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Did you know...

 * ...that Henri Poincaré first stated the Poincaré duality in terms of Betti numbers?
 * ...that a vexatious litigant may be barred from using the courts in common law countries for undertaking frivolous litigation claims or procedures?
 * ...that American frontiersman Hugh Glass traveled 200 miles through the wilderness alone and was gravely injured after a grizzly bear attack?
 * ...that the framework of the cautionary tale became a cliché in 1980s slasher films?
 * ...that Abraham Baldwin, one of the Founders of the United States, declined an offer from Yale for a divinity professorship and later served in both the Senate and House of Representatives?
 * ...that the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue in Manhattan sits on the site of the former home of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor?
 * ...that the Super Friends had two sets of sidekicks: Wendy & Marvin, and then the Wonder Twins?
 * ...that Stephen King wrote and starred in the 1982 film Creepshow?
 * ...that the Spectral Bat (False Vampire Bat) will fall out of a tree to pounce upon unsuspecting prey?
 * ...that Eric Clapton's song "Layla" was inspired by a Persian love story?
 * ...that the U.S. Navy's Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island grants Master of Arts degrees?
 * ...that the Children of the Corn horror film series is based on a Stephen King short story?
 * ...that the viscosity of a ferrofluid can be controlled with electromagnets?
 * ...that Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko is famous for his anti-Stalinist work?
 * ...that the California sea slug (Aplysia californica) is useful as in model organism in neurobiology because of its small number of large neurons?
 * ...that Cornell University in Ithaca, New York has four statutory colleges?
 * ...that Fritz the Cat was the first X-rated animated feature?
 * ...that the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere is the Southern African Large Telescope, which became operational in 2005?
 * ...that the first standard for donated organs was that they be from "non-heart beating donors"?
 * ...that Le Corbusier's most famous building is probably Unité d'Habitation in Marseille?
 * ...that the Dharmacakra of Buddhism represents the collective teachings known as the dharma?
 * ...that scientists are testing Einstein's theory of general relativity with Gravity Probe B, an artificial satellite?
 * ...that cell adhesion is a product of protein bonding?
 * ...that the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940 killed at least 140 people?
 * ...that Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
 * ...that male Western fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) have blue bellies?
 * ...that the Battle of Isandlwana was a major British defeat in the Anglo-Zulu War?
 * ...that Jaan Einasto co-discovered dark matter and the cellular structure of the universe?
 * ...that Michael Schumacher won the Spanish Grand Prix in 1995-1996 and again from 2001-2004?
 * ...that France was the first country to adopt the 35-hour workweek?
 * ...that Napoleon once commissioned Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes to write an éloge on George Washington?
 * ...that Michael Clarke Duncan worked as a bodyguard for Will Smith before becoming an actor?
 * ...that Daniel Goldin spearheaded the controversial "faster, better, cheaper" approach at NASA?
 * ...that the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is rusting?
 * ...that Mark Catesby published the first account of the flora and fauna of North America?
 * ...that Severnaya Zemlya was the last archipelago on Earth to be discovered?
 * ...that Harrington Lake in Quebec is the official country retreat of the Canadian prime minister?
 * ...that the Tibetan Plateau is known as the "roof of the world"?
 * ...that chocolate contains large quantities of oxalic acid?
 * ...that the Greenland Dock is both only remaining dock on the south side of London's River Thames and the city's oldest riverside dock?
 * ...that Caedwalla of Wessex conquered southeast England during his brief 7th-century reign?
 * ...that the Transverse Ranges of California run east-west because of a bend in the San Andreas fault?
 * ...that the full force of The Great Depression in Canada lasted until World War II in parts of the country, particularly in Western Canada?
 * ...that Monument Valley was once the site of uranium mines?
 * ...that during World War I, thimbles were used as currency?
 * ...that the Magellanic subpolar forests of South America are the world's southernmost forest terrestrial ecoregion?
 * ...that SBD Dauntless dive bombers sank four Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers and a cruiser during the Battle of Midway?
 * ...that the first British merchant marine ship lost to enemy fire since World War II was the Atlantic Conveyor, sunk by an Argentinian anti-ship missile during the Falklands War?
 * ...that there are at least 18 different distinct video game genres?