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| Kobe Bryant's agent, Rob Pelinka, was the only person to play in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship for both the 1989 champion Michigan and for both of the 1992 and 1993 runners-up known as the Fab Five teams. |
| Derek Gardner became a leading British painter of marine subjects after retiring from a civil engineering career due to deafness. |
| One of the statues at the erotic temple Candi Sukuh (pictured) in Java, Indonesia, is a 1.82 m (6 feet) standing phallus with four balls placed below the tip. |
| Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa committed murder, kidnapping, racketeering, and tax evasion during the 1990s, all in an attempt to establish a chain of gas stations in New York City. |
| British Member of Parliament George Chetwynd seconded a Private Member's Bill to ban toy weapons because he believed they were an incentive to acquire a "gangster mentality". |
| Belarusian political authorities denounced Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy's book History of Belarus in 1926 as a "Cathechesis of Belarusian National Democratism", banned it and confiscated its manuscript. |
| The Haitian palm, Attalea crassispatha, is so rare that there were only 25 of them left in 1991. |
| Kanawha (pictured) was a steam-powered luxury yacht aboard which industrialist Henry H. Rogers met Booker T. Washington to secretly fund the education of African Americans. |
| Jim Zumbo was forced out of a 30-year career at Outdoor Life magazine, had his television show pulled from the air, and was dropped from sponsorship by companies including Remington and Cabelas due to a single blog post. |
| Despite using sharp needles, bird control spikes do not harm the animals, and are recommended by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. |
| The Ludlow Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution requiring a national referendum for declaration of war. |
| The official recognition of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Transylvania in the late 18th century was the result of the activity of an Orthodox monk who was canonized two centuries later as Saint Sofronie of Cioara. |
| A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant had its name changed due to threats of litigation from the Church of Scientology. |
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