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[edit] Did you know...
...that Clint Malarchuk sustained one of the most horrific in-game injuries in NHL history?
...that Monique Serf was only ten years old when she had to go into hiding during the German occupation of France in World War II?
...that in the 1930s, Australia was home to a paramilitary Fascist organization called the New Guard?
...that Dolmabahçe Palace was the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1923?
...that the U.S. Academic Decathlon was first organized in Orange County, California?
...that until the 1930s, methanol was the most widely used antifreeze?
...that the Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois was intended to rival New York City's Metropolitan Opera House?
...that NASA offers interested individuals opportunities to fly small experiments aboard the space shuttle called Getaway Specials?
...that Dido class cruisers fought in the Battle of Cape Matapan, Battle of Okinawa, Operation Overlord, and Operation Torch?
...that Zenna Henderson's story "Pottage" was made into an ABC-TV Movie, The People, starring William Shatner?
...that Anne Isabella Milbanke was certain her husband, Lord Byron, had gone mad?
...that the Kharosthi script was in use from the middle of the 3rd century BC until around the 3rd century AD?
...that the governor of Texas during the American Civil War was Francis Lubbock?
...that Measure 51 would have repealed Oregon's Death with Dignity Act?
...that, in the U.S. Navy, advancement to Petty Officer First Class is dependent on time in service, performance evaluations, and rate examinations?
...that Joan of Arc and Mahatma Gandhi were protagonists in Clone High?
...that Signing Exact English is easy for parents and teachers of deaf children to master quickly?
...that Jane Delano, a relative of U.S. President FDR, founded the American Red Cross nursing service?
...that the Persian king Cyrus the Younger invented the scythed chariot?
...that there is no widely accepted explanation for geographic features called Carolina bays, but that meteors may be the cause?
...that Ferryland was the first permanent European colony in Newfoundland?
...that there is a collection of neurons in the basal forebrain of reptiles called a nucleus accumbens that is implicated in reward responses?
...that New York City has been working on the Second Avenue Subway project since 1919?
...that the Rift Valley lakes of Africa are a freshwater ecoregion?
...the brains of spider monkeys weigh twice as much as the brains of howler monkeys of equal size?
...that the UK's Workers Socialist Federation began as a suffragette group?
...that people who suffer from anosognosia deny or do not know that they have relatively significant challenges such blindness or paralysis?
...that Captain & Tennille now reside in Nevada, United States?
...that siblings raised separately may experience genetic sexual attraction if they meet as adults?
...that according to the ancient doctrine of signatures, the plant hepatica was useful for treating liver disorders?
...that cartoon Irving proposed to cartoon Cathy on Valentine's Day 2004?
...that Church House is the headquarters building for the Church of England?
...that the USSR named twelve cities and one city-fortress Hero Cities for valor during the Great Patriotic War?
...that in Vajrayana Buddhism, a Wisdom King is the third tier of deity after Buddhas and bodhisattvas?
...that Comiskey Park was the oldest stadium in Major League Baseball until its demolition in 1991?
...that a demisemiquaver is a musical note that is played for 1/32 the duration of a whole note?
...that "Persian violet" is another name for cyclamen?
...that Ancient Egyptian architect Senemut was allegedly the lover of the Pharaoh Hatshepsut?
...that the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz, scat and be-bop?
...that the UN founded the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People in 1975?
...that Venetian, spoken in and around Venice, Italy, is not a dialect of Italian?
...that collard greens is both a plant and a recipe?
...that Hong Kong is made up of a peninsula and 236 islands?
...that the Ancient Greek mathematician Polybius invented the Polybius square, a cryptographic technique?
...that William X of Aquitaine, father of Eleanor of Aquitaine, was a noted patron of troubadours?
...that the term Apostolic Fathers refers to the generation between the Apostles and the Church Fathers?
...that Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb led the successful German assault on Leningrad in 1941, but was relieved of duty by a distrustful Hitler?
...that Albert R. Broccoli produced Dr. No and remained involved with the James Bond series until his death?
...that famous epic poems like Beowulf and Judith were written in Late West Saxon?
...the ember days were formerly set aside for fasting and prayer in the Christian liturgical calendar?
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