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Did you know that Flying University was the secret educational conspiratorial enterprise that existed in Warsaw, Poland, in various forms in the 19th and 20th century to provide education outside of the dominating ideology?
Did you know that Monica Coghlan, at the center of the scandal surrounding Lord Jeffrey Archer, was killed in an unrelated car crash a month before the start of the trial that would convict him of perjury and vindicate her?
Did you know that a group of rock stars formed a supergroup in 1989 called Rock Aid Armenia and re-recorded Deep Purple's hit song Smoke on the Water to benefit the victims of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake?
Did you know that murdered British schoolgirl Amanda "Milly" Dowler has a charity, an award-winning garden and a sweetpea named after her?
Did you know that the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris was the home of King James II for 13 years after his exile from Great Britain following the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
Did you know that the English footballer David Layne scored 58 goals in 81 games for Sheffield Wednesday F.C. before he was jailed for his involvement in the British betting scandal of 1964?
Did you know that the Fair Play Men, a group of squatters in colonial Pennsylvania, made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 on the banks of Pine Creek?
Did you know that the Potemkin Stairs located in Odessa, Ukraine create an optical illusion, where either the landings or the stairs are invisible depending on an observer's vantage point?
Did you know that the native fauna of New Guinea does not include any large mammal predators?
Did you know that Charles Angibaud was the royal apothecary to Louis XIV of France, but left France in 1681 to avoid persecution as a Protestant Huguenot and moved to London, where he was later Master of the Society of Apothecaries?
Did you know that Frederick Lorz was greeted as the winner of the 1904 Summer Olympics marathon but later admitted to having travelled by car for ten miles of the race?
Did you know that Muslim scholar Maulvi Abdul Haq is decorated as the Father of Urdu in Pakistan?
Did you know that Samuel M. Rubin popularized the practice of selling popcorn in movie theaters, earning him the nickname "Sam the Popcorn Man"?
Did you know that civilians took refuge in St. La Salle Hall in Manila during World War II, believing that its walls would protect them from anything but a direct hit?
Did you know that the Canadian Arctic islands did not become part of Canada until 1880?
Did you know that the Château de Madrid, built near the Bois de Boulogne in Paris in the mid-1500s, was known as the "Château de Faïence" due to its richly ornamented façades, covered in majolica and high relief, but was almost completely destroyed in the 1790s?
Did you know that the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme included the world's then-longest fresh-water pipeline when it opened in Western Australia in 1903?
Did you know that the Mahé River in India was nicknamed the "English Channel" because it separated British-ruled Thalassery from French-ruled Mahé?
Did you know that the opening theory of backgammon underwent profound changes after self-teaching robots were analyzed playing the game?
Did you know that the song "Dschinghis Khan" is a disco-inspired tribute to the Mongol leader Genghis Khan?
Did you know that Applecrest Farm Orchards is the oldest continuously operating apple orchard in the United States of America?
Did you know that Brazilian-born Alberto Cavalcanti directed the 1942 British propaganda war film Went the Day Well?
Did you know that Colonel William Nolde was the last official American casualty of the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Maulana Mehmud Hasan organised an armed rebellion against the British Raj with Turkish support but was arrested just before his return to India?
Did you know that The Daily Talk, the most widely read news medium in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, is published daily on a blackboard in the center of town?
Did you know that most buildings of the True Cross Monastery on Kiy Island in the White Sea were designed by Patriarch Nikon?
Did you know that the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute was the only place in the besieged city that evaluated the Ph.D.  and Doctor of Science dissertations?
Did you know that the Romans completely forgot what the ancient Lapis Niger shrine was dedicated to, and had at least three different stories telling why it was built?
Did you know that the expressions "take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves" and "ways and means" are both attributed to William Lowndes?
Did you know that the invention of the electronic digital computer was put into the public domain in 1973 by the decision of one of the longest federal court cases in the history of the United States?
Did you know that the planned M4 Toll motorway will be the second toll section of the United Kingdom's M4 motorway, despite being under 10 miles from the first?
Did you know that the sting of the rainforest shrub Dendrocnide moroides can cause severe and prolonged pain and has been reported to kill dogs, horses and humans?
Did you know that Archduchess Isabella Maria of Bourbon-Parma was in love with her sister-in-law, Archduchess Maria Christina?
Did you know that during the time of Scandinavism, Hans Christian Andersen wrote a poem called Jeg er en Skandinav which together with the later added melody could have become the National Anthem of a unified Scandinavian nation?
Did you know that the Autobianchi Stellina was the first Italian car with a fiberglass body?
Did you know that the Château de Bellevue, a small château built near Paris in 1750 as an intimate meeting place for Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, was named for its spectacular views over the Seine?
Did you know that the song "Wir Geben 'Ne Party" is the first Eurovision entry to mention hip-hop music, despite not being in that style?
Did you know that there are many examples of unfinished work in the arts, some of which remain incomplete but others have been finished by other people?
Did you know that , during the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill was so impressed with the brandy produced by the Yerevan Brandy Company that he asked Joseph Stalin to send him several cases annually?
Did you know that Albert Bigelow Paine was the literary executor for Mark Twain, a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee, and a recipient of the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur for his books about Joan of Arc?
Did you know that Alberta Vaughn  was an American film actress who starred in 112 motion pictures before her death in 1992?
Did you know that Angelica Agurbash, who sang the Belarussian entry at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, went through two major strip acts during her three-minute performance?
Did you know that Bénilde Romançon's superiors at the Christian Brothers' novitiate were reluctant to take him in because he was short of stature?
Did you know that Shangwen Fang received a fine for cruelty to animals after he was tracked down as the source of graphic images that had been posted on the Internet which showed cats being abused?
Did you know that St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kiev may have been the first Russian and Ukrainian church to have a golden dome?
Did you know that between 1977 and 1998, Madame Leprieur from Agon-Coutainville in France sent 80,000 questions to the daily RTL radio show Les Grosses Têtes, making herself famous nationwide?
Did you know that the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, the first world skiing championships of the International Ski Federation held outside Europe, took place in Lake Placid in the United States ?
Did you know that the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C. received ten tons of broccoli from Barbara Bush after it was banned from the White House and Air Force One by George H. W. Bush?
Did you know that the Régence style, precursor of the Rococo, had its origins in the interiors designed by Jean Bérain the Elder for Louis, Grand Dauphin at the Château de Meudon?
Did you know that the band Crow originally recorded "Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me)", which was famously covered by Black Sabbath?
Did you know that the largest body parts do not all belong to the largest animal, and that there are numerous Guinness World Records for the largest human body parts?
Did you know that the song "Guildo Hat Euch Lieb!" was performed by a band whose name literally translates as "Guildo Horn and the Orthopedic Stockings"?
Did you know that when the Château de Choisy was built for the Grande Mademoiselle, Louis XIV's first cousin, the garden designer André Le Nôtre's first advice was to "lay low all the woods that are there"?
Did you know that Max McGee is a former American Football wide receiver who assisted the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championship wins and scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl history?
Did you know that Mitsubishi Motors manufactures a keicar simply named "i"?
Did you know that a noose hanging beside a hole at the Oak Tree Golf Club in Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated golfer, but was removed because of perceived racist undertones?
Did you know that actress Shabana Azmi portrayed the wife of a deaf-mute alcoholic potter in her debut film Ankur?
Did you know that much of what is known about the life of blues legend Blind Willie McTell comes from interviews with his wife, Kate McTell, after his death?
Did you know that of the three breeding roosts in England for the rare Barbastelle bat, the only indoor roost is found in Norfolk's historic Paston Great Barn?
Did you know that stadiums such as Sydney's Telstra Stadium and Paris' Stade de France use movable seating to change the layout of the playing area to allow for a wider variety of sports?
Did you know that the Autobianchi Primula was Fiat's first automobile with the front-wheel drive, transverse engine setup and rack and pinion steering?
Did you know that the Catalan architect Enric Miralles died before seeing the completion of his largest building: the Scottish Parliament Building?
Did you know that the Kashi Vidyapeeth university in Varanasi was founded on Mahatma Gandhi's principle of Indian self-reliance through the boycott of colonial institutions?
Did you know that the pacú fish is marketed as a "vegetarian piranha" in pet stores, and was described by Theodore Roosevelt as "delicious eating"?
Did you know that Brian Killick's novel The Heralds follows the exploits of fictional members of the College of Arms as they vie to be the next Garter Principal King of Arms?
Did you know that Claire's Mouse Lemur is a newly described species of primate that only lives on Nosy Bé, an island near Madagascar?
Did you know that Rembrandt's painting Danaë was severely damaged when a visitor threw sulfuric acid onto it on June 15, 1985?
Did you know that St. Louis, Missouri native Jeremiah James Harty became Archbishop of Manila and successfully lobbied for the establishment of the first Christian Brother school in the Philippines?
Did you know that a Wikipedia article was a source for a U.S. House of Representatives bill that was signed into law as the Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act?
Did you know that the Canadian Armed Forces mobilized more than 2,200 soldiers within days to help fight over 800 separate forest fires during Operation PEREGRINE in the summer of 2003?
Did you know that the Cheraman Juma Masjid, the oldest mosque in India, was originally constructed in traditional Hindu architectural style?
Did you know that the Cockpit Theatre was the first theatre in London's Drury Lane?
Did you know that the Indonesian Muslim organization Muhammadiyah has over 29 million members and manages several universities?
Did you know that the USA Hawks are one of two national representative rugby union teams from the United States, and lost 0-98 in their inaugural North America 4 game against Canada West?
Did you know that the song Autostop is the only Eurovision Song Contest entry to have been based on the subject of hitchhiking?
Did you know that Byron K. Lichtenberg and John Glenn were respectively the first and the last Americans to fly as Payload Specialists on board the Space Shuttle?
Did you know that DNA clamp proteins keep the DNA polymerase replicating enzyme bound to the template DNA strand, increasing the rate of DNA synthesis up to 1,000-fold?
Did you know that a substantially complete Greek bronze Apoxyomenos, or representation of an athlete, was recovered off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999?
Did you know that during the Indian Wars, troops stationed at Fort Harker, Kansas in 1867 performed more escorts of wagon trains in one year than troops stationed at any other frontier fort in the post-American Civil War era?
Did you know that in June 1995, the Fiji Meteorological Service became responsible for the prediction of tropical cyclones in the southwest Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that in Kuwait, the freedom of the press is restricted mostly by self-censorship rather than active government action?
Did you know that the Italian automaker Autobianchi was founded by the bicycle manufacturer Bianchi, tire giant Pirelli and Fiat?
Did you know that the Judicial and Bar Council of the Philippines recommends appointees to the country's courts, without the "advice and consent" of the Commission on Appointments?
Did you know that the anchorages for the Lane Avenue Bridge in Columbus, Ohio are two of the largest single pieces of steel ever to be galvanized?
Did you know that the controversy over the portrayals of Mormons in popular media includes Arthur Conan Doyle's very first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet?
Did you know that the song "Reise Nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e Seyahat" was the first occasion on which the German Eurovision entry was performed partly in Turkish?
Did you know that Daylight Saving Time was first legislated in North America in June 1917 by the former country of Newfoundland?
Did you know that Dorothea Mackellar wrote her patriotic Australian poem "My Country", which contains the line I love a sunburnt country, while she was homesick when travelling in Europe?
Did you know that the Château de Saint-Cloud near Paris burned to the ground on 13 October 1870 after being hit by French artillery fire during the siege of Paris?
Did you know that the Kamenny Monastery, the oldest in the north of Russia, was destroyed in 1937 in order to help with the construction of a local palace of culture?
Did you know that the film crew of actress Revathi's directorial debut Mitr, My Friend was entirely composed of women?
Did you know that 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold has worked as an agent for actors such as James Gandolfini, Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, and Felicity Huffman?
Did you know that Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem was appointed directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1745 through the influence of Madame de Pompadour, who might have been his natural daughter?
Did you know that George William Smith not only represented New Zealand in both codes of rugby football but was also a successful athlete winning fourteen national titles as a sprinter and hurdler?
Did you know that Jerzy Ziętek, a Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, later became a Polish communist and an important regional politician from Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland?
Did you know that Picasso's painting The Three Dancers depicts a real love triangle that caused one of Picasso's best friends to commit suicide?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Helene of 2000 struck Florida just five days after Hurricane Gordon?
Did you know that the 1964 Saab Catherina prototype had a targa top that would fit into the luggage compartment?
Did you know that the French car Simca Vedette was first marketed as a Ford and later manufactured as a Chrysler in Brazil?
Did you know that the Natural Lands Trust is one of the oldest regional land conservation groups in the United States and that the Trust works in the suburban counties near Philadelphia to the Delaware Bay shore of New Jersey to the Poconos?
Did you know that the Pechenga Monastery, founded in 1533, was for many centuries the northernmost monastery in the world?
Did you know that the Rose-Fruited Banksia is so named because its fruiting bodies resemble roses made of wood?
Did you know that the Triumph 1800 Roadster's body was built from aluminium using press tools from the Mosquito bomber fuselage?
Did you know that the bignose unicornfish can change colours when frightened or asleep to help camouflage itself from predators?
Did you know that the manga Astra was originally conceived as a theatrical musical by American comic book artist Jerry Robinson?
Did you know that the most powerful radio station in Imperial Russia operated from New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg?
Did you know that the popular hymn "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" is taken from a poem about hallucinogenic drugs by John Greenleaf Whittier?
Did you know that the song "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?" consists of tongue twisters in an artificial German dialect and never answers the question in its title?
Did you know that when the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in 1991, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
Did you know that Alexander I of Russia acclaimed Peter Wittgenstein as the "Saviour of Saint Petersburg" for his victory at Klyastitsy?
Did you know that Chicago Bulls founder Dick Klein rode on a flat bed truck with a live bull to promote his new basketball team?
Did you know that Elena Paparizou, a member of the duo Antique which performed the song "(I Would) Die For You" at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest, went on to win the contest in 2005?"
Did you know that Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar composed Mahatma Gandhi's favourite devotional song, "Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram", which was sung daily during the salt march to Dandi?
Did you know that Scotland Yard, one of the world's most iconic police institutions, was built overtop  the site of an unsolved murder?
Did you know that in June 2001, Olga Kern became the first woman in over three decades to win the Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition?
Did you know that just over 50 kilometres above its surface, the atmosphere of Venus  has very similar pressure and temperature as does Earth, making it the most Earth-like area in the solar system?
Did you know that the Nissan President, Nissan's top-of-the-range luxury limousine made for over forty years, remains largely unknown outside of Japan?
Did you know that the macapat forms of Javanese poetry are classified on the basis of the patterns of syllables and the final vowels of each line?
Did you know that the native mammal fauna of Puerto Rico consists exclusively of bats?
Did you know that the self-made dress that Barbara Dex wore while performing "Iemand Als Jij" at the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest led to the creation of an award for the worst-dressed performer in the contest?
Did you know that Chinese premier Zhou Enlai barely evaded an assassination attempt on him in 1955, which killed 16 people?
Did you know that Resica Falls Scout Reservation contains a museum displaying 19th-century tannery village relics and local Native American artifacts going back to 500 BC?
Did you know that Sakis Rouvas, who performed a sexually-suggestive song "Shake It" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, engaged in an equally sexually-suggestive conversation with Paul de Leeuw while hosting the Contest two years later?
Did you know that Simca 1000, a small French-made car, was manufactured for 17 years and that almost 2 million were produced?
Did you know that in Jordan, two journalists who republished three of the twelve Danish Mohammad cartoons were sentenced to two months in jail?
Did you know that the 18th-century Águas Livres Aqueduct was paid for by a special sales tax on beef, olive oil, and wine?
Did you know that the Barranquilla Group is the name of a collection of writers and journalists based in the Colombian city of the same name, and that members of it included Gabriel García Márquez and Álvaro Cepeda Samudio?
Did you know that the Claude Glass was a tinted mirror used by amateur artists in the 18th century in which they turned their back on the subject?
Did you know that the Huanghuagang Uprising was the prelude to the Wuchang Uprising, the uprising that resulted in the transfer of China from a feudalistic country into a republic?
Did you know that the direct-to-video release Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination featured singers like Billy Joel, LL Cool J, and Harry Connick, Jr. performing classic Disney songs?
Did you know that the first fossilised dinosaur eggs found in the world, which are also the oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered, belong to Massospondylus and were found in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa in 1978?
Did you know that the judicial reform of Alexander II involved the introduction of the jury to Imperial Russia?
Did you know that Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny became directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1751 at only 24 years of age as a result of the influence of his older sister, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour, on King Louis XV of France?
Did you know that Canadian pianist Glenn Gould produced three radio documentaries, collectively named the Solitude Trilogy, in which up to three people speak simultaneously in monologue?
Did you know that France's Ford Vedette was the first car to feature MacPherson struts?
Did you know that Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh is the son of former cricketer-turned-Punjabi actor Yograj Singh?
Did you know that Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire,  was once the seat of Victorian Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and thus is the ultimate origin for the naming of Melbourne, Australia?
Did you know that Pakistani general Zahirul Islam Abbasi plotted a coup d'etat against then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995?
Did you know that a gymslip is a sleeveless tunic commonly associated with British schoolgirls and sportswomen of the early 20th century?
Did you know that a lost Roman villa was discovered in 1992 when a bulldozer remodeled the sand on a beach at the Rio Alto tourist area in Portugal?
Did you know that cursed soldiers is the name for Polish resistance members who fought against the Soviet Union and Polish communists for almost two decades in the aftermath of the World War II?
Did you know that director Fei Mu's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005?
Did you know that in 1661, Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London became the first public theatre in England to feature moveable scenery on sliding wings?
Did you know that in the late 18th century, Russian ambassadors to Poland had power that rivalled and even exceeded that of the Polish king or parliament?
Did you know that the Nepalese communist leader Ruplal Bishvakarma, who introduced the current Maoist leader Prachandra to militant politics in the 1970s, opposed Prachandra's plans for an armed uprising in 1994?
Did you know that the dried remains of cattle slaughtered under anti-BSE measures in the UK are burned for electricity?
Did you know that the gasoline pill is one of several fictitious or fraudulent inventions that claim to turn water into gasoline?
Did you know that the image of Benjamin Franklin familiar on the U.S. hundred dollar bill was painted by the French painter Joseph Duplessis?
Did you know that the six Imperial Towers were the first Canadian lighthouses to be fitted with Fresnel lenses?
Did you know that Iceland's entry in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, "Minn Hinsti Dans", was performed by a former drag queen?
Did you know that Katie Blair became the first teenager from Montana to place in the Miss Teen USA pageant's 24-year history, when she won the Miss Teen USA 2006 crown?
Did you know that prisoners in a Soviet Gulag seized control of their camp for 40 days, establishing their own government, militia, and propaganda department?