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24 unusual facts about the world


Alexander Makarov

Alexander Alexeyevich Makarov, Russian inventor in the field of mass spectrometry

Blood in the Face

According to the audio commentary on the Roger & Me DVD, Academy Award-winning American filmmaker Michael Moore appears as an off-screen interviewer because he was originally contacted to arrange a meeting between the filmmakers and the supremacists since he had previously interviewed them for a magazine.

Bob McMath

As Vice Provost at Georgia Tech, McMath oversaw student academic services and coordinated campus-wide initiatives to improve the teaching and learning environment for undergraduates, including the design and partial funding of the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons.

Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales

The song "Happily Ever After" was inspired by the children's book, The Paper Bag Princess, and "Buttercup's Lament" was inspired by The Princess Bride.

Cafe Chambord

By the mid-1950s, the Chambord was co-owned by Henry Margolis, a New York entrepreneur and theatrical producer, and his partner Phil Rosen, who ran the restaurant on a daily basis.

Chusquea

Some animals are, to various extents, associated with stands of Chusquea, for example the Inca Wren and the Plushcap.

Clapham railway station, Adelaide

Clapham railway station was a railway station on the Belair railway line in suburban Adelaide, South Australia, which was closed in April 1995.

D. D. Crew

D. Crew is similar to Capcom's Final Fight, which is an archetypal side scrolling beat-em-up game.

Hideous Records

They founded the label in 2007 after leaving their previous label Xtra Mile Records, due to financial issues towards their then-upcoming album In Nothing We Trust.

Khao Lak-Lam Ru National Park

The park is home to various reptile species including Bengal monitor and Malayan pit viper.

Lef Nosi

Edith Durham called him the only Albanian who understood the value of folklore.

Lew DeWitt

Songs he wrote for the group include "Flowers on the Wall," "Things," "Since Then," "Thank You World," "The Strand," "The Movies," and "Chet Atkins' Hand."

Lockwood Folly River

The river name appears on a John Ogilby map from 1671, making Lockwood's Folly River one of the oldest named rivers in North Carolina.

Niall mac Áeda

Niall Caille (died 846), King of Ailech and High King of Ireland

On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness

On March 21, during the Christian Book Expo in Dallas, Texas, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness was announced as a nominee for the 2009 Christy Award in the Young Adult category.

Saxman

Saxman, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia

Tartus

Tartus occupies most of a smooth ares, surrounded to the east by mountains composed mainly of limestone and, in certain places around the town of Souda, basalt.

The O'Brien's Group

Following that event the United States enacted the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, requiring ships to carry sufficient insurance and hire a management company to handle any oil spill.

The Wartburg Adult Care Community

However, Reverend Passavant, who had previously founded The Orphan’s Home and Farm School in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, convinced Moller of the need for a similar orphanage in New York to help the great number of children left fatherless by the Civil War.

The Western Lands

Scenes that are unmistakably auto-biographical include vignettes where Burroughs takes out evidence of amphetamine prescription bottles his mother gave him to sink with a large stone at the bottom of Lake Worth, Florida.

Thomas E. Levy

Levy is a field archaeologist with interests in the role of technology, especially early mining and metallurgy, on social evolution from the beginnings of sedentism and the domestication of plants and animals in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (7500 BCE) to the rise of the first historic Levantine state-level societies in the Iron Age (1200 – 500 BCE).

Travels with My Aunt

He travels first with her to Brighton, where he meets one of his aunt's old acquaintances, and gains an insight into one of her many past lives.

Trevor and Simon

In December 2006 they appeared in the BBC Two programme It Started With Swap Shop, a retrospective of BBC Saturday morning television, featuring in a filmed sequence with Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene, then in a studio sketch as the dry cleaners.

WPSA

Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia, Australian environmental conservation organisation