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30 unusual facts about the world


Abdul Sule

With the Doha club he was one of the top scorers and was scouted by Danish side Herning Fremad in 1997.

All Ceylon Tamil Congress

The ACTC was largely discredited when their ally the UNP moved away from bilingual and bicommunal policies towards a pro-Sinhala stance.

Aquapendens

Aquapendens is the Latin name for Acquapendente

Arrigo della Rocca

But Arrigo had Franceschino assassinated and rapidly conquered the rest of the island except the two Genoese fortresses of Bonifacio and Calvi.

CHKT

After Rogers Communications acquired Maclean-Hunter in 1994, CKYC was sold to Telemedia.

Cynghordy railway station

Cynghordy railway station serves the rural community of Cynghordy near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Forest Hills, North Carolina

Recently, several community members and Western Carolina University have proposed that the village of Forest Hills become the town/city of Cullowhee, incorporating the present Forest Hills boundaries and areas near Old Cullowhee Road and NC 107.

Francis de Laporte de Castelnau

From 1837 to 1841 he led a scientific expedition to Canada where he studied the fauna of the Canadian lakes and the political systems of Upper and Lower Canada (roughly corresponding to the modern provinces of Ontario and Quebec) and of the United States.

Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell

Francis, Lord Stewart, Bothwell and Commendator of Kelso Abbey (b. 1584) - After his father's death, in spite of the attainder, he is occasionally styled 'Earl Bothwell', and Lord Stewart and Bothwell.

George Grebenstchikoff

The Grebenstchikoffs later moved to Florida, where George taught creative writing and Russian literature at Florida Southern College from 1941 to 1952.

Georgy Grechko

He resigned from the space programme in 1992 to lecture on atmospheric physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele

The German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele was a Type 1934 destroyer built for the German Kriegsmarine in the mid-1930s.

Ian Dorricott

Dorricott attended West Bundaberg Primary School, Bundaberg State High School and the University of Queensland.

Janet Fox

The niece of American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, Fox may have been best known in the role of Bernice Niemeyer in the original Broadway production of Stage Door, and as Tina in the original Broadway production of Dinner at Eight.

John Benjamin Stone

The Benjamin Stone Collection housed in the Birmingham Central Library contains many thousands of examples of his work.

Kagera

Kagera River, originating in Burundi and flowing into Lake Victoria

Kilkee

Jacques Cousteau declared that it was the best diving spot in Europe, and one of the top 5 in the world.

Koseze

Koseze, Vodice, a settlement in the Municipality of Vodice, northern Slovenia

Matt Bronleewe

Outside of the Christian music genre, Bronleewe has worked with artists such as Australian Natalie Imbruglia, actress Hayden Panettiere, former Tonic frontman Emerson Hart and American Idol finalist Kimberley Locke.

Monotropaceae

Recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has however demonstrated that these genera are better placed in the blueberry family, the Ericaceae, in which they are now treated as a subfamily, the Monotropoidiae.

Nazis at the Center of the Earth

In his commentary director Joseph J. Lawson cites as his visual influences Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, John Carpenter, John Landis, David Lean, J.J. Abrams and Robert Rodriguez.

Stanley Walker

Stanley T. Walker (born 1922), American non-commissioned officer and Olympic biathlete

This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get

The song "The Order of Death" appears on the soundtrack of the movie, The Blair Witch Project, and the 1990 science fiction film, Hardware.

TPOK Jazz

The OK Jazz band was formed in 1956 in LĂ©opoldville (now Kinshasa), in what was at the time known as the Belgian Congo, later as Zaire and today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Trae tha Truth

In 2008, Trae Tha Truth was awarded by the mayor of Houston, Bill White, and Council Member Peter Brown with his own day, Trae Day, in honor of his outstanding work within the community.

Trichodesma zeylanicum

This species was first published as Borago zeylanica by Nicolaas Laurens Burman in 1768.

Valeria Puig

That same year she received a full scholarship based on academic excellence, professional development and personal motivation to go do an MA in Script-Writing and Producing for Film and Television at the University of Westminster in London where she worked with producers such as Nick Goldsmith.

Vipin Sharma

For his role in the film, he was nominated for a 2009 Star Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor.

William B. Franklin

In March 1862, the army was formed into corps, and Franklin appointed to head of the VI Corps, which he then led in the Peninsula Campaign.

Xylem Inc.

On October 31, 2011, Xylem Inc. completed its spinoff from ITT Corporation, and became a leading brand of water solution products, with 2011 revenues of $3.8 billion.