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• The kingdom of Navarre reached its zenith under Sancho III, who ruled over nearly all of Christian Spain during his reign from 1000 to 1035.
• About 25 million meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere every day, with approximately 1 million kilograms of dust settling to the Earth's surface daily.
• The Curie family has produced five Nobel laureates, including Marie Curie, who was the first woman to present a Physics dissertation and a double Nobel laureate.
• The term "astronaut" was coined in 1929 in science fiction and popularized by the U.S. space program starting in 1961.
• The South Downs National Park covers an area of 627 square miles and is home to around 120,000 people.
• The BBC sitcom "Marriage Lines" ran for five series and forty-six episodes between 1961 and 1966, originally debuting with a pilot episode in 1961 before a full series premiered in 1963.
• Sunflowers can be categorized into open-pollinated, hybrid, and pollenless varieties, each offering diverse colors, heights, and flowering habits.
• Wilfred Owen was killed in action just one week before the end of World War I, causing news of his death to reach home as the church bells declared peace.
• Johnny Rotten, the former punk icon, starred in a £5 million television commercial for butter, marking his first appearance in an advertisement.
• Fan Si Peak, at 10,312 feet (3,143 metres), is the highest point in Vietnam.

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• Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who faces trial for inciting hatred in the Netherlands, has been banned from entering the UK due to public security concerns, despite being invited to show his controversial film linking the Koran to terrorism in the House of Lords.
• Some biologists believe that there are more bobcats in the United States today than in colonial times.
• In "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Harry Potter is unexpectedly entered into a dangerous magic tournament despite being too young, as the Goblet of Fire spits out his name without his consent.
• Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most sub-Saharan African nations, despite high income inequality leaving a large proportion of the population in poverty.
• The USS Nautilus became the first vessel to achieve submarine transit underneath the North Pole in August 1958 during a mission named Operation Sunshine.
• "Go Set a Watchman," Harper Lee's second novel, was completed in the mid-1950s but remained unpublished for 60 years.
• Marc Chagall was appointed Commissar for Art in 1918 and founded the Vitebsk Popular Art School, where he served as director until 1920.
• BBC Worldwide is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
• The response to the 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill led to the unprecedented development of a "National Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties During Emergency Response Under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan."
• The system of imperial units was first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which replaced the Winchester Standards that had been in use since 1588.

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• Bolton FC is commonly known by the nickname "Trotters."
• Minos became one of the three judges of Hades in Greek mythology.
• The Sioux believed that white buffaloes were the most sacred animals in the world and therefore never hunted them.
• The production of Casino Royale (1967) was so chaotic that it involved multiple directors, and significant changes were made throughout filming, including firing the main star Peter Sellers before completing his role.
• In 1544, Italian herbalist Pietro Andrae Matthioli referred to tomatoes as "pomi d'oro," or apples of gold, likely due to the first European tomatoes being yellow.
• The heavy white Embden goose can weigh up to 34 lbs, while the tiny white Czech goose weighs only 9-11 lbs.
• Only in Wales, and some parts of Scotland and Ireland, is an edible seaweed known as laver gathered and processed commercially, commonly eaten as laverbread with bacon.
• The operetta Die Fledermaus, composed by Johann Strauss II, was initially misunderstood as a failure after its première on April 5, 1874, running for only sixteen performances due to scheduling conflicts, but it was later reinstated at the Theater an der Wien.
• Dick Grayson first appeared as Robin in Detective Comics #38 in 1940, created to lighten the tone of Batman stories and appeal to younger readers.
• The women's strike at the Dagenham Ford plant in 1968 directly led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970, marking the first legislation in the UK aimed at achieving equal pay for men and women in comparable jobs.

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• Ottorino Respighi's Sinfonia drammatica is rarely performed and recorded due to its epic length of over 58 minutes and its dark-hued, intense character, which contrasts with his more extroverted scores.
• Some tarantulas in captivity can survive for as long as 20 years.
• Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé performed "Barcelona" in 1988 to celebrate Barcelona being chosen for the upcoming 1992 Olympics.
• Antoine Louis is credited with designing a prototype of the guillotine, which was later named after Joseph Ignace Guillotin, an advocate for humane capital punishment.
• The peseta was replaced by the euro in 2002, with an exchange rate of 1 euro equal to 166.386 pesetas.
• Nanga Parbat is known as ‘The Killer Mountain’ due to the high number of mountaineer deaths during attempts to climb it, particularly in the mid 20th century.
• Adele's album 25 became the fastest to sell a million copies in UK history, achieving this milestone within just 10 days of its release.
• Australia has the world's largest population of feral camels, which are the only feral herds of their kind in the world.
• Great Slave Lake is the deepest lake in North America, with a maximum depth of 614 meters.
• Renault plans to produce 200,000 cars a year by 2007 at its Dacia plant in Romania, having already cut the workforce from 27,000 in the late 1990s to 14,000.

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• The Beautiful South's singles compilation album, "Carry On Up The Charts," has sold over 2.2 million copies in the UK, equating to roughly one in seven households owning a copy.
• Daniel Day-Lewis was considered for the role of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction before John Travolta ultimately landed the part.
• John McCain divorced his first wife, Carol, in 1980 and married his second wife, Cindy, just one month later.
• The Chinook wind in the Rocky Mountains can cause temperatures to rise by 20 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit in a matter of minutes after an intense cold spell.
• Harrods is the biggest department store in Europe, occupying over one million square feet of selling space across more than 330 departments.
• Guadalcanal was the site of intense fighting between Japanese and American troops during 1942-43, culminating in an American victory.
• Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the 20th century, holding office from 1979 to 1990, and was the only woman ever to have held the post.
• Retief Goosen is a two-time U.S. Open champion, having won the tournament in 2001 and 2004.
• Japan is home to the world's longest railroad tunnel, the Seikan Tunnel, which extends 54 kilometers (33 miles) and links the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
• Badminton is estimated to be the second-largest participatory sport in the world, ranking only behind soccer.

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• Basin Street was home to the Storyville red light district, which operated from 1897 until its closure in 1917 and was influential in the early development of jazz music.
• The Kelpie is a supernatural shape-shifting water horse from Celtic mythology that lures weary travelers to their doom by appearing as a beautiful tame horse before plunging them into the depths of rivers.
• The heptathlon consists of seven events contested over two days, while the decathlon features ten events, typically contested by men, also over two days.
• The Magic Roundabout features a mix of colorful characters including Florence, Dougal the grumpy dog, Ermintrude the opera-singing cow, and Zebedee, a magical jack-in-the-box.
• Wendy in Peter Pan grows up and tells her daughter, "Because I am grown up, dear. When people grow up, they forget the way."
• Dr. Doom is the arch-enemy of the Fantastic Four and the ruler of Latveria.
• Tiger Woods became the youngest winner of The Masters Tournament at the age of 21 years, 3 months, and 14 days in 1997, breaking the previous record held by Seve Ballesteros.
• Cork City is known as "Rebel Cork" due to its reputation for independence and stubborn resistance throughout its history.
• Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 78.
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali became the first African and Arab to hold the position of secretary-general of the United Nations when he assumed office on January 1, 1992.

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• Emma Thompson wrapped her Oscar trophy in socks and carried it in her carry-on luggage through LAX, where even the flight captain asked to hold it.
• Meadowhall has arguably the best public transport service of any shopping centre in the UK, featuring a Passenger Transport Interchange that accommodates local and regional bus, train, and Supertram services.
• Golda Meir was one of the 25 signers of Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948.
• Most modern versions of the Bible contain 66 books, consisting of 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.
• Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales have been translated into more than 150 languages and are used as textbooks in literacy programs worldwide.
• Reinhard Heydrich, known as "The Blond Beast," was the leading planner of Hitler's Final Solution, which aimed to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe.
• The name "Huguenot" may have originated as a term of derision, possibly derived from the German word "Eidgenosse," meaning a Confederate, and associated with the religious leader Besançon Hugues, who was involved in a failed plot for political power in France in 1560.
• The title "Commonwealth's Attorney" refers to the public officer elected in each city or county to conduct criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state.
• The largest recorded American alligator measured 5.8 meters (19 feet 2 inches) and weighed 473 kilograms (1,043 lbs).
• Since the early 13th century, more than half a million Coats of Arms have been recorded by individuals with their respective family names, which are still being researched and studied after over seven centuries.

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• The Albert Memorial, unveiled in 1872, commemorates Prince Albert, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 42, and features 187 exquisitely carved figures in its Parnassus frieze representing celebrated artists and intellectuals.
• In 1947, Raytheon demonstrated the world's first microwave oven, called the "Radarange," which weighed over 750 pounds and stood over five feet tall.
• St. Louis is known for its endangered fried brain sandwiches, a tradition considered so rare that they're likened to the white rhino of lunch.
• Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman doctor in the United States, graduating first in her class at New York's Geneva College in 1849.
• SEAT uses its own and third parties’ cookies to improve user experience on its website.
• Pope Francis declared the 1915 slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a planned "genocide," a statement that has continued to generate significant controversy and diplomatic tension with Turkey.
• Modern Chinese philosophy emerged in a relatively short period between 1901 and 1949, a time marked by significant cultural and intellectual transformation following centuries of stagnation due to military invasions and exploitation by Western powers and Japan.
• The original 1945 film "Brief Encounter," directed by David Lean, became a classic and is set around 1938, a time when a married woman having an affair was considered a scandal just below treason and murder.
• The trope name "You Can Leave Your Hat On" comes from the 1972 song of the same name by Randy Newman, popularized by Joe Cocker in the movie "9½ Weeks."
• Professional beer lover Sarah Warman used to hate beer but now promotes lesser-known beers that could appeal to various tastes.

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• Abraham is the first person directly named as a prophet in the Bible, as stated in Genesis 20:7.
• One girl brings intelligence - the challenge of her sparkling mind keeps me continually learning.
• NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has confirmed more than 3,300 exoplanets in just two decades, with a statistical estimate suggesting there may be at least one planet around every star in the Milky Way galaxy, totaling around a trillion planets.
• The Eagle Has Landed, released in 1976, is the final film directed by John Sturges.
• Tarragon was introduced to Europe in the Middle Ages and was known as "dragon's wort" before gaining its modern French name, estragon, which means "little dragon."
• The fastest 100 m egg-and-spoon race record is 19.39 seconds, held by Ashrita Furman.
• Richard Mantell will be out for at least six months due to a fractured fibula and dislocated ankle, potentially missing the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
• Screaming Lord Sutch stood for Parliament 39 times and polled approximately 15,000 votes, forfeiting over £10,000 in lost deposits and incurring £85,000 in campaign expenses.
• Charles Clarke, a former home secretary and Norwich South MP, regrets not fighting harder to stop Gordon Brown from becoming leader, stating it was his "biggest mistake in politics."
• The hongi, a traditional Maori greeting involving touching noses and foreheads, signifies "to share breath" and acknowledges the visitor as a member of the local people.

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• Bithynia was one of the few regions that successfully resisted complete conquest by Alexander the Great during his eastern campaigns in the 4th century BC.
• Nigel Farage's resignation as Ukip leader was rejected, allowing him to remain in the post despite his earlier announcement that he would step down if he failed to win a parliamentary seat.
• The Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agency created the controversial "Labour Isn't Working" poster in 1978, which effectively provoked the opposition into a public reaction and became a pivotal moment in political advertising strategy.
• The Four Musketeers won 8 straight French singles titles from 1925 to 1932.
• "It’s a Wonderful Life" was initially a box-office flop, failing to recoup its $3.7 million cost with only $3.3 million in earnings during its initial run.
• The People's Physics Book aims to provide an inexpensive alternative textbook for high school and college physics students and teachers, promoting a cooperative approach to physics education.
• Carl von Linné, known as the 'Father of Taxonomy', published the first edition of his classification of living things in 1735, which evolved into a multi-volume work by 1758, fundamentally shaping how we classify organisms today.
• Mark Cavendish holds the record for the most successful British cyclist with a total of 48 Grand Tour stage wins and 30 Tour de France stage victories.
• Argentina invaded The Falkland Islands, leading to British forces recapturing the islands in June and Argentina's subsequent surrender.
• The three Billy Goats Gruff successfully outsmart a troll by leveraging their size differences to allow each goat to cross the bridge safely.

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