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17 unusual facts about the world


Assisted suicide in the United States

The Massachusetts Death with Dignity Initiative, a ballot measure to legalize physician-assisted suicide, was narrowly defeated in a remarkable come-from-behind effort in the state's 2012 general election, with 51% of voters against the proposal.

Clash of the Codes

Steve Gurney: Steve Gurney is a New Zealand multisport and triathlon athlete famous for winning the "Coast to Coast" event a record 9 times.

Dumb Numbers

A project 10-years in the making, Dumb Numbers began through a fluke songwriting request by filmmaker John Waters.

Greedy algorithm

In the Macintosh computer game Crystal Quest the objective is to collect crystals, in a fashion similar to the travelling salesman problem.

Indian Naval Air Arm

INS Vikrant played a major role in the successful Naval blockade of East Pakistan.

Janet Ellen Morgan

Many writers and artists, including Judith Malina, founder of the Living Theater and poet Sheryl Saint Germain, have contributed to these works in order to flesh out these supreme beings and give them many voices.

Kalinyamat Kingdom

They eventually reached the Purwogondo, so called because this is where they first smelled the Prince's decaying corpse.

Kang Dong-won

In 2010 he scored an acting coup by being cast opposite acclaimed veteran actor Song Kang-ho in Jang Hoon's spy film Secret Reunion.

Keepin' the Summer Alive

Of the new songs, "Keepin' the Summer Alive" and "Livin' With a Heartache" were written by Carl Wilson and Randy Bachman (of The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive).

King Saud University

The facility was constructed in the 1980s by Blount International, a construction firm led by Winton M. Blount headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, after the firm was awarded the world's then largest fixed-price contract in history for the sum of approximately $5 billion.

Martin Pickford

Prior to 1993 the only institution with this privilege was the Kenya National Museums, in which Pickford was Head of the Department of Sites and Monuments from 1978 to 1984.

Ogwu James Onoja

Ogwu J. Onoja (born on 19 February 1968) is a legal practitioner and notary public with the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Potton municipal election, 2009

Jacques Marcoux was born to Canadian parents in Greenville, Maine, in 1945 and moved to Canada with his family two years later.

Strawberry Spit

Strawberry Spit (also Sanctuary Island) is a small artificial island in the San Francisco Bay's Richardson's Bay embayment of Strawberry Lagoon.

The Sunlandic Twins

"Everyday Feels Like Sunday", from the bonus EP, was featured on a NASDAQ commercial.

Torashirō Kawabe

After promotion to major general in 1938, Kawabe was again posted overseas as a military attaché, this time to Berlin, Germany and to Budapest, Hungary for two years.

Treaty of Batticaloa

The king also had to acknowledge Dutch imperial possessions in Colombo, Matara, Kalpitiya, Galle, Trincomalee, Mannar, and Batticaloa.