Did you know ...
hat 115 truckloads of construction sand were used to create 150 sand sculptures (example pictured) at the Mysore Sand Sculpture Museum?
that Gai Mizuki and Takeshi Matsu are among the artists featured in Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, the first English-language anthology of gay manga?
that the American Express Building in Manhattan replaced a pair of brownstone structures that were described as being "among the ancient landmarks" on Broadway?
that Egon Hartmann won a competition to design Stalinallee in East Berlin?
that equipment from defunct television station WTVI in Fort Pierce, Florida, was sold to start an unrelated WTVI in Charlotte, North Carolina?
that the Tedder certificate was awarded by the British government to foreign citizens who assisted Allied prisoners of war to escape German captivity during the Second World War?
that after the devastating 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, the New Zealand government "red-zoned", purchased, and demolished 8,000 houses?
that the idea for the Twilight novel series came to Stephenie Meyer in a dream?
that Gai Mizuki and Takeshi Matsu are among the artists featured in Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, the first English-language anthology of gay manga?
that the American Express Building in Manhattan replaced a pair of brownstone structures that were described as being "among the ancient landmarks" on Broadway?
that Egon Hartmann won a competition to design Stalinallee in East Berlin?
that equipment from defunct television station WTVI in Fort Pierce, Florida, was sold to start an unrelated WTVI in Charlotte, North Carolina?
that the Tedder certificate was awarded by the British government to foreign citizens who assisted Allied prisoners of war to escape German captivity during the Second World War?
that after the devastating 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, the New Zealand government "red-zoned", purchased, and demolished 8,000 houses?
that the idea for the Twilight novel series came to Stephenie Meyer in a dream?
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