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Did you know...

30 September 2004

...that dabbawalas are Indian lunch carriers that make, on average, only one mistake in every 6,000,000 deliveries, even though they do all their work manually?
...that clog
?

29 September 2004

...that
dhabawallahs are Indian
lunch carriers that make, on average, only one mistake in every 6000 deliveries, even though they do all their work manually?

J/Psi particle

...that the discovery of the
Nobel prize as it confirmed the idea that baryonic matter (such as the nuclei of atoms) is made out of quarks
?

...that physiological sound localization relies primarily on binaural cues for determining source azimuth, and head-related transfer functions for determining source elevation?

...that Karel Kuttelwascher was the most famous World War II flying ace of Czech nationality?

...that the aftermath of the
Revolt of 1173-1174 is depicted in the Peter O'Toole-Katharine Hepburn movie The Lion in Winter
?

...that car
to vary?

28 September 2004

...that the Otto I. the Great
?

...that before Tony Award for her work in the revival of No, No, Nanette
?

27 September 2004

...that Calgary, Alberta
, was originally named Fort Brisebois?

...that at the height of the
USSR
?
...that Medaille Militaire for valor during World War I
?

26 September 2004

...that according to the Oxford English Dictionary the longest English word with one syllable is squirrelled?

25 September 2004

Maginot stamp

...that the
Croquet is rumored to contain offal
?

24 September 2004

...that the unfinished Ca' Rezzonico appears in a early 18th century painting of Venice's Grand Canal by Canaletto?

23 September 2004

Maginot stamp

...that King Henry VIII
?

...that the 1953 movie Robot Monster was so poorly received, its director attempted suicide?

Leadwood tree

...that timber from the leadwood tree burns very slowly and is often used for nightlong fires intended to keep animals at bay?

...that when complete, B of the Bang will be Britain's tallest sculpture?

22 September 2004

...that the initial arctic convoys of World War II set sail from Iceland?

...that the symbol of
Fatima's hands, while widespread in Middle Eastern Islamic societies, is not officially condoned by Islam
?

21 September 2004

...that the most famous boardwalk in the United States is probably the one in Atlantic City, New Jersey, thanks to its association with the Monopoly board game?

20 September 2004

...that the
feminist group Women on Waves built a gynaecology unit on board of ship and performs abortions in international waters
?

...that the first
Bahamas was probably on Crooked Island
?

19 September 2004

...that poorly written styles and titles of peers
?

...That the
Women on waves built a gynaecology unit on board of a ship and makes abortions on international waters
?

...that 19th century American vigilance committees had different purposes depending on their geographic location?

...that the second-highest ranking official in the
Palatine
?

...that Rajpath, which runs from the presidential residence Rashtrapati Bhavan to the war memorial India Gate, is probably the most important ceremonial avenue in India?

...that the only excavated stand-alone timber circles in the British Isles are those at Seahenge in Norfolk and the early phases of The Sanctuary in Wiltshire?

...that dimes
?

16 September 2004

...that Lake Urmia, Iran's largest lake, is too salty to support fish?

...that
marriage counseling to the United States
?

...that Urdu literature is dominated by poetry, often of the ghazal form?

...that the legendary Buenaventura River was imagined to parallel the significance of the Mississippi River within the western North America?

...that the U.S. military's
Tybee hydrogen bomb, missing off the coast of the state of Georgia
since 1958, may recently have been discovered?

...that the SoHo
?

15 September 2004

...that the
battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth
?

...that typecast as June Cleaver on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver
that she could not get acting jobs for nearly twenty years?

...that
Hoot was novelist Carl Hiaasen's first book geared toward young adults
?

...that the
Guinness Book of World Records as the film
's eight years production schedule as the longest ever?

...that the crustaceans known as giant isopods, which live in the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, can grow up to 45 centimetres long?

14 September 2004

...that the
Tiranga
?

...that the 33 Edicts of Ashoka in north India and Pakistan are the first tangible historical evidence of Buddhism?

13 September 2004

...that with the exception of three snapshots taken by Sonderkommandos, the Auschwitz Album is the only extant photographic evidence of the inner workings of the Auschwitz concentration camp?

12 September 2004

Ashoka Column

...that British admiral Alexander Cochrane was responsible for the bombing of Fort McHenry which resulted in the authorship of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner"?

...that
Ethelbert of York's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome
?

10 September 2004

An angiosperm's flower

...that angiosperms
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...that a potassium deficiency known as hypokalemia can be a side effect of certain medications?

...that it's unclear whether
Electra was written before or after Sophocles
' version?

...that most contemporary robotic telescopes are in the hands of amateur astronomers?

...that the
zigzag method of using a knife and fork is particular to the United States
?

...that the
Bonfires of Saint John festival in Spain uses discarded furniture as tinder for the fires
?

...that salt water is a conductor which blocks electromagnetic radiation
?

9 September 2004

...that football club in London
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...that
Vertigo actress Barbara Bel Geddes was the daughter of designer Norman Bel Geddes
?

...that the
postal savings system
?

...that the literary genre known as Bangsian fantasy sets its action wholly or partially in Hell?

...that the word ecology was coined by Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

...that Antarctica's Lemaire Channel is such a popular tourist destination that it's nicknamed Kodak Gap?

8 September 2004

...that the
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace is the only U.S. presidential library that is not a part of the official National Archives and Records Administration
system?

...that the 1945 Trial of the Sixteen helped the USSR consolidate its control over Poland?

...that the Cork Opera House in Ireland was built in 1855, burned down in 1955, and rebuilt in 1963?

7 September 2004

...that the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada was 1965's Hope Slide?

...that the Dante's Inferno
?

...that British
lying-in-state ceremonies take place at Westminster Hall
?

Israeli Engineering Corps

...that the most famous accomplishment of the
Israeli Engineering Corps is breaching the Suez Canal during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War
?

...that there are three major kinds of arcade cabinet: upright, sit-down and cocktail?

Arcade cabinet

...that the international Harmon Trophy is awarded to the most notable aviator of the year?

...that the
Malayan Tapir is the only species of tapir native to Asia
?

...that the word "high" in
high treason differentiates that well-known crime from the more obscure petty treason
?

6 September 2004

...that Raymond E. Baldwin Award for Public Service
by the Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2002?

...that the history of Buddhism includes a century of Greco-Buddhist interaction, primarily around Bactria?

...that the Malayan tapir species of tapir and the only one native to Asia?

Richard Blumenthal

...that as many as 150 people a year attempt to commit
Bosporus Bridge or Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Turkey
?

...that the Communist regime in Europe
?

5 September 2004

...that the U.S. Air Force
?

4 September 2004
...that the History of Buddhism includes a century of Greco-Buddhist interaction, primarily around Bactria?

...that the city of Vancouver, British Columbia sits on the Burrard Peninsula?

...that the disputed United States federal government
which lasted from 1854 until 1866?

...that the English mediæval shrine statue Our Lady of Ipswich, ordered to be destroyed during the Reformation, might have survived in an Italian village?

...that many of the Dartmoor longhouses built during the Middle Ages still stand today?

Print depicting Baltimore riot

...that some historians consider the Baltimore riot of 1861 to be the first bloodshed of the American Civil War?

...that Hollywood accounting
practices?

...that the history of the word processors
?
...that the dominant art form of the English Renaissance was the play?

3 September 2004

...that there are five different kinds of lox
?

...that the mysterious objects known as Black triangles may actually be hybrid airships?

...that Wikipedia has lots articles about Persian Kings
?

...that Arlene (at eight times) as the most-used name for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean
?

...that the city of Swakopmund, Namibia has some of the world's best examples of German Art Deco architecture?

...that Protestant Reformation to Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century
?

...that the now-closed theme park of NASCAR
?

1 September 2004

...that historical hearsay states
John of Kolno came to the New World in 1476, 16 years ahead of Christopher Columbus
?

...that the Roman abacus incorporated mixed-base arithmetic?

...that the French village of Giverny, best known as the home and landscape subject of Claude Monet, is a pre-Roman town known in ancient deeds as Warnacum?

...that Governor-General outranks the Prime Minister in the New Zealand order of precedence?

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