to trails conversion project in the United States?
- ...that ?
- ...that the m² of floor space?
- ...that Teatro Campesino or "farmworkers theater" began performing in 1965 on flat bed trucks in the fields with the United Farm Workers in Delano, Californiaand still puts on performances today?
- ...that DJ John Peelset aside in a box to grab if his house ever caught fire?
- ...that a quadrature phase booster is a specialised form of transformer used to control the flow of electric power on electricity transmission networks?
- ...that the Sky Ride at the 1933 Chicago Century of Progress carried 4.5 million fairgoers in "rocket cars" 60 m above ground, before being demolished in 1934?
- ...that Earl Morrall was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1968, after replacing the injured Johnny Unitas, and led the Colts into Super Bowl III?
- ...that Ilya Ivanovich Ivanovwas renowned for his expertise at artificially inseminating mares?
- ...that some scientists, in response to the popular idiom dismissing the possibility, have conducted experiments to compare apples and oranges?
- ...that the Family Viewing Hour was mandated by the FCC to keep the earliest one hour in U.S. prime-time television "safe" for the entire family?
- ...that by the time American football player Nat Moore retired in 1986, he had broken almost every receiving record of the Miami Dolphins?
- ...that $21.5 million earlier for having a similar logo?
- ...that a dead-rubber is a term used in sportingparlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches?