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Did you know...

 * ...that the United Kingdom was the first country to offer its citizens a postal savings systems?
 * ...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 is nicknamed Kodak Gap?
 * ...that before 2007 the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum was the only presidential library that was not a part of the official National Archives and Records Administration system?
 * ...that the 1945 Trial of the Sixteen helped the Soviet Union consolidate its control over Poland?
 * ...that the Cork Opera House in Ireland was built in 1855, burned down in 1955, and was rebuilt in 1963?
 * ...that the most famous accomplishment of the Israeli Combat Engineering Corps is breaching the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur 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 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 Revolution of 1989 was the only violent overthrow of a Communist regime in Europe?
 * ...that the Rome Laboratory in New York is one of four "superlabs" run by the United States 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 medi&aelig;val 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 Scolvus 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 old growth 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 neonatal intensive care units?
 * ...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?