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Did you know that the Chigi vase is the earliest representation of the ancient Greek hoplite phalanx?
Did you know that the Ellsworth Street Bridge in Albany, Oregon, was designed by Conde McCullough who was both a bridge engineer and an attorney?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Chen Xilie first endeared himself to Emperor Xuanzong by explaining the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching to Emperor Xuanzong?
Did you know that the titular planet in the Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Ood" is in the same planetary system as the Sense-Sphere, the location for the 1964 serial The Sensorites?
Did you know that Boston Red Sox pitcher Mike Nagy was selected as American League rookie pitcher of the year in 1969, but never pitched another full season due to injury?
Did you know that David Goodstein's book Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil rejected the notion that after peak oil alternative energy will be able to keep industry supplied?
Did you know that Kaash was the last Hindi film in which Kishore Kumar did playback singing?
Did you know that Lower Mill, Woodchurch, a smock mill in Kent, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument?
Did you know that Lt. John Weston Brooke, a veteran of the Second Boer War and an explorer with the East African Syndicate, was the first Englishman to gain an audience with the Dalai Lama, in 1906?
Did you know that Mahendralal Sarkar, an allopath-turned-homeopathic physician, was the founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, the first national science association of India?
Did you know that Monk Estill, who was captured by the Wyandot prior to the Battle of Little Mountain and escaped during the battle, was the first slave to be freed in the state of Kentucky?
Did you know that Paul Auster's Leviathan is named after the biblical whale used by Thomas Hobbes as a metaphor for the State in his own book of that title?
Did you know that San Sebastian Church, the only all-steel church in Asia, is threatened by rust caused by the salty sea breeze from nearby Manila Bay?
Did you know that Theodor von Holst was the first illustrator of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (illustration pictured)?
Did you know that Ukrainian Nazis have been blamed for the 1944 Huta Pieniacka massacre of Polish civilians?
Did you know that after losing to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur Championship, amateur golfer Trip Kuehne pursued a career in finance in lieu of professional golf?
Did you know that at one point during his chancellorship, Yang Guozhong simultaneously served in over 40 posts?
Did you know that from 1787 to 1793, American music printer John Aitken was the only publisher of sheet music in the United States?
Did you know that guests on the American PBS television series Soul! (1967–1971) included Stevie Wonder, African musician Hugh Masekela, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan?
Did you know that mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton helped cricketers Gary Kirsten and Jacques Kallis overcome personal crises and helped Virender Sehwag stay focused as he scored 319 in the 2008 Chennai Test?
Did you know that photographer Burt Glinn was at a New Year's Party when Fidel Castro took over Cuba, and he arrived at the scene before dawn?
Did you know that the 2008 film Forever the Moment is based on the real life story of South Korea's women's handball team which won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and is also the first film to revolve around the sport of handball?
Did you know that the Long View Center in Raleigh, North Carolina is used as a church, concert venue, office building, and art gallery?
Did you know that the National Library of Wales was established in Aberystwyth instead of the capital, Cardiff, partly because its founder regarded Cardiff as having "a non-Welsh population"?
Did you know that the Our Lady of Atonement Cathedral, consecrated in 1936, is the largest Catholic church building in Baguio City?
Did you know that the San Ardo Oil Field is the 13th-largest oil field in California, and of the top twenty California oil fields in size, it is the most recent to be discovered?
Did you know that the court appointment of valet de chambre, nominally as a personal servant, was given to a wide range of artists, musicians, poets and others, including the first air crash fatality?
Did you know that the first U.S. patent, numbered X000001, was issued to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1790 for "the making of pot ash and pearl ash"?
Did you know that the first ever tea in Russia was a gift from Mongolian ruler Altyn Khan to Tsar Michael I?
Did you know that the healthcare system in France was ranked number one in the world by the World Health Organization in 1997 and 2000?
Did you know that the inscription eulogising Kappe Arabhatta, a 7th century Chalukya warrior, records the earliest example of Kannada poetry metre Tripadi?
Did you know that the travel time of the sternwheeler Lytton on the stretch of the Columbia River known as Little Dalles was six hours upriver, but less than seven minutes downriver?
Did you know that Allumette Island, the largest island in the Ottawa River, was once called One-Eyed Island because Algonquin chief Tessouat had only one eye?
Did you know that Cardinal Mahony petitioned Rome to name Padre Serra Church after Junipero Serra despite controversy over his treatment of California Indians?
Did you know that Hong Kong director Ann Hui's 1982 award-winning film Boat People depicting life in communist Vietnam was banned in Taiwan because it was filmed in communist China?
Did you know that Igor Stravinsky agreed to compose the musical score for the ballet Circus Polka only under the condition that the elephants performing it be very young?
Did you know that Josef Smrkovský boasted he had kept American units away from Prague in 1945, allowing the liberation of the city by the Red Army, and then in 1968 he and Dubček became the most popular politicians of the Prague Spring?
Did you know that Kettle Falls, known to native peoples as Shonitkwu ("roaring or noisy waters"), lies silenced beneath the waters of Lake Roosevelt trapped behind the Grand Coulee Dam?
Did you know that Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens was saved from being dragged over a cliff by a horse by her future husband, the Russian-born concert pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch?
Did you know that Martial van Schelle fought as an American soldier in World War I, but was executed as a Belgian citizen during World War II?
Did you know that McDonald's signs once  had only one golden arch?
Did you know that Papa II, an Indian detention centre once infamous for reports of torture, is now the official residence of senior state politician Mehbooba Mufti?
Did you know that Sheesh Mahal ("Palace of Mirrors" in English) in Lahore Fort was originally decorated with frescoes that were later replaced with pietra dura and convex glass and mirror mosaic?
Did you know that Swiss dissident Ami Perrin was the leader of the Libertine faction which rebelled against John Calvin's theocratic rule of Geneva in 1551?
Did you know that William Glanville calculated the size of explosives required for Operation Chastise and was portrayed by Colin Tapley in the 1955 film The Dam Busters?
Did you know that it was at the urging of Pei Mian and Du Hongjian that Emperor Suzong of Tang China claimed the throne, despite the fact that his father Emperor Xuanzong was still alive?
Did you know that mutations in the CNDP1 gene may cause carnosinemia, a rare metabolic disorder with diverse neurological problems, such as hypotonia, tremors and seizures, neuronal degeneration and mental retardation?
Did you know that the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky, who won more Southern Crosses of Honor than those from any other Kentucky county?
Did you know that the Greek musical group C:Real sang only in English before the arrival of lead vocalist Irini Douka in 2002, which led them to focus on Greek language songs?
Did you know that the John Coltrane Home is where the saxophonist composed many of his later works including the masterwork, A Love Supreme?
Did you know that the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House was renovated in different styles to depict the evolution of the oldest house in Newport, Rhode Island?
Did you know that the distinctive pagodas created for Wadham's Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee are among the earliest examples of architecture used to forge a brand identity?
Did you know that the first printing press in Sierra Leone was destroyed by the French before it could be used?
Did you know that when the RAF's High Speed Flight won the Schneider Trophy in perpetuity in 1931, there were no other teams competing against them?
Did you know that Australian cabaret singer, stage actor, dancer and comedienne Toni Lamond was nicknamed "Lolly-Legs Lamond" after being voted as having the second-best pair of legs in television while doing In Melbourne Tonight?
Did you know that Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships?
Did you know that Florentine law required the commissioning of unflattering frescoes, pittura infamante (representation pictured), on the exterior of the Bargello, of those found in contempt of court for financial offenses?
Did you know that John Caldwell  was originally given the name at birth of George Washington Caldwell because he was born on the Fourth of July?
Did you know that Julian Sturgis, the novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist, was the first American to play for the winning team in an English FA Cup Final in 1873?
Did you know that Kikuchi lines, formed in diffraction patterns by diffusely scattered electrons, are useful tools in electron microscopy of crystalline and nanocrystalline materials?
Did you know that Mary K. Shell, the first woman mayor of Bakersfield, California, chided NBC's Johnny Carson for his jokes about "beautiful downtown Bakersfield" and invited Carson to visit the city to see its improvements?
Did you know that Sid Gillman is the only head coach in the San Diego Chargers to make it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Tuoba Gui, the prince of Northern Wei, crushed Later Yan forces at the Battle of Canhe Slope, leading to Later Yan's decline and Northern Wei's rise?
Did you know that Ukrainian poet Yevhen Hrebinka helped purchase fellow poet Taras Shevchenko's freedom from serfdom in 1838?
Did you know that a recent report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has shown an increase in felony waivers by U.S. military recruiters?
Did you know that anti-German and anti-Chinese sentiments have motivated two riots in the history of Calgary?
Did you know that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama refused to hand out street money, a political tactic common in Philadelphia, during the 2008 Pennsylvania primary?
Did you know that construction of the stupa of Giac Lam Pagoda was halted for 18 years after the Fall of Saigon?
Did you know that environmental stress cracking accounts for around 15–30% of all plastic-component failures in service?
Did you know that gallery owner Victoria Miro described Jake Chapman—now famous for art which includes explicit and distorted mannequins—as an "adorable" baby sitter?
Did you know that hexachlorobutadiene, a colorless solvent commonly used for chlorine-containing compounds, is a potent herbicide, but this use has been discouraged because it is too toxic?
Did you know that the 1938 western Rawhide was baseball great Lou Gehrig's only feature film appearance?
Did you know that the European Union is an example of a security community, in which war has become unthinkable?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Lazaretto is the oldest surviving quarantine hospital in the United States?
Did you know that the World Bank says that investment commitments in Chile's water and sanitation sector reached US$ 5.7 billion in 1993–2005?
Did you know that the bronze of Mary atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the Port of Los Angeles harbor?
Did you know that the cost of building the base of the Great Mill, Sheerness was so great that the mill was left unfinished for over two years before being completed?
Did you know that unlike other sampradayas in Hinduism, which insist that the clergy lead an ascetic's life, the clergy in most Rudra sampradaya sects are expected to marry and live a worldly life with their family?
Did you know that young shoots of the ornamental Australian tree Alphitonia excelsa give off an odour of sarsaparilla when broken?
Did you know that Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Nancy Oliver considered leaving show business shortly before being offered her first full-time position writing for Six Feet Under?
Did you know that Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny Bautista is the second cousin of New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martínez?
Did you know that Hollywood's Blessed Sacrament Church was the site of Bing Crosby's wedding and funerals for John Ford and Mack Sennett?
Did you know that Johann Myburgh, a South African cricketer playing in New Zealand, broke Graeme Pollock's mark for the fastest first-class double century?
Did you know that Norwegian politician Helge Seip was succeeded by Helge Rognlien both as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development and later as leader of the Liberal Party?
Did you know that Ringle Crouch Green, Sandhurst was the only five-sailed corn mill in Kent?
Did you know that Ronald J. Rábago became the first Hispanic American to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Coast Guard?
Did you know that Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park's Hillsman House still has bloodstains on its floor dating to its use as a hospital after the Battle of Sayler's Creek in April 1865?
Did you know that St. James' Episcopal Church held the first U2charist in Wisconsin?
Did you know that Wilshire Boulevard Temple, with its landmark Byzantine dome, is the oldest Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles?
Did you know that after attempting to bribe a teammate to lose a game during the 1876 season, George Bechtel of the Louisville Grays became one of the first players banned for life from Major League Baseball?
Did you know that after competing for many years on a world-class level in the 400 metres hurdles, German athlete Heike Meißner tried competing in the 800 metres?
Did you know that children are more vulnerable to pulmonary contusion because their chest walls are more flexible?
Did you know that priest Benjamin Pâquet was such a controversial figure in 19th-century Quebec that his possible nomination to bishopry was rejected for three different dioceses?
Did you know that the Camp Dump Strike in Omaha was Nebraska's first organized labor strike and the first to receive national attention?
Did you know that the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, for achievements in medical research and services to combat diseases in Africa, is named after a Japanese scientist whose portrait can be found on recent ¥1000 banknotes?
Did you know that the National Courtesy Campaign was the first government campaign in Singapore to adopt a mascot?
Did you know that the Rhode Island state legislature met regularly at the Old Colony House in Newport until 1900?
Did you know that the Royal Air Force designed the rotabuggy as a combination autogyro/jeep?
Did you know that the Sembawang, discovered in 1909, is the only natural hot spring on the main island of Singapore?
Did you know that the first wife of Arizona Territorial Governor A.P.K. Safford printed notices accusing him of having  venereal disease?
Did you know that the former Indian Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani famously promoted a Indo-Pakistani confederation, asserting that the partition was mutually harmful?
Did you know that the government of Malaysia has been alleged to be behind Project IC, which involves the systematic granting of citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants to alter the demographic and voting pattern in their favour?
Did you know that the seeds of Trillium grandiflorum are dispersed by ants, who interpret the seeds as corpses?
Did you know that veterinarian Martha Kostuch linked reproductive and immunological problems among cattle to sulphur dioxide emitted in the oil and gas industry in Alberta?
Did you know that American theater critic and historian T. Allston Brown earned the title "Colonel" by riding on the back of a tightrope walker in a circus performance?
Did you know that British author Bernard Newman, an authority on spies, gave more than 2,000 lectures throughout Europe during the Interbellum?
Did you know that George W. Woodbey was the sole African American delegate to the Socialist Party of America conventions in 1904 and 1908?
Did you know that Kenyan public health advocate Miriam Were and British biomedical researcher Brian Greenwood are the inaugural laureates of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize?
Did you know that Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Johnston was made an Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Swindon in 2004?
Did you know that Palestinian nationalist poet Ibrahim Touqan wrote the poem Mawtini, which has been the national anthem of Iraq since 2003?
Did you know that Runcorn Town Hall was originally built as Halton Grange, a mansion for Thomas Johnson, a local soap and alkali manufacturer?
Did you know that a building fire destroyed the first designs for the South Australian National War Memorial?
Did you know that a scandal arose when African-American actor Lorenzo Tucker, known as the "Black Valentino", playing a pimp in a play, kissed Mae West, playing a prostitute?
Did you know that after his climbing partner was killed in a fall, Jean-Christophe Lafaille survived a descent of the South Face of Annapurna alone and with a broken arm?
Did you know that after unsuccessfully standing for the National Socialist German Workers Party in the 1925 German presidential election, Erich Ludendorff left the party to found the Tannenbergbund?
Did you know that during hot greenhouse periods in Earth's history, the tropics appeared to be cooler than they are today?
Did you know that instead of voting to determine the site of a proposed hydroelectricity dam, tens of thousands of Tasmanians protested by writing "No Dams" on their ballot papers in the 1981 power referendum?
Did you know that the Capitol Center has been the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon, since its completion in 1926?
Did you know that the February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, in which nearly 4,000 people were killed and 15,000 homes destroyed, was also felt at Tashkent and Dushanbe?
Did you know that the Shell Quiz is the longest-running television programme in Thailand, being broadcast since 1965?
Did you know that the Thich Ca Phat Dai Buddhist temple in Vung Tau has a prominent lookout over the city?
Did you know that the endowment by Edmund Meyrick, a Welsh cleric and philanthropist who died in 1713, is still awarding scholarships to students at Jesus College, Oxford in England after nearly three centuries?
Did you know that Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England?
Did you know that Durum wheat was used to make al-fidawsh, a dry pasta popular in Muslim Spain?
Did you know that Heinrich Böll's humorous short story Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral was written for a May Day broadcast on the Norddeutscher Rundfunk?
Did you know that Jane Addams, Mother Jones and Abe Fortas have all made notable contributions to the history of children's rights in the United States?
Did you know that Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party?
Did you know that Ratnakaravarni, the noted 16th-century Kannada poet of the Vijayanagara times, was an expert on erotic writings?
Did you know that Richard Honaker, Bush nominee for U.S. District Judge in Wyoming, washed dishes in a work-study program while studying at Harvard University with future comedian Al Franken?
Did you know that Steven Spielberg filmed much of Amistad in Newport's downtown historic district because it has enough colonial buildings to resemble 1840s New Haven?
Did you know that Wade Phillips holds the best coaching record for the Atlanta Falcons, winning two out of the three games he coached?
Did you know that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be  the missing head of a Colymbosaurus?
Did you know that anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction?
Did you know that by using the Bevatron and nuclear emulsion technique, Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the antiproton?
Did you know that in Grosvenor Park, in the city of Chester, is an archway which had been in the city's St Michael's Church?
Did you know that on every May 1, the hamlet of Ickwell celebrates May Day with dancing around a Maypole and with the crowning of a May Queen?
Did you know that the Abyssinian slave Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut was a close adviser and speculated to be the lover of Razia Sultana, the first and only female Sultan of Delhi?
Did you know that the Piliyandala bombing of April 25, 2008 was the deadliest attack on a commuter bus in Sri Lanka since the January 16 Buttala attack?
Did you know that the Purna-Kalasha, worshipped by Hindus as the Divine Mother, symbolizes Mother Earth with her water, minerals and vegetation?
Did you know that the Transition Towns movement inspired Totnes, England to introduce their own town-wide currency redeemable only in local shops?
Did you know that the Tregenna Castle Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall was the Great Western Railway's first holiday destination hotel?
Did you know that the bombardment of Brussels by French troops (ruins pictured) in 1695 was later described by Napoleon Bonaparte as being "as barbarous as it was useless"?
Did you know that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green, Kentucky's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station?
Did you know that the people of the planet Krikkit are the main antagonists in the Douglas Adams novel, Life, the Universe and Everything?
Did you know that within the Special Economic Zone SEEPZ, Mumbai lies an abandoned Portuguese church built in 1579?
Did you know that Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian?
Did you know that Clarence Hailey Long, a ranch foreman in the Texas Panhandle, was the inspiration for the original Marlboro Man advertising campaign  by Philip Morris?
Did you know that Maher Arar was deported to Syria and tortured after being wrongly identified as an "Islamic Extremist" by Project O Canada?
Did you know that Pogórzanie are an ethnic group of Poles from the Subcarpathian Voivodeship?
Did you know that a scrapped demolition proposal for the Baytown Tunnel in Baytown, Texas would have utilized former pieces of its structure in the creation of an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you know that after 12 years of legal tussling over delays and cost overruns on the Taipei Metro Muzha Line, the Taipei City Government was ordered to compensate its contractor Matra for US$50 million?
Did you know that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
Did you know that prison contemplative programs like meditation were used in 19th century Pennsylvania as an early prison reform?
Did you know that the Berthouville Treasure of first- and second-century Roman silver was uncovered accidentally by a farmer's plough in 1830?
Did you know that the Doctor Who episode "The Sontaran Stratagem" is the first appearance of the eponymous aliens since the 1985 serial The Two Doctors?
Did you know that the Lynchburg Ferry in Lynchburg, Texas is the oldest operating ferry service in Texas?
Did you know that the art deco Burbank City Hall, with murals by Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of marble in its main lobby?