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27 unusual facts about the world


Aandavan

Aatank Hi Aatank, a 1995 Bollywood film, dubbed into Tamil in 2000 as Aandavan

Adamowski

Helenka Adamowska-Pantaleoni, Polish-American humanitarian and founding director of U.S. Fund for UNICEF (sister of Tadeusz Adamowski and niece of Timothee Adamowski)

Ain Mosni

On a TV program called 'Music Makers' that aired in 2005 on the Nigerian Television Authority Abuja, the host asked him what the name 'Rogueman' meant.

Australian Pacific Touring

Gaining his first charter license, he secured a contract to take students to and from Firbank Grammar School and Haileybury College, where Geoff was a student.

Bartlett Ministry

The second Bartlett Ministry was formed on 21 April 2010, and contained two members of the Tasmanian Greens.

Bergen Nordhordland Rutelag

The company also operated car ferries and owned the ferry company Fjord Line.

Deviant sexual intercourse

Deviant sexual intercourse is, in some U.S. states, a legal term for "any act of sexual gratification involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another, anus to mouth or involving invasion of the anus or vagina of one person by a foreign object manipulated by another person".

Elwood Ullman

A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Ullman chose a writing career, supplying humorous articles for magazines in the 1930s.

Eugenio Siller

Santiago Siller Rodríguez (born on April 5, 1981 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, singer, and model who is best known for starring in popular novelas Rebelde, Código Postal, Al Diablo con los Guapos, Mi Pecado, Aurora and Una Maid en Manhattan.

Family 1

Omission is supported by the manuscripts: Sinaiticus, B, L, f1 700 vg Funafuti

The Tuvalu national football team trains at the Tuvalu Sports Ground on Funafuti and competes in the Pacific Games and South Pacific Games.

Hoover Field

In February 1927, a group of aviators and aviation companies, led by aviation pioneer Henry Berliner, called for the establishment of a new, larger airport on the site of just across Military Road (the southern boundary of Hoover Field).

Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs

Some participants in the study also appeared on the show, including a vicar, an ex-soldier, writer Lionel Shriver, actor Keith Allen and former Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris.

Jeff Gralnick

A graduate of New York University, Jeff was familiar with the NYC Metro as an Adjunct Professor of New Media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Fairfield University Journalism Program.

Jerry Hunter

Llwch Cenhedloedd, (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2003), which writes the history of the American Civil War based on Welsh-language evidence (mainly letters and other material written and published in Welsh on both sides of the Atlantic), won the Wales Book of the Year award in 2004.

Manilal C. Parekh

Prior to that, at an age of fifteen, he seems to have already read The Use of Life written by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, and also The Imitation of Christ influencing him in moral and spiritual attraction at an younger age.

Meydenbauer Beach Park

Meydenbauer Beach Park is a park located in Bellevue, Washington along Lake Washington.

Mount Barker railway station

Three years earlier construction on a branch line from Mount Barker Junction to Victor Harbor, with stations at Mount Barker, Strathalbyn, and Goolwa, was begun, and completed in 1884.

Pedram Javaheri

Pedram Javaheri also known as "P.J. Javaheri" (born May 24, 1983) is an Iranian-American Meteorologist for CNN International based at the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Peñas de Aya

According to a recurrent account in Basque mythology (e.g. Aballarri in Adarra), it is made up of a stone kicked by mythological character Sanson (Basque development of biblical Samson) from Jaizkibel, while another suggests that it fell down from a pocket of his when he was bombing the valley with huge rocks.

Reichsflotte

The German Confederation, founded in 1815, was initially not in need of a navy, as it could rely on three members who commanded large fleets: The Grand Duke of Luxembourg as commander of the Royal Dutch Navy, the Duke of Holstein as the commander of the Danish Navy, and last but not least, the King of Hanover as commander of the British Royal Navy.

Speckled Wood

Pararge xiphioides, the Canary Speckled Wood Staudinger, 1871

The Mindbenders

A second song by Bayer and Wine, "Ashes to Ashes," took the Mindbenders to No. 14 in the UK Singles Chart in the autumn of 1966, after an earlier effort in 1966, "Can't Live With You (Can't Live Without You)" had struggled to break the UK Top 30.

Thrikkakara Temple

The temple houses lithic records of historic significance, and it finds mention in many of the hymns sung by the Tamil Vaishnavite Alwars, particularly Nammalvar of the 7th-9th century CE.

Tilstock Airfield

Tilstock Airfield is an airfield located in Shropshire, England

University of Oulu

Famous for operating surgeries on many top athletes such as David Beckham.

Vincent Cannistraro

Since leaving the CIA in 1991, after 27 years with the agency, Cannistraro has worked as a consultant on terrorism and security issues for a number of corporate and government clients, including ABC News and the Vatican.