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The original tunnel built to connect the Kalka-Shimla Railway at Barog, Himachal Pradesh was abandoned as the two constructed ends did not meet. 
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| Dutch film pioneer Willy Mullens worked as a human cannonball before becoming a film director. |
| In 2003 a ricin contaminated letter was sent to the White House. |
| The song "Que No Se Rompa la Noche", first performed by Julio Iglesias, has been covered by Pandora, Vikki Carr and Ray Conniff. |
| Jonathan Roberts, a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1821, built a school for poor children. |
| Ukrainian sculptor Mikhaylo Parashchuk, who decorated many major buildings in Sofia, Bulgaria, was reportedly a student of Auguste Rodin. |
| In college basketball a bonus is awarded to a team beginning with the seventh foul in a half from the opposing team. |
| Praise of the Two Lands is the first ship mentioned by name in a written record. |
| The Hate That Hate Produced, a documentary critical of the Nation of Islam, caused the group's membership to double. |
| The Osaka Maritime Museum (pictured) is a geodesic dome that sits out in Osaka Bay and is accessed by an underwater tunnel. |
| New York talent agent Sam Cohn, who Time magazine called "the first superagent of the modern age", liked to eat paper. |
| Two aircraft working for the New Zealand Police collided in mid-air over central Auckland in 1993. |
| James Edward Hanger, the first amputee of the American Civil War, designed his own prosthesis and went on to found a prosthetic manufacturer still in business today. |
| The Baptist folk high school at Strand, Akershus, Norway, was visited by Martin Luther King in 1964. |
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