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Did you knowthat Lin Wang was an elephant that served with distinction with the Chinese army during World War II ?
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Did you knowthat J. Harlan Bretz's theories on the origins of the Channeled Scablands started a forty year debate between neocatastrophist and uniformitarianist geologists ?
Did you knowthat the television movie Born Innocent is credited with airing the first all-female rape scene on American television ?
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Did you knowthat Johnny Temple became a sportscaster after he retired from Major League baseball ?
Did you knowthat although he was a German national, Ken Adam fought in the Royal Air Force during World War II ?
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Did you knowthat the first all- steel passenger car in the world was built by American Car and Foundry in 1904 for Interborough Rapid Transit in New York City ?
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Did you knowthat at over 310,000 words, the Alabama Constitution is the longest constitution in the world?
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Did you knowthat the United States ' National Governors Association serves as a key interface betweeen state governments and the federal government?
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Did you knowthat in 1975 a freak typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people?
Did you knowthat American lions were probably cave lions who crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska ?