Random Fact: New! Grab iGoogle gadget for FactsCollection.com!
The BAE Systems HERTI is the first and only fully autonomous UAV to have been certificated by the United Kingdom. 
/
- 0 / 0
/ - 0 / 0 Facts in category: ALL
| Ambler's Texaco Gas Station (pictured) in Dwight, Illinois was the longest operating filling station along U.S. Route 66. |
| Hugo Award-winning science fiction fan and editor Earl Kemp served a year in prison for publishing an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. |
| The Trinitarian Church (pictured) in Bratislava was built on the place of older settlement which was demolished in 1529 due to the Ottoman wars. |
| Nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska to their local roadway after the highway was rerouted there in 1930. |
| The sale of the Libyan Arabian Cement Co. was the country's first initial public offering of shares and the biggest sale of a Libyan state-owned business. |
| The earliest bones of the rare Golden Guernsey goat, dating from 2000 BC, were found in dolmens in Guernsey on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy. |
| Although Ronald Bird was on the staff of Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1934, his first-class debut came eleven years later for their rivals Worcestershire. |
| The winnings from the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup were paid out in the form of over a hundred sacks of IR£1 notes. |
| Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries. |
| Charles Willson Peale's 1822 self-portrait The Artist in His Museum (pictured) summarizes his career as a painter, taxidermist, and naturalist. |
| The German children's series Bibi Blocksberg has been criticised because it can give a negative view of politics to children. |
| When Nebraska completed construction of its stretch of Interstate 80 in 1974, it became the first state in the U.S. to complete its mainline interstate system. |
| The planned South Beach complex in Singapore will incorporate four conservation buildings, where the first National Service enlistment was held in 1967. |
Page 1379 of 2206
