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17 unusual facts about the world


1,5-Pentanediol

A toy called Bindeez (Aqua Dots in North America) was recalled by the distributor in November 2007 because of the unauthorized substitution of 1,5-pentanediol with 1,4-butanediol.

Brian Park

Park left Coronation Street in 1998 to start Shed Productions with Coronation Street script executive Ann McManus, which produced TV shows such as Family Affairs, Bad Girls, Waterloo Road and Footballers Wives.

Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence

The inventor Charles Cros was convinced that pinpoints of light observed on Mars and Venus were the lights of large cities.

Frank Richter

Frank Richter, Sr. (1837–1910), Canadian rancher and settler of British Columbia

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

Working in the Tolima region inhabited by Amerindians and the renowned indigenous leader Quintin Lame, they also published a study indicating the indigenous culture of the local populations and also indicated the blood type variations among the indigenous groups of the Pijao in the Department of Tolima as further proof of their Amerindian identity as these tribes were arguing over rights to their ancestral territories.

Hamilton Bible

The Hamilton Bible (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina around 1350.

Heyday

Heyday Records, an independent record label founded in 1988 by Pat Thomas

Jets'n'Guns

The band provides downloads on their site containing the game soundtrack – however the song "Hero" is available separately — in MP3 and Ogg format.

Joe Navarro

In 2005 Navarro got involved in the World Series of Poker Academy, training players on poker tells after a chance meeting with Annie Duke on a Discovery Channel program about detecting lies.

Nancy Merki

In 1955, Merki's early life and struggle to defeat polio with the help of coach Cody was dramatized in an episode of the television anthology series Cavalcade of America entitled "A Time for Courage." The show starred Gloria Talbott as Merki and Hugh Beaumont as Jack Cody.

People Like a Happy Ending

Stillman's debut album, like his first release The Weightless EP, was entirely performed and recorded at home with the exception of the drums.

Phyllis Hudecki

Hudecki was appointed by Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin to serve as her Secretary of Education.

Regie Hamm

After college, Regie began experiencing songwriting success with songs recorded by the likes of Kenny Loggins, Maxi Priest, Bob Carlisle, Jaci Velasquez, and Clay Crosse.

Salt Spring

Salt Spring, originally, Aguaje de la Brea (tar springs), a spring in the Antelope Plain on the southeast end of Pyramid Hills, 0.6 miles south of Emigrant Hill and 1.5 miles north of Wagon Wheel Mountain in the Pyramid Hills of Kern County, California.

Upper Palatinate

Cadet branches of the Wittelsbach also ruled over smaller territories in Neuburg and Sulzbach.

White-eyed Parakeet

In addition to the nominate, there are two very similar subspecies, callogenys and nicefori, although the validity of the latter, based on a single specimen, is questionable.

Ziegler

Joachim Ziegler (1904-1945), SS-Brigadeführer and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves