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| The blacktip trevally (Caranx heberi, pictured) "grunts" when taken out of water. |
| Alexander, Lord of the Isles stripped down to his underwear for his surrender in the royal church to King James I of Scotland after the Battle of Lochaber. |
| Jermaine Mays was named All-State in high school as a senior despite breaking his collarbone. |
| Thanks to its well-preserved medieval fortifications, the town of Paczków is called the Polish Carcassone. |
| Isaac Zamora's family attempted to commit him to an asylum before he killed five people in September 2008. |
| Most of the land area of Tuek Phos District, Cambodia, is currently listed for lease on the internet as a potential bio-diesel plantation. |
| UCLA Bruins end Dick Wallen won the 1957 Voit Trophy as the outstanding football player on the Pacific Coast. |
| Polar 3, the first German airplane to reach the South Pole in December 1984, was shot down by Polisario Front rebels over Western Sahara on its way home in February 1985. |
| Sir Robert Kingsmill (pictured) was commander of the Royal Navy's Irish station during two French attempts to invade Ireland, in 1796 and in 1798. |
| Congressman Greg Walden, former owner of radio station KIHR in Hood River, Oregon, began his career in broadcasting as the station's janitor?. |
| lateralized readiness potentials (LRPs) from the brain can show how quickly you prepare to make a motor response. |
| Filipino Major General Jovito Palparan is credited with reducing communist insurgencies on the island of Samar by 80 percent. |
| The word "terminator" had not been used in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles until the second season finale, "Born to Run". |
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