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[edit] Did you know...
...that the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a Canadian soldier who died in France during World War I?
...that the use of the term President in its current sense, meaning executive government officer, may have come from the colonial-era American university system?
...that Tamale, Ghana obtains its electricity from Akosombo Dam in the central Ghana?
...that the colorful Sri Lanka Junglefowl is part of the junglefowl family from which our modern domestic chickens derive?
...that American Miranda rights are named for Ernesto Miranda?
...that the Byzantine Senate survived from the end of the Roman Empire up until the time of the Fourth Crusade?
...that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria Idomeneo is set on the island of Crete following the Trojan War?
...that the Berry Islands of the Bahamas were settled in 1836 by a group of freed slaves?
...that the Scarlet King Snake can be distinguished from the Coral Snake by the mnemonic "red and yellow, kill a fellow" and "red and black venom lack"?
...that the white eagle on the Coat of Arms of Poland references the story of Lech, the legendary founder of Poland, who saw a white eagle's nest and was inspired to establish the city of Gniezno (literally nest)?
...that writers in the literary genre known as fantastique include Stephen King and Honoré de Balzac?
...that the crown lands of the United Kingdom are different than crown lands in Canada and Australia, the latter being more like the public lands of the United States?
...that the Turin King List is an ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll, written in hieratic, which lists all the pharaohs and gods believed to have ruled over the Nile kingdom?
...that the famous horny toad of North America is not an amphibian but a reptile officially known as the Short-horned Lizard?
...that a woman named Priscilla, wife of Aquila, was one of the first Christian evangelists?
...that Bambaiya Hindi, a pidgin used in Mumbai, is a combination of English, Marathi, Gujarati and several other languages?
...that in 1990 Cecil Fielder became the first Detroit Tiger since Hank Greenberg (in 1938) to slug over 50 home runs in a season?
...that the concept of a motif of harmful sensation can be exemplified by the Monty Python joke-warfare sketch?
...that The Price of Loyalty claims that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was not a reaction to the attacks of September 11?
...that Hans Guido Mutke claimed to be the first person to break the sound barrier?
...that Grigol Peradze was a Georgian ecclesiastic figure who was gassed in Auschwitz?
...that Labatt Park in London, Ontario, Canada is thought to be the oldest continually operating baseball diamond in the world?
...that the USS Frank Knox was named in honor of Frank Knox, who was United States Secretary of the Navy during World War II?
...that the Nicobar Pigeon is a large, heavy, 40-centimetre-long pigeon?
...that French Sinologist Paul Pelliot was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion and trapped in the siege of Peking?
...that Wyndham Halswelle was winner of the controversial 400-metre run at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
...that the first military plane mass-produced in Germany was the Rumpler Taube in 1910?
...that, following the Russian Revolution, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established by the Soviet Union as a homeland for the large Volga German minority in Russia?
...that the Deluge involving the Old Testament's Noah or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a widespread theme in mythology?
...that Tom Hanks was in a 1982 TV movie called Mazes and Monsters about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game?
...that the Charioteer of Delphi, an almost-intact ancient Greek statue, was lost for nearly 2000 years?
...that in addition to human spaceflight, there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes?
...that Winston Churchill personally oversaw the Sidney Street Siege?
...that the corticospinal tract contains both sensory and motor axons?
...that the Moro Rebellion was the second phase of the Philippine-American War?
...that leopard frogs are an environmental indicator species?
...that the soda ash—used in the production of glass, textiles, and paper—was historically made using the Leblanc process?
...that 1988's Hurricane Gilbert was the first to make landfall on Jamaica since 1955?
...that the Hungarian monarch wears the Crown of St. Stephen?
...that the first firearm to use a flintlock mechanism was produced in 1610 for King Louis XIII of France?
...that William James Sidis, an eccentric—and once world-famous—genius, entered Harvard University in 1909 at the age of 11?
...that Napoléon Bonaparte's defeat in what the Russians call the Patriotic War was the turning point in the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the end for the Emperor?
...that the blood vessel present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to the growing fetus is called the umbilical vein?
...that in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?
...that few color blind humans have true monochromacy, but rather are dichromats or anomalous trichromats?
...that there are only a handful of true freshwater lakes in Australia because of that continent's minimal amount of glacial and tectonic activity?
...that osteomyelitis, i.e. bone infection, is particularly common in the tibia, femur, humerus and vertebral bodies?
...that religion in Canada is dominated by the Roman Catholic Church, the United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church?
...that Orcas Island, named for the area's orcas, is the largest of Washington state's San Juan Islands?
...that, like other yellow flowers of the genus Viola, Yellow Pansies can cause diarrhoea if eaten in large quantities?
...that the story of Sada Abe, a woman who cut off her dead lover's genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of Japan's most notorious scandals?
...that Swedish adventurer Saloman Andrée died in 1897 while trying to reach the geographic North Pole by hot-air balloon?
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