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Did you know...
...that the height of clouds is measured using a ceiling balloon?
...that
... that the 1985 comedy film Head Office has established stars such as Danny DeVito starring in roles that are little more than bit parts?
...that
...that the Revolt of the Comuneros, an uprising against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is considered by some to be the first modern revolution?
...that comic-book writer Stan Lee, novelist/historian Winston Groom, and district attorney Jim Garrison have all been victims of Hollywood accounting?
...that the "Victory Tests" were a series of cricket matches between a team of Australian servicemen and an English national side played just two weeks after World War II ended?
...that Ronald E. Neumann the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan is the first ambassador since John Q. Adams in 1817 to be appointed to the same country where his father was also ambassador?
...that
...that Nashville radio station WWTN launched the career of the nationally-syndicated financial advisor Dave Ramsey?
...that Hertfordshire puddingstone is a comglomerate rock named after its resemblance to Christmas pudding?
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...that Johnson composed music for some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, including Perumthachan and movies directed by Padmarajan?
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...that the Australian Giant burrowing frog does not croak, but rather hoots like an owl?
...that the opera King Arthur is unusual because the principal characters do not sing, rather they recite dialogue accompanied by music?
...that alcohol advertising is heavily restricted in some countries to avoid associating the drinking of alcoholic beverages with sexual success and physical attractiveness?
...that during the 1937 Louisville, Kentucky flood the town's Brown Hotel was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby?
...that Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit?
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...that all of the publishing royalties the Bee Gees' song "Too Much Heaven" earned went to UNICEF?
...that the Houston Ballet has one of the largest endowments of any dance company in the U.S.?
...that the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas?
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...that John Dryden created the genre of heroic drama as a way of reconciling plays with epic poetry?
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...that Alexander Selkirk was travelling on the British galleon Cinque Ports when he was abandoned on the uninhabited Pacific island of Juan Fernández in 1704 and that his tale inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe?
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... that the Tatara Bridge in Japan has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge in the world?
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...that patients with acrocyanosis have dark or bluish hands and feet but are otherwise normal?
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...that children's book The Gruffalo was made into a play; it played the National Theater and NYC's Broadway?
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...that the Russian musical group Terem Quartet performs classical works on folk instruments in a humorous, virtuosic style?