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30 unusual facts about the world


999-9999

The story, about the deadly consequences of receiving a telephone call from the number 999-9999, is similar in premise to Final Destination or 976-EVIL.

Alois Glück

Furthermore, he is a board of trustees member of the society ProChrist which is the organizer of large evangelisation events and associated with the YMCA.

Bryan Donkin

In 1813 he and a printer, Richard Mackenzie Bacon of Norwich, obtained a patent for a "Polygonal printing machine"; this used types placed on a rotating prism.

Burkinabin C

Burkinabin C is a divanilloylquinic acid found in the root bark of Fagara zanthoxyloides (Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides).

Chicago Storm

The team moved its home games to the newly built Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, a northwest suburb of Chicago, for the 2006-07 season.

De Bernardi M.d.B. 02 Aeroscooter

Seeking to improve the design, the M.d.B. 02 Aeroscooter was developed as a two seat aircraft to be built by CAP in Bergamo, Italy.

Doodlez

Dood gets himself in and out of various Duck Amuck-esque situations, with the aid of Hand, a disembodied hand that uses his pencil to draw (sometimes) helpful things onto the screen for Dood's use, such as helping Dood cheat in a skating race against his rival by drawing a booster behind Dood.But usually Hand draws very bad things.

ELINCS

Like IHE, the ELINCS profile constrains the generic HL7 standard to a specific set of use cases.

Frank Gross

Gross was born in Chesley, Ontario, had lived in Listowel, Ontario until 1948, and established his residence in Chatham at 11 Stone Avenue in April, 1948.

Jaan Marbu Ka

Jaan Marbu Ka is a Bhojpuri music album of artist and producer Dinesh Agrahari Deewana, Mamta Sharma and Indu Sonali presented under the banner of Jhinka Film Production.

Jimmy Johnstone: Lord of the Wing

The film culminates with Jimmy joining Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill (from Simple Minds) to record a cover of the Ewan MacColl classic, "Dirty Old Town", which was later released as a charity single, to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

John Evelyn Duigan

Within weeks of Duigan's arrival in South Africa, he was seriously wounded during the siege of Wepener.

Louis Godin

The expedition sailed from Rochelle, May 16, 1735, touched at Cadiz to take two naval lieutenants, whom Philip V had ordered to accompany it, and proceeded to Santo Domingo, where they remained six months to take observations.

Lyons, Australian Capital Territory

The Deakin acid Volcanics can be observed in cuttings along Tuggeranong Parkway, and Devonport Street.

Mayoi Neko Overrun!

In this adaptation, many characters from Yabuki's previous manga, To Love-Ru, make cameo appearances.

Michel Dion

During the 1971 and 1972 seasons, Michel played professional baseball in the Montreal Expos' organization with the Cocoa Expos and with the West Palm Beach Expos.

Microsoft Surface

David Pogue at The New York Times praised the hardware but criticized the software.

National Centre for Biological Sciences

National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, is a research centre specialising in biological research.

Piet Velthuizen

His career developed rapidly, and according to Sky Sports, he is, as of 2008, among the most promising goalkeepers in Europe.

President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville

Bougainvilleans elected the next President in December 2008, choosing James Tanis.

Pretzsch

Pretzsch, Wittenberg, a community in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Sol Garfunkel

Sol is best known for hosting the 1987, PBS series titled "For All Practical Purposes: An Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics", followed by the 1991 series, "Algebra: In Simplest Terms", both often used in classrooms.

Split album

There have been singles and EPs of the same variety, which are often called "split singles" and "split EPs" respectively.

U.S. Route 219 in Maryland

US 219 leaves the town limits of Oakland and regains the name Garrett Highway north of the Walmart Supercenter, where the Oakland Bypass is expected to rejoin the current alignment.

Union Mundial pro Interlingua

It is a non-profit organization that now operates out of Bilthoven, Netherlands.

Utensil

Dragon Throne, also called the "divine utensil" — the rhetorical seat of power in the Empire of China (221 BC – 1912)

Widdringtonia whytei

It is only on Mulanje and Mchese Mountain, that a closely related tree form is found, Widdringtonia whytei, commonly known as Mulanje Cedarwood, but renamed “Mulanje Cypress” by the University of the Witwatersrand, to better reflect its botanical relationships.

William Beauvais

He has also worked with choreographers Terrill Maguire and Hedy Minton, as well as poets Steven McCabe, Richard Truhlar and Wayne Keon.

Workaholics

Bradley Murphy (Edward Barbanell) is Alice's foul-mouthed older brother who has Downs Syndrome.

You're a Big Girl Now

The song has been covered by Lloyd Cole on his studio album ETC, by Jimmy Lafave, by Lisa Miller on her 1996 album Quiet Girl with a Credit Card, by Zita Swoon on their 2006 album Camera Concert - A Band In A Box, and by My Morning Jacket on the 2012 compilation album Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International.