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Interesting facts


  • The Tatara Bridge in Japan has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge in the world?
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  • The automatic tire chain system OnSpot was created in 1977 by a Swedish inventor who mounted it onto a local milk delivery truck.


  • The accuracy of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was challenged in the English High Court of Justice case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills.


  • Fighting Solidarity, created in response to the martial law in Poland of 1982, was among the most radical splinters of Solidarity.


  • A Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Augustine's and carted a statue of Father Serra to a nearby mosque in October 2001.


  • Despite British Conservative MP Denis Keegan winning a marginal constituency by over 7,000 votes, he ended his political career after one term, preferring to work for the trade association for television shops.


  • The Russian Field Marshal Ivan Gudovich lost his left eye fighting the Turks in Armenia in 1807.

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