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24 unusual facts about the world


Beach Girls

The Beach Girls, a 1982 sex comedy film starring Jeana Tomasina

Catherine of Saxony

Catherine of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (1421–1476), daughter of Frederick I, Elector of Saxony and wife of Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg

Chickamauga Dam

Some $52 million in additional funding was made available for the project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Danish pastry

The Danish was, according to Klitteng, the dish that he baked for the wedding of United States President Woodrow Wilson in December 1915.

David Pujadas

Pujadas made his apologies for this error in the edition of the following day, but two days later, following a vote of no confidence by the channel's directors, he was sanctioned with two weeks of forced vacation during which he was replaced by his stand-in, Carole Gaessler.

Defendu

Based on his training in boxing, wrestling, savate, early Judo at the Kodokan in Tokyo, and fights he was involved in during his police work, Fairbairn began to develop his own system of hand to hand combat, calling it "Defendu".

Dublin Food Co-op

The vast majority of pre-packed food the Co-op sells is organic and particular emphasis is placed on Fair Trade and environmentally-friendly produce.

Dwayne Slay

This achievement, along with Slay being one of the top tacklers in the Big 12, contributed to him being named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press in November, 2005.

Hartlepool Sixth Form College

The College's Netball team plays in the National Super League and academy players benefit from a close partnership with Oaksway Netball Club.

Heretics and Privateers

#"To Be Alive", a cover of a song first published in his first solo album, Forgotten Songs and Unsung Heroes

Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility

Across the Ohio river in Paducah, Kentucky, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, can enrich the uranium hexafluoride into various levels for nuclear power or nuclear weapon purposes.

Jean Broke-Smith

Prior to that she trained as fashion designer, milliner and make-up specialist, and herself was a model.

Joppa, Texas

On May 19, 1904, the first telephone was installed in Joppa and in 1911, the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company out of Leavenworth, Kansas built an iron bridge across the river.

Laser-guided bomb

It was determined that 48% of Paveways dropped during 1972–73 around Hanoi and Haiphong achieved direct hits, compared with only 5.5% of unguided bombs dropped on the same area a few years earlier.

Live at 5:30

Live at 5:30 is the name of two television programs airing in the Greater Toronto Area.

Llynnau Mymbyr

The river feeding the lakes is the Nantygwryd (or Nant-y-gwryd), which has its source at Llyn Cwm-y-ffynnon, also marked on maps as the Nant Gwryd, which is a tributary of the Afon Llugwy.

Margaret Webb Dreyer

They had one son, Thorne Webb Dreyer, a journalist and political activist, and a founding editor of The Rag in Austin and Space City! in Houston.

Mike Adams

Mike Adams, owner of NaturalNews, a site promoting alternative medicine and conspiracy theories

New Providence Wharf

The Ontario Tower has already been built but the taller Quebec Tower is apparently on hold.

Phalsbourg

The principality was acknowledged by Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II in 1629.

Potton, Quebec

Potton is a township municipality of about 1,850 people in Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, 125 km southeast of Montreal and next to the United States border, north of North Troy, Vermont.

Rubber band

In 2004 in the UK, following complaints from the public about postal carriers creating litter by discarding the rubber bands which they used to keep their mail together, the Royal Mail introduced red bands for their workers to use: it was hoped that, as the bands were easier to spot than the traditional brown ones and since only the Royal Mail used them, employees would see (and feel compelled to pick up) any red bands which they had inadvertently dropped.

Suzanne Mayfield Krieger

She is the chairman of the Slidell Symphony Society and has been active in bringing the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in the St. Tammany Parish schools.

Underground power station

It was designated an ASCE Civil Engineering Landmark in 1981.