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Did you know...
- ...that Dürer's Rhinoceros (pictured), a woodcut of the first rhinoceros seen in Europe in a millennium, was created by Albrecht Dürer in 1515 without him ever seeing the animal itself?
- ...that Ram Shastri, a celebrated 18th-century judge in the Maratha Empire, created judicial history in India by sentencing the incumbent Peshwa(de facto ruler) to death on a charge of murder?
- ...that although the last game in the Advanced Strategic Command, to recreate the series?
- ...that the Greeks introduced wine to Romania around 3,000 years ago?
- ...that United Kingdom declared war on Germany?
- ...that the ponds of the Tatra Mountains?
- ...that Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, cover a total area of 77 square kilometres yet have an average depth of less than two metres?
- ...that Charles Gascoigne developed the carronade while manager of the Carron Company in Scotland, but emigrated to avoid his creditors and spent the last 20 years of his life organising the production of iron and cannon for the Russian Empire?
- ...that, at the pinnacle of its power, the Avar Khanate exacted tribute from the rulers of Azerbaijan and Georgia?
- ...that Dove Cottage was a home of the English poet William Wordsworth for 8½ years of "plain living, but high thinking"?
- ...that Muslim state of Pakistan?
- ...that Dana International was the first transsexual to win the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 with the song "Diva"?
- ...that Boy Charlton (pictured) won gold in the 1500m freestyle at the 1924 Olympics despite his coach jumping overboard on the sea voyage to Europe?
- ...that due to legal restrictions, the first scheduled electric Neva Riverduring winter season?
- ...that King James I's power by limiting the appointment of Scottish people, and as a result was dismissed from his position as Chancellor of the Exchequer?
- ...that the Communist Consolidation group was formed by Indian revolutionary prisoners at the Andaman Cellular Jail in 1935?
- ...that from the 6th to 12th centuries, a large part of Dagestan was dominated by the Christian kingdom of Sarir?
- ...that the first professional in 1879?
- ...that a New Orleans, Louisiana, warned of "human suffering incredible by modern standards" before Hurricane Katrina's landfall?
- ...that although the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
- ...that the ?
- ...that Captain Humbert Roque Versace was the first Army P.O.W. in Southeast Asia to receive the Medal of Honor for actions in captivity?
- ...that world's expositions, but the most recent was in 1937?
- ...that the makers of ad campaign "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" with a completely new campaign, noting the error?
- ...that for nearly three centuries until 1956, the Punjabifamily (family member pictured)?
- ...that the World Championship to permit bodychecking in women's ice hockey?
- ...that the Dictionary of Western Australians and the related Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians are two biographical dictionaries which contain biographical details of over 20,000 individuals?
- ... that the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Zigong, Sichuan Province, China, established in 1987, was the first specialized dinosaur museum to open to the public in Asia?
- ... that the James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota, built in 1891 by railroad magnate James J. Hill, has 36,000 square feet of living area and is the largest residence in Minnesota?
- ...that famed photographer of Native Americans Frank Rinehart used platinum emulsion instead of silver in photographs taken at the 1898 Omaha World's Fair to make the tonal range broader? (pictured: Hattie Tom, photograph by Frank Rinehart, 1898)
- ...that The Colgate Comedy Hour was a musical variety television show that ran on the NBC television network from November 1950 to December 1956, and was the first NTSC color television broadcast?
- ...that True Service-trees in England?
- ...that Silvestre S. Herrera is the only living person authorized to wear both the U.S. Medal of Honor and Mexico's equivalent "Premier Merito Militar"?
- ...that , and were believed to inhabit the deepest parts of lakes and rivers?
- ...that U.S. Army's first Hispanic Medal of Honorrecipient?
- ...that the dinosaur Lufengosaurus, whose remains were found in China, was the first dinosaur to appear on a commemorative postage stamp, in 1958?
- ...that, as a result of track switchbacks on either side of a mountain pass, all trains of the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad crossed over the U.S. continental divide running backwards?
- ...that forensic odontological evidence in North America?
- ...that Red Man, one of the leading U.S. brands of chewing tobacco, has been especially successful in marketing itself with rural sporting events?
- ...that U.S. Armed Forces? (pictured: unit insignia)
- ...that Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty was an Indian meteorologist who was a pioneer of remote sensing technologies in India?
- ...that TEACCHprogram?
- ...that The Boke of Chyldren by paediatrics written in the English language?
- ...that Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is famous for his heavy French accent and even gives readings of French poetry at the museum?
- ...that ElectricSquirrel Pokémon that can shock opponents?
- ...that the Vitebsk Rail Terminal in Saint Petersburg (pictured) contains a replica of the first train used in the Russian Empire?
- ...that Great Lakes regionin the late eighteenth century?
- ...that the COMILOG Cableway, built to transport manganese ore mined in Gabon, was the world's longest cable car at over 75 km?
- ...that U.S. Army General James Harbord, who commanded the United States Marine Corps' 4th Marine Brigade at the Battle of Belleau Wood during World War I, was President of RCA in the 1920s when it formed NBC and RKO Pictures?
- ...that "Everybody Knows", a song by Leonard Cohen and collaborator Sharon Robinson was described as a "bleak prophecy about the end of the world as we know it"?