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Did you know that James H. Howard was the only fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor—the U.S. military's highest decoration—in the European Theater of Operations during World War II?
Did you know that The Reenactment, a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, was banned by the communist regime because it showed the authorities engaged in tormenting young delinquents?
Did you know that the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, one of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by American Charles Yerkes?
Did you know that the Clarence Islands were discovered and charted as a group of three Arctic islands by James Clark Ross, then re-charted with fictional additions totaling nine islands by his uncle, John Ross?
Did you know that the Missoula floods deposited a 40-ton rock atop a 250-foot tall hill at what is now the Erratic Rock State Natural Site in Oregon?
Did you know that the One-armed bandit murder, the first gangland killing in North-East England, inspired the novel on which the film Get Carter was based?
Did you know that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural community fully protected by government ownership in the United States?
Did you know that the Verdeja was an indigenous Spanish tank program to replace the T-26 and Panzer I?
Did you know that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici villas outside Florence?
Did you know that the first coach of Lithuanian chess International Master Viktorija Čmilytė was her father?
Did you know that the genus Melampitta is a taxonomic mystery, having been considered at one time either belonging to the pitta, babbler, logrunner, bird of paradise, or cinclosomatid families?
Did you know that the lyrics of Naer Mataron, a black metal band from Greece, are  influenced by Greek mythology?
Did you know that the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway?
Did you know that with the Philippine Basketball Association's acceptance of Solar Sports' bid to cover the league, the games will be aired again to the network that originally aired the games in the inaugural 1975 season?
Did you know that Angela James, once called the "Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey," was amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British?
Did you know that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game?
Did you know that Juozas Urbšys was the last Foreign Minister of independent interwar Lithuania?
Did you know that Oregon's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves?
Did you know that Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor contains a 367-acre (149 ha) land gift made in 1950 by Borax Consolidated, which was the first non-domestic donation to the Oregon Parks commission?
Did you know that Soviet test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki set twenty aviation world records?
Did you know that Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in The Family Circus, but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil Keane, regained full copyrights to the comic strip?
Did you know that Vancouver's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning achievement" of the Ukraine-born businessman Peter Wall?
Did you know that after the overthrow in the 9th century of the Sailendra dynasty in Java, its leader Balaputra became maharaja of Srivijaya?
Did you know that although the blackmouth angler is known for its ugly appearance, it is used for making agujjim, a popular Korean dish?
Did you know that at 1,237-metre (4,060 ft) elevation, the highest point on the Norwegian railways is the Finse Tunnel?
Did you know that early residents of Sydney called the Leaden Flycatcher the "Frogbird" on account of its guttural call?
Did you know that in January 2006, British Paralympic sprinter John McFall's racing prosthesis was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?
Did you know that in a 1998 bilateral agreement, China pledged to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bhutan even though they have never established diplomatic relations?
Did you know that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the evenings before May Day, St John's Day (23 June), or Midwinter Day would either die, go mad, or become a poet?
Did you know that some claim World War II German fighter ace Walter Zellot was killed in September 1942 by friendly fire?
Did you know that the Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship finals, losing 0–2 to FC Schalke 04?
Did you know that the United States Class II 1804 Silver Dollar is alleged to have been struck over a Swiss Shooting Thaler?
Did you know that the Welshmen Edward Edwards, Griffith Griffith, Owen Owen, Richard Richards, Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas) were all educated at Jesus College, Oxford?
Did you know that the lobby of the Suffern, New York post office, features a relief depicting a semi-naked woman shooting a flaming arrow?
Did you know that the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship LV58 on December 10 1905 was the first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio?
Did you know that the veldamai were released from their duty to pay taxes to the state by the privileges of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania?
Did you know that , during the 1989 Revolution, Romanian actor Victor Rebengiuc appeared on television with a toilet paper roll, as a symbol of "wiping out" the communist regime's traces?
Did you know that Australian composer and ABC broadcaster William G. James dedicated his Six Australian Bush Songs to Dame Nellie Melba?
Did you know that China sought to strengthen Sino-Nepalese relations by supplying arms to the Nepalese monarchy against the country's Maoist insurgents?
Did you know that Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant?
Did you know that Hardy Lake is Indiana's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area?
Did you know that Hugh de Largie, who was banned from working as a miner in Newcastle for his union activities, later became an inaugural member of the Australian Senate?
Did you know that India's "Look East" policy aims to establish extensive relations with Asian countries to project its influence as a counterweight to that of the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that Mary Shelley's verse drama Midas is a commentary on both Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale?
Did you know that Royal Navy seaman Harry Price recounted in a memoir how he once instigated a minor mutiny, only to end it when it reached "ugly proportions"?
Did you know that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man?
Did you know that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand Codroy Estuary, the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland?
Did you know that a calf is said to haunt the Kramgasse, a main street in the Old City of Berne, Switzerland, where it had been flayed alive?
Did you know that before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie selected it for a retreat from paparazzi, the Château Miraval, Correns-Var was already well-known as a Provençal vineyard?
Did you know that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an estimated US$100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and other memorabilia victimized by mail fraud?
Did you know that deforestation in Staffordshire inspired contributions from Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward to a book of poetry about Needwood Forest by Francis Mundy?
Did you know that goalkeeper Bob Roberts was the first West Bromwich Albion player to win an international cap?
Did you know that one novelty of Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of Justice in Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfolded?
Did you know that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino?
Did you know that the Battle of Sena Gallica, fought in 551 AD, was the last major naval battle to take place in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a century?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel 5 has been described by its development team as a "noisy northern province love comedy"?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty eunuch Li Fuguo, whose assassin had cut off his head and one of his arms, was buried with a wooden head and a wooden arm?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty's Empress Zhang, during her husband Emperor Suzong's illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him?
Did you know that the namesake of the Paxton Hotel in Downtown Omaha, William A. Paxton, was also instrumental in founding the Omaha Stockyards, the Omaha Driving Park and the South Omaha Land Company?
Did you know that the role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease was discovered by genetic studies of a family from Contursi Terme in Italy, which had 61 members with Parkinson's?
Did you know that the sociology of the Internet is a newly emerging branch of sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide, online social capital and the public sphere?
Did you know that the war veterans' memorial in Suffern, New York, is built on land where George Washington and Rochambeau camped with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?
Did you know that , due to political pressure for quicker development, Alfred Pippard was unable to finish his report on the structural analysis of the R101 airship before it crashed?
Did you know that Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX is a collection of nearly 1,000 ancient historical anecdotes written by Valerius Maximus?
Did you know that Indian coracles, which probably existed since the prehistoric times, have recently been used for giving tourists rides on the Kaveri River?
Did you know that Penedo, a small town in Brazil was colonized by immigrants from Finland?
Did you know that Pinnacle@Duxton (model pictured), at 50 floors, is set to be the tallest public housing in Singapore upon completion?
Did you know that Pulau Merambong is located within the largest seagrass bed in Malaysia?
Did you know that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
Did you know that T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India, when he started a bus service in Madurai, Madras Presidency in 1912?
Did you know that Valium is the prescription most often dispensed by the Vatican Pharmacy?
Did you know that Viking warrior Šimon is honoured in the cave monastery of Kiev?
Did you know that Wrigley Square's Millennium Monument is a near replica of a monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago, Illinois?
Did you know that a revolution in 1688 in the Kingdom of Siam (modernday Thailand) severed virtually all ties with the Western world for nearly two centuries?
Did you know that although Portland, Oregon's 140-mile (225 km) long greenway system, the 40 Mile Loop, is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
Did you know that fighter ace Hartmann Grasser, who is credited for shooting down 103 enemy aircraft during World War II, later worked as an adviser for the Syrian Air Force?
Did you know that four generations of Vikings can be traced on the Gällsta Runestones (example pictured)?
Did you know that having reached peak windspeed on September 6, 1959, Hurricane Patsy is the earliest known Category 5 Pacific hurricane?
Did you know that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere The Siege of Rhodes, thought to have been the first all-sung English opera?
Did you know that in 1795 John Billingsley advocated straightening sections of the rivers Brue, Axe and Parrett, to increase reclamation of the Somerset Levels?
Did you know that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr., whose mother was Sioux and father was African American, became the first African American named to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland?
Did you know that sumo wrestler Keisuke Itai caused controversy by claiming that the outcomes of up to 80 percent of his matches were fixed?
Did you know that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
Did you know that the Eimsbütteler TV, a German football club, failed to advance in the national championship finals in 1934 and 1935 despite beating the later champion, FC Schalke 04, in both years?
Did you know that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a "ghetto in the sky"?
Did you know that the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history was launched in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that there has been a windmill in Mountnessing since 1477?
Did you know that while serving in World War II, baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by shrapnel?
Did you know that Australian composer Raymond Hanson, a teacher of music composition at the Sydney Conservatorium, was himself largely self-taught?
Did you know that Chadian president François Tombalbaye was the first international leader to officially recognize the Bokassa government after the 1965–1966 Central African Republic coup d’état?
Did you know that Darryl Brinkley, the first Northern League baseball player to bat .400, lost his chance to play in the majors due to the September 11, 2001 attacks?
Did you know that Jane S. Richardson developed the ubiquitous ribbon diagram method of representing proteins?
Did you know that The Greencards are a Texas bluegrass band known for their Americana sound, but are composed of two Australians and an Englishman?
Did you know that Time Banking is an alternative economic system which uses units of time as currency?
Did you know that Vratislav Brabenec, a member of the Plastic People of the Universe, studied theology and was in a Czechoslovak prison for eight months because of his music?
Did you know that a mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse, an ancient street in Berne, Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation work in 2005?
Did you know that improving Indo-Taiwanese relations have led to bilateral trade rising to USD 2.26 billion by 2005, even though India has not accorded diplomatic recognition to Taiwan?
Did you know that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother Edward founded the Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought out Thomas Hardy's first novels?
Did you know that large sandstone boulders rest atop trees in Yellowwood State Forest (example pictured) and no one knows how they got there?
Did you know that the 1950s Canadian science-fiction television series Space Command featured William Shatner and James Doohan who later appeared on Star Trek?
Did you know that the 1990 Spanish film ¡Ay Carmela! takes its title from the favorite song of the Republican soldiers and of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that the 2001 documentary film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy retold the story of the Scottsboro Boys, one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in U.S. history?
Did you know that the Berezan' Runestone is the only runestone discovered in Eastern Europe?
Did you know that the Chantecler, the only breed of chicken native to Canada, was developed by a Trappist monk?
Did you know that the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26, 2007?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother Li Chu, the later Emperor Daizong?
Did you know that the University of Bristol's gowns are said to have been designed by its first Vice Chancellor in the colour of the rocks of the Avon Gorge after rain?
Did you know that the constant k filter was invented by George Campbell but named by Otto Zobel, the inventor of the m-derived filter – both used in composite image filters?
Did you know that the flowers of the beach gardenia are used to scent coconut oil in the Cook Islands, while the heated leaves are used for headaches in northern Australia?
Did you know that when Yves Saint Laurent launched a perfume in 1977 named Opium, it led to accusations that he was condoning drug use?
Did you know that Bristol, Quebec, had Canada's first horse-drawn railroad and Quebec's first iron ore pelletizing plant?
Did you know that Charles Leavitt researched the diamond industry thoroughly for the film Blood Diamond's screenplay, since he could potentially be sued by mining corporations?
Did you know that Clinton Jencks, the petitioner in the case Jencks v. United States, starred in the 1954 film Salt of the Earth, which was loosely based on his story?
Did you know that Engine Co. No. 27 served a dual function as a movie location and an operating firehouse serving the Hollywood studios?
Did you know that Frank T. Norman, a Louisiana Democrat, was among the first members of his party to lose a general election to a Republican opponent, as the two-party system began to sprout in the American South?
Did you know that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1997 album Dans ma chair was certified Platinum by the SNEP?
Did you know that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a majority of Israel's population support future enlargement of the European Union to incorporate Israel?
Did you know that Italian Wall Lizards on a Croatian island developed significant behavioral and morphological changes over the course of 36 years, which has been described as "rapid evolution"?
Did you know that Karin Pouw's statements about the book Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography prompted the niece of Scientology leader David Miscavige to publicly criticize the Church of Scientology online?
Did you know that Lurie Garden is the focal nature component of what is perhaps the world's largest green roof?
Did you know that Melomani, the first self-styled Polish jazz ensemble, was created in 1951 when jazz music was officially forbidden in Poland?
Did you know that Oskar Sosnowski, professor of architecture at Warsaw Tech, was wounded by Germans while trying to save archives containing details of Polish historic buildings?
Did you know that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to hold popular votes on applications for citizenship in the June 2008 Swiss referendum?
Did you know that a dendrochronological study suggests the Corlea Trackway, a kilometre-long corduroy road in County Longford, Ireland, was built around 148 BC?
Did you know that after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to recite Muslim scriptures, Vaishnava convert Haridasa Thakur's instant recovery convinced many he was a pir?
Did you know that charcuterie, derived from the French words for flesh (chair) and cooked (cuit), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products primarily sourced from pork?
Did you know that in 1885, Jimmy Forrest was the first professional footballer to appear for the England national football team?
Did you know that in the 1996 football match between England and Scotland, Uri Geller claimed that he caused Scotland's Gary McAllister to miss a penalty by the power of his mind?
Did you know that oil and natural gas extraction and exploration will cease by 2017 in Hay-Zama Lakes, an inland wetland in Alberta, Canada, and the province's only site for the re-introduction of Wood Bison?
Did you know that the 2001 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard II was filmed at an abandoned Civil War-era fort on an island in Boston Harbor?
Did you know that the 2008 Indian film Woodstock Villa marked the debut of veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher's son, Sikandar Kher?
Did you know that the first known specimen of the Soringa whiting was caught by accident in 1982 during a taxonomic survey of ladyfish in the Indian Ocean?
Did you know that Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill in Florida, New York?
Did you know that Hermann Neubacher was the leader of the Austrian branch of the German Nazi Party?
Did you know that Indian actor Sikandar Kher was still in high school when he assisted director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in making the 2002 film Devdas?
Did you know that Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning?
Did you know that Lorin Maazel was 75 years old when his first opera, 1984, had its world premiere in 2005?
Did you know that Mary's Point in New Brunswick, Canada has the world's highest density of Corophium volutator, a crustacean which is a food source of millions of Semipalmated Sandpipers?
Did you know that McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink is both an ice skating rink and the largest alfresco dining venue in Chicago?
Did you know that Mihail Moruzov, Romania's first modern espionage chief, was shot as part of the Jilava Massacre, while his successor Eugen Cristescu died in prison?
Did you know that Pakistan established bilateral relations with Nepal in 1962-63 and agreed to provide free trade access and transport facilities to Nepal at the Chittagong Port?
Did you know that Pakistan's ties with Turkey have been influenced by president Pervez Musharraf's admiration for Turkey's model of modernism and secularism?
Did you know that Uri-On, created by Michael Netzer in 1987, was the first Israeli superhero to be published in color?
Did you know that Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall is said to be haunted by the ghost of a worker who died due to seeing an airplane for the first time?
Did you know that a 2007 accident on the Rampe de Laffrey killed 26 Polish pilgrims, but was not the worst ever seen along the road?
Did you know that a bobsled from the 1932 Olympic Games, which had been missing for more than sixty years, was donated to the Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum in 2002?
Did you know that compared to standard pistols, the pistols used in the ISSF 10 m Air Pistol event are allowed to be larger and have lower trigger pull weight?
Did you know that in optics and acoustics, the transfer-matrix method is used to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a layered medium?
Did you know that the Archdiocese of the Old Catholic Church of America has taken the  official position that all Christians must support nuclear disarmament, even if it is unilateral?
Did you know that the German Reichsflotte Navy was founded on 14 June 1848, before the German Empire was proclaimed on 28 March 1849, and that it fought only in the Battle of Heligoland on 4 June against Denmark?
Did you know that the Guglers,  mercenary knights invading Switzerland in 1375, were so named because of their headwear?
Did you know that the Pale-yellow Robin uses the prickly Lawyer Vine as a nesting site and for nesting material?
Did you know that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in Los Angeles?
Did you know that the novel Final Blackout by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is seen as an early classic of the Golden Age of Science Fiction?
Did you know that the steel beams of Opaekaa Road Bridge, in Kapa'a, Hawaii were forged in 1890 in Motherwell, Scotland?