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Did you know that western-style Japanese painter Kawabata Ryushi was so impressed with the Japanese art collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that he switched to the Japanese-style Nihonga genre?
Did you know that worm charming, grunting, and fiddling competitions are held around the world?
Did you know that Bona of Pisa, after seeing a vision of James, son of Zebedee, became a leader of pilgrimages to his shrine at Santiago de Compostella?
Did you know that Chicago theater-owner Tony DeSantis survived two near-fatal explosions in his life?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright was eventually dismissed from the architecture firm Adler and Sullivan for designing side projects such as the Robert P. Parker House?
Did you know that Lorenz Christoph Mizler founded a musical society whose members included Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach?
Did you know that Maria Bertilla Boscardin, who was rejected by one religious order for her slowness, became a nurse and was eventually canonized a saint in the presence of several of her earlier patients?
Did you know that Matt Wieters, the fifth pick in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, was the third player in Georgia Tech history to earn first-team All-America honors twice?
Did you know that Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?
Did you know that Pinirampus pirinampu, a species of migratory catfish, is one of the most important fishery resources in certain reservoirs in its native range?
Did you know that Richard Petty won the 1979 Daytona 500 by passing race leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough who were involved in a fight in the infield?
Did you know that Robert Burnaby is the namesake of at least eleven places in British Columbia, including a city, a lake, and a hill?
Did you know that Sylvia Seegrist was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for killing three people in 1985 in a Pennsylvania shopping mall, even though she had a history of paranoid schizophrenia?
Did you know that Virginia Lamp Thomas, wife of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, collected résumés for appointments in the George W. Bush Administration while working at the Heritage Foundation?
Did you know that during the G-8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic?
Did you know that one of the largest slave escape attempts in American history occurred in Kentucky in August 1848?
Did you know that since his capture, Hassan Ghul has been labelled everything from a simple mail courier to top lieutenant of figures ranging from Osama bin Laden to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to al-Zarqawi?
Did you know that some areas of the Finnish Lakeland have up to 1,000 lakes per 100 km²?
Did you know that the city of Quneitra in Syria was captured on the last day of the Six-Day War, was later destroyed and never rebuilt, and is today preserved as a memorial to the Arab-Israeli wars?
Did you know that the first private radio station in India was Akashvani which was set up in 1935 in Mysore, Karnataka?
Did you know that the painter Andrés de Santa Maria was the pioneer of impressionism and modern art in Colombia?
Did you know that the sex scenes in the Thai film Ploy that were shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival had to be re-edited by director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang so the film could be shown in cinemas in Thailand?
Did you know that zuclopenthixol is a medication that can be given every two weeks to treat people suffering from schizophrenia who are unable to take tablets daily?
Did you know that Abraham of Farshut founded a new Monophysite monastery at Farshut after the monks of his old monastery at Pbow almost all accepted the decision of the Council of Chalcedon?
Did you know that Archaeopotamus is the oldest well-identified genus of hippos, having lived 7.5 million to 1.8 million years ago?
Did you know that Augusto Genina's Lo squadrone bianco (1936), released during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, lionized the Italian colonization of Libya?
Did you know that Australian pop singer Lynne Randell was the first Australian recording artist to shoot a colour music video for her 1967 hit "Ciao Baby"?
Did you know that Bagrichthys macracanthus, the black lancer, is the only species of Bagrichthys, a genus of catfishes, that is traded in the aquarium hobby?
Did you know that Church of Scientology private investigator Eugene Martin Ingram was charged with impersonating a police officer, in Hillsborough County, Florida?
Did you know that Emil Rieve was elected president of his local union when he was only 22 years old, and president of the Textile Workers Union of America when he was 46?
Did you know that Gia Long, the first Emperor of Vietnam's Nguyen Dynasty unified the country for the first time in its modern state with French military assistance from his friend and Catholic priest Pigneau de Behaine?
Did you know that Prussian uprisings refer to several uprisings of Prussians, one of the Baltic tribes, against the Teutonic Knights, in the 13th century during the Northern Crusades?
Did you know that Tsar Alexis of Russia wrote a detailed instruction to his falconers?
Did you know that after criticising the Australian Cricket Board, its captain Bill Lawry was sacked without being informed, and only learned of his fate on the radio?
Did you know that composer Takanori Arisawa won three JASRAC International Awards for most international royalties, due to the worldwide popularity of the Sailor Moon anime soundtrack?
Did you know that for the jazz album The Meeting, Joseph Jarman returned to the Art Ensemble of Chicago after leaving in 1993 to open a Buddhist dojo in Brooklyn, New York?
Did you know that in 2003, Kimberly Casiano became the first Hispanic woman to serve on the board of one of the Fortune 1000 top five companies when she was appointed to the board of Ford Motor Company?
Did you know that the 1892 Thomas Gale House was one of at least eight "bootleg houses" designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in breach of his contract with architect Louis Sullivan?
Did you know that the 2005 movie The Interpreter by film director Sydney Pollack was based on real-life conference interpreters from the United Nations Interpretation Service?
Did you know that the George Furbeck House represents the beginning of a three year period of experimentation by Frank Lloyd Wright which resulted in the first Prairie houses?
Did you know that the Ghana Navy was established under British Royal Navy command and headed by D. A. Foreman, a retired British officer commissioned as a Ghana naval officer with the rank of Commodore?
Did you know that the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Mamilla has been under construction for the last 37 years, even though it is only 0.1 square kilometres large?
Did you know that the Mid-Delaware Bridge over the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New York is the uppermost four-lane bridge on the river's main stem?
Did you know that when the first Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island was elected, there were only five qualified voters in the three-member district of Victoria?
Did you know that "Salvem el món" was the first punk song performed in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Did you know that 12th-century Muslim scientist Al-Khazini, who proposed a theory of gravitation long before Isaac Newton, was, in his early life, a slave of the Seljuq Turks?
Did you know that Ain-Ervin Mere, commander of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei, was sentenced to death in 1961 for organizing the holocaust in Estonia, but died as a free man in England?
Did you know that Bob Simpson made a comeback from ten years in international retirement to lead the Australian cricket team at the age of 42 when it was decimated by defections to World Series Cricket?
Did you know that Louisville, Kentucky's first parking garage was built in 1953, as an addition to the 1913 Starks Building?
Did you know that Nicolas Chédeville arranged Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons for hurdy gurdy or musette, flute, and violin to amuse French aristocrats who liked to pretend to be peasants?
Did you know that Olivia Newton-John made at least 16 appearances on The Go!! Show, an Australian popular music television series which aired between 1964 to 1967, before she found international success?
Did you know that Peter of Atroa was accused of exorcising demons by the power of Beelzebub, not the power of Christ?
Did you know that Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius served in high public office for almost 60 years under both the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy and the Eastern Roman Empire, leading a conquest of Spain at the age of 85?
Did you know that Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was named after an encounter that singer Jeff Tweedy had with a Memorial Day parade?
Did you know that a Romantic poem by Alexandru Hrisoverghi is credited with having inspired historic preservation in Moldavia?
Did you know that actor Powers Boothe won a 1980 Emmy Award for his portrayal of Jim Jones in the film Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones ?
Did you know that although Pope Gregory XVI condemned railroads as "the road to hell," Vatican City includes the world's shortest national railway system?
Did you know that during World War II, Pietro Cardinal Boetto protested against the shelling of Genoa by British warships, claiming that God would assure the triumph of Italy?
Did you know that members of the catfish genus Auchenipterichthys are capable of producing sound?
Did you know that one of the most successful weapons of the American Civil War was designed by one of the war's most incompetent generals?
Did you know that the Iran-Pakistan barrier is currently being constructed by Iran along its border with Pakistan to stop illegal migration and thwart terror attacks?
Did you know that the Jaffa Road is one of the oldest and longest streets in Jerusalem?
Did you know that the Mosque of Bodrum in Istanbul represents the first example of a private burial church of a Byzantine Emperor?
Did you know that the village which later became Chickasaw, Alabama was started as a company town by a local shipyard?
Did you know that Frederick Rotimi Williams was the first Nigerian to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria?
Did you know that Georgia Tech's Brittain Dining Hall was designed by its School of Architecture and paid for in part by its Athletic Association?
Did you know that Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna   left her unfaithful husband and became a nun?
Did you know that Jack Hides led what Lieutenant-Governor Hubert Murray described as "the most difficult and dangerous" patrol ever carried out in Papua?
Did you know that Judith Quiney, one of William Shakespeare's daughters, was illiterate?
Did you know that Mark Taylor was the first batsman in Test cricket to have made centuries on his debuts against four different opponents?
Did you know that New Mexico State Road 6563 takes its number from the wavelength (6563 Å) used by scientists to locate areas of interest on the Sun?
Did you know that Sophia Collier used profits from her autobiography Soul Rush, which she wrote at age nineteen, to develop her own soft drink company?
Did you know that Swedes have lived in Estonia for more than 700 years, although only a small number are permanently resident there today?
Did you know that Tom Wolfe's The Pump House Gang was published on the same day as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and both went on to become best-sellers?
Did you know that despite having its faculty decimated by Operation Sonderaktion Krakau, the Agricultural University of Kraków continued to hold secret agronomy courses during World War II?
Did you know that despite shortages of money during the construction of the Deerwood Auditorium in Minnesota, the building was substantially completed in time for its first event, a lutefisk supper?
Did you know that mobbing behavior is seen in species as diverse as the Great Tit and California Ground Squirrel?
Did you know that newspaper editor George D. Prentice expressed regret later in life for fiery anti-Catholic editorials that played a role in the Bloody Monday riot of 1855?
Did you know that over 9,000 animals were killed during the inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre?
Did you know that the Bonn–Oberkassel train ferry was one of six train ferries that commenced operations across the Rhine in Germany in the late 19th century?
Did you know that the USS Grebe survived both World War I and the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to be destroyed by a hurricane in 1943?
Did you know that the Vietnamese emperor Minh Mang attempted to stifle the work of Catholic  missionaries by appointing them as mandarins in the royal court, claiming a lack of translators?
Did you know that the William H. Copeland House was one of three remodeling projects undertaken by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park between 1906 and 1909?
Did you know that the yacht Fri spearheaded an international protest of a flotilla of yachts in a voyage against atmospheric nuclear tests at Moruroa in French Polynesia in 1973?
Did you know that Alexander Brodie Spark, influential merchant, magistrate,  investor and exporter in Australia during the 19th century, entertained in excess of 800 different guests in his home solely in 1839?
Did you know that Fort Victoria was established as a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post, and eventually grew into the modern capital city of British Columbia?
Did you know that Ghum is the highest railway station in India at 2,225 m (7,407 ft)?
Did you know that Gigantoraptor, a bird-like dinosaur discovered in Inner Mongolia, is thirty-five times larger than its peacock-sized relative, Caudipteryx?
Did you know that Johann Christoph Altnickol, Johann Christian Kittel, and Johann Caspar Vogler were all students of Johann Sebastian Bach?
Did you know that John Sebastian Helmcken opposed British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation—until he negotiated the terms himself?
Did you know that Kuh Ledesma was the first Philippine singer to receive the Salem Music Awards in London in March 1989?
Did you know that Mogollon, New Mexico had a reputation as one of the wildest mining towns in the American West?
Did you know that Muristan, a complex in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, was the location of the first hospital of the Knights of St. John?
Did you know that Narayana Hrudayalaya, located in Bangalore, India and one of the largest pediatric heart hospitals in the world, offers a telemedicine service for free?
Did you know that Vijaya Dasa, an 18th-century Hindu saint from the Karnataka Haridasa tradition, composed about 25,000 devotional songs in the Kannada language?
Did you know that Vittorio Ambrosio was an Italian general who served an instrumental role in the fall of Mussolini and the eventual Italian renunciation of its alliance with Germany?
Did you know that William Hogarth's 1748 painting The Gate of Calais features Hogarth himself about to be arrested as a spy for sketching the gate?
Did you know that almost 1 in 10 of the inhabitants of Pingelap, a Micronesian atoll, have complete achromatopsia, a rare form of colourblindness which normally only affects 1 in 33,000?
Did you know that destructive creativity is a social theory that has been used to explain Nazi Germany, and the Enron and Watergate scandals?
Did you know that it is believed that Elizabeth I granted a temporary reprieve to the Catholic priest Richard Simpson to forestall invasion by Philip II of Spain?
Did you know that one British bank, as an incentive for university students to open a new account with it, offers free Young Persons Railcards, valid for five years and worth £100?
Did you know that the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment led to the enactment of mandatory arrests, without warrants, when responding police had probable cause that domestic violence had occurred?
Did you know that the Oscar B. Balch House was the first building Frank Lloyd Wright designed after returning from an extended trip to Europe with a client's wife?
Did you know that the Viagens Interplanetarias series of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp was influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian novels?
Did you know that the antiquarian Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti refused to cede his pair of Hellenistic centaurs to Pope Benedict XIV even after being offered a position as a cardinal in return?
Did you know that the tornado that struck Moscow on June 29, 1904 was the first ever recorded in Central Russia?
Did you know that the war elephant army of Basalawarmi, a Yuan Dynasty loyalist and the Prince of Liang, was, according to myth, defeated by ten thousand mice?
Did you know that the yet unnamed EADS Astrium Space Tourism Project is the first suborbital space tourism project by a major aerospace consortium?
Did you know that Eocursor, a small bipedal herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, is the most completely known Triassic ornithischian (beaked dinosaur)?
Did you know that French mathematician André Bloch murdered his brother, produced all his mathematical work from an insane asylum, and published under aliases to avoid the interest of Nazi occupiers?
Did you know that Omar Hayssam, a Syrian-born Romanian financier, was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a court found him guilty of masterminding the kidnap of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005?
Did you know that Smoky Bay in South Australia was named so after the discoverer noticed large plumes of smoke from fires lit by the area's aboriginal people?
Did you know that stockbooks are often used by stamp collectors to store both postage stamps and other philatelic items such as plate blocks, miniature sheets, covers, and lettersheets?
Did you know that the 2004 USC Trojans football team went undefeated, becoming the tenth team to win consecutive Associated Press National Championships?
Did you know that the Bede BD-4 was the first homebuilt aircraft to be offered in kit form?
Did you know that the burning of the Torah by Apostomus is noted in the Mishnah as one of five catastrophes to affect the Jews on the seventeenth of Tammuz?
Did you know that the extinct marine reptile Kaganaias is the only ancient aquatic scaled reptile to be found in Asia?
Did you know that to speed up patent cases, United States federal judge T. John Ward uses a chess clock to  time opening and closing arguments?
Did you know that "Giovinezza", the official hymn of Mussolini's National Fascist Party, was played at the coronation of Pope Pius XII by the Palatine Guard?
Did you know that Australian deputy judge advocate Richard Dore once ordered several hundred lashes be given to  suspected Irish insurrectionists before a verdict had been made?
Did you know that Chicago's Crown Fountain displays LED images of faces, which typically create the illusion of puckered lips spouting water?
Did you know that Horace Liveright published the works of numerous important authors, including Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot, and hired Béla Lugosi for Dracula, but still died penniless?
Did you know that Nebraska Highway 14 became a cross-Nebraska highway with the completion of the Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge over the Missouri River in 1998?
Did you know that Rīgas Satiksme is the largest provider of public transport in Riga?
Did you know that Vishvakannada.com was the first Internet magazine in Kannada and also the first website in an Indian language to use dynamic fonts?
Did you know that during the 1950s, when the Soviet training model barred students from participation in professional theatre, Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts maintained its close ties with it?
Did you know that even though a 1959-1961 survey showed that the Central African Republic's Bakouma sub-prefecture contained phosphatic sediment with the highest uranium content in all of sub-Saharan Africa, exploitation didn't start until 2006?
Did you know that existence of arbitrarily many primes in arithmetic progression was proven in 2004, but it took 75 computers to find an example with 24 primes?
Did you know that factors affecting the preservation of textiles include ambient heat, light, and humidity, and the presence of pests, airborne chemicals and pollutants?
Did you know that had it moved into production as scheduled, the Bede BD-10 would have been the world's first kit-built jet-powered general aviation aircraft?
Did you know that miniature scale for naval wargames (ships pictured) is worked out almost exclusively in ratios, rather than the millimetre-based scale preferred by land-based miniature wargaming?
Did you know that riots broke out among Azeris in Iran after a newspaper published a cartoon about a cockroach?
Did you know that the Charles E. Roberts Stable was converted from a barn into a garage by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1896?
Did you know that the Naniwa class cruisers were the first protected cruisers designed in Japan?
Did you know that the Pagal Panthis were a religious order who led the peasants of the Mymensingh region of Bengal in armed revolts against the British East India Company and zamindars?
Did you know that the arms of Ferry de Clugny are featured in the Clugny Annunciation, attributed either to Rogier van der Weyden or Hans Memling?
Did you know that the initial publication of the The Highfield Mole (since dubbed "the next Harry Potter") was financed by the sale of the house of one of the authors?
Did you know that John Candy improvised the famous "Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips." line from The Blues Brothers on the request of a set designer's father?
Did you know that Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Tito Gómez once shared vocal duties in Ray Barretto's band in the 1970s with Rubén Blades?
Did you know that Texas settlers at the Council House Fight ambushed and killed thirteen Comanche chiefs at a peace treaty negotiation, provoking the Great Raid of 1840?
Did you know that U.S. Route 322 in New Jersey used to be concurrent with state highways on its entire route?
Did you know that a military coalition from four countries helped the British colonial government to quell the 1915 Singapore Mutiny?
Did you know that after publishing his first book, magistrate James Mudie became so hated in Sydney that he was horsewhipped in the street?
Did you know that courses in bioethics and journalism are a part of the academic curriculum of The Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków, Poland?
Did you know that for New York City to receive up to $500 million from the Department of Transportation, its congestion pricing plan must be approved by August 2007?
Did you know that in 1876, Paul Zweifel became the first to demonstrate that the fetus in utero consumes oxygen?
Did you know that it was common for the Roman Emperor to be elected to one of two offices of the highest judicial magistrates known as duumviri, and the other position was left up to the emperor for the appointment of a praefectus?
Did you know that the 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, grandson of the Liberal Party Lord Chancellor 1st Viscount Buckmaster, served as diplomat in the Middle East until 1981?
Did you know that the Bucharest school of Jean Alexandre Vaillant contributed to Westernization in Wallachia during the 1830s?
Did you know that the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”?
Did you know that the sea pineapple, an edible sea squirt, has been described as "something that could exist only in a purely hallucinatory eco-system" and its taste as "rubber dipped in ammonia"?
Did you know that the uniforms of United Nations tour guides are designed by internationally famous fashion designers such as Hollywood’s Edith Head, Christian Dior and Benetton?
Did you know that while the name of western Minnesota's Pomme de Terre River translates as "Potato River", it was actually named for the prairie turnip?