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Did you know that the first men executed under Adolf Hitler's Commando Order were from No. 2 Commando?
Did you know that the five victims of the Ipswich serial murders are the subject of the 2010 BBC One drama serial Five Daughters?
Did you know that the historic Unity Ranger Station in northeastern Oregon has had a 60-foot high fire lookout tower with a built-in water tank located on the compound since 1938?
Did you know that the rice rat Transandinomys bolivaris is characterized by very long whiskers, up to 5 cm (2 in) in length?
Did you know that when Dylan Thomas' wife, Caitlin Thomas arrived at his death bed, her words were reportedly, "Is the bloody man dead yet?"?
Did you know that Chinese writer Shi Tiesheng was paralyzed at age 21 while he was a zhiqing?
Did you know that George Clavering-Cowper went on a Grand Tour and, despite becoming an earl and an M.P., he stayed in Florence and became a prince?
Did you know that Morganna, the Kissing Bandit, originally wanted to be a nun but ran away from school at the age of 13 to become an exotic dancer and legendary kisser of baseball players?
Did you know that Paula Bauersmith appeared in the original Broadway productions of Bury the Dead, Sail Away, and Breakfast at Tiffany's?
Did you know that Portbury Ashlands is a new nature reserve on the site previously used to dump the waste from Portishead power stations?
Did you know that Unicorns, an unpaid English cricket team made up of out-of-contract professionals and aspiring youngsters, was created to take part in the 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40 competition?
Did you know that architect Gregory Henriquez designed the central stair in the redevelopment of Woodward's building in Vancouver like a giant umbilical cord, symbolising the rebirth of the site?
Did you know that for the year 2004, Kaare Frydenberg was the highest paid leader of a Norwegian fully state-owned company?
Did you know that if an election court in the United Kingdom finds someone guilty of a corrupt practice, they are prevented from voting or holding elected office for five years?
Did you know that the Admiral-class battlecruiser Hood escorted British merchantmen into Bilbao in 1937, even though the Nationalist cruiser Almirante Cervera was attempting to blockade the port?
Did you know that the B-side of Jimmy Buffet's single "The Great Filling Station Holdup" did not air on country radio because of the word "screw"?
Did you know that the Basilica of San Albino was established in Mexico, but is currently located in New Mexico?
Did you know that the New York Central's engines 1290 and 1291 operated for more than 55 years on a single 62-mile (100 km) branch line in southwestern Ontario?
Did you know that the Rihanna song "Breakin' Dishes" is about a woman exacting revenge on her unfaithful husband?
Did you know that the Romanesque Revival St. John's Catholic Church fills an entire city block in Delphos, Ohio?
Did you know that the Royal Columbian Hospital, the oldest hospital in British Columbia, was built in 1862 during a Gold Rush for $3,396 by the Corps of Royal Engineers and a chain gang?
Did you know that the South Park episode "Crippled Summer" featured several mentally handicapped children meant to resemble Looney Tunes cartoon characters?
Did you know that the tenor Kurt Huber sang the Evangelist in Bach's Ascension Oratorio Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11, composed for the feast of the Ascension of 275 years ago?
Did you know that two ships of the German Type 1936B destroyer class, Z35 and Z36, both sank after hitting "friendly" mines on the same day in the Gulf of Finland?
Did you know that Kenn Kaufman was the youngest person ever to be awarded the Ludlow Griscom Award by the American Birding Association?
Did you know that Malik Zulu Shabazz, the leader of the New Black Panther Party, was given the "Young Lawyer of the Year" award by the U.S. National Bar Association?
Did you know that Somerset and England Under-19 wicket-keeper Jos Buttler was named as the 2010 Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year?
Did you know that William Wingfield was Chief Justice of Brecon Circuit before becoming Master in Chancery?
Did you know that Wooden Leg didn't have one?
Did you know that a Dunne D.8 flew from Eastchurch to Villacoublay, crossing the English Channel, in August 1912?
Did you know that although the Apostles' Creed states that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God the Father, the New Testament also depicts him as standing and walking?
Did you know that as the first Governor of American Samoa following World War II, conversion of the Samoan economy to a pre-war state was Ralph Hungerford's top priority?
Did you know that on September 9, 1949, Albert Guay blew up a Douglas DC-3 over Sault-au-Cochon in Quebec, Canada, killing 23 people, in order to kill his wife and collect insurance money?
Did you know that on his 75th birthday Sir D'Arcy Power was presented with a record of 609 of his "selected writings" by a special committee of the Osler Club?
Did you know that some solids can reversibly transform between the covalent and molecular forms?
Did you know that the 1970 New Guinea earthquake killed fifteen people on Halloween?
Did you know that the Babcock-Macomb House was the first built in Washington, D.C.'s new Massachusetts Heights neighborhood, and later became the embassy of Cape Verde?
Did you know that the Battle of Rafah was the last major military engagement in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
Did you know that the Cameron Ram-type Blowout Preventer was the first successful blowout preventer for oil wells?
Did you know that the Catalan Atlas, one of the most important maps of the medieval period, was made by Abraham Cresques, who belonged to the Majorcan cartographic school, in 1375?
Did you know that the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona was built on the site of four columns representing Catalan nationalism?
Did you know that the Museum of Vuk and Dositej is the oldest preserved residential building in Belgrade, Serbia?
Did you know that the artist Arthur Nahl was the first elected Leader of the San Francisco Olympic Club?
Did you know that the hunting lodge at Bykenhulle in East Fishkill, New York, can be entered only by turning a carved liquor bottle on the door to "pour" into a nearby shot glass, revealing a peephole?
Did you know that the lake sediments at Thomsons Lake are 30–40,000 years old, the oldest found in Western Australia?
Did you know that the reality television series Junior Apprentice was delayed until after the 2010 United Kingdom general election because of the BBC's political impartiality regulations?
Did you know that the song "42" by Coldplay took its name from one of Chris Martin's favourite numbers?
Did you know that Åge Hadler won the first individual World Championship title in men's orienteering, in 1966?
Did you know that Barbara Hammer's Tender Fictions, one of a documentary trilogy on LGBT histories, focuses on the "constructedness" of the self?
Did you know that Capitol Records initially refused to release Merle Haggard's song "Irma Jackson", which is about an interracial relationship, because they felt it would hurt Haggard's image?
Did you know that Fred Thompson, who wrote the book for many hit musical comedies between World War I and World War II, once had three shows running on Broadway simultaneously?
Did you know that Hulda Shipanga, the first black Namibian nurse promoted to the rank of matron, attended to the wounded at the Old Location Uprising in 1959 when white doctors refused to treat them?
Did you know that Polydorus (pictured being killed by Polymestor), son of Priam, features in Euripides' Greek tragedy Hecuba, Virgil's Roman epic The Aeneid and Homer's Iliad?
Did you know that Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge was court-martialled for his failure to successfully engage the German warships SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau?
Did you know that Shirley Davidson, an ice hockey player who had won the Stanley Cup three times in the 1890s, was alleged to have committed suicide with his fiancée after his father refused them permission to marry?
Did you know that Sir Thomas Troubridge lost his right leg and left foot at the Battle of Inkerman, but refused to leave the field until the battle had been won?
Did you know that Teluk Cenderawasih National Park is the largest marine national park in Indonesia?
Did you know that after appropriate treatment for limb infarction, approximately 70 percent of infarcted arms and legs remain alive and vital after six months?
Did you know that apple seed oil has long been used for soap in Africa and India?
Did you know that as a wedding present, Pedro Romero de Terreros, the first Count of Regla, gave his bride two dresses covered with diamonds?
Did you know that following his death in 1943, Ch. My Own Brucie, an American Cocker Spaniel, was described as the most photographed dog in the world?
Did you know that in 1961 snack manufacturer Verkade, to attract female workers, was one of the first Dutch companies to open its own day care facility?
Did you know that members of the Philo Literary Society at Canonsburg Academy would cover the windows with their cloaks to prevent onlookers, because secret societies were presumed to be tied to freemasonry or witchcraft?
Did you know that millions have visited the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, including one who knelt in front of the flame, fell, and burned to death?
Did you know that one of Sir Henry Firebrace's escape plans for Charles I of England failed when the king got stuck in a window frame?
Did you know that the Grumman XTSF was the only aircraft design ever designated as a torpedo scout by the U.S. Navy?
Did you know that the Kapchagay Reservoir in Almaty Province, Kazakhstan, was responsible for reducing the water level of Lake Balkash by roughly 7 feet (2.2 metres) in depth?
Did you know that the White Horse Temple is, according to tradition, the first Buddhist temple in China, established in Luoyang in 68 AD?
Did you know that the builder of the Hugh T. Rinehart House was a county commissioner of Auglaize County, Ohio?
Did you know that the engine of the Capella Javelin ultralight aircraft was controlled using a motorcycle-type throttle?
Did you know that the meaning of the circles in Rembrandt's painting Self Portrait with Two Circles has been the subject of much speculation?
Did you know that the name of 14th century Scotsman Paul Mactire probably means "Paul the Wolf" rather than "Paul, son of Tire"?
Did you know that the only Japan Series MVP to also win a World Series MVP is Hideki Matsui?
Did you know that when Mazra'a was one of the Viftlik estates of the Galilee governor Daher al-Omar, it was exempt from paying taxes to the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that Bob Valesente has coached football for the Kansas Jayhawks, Baltimore Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers and Frankfurt Galaxy?
Did you know that Francis Ley is credited with introducing baseball to England with the Derby County Baseball Club?
Did you know that Jedward dream of performing alongside Eminem, Muse and Arcade Fire at Oxegen 2010?
Did you know that Lady Gaga loaned her costume designer to the American television series Glee for the episode "Theatricality"?
Did you know that Matt Kilroy struck out more batters in a season than anyone else in Major League Baseball history, yet does not hold the single-season strikeout record?
Did you know that Norway's 93 km (58 mi) long Numedal Line was built to aid the construction of hydroelectric power stations?
Did you know that Patrick Manogue was a miner '49er and sat on a bishop's chair?
Did you know that Pavant Butte in Utah probably formed in an eruptive sequence similar to the 1963 eruption of Surtsey?
Did you know that Phil Packer, who was rendered paraplegic in 2008 by a rocket attack while serving in the Iraq War, has since rowed the English Channel, climbed El Capitan, and completed two London Marathons?
Did you know that Pill Hill, Chicago, is the setting of the play Pill Hill that debuted at the 1990 Yale Repertory Theatre Winterfest?
Did you know that Russian Rear-Admiral Andrei Alexandrovich Popov designed two circular battleships and a yacht for the Romanovs?
Did you know that Thomas Greenhill, surgeon to the 7th Duke of Norfolk, was the last of his mother's 39 children?
Did you know that al-Mazar, a village depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War, was the burial site of many fallen soldiers in a 1260 battle in which Egyptian forces halted the Mongol raids into Palestine?
Did you know that before Michael Fingleton became CEO of the Irish Nationwide Building Society, he was the chairman of Irish aid agency Concern?
Did you know that during the Balkan Wars, Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis performed the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane?
Did you know that in 1939, excavations beneath John Mackintosh Square in Gibraltar for an air-raid shelter revealed no signs of any foundations, suggesting it has always been an open square?
Did you know that in 1974 the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's criminal libel law in a case involving controversial Sharp County newspaper editor Joseph H. Weston?
Did you know that in the mid-1700s, inns made up an estimated one-third of the buildings in Tvrđa, a Habsburg fort that forms part of the city of Osijek in Croatia?
Did you know that tens of thousands of people were executed for witchcraft in Europe and the American colonies?
Did you know that the 1909 Grand Isle hurricane, which killed more than 370 people, is the eleventh deadliest tropical cyclone in US history?
Did you know that the Kuri Chhu river in hilly Bhutan provides opportunities for both kayaking and rafting?
Did you know that the Metropolitan Block is the best-preserved building of the Lima, Ohio, oil boom of the late 19th century?
Did you know that the Turkmen Carpet Museum in Ashgabat has the world's largest hand-woven carpet, recognized by Guinness World Records?
Did you know that the University of Chicago's new athletic home, Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, is a suspension structure supported by masts, cables and counterweights?
Did you know that the dwarf cabbage tree (Cordyline pumilio) was consumed by the Maori as a relish?
Did you know that the long-finned goby is a tropical, demersal and amphidromous fish that is found in the waters of the Indo-West Pacific and Western Pacific regions?
Did you know that the manhwa Recast was published not just in Korean, but also in German, French, and American English?
Did you know that the snail Bathynerita naticoidea lives in oil seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico?
Did you know that "94 Meetings", an episode of NBC's comedy Parks and Recreation, featured the return of several actors who had previously appeared in the series, such as Alison Becker and Susan Yeagley?
Did you know that "Happy Jack" Fellows, a prisoner of war for six-and-a-half years during the Vietnam War, was awarded the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while interned"?
Did you know that 17-year-old Selena Gomez replaced 42-year-old Nicole Kidman as the lead in the film Monte Carlo?
Did you know that Bulgarian music television channel MM Television, which operated between 1997 and 2010, was managed by comedian Kamen Vodenicharov?
Did you know that De Bullemolen, Lekkum, was one of the first windmills in Friesland fitted with sails that had leading edges using the Fok system?
Did you know that Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a women's Twenty20 International, making 112 not out in the opening match of the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20?
Did you know that General Charles Gordon believed that the Coco de Mer nut was the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
Did you know that Herculine Barbin, a collection of memoirs written by a hermaphrodite, inspired Jeffrey Eugenides to write Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Did you know that Jenaro Flores Santos was the first peasant organizer to lead the Bolivian national trade union centre COB?
Did you know that MASA, formed in 1959, was the second-largest manufacturer of buses in Mexico when it was acquired in 1998 by Volvo?
Did you know that Sewall Pettingill studied the last three Heath Hens, and later assisted in filming four Walt Disney nature films, one of which won an Academy Award?
Did you know that Thomas Edison hailed George de Bothezat's rotorcraft, the "Flying Octopus", as "the first successful helicopter"?
Did you know that a specimen of the bioaccumulator fungus Sarcosphaera coronaria (example pictured) was found to contain the highest concentration of arsenic ever reported in a mushroom?
Did you know that astronomer Ben Gascoigne discovered that the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbours, the Magellanic Clouds, are twice as far away as first thought?
Did you know that both the textile mills and residence of Nathan Wild, a prominent local figure in Columbia County, New York, are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that eruptions from Mahogany Mountain, a caldera volcano, produced rock formations in Leslie Gulch over 15 million years ago?
Did you know that in Edgar Degas' painting Young Spartans Exercising, the four women in the foreground share ten legs?
Did you know that the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" took place during a Major League Baseball tie-breaker?
Did you know that the British Courageous class battlecruiser HMS Courageous (pictured after aircraft carrier conversion) was damaged when her forecastle deck buckled during her sea trials while running at full speed in a rough head sea?
Did you know that the Lhuentse Dzong suffered serious damage during a 2009 earthquake that measured 6.1 on the Richter scale?
Did you know that the Neely-Sieber House in Lima, Ohio, changed hands after the violent death of its oil baron owner?
Did you know that the Royal Armouries museum describes the 68-pounder as the finest smoothbore gun ever produced?
Did you know that "Telethon" was the first episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation to be written by star Amy Poehler?
Did you know that Antony Grey, who died at the end of April, became Stonewall Hero of the Year in 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in which he was instrumental?
Did you know that Helge Hansen, a WW2 sabotage leader in the Stavanger district in 1944, also took part in the anti-demolition operation Sunshine in 1945?
Did you know that JCall, a new Middle East advocacy group along the lines of J Street, is founded to lobby the European parliament for a resolution to the Middle East conflict?
Did you know that Lectionary 232, a manuscript of the New Testament, was variously dated in the past?
Did you know that Thomas John McDonnell consecrated Marist College's altar with the relics of two martyrs?
Did you know that after the death of Sangamitta, the daughter of Emperor Ashoka, observances were held in her honor throughout Sri Lanka for one week?
Did you know that almost 2,500 gullgubber have been found at Sorte Muld, on the island of Bornholm in Denmark?
Did you know that before becoming senior editor at Reason magazine, Michael C. Moynihan was a fellow at the free-market think tank Timbro?
Did you know that in 2009 Linda King sold 60 letters from her former lover, author Charles Bukowski, for $69,000?
Did you know that police sergeant Ole Barman served two years as theatre director at Det Norske Teatret?
Did you know that seventeen-year-old rock guitarist Desireé Bassett has been called "the future of rock and roll"?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Azalia Snail was dubbed the "Queen of lo-fi"?
Did you know that the China Aviation Museum is located in an underground bunker and includes a replica of the Wright Flyer?
Did you know that the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell, Oregon, was once owned by a timber products company and later by Arnold Palmer?
Did you know that the GCHQ case was the first case to hold that exercises of the Royal Prerogative were subject to judicial review?
Did you know that the Tupolev ANT-21 was rejected by the Soviet Air Force because it was not armed with recoilless rifles?
Did you know that the World Cup Sculpture, celebrating England's 1966 FIFA World Cup Final victory, was criticised for not looking like the players involved?
Did you know that the aerodynamic work of Hans Multhopp on lifting bodies assisted in the design of the Space Shuttle?
Did you know that the crew of Russian cruiser Gromoboi suffered heavily during the Battle off Ulsan because their captain ordered his gunners to remain at their guns even when they were out of range?
Did you know that the final episodes of New York: A Documentary Film aired just weeks after the September 11th attacks, prompting director Ric Burns to produce an additional three-hour episode focusing on the World Trade Center?
Did you know that the former Ouvrage Vélosnes of the Maginot Line, a French fortification constructed in the 1930s, is now a protected habitat for bats?
Did you know that when the Dungtse Lhakhang in Paro, Bhutan, was restored in 1841, the donors were thanked by etching their names on tree trunks which form the columns of the ground floor?
Did you know that American actor John C. Becher appeared in both the original 1966 production and the 1983 revival of Mame?
Did you know that Epenow, the Wampanoag slave who tricked his English captors into returning him home, is thought to be the basis of the "strange indian" mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry VIII?
Did you know that HMS Centurion pretended to be HMS Anson during Operation Vigorous?
Did you know that Hyron Spinrad discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars, and was the first astronomer to identify a galaxy with a redshift greater than one?
Did you know that Indian anthropologist Nirmal Kumar Bose, also a scholar on Mahatma Gandhi, did not agree with Gandhi's practice of active sexual celibacy?
Did you know that James Dampier Palmer accepted the Stewardship of the three Chiltern Hundreds?
Did you know that Lady Gaga's song "Dance in the Dark" is about a girl who likes to have sex with the lights off because she is embarrassed about her body?
Did you know that Nationaltheatret Station, which is located within the Oslo Tunnel and serves all lines of the Oslo Commuter Rail, is Norway's only underground mainline railway station?
Did you know that Tonda Wildlife Management Area is the largest protected area in Papua New Guinea?
Did you know that Vesla Vetlesen became a government minister for Norway's Labour Party in 1986, thirty years after renouncing communism and joining the party together with her husband Leif Vetlesen?
Did you know that after Father Knows Best ended, actor Billy Gray devoted his later interest to riding and collecting motorcycles?
Did you know that after the first rally of the People's Committee to Protect Ukraine, participants complained of being hassled by the police in an attempt to limit the number of partakers in the rally?
Did you know that between 1924 and 1975, Oslo Sporveier took over all operators of the Oslo Tramway (SL95 tram pictured)?
Did you know that buses used on Burnley & Pendle bus route X43 are named after the Pendle witches?
Did you know that during the 1988–89 NBA season, the Washington Bullets had both a center named Charles Jones and a forward named Charles Jones?
Did you know that friction stir processing can make aluminum alloys into superplastics?
Did you know that moments after Faisal Shahzad's failed 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt, a surveillance video caught images of him walking through Shubert Alley?
Did you know that the 17 buildings with Category A listed status in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, include a glass cone?
Did you know that the Habeas Corpus Parliament succeeded the Cavalier Parliament?
Did you know that the Independent Film Channel's list of the 25 scariest moments in non-horror movies includes Large Marge, a role played by Alice Nunn in Tim Burton's film Pee-wee's Big Adventure?
Did you know that the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center (entrance pictured) is located in the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated?
Did you know that the Tarporley Hunt Club, founded in 1762, is the oldest surviving hunt club in England?