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28 unusual facts about the world


1938 Norwegian Football Cup Final

Goals were scored by Thorleif Larsen after five minutes and Knut Brynildsen, on a penalty kick after 40 minutes for Fredrikstad; Mjøndalen reduced with goals by Trygve Halvorsen and Jørgen Hval after 60 and 63 minutes, respectively.

1993 Football League Second Division play-off Final

Instead, after barely surviving the next season, they steadily improved until achieving promotion to the Premier League by finishing second in the 2001-02 season.

Astragalus jaegerianus

The flowers are insect-pollinated, with the most common pollinator being the megachilid bee Anthidium dammersi.

Balance bar

The company's speedy growth caught the attention of Kraft Foods, which purchased the company for $268 million ($19.40 per share) in January 2000 as part of a strategy to expand its product line to natural foods.

Edmund Filmer

Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet (1835–1886), MP for West Kent 1859–1865 and Mid Kent 1880–1884

Gennady Dmitryak

In December, 2011 he was principal guest conductor at the 4th United Nations's Alliance of Civilizations conference in Katar.

Heinrich Rickert

Contrary to philosophers like Nietzsche and Bergson, Rickert emphasized that values demand a distance from life, and that what Bergson, Dilthey or Simmel called "vital values" were not true values.

John Manning Ward

They were all killed when a commuter train collided with the rear of the steam train near Hawkesbury River railway station in the Cowan rail accident.

Krugel

Earl Krugel (1942–2005), an American coordinator for Jewish Defense League who plead guilty to terrorism charges in 2005

La Bombonera

The stadium's exterior was later decorated with works by painters Rómulo Macció and Pérez Celis.

Margaret Moth

In July 1992, Moth was shot and severely wounded while filming in Sniper Alley in Sarajevo.

Metrication in Chile

In the film Pulp Fiction it is true that because of the metric system in France, this sandwich was called Royale with cheese.

Mobile phone industry in the United States

:brand of T-Mobile US, MetroPCS currently operate using its own CDMA and LTE networks, but plans to eventually migrate towards using T-Mobile's GSM, HSPA+, and LTE networks.

Mount Morgan Mine

Wealth from the Mount Morgan mine was also bequeathed in 1912 to establish the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

One False Step for Mankind

According to the game rules "It's one false step for Mankind, one giant leap for you." This is a clear play on astronaut Neil Armstrong's first spoken words on the surface of the moon in 1969.

Øystein Alme

He wrote, with Morten Vågen, the book "Silenced - China’s Great Wall of Censorship", published by Amaryllis Media in late may, 2006.

Peter Garthwaite

In the 1960s he reacted strongly against the then-current view of forestry, driven by economics and based on the rigid application of "net discounted revenue" assessments of timber value; he regarded this as short-sighted, and in association with the landscape architect Dame Sylvia Crowe he fought to broaden the Commission's approach to take account of conservation and landscape.

Philippe Apeloig

In 1988, thanks to a grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he went to Los Angeles to work with April Greiman.

Redcurrant

These include Ribes spicatum (northern Europe and northern Asia), Ribes alpinum (northern Europe), R. schlechtendalii (northeast Europe), R. multiflorum (southeast Europe), R. petraeum (southwest Europe) and R. triste (North America; Newfoundland to Alaska and southward in mountains).

Samaritan Snare

Their modus operandi is to exaggerate their distress and helplessness to lure in "good Samaritans" whose advanced technology and knowledge can then be taken by force in a surprise attack or kidnapping.

Sebastian Kehl

Kehl's fortunes were to mirror those of the club: although he did feature for the national side in their home World Cup, he injured his left knee in a challenge with Bayern's Hasan Salihamidžić on the first day of the 2006–07 season, and managed just four starts as the team limped to ninth place and the club's continuing financial woes forced changes in the boardroom.

Solmization

In India, the origin of solmization was to be found in Vedic texts like the Upanishads, which discuss a musical system of seven notes, realized ultimately in what is known as sargam.

Sonya Fitzpatrick

She resides in the Conroe Woods subdivision in the Conroe, Texas area, outside Houston.

Tapanahony River

Upstream, there are many villages inhabited by Indian Tiriyó people, while further downstream villages are inhabited by the Indian Wayana and Maroon Ndyuka people.

Three-dimensional face recognition

This allows for good recognition accuracy with low cost off-the-shelf components.

Utkan Demirci

His research interests involve biological applications of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and acoustics, especially: microfluidics for low cost CD4 counts for HIV in resource-limited-settings for global health problems; acoustic picoliter droplets for cell-by-cell 3D tissue generation, and semiconductor applications; capacitive micromachined ultrasonic arrays (CMUTS) for medical imaging applications.

We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet

While preparing to speak at a CES fireside being held at Brigham Young University's Marriott Center on February 7, 1993, then President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Howard W. Hunter was confronted by Cody Judy, who rushed onto the rostrum and threatened Hunter and the audience of 15,000–17,000.

Willis Mahoney

He was a member of the Washington State legislature, mayor of Klamath Falls, Oregon and three times was a candidate to represent Oregon in the United States Senate, losing to Charles L. McNary in 1936, Rufus Holman in 1938, and Guy Cordon in 1944.