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| More than $200 million in US currency was burned at both a crematorium and the Aiea Sugar Mill in Hawaii, due to being redeemed for HAWAII Overprint Notes ($20 Note pictured). |
| The distribution of the snail Escargot de Quimper is disjunct. |
| Sandra Warfield met future husband James McCracken when they sang the leads in Samson and Delilah, the same opera in which the couple performed in her Metropolitan Opera farewell performance. |
| Plymouth Synagogue is the oldest synagogue built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English speaking world. |
| John Brown was the first physiotherapist of the Scotland national rugby union team. |
| During World War II, Australia produced almost 500,000 barrels of shale oil by operating the Nevada–Texas–Utah type of oil-shale retorts. |
| Cyneweard of Laughern, last Anglo-Saxon sheriff of Worcestershire, lost his office to the Norman incomer Urse d'Abetot around 1069. |
| Before Strategic Simulations, Inc.'s first game, Computer Bismarck (screenshot pictured), most computer games were packaged in zipper storage bags. |
| James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh was the first assassin to use a gun. |
| Much of the Mahmoudiya Mosque in Jaffa was built during the Ottoman era using construction materials acquired from Roman columns. |
| Martin Wheelock, football player for the Carlisle Indian School in the 1890s, was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980. |
| The Hetaireia, the Byzantine guards unit responsible for the safety of the emperor on campaign, was composed chiefly of foreigners. |
| The New York Times said Paul Hemphill's first book The Nashville Sound was "generally regarded as one of the best books on country music ever written". |
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