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Did you know...
edit...that the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s?
...that Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910-1912?
...that Bitòn Coulibaly transformed a Ségou youth organisation into an army that he used to found the eighteenth-century Bambara Empire?
...that Johnny Rodgers was voted the University of Nebraska's college football "Player of the Century" and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?
...that the soleus muscle is a leg muscle important for standing, walking, and running?
...that the Peul preacher and social reformer Seku Amadu led a jihad against the Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century West Africa to found his own theocratic Massina Empire?
... that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN?
...that adjustable gastric banding is a form of weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the digestive system?
... that Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to be on one of the trains bombed during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel's restaurant to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
...that the poems of Richard Dehmel were set to music by composers like Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Arnold Schönberg and Kurt Weill, or inspired them to write music?
...that Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with shipping, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
... that NASA, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the "virtual globe"?
...that the Super Buddies, a team of DC Comics superheroes, were a comedic Justice League offshoot who first appeared in the Eisner Award-winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League?
... that Yogi Rock is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head?
... that California Certified Organic Farmers was one of the first US based organizations to certify organic farmers?
... that the St'at'imcets language, and endangered language of British Columbia, is like Semitic languages in that it has also has pharyngeal consonants?
...that businessman Ginery Twichell started in stage lines before transitioning to railroads and three terms in the U.S. Congress?
... that the Wallkill River is one of the few rivers that drains into a creek, because it is impounded just before the confluence?
... that Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time?
... that the Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?
...that the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna is the longest single residential building in the world and spans four tram stations?
...that khash is a traditional Armenian dish from the Shirak region which has cow's feet as its main ingredient?
...that the first known classical fiction in Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in Chinese characters?
...that the Swedish Bikini Team, an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women?
...that First Monday was a U.S. television program about a moderate U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed to a court evenly divided between conservatives and liberals?
...that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?
...that legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?
...that the Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the International Cricket Council until 1993, despite having played first-class cricket matches since 1902, including games against Scotland, Australia and New Zealand?
...that King Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and Sharif of Mecca in 1924, only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the House of Saud?
...that "Jive Talkin'" is considered to be the "comeback" song for the Bee Gees, after an absence of three years from the Top 40 charts?
...that Argentinian painter Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol (right), was adopted at the age of 6 from an orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on March 21, 1890?
...that the Gwenn ha du organisation made a bomb out of a condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in Rennes?
...that the composer Johannes Brahms premiered his Academic Festival Overture, a musical fantasy based on several student drinking songs, at the University of Breslau's convocation to thank the institution for granting him an honorary doctorate?
...that foxtail millet has the longest history of cultivation among the millets, having been grown in China since between three and four thousand years ago?
...that Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss, Georgetown University economics professor, coined the term "petrodollars" to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973?
...that Chingay Parade in Singapore, a display of floats, music and dances, is a major festival in Asia attended by more than 200,000 people and watched by millions on TV across Asia?
...that tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of marketing, along with alcohol, and is banned in many countries?
...that research on U.S. compulsory sterilization legislation by American eugenicist E.S. Gosney was cited by officials in Nazi Germany as the basis of their own forced sterilization policy?
...that like many desert rodents, kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get water from their food?
...that Ronald Bass, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Rain Man, taught himself to read by the age of three?
...that Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
...that the Tarot of Marseilles is the source of most contemporary designs of tarot cards?
...that Malian fashion designer Chris Seydou pioneered the use of bògòlanfini, a traditional Bamana mudcloth, in international fashion?
...that Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I?
...that Charles Darwin's illness, which afflicted him for 40 years, could have been Chagas disease, an exotic South American parasitic infection transmitted by the bite of the assassin bug, a hematophagous insect, while he was exploring the Andes during the famed voyage of the Beagle?
...that Huchoun was one of the earliest Scottish poets and wrote a number of important alliterative verse romances in the early 14th century?
...that the Indian Railways Fan Club is the [[Internet's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent?
...that William Dudley Chipley first brought rail lines to Pensacola, Florida, connecting the Atlantic coast of Florida with other Gulf Coast states for the first time?
...that Barbara Cassani founded the budget airline Go Fly before becoming the initial leader of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
...that the genetically modified plum C5 is the only Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease plum pox?
...that Ferrellgas, the largest propane retail distributor in the United States, started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas?