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The color signals of Israel Broadcasting Authority television transmissions were erased until 1981, to insure equality for families who couldn't affored color-tv. 
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| Taiwan's first printed newspaper, the Taiwan Church News, was written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī, not Chinese characters. |
| Altman Lighting Co. introduced the PAR 64 for a Rolling Stones concert tour in 1966. |
| MGM Group of Companies is the master franchisee of Marrybrown fast food chain for Southern India. |
| The absence of dark matter halos (example pictured) and elliptical galaxies with axis ratios more extreme than 3:1 is probably due to the firehose instability. |
| A former minister at Hove Methodist Church, England, spoke so forcefully during sermons that Communion cruets would sometimes be sent crashing to the floor. |
| The band Dead Hot Workshop got their start at a Tempe club named Long Wong's, where bands such as the Gin Blossoms and The Refreshments also performed in the 1990s. |
| Merle Fainsod based his book Smolensk under Soviet Rule on Soviet documents captured by the Wehrmacht during World War II. |
| Old Bethpage Village Restoration on Long Island, New York, has been preserving historic buildings as a living museum since 1970. |
| The government of Tunisia initially believed the explosion caused by Niser bin Muhammad Nasr Nawar was accidental, until they learned he had sent a letter taking credit in the name of al-Qaeda. |
| A New Man magazine endorsement helped convince Chuck Norris to support Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign. |
| Henrich Krummedige's 1502 murder of Knut Alvsson ended the feud started by their fathers, Hartvig Krummedige and Alv Knutsson, as well as Knut's leadership of the rebellion against King Hans' rule over Norway. |
| Piero di Cosimo's painting The Death of Procris (pictured) may contain allusions to the practice of alchemy. |
| One of the members of R&B girl group RichGirl was discovered through MySpace. |
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