After 19 million Sikhs in India, the countries with the next most Sikhs are the UK with 760,000, the USA with 500,000, and Canada with 468,000. All other countries have 100,000 or fewer Sikhs.
The toughest tongue-twister in the English language is commonly thought to be: “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.”
The song Barely Breathing, released in 1996, was Duncan Sheik’s breakout hit song.
“Wake Duncan with thy knocking!” Is Macbeth’s exit line after the murder.
“Knocking on Heaven’s Door” was written and sung by Bob Dylan for his appearance in the movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
Bob Sylan turned down an offer to headline the legendary Woodstock Festival in 1969 (Jimi Hendrix ultimately headlined), even though he had been living on a farm in Woodstock for many years at that point.
Woodstock the bird was introduced in Peanuts in 1966, but was not given a name until 1970. It’s never been definitively answered what type of bird Woodstock is.
In the TV special “She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown”, Woodstock whistles the soprano aria “O Mio Babbino Caro” (“Oh, My Beloved Father”) from Puccini’s one-act Gianni Schicchi, when the arena sound system fails just before Peppermint Patty’s figure-skating competition performance.
Giacomo Puccini has been called “the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi”.
During Italy’s *Risorgimento *(resurgence, or reunification) process in the 1860’s, in which Giuseppe Verdi was a leading figure, the graffito “Viva VERDI” was often seen. It had a secondary, or rather primary, meaning as an acronym for Viva Vittorio Emanuele Re D’Italia (Long Live Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy), referring to Victor Emmanuel II, then king only of Sardinia but the choice of the movement to rule all of the Boot.
Cagliari, on the south coast of Sardinia, is also the largest city in Sardinia, with approximately 150,000 inhabitants. Based in Cagliari is Cagliari Calcio, Sardinia’s football team, which won the Italian league in 1970.
Sardines, or pilchards, are common names used to refer to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae. The term sardine was first used in English during the early 15th century and may come from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, around which sardines were once abundant.
Bagoong is a cooking ingredient in Filipino dishes made from salted bonnet mouth fish.
Non-factual information about bagoong: if someone actually cooks to make the ingredient in their kitchen, man, does it really stink.
The word bagoong is pronounced in three evenly-spaced syllable (so, no syllable is emphasized), like bah-goh-ong. The first syllable rhymes with Pa (like he is my Pa, my Father), and the middle syllable sounds somewhere between the go in go away, and the sound made by the word jaw. Well, I tried.
Was he related to Bob Dylan? 
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The Filipino flag is the only national flag in the world that is purposefully flown upside-down in wartime. The U.S. flag is flown upside-down to indicate distress, such as aboard a ship at sea.
The Filipino flag was designed by Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the Philippines.
When John Lithgow played a possessed Dr. Emilio Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, he tried to play him as if he was a giant mutant crab stuck in a human body.
John Lithgow was considered for the role of Doc Brown in Back to the Future (1985). The role went to Christopher Lloyd instead.
Though Busby Berkeley was famous for his innovative choreography, he did not direct until later in his career. Two of his best-kinown films – 42nd Street and Footlight Parade – were both directed by Lloyd Bacon.
Berkeley, California has three (!) weekly farmers’ markets, in three different locations in Berkeley: one on Tuesdays, one on Thursdays, and one on Saturdays. The Thursday one is all organic.
There have been seven U.S. Navy warships named USS California for what is now the most populous state in the Union. The current such vessel is a Virginia-class nuclear fast attack submarine commissioned in 2011.