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Did you know that Air Group Six was the U.S. Navy's only carrier-based air group to carry out three complete tours of duty during World War II?
Did you know that Armenian merchant Coja Petrus Uscan built the first ever bridge across the Adyar River in Madras?
Did you know that Bulgarian modernist painter Ivan Milev is depicted on the five Bulgarian leva banknote?
Did you know that Chicago's defunct 58th station must be kept in operable condition because federal funds were used in its renovation?
Did you know that Daniel Dobbins was in charge of the building of the ships that Oliver Hazard Perry commanded in the Battle of Lake Erie?
Did you know that German-Swedish driver Freddy Kottulinsky, who won the 1980 Dakar Rally, was hired only a few days before the start?
Did you know that J. D. Chakravarthy's Telugu film Homam drew inspiration from Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning film The Departed?
Did you know that Richard Lawson, a British Army officer, was nicknamed "Dick the Lionheart" for his work in the United Nations peacekeeping force during the Congo Crisis?
Did you know that Stephen Fry's Podgrams are one of the top five most downloaded podcasts from iTunes?
Did you know that a hose strap, a piece of firefighting equipment, has a variety of uses including carrying un-charged firehose, opening and closing doors, and dragging the injured?
Did you know that according to legend, the eponymous ancestor of Clan McCorquodale was awarded lands for recovering the decapitated head of Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots?
Did you know that after Edwin E. Moise retired from mathematics research he became a literary critic of 19th-century English poetry?
Did you know that as special counsel investigating loans made to Jimmy Carter, Paul Curran became the first lawyer to question a sitting U.S. President under oath in an investigation of that president?
Did you know that cardanol, a substance obtained from a byproduct of cashew nut processing, is used to make vehicle brakes and coatings for concrete floors?
Did you know that in Personnel Administrator MA v. Feeney, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that giving preference to veterans in hiring decisions did not unconstitutionally discriminate against women?
Did you know that in his memoirs of the Battle of Waterloo,  William Leeke claimed that the 52nd Light Infantry singlehandedly defeated 10,000 of Napoleon's Imperial Guard?
Did you know that memiljeon is a type of Korean pancake, made with buckwheat flour and vegetables?
Did you know that musicians have recorded in the Widow Jane Mine at the Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District in Rosendale, New York because of the acoustics?
Did you know that screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg originally aspired to be a dancer, and ended up writing the 2006 dance film Step Up?
Did you know that the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California originally opened in 1907 as a Carnegie library?
Did you know that the Coast Range Arc is the largest continental volcanic arc fossil in the world and the largest granite projection in North America?
Did you know that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall, a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?
Did you know that the main candidate to replace Pope Callistus III died two days before the beginning of the papal conclave, 1458?
Did you know that the newly discovered Baby Boom Galaxy is seen producing stars at a rate of up to 4,000 per year, compared to our own Milky Way galaxy that produces an average of just 10 stars per year?
Did you know that the readership of the new Dow Jones & Company magazine, WSJ., has average household assets of US$2.9 million?
Did you know that though small in size, the underground drug market in Bahrain is growing?
Did you know that Austrian Baroque painter Paul Troger was known for his frescoes in Austrian abbeys (example pictured)?
Did you know that Bridge Island Meadows is an inaccessible nature reserve on the floodplains of the  Charles River in Massachusetts?
Did you know that Louisiana piano player Allen "Puddler" Harris, whose career spanned five decades, was inducted into the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Philippe Suchard was not only the creator of Milka chocolates, but also had an influence on the discovery of a La Tène settlement dating back to 450 BC? NOTA BENE: Milka was created after the death of Philippe Suchard
Did you know that Quebec nationalist Walter-Patrice O'Leary was the younger brother of CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary?
Did you know that Tachikawa Airfield (aerial photo pictured) was the military base in Tokyo from which the 1937 original Kamikaze plane to London took off?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Diwu Qi ordered the minting of coins valued significantly higher than ordinary coins and was blamed for the subsequent rise in food prices?
Did you know that The Owl Service, a 1969 TV adaptation of the novel, was the first fully-scripted colour production by Granada Television?
Did you know that a new Louvre museum is scheduled to be completed by 2012 in Abu Dhabi, UAE?
Did you know that actress Marion Terry, a younger sister of Dame Ellen Terry, appeared in over 125 chief roles?
Did you know that cosmologists C. B. Collins and Stephen Hawking proposed an infinite number of universes to explain the Flatness problem in the curvature of spacetime (three possibilities pictured)?
Did you know that the 1961 German film The Miracle of Father Malachia was finished only seven hours before its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival?
Did you know that the Mobile Tigers, a Negro League baseball team, paid pitcher Satchel Paige "$1 when the gate was good and a keg of lemonade when it wasn't"?
Did you know that the Palestinians consider the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber as the site of their future capital?
Did you know that the odour of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe geophylla has been likened to semen?
Did you know that Charlie Nothing created the dingulator?
Did you know that Charlotte Guillard was the first European woman printer of history?
Did you know that English-born architect John C. Austin designed several landmark buildings in Southern California, including the Griffith Observatory?
Did you know that Isis Tsunami is the first transwoman to be amongst the 14 finalists on the fashion model reality series America's Next Top Model?
Did you know that crime in the Maldives includes drug trafficking, which according to the UNODC is a side effect of the nation's increased exposure to the outside world?
Did you know that in 1862, Phan Thanh Gian said that France's "wealth and strength are beyond description"?
Did you know that in his book The War Within: A Secret White House History (2006-2008), author Bob Woodward alleged that a secret killing program was used by American forces in Iraq?
Did you know that investor and philanthropist Ray Chambers helped bring the New Jersey Devils to Newark, New Jersey and was named as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Malaria?
Did you know that linguist Asim Peco is an expert in the language of eastern Herzegovina?
Did you know that macromolecular crowding can make molecules in cells behave in radically different ways than in test-tube enzyme assays?
Did you know that only three out of 32 football matches in the Third Round of the FA Cup 1962-63 were played on their scheduled day because of the Big Freeze of 1963?
Did you know that placekicker Kevin Kelly is the all-time leading scorer for the Penn State Nittany Lions?
Did you know that the 1968 triple trawler tragedy caused the deaths of all but one member of the crews of three fishing vessels from Kingston upon Hull?
Did you know that the Fall Creek Massacre led to the first white man receiving capital punishment for the killing of a Native American?
Did you know that the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northern British Columbia, Canada was a source of obsidian for Tahltan people and its lava plateau has been an important cultural resource?
Did you know that the Nazi operation Gross Aktion resulted in the destruction of the Jewish population of Warsaw?
Did you know that the Swallow-tailed Gull of the Galápagos Islands is the only fully nocturnal gull?
Did you know that the WWF Championship match at WrestleMania IX was between Bret Hart and Yokozuna, but Hulk Hogan won the title?
Did you know that the World War I diaries Tommy's War only came to be published after an appearance on the TV programme Antiques Roadshow?
Did you know that the arts company Artichoke produced The Sultan's Elephant, the biggest piece of free theatre ever staged in London?
Did you know that the hair salon chain First Choice Haircutters helped launch the career of soap opera star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood?
Did you know that there are nearly 100 Registered Historic Places in Pasadena, California, including a 25-foot Space Simulator and the JPL Space Flight Operations Facility?
Did you know that 1944 was called the "year of ten victories" by the Soviet Union for ten battles the Red Army won during that year?
Did you know that American swimmer Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead received three gold medals and two silver medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships, when she was only 14 years old?
Did you know that Claude Kirkpatrick, Louisiana public works director in the 1960s, joined with state officials in Texas to establish Toledo Bend Reservoir on the common Sabine River border?
Did you know that Egan-Sud, Quebec, a community of 508 people, is home to the largest ice rink in its regional county municipality?
Did you know that George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick was baptized at St. Mary's, Warwick, with King George I standing as his sponsor?
Did you know that London's Novelty Theatre, built in 1882, changed its name at least five times in its first dozen years of operation?
Did you know that Slipknot has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won their first for Best Metal Performance with "Before I Forget" in 2006?
Did you know that Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salih was awarded the 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom, despite being from "one of the most restrictive media environments on the African continent"?
Did you know that a deductive fallacy is an argument that has true premises, but may still have a false conclusion?
Did you know that although the Byzantine megas doux Alexios Apokaukos owed his rise to the patronage of John VI Kantakouzenos, he instigated the Civil War of 1341–1347 against him?
Did you know that despite the long-established use of mathematical diagrams (Voronoi diagram pictured), going back to the Ancient Greeks, the scientific study of them has only recently begun?
Did you know that in 2001, the French government announced the appointment of Henri Loyrette as the new director of the Louvre Museum?
Did you know that in the Germanic pagan Merseburg Incantation, Sinthgunt and the personified sun, Sunna, are sisters using charms to heal a wounded horse?
Did you know that screenwriter Dorothy Ann Purser was nominated for seven awards and won two, including a Daytime Emmy?
Did you know that the 1756 Fleming Castle is the oldest house in Flemington, New Jersey, but longstanding traditions that it housed a tavern visited by George Washington have been disproven?
Did you know that the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt, completed in 1913, was equipped with a centralised vacuum cleaning system?
Did you know that the Religion Newswriters Association awards scholarships for full-time journalists who wish to take college courses on religion?
Did you know that the deceiver mushroom Laccaria laccata, initially described by the Tyrolian naturalist Scopoli, is a traditional food of the Zapotec of Oaxaca?
Did you know that the only current British medal to retain the head of Queen Victoria on its obverse is the Service Medal of the Order of St John?
Did you know that the phrase "lipstick on a pig" may have its origins in the 18th-century expression "A hog in armour is still but a hog"?
Did you know that the seven-mile-long Ventura Mission Aqueduct, built between 1780 and 1815, has been called "an engineering marvel"?
Did you know that the winning players in cricket's Stanford Super Series take home one million dollars each, while the losing players walk away with nothing?
Did you know that there were at least five attempts by imposters to pretend to be Empress Dowager Shen, who disappeared during the Anshi Rebellion?
Did you know that underwater visibility can reach 80 metres (260 ft) in the limestone sinkholes of Australia's Ewens Ponds?
Did you know that Alex Garcia, driver of No. 98 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, is the first Venezuelan to race in NASCAR?
Did you know that American soap magnate Benjamin T. Babbitt held over 100 patents?
Did you know that Camarillo Ranch House, headquarters for "the largest bean ranch in the world", was renowned for its Arabian stallions that led the Rose Parade?
Did you know that George Halpin's Bull Wall and Bull Island, engineering works at the mouth of the River Liffey, enabled deep-draught ships to use the port of Dublin, Ireland for the first time?
Did you know that Guru Maharaj Ji's followers predicted that extraterrestrials would attend the Millennium '73 in the Astrodome and that the festival's failure was a major setback for the Divine Light Mission?
Did you know that HMS Vidal, the ship sent to annexe Rockall, was named after Alexander Vidal, the first man to properly survey the islet?
Did you know that Paul "Bear" Bryant won his final game as a head coach in the 1982 Liberty Bowl, his 323rd victory?
Did you know that Svetozar Delić was a mayor of Zagreb, Croatia for three days, but it took three more days to remove him from the city hall?
Did you know that a logocracy is government through words?
Did you know that a splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills?
Did you know that after the death of Consort Dugu, the favorite concubine of Emperor Daizong of Tang, the emperor was so saddened that he kept her casket in the palace and did not bury her until almost three years later?
Did you know that among the many historic buildings in downtown Cohoes, New York (Ontario Street pictured), is the first textile mill in the United States that manufactured hosiery and other knitwear?
Did you know that artist Derek Davis met his wife at a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients?
Did you know that besides hosting the canoeing and rowing events for the 1964 Summer Olympics, Lake Sagami is also a popular recreational fishing area for black bass?
Did you know that cargo ship SS West Nohno was the first American merchant vessel to be armed for service in the Atlantic during World War II?
Did you know that early claims by European mountaineers to have set world altitude records in the Himalayas have been disproven by the discovery of Inca artefacts on the summit of Llullaillaco?
Did you know that from its creation in 1963 to its closure in about 2000, the Scottish Tartans Society recorded and documented about 2,700 different designs of tartan?
Did you know that geophysicist Geoffrey Ballard, acknowledged as the father of the fuel cell industry, was named a "Hero for the Planet" by Time in 1999?
Did you know that one of the characters from the Hindi film Summer 2007 was inspired by Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Did you know that singer Eva Tanguay was reportedly booed off the stage in her first appearance at Cohoes Music Hall in New York?
Did you know that startup airline Miwok Airways has been described as competing not with other carriers but the roads of Southern California?
Did you know that the 2008 Indian film Ru Ba Ru is the cinematic adaptation of the Hollywood film If Only?
Did you know that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?
Did you know that the Portland, Oregon magazine Portland Monthly was founded in 2003 and by 2006 was the seventh-largest city magazine in the United States?
Did you know that the expensive and ornate Royal Aquarium, which opened in London in 1876 to present art exhibits and classical music, soon turned to circus acts and music hall instead?
Did you know that though the 2004 miniseries Category 6: Day of Destruction earned CBS the highest ratings of any show during the November sweeps week, it was generally panned by critics?
Did you know that , in his only full Major League Baseball season, Eddie Yuhas led the National League in 1952 with a win-loss percentage of .857?
Did you know that Buddy Fletcher′s first experience with risk-reward tradeoff came from developing a strategy to bet on dog racing?
Did you know that Charlotte Glennie became the first New Zealand journalist to officially film in North Korea?
Did you know that China's Sanlu Group refused to recall contaminated infant formula until Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand intervened?
Did you know that Historic Washington State Park near Hope includes the Block-Catts House, the oldest still-standing two-story residence in Arkansas?
Did you know that Mohammad Usman Rana, a Norwegian Pakistani student, is one of the prolific Muslim debaters in the Norwegian public sphere?
Did you know that Nonsuch House is the earliest documented prefabricated building?
Did you know that St. Volodymyr's Cathedral was the first neo-byzantine design approved for construction in the Russian Empire in 1852?
Did you know that Taiwan's Guo Huaiyi Rebellion of 1652 was partially motivated by the falling price of venison?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen, after his fall from power, entered the capital Chang'an disguised as a woman to plot his return to power?
Did you know that U.S. Navy gunners aboard SS West Cheswald during World War II were awarded a battle star after the ship was deliberately sunk during the Invasion of Normandy?
Did you know that Victorian English operetta star Emily Soldene later became a celebrated gossip columnist?
Did you know that Vrav, a village in the northwest of Bulgaria, is inhabited by "wet Vlachs"?
Did you know that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?
Did you know that after manual typewriter expert Martin Tytell accidentally inverted a key on a Burmese language typewriter he built, it became the standard even in Burma?
Did you know that at one time, Toronto's Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion was the largest outdoor swimming pool in the world?
Did you know that despite having excruciating pain in her back and knees because of the disease achondroplasia, Miranda Uhl went on to win a gold medal in the individual medley at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that in 2004, Expedition Global Eagle was the first attempt in history to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro?
Did you know that molecular farming is a type of genetic modification involving the use of plants, and potentially also animals, as the means to produce compounds of therapeutic value?
Did you know that politicians have proposed replacing the red lion on the Flag of Tasmania with a thylacine or cape Barren Goose?
Did you know that the 2000 PC game Crimson Skies is set in an alternate history of the 1930s in which the United States has fractured into a number of smaller, independent nation-states?
Did you know that the 2006 death of NYPD Detective James Zadroga was the first attributed to exposure to toxic dust at the World Trade Center site, though the circumstances of his death are disputed?
Did you know that the 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) Canal Saint-Denis, finished in 1821, was built to provide a water route through Paris,  other than the Seine?
Did you know that the Dresden Codex is the earliest known book written in the Americas?
Did you know that the Osvald Group, led by Asbjørn Sunde, was the dominating sabotage organisation in Norway from 1941 to 1944?
Did you know that the Palestinian–Jordanian alliance forged at the Battle of Karameh (house blown up during the battle pictured) is considered by observers to have led to Black September in Jordan?
Did you know that the Portland, Oregon theater company Portland Center Stage was started as a branch of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival?
Did you know that the resentment generated during the Drifts Crisis indirectly sparked the Second Boer War?
Did you know that when a train derailed in Painesville, Ohio, the area was evacuated for fear a liquefied petroleum gas tank might explode?
Did you know that Ananda Ranga Pillai, famous for his diaries which portray life in 18th-century India, was a dubash in the service of the French East India Company?
Did you know that Frederick Roehrig's Castle Green in Pasadena, California, was called "a fantastic folly created from the imagination of a Victorian architect with a penchant for Arabesque opulence"?
Did you know that Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Davidson used his civilian experience as a civil engineer to improve his battalion's trenches during the First World War?
Did you know that Polish mountaineer Tadeusz Piotrowski, one of the finest winter mountaineers of the 1970s and '80s, died during descent from K2, after completing the first and only ascent by the "South Face"?
Did you know that Sir George Treby was rejected as a possible Speaker of the House of Commons of England because his eyesight was so bad he could not distinguish between different Members of Parliament?
Did you know that Stephen's Tower in Baia Mare, Romania has had four fires in its history, three caused by lightning?
Did you know that a Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood Oil Field during World War II, the first direct attack by an enemy power on the mainland United States since the War of 1812?
Did you know that baseball player Randy Johnson has pitched six times on Opening Day for the Arizona Diamondbacks, three more times than any other pitcher in Diamondbacks' history?
Did you know that former Louisiana GOP committeewoman Virginia deGravelles became in 1941 one of the first two whites to register Republican in Lafayette, now a Republican stronghold?
Did you know that in Norse mythology, Sumarr and Vetr are the personified seasons of summer and winter?
Did you know that row houses built in the 1840s for workers at a textile mill on Olmstead Street in Cohoes, New York, are today used as federally subsidized affordable housing?
Did you know that the Canadian-based fast food company Extreme Pita began to expand to include stores in the United States in 2003, beginning with Arizona?
Did you know that the chart run for George Jones' first chart single "Why Baby Why" was interrupted when Red Sovine and Webb Pierce released a duet cover of the same song?
Did you know that the former General Foods Corporate Headquarters in Rye Brook, New York, have been described as an "Aztec Temple"?
Did you know that the science fiction novel The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg, which featured a naked time traveler from the future, was a nominee for the 1969 Nebula Award?
Did you know that AVIS, the association of Italian blood donors founded in 1927, was asked to include an F for fascist in its acronym by Mussolini?
Did you know that British justice Thomas Reeve was knighted at the same time he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas?
Did you know that English director and actor Steven Berkoff featured in a two-minute film inviting the viewer to Watch Your Own Heart Attack?
Did you know that It's About Time, singer Christina Milian's second studio album, served as her debut album in the U.S. due to the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that Johnny Anders, mayor of Stamford in West Texas, built from spare automobile parts a 22-foot dinosaur model displayed in Stamford's city park?
Did you know that New Zealand band The Trons has no human members?
Did you know that Senegalese filmmaker Ben Diogaye Beye's first feature film was critical of polygamy?
Did you know that Smokey Mayfield, a ranch supervisor in the Texas Panhandle, once played the fiddle as a warmup act for country performer Tennessee Ernie Ford?
Did you know that a failure to correct an aircraft flaw revealed by the "Windsor Incident" with American Airlines Flight 96 caused the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 two years later?