Facts in category: Uncategorized
| 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. |
| John Callaway created the award-winning news program Chicago Tonight and was awarded 10 honorary doctorates, despite being a college dropout who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket. |
| The Lublin Ghetto was one of the first German-created ghettos in occupied Poland to be "liquidated"—its inhabitants murdered and many of the remaining cultural landmarks destroyed. |
| Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei's Dialogo from Italian into Latin. |
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