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Did you know...

 * ...that Stonehenge is surrounded by 56 pits known as Aubrey holes?
 * ...that Chicago's Lincoln Park was originally a cemetery?
 * ...that the ventral stream makes up one half of the visual cortex?
 * ...that devout Catholics believe in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary?
 * ...that the Sitka is the largest species of spruce tree?
 * ...that the Outlawries Bill has been read in the British House of Commons nearly every year since 1727?
 * ...that the U.S. Navy experienced its largest peacetime loss of ships in the 1923 Honda Point Disaster?
 * ...that Japanese Imari porcelain was made specifically for export to Europe?
 * ...that in Upper and Lower Canada, the colonial government used concession roads to define lots which were to be developed?
 * ...that the collections of the Chicago Public Library began with the 8,000-volume "English Book Donation" which came in response to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?
 * ...that the Chislehurst Caves of Kent are actually mines that were first worked in 1250?
 * ...that short leading men often stand on apple boxes to make themselves look taller on film?
 * ...that a member of the Gelechiidae family of moths is used to control spotted knapweed?
 * ...that the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal established the legal basis for the Nuremberg trials?
 * ...that the Sacramento River Delta is an inverted river delta and that it once had an extensive system of cable ferries?
 * ...that the singer Scott Walker produced an album for British band Pulp?
 * ...that the nectar of Yellow Jessamine causes brood death when gathered by honeybees?
 * ...that the Humboldt River in Nevada is the longest river in the Great Basin and furnished the route of the Central Pacific segment of the transcontinental railroad?
 * ...that the Trumpeter Swan is the largest swan native to North America?
 * ...that Scandinavia's High North Alliance works to protect the whaling interests of member countries?
 * ...that the Brazil nut effect, a law of physics, dictates that when a mixture of granular material is shaken the biggest particles end up on the top?
 * ...that 1943 Triple Crown winner Count Fleet was both sire of and sired by Kentucky Derby winners?
 * ...that the music genre known as bouncy techno originated in Scotland?
 * ...that the original orange-red Fiestaware dinnerware contained a substantial quantity of uranium?
 * ...that visually impaired musicians can begin learning Music Braille once they are competent in grade-two level literary Braille?
 * ...that the 1539 Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, which mandated the use of French in official documents, contributed to the rise of French nationalism?
 * ...that the indigenous peoples of Brazil domesticated cassava?
 * ...that the Oxford University Museum was the site of a major debate in evolutionary biology?
 * ... that a "rain of fish"&mdash;the result of a tornado traveling over the ocean, sucking up fish and then dropping them over villages&mdash;is a common theme appearing in Honduran culture?
 * ...that Charley Fox, a Canadian flight lieutenant, was credited with injuring Erwin Rommel?
 * ...that body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
 * ...that British Columbia provincial highway 2 is a short road from Dawson Creek to the B.C./Alberta border?
 * ...that four planes were simultaneously hijacked in the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings?
 * ...that the caterpillars of the Anise Swallowtail butterfly like to eat fennel?
 * ...that Battleship Row bore the brunt of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor?
 * ...that Sale of the Century was Australia's longest-running game show?
 * ...that freak waves are common near Cape Algulhas off the southern tip of Africa?
 * ...that Andante in C was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's first composition?
 * ...that in Irish politics, no ordinary referendum has ever occurred?
 * ...that the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington was the first major volcanic eruption to occur in the U.S. since the 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California?
 * ...that bag people were common in the USSR following the Russian Revolution?
 * ...that women are twice as likely as men to have pulmonary hypertension?
 * ...that some people believe that the Angels of Mons helped protect British forces during World War I's Battle of Mons?
 * ...that the most popular brand of absinthe was Pernod Fils?
 * ...that Canada's tax policy does not include an inheritance tax?
 * ...that an oast house is a traditional Kentish structure for drying hops before brewing?
 * ...that George Rogers Clark, older brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, captured two British forts during the American Revolutionary War?
 * ...that Emilio Carranza was known as "the Lindbergh of Mexico"?
 * ...that Kawaiahao Church is known as the Westminster Abbey of Hawaii?
 * ...that corals, graptolites, brachiopods and trilobites are frequently used as index fossils?
 * ...that the assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria led to World War I? (Okay, you probably did know that one.)