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| The tallest building in Mobile, Alabama, is the 745-foot (227 m) RSA Battle House Tower. |
| The mineral erionite is a carcinogen, and chronic exposure to this mineral has been linked to excess mortality from mesothelioma in a number of villages in Turkey. |
| As a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Elton Trowbridge worked with a bipartisan group to bring public television to his state. |
| For about a millennium, the Hindu kings of Bishnupur were supreme in the Bankura area, even after Muslims conquered Bengal. |
| Sabil Abu Nabbut (pictured) was a public fountain built by Ottoman governor Muhammad Abu Nabbut in 1812 to facilitate the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem. |
| Four-time U.S. table tennis champion Lou Pagliaro hated when the sport was called "ping-pong", a name that he said "sounds sissy" in a 1942 article in The New Yorker. |
| The closest transportation to Davidof Volcano is 199 miles (320 km) away in Adak, Alaska. |
| Iuliu Ilyés, the current mayor of Satu Mare, Romania, has twice been elected to the office with close to double the vote of his opponent. |
| Amateur footballer Jürgen Wilhelm scored Germany's 1983 Goal of the Year while playing for BFV Hassia Bingen in the third division Oberliga Südwest. |
| Legend tells of how 15th-century Chief Justice of the King's Bench Sir William Hankeford committed an early form of suicide by cop. |
| If a supermassive black hole is ejected from a galaxy, it can carry a dense cluster of stars called a hypercompact stellar system. |
| Jamie M. Morin (pictured) was 34 years old when President Barack Obama appointed him to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, responsible for managing the $160 billion U.S. Air Force annual budget. |
| SMU All-American Truman "Big Dog" Spain, known for his "rumba king" good looks, was described as "hard as ship's steel and as torrid as a foundry furnace". |
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