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Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language — 823 words without a period...

It was ten thousand years ago that the EMPEROR ascended to the GOLDEN THRONE of EARTH. Although human, the Emperor was supremely gifted with extraordinary psychic abilities and he used his unmatched power to unite the countless billions of people living on over one million planets, creating THE IMPERIUM. Today the Imperium continues to be ruled by the iron will of the Emperor, whose living carcass is entombed in the strange life-giving machinery of the Golden Throne.

In Puerto Rico, wiggling one's nose means roughly "What's going on?"

H.P Lovecraft died in 1937.

Winking at women, even to express friendship, is considered bad manners in Australia.

I'm likely considered a troll here....

J.F.C Fuller, noted tank tactician from Britian and Protege of Alastair Crowely, was the only foreigner present at Heinz Guderian's first demonstration of tank tactics to Hitler in 1935.

David Niven was an active Royal Commando in WWII

Since 1938, there has always been an active war going on somewhere in the world.

The American A-10's actual name is Thunderbolt II, not the Warthog

The British Army in Gulf War I used L1A1 Rifles and modified Bren LMGs due to the absolute failure of the first-gen Enfield Weapon Systems

The man who is now credited with most likely killing the Red Baron (not the guy shown on wiki and was a rifleman on the hill opposite to the vickers gun) never had his picture taken and was killed in a bar brawl in the early thirties.

The reason NASCAR uses cutouts to check vehicle size in tech inspection: In the 1965 season, the first seven races were won by Smokey Yunik in a perfect 7/8 scale replica of a Chevy Malibu. It was discovered by chance, as the seventh race was the first time in the season another Chevy placed second.

The former Soviet Union finally recovered from Stalin's five year plans in the mid nineties.

Firestone dubiously claims the two largest consumer recalls in history (The Firestone 500 and then the Wilderness recalls)

The movie Gran Prix followed the 1965 Gran Prix season, filming race scenes the day before the real race, and is the only modern race movie not to use sped up race footage.

The only time the United States ever held Russian territory was in Mirmansk from 1917 until 1920 in support of the Mensheviks during the Russian Civil War.

In 1917, a boxcar was pushed across one of two surviving rail lines on the eastern front from German to Russian territory. Inside were several communist agitators including Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin.

There are only two coopers (a person who makes barrels) in Britain today. And I met one of them last night. Very, very clever man.

I was born to live a bachelor's life. I'm fine with that

Roger Gilbert Bannister was born March 23, 1929 in Harrow, Middlesex, England. He was born on a Saturday. (I didn't actually know what day of the week he was born, until I looked it up on the Internet. That is not one of my special skills.) His mother was Alice, his father Ralph and his older sister was Joyce.

A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

yes but there will still be little pieces left with a hammer.

Cats purr when they are distressed as well as when they are content.