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Did you know...
...that the Tarim mummies indicate that Caucasian populations lived in Xinjiang in western China during the 1st millenium BCE? ...that Cherrapunji in India is the wettest place in the world? ...that there are sixteen candidates running in the June 14 Ohio Second Congressional District Election to replace representative Rob Portman? ...that Mick Mills was made captain of the England national football team which started the 1982 World Cup because Kevin Keegan was unable to play through injury?

...that Irish chemist Robert Kane (1809–1890) showed that hydrogen is electropositive? ...that 1980s horror movie actress Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her typecasting by appearing the 1992 film A League of Their Own, but had to drop out because she became pregnant? ...that American country music singer Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor Dean Cain? ...that Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a Swiss chronicler, wrote a history of Berne from the Burgundy Wars to 1536 that remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years?

...that anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) developed a set of anatomical models from human body parts by injecting them with wax? ...that Saki's short story "Sredni Vashtar" plays an important role in Raymond Postgate's 1940 mystery novel Verdict of Twelve? ...that Kermit Roosevelt III, author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law, is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt? ...that there are parts of Canadian airspace where compasses aren't useful because they're too close to the magnetic north pole?

...that the scientific collections of Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834) were seized by the British in 1793 as spoils of war, but were returned after lobbying by Sir Joseph Banks? ...that Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade? ...that the 1960s singing duo Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell? ...that the Brimstone Moth has a variable life cycle of either one generation a year or two generations every three years?

...that Carolus Linnaeus the younger was enrolled by his father at the University of Uppsala at the age of nine? ...that the bending of starlight around the Sun during the solar eclipse of 1919 was a testimony to the predictive power of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity? ...that Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century, and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam? ...that Firpo Marberry was the first relief pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 100 saves in his career?

...that the grunion is a sardine-sized fish only found off the coast of California and Baja California that comes up on sandy beaches at very high tides (during the new and full moons) to lay its eggs? ...that Bruce Webster was so burned out from writing the computer game SunDog: Frozen Legacy for the Apple II, that he gave up programming for four years? ...that Jack-Jack Attack is the first Pixar short not to be given a theatrical release? ...that Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) signed an agreement in 1963 with Japanese company NEC which gave the latter partial ownership of PTV's network?

...that Barstow, California, and Strong City, Kansas, are both named in honor of William Barstow Strong, former president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway? ...that in the music video for the Crazy Frog song "Axel F", the frog's genitalia have been censored for broadcasting? ...that former England footballer Mick Channon is now a successful horse trainer? ...that Chinese BASIC is the name given to several Chinese versions of the BASIC programming language?

...that suffragist Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), publisher of Australia's first woman-run journal, The Dawn, was also the mother of the great Australian poet Henry Lawson? ...that the Terik language of Kenya is classified as endangered by UNESCO because the Terik people have increasingly become assimilated to the Nandi people in recent decades? ...that facial symmetry is correlated with health, physical attractiveness, and beauty, and is a factor in interpersonal attraction? ...that a sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or record with a group of which he is not formally a member?

...that Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") was a popular 15th century text on the proper etiquette of how to die? ...that MOMO syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder characterised by macrosomia, obesity, macrocephaly and ocular abnormalities? ...that the reality television series Dr. 90210 got its name from the zip code for part of the Los Angeles suburb of Beverly Hills?

...that the U.S. airlifted 22,325 tons of military supplies to Israel for use in the Yom Kippur War under Operation Nickel Grass?

...that the Washington State Capitol has been hit by three major earthquakes since its construction?

...that David Penhaligon (1944–1986) was a promising Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42? ...that macrosomia is a complication in pregnancy and childbirth when the fetus is dangerously big? ...that the Defaka people of Nigeria are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, their close neighbours?

...that Joseph Rainey became the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives on December 12, 1870? ...that the Runyang Bridge and the Jiangyin Suspension Bridge are the two largest suspension bridges in China and the fourth and sixth largest suspension bridges in the world? ...that Brancaleon, a 15th century Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of Ethiopia, is an example of early contacts between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa? ...that the short-lived Maryland Constitution of 1864 emancipated the state's slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the Confederacy? ...that the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant, Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus?