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Did you know...

...that the prehistoric mammal Yanoconodon (pictured) was a Eutriconodont, a group of early, ancestral mammals that in some cases, grew so big they were able to eat small dinosaurs?
...that the Burgsvik beds, a geological formation exposed on Gotland, Sweden, contain the only fossil euglenid ever discovered?
...that Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
...that despite sending 8000 ARVN soldiers from out of district to stuff ballot boxes, South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem could not prevent his candidate from losing to Phan Quang Dan in a 1959 legislative election by a ratio of 6-1?
...that Akwasi Afrifa became Lt. General and head of state of Ghana after a coup d'état, was detained after a second coup, won parliamentary elections after a third and was executed after a fourth coup?
...that Patchin Place (pictured), a cul-de-sac in Greenwich Village known for literary residents such as Theodore Dreiser and E. E. Cummings, is now a popular location for psychotherapists' offices?
...that former University of Kentucky basketball star Dirk Minniefield smoked marijuana the night before Kentucky's loss in the 1983 NCAA Tournament to the University of Louisville?
...that the Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture commemorates a Australian Army general, physician and historian who was killed in a plane crash during World War II?
...that Tung Hua Lin led a team that designed and built China's first twin-engine aircraft in a cave to avoid detection by the Japanese during World War II?
...that American sculptor Lynda Benglis sought to confront the male ethos in the arts community with an advertisement in which she only wore a pair of sunglasses?
..that the recently beatified Paul Joseph Nardini died of pulmonary typhus he contracted when giving the last rites to a member of his parish?
...that the song "Push The Button" was believed by some to relate to Iran's attempt to build nuclear weapons?
...that King George III was overjoyed at the destruction caused to the home of Joseph Priestley during the Birmingham Riots (pictured) in 1791?
...that Louise Pitre, a Tony Award-nominated musical theatre actress, was turned down after auditioning for the role of Josephine in the London musical Napoleon?
...that three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment?
...that the final episode of the 1986 television series Outlaws recycled footage from The Oregon Trail, because actors Rod Taylor and Charles Napier appeared in both programs?
...that income inequality increased in the United States in 2005 with the top 1% of earners having roughly the same share of income as in 1928?
...that Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski is the first female to hold the rank of Lieutenant General in the US Air Force?
...that catfish species of the genus Hypophthalmus are unusual among neotropical fishes because they feed on plankton by straining water over a fine sieve created by numerous long, thin gill rakers
...the Carney Hospital (pictured) in Dorchester, Massachusetts has the record of carrying out the first abdominal surgery in the United States?
...that Gabriele Kohlisch is one of only two people to ever win World Championship gold medals in bobsledding and luge?
...that the Mitcham and Morden by-election in 1982 remains the last to see a gain by the British Conservative Party?
...that the Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska was the largest livestock market and meatpacking center in the United States from 1955 until 1973?
...that Carlos Morales Troncoso, the foreign minister of the Dominican Republic, has degrees in both chemical engineering and sugar engineering?
...that the Poltava Bandurist Capella, directed by Hnat Khotkevych, was the first Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour North America?
...that the football song Hampden in the sun celebrates the record scoreline of the 1957 Scottish League Cup final?
...that the Lajkonik is an unofficial symbol of the city of Krakow as well as an annual festival celebrated for over 700 years commemorating victory over the Tatar invasion?
...that Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin (pictured) appears to be unique in 15th century art in depicting Christ and God the Father as identical figures?
...that American Revolutionary War officer William Stacy narrowly escaped death by burning at the stake and was given a gold snuff box by George Washington?
...that the Frosty Leo Nebula was so named because it is the only known protoplanetary nebula whose circumstellar outflow is dominated by crystalline ice in the long-wavelength emission spectrum?
...that the Australian town of Bundarra, New South Wales is home to a breeding colony of endangered Regent Honeyeaters, containing around thirty of the less than 1,500 birds remaining in existence?
...that William Cooley was a salvager and pioneer whose family's 1836 murder during the Second Seminole War led to the abandonment of the New River Settlement near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States?
...that among the toughest fighters of the Dahomey War were the corps of female warriors armed with rifles and double-edged machetes?
...that the color signals of Israel Broadcasting Authority television transmissions were erased until 1981, to insure equality for families who couldn't affored color-tv?
...that despite being a key building of middle byzantine Architecture, the mosque of Eski Imaret (pictured) is still one among the least studied monuments of Istanbul?
...that La Martiniere Boys' College in Lucknow, India is the only school in the world to be awarded a battle honour?
...that brownouts have claimed more helicopters in recent military operations than all other threats combined?
...that Kannada is the only language in which a Jain version of the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata exists?
...that Julius Reubke composed his Sonata on the 94th Psalm for organ a year before dying aged 24?
...that Scottish footballer Billy McPhail launched a legal case claiming that heading heavy leather footballs contributed to him developing Alzheimer's disease?
...that Vancouver police Chief Jamie Graham apologized for leaving a paper target riddled with bullet holes on the desk of the city manager, his boss, as a joke?
...that the New Zealand Railways Department dumped tank locomotives of the W^B class in the Mokihinui River to protect against erosion beside the route of the Seddonville Branch line?
...that the Greek Phlyax plays of South Italy might have been an influence on Roman comedies of Plautus?
...that the City and Town Hall (pictured) in Rochelle, Illinois was constructed in 1884 following an 18-year disagreement over cost between the city and Flagg Township?
...that Introitus et Exitus, a financial record of the Apostolic Camera from 1279 to 1524, has been used to authenticate the provenance of artworks and study past European exchange and interest rates?
...that the Salerno Mutiny of 1943 saw the largest number of men charged with mutiny at any one time in all of British military history?
...that the third of four expeditions sent in the late 19th century by French nobleman Marquis de Rays to an imaginary majestic colony called New France in present day Papua New Guinea, saw 123 Italian settlers perish of disease and famine?
...that the Bangalore based SELCO company, which promotes solar power in rural India, has twice won an Ashden Award?
...that Ben Abell provided the St. Louis area with more than 120,000 weather forecasts?
...that The Secret Battle (1919) was the first novel by A. P. Herbert, and the first war novel to deal with the soldiers "shot at dawn" during World War I?
...that the Shtyki Memorial (pictured), which honors the defenders of Russia in the Battle of Moscow, is depicted on the flag and coat of arms of Zelenograd?
...that Dutch publisher Emanuel Querido published 110 works between 1933 and 1940 by German writers in exile?
...that the rock band The Sidewinders changed their name to the Sand Rubies after being sued by a cover band over the use of their name?
...that Lough Hyne is a marine lake that was probably freshwater until rising ocean levels flooded it about 4000 years ago?
...that Omaha chief Logan Fontenelle sold the Omaha land to the U.S. government and was subseuqently killed by Brulé and Arapaho?
...that in the 18th century the owners of Tom King's Coffee House developed their own argot, Talking Flash, to prevent informers learning of their misdeeds?
...that the range of Nelson's Milksnake (Albino specimen pictured) from Mexico is linked to watercourses and that it was thought to be the same subspecies as the more common Sinaloan Milksnake until 1978?
...that, in 19th and 20th century Romania, Roma people known as Ursari trained brown bears to step on people's backs, as a folk remedy for back pain?
...that according to legend, the Polish Princess Wanda would rather commit suicide than marry a leader of an invading German force?
...that Edwin Lemare was the most highly-paid organ virtuoso of his day?
...that Indian whisky is actually a distilled spirit made mostly from molasses?
...that Glomeris marginata (pictured), a pill millipede, is often confused with the woodlouse Armadillidium, because they both roll themselves up into a ball when disturbed?
...that a Court of Disputed Returns is an independent body that determines disputes about election results in some countries?
...that the world's first birth control clinic was set up in 1930 in the Mandya district of the state of Karnataka, India?
...that Iraqi refugee Wafaa Bilal was shot by more than 60,000 paintballs in a month-long performance art piece in Chicago?
...that the foreman of the jury who acquitted Thomas Hardy of treason during the 1794 Treason Trials in Britain fainted after reading the verdict?
...that Rufous Whistler birds, unlike all other Whistler birds, never forage on the ground but high up in trees or other high places?
...that the Sicilian friar Antonio del Duca lobbied for decades for papal authorization of a more formal veneration of the Seven Archangels?
...that the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (pictured) of Eastern Australia was initially described as a thrush or a flycatcher, though related to neither?
...that the Suwa Shrine survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, although the nearby Urakami Cathedral and surrounding Catholic neighborhoods were completely obliterated?
...that Józef Mianowski, a 19th century Polish academic and personal physician of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, falsified university records to give alibis to Polish insurgents in 1860s?
...that stellar magnetic fields create loops of plasma that arc over the surface of a star?
...that the Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology tells us that one-third of the annual rainfall along the Mexican Riviera, and up to one-half of the annual rainfall within Baja California Sur, is due to tropical cyclones moving up Mexico's west coast?
...that Ba Cut (meaning Short Third), a military commander of the Hoa Hao religious sect in Vietnam, was so named because he cut off his third finger to remind him to fight French colonialism?
...that the Royal Navy ordered the construction of the 'HMS Ledbury (Pennant L90) two days after the outbreak of World War II?
...that the Friends Meeting House (pictured) is the only remaining structure in the ghost town of Benjaminville, Illinois?
...that Mexican singer-actor Antonio Aguilar made over 150 albums and 150 movies in his career?
...that a decline of the population of brook trout in the Straight River in central Minnesota was caused by rising water temperatures, prompting government scrutiny of nearby irrigation operations?
...that Ryszard Bartel's design, the Bartel BM-4, was Poland's first own aircraft built in series?
...that Vlasina Lake in southeastern Serbia is famous for floating islands arising from chunks of peat broken off the shore?
...that political boss John Henry Whallen influenced every election in Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 until his death in 1913?
...that the Empire Gallantry Medal's design was changed twice in its seventeen year existence?
...that areas of the North Fly District in Papua New Guinea's Western Province experience a peak annual rainfall of ten metres?
...that Hancock Manor received wounded men from the Battle of Bunker Hill and entertained both Lafayette and George Washington?
...that the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House (pictured) is Frank Lloyd Wright's only work with marble walls?
...that Key Highway, built to provide better access to the municipal piers in Baltimore in preparation for increased trade through the Panama Canal, is now a truck bypass of the historic Federal Hill neighborhood?
...that the Columbia detatchment of the Royal Engineers built some of the first major roads in British Columbia?
...that the Indian state of Maharashtra has started a project for the location of suitable sites for Jatropha plantations?
...that 173 of the 198 Kwaio arrested during the Malaita massacre were hospitalized for dysentery while awaiting trial in Tulagi, the Solomon Islands?
...that British Labour politician Piara Singh Khabra was the fifth Asian MP, and was the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons and the only sitting MP to have served in the armed forces during the Second World War at the time of his death?
...the Art Institute of Chicago Building was co-financed by the financiers of the World's Columbian Exposition, which occupied the building for its first six months?
...that the Ordos culture includes some of the easternmost Scythians, who were settled for several centuries in an area about 300 kilometers from modern Beijing in China?
...that the bill of the Magpie Duck (pictured) becomes green as the bird gets older, and its black crown may go completely white?
...that Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl proposed using protein sequences to estimate the time since genetic divergence, early in the history of molecular evolution research?
...that Irene Jordan of the South Fort George suburb of Prince George, British Columbia had owned a popular brothel that later became the first City Hall of Prince George?
...that "Cherry Pie", the best-known song by the glam metal band Warrant, was a last-minute addition to their 1990 album?
...that the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was dropped in favor of the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2006, reestablishing a prize not awarded since 1952?
...that the author of the term Third Reich predicted that "Germany might perish because of the Third Reich dream"?
...that the Kodava Hockey Festival held annually in the Kodagu district of the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest field hockey tournaments in the world?
...that Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic?
...that Tom Dennison got a mayor elected eight times, instigated a race riot and controlled all sale of liquor, gambling and prostitution during his 30+ year reign as Omaha's political boss?
...that the semi-wooded lawn of the Lampert-Wildflower House (pictured) in Belvidere, Illinois provides habitat for five different species of rare plants?
...that after thirty-five ballots, Republican presidential candidates James G. Blaine and John Sherman withdrew their campaigns to support a dark horse candidate named James Garfield at the 1880 Republican National Convention?
...that Kentucky philanthropist Eli Metcalfe Bruce contributed more than $400,000 of his personal fortune to aiding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War?
...that Semar, although depicted as a clown in Indonesian wayang shadow puppetry, is said to be the guardian spirit of Java and a god in human form?
...that litigation in the Vice Admiralty Court was frustrated after Justice Jeffery Bent absconded with its seal when he was not re-appointed to the Supreme Court?
...that Canadian musician Richard Bell was a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band and became a member of The Band during the 1990s?
...that Herb Boxer was the first U.S.-born ice hockey player ever drafted by a National Hockey League team?
...that Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts?
...that O. Rajagopal represented Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, despite living in Kerala?
...that Jeronima de la Asuncion (pictured) was the foundress of the first Catholic monastery in Manila and the Far East?
...that the first online-only correspondence law school started operating in 1998 and graduated its first class in 2002?
...that Major Oscar F. Perdomo downed five Japanese aircraft in a single day and thereby became the United States' last "Ace of a day" of World War II?
...that Gubbi Veeranna's theatre company was the first one in the state of Karnataka, India to employ female artists to portray female characters on the stage?
...that Britartist Tracey Emin's "tent", Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire, listed 102 names including her grandma and two foetuses?
...that the Polish Coal Trunk-Line, one of the most important rail connections in Poland, was built because post-First World War border changes made old rail lines obsolete?
...that Peter Cochrane and Les Carlyon were the joint inaugural winners of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History?
...that of the more than one million photographic plates made in the studio of Henri Manuel, only five hundred survived World War II?
...that Scotland rugby union player Duncan Macrae won a Military Cross for his actions as part of the 51st Highland Division at Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
...that The Happy Land, a play by W. S. Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, was briefly banned in 1873 for portraying a singing, dancing Prime Minister Gladstone (newspaper illustration pictured)?
...that Challenge 1934 was the fourth and last FAI International Tourist Plane Contest, a major aviation event in pre-war Europe?
...that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Bronston v. United States that statements made under oath which are literally truthful yet misleading cannot be prosecuted as perjury?
...that the "helicopter" damselflies of family Pseudostigmatidae specialize in plucking spiders from their webs?
...that the state of Karnataka, particularly the region belonging to the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, is known as the cradle of banking in India?
...that the Commander-in-Chief's Guard was a unit of the Continental Army that protected George Washington during the American Revolutionary War?
...that Robert Clark made his own alcoholic drink, "Gut Rot 1916", while stranded on Elephant Island in 1916?
...that it may take more than 220 years for eucalyptus trees to form hollows suitable for larger animals?
...that blackface minstrel dancer John Diamond (pictured) won numerous "Ethiopian" dance competitions until he was defeated by a real black man known as Master Juba?
...that the oldest state government building in the US state of Oregon, the 1914 Supreme Court Building in Salem, has a stained glass skylight in the shape of the State seal?
...that ten of the twenty-three Cardinal electors in the 1492 papal conclavewhich elected Rodrigo Borja as Pope Alexander VI were nephews of the popes that elevated them?
...that The Jaguar Smile was the first book-length non-fiction work by author Salman Rushdie and was written during a break from the composition of The Satanic Verses?
...that Papyrus 45 may have been one of the earliest manuscripts to collect more than one New Testament genre into a single codex?
...that the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry is the second oldest continuously operating ferry service in the United States?
...that like other bronzewing pigeons, the Common Bronzewing releases a milky substance from its crop to feed its young?
...that Abraham Lincoln's short speech at the Peekskill Freight Depot (pictured) was his only recorded public appearance in Westchester County?
...that Dum Diversas, promulgated by Pope Nicholas V in 1452, authorized Afonso V of Portugal to enslave indefinitely Saracens, pagans, and other "enemies of Christ"?
...that before World War II, the Polish Army prioritized defence planning in case of Soviet attack over a plan against German invasion until the late 1930s?
...that Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death?
...that Ben Brocklehurst, one of the last amateur captains in county cricket and later owner and publisher The Cricketer magazine from 1972 to 2003, is the grandfather of cricketer Ben Hutton?
...that the Wall Street Journal tracks median home purchase prices of starter homes as part of its real estate index?
...that Unsung Heroes, a twenty-part North Korean spy film series, cast U.S. Army defectors Charles Jenkins and Joe Dresnok in the role of villains?
...that the Brunel-designed Wharncliffe Viaduct of 1836 (pictured), on the GWR main line in London, is home to a protected colony of bats?
...that Dr. Joseph Rothrock is known as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania, and is the namesake for Rothrock State Forest?
...that the award ceremony of Turkey's most important film festival, the Golden Orange, is held at the Roman amphitheatre of Aspendos in Antalya?
...that Eric Johnston, president of the MPAA, issued the Waldorf Statement in November, 1947, marking the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist?
...that Frederick Augustus Hely, a justice of the peace and public servant in colonial Australia, was the first man to settle permanently at Narara, Brisbane Water?
...that Jan's Valley, a model settlement built by the Polish state in interwar Poland, was razed barely ten years after its creation by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the Second World War?
...that Mikveh Israel, the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel, was founded in 1870 by Charles Netter?
...that on a clear day visitors to Holy Hill (pictured) can view the Milwaukee skyline, located 30 miles (48 km) away?
...that the beach where Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967, and presumably drowned, was named after the SS Cheviot that was wrecked nearby in 1887 with the loss of 35 lives?
...that Roman trade with India was so large as to drain gold resources from Rome and involved the despatch of 120 ships every year?
...that Australian rules footballer Tom Lonergan returned to the sport ten months after losing a kidney as the result of an injury?
...that Sergeant George Jordan received the Medal of Honor for repulsing 100 Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Victorio with 25 Buffalo Soldiers in the Battle of Tularosa?
...that Sir John Gilmour Bt emulated his father by also winning the Distinguished Service Order, becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament, and twice serving as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland?
...that some dragonflies avoid overheating on sunny days by assuming a "handstand" position known as the obelisk posture (pictured)?
...that capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?
...that baseball player Jack Lelivelt's International League-record hitting streak set in 1912 was not recognized by the International League until 2007, the year it was broken?
...that Richard Hanley's book South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating analyzes issues of applied ethics as presented in South Park?
...that British Labour MP Harry Ewing was joint chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, formed in 1989 to plan for the devolution of Scotland?
...that Lake Ceauru in southwestern Romania does not exist, despite appearing on maps today?
...that, along with many other scientific discoveries made during its course, the Morea expedition confirmed the presence of jackals in Greece?
...that St Andrews Church (pictured) in Chew Stoke, England, includes 156 statues of angels?
...that temperature extremes in Minnesota have varied from 60 °F (51 °C) to 114 °F (46 °C)?
...that HNoMY Norge, one of only two Royal Yachts left in the world, was produced by Camper and Nicholsons, the oldest leisure marine company in the world?
...that Francisco F. Sionil José is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language, and has been translated into 22 other languages?
...that Czech saint Zdislava Berka ran away from home to live as a hermit when she was only seven years old?
...that in the Calgary Flames' 1988-89 season, they became the only visiting team to defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup in the Montreal Forum?
...that the Lakshminarayana Temple in Hosaholalu, Karnataka state, India is mounted on a platform (jagati), a style unique to Hoysala architecture?
...that U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, a known Stalwart, signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, a piece of legislation that was drawn up by the rival Half-Breeds?
...that Barthélemy d'Eyck was an Early Netherlandish artist, famous in the 15th century, who has only been attributed specific works (one pictured) in recent decades?
...Swedish emigration to North America was so high around 1900 that the Swedish Emigration Commission produced a 21-volume report on curbing it?
...that pioneering African American journalist Larry Whiteside was part of an expert panel that chose the Major League Baseball All-Century Team?
...that football players Billy and John McPhail are the only brothers to have both scored hat-tricks for Celtic F.C. against their Old Firm rivals, Rangers F.C.?
...that, prior to developing the Elder Scrolls series, Bethesda Softworks was primarily known as a sports game company?
...that the Kisima Music Awards recognise talent from across East Africa?
...that American writer Elbert Hubbard traveled about McLean County, Illinois to collect past due fees from his father's clientele to complete the Hubbard House (pictured) in 1872?
...that Je| Jerzy is a popular Polish comic, a satire on modern life, often making fun of subcultures like skinheads or dresiarze?
...that the initials of former Canadian Football League executive J.I. Albrecht stand for "Just Incredible"?
...that during the Soviet deportations from Estonia in 1940-1941 and 1944-1951 the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonian citizens to Siberia?
...that the USS Sandpiper, originally built as a minesweeping ship, was redesignated a seaplane tender?
...that Omaha, Nebraska's Little Italy neighborhood was largely the result of two brothers' efforts to help their countrymen?
...that Shivappa Nayaka, a king in 17th-century Karnataka, India, introduced a unique and variable tax system called Sist?
...that African American Methodist preacher and missionary John Marrant undertook a mission to the Cherokee while he was a teenager?
...that the anticancer agent Salinosporamide A (skeletal formula pictured), which recently entered clinical trials, is produced by marine sediment-dwelling bacteria?
...that sports agent David Falk represented Michael Jordan for the whole of the player's career?
...that Joseph Bowman was the only American officer killed during George Rogers Clark's campaign to capture the Illinois Country in the American Revolutionary War?
...that in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational to set up base in Bangalore?
..that E.E. Roberts' Oak Park, Illinois architecture firm rivaled the studio of fellow architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
...that a man was crushed to death during the construction of the