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| Canadian professional wrestler Billy Red Lyons won a tag team championship with his real-life brother-in-law, Dick Beyer. |
| The extreme metal band Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky took their name from the 1989 text "Apocalypse" by William S. Burroughs. |
| The Edmonton Eskimos were reportedly looking to draft either Dimitri Tsoumpas, Samuel Giguère or Keith Shologan with the second pick in the 2008 CFL Draft, but after Shologan and Giguère signed with the NFL, the team traded the pick. |
| The 11th century medieval tractate De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi is the first surviving detailed account of an English state-trial. |
| Frank J. Low, an infrared astronomy pioneer, used data from an infrared telescope flown on a Learjet to show that planets Jupiter and Saturn generate and emit internal energy into space. |
| The flag of the Canadian territory of Nunavut (pictured) features an inukshuk, a traditional Inuit monument that guides travelers and marks sacred sites. |
| While with the Edmonton Eskimos, Canadian football linebacker Tumbo Abanikanda was called "T. A." because his head coach couldn't pronounce his name. |
| Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had nearly no involvement in the video game based on their television series Phineas and Ferb. |
| In 1739, the chiefs of Clan Macdonald of Sleat and Clan Macleod were involved in a scheme to kidnap their own clansfolk, transport them to the American Colonies, and sell them into slavery. |
| Architect Wilfrid Lacroix, designer of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons. |
| Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway. |
| In 2006, current Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille helped the Montreal Alouettes have the CFL's only two receivers with 1,000 receiving yards. |
| The false earthstar in the fungal family Astraeaceae (pictured) can open and close its rays in response to changes in humidity. |
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