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30 unusual facts about the world


Andrew de Guldeford

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ANK3

The protein encoded by this gene, ankyrin-3 is an immunologically distinct gene product from ankyrins ANK1 and ANK2, and was originally found at the axonal initial segment and nodes of Ranvier of neurons in the central and peripheral nervous systems.

Anna Wilson-Jones

Wilson-Jones has also featured in Midsomer Murders, the ITV parapsychology drama afterlife in which she plays Jude Bridge, the ex-wife of Robert Bridge (played by Andrew Lincoln) and from June 2007 she appeared as Sally in an ITV drama serial The Time of Your Life.

Antoine Deparcieux

Antoine Deparcieux was born in 1703 in Cessoux parish, Peyremale, a small village close to Alès in the Gard department the south of France.

Bill Hillgrove

Former Pittsburgh Pirate Dick Groat serves as Hillgrove's broadcast partner for basketball and former Pitt offensive lineman, and All-American Bill Fralic was his partner for football games until 2011, when former Pitt QB Pat Bostick took over after Fralic stepped down.

Cale Gale

In 2004, competing in the Southern All Stars Supertruck Touring Series, Gale won two feature races and also broke two qualifying records at Sunny South Raceway in Grand Bay, Alabama and Lanier Speedway (Gainesville, Georgia).

Chellis Glendinning

Glendinning's relations include Thomas Hooker, founder of the colony of Connecticut; Dr. Frank E.Bunts, founder of the Cleveland Clinic; and the civil rights activist, her mother Mary Hooker Glendinning.

Conrad Westmaas

Westmaas appeared in a range of audio dramas by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC television series Doctor Who from 2003-2007, starred alongside Ciaran Griffiths in the 2007 short film The Visitor and in Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare's Globe.

Cully Cobb

Cobb was originally a poor farm boy born in his grandfather's cabin near Prospect in Giles County in rural southern Tennessee.

Deathbed phenomena

Deathbed visions have been described since ancient times, however the first systematic study was not conducted until the 20th century.

Endless Renovation

Endless Renovation is the third album by SubArachnoid Space, released on June 23, 1998 through Release Entertainment.

Erik Schmidt

Erik Schmidt's father, August Schmidt, a master mariner, was captain of SS Merisaar, a merchant ship owned by Merilaid & Co. Erik also hoped to become a sea captain in the future but he was also a talented amateur painter.

Evolutionary developmental biology

Classic examples of this are the already mentioned Distal-less gene, which is responsible for appendage formation in both tetrapods and insects, or, at a finer scale, the generation of wing patterns in the butterflies Heliconius erato and Heliconius melpomene.

Gerleve Abbey

Gerleve Abbey (in German Kloster or Abtei Gerleve) is a monastery of the Benedictine Order situated between Coesfeld and Billerbeck in Westphalia (North Rhine-Westphalia), in Germany.

Harry Bromley Davenport

This began an ongoing professional relationship between Bromley Davenport and Daryl Haney, which ultimately changed the direction of Bromley Davenport's career, culminating in a trio of films that are arguably his finest works: Life Among the Cannibals (1996), Erasble You (1998) and the true story Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001), starring Sean Young.

Issyk Kul

India is also planning to use the torpedo test facility to test the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle being developed by NSTL.

Judith Rich Harris

Since 1977, Harris has suffered from a chronic autoimmune disorder, diagnosed as a combination of lupus and systemic sclerosis.

KFSN-TV

KFSN's studios are located in downtown Fresno, and its transmitter is based in Meadow Lakes, California.

Luiz Alberto de Araújo

Luiz Alberto de Araújo (born 27 June 1987 in Artur Nogueira, São Paulo) is a Brazilian decathlete.

Malësia

Albanian-inhabited villages of Hoti, Gruda and Koći are, from Albanian point of view, part of the wider Malësia-region (Malesija).

Mark Leung

Leung first approached Hong Kong Polytechnic University's School of Design seeking incubation services to form a game development team.

P. communis

Pyrgus communis, the common checkered-skipper, a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae

Paleodictyon nodosum

Adolf Seilacher who discovered the original fossils of Paleodictyon nodosum hypothesizes that the creature is a worm-like species that burrows into the sediment around hydrothermal vents and deflects water flow through the burrows to catch food or farm its own food.

Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam

Despite their quick rejection of Ismail II’s policies, the majority of Ulema and the military-political centre avoided a confrontation with him, even though in place of zealous Shia scholars like the Astarabadis, the Shah appointed Ulema with Sunni leanings such as Mawlana Mirza Jan Shirazi and Mir Makhdum Lala.

Stand By Your Ad provision

The DISCLOSE Act, proposed by Democrats in a response to the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (which held that corporations and labor unions have a constitutional right to spend unlimited sums of money on advocacy ads) would have required the heads of non-campaign organizations funding a political advertisement on-camera (such as "super PACs" or corporations) to follow a "stand by your ad" requirement.

Stephen A. Jarislowsky

In 2005 he published The Investment Zoo: Taming the Bulls and the Bears which sold more than 15,000 copies in Quebec and pushed the French edition of The Da Vinci Code out of the top position on the bestseller list.

William Branch

William Branch Giles (1762–1830), American statesman, senator and governor of Virginia

William N. Valavanis

William N. Valavanis, born September 3, 1951 in Waukegan, Illinois, is a Greek-American bonsai master who carries on Yuji Yoshimura's tradition of teaching Japanese techniques and aesthetics to enthusiasts in the West.

Yaguine Koita and Fodé Tounkara

Yaguine Koïta (born September 25, 1984) and Fodé Tounkara (born April 6, 1985) were stowaways who froze to death on a Sabena Airlines Airbus A330 (Flight 520) flying from Conakry, Guinea, to Brussels, Belgium, on July 28, 1999.

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner

The "Special Edition" PAL and NTSC-J versions of the game featured a variety of additions and extras to the game, including new VR Training options, added scenarios, more difficulties, a music video featuring a remixed "Beyond the Bounds" theme, improved anti-aliasing and graphical optimizations, and new Orbital Frames for Versus Mode, among other improvements to the game.