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| William Phelps was foreman of the first grand jury in colonial America and played a key role in establishing the first written democratic town government at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1657. |
| There are six monarchies in Oceania and five of them share Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) as their respective head of state. |
| Super Mario Kart sold eight million copies, making it the third highest-selling Super Nintendo Entertainment System game of all time?. |
| Larry Dierker is the only Houston Astros manager to have had his uniform number retired by the Houston Astros franchise of Major League Baseball. |
| Emil Løvlien was the last member of the Norwegian Parliament to be elected from the Communist Party ticket. |
| Winlock W. Steiwer founded the first bank in Wheeler County, Oregon, after he had pled guilty during the Oregon land fraud scandal. |
| The early Chola naval ships from the 1st century had a rudimentary flame thrower and a catapult-type weapon. |
| in 1935, Jimmie Guthrie set five world speed records on a Norton International at the concrete bowl track in Montlhéry, France. |
| The Cretaceous terrestrial crocodilian Araripesuchus is known from five distinct species, two from Africa and the other three from South America. |
| Lieutenant General Stanley A. McChrystal commanded the Joint Special Operations Command forces responsible for the death of Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. |
| All species of the New Zealand parrot family Nestoridae (pictured) are either endangered or have gone extinct due to human activity. |
| In 1926, Albert Einstein solved the tea leaf paradox, which states that if the tea in a teacup is stirred, the tea leaves will collect in the middle rather than at the edges. |
| The song "The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino", one of the best-known Polish war songs, was written during the Battle of Monte Cassino in May 1944. |
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