Did You Know…….

Did you know…

From Wikipedia’s newest content:

View of a wide lit tunnel stretching into the distance

  • … that the underground Fortress of Mimoyecques (pictured) was built by Nazi Germany to bombard London with 10 shells a minute using the V-3 supergun?
  • … that the competition to build the fastest production motorcycle raged for over a century, and then ended in a truce?
  • … that Indian communist leader V. Subbiah was elected to the Senate of France in 1947?
  • … that DarkOrbit is an online game that gives players a chance to win up to £10,000 of real cash?
  • … that Judge Hugo Friend, who presided over the 1921 Black Sox trial, smiled as the defendants were acquitted and died in 1966 while listening by radio to a White Sox game?
  • … that a proud Massachusetts father commissioned award-winning composer Peter Child to compose a string quartet in honor of his son’s birth?
  • … that the wasp Dinocampus coccinellae can turn a ladybird into a “zombie bodyguard”?
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