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[edit] Did you know...
...that many old buildings near Government Center in Boston once hid fugitive slaves who traveled along the Underground Railroad?
...that the Irish Supreme Court sits at the Four Courts building in Dublin?
...that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests as a voting qualification in the U.S.?
...that surgery patients who experience anesthesia awareness may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder?
...that rapid single flux quantum is an electronics technology that relies on quantum effects in superconducting materials rather than the present-day transistor standard?
...that Pizza Hut was founded by Dan and Frank Carney?
...that the cucumber sandwich is an integral part of polite tea?
...that in 1934 Leonid Nikolaev was executed for the murder of Sergei Kirov, the popular chief of the Leningrad Communist Party?
...that after the Red Baron, French ace René Fonck had the most confirmed World War I aerial victories?
...that the Australian Corps was the largest corps fielded by the British army in France during World War I?
...that authentic shrunken heads have nose hair?
...that an apartment building known as Pavlov's House became a symbol of Soviet resistance during World War II's Battle of Stalingrad?
...that public broadcasting in New Zealand of color television began in 1975?
...that the first branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was located in Philly's city hall?
...that the Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the biggest jellyfish in the world?
...that residents of California buy more earthquake insurance than residents of any other U.S. state?
...that in architecture, there are at least five kinds of buttress: clasping, angle, flying, set-back and diagonal?
...that during the Cold War, Soviet leaders used "...and you are lynching Negroes!" as an ad hominem attack against the U.S.?
...that hoodoos are tall skinny spires of rock that protrude from the bottom of arid basins and badlands?
...that the evolution of sex is a major puzzle of evolutionary biology, due to the so-called two-fold cost of sex?
...that the hyper engine was a hypothetical aircraft engine design meant to deliver 1 horsepower from 1 cubic inch of displacement?
...that Gatianus of Tours was one of seven bishops sent by Pope Fabian from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel?
...that quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena of light?
...that the Hubbard Glacier is the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska?
...that former U.S. decathlete Rafer Johnson ignited the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics?
...that it was the British geologist Joseph Prestwich who confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes?
...that England brokered the 1617 Treaty of Stolbova between Sweden and Russia?
...that One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered Gabriel García Márquez's magnum opus?
...that Groundskeeper Willie, a character on The Simpsons, coined the phrase cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
...that the Mid-Canada Line was a line of radar sites across Canada designed to be an nuclear attack early-warning system?
...that the caterpillar of the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly has large yellow eyespots?
...that on Dagen H, or H Day, (Sunday September 3, 1967) at 5:00 am, Swedes switched from driving on the left to the right?
...that Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989, and the two leagues merged in 2003?
...that the All-China Youth Network Civilization Convention is a short statement promulgated by the authorities in the People's Republic of China, regulating the use of the internet by the Chinese youth?
...that the Vickers machine gun was the standard weapon on all British and French military aircraft after 1916?
...that nearly half the eligible male population of New Zealand served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I?
...that most people on a raw food diet won't eat anything heated to more than 46°C (115°F)?
...that the first helicopter flight was in 1906 in Lisieux, France?
...that the Exotic World Burlesque Museum is located on the site of an abandoned goat farm?
...that the Pascha greeting is an Easter custom amongst Orthodox Christians?
...that the Homestead Grays were the Negro League world champs every year from 1937 through 1945?
...that the Siam Tulip is not a tulip, but is related to ginger?
...that Marcin Kromer was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia, cartographer and historian in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
...that the so-called Loughall Martyrs were a group of eight men from the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade who were ambushed and killed on May 8, 1987 by the British special forces, the SAS?
...that the root of the Purple Salsify tastes of oysters?
...that the Homomonument in Amsterdam commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of their sexual orientation?
...that the Diadochi were generals of Alexander the Great who sought power after his death?
...that when released, the film Waterworld was the biggest failure, in terms of financial returns?
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