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 * Did you know...
 * ... that the Green Mada’in Association for Agricultural Development is an agricultural cooperative in Iraq that is building greenhouses and drip irrigation systems in the Mada’in Qada region?
 * ... that the Fox Island Electric Cooperative operates the largest community wind energy facility on the East Coast of the United States?
 * ... that a recent cyber attack targeted opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam?
 * ... that political strategist Rod Shealy sought to increase the turnout of white voters in South Carolina by paying an unemployed black fisherman to run for Congress in 1990?
 * ... that Illinois Senate candidate LeAlan Jones created the award-winning radio documentary Ghetto Life 101 when he was 13 years old?
 * ... that Canada's Federated Co-operatives partnered with SeaChoice to promote sustainable seafood, like the spiny lobster, through its co-operatives?
 * ... that Armajaro hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading?
 * ... that Tyonajanegen, a woman from the Oneida tribe, fought in the American Revolutionary War?
 * ... that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War, a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International?
 * ... that actress and chanteuse Raquel Meller attempted to book a deluxe suite for her five Pekingese on a 1926 transatlantic voyage aboard the SS Leviathan?
 * ... that Harlan Crow collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong?
 * ... that the Research Works Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would ban open access mandates for federally funded research?
 * ... that the woodcuts of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazzell (pictured) were influenced by ukiyo-e?
 * ... that Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote the story that was the basis for The Mummy and drafted the first 1040 income tax form?
 * ... that civil rights pioneer Nellie Stone Johnson was the first black person to be elected to a citywide office in Minneapolis?
 * ... that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, a white woman argues that the university discriminated against her based on race?
 * ... that after being born on a ship in the North Sea and growing up in poverty, Hannah Kempfer (pictured) went on to become one of the first women legislators in Minnesota?
 * ... that jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD had a crowd moshing at a J Dilla tribute show?
 * ... that the Illinois Manufacturers' Association has its origins in a group formed to oppose laws against sweatshops?
 * ... that First Lady Michelle Obama describes Thomas Jefferson's attempts to grow four-foot-long cucumbers in her gardening book American Grown?
 * ... that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland helped develop an oral cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project?
 * ... that the documentary Heist traces the origins of the Great Recession to a confidential memo written in 1971?
 * ... that Tar Heel Annie Lowrie Alexander (pictured) was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States?
 * ... that Margarete Bieber was the second woman to become a university professor in Germany?
 * ... that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi?
 * ... that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis studied the floating reed systems of the Danube Delta?
 * ... that Buffy Sainte-Marie's song "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" originally mentioned that the Kinzua Dam broke the Treaty of Canandaigua?
 * ... that the Lesbian Herstory Archives hold the library of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis?
 * ... that attorney Harriet Pilpel counted Betty Friedan, Mel Brooks, Stalin's daughter and Dr. Spock among her clients?
 * ... that Loretta Lynn (pictured), Mary Breckinridge, and Thelma Stovall are all Kentucky Women Remembered?


 * ... that Sara Bard Field (pictured) traveled by automobile from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures for women's suffrage to Woodrow Wilson?
 * ... that Soosan Firooz has been described as Afghanistan's first female rapper?
 * ... that the coon songs of African American vaudevillian Irving Sayles elicited encores in Australia?
 * ... that Ruby Hurley opened the NAACP's first permanent office in the Deep South?
 * ... that Maxine Feldman`s song "Amazon" is traditionally performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival?
 * ... that Katharine Hepburn recruited Hilda Crosby Standish to be medical director of the first birth control clinic in Connecticut?
 * ... that while Claude Raguet Hirst painting A Gentleman's Table was commissioned by a men's club, it offers a subtle critique of male culture?
 * ... that Kuwaiti electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi was the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East?
 * ... that pork-knockers ate pickled pork of wild pig?
 * ... that the Burka Avenger is Pakistan's first animated female superhero?
 * ... that Florence Koehler was one of the best-known jewelers of the Arts and Crafts movement?
 * ... that the first modern cochlear implant was developed by Austrian electrical engineer Ingeborg Hochmair?
 * ... that the Ph.D dissertation of taphonomist Kay Behrensmeyer suggested that sauropods were terrestrial?
 * ... that female physicist Elizabeth Laird came out of retirement during WWII to research radar?
 * ... that Minneapolis City Councilmember-elect Abdi Warsame is one of the first Somali Americans to be elected to a U.S. municipal office?
 * ... that Deborah Sussman (pictured) designed the visual landscape for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?
 * ... that Judith Pipher has been referred to as the "mother of infrared astronomy?"
 * ... that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux orchestrated her husband's release from a concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo?
 * ... that the Downton Abbey law allows for equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and peerages?
 * ... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
 * ... that Ronald Reagan designated a week in June to be National Dairy Goat Awareness Week?
 * ... that Chilean Environment Minister Adriana Hoffmann identified 106 new species of cacti?
 * ... THAT FEMINIST HULK SMASH GENDER BINARY AND ONLY MAKE CAPITALIZATION EXCEPTION FOR bell hooks?
 * ... that Betty Bone Schiess is one of the Philadelphia Eleven, leaders in the movement to allow the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church?
 * ... that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead was one of the first licensed women printers in the Thirteen Colonies?
 * ... that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau and Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater?
 * ... that Myra Adele Logan was the first woman to perform open heart surgery?
 * ... that Women's Art Resources of Minnesota pairs emerging women artists with professionals in a mentorship program?
 * ... that a Spiderwoman Theater performance in Italy was cancelled for fear of riots?
 * ... that feminist artists invented the WEB in 1971?
 * ... that Abbie Lathrop mouse number 57 was the origin of the C57BL/6 (pictured) laboratory mouse?


 * ... that Cornelia Parker has made an embroidered representation (detail pictured) of the Wikipedia article on Magna Carta?
 * ... that Kini Kapahu was recognized as Hawaii's "Honorary First Lady"?
 * ... that The Delectable Negro describes how Nat Turner's body was turned into "medicinal" grease?
 * ... that Melati Suryodarmo went viral after dancing on butter?
 * ... that Hannah J. Patterson and other suffragists hauled a replica of the Liberty Bell across Pennsylvania to gain the right to vote?
 * ... that Nyeema Morgan collaborated in the design of a wooden Afrofuturist replica of the Millennium Falcon?
 * ... that Dorothy Henriques-Wells made 360 paintings for display on three Norwegian Cruise Line ships?
 * ... that LeRoy Woodson photographs of steel-industry pollution were part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project?
 * ... that Muraina Oyelami started painting after attending a Mbari Mbayo workshop?


 * ... that after buying a view camera in the 1880s, Marie Hartig Kendall (pictured) took over 30,000 photographs?


 * ... that the Line 3 oil spill was the largest inland oil spill in United States history?
 * ... that protesters against the Line 3 oil pipeline handcuffed themselves together at an Enbridge pump station?
 * ... that no wave band Pulsallama was described as "13 girls fighting over a cowbell"?


 * ... that Charles Dickens's talking raven Grip (pictured) inspired the poem "The Raven"?
 * ... that the historical-romance novel My Tender Matador includes a fictionalized version of the attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet?
 * ... that the UN Human Rights Committee recognized a correlation between the right to life and protection of the environment in Portillo Cáceres v Paraguay?
 * ... that Edna Thomas portrayed Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth?
 * ... that orcas have been teaching each other to attack boats?
 * ... that Soledad Rosas was falsely charged with eco-terrorism in Italy?


 * ... that you've probably eaten blotter art (examples pictured) if you've ever taken LSD?


 * ... that the chemicals responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass are a plant defense mechanism?


 * ... that Yokcushlu (pictured) was taken hostage on HMS Beagle and named after a basket?


 * ... that readers of Detroit columnist Nancy Brown funded the reforestation of 560 acres of land in her honor during the Great Depression?
 * ... that a 1950s album of frog calls developed a cult following?


 * ... that Chopin's heart (composer pictured) was smuggled into Poland by his sister?


 * ... that a "welding nun" angered farmers with her garbage-eating goat?
 * ... that Detroit has been waiting for its statue of RoboCop for more than 12 years?
 * ... that Porphyry describes a moral obligation to extend justice to animals in his 3rd-century treatise on vegetarianism?


 * ... that Pep the dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary?


 * ... that 1890s hotel guests could use a teleseme (pictured) to order cocktails and manservants?


 * ... that Rewilding Argentina has reintroduced giant river otters, giant anteaters, and jaguars to the country?
 * ... that beavers, mules, and dogs have been parachuted from airplanes?
 * ... that the first woman cleared to fly Boeing 747s recorded the 1982 outsider music album Jet Lady?
 * ... that Lore Harp McGovern went from being a housewife to the CEO of a US$36 million computer company in six years?


 * ... that - honey (pictured) was used as a biological weapon more than 2000 years ago?


 * ... that Galileo's middle finger (pictured) is considered a secular relic?
 * ... that a graphic novel for teens was among the 10 most challenged books in the United States in 2023?