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| During the filming of The Linguists in the Andes, the cast coped with altitude sickness by drinking coca leaf tea. |
| Peter of Canterbury, who drowned near Boulogne, was the first abbot of what became St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury. |
| The tunnel on the Busan-Geoje Fixed Link, under construction in South Korea, is slated to become the deepest immersed roadway tunnel. |
| Despite being an object of ridicule in popular culture, over 8 million British Rail sandwiches were sold in 1993. |
| The 1803 Treaty of Fort Wayne dictated that the Native Americans were given up to 150 bushels of salt. |
| The band Animo is said to derive its name from Spanish slang for "get going". |
| Xiuhtecuhtli (mask pictured), the Aztec god of fire, was one of the nine Lords of the Night even though he was a solar deity. |
| haejangguk is a kind of Korean guk (soup) consumed as a remedy for hangovers. |
| Joseph Ferguson Peacocke, Archbishop of Dublin, was painted by Philip de László. |
| The A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum in Prineville, Oregon, was opened in 1971 and is housed in the historic Crook County Bank Building. |
| When 2001 Chicago Marathon winner Catherine Ndereba set the world record, she joined four-time winner Khalid Khannouchi with a current world record time set at the Chicago Marathon. |
| During World War II, the Tunnel Railway in Ramsgate, England, became part of an air-raid shelter capable of housing more than 60,000 people. |
| a series of innovative computers, including the first transistor computer and the world's fastest computer, were produced by a small team working at Manchester University between 1947 and 1977. |
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