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When underdog Iceland reached the quarter-final of the 2016 Euro Cup, 10% of Iceland's population traveled to France for the game. The coach was also a dentist.
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Tuvalu could finally afford the $100,000 it cost to join the United Nations after it received its first quarterly $1 million payment for leasing out the valuable .tv internet domain.
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Ahn Jung-Hwan, a Korean soccer player who scored an extra-time header against Italy to send South Korea to the quarter-finals of the 2002 World Cup. The next day, his contract with Italian team Perugia was cancelled because he "ruined Italian football".
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The assassin Balthasar Gérard and his brutal execution, involving having his right hand burned off with a red-hot iron, his flesh torn from his bones with pincers, quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his chest and flung into his face, and finally his head chopped off.
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In the Olympic Rowing quarter final, Bobby Pearce was easily beating French opponent Saurin when a family of ducks strayed into his lane. Pearce momentarily stopped rowing to let the ducks pass; he still won with the fastest time of all 8 competitors in that round.
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During the 1936 Olympics Soccer quarter finals, Peruvian fans ran onto the field and attacked an Austrian player. Peru scored two goals during the ensuing chaos.
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Neymar, Brazil star, ‘could have been paralysed’ if he had been hit in the back one inch higher during his team’s 2-1 World Cup quarter-final win over Colombia.
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Steven Bradbury won Australia's first ever winter Olympic gold medal not just because everyone else crashed in the short track skating final - but also because everyone crashed in his Semi Final and there was a disqualification in his Quarter Final.
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A well-known businessman made the draw for the quarter final of the 1992 Rumbelows Cup.
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Sir George Thomas was twice British chess champion, 21-time All-England badminton champion and in 1911 he reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon singles and semi-finals of Wimbledon men's doubles.
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Julijonas Urbonas designed a Euthanasia Coaster that starts with a long, slow incline before a quarter-mile fall, which leads into a series of loops that are designed to create so much centrifugal force that you won't be able to breathe, finally dying from lack of oxygen to your brain.
