Did you know...
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 H. J. Lovink Pumping Station
- ... that the H. J. Lovink Pumping Station (pictured), a national monument of the Netherlands, was used to reclaim the Flevopolder?
- ... that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria, some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
- ... that the winner of the seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent was the first individual woman to win the show without a dog?
- ... that the moat around Pinxton Castle was inside the perimeter walls, rather than outside?
- ... that William Beck emigrated to the US from Germany, became a policeman at 19, was wounded by a Native American tribe, and was shipwrecked before becoming Milwaukee's first police chief?
- ... that a Texas TV station hoped that being named after an eye would ease viewer confusion?
- ... that Pharos, the largest impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus, is more than half the diameter of Proteus itself?
- ... that in his book How to Be Perfect, Michael Schur sought to "wade into some deeply confusing and painful applications of moral philosophy ... but in a fun way"?
- ... that a video accompanying ML Buch's debut album showed viewers her inner self – literally?
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