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February 2018 Group 1
 * ... that New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, barely escaped burning in a fire, was lost for decades, and then was found in a damp basement heavily water damaged and chewed by rodents?
 * ... that Yves Volel was Anderson Cooper's math teacher at the Dalton School in Manhattan before returning to Haiti to run for president, where he was assassinated?
 * ... that Africa's large population of youths and children makes it the youngest continent, with 60% of residents younger than twenty-five?

February 2018 Group 2
 * ... that Green Bay Packers cornerback  Kevin King played most of his first season with an injury to his shoulder which dislocated several times and left him unable to lift his arm over his head?
 * ... that in 1918, infected crew members aboard HMS Mantua (pictured) inadvertently spread the Spanish Flu to Africa?

February 2018 Group 3
 * ... that many modern Bible scholars consider the story of the prophet Jonah a work of satire?
 * ... that nominations for the UK Picture Editors' Guild awards have included photographs of battlefield conflict, German figure skaters, and Theresa May laughing?
 * ... that Ollagüe (pictured) has a vigorous steam plume that is visible from tens of kilometres away?

February 2018 Group 4
 * ... that the Zulu festival Umkhosi Wokweshwama was a partial inspiration for the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa?
 * ... that German author Natalie Grams set out to write a scientific defense of homeopathy, but instead discontinued her homeopathic practice and wrote a book called Homeopathy Reconsidered?


 * ... that the Yellow River put an end to Wanting in 1168?
 * ... that King Abdullah II of Jordan, who claims to be a 41st-generation direct descendant of Muhammad, funded the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 2017?
 * ... that Mu-ming Poo led a team of scientists that created the world's first primate clones with the same technique used to create Dolly the sheep?
 * ... that Saw Ganesan founded the Kamban Kazhagam to promote the epic poem Kamba Ramayanam, written by the medieval Tamil poet Kambar?

March 2018 Group 1

March 2018 Group 2

March 2018 Group 3

March 2018 Group 4


 * ... that findings at Laili Cave show that Timor was colonised at least 44,600 years ago, making it the oldest known habitation of modern humans in Wallacea?


 * ... that Pandri is the first decentralized solar-powered village in India?


 * ... that the Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau has a volume of about 2000 km3, and volcanism may have continued into the Holocene?
 * ... that hardware-based encryption is probably in your computer?

February 2018 - Silver Tier


 * ... that Humphrey IV of Toron married Isabella of Jerusalem (marriage ceremony pictured) in Kerak Castle in 1183, but a siege by Saladin disturbed the wedding?
 * ... that in 1977, hostages on board a hijacked airliner escaped when their captors fell asleep?


 * ... that the crab hacker barnacle is a parasite of crabs and manipulates its host into caring for its eggs?

February 2018 - Bronze Tier


 * ... that, from 1966 to 1991, the Yearbook on International Communist Affairs was the most comprehensive annual survey of Communist activities worldwide?
 * ... that the Japanese names of the fireflies Luciola cruciata and Aquatica lateralis may derive from two early Japanese novels or the two clans that fought the Genpei War?


 * ... that Quinta Market in Manila is believed to be the birthplace of the Filipino dessert halo-halo?
 * ... that before one pharaoh could construct his own monument, the Pyramid of Nyuserre, he had to complete the three monuments to his mother, father, and elder brother?

Others


 * ... that a BBC executive boasts that actors of the Corporation's Radio Drama Company can be "mice, ants, naiads or dryads, men morphing into hares, maggots in a fisherman's sack, or even a tray of fancy cakes"?

February 2018
 * ... that the island of Ruffle Bar was isolated from the rest of New York City for three months each year due to the surrounding bay being frozen over?
 * ... that while five of the states of the US observe a variation of Disability History Month in October, it is unofficially observed in the United Kingdom from November to December?
 * ... that the Mediterranean Sea may have been filled by a giant flood with a discharge rate about 1,000 times larger than that of the Amazon River?


 * ... that during the Siege of Katsurayama, the castle garrison poured rice from their walls to fool the besiegers into thinking they had ample water?
 * ... that Wat Phra Dhammakaya contains a large monument with a million Buddha statues?


 * ... that the killings at the Alem Bekagn prison were visible from the windows of the Organisation of African Unity headquarters, but were never mentioned by the OAU?


 * ... that Su Bai (pictured), the first head of Peking University's archaeology department, is considered a pioneer in the archaeology of Buddhism?
 * ... that in Sumerian mythology, a group of gods known as the Anunnaki put the goddess Inanna on trial for her attempt to conquer the Underworld?


 * ... that the Fagersta airspace surveillance tower (pictured) has been compared to both a minaret and the tower of a fairy tale castle?


 * ... that Amazon spherical employee lounge in Seattle was opened with an Alexa voice command?
 * ... that war correspondent Philip Jacobson placed bets on horse races while reporting from the battlefield?
 * ... that Australian mathematician Katherine Heinrich was the first female president of the Canadian Mathematical Society?
 * ... that the announcement of the reopening of the Embassy of Poland in Manila coincided with Poland's decision to expand its economic involvement in Asia?
 * ... that the Fifth Dynasty Pyramid of Neferirkare (pictured) was originally conceived as a step pyramid, a design which had been deprecated at the end of the Third Dynasty more than a century prior?
 * ... that claims have been made that the headquarters of the African Union, donated by the Chinese government, was bugged by the Chinese?
 * ... that the longest-serving woman in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland was also the grandmother of two prime ministers?
 * ... that Captain G. S. Salaria is the only United Nations peacekeeper to have been awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest wartime military decoration?
 * ... that the Evangelical Heritage Version of the Bible was translated by a group of Lutheran volunteers?
 * ... that, in Māori mythology, the severed tail of a taniwha which fell at the base of the Wainui Falls (pictured) is thought to be responsible for staining the rocks downstream reddish-brown with its blood?
 * ... that though the Saleh Kamboh Mosque of Lahore was built during Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's reign, it has architectural features of the Shah Jahani era?
 * ... that Palazzo Corpi, the longtime United States consulate in Istanbul, was acquired by the American government in a poker game?


 * ... that the Austin United States Courthouse (pictured) was given an abundance of windows and natural lighting to represent the importance of transparency in the judiciary?

March 2018
 * ... that despite its "tasty flesh" and abundance, the southern cuttlefish Sepia australis is currently of little interest to fisheries?
 * ... that the English radiographer Ethel Armstrong has worked for the National Health Service since the day it was founded in 1948?
 * ... that deliberately stopping a phone call before it is answered can be a form of communication in its own right?
 * ... that Mexican-American Holocaust survivor Anthony Acevedo mixed snow and urine with the ink of his pen to ensure he could maintain his concentration-camp diary?
 * ... that Welsh sisters Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright (pictured) used their shawls as a rope to rescue lifeboat crew who had fallen overboard during the rescue of a German barque in 1883?
 * ... that during the First World War the British Army recruited Maltese waiters to serve its Salonika Army?
 * ... that Emily Riehl, former bassist for the band Unstraight, wrote about "unstraightening" in her research as a professional mathematician?
 * ... that the extinct ant Usomyrma was thought to be ancestral to spider ants when first described?
 * ... that dead heats between two or even three racehorses (example pictured) were more common before the introduction of the photo finish?
 * ... that the terms of the Treaty of Livadia between Qing China and the Russian Empire were so unfavorable to China that the negotiator Chonghou was sentenced to death?
 * ... that sisters Carmen and Ramona Brussig were born within 15 minutes of each other and won Paralympic gold medals within 15 minutes of each other?