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...that the Roman abacus incorporated mixed-base arithmetic?
...that the French village of Giverny, best known as the home and landscape subject of Claude Monet, is a pre-Roman town known in ancient deeds as Warnacum?
...that Governor-General outranks the Prime Minister in the New Zealand order of precedence?
...that historical hearsay states John of Kolno came to the New World in 1476, 16 years ahead of Christopher Columbus?
...that past Olympic mascots include several bears named Misha, Coal, Howdy and Hidy, and dogs Cobi and Waldi ?
...that pineconefish have no apparent sexual dimorphism?
...that Commodore Horatio Bridge was the first officer to employ the idea of comprehensive fleet supply within the United States Navy?
...there are large stands of primeval forest on the border between Poland and Belarus?
...that the Monty Python song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a parody of the type of song featured in Disney films?
...that the AVE Mizar was a flying car created by attaching part of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford Pinto?
...that the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia pioneered the use of incubators for newborn intensive care?
...that the main sounds made by Lichtenstein's Hartebeest are a bellow and a sneeze-snort?
...that the Wicked Witch of the West controls the Winged Monkeys through the power of the Golden Cap?
...that some Native Americans called the Douglas Squirrel the "Pillillooeet"?
...that The Brighter Day is the only explicitly religious soap opera ever to air on American network television?
...that the Seattle Fault is believed capable of producing an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale?
...that the Supreme Court of Sweden ceased to render verdicts in the name of the Swedish monarch in 1974?
...that You Bet Your Life was a radio and television quiz show hosted by Groucho Marx?
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