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- ... that in 1951, Prime Minister of Iran Haj Ali Razmara was shot dead by a religious fanatic while attending a memorial service at Tehran's Shah Mosque (pictured)?
- ... that retired Kingdom of Hawaii Attorney General Antone Rosa and former Interior Minister John F. Colburn were detained for driving a carriage into a fish market?
- ... that Solange Knowles performed a live cover of Nivea's song "Laundromat" in an actual laundromat?
- ... that Michael Lane, who served as Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, started out as a bricklayer but became one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's most trusted assistants?
- ... that when its cheek pouches are full, the lesser spot-nosed monkey's throat resembles a snowball?
- ... that Dave Somers, the current executive of Snohomish County, Washington, was educated as a fisheries biologist?
- ... that there was no marker for the grave of theologian Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen at Elm Ridge Cemetery for more than a century after his burial?
- ... that Steve Cooke and Beth Webster are the newest Eggheads?