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1. 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Elizabeth Jennings refused to get off a New York City privately-owned and segregated street car. She was physically assaulted by the conductor in an effort to throw her off the car. She sued and in 1855 the court ruled in  her favor. Brooklyn circuit judge William Rockwell, in his charge to the jury, declared, "Colored persons, if sober, well-behaved and free from disease, had the same rights as others and could neither be excluded by any rules of the company, nor by force or violence." The jury awarded Jennings (later Elizabeth Jennings Graham) the equivalent of $8,000 plus trial expenses. The next day, the Third Avenue Railroad Company ordered its cars desegregated.

2. Russian author Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita) was also a distinguished lepidopterist (expert on moths and butterflies). The insects appear in almost all his writings.

3. Polo matches are divided into time periods call chukkers. Each chukker is 7 1/2 minutes long and the match can be either four or six chukkers - divided by halftime. During halftime, spectators are encouraged to walk across the field to stomp divots.

4. McDonald's in Viet Nam has taken the elements of Pho - the iconic Vietnamese noodle soup - and turned them into a Pho Burger. The burger features two beef patties - sourced from Viet Nam's neighboring Australia, an egg patty, pho-centric herbs, and cilantro. McDonald's also took pho broth and reduced it down to a thick sauce to finish off the Pho Burger - served on an English muffin. One thing lacking in the burger - no noodles.

5. ABBA is the first band from a non-English-speaking country to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are from Sweden.

6. Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are double land-locked countries. They are land-locked themselves and are surrounded by land-locked countries.