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  1. ... that the fungal genus Hericium includes the monkey's head fungus, used in Traditional Chinese medicine?
  2. ... that the Wołów bank robbery was the biggest bank robbery in the history of the People's Republic of Poland?
  3. ... that Roy McCardell was the first hired film screenwriter, and the first to start a Sunday paper comics supplement in color?
  4. ... that the artillery of France in the Middle Ages (pictured) had a key role in the French victory in the Hundred Years War?
  5. ... that the 2002 Redditch Council election saw no party win a majority for the first time in over 50 years?
  6. ... that the French pre-dreadnought battleship Henri IV was the first ship to mount a superfiring gun turret?
  7. ... that Kenny Tate, one of college football's top wide receiver recruits in 2008, was ultimately switched to the position of strong safety?
  8. ... that the Eyelash Cup (pictured) normally grows on rotten wood, but can sometimes be found on bracket fungi?
  9. ... that Cooks syndrome is a hereditary disorder characterized by the absence of toenails?
  10. ... that the album Here We Go Then, You And I was said to confirm Morten Abel's status as Norway's "king of pop"?
  11. ... that the MasterCard International Global Headquarters building (pictured) was designed by modernist architect I. M. Pei?
  12. ... that in 1973, A. J. Antoon was nominated for two Tony Awards for Best Direction, a feat not repeated until 2009?
  13. ... that Phoemela Baranda placed 23rd in the FHM Philippines 100 Sexiest Women of the World in 2006?
  14. ... that the study of sociology in China was repressed as a bourgeois pseudoscience during the early communist era?
  15. ... that Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery (pictured) in the Netherlands is the final resting place of three Victoria Cross recipients?
  16. ... that Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships?
  17. ... that several popes of the Byzantine Papacy were forced to wait months for the approval of the Byzantine emperor before consecration?
  18. ... that the Royal Mail consumes nearly 1 billion rubber bands per annum at a cost of almost £1,000,000?
  19. ... that Markus Howell (pictured), broke the 1,500 career yard mark in both kickoff and punt returns in 2008?
  20. ... that the 1953 Asian Socialist Conference held in Rangoon, was an important precursor to the 1955 Bandung Conference?