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Did you know...
- ...that the Prussian Academy of the Arts, alongside Igor Stravinsky?
- ...that an unknown quantity of loans made to the Columbian expositionand when the exposition failed to repay the debits, the banks dumped the coins into circulation?
- ...that it is a tradition to steal the "T" from Tech Tower?
- ...that the remains of the Lviv High Castle in Lviv, Ukraine, was used as the foundation for a kurgan, constructed in memory of the 300-anniversary of the Union of Lublin?
- ...that the Persia in 1915?
- ...that the Carron, a river in the Scottish Highlands only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?
- ...that the first U.S. National Christmas Tree (pictured) was lit up by President Calvin Coolidge on Christmas Eve in 1923?
- ...that the two fundamental reference points in the , and the extraction (also known as the 'finish' or the 'release') where the oar blade is removed from the water?
- ...that mobile games?
- ...that the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna, holds the world recordfor the "greatest tree girth ever", and is also the largest and oldest known chestnut tree?
- ...that Gesta Tancredi, one of the most important contemporary histories of the First Crusade, was not translated into English until 2005?
- ...that conductor and Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967?
- ...that the German invasion of Polandbegan?
- ...that the rescue dog, preferred to bite drowningpeople instead of saving them?
- ...that kick shots?
- ...that Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, a bomb-maker and member of Jemaah Islamiyah, was responsible for the Rizal Day bombings in the Philippines that killed 22 people in 2000?
- ...that the 25 species of Goodyera comprise just one of over 800 genera of orchids?
- ...that Donnie Young, the police officer whose murder sparked an international controversy, was a police medal of honorrecipient?
- ...that whipcracking (pictured), the art of using a whip to create a miniature sonic boom, is a competitive sport in Australia, where it was also elaborated into whipboxing?
- ...that the Consumers Powerfor a dollar by a river property owners association?
- ...that Baroda mosque where his father was the muezzin, and could not afford equipment until his domestic teamfurnished it, at age 15?
- ...that the 1931 murders of five Shanghai War of 1932?
- ...that the "Hymn" for tenor in the cantata, Hodie, by Ralph Vaughan Williams was composed because the originator of the part asked that he might be given more to sing?
- ...that the summer stock theater at Caledonia State Park in Pennsylvania regularly featured actress Jean Stapleton, well-known for her role as Edith Bunker on the 70's TV classic All in the Family?
- ...that Wells Fargo Bank out of his house after the 1906 San Francisco earthquakeleveled its headquarters?
- ...that the Power Transition theory is used in political science to predict future wars between great powers and a superpoweras it states that war is a cyclic event and is inevitable?
- ... that Bayajidda, the mythical ancestor of the Hausa people of West Africa, is said to have fathered three children with three different women?
- ...that major league debut?
- ...that the military unit that fought in the Russian Civil Warand returned to Poland undefeated?
- ...that the original title of the While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" is "Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour"?
- ...that Rastrelli's Catherine the Great's inscription on the Bronze Horseman?
- ...that after his death?
- ...that Safaitic inscriptions, graffiti written by Bedouin in the Syrian Desert between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD, can be written boustrophedon - from left to right or vice versa?
- ...that American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was the first woman to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts in composition and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music?
- ...that John G. Downey, Governor of California during the American Civil War, was the state's only foreign-born governor until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger?
- ...that the original title of the While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" is "Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour"?
- ...that Portuguese Josefa de Óbidos was one of the few women dedicated to painting (pictured: still life by her) in the Baroque era?
- ...that, unlike normal lithium ion batteries, the lithium iron phosphate batterydoes not explode under extreme conditions?
- ...that New York Times Bestseller Flags of Our Fathers (2000), was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize?
- ...that the Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancerpatients?
- ...that a ?
- ...that the Birmingham City, the two most prominent football teams of the city?
- ...that the Blauhöhle is a huge cave system with more than 50m high caverns that can be accessed by diving through the Blautopf (pictured)?
- ...that the Cossack victory at the Battle of Konotopremains a classic example of the battle won and a war lost?
- ...that Swedish disco singer-songwriter Bimbo Boy took his stage name from starlets that the media identifies as bimbos, even though the term himbo technically would have been more correct?
- ...that T.H. Clark retired from McGill University at the age of 100after teaching for 69 years?
- ...that Just a Gigolo (1978), David Bowie's second major film, was so poorly received by critics that the singer quipped, "It was my 32 Elvis Presleymovies rolled into one"?
- ...that noted labor historian Selig Perlman is the uncle of author Judith Martin, better known as "Miss Manners"?
- ...that the kanclerz Jan Zamoyski?
- ...that the 500 bridges?