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• Darren Walsh won the Edinburgh Festival's top joke award for his pun "I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free," receiving 23% of the votes.
• The film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" won 7 Oscars and received an additional 23 wins and 7 nominations.
• The fruit of the Fragaria vesca 'Semperflorens' alpine strawberry is sweet and succulent with an exquisite taste, considered far superior to cultivated strawberries, and it is produced abundantly from early summer until autumn frosts.
• Pete Seeger was instrumental in popularizing the spiritual "We Shall Overcome," which became the anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement, and he altered the lyrics from "We will overcome" to "We shall overcome" for singability.
• Scrying has been used for thousands of years by different cultures, including ancient Egyptians, who incorporated it into their initiation rituals.
• David Copperfield is considered an autobiographical novel reflecting the life of Charles Dickens, whose own experiences inspired many elements of the story.
• Jane Seymour is best known for her role as Dr. Michaela Quinn in the hit CBS series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, which attracted 22 million viewers at its peak despite being initially dismissed by critics.
• The yen was first introduced in 1871 as part of a major monetary reform and completely replaced the clan notes of Japanese feudal lords by 1879.
• The Amazon River is the world's largest river by volume and has a drainage basin that includes portions of five countries, supporting an extraordinary variety of wildlife, including 4,000 species of butterflies.
• Babe Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season (1927), setting a record that stood until it was broken by Roger Maris in 1961.

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• Bette Davis received her second and final Oscar for her role in "Jezebel," which marked the beginning of an unparalleled streak of five consecutive Best Actress nominations.
• Within 24 hours of the euro's introduction in Slovenia, the value of euro banknotes in circulation surpassed that of tolar banknotes.
• Edouard Daladier, a three-time premier of France, was a signatory of the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler, which he joined in an effort to avoid war.
• The distance of one nautical mile is defined as one minute of arc along a line from the pole to the equator, which is approximately 1852 meters.
• Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a large family of professional musicians, with his father and uncles all having significant musical careers.
• Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610, but Simon Marius, who observed them earlier on December 29, 1609, did not receive credit due to the use of different calendars—Galileo used the Gregorian Calendar while Marius used the Julian Calendar.
• La Boheme debuted in Turin, Italy on February 1, 1896, and is considered one of the "three or four most popular operas in the repertory."
• The Hagia Sophia is considered one of the world's most magnificent Byzantine structures.
• Shooting live pigeons was once an Olympic sport at the 1900 Summer Games in Paris, where nearly 300 birds were killed during the competition before the event was replaced with clay targets.
• Aluminium is the world’s most abundant metal, comprising 8% of the earth’s crust, and is the third most common element.

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• The Battle of Antietam is known as the bloodiest single day in American history, with its outcome allowing President Abraham Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Anthony Burgess composed over 250 musical works, although he is best known for his literary contributions.
• Terry Pratchett, the author of the Discworld novels, has sold more than 55 million books worldwide.
• Red Rum, trained by Ginger McCain, achieved a historic hat-trick by winning the Grand National three times, making him a legendary figure in horse racing.
• The Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Alabama, was built in 1919 to commemorate the significant damage the boll weevil beetle caused to the region's cotton crops and the resilience of farmers in overcoming this adversity.
• At its height, The Crystal Maze attracted 6 million viewers, making it the most watched show on Channel 4.
• The tradition of associating specific materials with wedding anniversary years is believed to have begun in Victorian times, when discovery, classification, and cataloguing were popular.
• On its premiere night on January 26, 1907, The Playboy of the Western World sparked a near riot at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, leading to the actors not finishing the play and the author being threatened by audience members.
• Salt Lake City was founded on July 24, 1847, by a group of 148 Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young, marking the first permanent non-Indian settlement in the Salt Lake Valley.
• The recipe suggests using a Stanley or Craft knife to make slashes in the pork skin for optimal crackling.

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• Samuel Adams founded the Sons of Liberty, a group dedicated to methodically resisting English rule in all of its American colonies.
• The Karnak temple area is the largest ancient religious site in the world, covering about 60 acres and developed over nearly 2,000 years with contributions from approximately 30 pharaohs.
• The Ulsan plant is the world’s single largest automobile plant, occupying 1,200 acres and employing over 34,000 workers capable of producing 5,600 vehicles daily.
• The term "postmortem" refers to both the examination of a body after death and evaluations or discussions that occur after the end of an event.
• George Fox was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers.
• Obsidian is a natural glass formed by the rapid cooling of viscous lava, and it can contain spherical clusters of radially arranged, needlelike crystals called spherulites.
• The borders of U.S. states, often believed to be defined by straight lines along latitude and longitude, are actually irregular polygons with hundreds of sides due to historical surveying errors.
• Hay fever affects up to 30% of all people worldwide, including up to 10% of U.S. children under 17 years of age and 7.8% of U.S. adults.
• Finland Steam Baths, established in 1928, is the last steam bath of its kind in Quincy and has remained a family-owned operation since 1969.
• As of December 1, 2013, Iran had 35 journalists imprisoned, highlighting the country's crackdown on press freedom.

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• The Naghol ceremony on Pentecost Island, part of an annual yam festival, involves men diving from wooden towers with liana vines secured to their ankles, symbolizing a rite of passage and fertility for the land.
• The East India Company, originally a private trading company, evolved into a powerful military and diplomatic organization that effectively ruled India until it was dissolved by the British government following the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857.
• The Queen’s House in Greenwich features the first stone spiral staircase in Britain built without any central support.
• The first class marksman for the Lewis gun and the Hotchkiss gun wore the initials LG and HG respectively over laurel sprays starting in 1917.
• Salvador Dali was one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, known for both his striking and provocative works and his eccentric behavior.
• British soldiers did not wear powdered wigs as part of their uniform during the Revolutionary War.
• The Battle of Santiago de Cuba resulted in the complete destruction of the Spanish fleet, with Cervera losing all six ships and suffering 323 killed and 151 wounded, while the US Navy had only 1 killed and 10 wounded.
• The script for The Peanuts Movie was created in 2006 by Charles M. Schulz's son and grandson, Craig Schulz and Bryan Schulz.
• The reboot version of Freddy Krueger is depicted as a child molester, a detail that Wes Craven had originally wanted to include in the first film but was dropped to avoid controversy.
• William II of England, also known as William Rufus, was in direct confrontation with Archbishop Anselm over the rights of the church versus the rights of a monarch's sovereignty.

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• Bastinado is a form of punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick or cudgel.
• The number of global polio cases has plummeted from 350,000 in 1988 to 1,263 in 2004.
• Fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers exist today, a significant decline from an estimated 1,000 in 1978.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, along with William Wordsworth, was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England.
• At the Battle of Agincourt, the English forces, outnumbered more than three to one, suffered only around 400 deaths while inflicting nearly 6,000 fatalities on the French army.
• One World Trade Center has been recognized as the tallest skyscraper in the United States, measuring 1,776 feet tall, a height symbolically linked to the founding year of the United States.
• Gru, the world's greatest villain, plans to steal the moon with a vast secret hideout and an army of minions, but his life changes when he encounters three orphaned girls who see him as a potential dad.
• In most old legends, vampires are essentially walking corpses, which has been downplayed in recent media where they often appear as slightly pale humans.
• The dish being prepared is a cassoulet, a traditional French casserole known for its rich flavors and hearty ingredients, including duck, sausage, and beans.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived from 43 B.C.E. to approximately 17 C.E.

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• Alfred Matthew Yankovic, known as 'Weird Al' Yankovic, first took up the accordion after a salesman approached his family about music lessons.
• The South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was responsible for virtually all bus services in South Yorkshire from 1974 to 1994.
• The title track "Eye of the Tiger" catapulted the band Survivor to fame as it was used as the theme song for the hit movie Rocky III in 1982.
• The word "dipsomania" specifically refers to alcoholism characterized by intermittent bouts of craving for alcohol.
• The song "I'm Getting Married In The Morning" is performed by Charlie Killeen (Alfred Doolittle) in the Kilrush Choral Society's inaugural production of My Fair Lady.
• "Crocodile Rock" became Elton John's first U.S. number-one single, reaching the top spot on February 3, 1973, and staying there for three weeks.
• The Taj Mahal was built as the final resting place for Mumtaz Mahal, the third wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, and its construction took around 20 years, from 1632 to 1653.
• Ben Kingsley became the first South Asian performer to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Mohandas Gandhi in the film "Gandhi."
• Kym Marsh first gained public attention in 2001 by participating in the talent show Popstars, which led to her becoming a member of the musical group Hear’Say.
• The album title "Education, Education, Education & War" is derived from a speech by Tony Blair.

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• Modern Greek architecture began after the establishment of the Modern Greek state following the country's war of independence in 1821.
• The kelvin unit of temperature is defined based on the triple point of water, which is exactly 273.16 kelvins, corresponding to 0.01 °C.
• Agrippina the Younger was the mother of Nero, who ultimately ordered her death after becoming emperor.
• Beyoncé Knowles emerged as a top student and world-class performer at St. Mary of the Purification Montessori, where her talents first flourished.
• The Barossa Valley is home to some of the oldest vineyards in the world.
• The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is the oldest overseas U.S. Naval base and is located in a country with which the U.S. does not maintain diplomatic relations.
• Dr. John Sentamu was arrested in Uganda in 1974 for criticizing the Amin regime's human rights violations, leading to his departure for the UK.
• Charles Lindbergh was the first person in history to fly nonstop from New York to Paris, completing the journey in the single-engine monoplane Spirit of St. Louis in May 1927.
• Muhammad Ali became the youngest boxer to unseat an incumbent heavyweight champion when he won the title for the first time in 1964 by defeating Sonny Liston.
• George Gershwin's musical "Of Thee I Sing" was the first musical production to win a Pulitzer Prize.

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• Leonardo DiCaprio received his first Oscar nomination at age 22 for his role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? but lost to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive.
• Benito Mussolini ruled Italy as Prime Minister from 1922 until 1943, establishing a legal dictatorship and abandoning the pretense of democracy in 1925.
• On May 28, 2008, Nepal was declared a Federal Democratic Republic, officially abolishing its 240-year-old monarchy.
• Karl Benz patented the first true, modern automobile, the three-wheeled Motor Car, in 1886.
• Daniel Ek founded his first company, a website-building service, at the age of 14.
• Richard Branson sold his Virgin Megastores in Britain and Ireland, transforming them into the largest independent entertainment retailer in the region, which was rebranded as Zavvi.
• The Sedlec Ossuary contains the skeletal remains of approximately 40,000 individuals, creatively arranged into elaborate decorations by a Czech woodcarver named Frantisek Rint.
• The Japanese word "anime" refers to all forms of animation in Japan, but in English, it specifically denotes Japanese animation.
• Londoners voted to remain in the EU despite 52 percent of the overall British electorate voting to leave.
• The cashew tree produces an edible, pear-shaped fruit called the cashew apple, which is extremely rich in vitamin C and can be made into jam, marmalade, candy, and juices, but it spoils quickly and cannot be exported.

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• At least 12 women have been executed in Saudi Arabia over the past 32 months, with most of these executions being carried out secretly and often following unfair trials that denied them legal representation.
• The American victory at Saratoga in October 1777 was a major turning point in the Revolutionary War, convincing France to enter the war as an ally of the fledgling United States.
• Henry VIII was a king of England known for having six wives and for initiating the English Reformation.
• The only word in the English language that ends with the letters -mt is "dreamt."
• The Chihuahua is the smallest dog breed and the oldest North American breed, with a typical shoulder height of 15-23 cm (6-9 in) and a weight of 1-3 kg (2-5.5 lbs).
• Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated book, On Chesil Beach, is told in under 200 pages and centers on a couple's honeymoon evening.
• England played in the first Test match in 1877 and has had more Test matches and captains than any other team.
• The Panic of 1873 marked the beginning of the Long Depression in the United States, a severe economic downturn that lasted until 1879.
• Juan Domingo Peron was deposed in a military coup on September 19, 1955, after a decade of increasingly authoritarian rule in Argentina.
• In the episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina," Mr. Garrison undergoes a sex change operation, prompting another character, Kyle, to desire a "negroplasty" to change his race and height for basketball.

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