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| Sri Lankan Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was forced to abandon an agreement aimed at solving that country's ethnic problems amidst protests by radical Buddhist monks. |
| Canadian House of Commons member Philéas Côté introduced a private member's bill in 1946 seeking to rename Dominion Day to Canada Day. |
| Utah's Patchwork Parkway is the second-highest paved road in the state of Utah at 10,626 feet (3,239 m) above sea level. |
| Swiss mechatronics company Stäubli was originally founded in 1892 as a workshop for producing dobby looms. |
| Andrew Carroll went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops, hospital waiting rooms and train stations. |
| Troilite, a form of pyrrhotite, is extremely rare on Earth but is abundant on Mars (pictured). |
| While playing baseball at Shibe Park, outfielder Herschel Bennett crashed into a wall, causing him to fall into a 36-hour coma and helping to end his major league career?. |
| In English law, legal relations created in a social context are not considered binding. |
| In the Broadway comedy Two Blind Mice, two government workers keep their office running after its abolition by Congress by renting out rooms and hiring out the front lawn as a parking lot. |
| India's Narcotics Control Bureau was created in 1986 to enforce the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. |
| Moss Force, a waterfall in the English Lake District, was described by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as "an awful Image and Shadow of God and the World". |
| The artwork of full-blood Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane has enjoyed a revival after his glass plate negatives were discovered in an Alaskan dump. |
| There are many diverse types of fish, including sea dragons (pictured) camouflaged to look like floating seaweed. |
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