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26 unusual facts about the world


1980 Surinamese coup d'état

On 8 December 1982, a group of fifteen academics, journalists, lawyers, union leaders, and military officials, who opposed the military rule in Suriname were snatched from their beds and brought to Fort Zeelandia in Paramaribo where they were tortured and executed by Bouterse's soldiers.

Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia

Immunophenotyping using MoAb to megakaryocyte restricted antigen (CD41 and CD61) may be diagnostic.

Azuqueca de Henares

In the Middle Ages, it was a refuge for the traders when it was under Arabic control, but, after the Christian reconquest, by the king Alfonso VI.

Blessed John Paul II Shrine

Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, announced on August 2, 2011 plans to purchase the Cultural Center.

Bloody Knife

Bloody Knife had a problem with alcohol that may have led to him deserting his post in September 1868.

Darren Soto

In 2006, Soto ran for a seat in Florida House of Representatives from the 40th District, unsuccessfully challenging incumbent State Representative Andy Gardiner.

Ernest Llewellyn

Later that month the retiring Governor-General Sir Zelman Cowen announced that the proceeds of his farewell concert would be devoted to the Ernest Llewellyn Memorial Scholarship, to help young musicians and the advancement of string playing in Australia.

Exhibition Street, Melbourne

It was the second major market in Melbourne, after the Western Market.

Exxon

Originally, cameras, such as the Maxxum 7000, lenses and flashes used a logo with a crossed 'XX' in 'MAXXUM'.

GMT900

GMT900 had been called a "Hail Mary pass" for the General Motors Corporation — the company needed the revenue from these large trucks to ensure their financial solvency.

Kouadio Pascal Doubaï

Kouadio Pascal Doubaï, also known just as Pascal Doubaï (born 22 May 1992) in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire, is a Cote d'Ivoireian association footballer currently playing for BSC Young Boys in the Swiss Super League.

Madurta railway station

South Australian Railways Working Timetable Book No. 265 effective 10:00am, Sunday, 30 June 1974.

Martin Gerken

Martin Gerken was a German communist and one of the highest-ranking Kapos in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

Meauma Petaia

Meauma play in mai 2011 with Tuvalu national futsal team at the Oceanian Futsal Championship, he played all four games.

Mera Yaar Mera Dushman

Frame by frame of a murder plot, unraveled by a boxing champion, played by Mithun, who is the brother of Ramesh Deo, the Union Leader killed.

Mutterschied

The self-administering Inngericht of Mutterschied formed a Schultheißerei with the municipalities of Mörschbach, Schnorbach and Wahlbach.

Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, Quebec

On June 18, 1845, the Governor General of the Provinces of Canada, Charles Metcalfe, enacted the establishment of local and municipal authorities in Lower Canada, including the Municipality of Petite-Nation which included the Parish of Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours-de-la-Petite-Nation.

Olive, California

Smaller ranchos evolved from this large rancho including the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana.

Orange Jackets

Orange Jackets is known for their volunteer efforts on campus and in the community with the Settlement Home of Austin, ARC of the Capital Area, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Piston Whipped

Piston Whipped is the second album album by the Pittsburgh heavy rock band Motorpsychos.

Ron Dawson

(DUKW) tells how a Birmingham gang captured and looted the island of Guernsey in the 1950s.

Takasago International Corporation

In 2001, Takasago's Professor Ryōji Noyori won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations.

The Big Country

A decade later, girl-group Atomic Kitten used the same sample on their Top 20 hit I Want Your Love in 2000.

The Steam Man of the West

The novels set in 1868 center around young inventor Frank Rude, Jr., (a parody of dime novel hero Frank Reade, Jr.), his cousin Charlie Bull, his sister Inanna Rude, Denver Doll the Detective Queen, the orphans PS and Kurt Wagner, Bessie Little the Masked Rider, photographer Eadweard Muybridge, and the detective and vigilante the Woman in Black.

Tim Balme

Balme and his wife, along with Simon Bennett and Robyn Malcolm, founded the New Zealand Actors' Company, which ran for three productions before being dissolved.

Workers' Institute

Miners' institute or mechanics' institute, buildings constructed for workers' education and meetings