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Did you know...

... that New Place is the name given to Shakespeare's final home in Stratford-upon-Avon?
...that Joy Page was the last actress from the 14 credited performers in Casablanca to die?
...that Muixeranga is a name given to ancient acrobatic street dances and human castles?
...that Europe's most powerful supercomputer, MareNostrum, will be used in human genome research, protein research, weather forecasting and the design of new drugs?
...that a waterbuck is a diurnal antelope from Western and Central Africa?
...that Jan Kulczyk is currently the richest Pole, with a fortune estimated at 12.5 billion Polish złoty (around 4 billion U.S. dollars)?
... that Canadian painter Sophie Pemberton, who painted her award-winning Little Boy Blue in 1897, taught painting to local female artists?
... that 25 passengers and crew mysteriously disappeared from MV Joyita in 1955?
... that Alexander "Sawney" Bean was rumored to be the head of an incestous family that murdered and cannabilized over 1000 people before they were all caught and executed?
... that the cathedral of the town of Zvartnots was depicted in the first issue of 100 Armenian dram banknotes?
...that in aerial firefighting, fire retardants are colored red to mark where they've been dropped?
...that Long-billed Pipits breed on dry open slopes with rocks and low vegetation?
...that "POP" is a nickname for Pacific Ocean Park, a 28 acre (110,000 m²) amusement park built on a pier at Santa Monica, California?
...that Graftgold is an independent computer games developer formed in 1983 when Steve Turner decided to quit his day job as a commercial programmer?
...that the Adelaide O-Bahn is a guided busway in Australia that runs from the Adelaide central business district to the Tea Tree Plaza shopping mall in Tea Tree Gully?
...that a shortage of amphibious vehicles made supply very difficult for the Americans in the Battle of Guam?
...that a large titanosaur nesting ground was recently discovered in Auca Mahuevot, in Patagonia, Argentina, and another colony has reportedly been discovered in Spain?
...that the British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton in October 1911?
...that the film adaptation of the book Night Watch, written by Sergey Lukianenko was such a success that ticket sales were only exceeded by The Lord of the Rings?
...that goanna oil was sold amongst early European settlers of Australia as a panacea much like snake oil was in the Old West?
... that Cameron Bright and Nicole Kidman wore flesh-colored swimsuits during the filming of the bathtub scene in Birth?
... that Thomas Middleton's 1624 play A Game at Chess was considered so scandalous that the Globe Theatre was closed and the actors and author were put on trial?
...that the airfields captured in the Battle of Tinian were used for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
...that elementary school recess teaches children the importance of social skills and physical education?
...that the Norse mythological figure Helgi Hundingsbane earned his nickname by killing a king called Hunding?
...that the Australian singer Jade MacRae started learning the piano at age 8?
...that collecting Toyon branches for Christmas became so popular in Los Angeles, California in the 1920s, that the state passed a law forbidding collecting?
...that the Pokémon character Sableye eats rocks and lives in a cavern?
...that British World War I officer James Edward Edmonds wrote nearly half of the 29-volume History of the Great War?
...that Fort Caspar in present-day Casper, Wyoming was founded in 1859 at a prominent crossing of the Emigrant Trail across the North Platte River?
...that the Arctic Winter Games are held biennially for athletes from the "circumpolar North"?
...that Navajo codetalkers directed naval gunfire onto Japanese positions in the Battle of Saipan?
...that the Japanese manga character Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo can command his own body hair to perform various martial arts?
...that the villain Scar of Disney's Lion King was based on a Barbary lion?
...that Kaiyō Maru, a Japanese steam warship, was the flagship of Admiral Enomoto Takeaki of the rebel Republic of Ezo in the Boshin War?
...that the European Robotic Arm will be able to travel around the exterior of the International Space Station under its own control?
...that the 1961 vintage of Château Latour is consistently listed among the greatest red wines of all time?
...that in the Battle of the Rice Boats in the American Revolutionary War, the militia of the Province of Georgia drove a squadron of the Royal Navy out of the Savannah River?
...that Kotetsu, a Japanese ironclad battleship, was originally intended to be Stonewall of the Confederate States Navy but was not delivered until after the end of the American Civil War?
...that Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov fought in the Napoleonic Wars, founded Odessa, and commanded the Russian invasion of the Caucasus in 1844?
...that Lear's Macaw is a Brazilian parrot that nests in sandstone cliffs?
...that British broadcaster Simon Bates received critical acclaim for his feature item Our Tune, in which he read out tragic true stories?
...that at its height, the World War II Polish resistance group Bataliony Chłopskie had 175,000 members?
...that the fictional character Axel Brass is able to go without sleep or sustenance for years?
...that the Dutch naval Lieutenant Jan van Speijk detonated his own ship in Antwerp harbour during the Belgian Revolution?
...that the Ritz Hotel in London was the first hotel to offer a private bathroom for every guest room?
...that the Munich Soviet Republic declared war on Switzerland, for their refusal to lend 60 locomotives?
...that the California Republican Assembly supported Tom McClintock in the 2003 California recall election?
...that Ten-gō sakusen was the last major Imperial Japanese Navy operation in World War II?
...that the British plan for the battle of Bazentin Ridge in 1916, was dismissed beforehand by one French commander as "an attack organized for amateurs by amateurs"?