Interesting facts

Sanssouci Picture Gallery is the oldest extant museum built for a German ruler

Iberian Ribbed Newt's ability to keep live sperm in its cloaca for up to 5 months was a reason it was chosen to be flown into space

Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879

Rough Castle Fort is the best preserved Roman fort along the Antonine Wall

S500 was the first production car from Honda

endangered species California Clapper Rail, a chicken-sized bird that rarely flies, has chicks that can swim when they are just two hours old

1934 jazz standard "Stars Fell on Alabama" was inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama a century earlier, in 1833

S. R. Rao led the excavations of Dwaraka — the mythical city of Krishna submerged in the Arabian Sea

Preparing for Emergencies was a British Home Office programme to increase public safety after several major disasters, including the Madrid bombings,SARS outbreak and UK foot and mouth crisis

Italo Santelli is widely considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing"

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