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| The Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship finals, losing 0–2 to FC Schalke 04. |
| Oregon's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves. |
| Although the blackmouth angler is known for its ugly appearance, it is used for making agujjim (pictured), a popular Korean dish. |
| The namesake of the Paxton Hotel in Downtown Omaha, William A. Paxton, was also instrumental in founding the Omaha Stockyards, the Omaha Driving Park and the South Omaha Land Company. |
| The Tang Dynasty's Empress Zhang, during her husband Emperor Suzong's illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him. |
| Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant. |
| The meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took 77.2 miles (124 km) to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two cities are only 45 miles (72 km) apart in a straight line. |
| Goalkeeper Bob Roberts was the first West Bromwich Albion player to win an international cap. |
| One novelty of Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of Justice (pictured) in Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfolded. |
| A heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean the fibers. |
| Deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy. |
| Between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an estimated US$100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and other memorabilia victimized by mail fraud. |
| The Tang Dynasty eunuch Li Fuguo, whose assassin had cut off his head and one of his arms, was buried with a wooden head and a wooden arm. |
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