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| The Cabinet des Médailles is the oldest museum of Paris, and houses the largest gold coin of Antiquity, a 20-stater of Eucratides I (pictured)? Image:EucratidesStatere.jp. |
| Royal Castle in Poznań was once the largest castle in the Polish Kingdom. |
| Charlie Williams, one of the first black football players in Britain after the Second World War and later Britain's first well-known black comedian, responded to heckling by saying: "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you". |
| nutcracker esophagus, a cause of difficult swallowing, takes its name from high amplitude contractions of the esophagus being likened to a mechanical nutcracker. |
| The Obscure Berrypecker of New Guinea is a small forest bird known from two specimens and a handful of sightings. |
| While The Goons may have joked about exploding trousers, farmers in New Zealand in the 1930s actually experienced the phenomenon when herbicide that they were using caught fire. |
| archeological excavations proved that the Visoko valley (pictured) was the center of the medieval Bosnian state and later kingdom? Image:VisokoPanorama.jp. |
| The popular Lithuanian fairy tale hero Eglė the Queen of Serpents transformed herself and her children into trees as a punishment. |
| Although the name of Pennsylvania's western Conewago Creek means at the rapids in the Lenape language, there are no rapids in the creek itself. |
| According to legend, any immigrant to the city of Agroha, established by Emperor Agrasen in ancient India, would receive a hundred thousand bricks to build a home, and a hundred thousand rupees to start a business of his own. |
| Coop NKL opened Norway's first self serve food store on October 1, 1947. |
| The Bara Katra palace in Dhaka, now dilapidated and half-destroyed, was built originally to be the residence of Mughal prince Shah Shuja. |
| Ivan the Terrible commemorated his conquest of Kazan with the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral (pictured) on Red Square? (Image:St Basils Cathedral-500px.jpg. |
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