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[edit] Did you know...
...that the Battle of Tarawa was the first time in World War II that the U.S. faced serious opposition to an amphibious landing?
...that the Siege of Malta cost 1,493 civilian lives?
...that Shuri Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
...that Edmund Beckett, the designer of Big Ben, said, "I am the only architect with whom I have never quarrelled."?
...that the Great Salad Oil Swindle was an infamous attempt at cornering the market?
...that the political party at European level is a type of organization in the European Union eligible to receive funding from the Union, and is recognized in the Maastricht Treaty and the draft European Constitution?
...that the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind?
...that the Pergamon Museum in Berlin hosts a reconstruction of a 113 meter long sculptural frieze?
...that dramatic structure has been diagrammed by both Aristotle and Gustav Freytag?
...there are two known Polyomaviruses which infect humans?
...that Ruffini's rule allows the rapid division of any polynomial by a binomial of the form x - r ?
...that California's Owens River has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water?
...that the Communist League of America was formed after some members of the Communist Party USA were expelled for Trotskyism?
...that Polish Communists forbade the use of Wymysojer shortly after World War II, and now only about 100 native speakers remain?
...that a 1939 conflict between Soviet and Japanese troops in the village of Nomonhan is thought to have led to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
...that the Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the women who served in the Vietnam War?
...that there are many uses for trigonometry?
...that Dudley Pope wrote many of his books aboard a 54-foot wooden yacht?
...that the tallest structure in California is a television antenna tower, while in Arizona it is a chimney?
...that in his later years Dick Dastardly was often Yogi Bear's nemesis?
...that the Snellen chart is used to measure visual acuity?
...that a wrecking amendment is added to legislation in bad faith?
...that the Honolulu Police Department became a deputized military force during World War II?
...that a kammback is an aerodynamic drag-reducing car body style?
...that both Cliff and Nina and Greg and Jenny are considered soap opera supercouples?
...that while Tom Foley was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, he was not re-elected by his constituents?
...that the California Gull is the state bird of Utah?
...that the flags of the Yugoslav Socialist Republics were the old flags of the constituent nations, with a red star added to represent communism?
...that the United States Mint produced a half dime coin from 1792 until 1873?
...that the edge of space is about 100 kilometers above mean sea level?
...that American feminist magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989?
...that the Brown Dog affair, a Edwardian era vivisection controversy, led to massive riots?
...that the ideal cellular network has evenly distributed hexagonal cells?
...that the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis was sparked by a visit to Cornell by Lee Teng-hui?
...that king Naresuan ruled Thailand at its greatest territorial extent?
...that the Union Pacific Railroad still has offices in the historic Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot?
...that the Iliad and the Odyssey were just two parts of the eight-part Trojan War cycle of epic poems?
...that automatic differentiation is a method for evaluating the derivative of a function at a given point?
...that in Canada there were once eight districts of the Northwest Territories?
...that Occidental Petroleum head Armand Hammer bought into Church and Dwight in order to hold a stake in their Arm and Hammer baking soda trademark, apparently finding humor in the coincidence of their names?
...that Hurricane Audrey, which killed 390 in Louisiana in 1957, was one of the first hurricanes observed by weather radar?
...that in linguistics, the La Spezia-Rimini Line separates eastern Romance languages from the western Romance languages using isoglosses?
...that the dog called the Miniature Fox Terrier (or Mini Foxie) originated in Australia?
...that the Great Basin tribes of North America began the Ghost Dance movement?
...that manscaping is the practice of men shaving their body hair?
...that Jacaranda grows almost everywhere in the world that does not have frost?
...that since the introduction of antivenin in 1956, only one person has died from the bite of the Australian red-back spider, a cousin of the black widow?
...that the 1922 Red Ruhr Army workers' revolt was a response to the Kapp Putsch?
...that postoperative nausea and vomiting is an unpleasant complication affecting about two million people in the United Kingdom annually?
...that the Royal Poinciana has been called the most colourful tree in the world?
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