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...that the language of the Guatemalan ethnic group of Maya called Itza, who once ruled over Chichen Itza, is almost extinct even though there's still an estimated population of 30,000 of them?
...that the British music journalist Everett True introduced Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love?
...that the veteran Polish actress Irena Kwiatkowska is most remembered for her television series role in which she performed various unusual or absurd jobs?
...that aviator Ruth Nichols, known at one time as the "Flying Debutante", flew every type of aircraft developed, from dirigible to supersonic jet?
...that one fan's elaboration of Quake's plot became the nearly four-hour film The Seal of Nehahra, the longest work of machinima at the time?
...that Harbhajan Singh was rewarded with an offer to become the Deputy Superintendent of Punjab police after becoming the first Indian cricketer to take a Test hat-trick?

...that American Civil War illustrator Alfred Waud made battlefield sketches that were quickly engraved and published by Harper's Weeklyallowing readers to visualize the war in an age before photographs appeared in press?
...that the Cerro Grande Fire, a major forest fire in New Mexico, USA, menaced the Los Alamos National Laboratory and produced a smoke plume that extended to Oklahoma?
...that underwater explosions produce ocean surface waves that are similar to tsunamis?
...that history of philosophy in Poland begins with the contributions of the 13th century philosopher, Witelo?
...that the Desert Tree Frog is one of Australia's most widely distributed frogs?
...that Baron Karl von Reichenbach, the prolific German chemist who discovered paraffin, creosote and phenol, proposed the existence of a quack physical energy, the Odic force, that could be detected only by specially sensitive people?
...that having served as both Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, Maria Echaveste is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a Presidential Administration?
...that the Fiat 130 Coupé featured a button-operated mechanism allowing the driver to open the passenger-side door?

...that the choice of location for Florida's capital, Tallahassee, was influenced by a waterfall in what is now Cascades Park (pictured)?
...that structure relocation has saved several buildings from destruction by moving them without the need for disassembly?
...that the small Fiat Cinquecento is among the few cars fitted with both transverse and longitudinal engines at the same time?
...that the Spanish used Puerto Rican masks called caretas to frighten lapsed Christians into returning to the church?
...that it was feared the broadcast of the Italian 1974 Eurovision song Si, meaning yes would influence a referendum on divorce?

...that the Minus Cube mechanical puzzle (pictured), first manufactured in the Soviet Union, is a 3D variant of the 15-puzzle?
...that Bubba the Grouper, the first known fish to receive chemotherapy, died recently in Chicago, Illinois?
...that Brian Kennedy's "Every Song Is A Cry For Love" was the 1000th song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest?
...that mobile phone throwing is an international sport in which thrown mobile phones are judged by the distance and choreographics of the throw?
...that Central Sikh Temple was Singapore's first gurdwara when it was initially set up in a police barracks in the 1880s?
...that Fernando Alonso became the youngest Grand Prix champion after winning the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix?

...that the Matra Rancho was based on the popular Simca 1100 supermini?
...that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reanalysing Atlantic hurricane data to correct errors in the hurricane database dating back to the Apollo Program?
...that the Royal West of England Academy housed the Bristol Aeroplane Company and the U.S. Army during World War II?
...that Sano Fusako was kidnapped in Niigata, Japan in 1990 at age 10 and was not freed until nine years and two months later?
...that "Ceol An Ghrá" was the first and only time that Ireland entered the Eurovision Song Contest with a song in Irish?
...that a lifeboat from the wrecked passenger steamship SS Valencia was found floating in good condition, 27 years after the ship's demise?

...that the Kullen Lighthouse (pictured), a prominent landmark on the Swedish coastline, is the most powerful lighthouse in Scandinavia?
...that architectural elements akin to those of the Olympic Stadium in Munich were incorporated in the Central Railway Station in Sofia during its latest renovation?
...that Parthiv Patel had never played domestic first-class cricket prior to becoming the youngest Test Wicketkeeper in history at just 17 years and 102 days?
...that Haraldskaer Woman, who lived around 540 BC, is one of the best preserved bog people ever discovered, and that forensic analysis reveals her last meal was blackberries and millet?
...that the Conference of Rulers of Malaysia plays an important role in the Malaysian elective monarchy?
...that a US$500 million ski village project promoted by Alfred Ford was rejected by the town of Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, due to the belief that local gods thought it was environmentally unsound?

...that the facade of the Central Sofia Market Hall (pictured) in Sofia, Bulgaria features a relief of the coat of arms of Sofia above the main entrance?
...that Portlethen Moss is an acidic bog that played a role in stopping the Roman advance in Scotland and whose traversal was used in the Bishops' Wars?
...that Clay Mathematics Institute fellow Akshay Venkatesh is the only Australian to win medals at both the International Physics and Mathematics Olympiads?
... that the largely unexplored Buddhist archaeological site of Noapara-Ishanchandranagar in Bangladesh is conjectured to be the lost city of Karmanta Vasaka?
...that the recent transport of the colossal Statue of Ramesses II from Cairo to the Giza Plateau was preceded by a mock move several weeks prior?
...that the St. James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand, was nearly demolished in the 1980s and is said to be haunted by numerous ghosts?

...that Bonin Petrels (pictured) nesting on Midway Atoll declined from an estimated 500,000 birds in 1943 to 32,000 in 1995?
...that murdered Australian designer Florence Broadhurst opened a performing arts academy in Shanghai before she became famous for her wallpaper designs?
...that Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean?
...that according to anthropologist Stanley Marion Garn, Neanderthal in China and Java were killed off by the more intelligent hominid "Sinanthropus Pithencanthropus", contributing to the Neanderthal extinction?
...that Ludwika Maria Gonzaga was the queen consort of two Kings of Poland?
...that the Battle of Maclodio earned the Republic of Venice its largest permanent land area in its 1000-year history?

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