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...that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan severely injured his back while filming the blockbuster hit Kal Ho Naa Ho?
...that iron deficiency anemia is the final stage of iron deficiency?
...that fetal hemoglobin synthesis is used to treat adults with sickle-cell disease?
...that the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is about three revellers who set out to kill Death?
...that Assyriologist Archibald Sayce discovered that the Hittite hieroglyphic system was predominantly syllabic?
...that writer Panait Istrati is known for his line, "All right, I can see the broken eggs. Where's this omelet of yours?"
...that the heavyweight class in boxing has no maximum weight limit?
...that the descent of Queen Elizabeth II leads back directly 1500 years and 50 generations to Cerdic of Wessex?
...that Anglo-German novelist Elizabeth von Arnim was a cousin of New Zealand short story writer Katherine Mansfield?
...that one way to calculate distances in terms of latitude and longitude is the Haversine formula?
...that the longest NHL overtime game in the history of hockey was a 116-minute 1936 match between the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons?
...that lumpsuckers are fish that have modified pelvic fins which have evolved into adhesive discs that allow them to adhere to their substrate?
...that the satiric New Zealand McGillicuddy Serious Party wanted to return to a medieval lifestyle and establish a monarchy based on the Scottish Jacobite line?
...that Eric Coates was an English composer who wrote some songs for lyrics written by Arthur Conan Doyle?
...that Chinese Taipei is the designated name the Republic of China (Taiwan) uses in most international organizations?
...that a suikinkutsu is both a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?
...that Kimono de Ginza are a group of kimono and Japanese clothing enthusiasts in Tokyo that meet monthly in full-dress in front of a department store and then later in an izakaya?
...that the unmanned Apollo 6 space capsule was recovered by the USS Okinawa (LPH-3) 380 miles north of Kauai, Hawaii?
...that some plants have tentacles, but octopuses have none? (they have arms instead)
...that the founders of College of Charleston included three signers of the Declaration of Independence and three signers of the United States Constitution?
...that a chroot is a sandbox "jail system" environment on a Unix system?
...that the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the heptathlon was Denise Lewis?
...that Queen Elizabeth I of England may have been named for her grandmother Elizabeth Boleyn?
...that Knecht Ruprecht, a figure in Germanic folklore, is often depicted as traveling with Santa Claus?
...that the Genghis Khan defeated Jelal ad-Din Mingburnu, sultan of the Khwarezmid Empire, at the Battle of Indus in 1221?
...that Bartlesville, Oklahoma's Price Tower is one of the only two Frank Lloyd Wright skyscrapers ever built?
...that a dichroic prism splits light into two beams of different color, or wavelengths?
...that image intensifiers, which are similar to night vision, were invented by Vladimir Zworykin, a World War II-era RCA employee?
...that the journalistic practice of muckraking began at McClure's magazine?
...that Pieter de Hooch, a genre painter from the Dutch Golden Age, died in an insane asylum?
...that the Zhang Zhung culture of Tibet is the source of the pre-Buddhist, shamanistic Bön religion?
...that Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park was originally an ostrich farm?
...that in cat coat genetics, two different X-chromosome alleles must be expressed to create a calico?
...that the site of the Franklin Dam was blockaded for seven months by protesters before its construction was halted by the High Court of Australia?
...that one of the three Hoenn starter Pokémon is Torchic?
...that the Fairey Seafox was a World War II reconnaissance floatplane of the Fleet Air Arm?
...that Connie Mack managed for 53 Major League Baseball seasons, winning nine pennants and five World Series?
...that Peter Mitchell called for mercy on Louis Riel and blamed John A. Macdonald for causing the Riel Rebellion?
...that a 2002 BBC World Service global poll voted A Nation Once Again the world's most popular tune?
...that a theme in Robert A. Heinlein's science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land is group marriage?
...that Pope Stephen VI exhumed the remains of Pope Formosus for the Cadaver Synod?
...that circles and Reuleaux triangles are examples of curves of constant width?
...that the Antarctica ecozone cannot support vascular plants?
...that a diplomatic bag is a term of art in both international relations and cryptography?
...that Prambanan, on Java, is the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia?
...that the scandalous murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor has never been solved?
...that Benguela current of the Southern Ocean has a small El Niño effect?
...that the fundamental complexity of chemical synthesis impedes many efforts at drug design?
...that the Jerusalem cricket is sometimes called "the old bald-headed man"?
...that autonomic ganglions are cell bodies within the autonomic nervous system?

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