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Did you know...
- ...that 1960 mystery film Scent of Mystery was the first and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision?
- ...that Ganges?
- ...that Henry Ford helped stop construction of a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in order to gain admission to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club?
- ...that pirate and slaver, established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands?
- ...that Image:Hjerten.jpg), a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, suffered from schizophrenia and died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy?
- ...that the , who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?
- ...that the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean yet on a grassy knoll in an open green field?
- ...that Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouses?
- ...that in 1943, Prigat, a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the British Army in Israel?
- ...that the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?
- ...that modern digital sundials display the current time with numerals rather than marking it with position?
- ...that the seemingly irrational composition of El Greco's painting Opening of the Fifth Seal (picturedFile:El Greco, The Vision of Saint John (1608-1614).jpg) is a result of its having been trimmed by about two meters in 1880?
- ...that Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic?
- ...that the countries?
- ...that in 1994, a wild Bottlenose dolphin in Brazil named Tião killed one man and seriously injured a second after they had been harassing the animal?
- ...that temperance leader William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson lost his right eye after he was captured by a mob of medical students and paraded through the streets of London?
- ...that Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, nearly thirty years after filming the original?
- ...that the Shell Service Station (picturedImage:Shell Service Station-WS NC.JPG) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was chosen for the National Register of Historic Places as an example of folly architecture, and over $50,000 has been spent restoring it to its original condition?
- ...that ENVISATin 2002?
- ...that during the ?
- ...that the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois, a Registered Historic Place, is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?
- ...that the early musical influences of Austrian KISS?
- ... that the Valley Forge Pilgrimage, held every year since 1913, is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States?
- ...that, despite the name, Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expeditionwas actually male?
- ...that medieval market square in Europe?
- ... that Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, was a world-class sprinter and won a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympicsin Berlin?
- ...that the outside of the Great Western Hospital is covered in 7600 m² (9090 sq yd) of cream-coloured precast concrete cladding panels, each weighing around 14 tonnes?
- ...that named for it?
- ...that Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
- ...that although Scottish socialist Member of Parliament?
- ...that in 1964, British historian empires?
- ...that Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to prevent any further disagreements between those two offices?
- ...that the covert cell, who later helped form the rebel Justice and Equality Movement?
- ...that Milt Gross, writer of comics that used Yiddish-inflected English, also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novel He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too?
- ...that Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap Rudolf Hess who was captured while parachuting into Scotland?
- ...that the Peoria State Hospital grounds are said to be haunted by the ghost of "Old Book" who possessed the form of a graveyard elm tree?
- ...that the Laying Down The Law?
- ...that Sail Rock (pictured) is a federally protected natural monument, located among village health resorts on the eastern shore of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Krai, Russia?
- ...that ballerina and sold the villa in Como that she inherited from her rich first husband to Caroline of Brunswick?
- ...that conservation area known as Tanjong Pagar?
- ...that tropical cyclones to make landfall on both Louisiana and Texas, with the others being Allison in 2001 and Fern in 1971?
- ...that trial of murdering Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne?
- ...that in the 1970s, Tatar painter Baqi Urmançe painted Islamic calligraphy in the Soviet Union, something which was prohibited?
- ...that the transportedto Australia?
- ...that the Henry VIII of England?
- ...that King Edward VIII?
- ...that Southern rap songs, and was implicated in the overdose of a popular rap producer?
- ...that ?
- ... that the parasitesoff other fish?
- ...that the Battle of Vyazma (picturedImage:Battle vyazma.jpg) had a discombobulating impact on the entire Grande Armée, as the disorder it engendered spread, in chain reaction fashion, to the center of Napoleon’s long retreating column of troops?