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The final episode of the 1986 television series Outlaws recycled footage from The Oregon Trail, because actors Rod Taylor and Charles Napier appeared in both programs. 
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| The Beverly Hills Diet, which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby". |
| Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later. |
| St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol. |
| The Handlebar Club (member pictured), a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic". |
| The Ineligibility Clause of the U.S. Constitution places limitations upon the ability of members of the U.S. Congress to serve in other branches of the U.S. Federal Government. |
| Species of "cannonball fungi" (genus Sphaerobolus) may forcibly eject their spores a horizontal distance of 6 meters (20 ft). |
| Norman Lear's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television. |
| When it was completed in 1959, the Narrows Bridge in Perth, Western Australia, was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world. |
| In 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges. |
| The Nariman House, which was home to a Chabad house, was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. |
| The first Pilgrim settlement in Massachusetts was on the site of a former Patuxet Indian village, all of whose residents had died in epidemics before the Pilgrims arrived. |
| Ueli Maurer (pictured), the former president of the nationalist Swiss People's Party, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Swiss governmental election. |
| Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa. |
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