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[edit] Did you know...
...that the United Kingdom was the first country to offer its citizens a postal savings system?
...that the literary genre known as Bangsian fantasy sets its action wholly or partially in Hell?
...that the word ecology was coined by Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
...that Antarctica's Lemaire Channel is such a popular tourist destination that it's nicknamed Kodak Gap?
...that the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace is the only U.S. presidential library that is not a part of the official National Archives and Records Administration system?
...that the 1945 Trial of the Sixteen helped the USSR consolidate its control over Poland?
...that the Cork Opera House in Ireland was built in 1855, burned down in 1955, and rebuilt in 1963?
...that the most famous accomplishment of the Israeli Engineering Corps is breaching the Suez Canal during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War?
...that British lying-in-state ceremonies take place at Westminster Hall?
...that the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada was 1965's Hope Slide?
...that the Venetian Arsenal is mentioned in Dante's Inferno?
...that there are three major kinds of arcade cabinet: upright, sit-down and cocktail?
...that the international Harmon Trophy is awarded to the most notable aviator of the year?
...that the Malayan Tapir is the only species of tapir native to Asia?
...that the word "high" in high treason differentiates that well-known crime from the more obscure petty treason?
...that Richard Blumenthal is Connecticut's Attorney General and was awarded the Raymond E. Baldwin Award for Public Service by the Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2002?
...that as many as 150 people a year attempt to commit suicide by jumping from either the Bosporus Bridge or Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Turkey?
...that the Romanian riots of 1989 led to the only bloody overthrow of a Communist regime in Europe?
...that the Rome Laboratory in New York is one of four superlabs run by the U.S. Air Force?
...that the history of Buddhism includes a century of Greco-Buddhist interaction, primarily around Bactria?
...that the city of Vancouver, British Columbia sits on the Burrard Peninsula?
...that the disputed Cherokee Strip in Kansas was the result of a boundary conflict between the Osage, Cherokee and United States federal government which lasted from 1854 until 1866?
...that the English mediæval shrine statue Our Lady of Ipswich, ordered to be destroyed during the Reformation, might have survived in an Italian village?
...that many of the Dartmoor longhouses built during the Middle Ages still stand today?
...that some historians consider the Baltimore riot of 1861 to be the first bloodshed of the American Civil War?
...that Buchwald v. Paramount may (or may not) have set a precedent for questioning spurious Hollywood accounting practices?
...that the history of the incipit runs from ancient Sumeria through to modern word processors?
...that the dominant art form of the English Renaissance was the play?
...that the mysterious objects known as Black Triangles may actually be hybrid airships?
...that Frances has tied Arlene (at eight times) as the most-used name for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean?
...that the city of Swakopmund, Namibia has some of the world's best examples of German Art Deco architecture?
...that Johannes Bugenhagen introduced the Protestant Reformation to Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century?
...that the now-closed Opryland was the official theme park of NASCAR?
...that the Roman abacus incorporated mixed-base arithmetic?
...that the French village of Giverny, best known as the home and landscape subject of Claude Monet, is a pre-Roman town known in ancient deeds as Warnacum?
...that Governor-General outranks the Prime Minister in the New Zealand order of precedence?
...that historical hearsay states John of Kolno came to the New World in 1476, 16 years ahead of Christopher Columbus?
...that past Olympic mascots include several bears named Misha, Coal, Howdy and Hidy, and dogs Cobi and Waldi ?
...that pineconefish have no apparent sexual dimorphism?
...that Commodore Horatio Bridge was the first officer to employ the idea of comprehensive fleet supply within the United States Navy?
...there are large stands of primeval forest on the border between Poland and Belarus? ...that the Monty Python song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a parody of the type of song featured in Disney films?
...that the AVE Mizar was a flying car created by attaching part of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford Pinto?
...that the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia pioneered the use of incubators for newborn intensive care?
...that the main sounds made by Lichtenstein's Hartebeest are a bellow and a sneeze-snort?
...that the Wicked Witch of the West controls the Winged Monkeys through the power of the Golden Cap?
...that some Native Americans called the Douglas Squirrel the Pillillooeet?
...that The Brighter Day is the only explicitly religious soap opera ever to air on American network television?
...that the Seattle Fault is believed capable of producing an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale?
...that the Supreme Court of Sweden ceased to render verdicts in the name of the Swedish monarch in 1974?
...that You Bet Your Life was a radio and television quiz show hosted by Groucho Marx?
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