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During the Fremantle prison riot in 1988, seventy prisoners took fifteen guards hostage and started a diversionary fire to enable twelve prisoners to escape and that ironically, the fire's intensity prevented the escape. 
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| Pop singer Jasmine Trias is a descendant of Mariano Trias, the Vice President of the Tejeros Convention. |
| Lady Sybil Grant, the eldest daughter of the British Prime Minister Lord Dalmeny, became an eccentric in her later years, spending most of her time in a caravan or up a tree, communicating with her butler though a megaphone. |
| Albert Tillman was the co-founder of the National Association of Underwater Instructors and developed the first university-level recreation and leisure studies program in the United States. |
| Shō Shōken wrote the first history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in 1650. |
| Communist Romania's first Finance Minister, Vasile Luca, arrested in 1952 for having opposed the devaluation of the Romanian leu, was rehabilitated five years after his death in prison. |
| The Alba Bible, the first translation of the Old Testament into a Romance language, was commissioned with the express intent of promoting tolerance between Christians and Jews. |
| A crow-stepped gable is a roof slope design arising in the Middle Ages which was decorative, but also facilitated access to chimneys for maintenance. |
| a body part involved in a seizure can be paralyzed for minutes to days in an event known as Todd's paresis. |
| Fort Randolph (pictured Image:Fort Randolph.jpg) was an American Revolutionary War fort where Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, was murdered in 1777. |
| speed skater Joey Cheek was the first person to officially play the online game Darfur is Dying. |
| The Old Stone Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and is the oldest building on Public Square. |
| Queen Anula of Sri Lanka is believed to be the first female monarch in Asia. |
| Mars' south polar ice cap may be melting due to global warming. |
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