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Did you know that the Southern Islands of Singapore are being developed into a getaway for the ultra-wealthy, similar to Dubai's Palm Islands?
Did you know that the Thing of all Swedes and the Disting market were held to coincide with Dísablót, a pre-Christian Swedish sacrificial holiday?
Did you know that the earthquake-proof designs of the Nagoya TV, Tsutenkaku, the Sapporo TV, the Beppu, and the Tokyo Towers were all engineered by Tachu Naito?
Did you know that the town of Scone was the coronation site of Kings of Scotland for several centuries?
Did you know that , although Kievan Rus was heavily defeated in the Rus'-Byzantine War (1043), hostilities ended with the marriage of Vsevolod I of Kiev to Constantine IX's daughter?
Did you know that , in the 1950s, Romanian linguist Iorgu Iordan was in charge of expelling opponents of the Communist regime from the University of Bucharest?
Did you know that American actor David Holt was reduced to starring in the drugs-scare melodrama "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" at age twenty-two, after being touted at the age 7 as the male Shirley Temple?
Did you know that Bantcho Bantchevsky committed suicide during a nationally-broadcast performance from the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that David O. Cooke, a civilian administrator in the U.S. Department of Defense for over 45 years, was colloquially known as the "Mayor of the Pentagon" because of his managerial duties?
Did you know that Juan N. Méndez took up the post of interim President of Mexico for three months to allow then-President Porfirio Díaz to personally lead his forces against a partisan uprising?
Did you know that Nicholas Mukomberanwa was a police officer in Harare, Zimbabwe, before turning to sculpture full-time?
Did you know that Ralph Fasanella was pumping gas for money in 1972 when featured on the cover of New York Magazine as "...the best primitive painter since Grandma Moses"?
Did you know that Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall created the windows of the St Stephan church in Mainz as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation?
Did you know that Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service was created in 1971 due to controversy surrounding the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1970?
Did you know that in 1937 a Soviet station became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean?
Did you know that in 1994, Horace Dove-Edwin became the first medalist in athletics for Sierra Leone, but lost it due to a positive doping test?
Did you know that the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm was the most significant snow event for southern Texas since 1895 with a maximum of 1.5 inches of accumulated snow?
Did you know that the Poniatowski Bridge in Warsaw was destroyed in both World Wars?
Did you know that the first gay mass-market paperback focused on situational homosexuality and male rape in prison?
Did you know that the oldest modern human remains in Europe have been discovered in Peştera cu Oase in south-western Romania?
Did you know that Bangsa Malaysia, a policy seeking to create a unified national identity for all citizens of Malaysia, has been criticised as being 'nebulous' and overstepping the Constitution?
Did you know that Clement, Bishop of Dunblane, was the first Dominican friar to obtain a bishopric in the British Isles?
Did you know that Ernst Kitzinger, a historian of Byzantine art, was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and England in 1940 because he was Jewish and German respectively?
Did you know that Hermann Klaatsch was one of the first scientists to advocate a clear division between religion and physical anthropology?
Did you know that Ka Lae on the island of Hawaii is the southernmost point in the United States?
Did you know that West Ham Stadium in London holds the record for the lowest ever attendance of a football match in The Football League, despite its capacity of 120,000?
Did you know that a methanol reformer can replace a hydrogen-gas tank in a fuel cell vehicle by catalytically producing fuel from the poisonous liquid?
Did you know that after being stripped of his aristocratic title after World War II, Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi of Japan retired to raise racehorses on his estate?
Did you know that fear of being buried alive was so widespread in 19th century that safety coffins were invented to give the prematurely buried a chance for escape?
Did you know that the Eskaya tribe are the object of international archeological studies considering their distinct culture, language and alphabet not found elsewhere in the world?
Did you know that the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City was host to the world-famous opera singer Enrico Caruso who sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" from the window of his room on Armistice Day?
Did you know that the Playhouse Square Center, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, is the second largest theater complex in the United States?
Did you know that the capture and forced march of Daniel M. Frost's militia through St. Louis, Missouri during the US Civil War ignited a citywide riot?
Did you know that the first artistic billiards world tournament only used ivory balls?
Did you know that the pioneer American airman Lowell Smith participated in the first mid-air refueling, the first aerial circumnavigation and held 16 records for military aircraft in speed, endurance and distance?
Did you know that the world's first all-electronic television receiver was demonstrated on Christmas Day, 1926 by the Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi?
Did you know that ukiyo-e artist Keisai Eisen was famous for his bijin prints of beautiful women and claimed to have owned a brothel?
Did you know that Abbott Lawrence Rotch established the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, which maintains the longest-running meteorological record of any observation site in the United States?
Did you know that Abe Tadaaki was one of the highest-ranking Japanese officials to remain in office after his colleagues followed Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu into death in 1651?
Did you know that American World War II veteran Alejandro R. Ruiz was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly assaulting and demolishing an enemy machine-gun pillbox?
Did you know that Hasnoor Hussein was investigated over allegations of sedition concerning his statements on the Malaysian social contract?
Did you know that Jacopo de' Barberi painted the first trompe l'oeil still-life since antiquity, which is now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich?
Did you know that John Baldwin named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible, and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip?
Did you know that Lochry's Defeat was an American Revolutionary War ambush led by Mohawk leader Joseph Brant which ended George Clark's campaign against Detroit?
Did you know that Maurice, the abbot of Inchaffray who blessed the Scottish army at the Battle of Bannockburn, later became Bishop of Dunblane?
Did you know that Ruth Gruber was the first journalist to enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan?
Did you know that Sabeena Saleem is the first mother to compete alongside her daughter at the Asian Games in Indian bowling history?
Did you know that in 1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 was shot down by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was an attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill?
Did you know that the British Royal House of Stuart were descended from members of the Scottish Clan Stuart?
Did you know that the Crouching Venus, a Hellenistic type of Aphrodite or Venus, is known from dozens of Roman copies?
Did you know that the HurriQuake nail is around twice as wind resistant as traditional nails and can increase a home's earthquake resistance by up to 50%?
Did you know that the Khooni Darwaza (literally Gateway of Blood) is a 16th century monument in Delhi, India that was named for the various incidents of bloodshed associated with it?
Did you know that the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts houses a Hinoki Cypress Tree that is over 250 years old?
Did you know that the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, launched in 1975, was one of the first demonstrations that showed the potential of satellite technology as an effective mass communication media?
Did you know that the crude oil found in Naftalan, Azerbaijan has been used for centuries in therapeutic baths?
Did you know that the theme of the Kyffhäuser Monument suggests a connection between the Holy Roman and German Empires?
Did you know that Dr. Matthew Lukwiya convinced nurses who refused to treat patients during an 2000 Ebola outbreak in northern Uganda to return to work?
Did you know that Gustaf Tenggren was a chief illustrator at the Disney Company when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced?
Did you know that Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik learnt to play cricket in Kuwait?
Did you know that Ostap Veresai, a 19th-century blind Ukrainian kobzar, performed at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia?
Did you know that Pauline Cushman, an actress and Union Army spy during the American Civil War, was caught  posing as a Confederate soldier, but escaped hanging by three days?
Did you know that Philipp Jenninger resigned as President of the Bundestag after his speech commemorating Kristallnacht caused a political scandal?
Did you know that Rice Creek in Minnesota was named for Henry Rice, one of the first two U.S. Senators to represent the state?
Did you know that US soldier Rodolfo P. Hernandez was awarded the Medal of Honor after the Korean War for attacking and delaying an enemy regiment, alone and wounded?
Did you know that a Congreve clock uses a rolling ball rather than a pendulum to regulate the time?
Did you know that after the Battle of Palashi in 1757, Nabakrishna Deb organised a Durga Puja where Lord Clive offered thanksgiving?
Did you know that during his lifetime, Radu Irimescu worked as a German naval officer, Romanian Air Force pilot, banker, businessman, government minister, and diplomat to the United States?
Did you know that five USAAF airmen were awarded the Medal of Honor following Operation Tidal Wave, a low-level bombing of Romanian oil refineries on 1 August 1943?
Did you know that forces of the Russian and Austrian Empires attempted to defeat an isolated French division in the Battle of Dürenstein on 11 November 1805, three weeks after the Battle of Ulm and three weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz?
Did you know that in Arthurian legend, Brangaine inadvertently sets the romance of Tristan and Iseult in motion by failing to protect the love potion entrusted to her?
Did you know that nobody buried in a safety coffin is known to have taken advantage of its features?
Did you know that the Native American Sheshequin Path along Lycoming Creek, Pennsylvania was prone to such bad weather that an evil spirit was believed to reside there?
Did you know that the costume for the fairy Carabosse in the 1921 ballet The Sleeping Princess was designed to have the silhouette of a rat?
Did you know that the first printed and illustrated travel-book published in the West included a 5-ft (1.6 m) long fold-out view of Venice in woodcut by Erhard Reuwich?
Did you know that the history of rapid transit began when the London Underground started operations in 1863?
Did you know that the right to petition in the United States required the 1844 rescinding of a gag rule prohibiting discussion of abolitionist petitions in the House of Representatives?
Did you know that Chris Phatswe committed suicide by crashing his Air Botswana plane into two other planes belonging to the airline, effectively crippling operations?
Did you know that George Temple-Poole designed many of the first permanent structures in the shanty towns built during Western Australia's gold rush?
Did you know that Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War?
Did you know that Itzik Manger, a Yiddish poet, is best known for his radical revisions of Biblical material?
Did you know that Jacques Lacan's theory of a mirror stage, where an infant first recognizes its self in a mirror, was inspired by the work of psychologist Henri Wallon?
Did you know that Kalos inscriptions found on antique Attic vases, usually contain the author's declarations of love for the young man represented in the vase-painting?
Did you know that Les Wallace is the only left-handed BDO World Darts Champion?
Did you know that Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?
Did you know that Singapore Dreaming bagged Singapore its first IFFPA-recognised award at an international feature film festival?
Did you know that a swinging column at Haghartsin Monastery in Armenia was used to hide riches?
Did you know that archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon, uncovering artefacts from separate Roman, Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?
Did you know that owing to a fictitious 13th century account, St. Gratus of Aosta is typically depicted carrying the head of John the Baptist?
Did you know that the 2006 Boise State University football team returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football?
Did you know that the Caterham CSR is one of the lightest production cars, but lacks modern safety features, making it unsafe in collisions?
Did you know that the Istana Kampong Glam is a former Malay palace in Singapore, and was refurbished into the Malay Heritage Centre in 2004?
Did you know that the Montgomery Worsted Mills, a Registered Historic Place in Montgomery, New York, now earn most of their money by generating hydroelectric power from the nearby Wallkill River, rather than the manufacture of textiles?
Did you know that the gates to Norwood Jewish Orphanage in London were destroyed to allow fire engines easier access to the grounds?
Did you know that the phrase "Goody Two-Shoes" comes from a 1765 children's story?
Did you know that until 2006, it was not known that the 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning image Firing Squad in Iran was taken by Jahangir Razmi?
Did you know that , in the ninth century, the fort at Novye Duboviki on the Volkhov River shielded Novgorod from potential attacks by Viking raiders?
Did you know that 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War?
Did you know that Australia's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century was the sinking of the Koombana in a cyclone off Port Hedland, Western Australia?
Did you know that Marin Dwarf Flax (Hesperolinon congestum) is a wildflower whose few small colonies are threatened by transmission line maintenance and new trail systems?
Did you know that Prince Arisugawa Taruhito's engagement to Princess Kazu-no-Miya Chikako of Japan was cancelled by the Tokugawa bakufu so that the princess could marry Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi, for political reasons?
Did you know that The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook to be published in the United States?
Did you know that Xavier William Proenza has been announced as the next director of the National Hurricane Center?
Did you know that Yakut linguist Semyon Novgorodov adopted the International Phonetic Alphabet for the modern written Yakut language?
Did you know that a fossilized delta in Eberswalde crater provides strong evidence for flowing water on Mars?
Did you know that controversy has arisen over whether Norway's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
Did you know that coral within tropical oceans is being used as a tropical cyclone observation to date past hurricanes, by looking for concentrations of the oxygen isotope O-18?
Did you know that in 2005 the Constitutional Court of Spain ruled that Spanish courts may hear cases regarding genocide in which there were no Spanish victims, thereby reversing a decision of the country's Supreme Court?
Did you know that industrialist Joseph S. Cullinan worked in the oilfields of Pennsylvania from the age of 14, but would later help shape the early oil industry in Texas?
Did you know that the Coleman Bridge in Singapore was the second bridge built across the Singapore River, and the first built in masonry?
Did you know that the Met's new opera The First Emperor by Tan Dun has been in development for ten years?
Did you know that the Society of Friends of Science, first Polish scientific organization, founded in 1800, originated from the Thursday's dinners custom held by the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski?
Did you know that the Théâtre Optique show of 1892 was the first public projection of moving images, predating the Lumière Brothers' screening by three years?
Did you know that the death of Joseph Quinn prompted Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance system?
Did you know that the land around the Scottish mountain Canisp was purchased by a group of local residents for nearly £3m?
Did you know that while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
Did you know that B&H Photo Video in New York City employs so many Satmar Hasidim, there is daily bus service to the store from Kiryas Joel, a Satmar enclave in Orange County, New York?
Did you know that Bhai Gurdas was the original scribe of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of Sikhism?
Did you know that History Line: 1914-1918, a turn-based strategy computer game from 1993, adapted the software engine of the science-fiction Battle Isle series to portray the First World War?
Did you know that Natural Bridge State Park holds the largest natural arch in Wisconsin?
Did you know that Rosa Bonheur Memorial Park was the first pet cemetery to also allow people to be buried alongside their pets?
Did you know that Russian painter Alexandre Jacovleff participated in trans-Saharan and trans-Asian (from Syria to China) expeditions organized by the French car manufacturer Citroën?
Did you know that U.S. soldier Louis R. Rocco single-handedly carried three comrades out of a burning helicopter under enemy fire, despite having burned hands, a broken wrist and a fractured hip?
Did you know that actress Frances Gifford played the lead role of Nyoka in the 1941 movie serial Jungle Girl?
Did you know that after World War I, Istanbul was occupied by the Triple Entente in the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that more hurricanes have struck the Baja California peninsula than anywhere else in Mexico?
Did you know that self-expandable metallic stents are prosthetic metal tubes inserted by fibre optic cameras in order to treat cancers of the gastrointestinal tract?
Did you know that the Romanian politician Constantin Argetoianu, who organized repression of the Communist Party and announced the group's effective termination in 1922, spent his final years as a political prisoner of the Communist regime?
Did you know that the illustrated children's book Hot House Flowers, an allegory for illegal immigration, was written by a Brooklyn criminal court judge?
Did you know that the nature reserve Rejvíz in the Czech Republic is covered with a peat bog including two moss lakes of glacial origin?
Did you know that the performance of "I See A Star" at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 involved one singer playing a barrel organ with a collection of puppets on it?
Did you know that the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a national monument in Singapore, was given by Sultan Ibrahim of Johor in Malaysia?
Did you know that Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting is the nephew of former player Greg Campbell?
Did you know that Boris Grekov was a Soviet historian who set out to debunk Mikhail Grushevsky's theory that Kievan Rus was a predecessor state of Ukraine rather than of Russia and Belarus?
Did you know that Copeland Creek was significantly degraded by cattle overgrazing in the 19th century, but restoration efforts have reversed that trend?
Did you know that Herbert Gutman co-founded the "new labor history" school of thought, which focuses on the effects that ordinary people have had on the history of labor?
Did you know that Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi created the paramilitary Islamic Legion primarily associated with the seven year Libyan-Chadian War?
Did you know that Major General John Paton commanded the rear party during the evacuation of Anzac Cove in World War I and was one of the last Australian soldiers to leave the beach?
Did you know that Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa of Japan was head of the Northern Alliance whilst serving as a Buddhist priest?
Did you know that Russian Indologist Gerasim Lebedev was the founder of the first European-style drama theatre in India and also the first printing house in Europe equipped with Indic scripts of Bengali and Devanagari?
Did you know that Sacisaurus was named for a one-legged Brazilian elf, as the first skeleton was found missing a leg?
Did you know that Thomas Orde-Lees jumped from Tower Bridge into the River Thames to prove the effectiveness of parachutes to the Royal Flying Corps?
Did you know that eleven Pacific hurricanes have had their names retired, due to the damage they caused and other reasons?
Did you know that spray towers remove pollutants from exhaust gases by channeling them through a series of chemical sprays?
Did you know that the printmaking technique of mezzotint was invented in 1642 by professional soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwig von Siegen? (example mezzotint pictured)
Did you know that Bravlin, an apocryphal overlord of the Rus, was supposedly paralyzed when he entered the church of St. Stephen in Sougdeia?
Did you know that Clostridium perfringens alpha toxin is responsible for  gas gangrene and myonecrosis in infected tissues?
Did you know that Ottaviano Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton was the first music to be printed using movable type?
Did you know that Tryal Rocks is a reef off Western Australia named after the Tryall, the first shipwreck in Australian history?
Did you know that Tussey Mountain in Pennsylvania has been designated as an Important Bird Area, as it is home to several raptor species during their spring migration?
Did you know that a commemorative album was released for the tenth death anniversary of hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur?
Did you know that a subpeak of Derry Cairngorm holds the highest permanent body of water in Great Britain?
Did you know that calcific tendonitis causes significant pain when resting on or moving the shoulder?
Did you know that girdle books were popular fashion items between the 13th and 16th centuries?
Did you know that of the 64 women in the 39th Canadian Parliament, only one, former New Democratic Party leader Alexa McDonough, represents a riding in Atlantic Canada?
Did you know that one of only five extant Rafetus swinhoei soft-shelled turtles is thought by residents of Hanoi, Vietnam to be the magical Golden Turtle God named Kim Qui?
Did you know that the Aklanon people of the Philippines trace their heritage to Austronesian-speaking immigrants from the Iron Age?
Did you know that the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester, England, was the world's largest single-span arch for 30 years?
Did you know that the Polish town of Dzierżoniów was the venue of a meeting between Poland, Prussia, Holland and Austria during the Great Turkish War?
Did you know that the Russian Association of Scouts was founded by Colonel Oleg Pantyukhov?
Did you know that the dust storms raised by the Shamal wind bring most travel in Iraq to a halt for several days?
Did you know that the obedience to orders and dogged resistance of the Russian infantry at the Battle of Golymin in 1806 greatly impressed Napoleon and his army?
Did you know that there has been a long history of activism at Ohio Wesleyan University (protest pictured), endorsed by the inaugural address of its first president?
Did you know that , according to Patriarch Photius of Constantinople, the land of the Rus was Christianized (Sergei Ivanov's painting pictured) by 867?
Did you know that Buster, the dog of British Labour politician Roy Hattersley, earned his owner a criminal record after killing a goose in St. James's Park, London?