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Did you know...

Volgan flag
Volgan flag

...that, following the Russian Revolution, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established by the Soviet Union as a homeland for the large Volga German minority in Russia?

...that the Deluge involving the Old Testament's Noah or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a widespread theme in mythology?

...that Tom Hanks was in a 1982 TV movie called Mazes and Monsters about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game?

Charioteer of Delphi
Charioteer of Delphi

...that the Charioteer of Delphi, an almost-intact ancient Greek statue, was lost for nearly 2000 years?

...that in addition to human spaceflight, there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes?

Sidney Street Siege, with Churchill highlighted
Sidney Street Siege, with Churchill highlighted

...that Winston Churchill personally oversaw the Sidney Street Siege?

...that the corticospinal tract contains both sensory and motor axons?

...that the Moro Rebellion was the second phase of the Philippine-American War?

Northern leopard frog
Northern leopard frog

...that leopard frogs are an environmental indicator species?

...that the soda ash—used in the production of glass, textiles, and paper—was historically made using the Leblanc process?

...that 1988's Hurricane Gilbert was the first to make landfall on Jamaica since 1955?

...that the Hungarian monarch wears the Crown of St. Stephen?

Flintlock mechanism diagram
Flintlock mechanism diagram

...that the first firearm to use a flintlock mechanism was produced in 1610 for King Louis XIII of France?

...that William James Sidis, an eccentric—and once world-famous—genius, entered Harvard University in 1909 at the age of 11?

...that Napoléon Bonaparte's defeat in what the Russians call the Patriotic War was the turning point in the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the end for the Emperor?

Fetal circulation
Fetal circulation

...that the blood vessel present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to the growing fetus is called the umbilical vein?

...that in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?

...that few color blind humans have true monochromacy, but rather are dichromats or anomalous trichromats?

Map of Australia
Map of Australia

...that there are only a handful of true freshwater lakes in Australia because of that continent's minimal amount of glacial and tectonic activity?

...that osteomyelitis, i.e. bone infection, is particularly common in the tibia, femur, humerus and vertebral bodies?

...that religion in Canada is dominated by the Roman Catholic Church, the United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church?

...that Orcas Island, named for the area's killer whales, is the largest of Washington state's San Juan Islands?

Yellow Pansy in California
Yellow Pansy in California

...that, like other yellow flowers of the genus Viola, Yellow Pansies can cause diarrhoea if eaten in large quantities?

...that the story of Sada Abe, a woman who cut off her dead lover's genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of Japan's most notorious scandals?

...that Swedish adventurer Saloman Andrée died in 1897 while trying to reach the geographic North Pole by hot-air balloon?


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