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| The Cal State Fullerton Titans football team holds NCAA records for both most fumbles and most fumbles lost for a single season with 73 and 41 respectively. |
| Filipina singer and actress Didith Reyes was one of the "Jukebox Queens" of the 1970s Philippine music scene along with her friends Imelda Papin and Claire dela Fuente. |
| The uncommon thorium nesosilicate mineral Huttonite (unit cell pictured) was first discovered in 1950 in New Zealand. |
| In the 1962 film Invasion of the Star Creatures, extra-terrestrial monsters were played by actors wearing carrot costumes?. |
| From 1945 until 1978, cars in Okinawa Prefecture drove on the right side of the road until a switch to left-hand drive as part of the 730 Conversion Plan, to match the rest of Japan. |
| American Basketball Association player Lee Davis appeared in the 1970 ABA All-Star Game despite playing in only sixteen games all season. |
| The Laogai Museum, which showcases China's laogai prison system, was financed by the same company that once turned a dissident, Shi Tao, in to the Chinese authorities. |
| A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697, based on the diary of Henry Maundrell, was translated into French, Dutch and German by 1792. |
| In 1978, Pueblo Community College became part of the Colorado Community College System after having been a branch campus of Southern Colorado State College. |
| After the inexplicable sinking of four identical trawlers in Acadia, the Canadian government took possession of the "cursed ship" Marc Guylaine in 1972, simply changed its name and re-sold it. |
| As the architect of the St. Luke's Episcopal Church (pictured) in Beacon, New York, Frederick Clarke Withers designed everything down to the altar cloth. |
| The visitor's locker room at the Alabama Crimson Tide football stadium was recently named "The Fail Room" after alumnus contributor James M. Fail. |
| In 2002, a Trotskyist became the general secretary of the trade union centre C.G.T.G in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. |
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