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Deadliest animals in the world ranked by estimated number of human fatalities per year

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Best selling novels worldwide ranked by estimated number of copies sold

Fastest Manned Aircraft in the World

Fastest manned aircraft (excluding spacecraft) ranked by top speed

World's Most Practiced Religions

Major religions of the world ranked by estimated number of followers

Worst Genocides of the Twentieth Century

The ten worst genocides of the 20th century listed by dictators responsible; ranked by number of deaths

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The fastest land animals in the world ranked by maximum speed

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Today in History

Tuesday, 31 March 2026

2008

Aloha Airlines, a bankrupt airline, permanently ends passenger service

2004

In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed and their bodies mutilated.

1998

Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and is eventually spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

1994

Human evolution: The journal ''Nature'' reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete ''Australopithecus afarensis'' skull.

1992

The {{USS|Missouri|BB-63|6}}, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.

1991

The Islamic Constitutional Movement, or Hadas, is established in Kuwait.

Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.

1990

200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.

1986

A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.

Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.

FACTOIDS

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime.

Blue Whale

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

Gold

Every ton of seawater contains approximately 1 milligram of dissolved gold.

Mosquito

Studies show that mosquitoes prefer biting blondes to brunettes.

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