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| Former Los Angeles Clippers coach Larry Brown is the only one of the 22 head coaches in franchise history with a winning NBA regular season record. |
| The Kh-31 was the first supersonic anti-ship missile that could be launched by tactical aircraft. |
| The Milton-Madison Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 421 across the Ohio River, is considered structurally poor and unable to handle modern truck traffic. |
| In a festival at the Norse Temple at Uppsala, men and male animals were sacrificed by hanging. |
| Michael Jackson's autobiography, Moon Walk, was given the code name "Neil Armstrong", that of the first "moonwalker". |
| Worldwide there are four million commercial fishing vessels, including 1.8 million undecked traditional craft still powered by oars or sail. |
| The stag's horn fungus ([[:|pictured]]) contains a sugar binding protein with potent anti-tumor properties. |
| The decking for the pier at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in Cambodia was so heavy that a railway had to be constructed to move it. |
| Advertising executive turned vintner Robert Palmer was one of the first to export overseas wines produced in the North Fork of New York's Long Island. |
| Egypt's Fahd Armored Personnel Carrier has specialized variants ranging from an infantry fighting vehicle to a command post vehicle to deal with different threats. |
| gymnastics coach Bev Plocki led Michigan to 15 Big Ten championships and 18 NCAA championship tournaments after taking over a last-place program in 1990. |
| The English village of Gresham, Norfolk, once had a 14th-century castle with four round towers and a moat, now ruined and overgrown by trees. |
| Efforts taken by Roman Catholic missionary Henrique Henriques to publish religious books in local languages led him to be called The Father of Tamil press. |
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