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| The Brazilian dreadnoughts Minas Gerais and São Paulo "outclassed the entire Argentine fleet" when they were built. |
| The spores of the Column Stinkhorn fungus (pictured) are formed as a bad-smelling gleba smeared on the inside of several column-like appendages. |
| The descendants of at least three unrelated Irish clans or septs, named in Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh and Mac Amhalghaidh, bear the exact same or similar surnames. |
| Bob Dylan was familiar with folk singer Dillard Chandler in 1969, when Chandler's album Old Love Songs & Ballads had sold only 50 copies. |
| Besides commanding the Bulgarian First Army during World War II, Vladimir Stoychev was an Olympic equestrian and Bulgarian Olympic Committee chairman. |
| The 1979 Easter flood was among the most costly and devastating ever to occur in Mississippi, with over $1.4 billion in damages. |
| Anaconda Copper's El Salvador mine and Kennecott Copper's El Teniente mine were nationalised by Salvador Allende, the President of Chile. |
| Thomas Christian Wyller is regarded as one of the founders of political science as an academic discipline in Norway. |
| No professional wrestler has held the ROH World Championship twice during its seven-year existence. |
| Mexico City's La Santisima Church (pictured) has sunk nearly 3 metres (9.8 ft) since it was built in the 1780s. |
| Lou Marson hit his first major league home run on the final day of the Philadelphia Phillies’ World Series-winning 2008 season. |
| Nintoku Seamount, an underwater volcano in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, is over 56.2 million years old. |
| King Nissanka Malla of Sri Lanka carried out a refurbishment of the Dambulla cave temple, in which 50 Buddha statues and the temple's interior were gilded. |
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