Random Fact: New! Grab iGoogle gadget for FactsCollection.com!
Runcorn Town Hall (pictured) was originally built as Halton Grange, a mansion for Thomas Johnson, a local soap and alkali manufacturer. 
/
- 0 / 0
/ - 0 / 0 Facts in category: ALL
| After Daniel Shanks and John Wrench calculated pi to 100,000 decimal digits, a bound, gold-inscribed printout of the digits was presented to the Smithsonian Institution?. |
| Then Conservative party leader William Hague and former Eastenders actor Michael Cashman campaigned for the 1999 Lichfield Council election. |
| The Australian Army's 1965–6 secret incursions into Indonesia during Australia's involvement in the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation were not officially acknowledged until 1996. |
| Although Darius Danesh did not win the first series of Pop Idol, he still achieved a number-one single with "Colourblind". |
| Disappearing Model, a body painting in which a model is painted so that she is indistinguishable from her background, is Joanne Gair's most famous work and was displayed on Ripley's Believe It or Not!. |
| Director/screenwriter Kang Dae-ha from Jeju Island, South Korea, directed films related to Korean shamanism. |
| Poricy Park in New Jersey is known for allowing limited collecting at its Cretaceous-era fossil shell beds. |
| The Wall Street Journal purchased computers belonging to al-Qaeda leaders found in the rubble of Mohammed Atef's (pictured) house. |
| openly gay actor John Barrowman was one of the final candidates for the role of the gay character Will in the pilot episode of Will & Grace, but lost to heterosexual Eric McCormack for not being "gay enough". |
| José Sabogal was "the most renowned early supporter" of the artistic indigenist movement of Peru. |
| In Breaking the Spell, the author discusses how she helped plan an assassination plot against a U.S. Attorney while at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's commune in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon. |
| Julie Wainwright was CEO of one of the shortest-lived public companies on record. |
| The Magnet was the first film to give James Fox a starring role, at the age of 11. |
Page 130 of 2206
