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Production on the 1969 Fred Zinnemann film Man's Fate was canceled one week before shooting was to begin. 
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| In the next five years, 40,000 African soldiers will be trained to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program. |
| The naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy. |
| The Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel. |
| The first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875. |
| During the 1878 flood in Miskolc, Hungary, the water level rose 50 cm per minute and in some parts of the city water was 4 to 5 m high. |
| Canadian media cannot legally reprint their own stories mentioning the name of convicted school shooter Todd Cameron Smith. |
| The Narita Shinkansen from Tokyo to Narita International Airport, which took nine years to build 9 km of track bed, is the only bullet train line ever officially cancelled. |
| Stalking Cat is a San Diego man who has spent more than 150,000 USD on tattoos and cosmetic surgery working towards his goal of resembling a live tiger. |
| The Nurek Dam in Tajikistan is the tallest dam in the world, and in 1994 the hydroelectric power it produced made up three-quarters of that country's energy generation capacity. |
| About half of Ireland's citizens live outside of the Republic of Ireland. |
| Lake Enriquillo is the only saltwater lake in the world inhabited by crocodiles. |
| The Battle of Asal Uttar fought during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 was the largest tank battle in the history of the Indian subcontinent. |
| Sergio Blass was the only singer to be a member of both Los Chicos and Menudo, Puerto Rican rival boy bands during the early 1980s. |
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