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| German physicist Walter Gerlach helped prove the fact that electrons spin. |
| People of the Sonoran Desert in North America value the fruit of the Ferocactus wislizeni (pictured) as emergency food and also as a basis for confectionary. |
| Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell resigned as a Government whip to sue Auberon Waugh who claimed that his translation of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward was unauthorised, and helped lead to Solzhenitsyn's arrest. |
| Though Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Oregon Governor, he was the first native Oregonian to serve in that office. |
| Fort Delaware State Park, once a Civil War POW camp, is now home to one of the largest heronries north of Florida. |
| Time predicted 1973 to be a "gilt-edged year" for the stock market, just three days before the stock market crash of 1973–4 began, wiping 45% off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. |
| New York State Route 20SY is the only route in the state to have ever had the "SY" suffix. |
| Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of Scotland and England. |
| As part of Smirnoff vodka's Sea advertising campaign, parent company Diageo toured England with an installation capable of making saline or polluted water potable. |
| Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822) was the first university student ever to self-identify as Estonian, thus contributing to the Estonian National Awakening. |
| model Albert Reed, selected to appear in September 2007 on the United States television show Dancing with the Stars, admits that he cannot dance. |
| basketballer Jim Krebs wrote a humorous article for Sports Illustrated about surviving a plane crash during his third season in the NBA. |
| The Permanent North American Gaeltacht is an officially designated Irish speaking area in English/French speaking Ontario, Canada, the first of its kind outside of Ireland. |
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