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The destroyer USS Ward sank a Japanese midget submarine that was trying to sneak into Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately, the reports from the Ward were disbelieved by Navy brass.

Roger Moore was born 14th October 1927, Sean Connery was born 25th August 1930.

British aviators Alcock and Brown flew from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919. American Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927.

Horses were reintroduced into the Americas beginning with Columbus in 1493, having gone extinct there thousands of years earlier. Llamas are not strong enough to support humans and the wheel was not utilised in transport, though had been in children's toys.

Before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the colour was referred to as "yellow-red" (geoluread in Old English) or "red-yellow".

The centre of mass, or barycentre, of the solar system is usually contained within the mass of the sun, but not always.

France (Bourbon Restoration) 1815-30. Afghanistan (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) 1996-97. None had anything to do with surrender.

It in entirely in England, ranging from less than 0.6 mi (1.0 km) south of the border with Scotland in the west at Bowness-on-Solway, to as much as 68 miles (109 km) away in the east at Wallsend.

Brooks left his name off the film's credits, to avoid confusing viewers who might expect "a Mel Brooks film" to be a comedy.

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Released in 1978, it also starred Aerosmith and Earth, Wind and Fire.

A Greater Roadrunner can reach speeds of 20mph (32kph) while a Coyote can reach speeds of up to 43mph (69kph).

The Hollywood in California is a neighborhood, not a city.

The first human-made object to touch the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2, on 13 September 1959. Rumours that the Nazis created a base on the dark side of the moon are as yet unsubstantiated.

It's about 30,000 years old. The oldest Australian boomerang is about 12,000 years old. Ancient boomerangs have also been found in Egypt and North America.