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...that according to the U.S. landmark court case Rennie v. Klein, an involuntarily committed mental patient has a constitutional right to refuse psychiatric medication?
...that c.300, Egyptian alchemist Agathodaimon produced arsenic trioxide, an amphoteric oxide which he described as a 'fiery poison'?
...that the Hogettes (pictured), a group of Washington Redskins fans who dress in drag and wear pig snout masks, have collected over US$100 million for charity since 1983?
...that the killing of a gay Marvel superhero by Wolverine led to the creation of the novel Hero, whose protagonist is a gay teenager?
...that a three-horse omnibus plied briefly between Dharmatala, a neighbourhood in Kolkata, and Barrackpore in November 1830?
...that the Kaiparowits Plateau in Utah contains fine details of bones, teeth, eggshells, and even tracks of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and other animals?
...that Central Asia plus Japan is an ongoing dialogue between Japan and the Central Asian republics to promote regional cooperation?
...that Chicago City Council alderman Toni Preckwinkle has dissented against Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley more often than any other alderman in council votes?
...that Saint Olaf's Church in Novgorod was a church especially for Vikings who stayed in Novgorod, Russia
...that only twenty Marines have received the Marine Corps Brevet Medal?
...that after only six games in 2007, college football player Michael Crabtree (pictured) broke the record for most touchdown receptions in a freshman season?
...that Wildenstein Index Numbers are used to chronologically index works of art by specific artists?
...that the Łódź insurrection was one of the largest disturbances of the Russian Revolution of 1905?
...that an American Civil War-era cannonball fired at Saint Paul's Church in Norfolk, Virginia was later reinserted into its wall?
...that in 1975, British historian Marcus Binney founded a lobby group for the preservation of endangered historic buildings?
...that the fire tower on Hunter Mountain in the Catskills is the highest in New York?
...that Polish-American historian Jerzy Jan Lerski was a member of the cichociemni, a Polish elite commando unit, during WWII?
...that Amsterdam has a concentric belt of canals around it?
...that Jesse Bankston was fired as director of the Department of Hospitals for refusing to release the Louisiana Governor from involuntary commitment to a mental institution?
...that close studding (example pictured) of timber-framed buildings was a 15–16th century status symbol, due to its lavish use of timber?
...that Wang Wanxing is the only person to have been released from a Chinese Ankang asylum to a Western country?
...that itinerant minister Adam Payne was decapitated by a band of Potawatomi during the 1832 Black Hawk War?
...that the town of Sant'Oreste, Italy grew up around the site at which Saint Orestes was said to have been buried alive during the reign of Nero?
...that Zdzisław Peszkowski, one of the few Polish Army officers who survived the Katyn massacre, became a priest and preached forgiveness for the massacre's perpetrators?
...that Patrick Ivuti's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon, one of the five major marathons, was his first marathon victory?
...that in 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine?
...that literary magazine Mundo Nuevo had to be abandoned by its founder because of a CIA scandal?
...that gamma ray burst progenitors include massive, rapidly rotating stars that may explode as hypernovae (Eta Carinae pictured)?
...that Daniel Theron formed a military bicycle corps for the Boer Army, leading British Frederick Roberts to put a £1,000 reward on his head?
...that Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake?
...that Hema Sardesai is the only Indian singer to have won the Grand Prix award at the International Pop Song Festival in Germany?
...that when Tungning forces under Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia after a siege in 1662, they ended decades of European colonial rule in Taiwan?
...that Jack Daniels, a New Mexico politician, gave out Jack Daniel's whiskey at campaign events?
...that Bashful Brother Oswald took his stage name so that it would appear that an unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her?
...Julius Kuperjanov (pictured), a partisan leader in the Estonian War of Independence, died in a successful assault in the 1919 Battle of Paju?
...that in the landmark case Erie v. Pap's A. M., the Supreme Court of the United States upheld an ordinance requiring some erotic dancers to wear nipple pasties and a G-string?
...that during the St. John's University strike of 1966–7, Jewish professor Israel Kugler sought an audience with Pope Paul VI to win his support?
...that in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?
...that while Al Jaffee created the comics character Ziggy Pig, it was Stan Lee who named him?
...that the Randy Van Horne Singers performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including "The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons"?
...that the megalithic Niedertiefenbach tomb in Hesse, Germany has at least ten discernible layers of burials from the New Stone Age?
...that archaeological finds from the German Glauberg plateau include a life-sized statue of a warrior (pictured) dating from around 500 BC?
...that former U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell left Congress in 1986 after contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite?
...that the New South Wales Court of Arbitration is claimed to be the first court devoted to resolving labour disputes in the world?
...that Ipi Tombe, a Thoroughbred racehorse, was sold for the equivalent of US$30 and went on to earn more than $1.5m in races on three continents?
...that William E. Metzger opened one of the United States' first automobile dealerships and co-organized Cadillac Motor Car Co?
...that Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
...that before becoming Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, Barthélemy Boganda was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the French National Assembly?
...that Rembrandt cut his 1661 painting The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis (detail pictured) to a quarter of its original size for easier sale?
...that the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal resulted in millions of dollars' worth of military aircraft being illegally transferred to private companies?
...that there is a U.S. beach resort named after the main character in William Vincent Wallace's 1845 opera Maritana?
...that the 203 BC Battle of Utica was the turning point of the Second Punic War?
...that Wilf Wild was the first Manchester City manager to win the League Championship?
...that Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of the Mysore kingdom in India, was also a collector and an inventor of board games?
...that Chapter XVI of the United Nations Charter declares that if there is a conflict between the Charter and any other treaty, the UN Charter will prevail?
...that physicians have tried using Coca-Cola to disintegrate food stuck in the esophagus (pictured)?
...that the academic journal African Affairs was first published to commemorate the travels of the explorer Mary Kingsley?
...that the Solarium Augusti in ancient Rome was the largest sundial in history?
...that the Orthodox cave monastery in Bakota, Ukraine is said to have been founded by St. Anthony of Kiev?
...that Peter Paul Rubens produced a series of paintings depicting episodes from Marie de' Medici's life for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris?
...that Henri Bergson's theory of Duration overcomes Zeno's paradoxes by arguing that mobility is indivisible?
...that former mayor of San Jose, California Ernie Renzel was called the "Father of San Jose International Airport" for his work in establishing the city's first airport?
...that the tidewater glacier cycle describes the centuries-long cycle of alternating advances and retreats of fjord-carving glaciers (pictured) terminating in tidewater?
...that the Indo-Burma barrier, a 1,624 kilometer-long barrier between India and Burma, is being built to curtail gunrunning and illicit drug trafficking?
...that legally, a Mett, a preparation of minced pork popular in Germany, is not allowed to contain more than 35% fat?
...that in Orangeville, Illinois, four of the five Registered Historic Places: Union House, Masonic Hall, People's State Bank, and Central House are all within three blocks of each other?
...that Chinua Achebe's novel A Man of the People described a coup d'état so similar to the real circumstances of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi's rise to power in Nigeria that Achebe was suspected of knowing about the coup in advance?
...that John William Waterhouse's 1888 painting The Lady of Shalott (pictured), based on Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem, portrays the Lady sailing towards Camelot and certain death?
...that the Shrapnel Valley Cemetery at Gallipoli is named after the distinctive sound produced by shrapnel in the area?
...that Jenna Bush's book Ana's Story, about a young woman with AIDS, has been criticized for not taking a stand on her father U.S. President George W. Bush's policies toward United Nations AIDS programs?
...that the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party?
...that the works of poet Frank Messina include responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks, and poems about the New York Mets?
...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester (pictured) questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
...that in the post-World War I business slump, Chicago meat packing magnate J. Ogden Armour lost a million dollars a day for 130 days?
...that the first ever Representative Assembly in 19th century British India was formed in the Kingdom of Mysore?
...that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
...that the Niedermünster in Regensburg was the wealthiest and most influential house of canonesses in Bavaria?
...that least-squares spectral analysis is a method for estimating a frequency spectrum, based on a least squares fit between data and trigonometric functions?
...that the events surrounding the lynching of Joe Coe in Omaha, Nebraska in 1891 are said to foreshadow the lynching of Willy Brown 28 years later?
...that Dutch abstract artist Jules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible"?
...that the Gagarin's Start rocket launch site (pictured) at Baikonur Cosmodrome was used for over 400 space missions, including the world's first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight?
...that C.W.W. Kannangara, Sri Lanka's first Minister of Education, made education free for all children in the country?
...that Clarence W. Wigington, the first African American municipal architect, designed four buildings in two cities that are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that Joe Keenan's 2006 novel My Lucky Star won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2007?
...that Joe Mitty launched the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom, in Oxford in 1949?