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 * ...that the Korean poetic form of sijo resembles the Japanese haiku?
 * ...that the California-based American poet Robert Hass, a two-term Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, is a neighbor of Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz?
 * ...that the huge, 7900-ton Mother Motherland statue commerating the Battle of Stalingrad sits atop Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia?
 * ...that in 1978 at age 17 Maia Chiburdanidze became the seventh and youngest ever Women's World Chess Champion?
 * ...that the private income of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is known as the Privy Purse?
 * ...that Pop-Tarts are the most popular product made by Kellogg's?
 * ...that bone marrow transplants are used to restore hematopoietic stem cells in patients with types of bone marrow disease, blood disease, or cancer?
 * ...that Villeurbanne and Lyon form the second-largest conurbation in France?
 * ...that Jimmy McHugh was nominated five times for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, but never won?
 * ...that one variety of baby blue eyes, a common California wildflower, is white?
 * ...that actress Dorothy Kilgallen, who claimed to have information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, died under suspicious circumstances?
 * ...that "God Save Ireland" was the unofficial national anthem of the Irish Free State?
 * ...that Elaine May and Mike Nichols cofounded the Compass Players, which later became The Second City?
 * ...that most of the 8000 speakers of the Niuean language live outside the borders of Niue?
 * ...that Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele discovered the first refractory metal in 1781?
 * ...that the romantic epistles Letters of a Portuguese Nun were from a nun to her lover?
 * ...that the U.S. movement toward small claims courts began in the early 1960s, as Justice of the Peace courts became increasingly archaic?
 * ...that Bodega Bay in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds?
 * ...that rattlesnake venom contains hemotoxins?
 * ...that Ernest Duchesne discovered penicillin's antibiotic properties 32 years before Alexander Fleming?
 * ...that the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia is the oldest written history of Latvia and Estonia?
 * ...that the boundaries between American Georgia and Spanish Florida were defined by the 1796 Treaty of Madrid?
 * ...that the term Fertile Crescent was coined by James Henry Breasted?
 * ...that an important tool in surface mining is the dragline excavator?
 * ...that New York Point lost out to Braille in the "War of the Dots"?
 * ...that The Mississippi Rag has been reporting on traditional jazz and ragtime music since 1973?
 * ...that a cousin of curling, ice stock sport, is played primarily in Germany and Austria?
 * ...that four different continents host Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) populations?
 * ...that a crystal set is the simplest kind of radio receiver?
 * ...that Fanny Crosby wrote more than 8000 hymns despite being totally blind?
 * ...that Austrian journalist Günther Nenning is nicknamed Auhirsch, meaning "meadow deer"?
 * ...that the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) can be found in all 48 contiguous U.S. states?
 * ...that the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine powers the Harrier jet?
 * ...that Herschel Island in Canada is named for scientist John Herschel?
 * ...that Heaven Can Wait, a play by Harry Segall, has been filmed at least four times?
 * ...that in 1929 the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin completed a circumnavigation of the globe in 21 days, five hours, and 31 minutes?
 * ...that exploding head syndrome isn't fatal?
 * ...that Harry Potter and Ron Weasley found Tom Riddle's diary in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom?
 * ...that Sean MacDermott, a leader of the Easter Rising of 1916, was executed by firing squad?
 * ...that patent ductus arteriosus is a kind of congenital heart defect?
 * ...that there is a form of mental calculation called Vedic mathematics which is based on the ancient Indian Vedas?
 * ...that California's Russian River is named for the Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century?
 * ...that the Diners Club card was the first independent credit card?
 * ...that in the late 1940s, the U.S. Air Force's Northrop YB-49 set both an unofficial endurance record and a transcontinental speed record?
 * ...that in the DC Comics universe, Power Girl is a cousin of Superman?
 * ...that linguicism is a prejudice based on someone's use of language?
 * ...that a chick sexer is specially trained to visually determine the sex of chicken hatchlings?
 * ...that a Klondike bar is a dessert generally consisting of a vanilla ice cream square coated with a thin layer of chocolate?
 * ... the 1839 Report on the Affairs of British North America stated in  that Canada consisted of "two nations warring in the bosom of a single state?"
 * ...that greeneyes are hermaphroditic?