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| professional wrestler Mr. Niebla once wrestled as "Batman". |
| The Mansion District was once known as the "Garlic Core" of Albany, New York, due to its large Italian American population. |
| In 1957, West Germany's Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Joachim von Merkatz was the focus of an East German propaganda campaign, which portrayed him as a "fascist" and "leading Nazi functionary". |
| The automated Launch Processing System used by NASA for Space Shuttle launches has reduced the required number of firing room personnel to half of those required for an Apollo launch. |
| Before marching to the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, the warlord Cao Cao fooled his enemy into thinking he had retreated by simply erecting a sign saying so. |
| Gaynell Tinsley, a two-time All-American end at LSU, set an NFL record with 675 receiving yards as a rookie in 1937. |
| An uncommon sentry tower (pictured) at Banashankari temple is a mélange of Vijayanagara Hindu and Islamic architectural styles. |
| Western marksman Joe Bowman learned as a boy how to shoot flies off a garbage can with his BB gun. |
| The HMS Cockchafer played host to the regent of Iraq Amir Abdul Illah who had been deposed and was fleeing an assassination plot in Baghdad. |
| biochemists Ralph F. Hirschmann and Robert Bruce Merrifield both led teams that synthesized the enzyme ribonuclease and while Merrifield won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Hirschmann did not. |
| more than 130 people died in July 2009 after consuming adulterated bootleg liquor in Gujarat, India, where alcohol consumption is prohibited. |
| Humans living next to a lake at the Bouri Formation in Ethiopia 160,000 and 154,000 years ago butchered not only adult Hippopotamuses but also those that were newborn. |
| Chinese-Australian businessman Stern Hu, accused by Chinese officials of espionage, is said to have "caused huge loss to China's economic interest and security" by the Chinese Foreign Ministry. |
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