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Did you know...

 * ...that the Subservient Chicken is a viral marketing promotion by Burger King?
 * ...that Kelso Abbey took 15 years to complete, and was finally finished in 1243?
 * ...that 14 people died in 1995 when a scenic viewing platform collapsed in New Zealand, in the Cave Creek disaster?
 * ...that the most common causes for an ingrown nails are improperly fitted shoes and nails that are improperly trimmed?
 * ...that Luis Francisco Ojeda is a Puerto Rican television host?
 * ...that Bobby Sherman became a very popular teen idol after his first single rose to #3 on the Billboard charts?
 * ...that modern bicycle frames are usually founded on a diamond-frame design?
 * ...that a muscle contraction occurs when a muscle fiber shortens?
 * ...that the first railroad steam locomotive built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was also the first locomotive to operate in the U.S. state of Ohio?
 * ...that the Georgian Uprising of Texel is sometimes described as the last European battle of World War II?
 * ...that both species of Corroboree frog are critically endangered?
 * ...that enfleurage was once the only method for extracting essential oils from fragile flowers like jasmine and tuberose?
 * ...that Nigeria has repeatedly called on Britain to return the Benin Empire artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes, just as Greece has petitioned for the return of the Elgin Marbles?
 * ...that the Battle of Cape St. George on November 26, 1943 was the last time the Tokyo Express ran to the Solomon Islands?
 * ... that text figures&mdash;a style of typesetting numerals with descenders&mdash;are the original style of Arabic numerals in the West and still often used?
 * ...that the Marginated Tortoise is the largest European tortoise?
 * ...that British Airways unveiled a new corporate identity in 1997 which involved repainting its fleet with around 20 striking tailfin designs by world artists?
 * ...that Samuel Lawrence was a Canadian politician and trade unionist?
 * ...that the Comedian Harmonists was one of the most successful pre-World War II musical groups in Europe of the 20th century?
 * ...that the Z machine, operated by Sandia National Laboratories, is the most powerful X-ray generator in the world?
 * ...that the Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska from 1942 to 1943, was the last battle fought on United States soil?
 * ...that Jill Ker Conway grew up on a sheep farm and was Smith College's first woman president?
 * ...that the USS Pogy was named after a Californian trout and sank 16 ships during World War II?
 * ...that the Müller-Thurgau hybrid grape is a 19th-century cross between the Riesling and Chasselas?
 * ...that the judges on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland, wear red robes, rather than the traditional black?
 * ...that Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings were intended to decorate the bedroom of his friend and fellow painter Paul Gauguin?
 * ...that Pictish stones are the largest visual relics of Picts of Scotland?
 * ...that Larnach Castle is one of only two castles in New Zealand?
 * ...that ostracoderms are the earliest known vertebrate animals?
 * ...that the iconic Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong Point?
 * ...that 1940s The Mark of Zorro is often considered the best of the Zorro movies?
 * ...that the helix-turn-helix structural motif is found in many proteins that regulate gene expression?
 * ...that the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. has hosted an Inaugural ball for every U.S. President since Calvin Coolidge?
 * ...that the Nephila genus of long-jawed orb weaver family of spiders spins gold-colored webs?
 * ...that Dunston Pillar, a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire in England, was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous Eastern heathlands?
 * ...that Joseph Schenck was the first chairman of 20th Century Fox?
 * ...that World War I veteran and Tour de France winner Ottavio Bottecchia was killed by either fascists or an angry farmer?
 * ...that Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (the national library of Québec) began to share a facility with the public library of the city of Montréal in 2005?
 * ...that the charitable organization Child's Play raised over $250,000 in 2003 in donations of cash and toys from the readers of the webcomic Penny Arcade?
 * ...that a real-life German alchemist named Johann Georg Faust was the inspiration for Marlowe-Goethe's Faust?
 * ...that the Burgundian Wars led to the annexation of Burgundy by France?
 * ...that there is some debate about whether a F9 or a Dm7sus4 (a major subtonic, bVII or dominant, V) chord opens the Beatles' ""A Hard Day's Night"?
 * ...that the Chinese emperor Ukhaantu Khan, Emperor Huizong of Yuan was overthrown by a peasant revolution, ending the Yuan Dynasty?
 * ...that many bog bodies from the time of the Roman Iron Age have been found in southern Scandinavia?
 * ...that Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis was the first major socialist of the Netherlands?
 * ...that market power is usually a predicate to anti-competitive behavior?
 * ...that there's no Dr Pepper in a Flaming Doctor Pepper?
 * ...that Toronto, Ontario was once known as "Methodist Rome"?
 * ...that Irish pirate radio is a general consequence of the lack of commercial radio until 1989?
 * ...that crop losses caused by the desert locust are described in the Bible and the Qur'an?