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Did you know that the dialogues for the Tamil film Parasakthi were penned by M. Karunanidhi who later became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that the first organized postal system in India was established between the British East India Company factories at Madras and Calcutta during the tenure of Edward Harrison?
Did you know that the flora of Scotland includes the world's tallest hedge, a yew which may be Europe's oldest tree, and Dughall Mor ("big dark stranger") – Britain's tallest tree?
Did you know that the main tourist attractions of Botswana are its game reserves?
Did you know that wildlife biologist Olaus Murie was the first American Fulbright Scholar to study in New Zealand?
Did you know that , in a bid to remain in power, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos asked his Labor Minister Blas Ople to reach out to the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Cormac mac Cuilennáin, bishop and king of Munster, later considered a saint, was killed in battle in 908 while leading an invasion of Leinster?
Did you know that Frederick II of Prussia was elated by the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that Raymond Berry is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1973, eleven years before he became the Patriots' head coach?
Did you know that Rim Drive in Oregon, a scenic highway cited by the American Automobile Association as one of the ten most beautiful roads in the U.S., is a 33-mile loop that follows the caldera rim around Crater Lake?
Did you know that Russell B. Cummings, as a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the 1960s, was credited with procuring passage of his state's open beach and kindergarten access laws?
Did you know that Tamil politician E. V. K. Sampath, nephew of Periyar, co-founded the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party?
Did you know that councilman Larry Gossett works in an office at the King County Courthouse in King County, Washington, located exactly where he was jailed for unlawful assembly after a 1968 sit-in?
Did you know that screenwriter Jamie Linden interpreted his winning of US$5,000 on game show The Price Is Right as a sign to relocate to Hollywood, California?
Did you know that silva rerum was a multi-generational chronicle kept by many Polish noble families from the 16th through 18th centuries?
Did you know that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
Did you know that the English names for the towns of Brecon and Cardigan derive from the names of Welsh mediaeval kingdoms, but the Welsh names for those same places refer to local rivers?
Did you know that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
Did you know that "Guten Tag", the first single of German band Wir sind Helden featured a video which was a self-ironic statement against commercial music?
Did you know that An Qingxu killed his father An Lushan, the Emperor of Yan, because he feared that his father would kill him and make his brother crown prince?
Did you know that Breed Street Shul, now vacant in a Hispanic part of Los Angeles, was the largest Orthodox synagogue in the western United States from 1915 to 1951?
Did you know that Lopez and Pico Adobes, built near the San Fernando Mission, are the oldest residences in San Fernando Valley, California?
Did you know that Mathilde Ludendorff, a leader in the German Völkisch movement, claimed astrology was part of a Jewish effort to enslave the Germans?
Did you know that Omaha University was first located in the Redick Mansion of North Omaha's once-affluent Kountze Place suburb?
Did you know that Raghavanka, a 12th century writer of Kannada literature, penned five classics just to expiate a sin his guru felt he had committed?
Did you know that Sabr is the Islamic virtue of patience and endurance?
Did you know that Turkey was so dissatisfied with its first set of stamps that it had France make the second set (example pictured)?
Did you know that a 150 year-old weeping beech tree, considered to be the source of weeping beeches in the United States and declared a landmark in 1966, was located in Weeping Beech Park at Kingsland Homestead in Queens, New York?
Did you know that a shrew's fiddle was used to punish women who were caught fighting or arguing in Germany and Austria, often until both women agreed to stop bickering?
Did you know that an uncle of Christopher Columbus served as a keeper of Genoa's Torre della Lanterna?
Did you know that despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791, St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation?
Did you know that in February 2008, rugby league player Brian Hambly was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players?
Did you know that the Denver Broncos, who made the National Football League playoffs seventeen times between 1977 and 2005, did not make the playoffs at all in their first seventeen seasons?
Did you know that the May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake was also felt at Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Islamabad in Pakistan, and Dushanbe in Tajikistan?
Did you know that the Old Stone House is the oldest standing building in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that the Roanoke Apartments, which opened as Roanoke's largest apartment complex, are an example of Streamline Moderne architecture?
Did you know that the annual Chembuduppu festival at St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally is held in commemoration of non-Christians bringing rice to feed hundreds of voluntary labourers during its construction?
Did you know that the herb Forsskaolea tenacissima was so named by Carl Linnaeus because it was as stubborn and persistent as his student Peter Forsskål had been?
Did you know that the late actress and theatrical producer, Madeline Lee Gilford, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era, is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming 2008 film, Sex and the City?
Did you know that the photographs taken of Peter Jones in 1845 are the oldest surviving photographs of a North American Indian?
Did you know that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at Leonis Adobe, according to TV show Most Haunted?
Did you know that the steam yacht Gondola on Coniston Water is thought to be the inspiration for Captain Flint's houseboat in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons?
Did you know that China and Peru are expected to sign a free trade agreement during the 2008 APEC summit?
Did you know that Frank Ford, an organic food farmer in Deaf Smith County, Texas, was the chief advertising spokesman for the health foods industry during its founding decades of the 1960s and the 1970s?
Did you know that HNoMS Honningsvåg was a German fishing trawler captured in the Norwegian Campaign and served the Royal Norwegian Navy throughout World War II?
Did you know that Kisan Kanya made by Ardeshir Irani in 1937 is India's first indigenously made color film?
Did you know that Lithuanian nobleman Feodor Ostrogski was a governor of Volhynia, a region of Ukraine?
Did you know that Oregon's Warrior Rock Light operated uneventfully for 80 years until it was struck by a barge in 1969?
Did you know that after Roche MacGeoghegan, Bishop of Kildare, died in 1644, his library was divided between his diocese and the Dominican Order?
Did you know that eight buildings in Newport, Rhode Island's Bellevue Avenue Historic District are designated as National Historic Landmarks, in addition to the district itself?
Did you know that excavations of the Cherokee town Tallassee, burnt down during the Chickamauga Wars and submerged by an artificial lake since 1957, uncovered evidence of habitation as early as the Woodland period?
Did you know that forces of the Dutch West India Company captured Axim in present-day Ghana and signed a treaty with the local West Africans in 1642 to become the major European power in the Gold Coast region?
Did you know that in February 2008, rugby league player Dan Dempsey was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players?
Did you know that in St Peter's Church, Heysham, Lancashire, is a Viking hogback stone, and in the churchyard is the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross?
Did you know that some scholars believe that John Wannuaucon Quinney was the originator of the term Native American?
Did you know that the 122-year old Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line") was the last overnight steamship service in the U.S. when it ceased operation in 1962?
Did you know that the 1842 Lombard Street Riot capped thirteen years of recurring racial violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Ilmin Museum of Art is an art museum of South Korea, located on Sejongno, Jongno-gu, central district of Seoul where royal palaces and gates of Joseon dynasty are also situated?
Did you know that the tiny Dinkey Train of only a passenger coach and dummy engine went to Mammoth Cave?
Did you know that Dr. Seuss's The Seven Lady Godivas is one of his few books written for adults, and though it was initially a failure when first published in 1939, original editions have sold for upwards of US$300?
Did you know that Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely was one of Queen Victoria's closest ladies-in-waiting for nearly forty years?
Did you know that L'Insoumis, a film noir alluding to the Algerian war, was  Alain Delon's first real failure despite his acclaimed performance?
Did you know that Rosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company that uses micro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types of cancer?
Did you know that Winkhurst Kitchen and Titchfield Market Hall, which are now at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Sussex, have been dismantled and re-erected twice?
Did you know that ablative brain surgery, which involves destroying brain tissue by heat or freezing, was used until recently in the People's Republic of China to treat people with schizophrenia?
Did you know that at only five weeks old, Flocke the polar bear cub from Nuremberg Zoo was touted by Bild to be the future "Mrs. Knut"?
Did you know that in April 2008, Forbes listed Omid Tahvili as one of the world's ten most wanted fugitives?
Did you know that in Claude Ashton's only international appearance for the English national football team, he captained the squad?
Did you know that the Galena Historic District in Illinois, USA, includes more than a thousand historic properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city of Galena?
Did you know that the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849?
Did you know that the Mark Eden bust developer, a product claimed to enlarge women's breasts, actually worked by increasing the pectoral and back muscles?
Did you know that the Moscow Kremlin's Church of the Deposition is named after a Byzantine tradition that the robe of the Virgin Mary was taken to Constantinople?
Did you know that the Pinchot Sycamore, a centuries-old American sycamore, is the largest tree in Connecticut?
Did you know that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
Did you know that visiting Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, near London, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?
Did you know that Aberdour Castle, with parts dating from around 1200, is one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland?
Did you know that Andayya's 13th century Kannada work Kabbigara Kava is considered important for its strict adherence to the indigenous Kannada language?
Did you know that Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy"?
Did you know that Kim Swoo Geun, a leading South Korean architect, was referred to as "Lorenzo de Medici of Seoul" by Time for his contributions to Korean culture?
Did you know that Lena Guerrero, who became a Texas state legislator at twenty-five, was the first non-Anglo person to have served on the Texas Railroad Commission?
Did you know that Robert the Devil, an operatic parody by W. S. Gilbert of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable, ends with the devil being punished by becoming part of the exhibit at Madame Tussaud's?
Did you know that Shabdamanidarpana, a comprehensive and authoritative work on the grammar of the Kannada language, was written in the 13th century by the Indian linguist and poet Kesiraja?
Did you know that Swedish soldier Charles F. Henningsen participated in civil wars and independence movements in Spain, Nicaragua, Hungary and the United States, but died without ever winning any of the causes for which he fought?
Did you know that VFL footballer Charlie Moore, the first Australian to die of gunshot wounds in the Boer War, played in the 1898 VFL Grand Final against Stan Reid, who died in the same war six weeks later?
Did you know that according to Brunei folklore Nakhoda Manis disrespected his mother, which caused a storm to sink his ship in the Brunei River, transforming the ship into the rock known as Jong Batu?
Did you know that although there is no commercial mining in Equatorial Guinea, 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of gold were retrieved in 2006?
Did you know that in spite of its similar appearance to the European Robin, the colourful Rose Robin of southeastern Australia is more closely related to the crow family?
Did you know that screenwriter Daniel Knauf's  polio-afflicted father was the inspiration for his television series Carnivàle?
Did you know that the 18th century American soldier Isaac Bowman, his father George Bowman, and his grandfather Jost Hite were all prominent pioneers in the Colony of Virginia?
Did you know that the 1927 disappearance of the French biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc), in an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, is one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation?
Did you know that the Bevier House Museum in Marbletown, New York includes the earliest known land grant map for Ulster County?
Did you know that the Stöðulög laws of 1871 declared Iceland an inseparable part of Denmark?
Did you know that the distribution company Bunzl once held a virtual monopoly on the manufacture of cigarette filters in the U.K.?
Did you know that the lawsuit Motte v. Faulkner in 1735 was a legal dispute over the right to publish Jonathan Swift's complete works and its outcome was viewed by Swift as another example of English oppression?
Did you know that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during an Iroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants of Calumet Island?
Did you know that the windmill at South Barrule, Isle of Man worked an incline on a railway at a slate quarry?
Did you know that , during a Fersommling, the only language spoken is Pennsylvania Dutch and that anyone who speaks English has to pay a fine for each word?
Did you know that Benjamin Motte published many famous works such as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and the first English edition of Isaac Newton's Principia, an edition that became the standard translation for over 200 years?
Did you know that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
Did you know that Joseph M. Street, a 19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War?
Did you know that McCarty Church in Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
Did you know that Salt Lake City-based robotics firm Sarcos is developing a military powered exoskeleton allowing wearers to easily lift 200 pounds (91 kg)?
Did you know that Sark Windmill, built in 1571, is the oldest surviving windmill in the Channel Islands?
Did you know that a riot reportedly instigated by writer André Breton broke out during the 1923 premiere of Tristan Tzara's Le Cœur à gaz, a play written as a nonsensical dialog between human body parts?
Did you know that in 1789 Spain seized the British sloop Princess Royal, nearly causing a war, then used the vessel to explore the Strait of Juan de Fuca, finding the San Juan Islands and the entrances to Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia?
Did you know that in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
Did you know that it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek?
Did you know that the Silky Sifaka is a white, diurnal rainforest sifaka found solely within a small area of northeastern Madagascar?
Did you know that the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle?
Did you know that the forthcoming Tamil film Guru En Aalu, starring Madhavan and Mamta Mohandas, is a remake of the 1997 film Yes Boss?
Did you know that the obscure mealybug, a pest of vineyards in New Zealand and California, is believed to have been introduced from Australia or South America?
Did you know that the present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after George Davenport, a 19th century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
Did you know that troops of Tadayoshi Sano, a lieutenant general for the Imperial Japanese Army, were reported to have committed atrocities against civilians in Hong Kong and British prisoners of war?
Did you know that French Jesuit missionary and mathematician Guy Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
Did you know that Ronald Joy was an English cricketer, who played eight County Championship matches in the 1928 season?
Did you know that Simbolul was a Romanian literary magazine published by Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, later two of Dadaism's founders, while they were still in high school?
Did you know that William H. Mumler claimed to take a photograph showing Mary Todd Lincoln with the spirit of her deceased husband, Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that a story in Janna's 13th-century Kannada classic Yashodhara Charite deals with sadomasochism and transmigration of the soul?
Did you know that a tornado outbreak (damage pictured) produced up to 3 inch (76 mm) diameter hail near Midwest City, Oklahoma?
Did you know that although Lookdown are common in tropical Atlantic waters, they are rarely seen in the Greater Antilles?
Did you know that anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen described Comer's Midden as the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland?
Did you know that in 1687 Philippe Couplet published Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, the first known Western translation of a Chinese literary work?
Did you know that legendary princess Yennenga, the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?
Did you know that the Chicago Blackhawks, with the longest active Stanley Cup drought in the National Hockey League, last won the Cup in the 1960–61 season?
Did you know that the Indian Coast Guard estimates more than 100 fishing boats and an unknown number of fishermen annually stray across the territorial waters of India and Pakistan?
Did you know that the Schweizer SGP 1-1 glider was launched by an elastic bungee cord, originally pulled by children and later by a Ford Model A car?
Did you know that the TARDIS broke while filming the final scene of the Doctor Who episode "The Poison Sky"?
Did you know that the United States Forest Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife partnered with the Paisley, Oregon community to restore the Chewaucan River habitat for native redband trout?
Did you know that the land acquisitions for the Southern Railway's Spencer Shops in 1896 were secretly done to prevent land speculation?
Did you know that the most popular tourist attraction in Omaha has been voted the best zoo in America, with the largest cat complex in North America?
Did you know that the revitalized Historic District of Apex, North Carolina has been described as a "Gucci Mayberry"?
Did you know that tourism in Kenya is the country's second largest source of foreign revenue?
Did you know that Albert Kidd scored two goals in the last 10 minutes of the 1985-86 Scottish football season to deny Hearts the championship, despite having not scored in the whole season until then?
Did you know that Bahá'í Faith in Niger began during a period of wide scale growth in the religion across Sub-Saharan Africa near the end of its colonial period?
Did you know that De Doctrina Christiana, identified as John Milton's attempt to define his own particular Christian theology, was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death?
Did you know that Flaithbertach Ua Néill, king of Ailech in Ireland, was called Flaithbertach an Trostáin, Flaithbertach of the Pilgrim's staff, as a result of his pilgrimage to Rome in 1030?
Did you know that Indian film director Nitin Bose, who directed the blockbuster Ganga Jamuna in 1961, had introduced playback singing in Indian cinema in 1935?
Did you know that Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?
Did you know that Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones was the first African-American to sing at Carnegie Hall?
Did you know that Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar was the first Mayor of Chennai Corporation, after the mayoralty was reinstated in 1933?
Did you know that Raleigh Springs Mall in Memphis, Tennessee lost three of its four anchor stores (JCPenney, Dillard's and Goldsmith's) all in the same year?
Did you know that U.S. shipping company Sealift Incorporated has been awarded over US$400,000,000 in government contracts since the start of the 2000 fiscal year?
Did you know that Valda Cooper became the first female managing editor of any daily newspaper in New Mexico?
Did you know that after surviving a dynamite attack in 1896, fraternity parties in the 1940s, and an earthquake in 1994, Stimson House is now a convent for Catholic nuns?
Did you know that during the Liberian Civil Wars over 5,000 artifacts were looted from the Liberian National Museum but a 250-year-old dining table given as a gift from Queen Victoria to Liberia's first President remains?
Did you know that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, a Jesuit convert from Nanking, arrived at the court of James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain?
Did you know that in the Jilava Massacre, perpetrated in Romania in 1940, 64 prisoners were shot to death, including a former prime minister, justice minister, and chief of secret police?
Did you know that the Champion passenger train connected New York City and St. Petersburg, Florida for forty years before Amtrak consolidated it with its former rival the Silver Meteor?
Did you know that the book Fear by Jan T. Gross has been a subject of significant controversy in Poland?
Did you know that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
Did you know that Barzillai Quaife has been described both as "New Zealand's first public anti-racist" and "Australia's first philosopher"?
Did you know that Birely, Hillman & Streaker was the only Philadelphian manufacturer of wooden ships to survive the post-Civil War slump?
Did you know that Chris Garneau's debut album Music For Tourists has a hidden track that is a cover of an Elliott Smith song?
Did you know that Devil's Den gully, located within the Heber Down Conservation Area, was so named because the local inhabitants believed that the Devil was holding court there?
Did you know that Harold Dow Bugbee of Texas sought to become the premier artist of the South Plains, as Charles M. Russell became for the northern Great Plains?