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Did you know that Kesatuan Melayu Muda was the first Malayan political body to request Malayan independence?
Did you know that Lublin Castle was the place where the Union of Lublin, creating the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was signed?
Did you know that Ludwig Preiss collected the first specimen of the Western Swamp Tortoise in 1839, but no further collections occurred until 1953?
Did you know that Norwegian politician Harald T. Nesvik claimed to have nominated George W. Bush and Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace prize?
Did you know that Osu Castle is the seat of government in Ghana?
Did you know that Salmson 2, along with the Breguet 14, was the main reconnaissance aircraft  of the French army in the First World War?
Did you know that U-256 was one of seven German World War II submarines converted into anti-aircraft submarines, and the last German submarine to leave Brest, France?
Did you know that the Krazy Kat cartoons printed in the San Francisco Examiner prompted a serious physical assault on author Agnes Newton Keith?
Did you know that the construction of Basilica Cathedral St. Peter and St. Patern, Vannes took seven centuries and featured styles from Romanesque to Neo Gothic?
Did you know that Calabazas Creek in Sonoma Valley cuts through a volcanic watershed with nearby relict hot springs?
Did you know that Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine is supported by both the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez?
Did you know that French Champagne merchant Charles Heidsieck was imprisoned for espionage during the American Civil War, sparking an international incident?
Did you know that Torbjörn Nilsson is considered to be one of the greatest Swedish footballers of all time, despite only having played 28 matches for the national team?
Did you know that in 1965 Marguerite Legot became the first female  Belgian federal government minister?
Did you know that link-boys were paid to carry a torch to guide pedestrians at night before street lighting became commonplace?
Did you know that on February 1, the National Weather Service began using the Enhanced Fujita Scale to assess tornado damage, replacing the Fujita scale?
Did you know that the Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia, features a woman lifting three stars, the emblem of a united Latvia?
Did you know that the Gippeumjo is a "pleasure group" that was established in 1978 during the administration of Kim Il-sung?
Did you know that the Tomlin order, a court order in England and Wales under which a court action is stayed on terms which have been agreed in advance between the parties, is named from a 1927 ruling of the High Court judge, Mr Justice Tomlin?
Did you know that the levée of Louis XIV, the privilege of removing the king's nightshirt, was a great honour only accorded to a high noble?
Did you know that the painting by Melchior d'Hondecoeter known as the The Floating Feather gained its name from a tiny detail he added to the pool?
Did you know that British Labour politician Fiona Jones was disqualified from the House of Commons when she was convicted for submitting fraudulent election expense returns, but was later reinstated?
Did you know that John T. Ford was the only American theatre manager to pay Gilbert and Sullivan royalties for H.M.S. Pinafore during its initial U.S. run?
Did you know that Radishchev Museum in Saratov founded by Russian painter Alexey Bogolyubov was the first museum in the country opened to the general public?
Did you know that Władysław Wejtko joined the Polish Army and constructed fortifications in the decisive Battle of Warsaw?
Did you know that an odd-eyed cat is a cat with one blue eye and one green, orange or yellow eye, a feline form of heterochromia?
Did you know that five of the nine Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County, Illinois have been destroyed since their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980?
Did you know that in 1263 Fürstenfeld Abbey was founded by Ludwig the Severe of Bavaria as a penance for killing his wife?
Did you know that the Ganesha Purana is a religious text in Hinduism dedicated to the elephant-headed deity Ganesha and was produced by the Hindu sect Ganapatya?
Did you know that the Iowa horticultural professor Griffith Buck created over 80 named cultivars of the rose?
Did you know that the first foreigner decorated in World War Two with the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Czechoslovak soldier, Otakar Jaroš after the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943?
Did you know that Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame member Allan Pickard built and managed amateur ice hockey organizations that produced future NHL stars and became a model for modern organized amateur hockey?
Did you know that Charlotte Stuart was the illegitimate daughter of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the secret mistress of the Archbishop of Bordeaux?
Did you know that Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University publishes the largest number of research papers among agricultural universities in India?
Did you know that a major source for Greek mythology, the first Vatican Mythographer, survives in a single text in the Vatican Library?
Did you know that the history of science and technology in China was made known in the West largely through the work of the Jesuits and later through Joseph Needham?
Did you know that Australian-born American actor Marc McDermott joined an acting troupe to support his mother and sister after his father's death?
Did you know that Corona Schröter, an 18th century German singer, composed musical settings for several works by Friedrich Schiller, as well as two dramas, hundreds of arias and duets, and an autobiography given to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, but that all of these works are now lost?
Did you know that J.M. Legard's 2006 novel Giraffe is based on the real-life mass killing of giraffes at the zoo in the Czechoslovakian town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 30 April 1975?
Did you know that Private Passions, a weekly classical music programme on BBC Radio 3, has occasionally featured interviews with hoax characters played by comedian John Sessions?
Did you know that Robin Wilson was not only a science fiction author and editor, but President of California State University, Chico?
Did you know that current Journal of Food Science scientific editor Daryl B. Lund was a college roommate of future Governor of Wisconsin and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson?
Did you know that lead shot for the Napoleonic Wars was made at Chester Shot Tower, probably the oldest surviving shot tower in the world?
Did you know that of the world's largest wooden ships, almost all those longer than 300 feet leaked or were not seaworthy?
Did you know that the Newgate novels of the 19th century were attacked by the press for glamorizing the criminals portrayed in their stories?
Did you know that the Palanok Castle in Mukacheve, Ukraine, was used as an all-European political prison after the fall of the French Bastille, and as a shelter for the Crown of St. Stephen, protecting it from Napoleon I's troops?
Did you know that 49 of Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous's novels have had film adaptations?
Did you know that Bryan Pearce overcame learning disabilities from congenital phenylketonuria to be recognised as one of the UK's leading naïve artists?
Did you know that Caffè Florian, established in 1720, was the first coffeehouse in Venice to admit women?
Did you know that Charles R. Stelck proved that ancient coral reefs had once existed in the Arctic and that oil could be found there?
Did you know that Daniel Friedmann, Israel's Minister of Justice, is a seventh-generation sabra, a rarity in a country where mass Jewish immigration did not begin until the late 19th century?
Did you know that Gerhard Schröder sponsored a star for Dieter Hildebrandt on the Walk of Fame of Cabaret during his time as Chancellor of Germany ?
Did you know that Jablunkov is the easternmost town of the Czech Republic?
Did you know that Polish general Jan Rządkowski was dismissed from his post as the commander of the armed forces of Central Lithuania when it was discovered that he did not have citizenship in that state?
Did you know that a strike in the Hipolit Cegielski Industries in Poznań, June 1956, led to the first major Polish protest against communism?
Did you know that balloonist Sophie Blanchard was Napoleon's Chief Air Minister of Ballooning, and was named "Official Aeronaut of the Restoration" by Louis XVIII of France?
Did you know that despite being illiterate, Duncan Bàn MacIntyre became one of the most famous Scottish Gaelic poets?
Did you know that even though Denis Potvin retired in 1988, fans of the New York Rangers still practice a tradition aimed at insulting him?
Did you know that laminopathies are a diverse group of genetic diseases caused by mutations in nuclear envelope filaments?
Did you know that the 7th-century King Cynegils, the first West Saxon  ruler known to have been baptised as a Christian, is called the son of at least three different fathers in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?
Did you know that the Anstruther Fish Bar in Fife has won the accolade "best fish and chip shop" in Scotland, on three occasions?
Did you know that the United States Africa Command, the newest U.S. military Unified Combatant Command, will cover all of Africa, except for Egypt?
Did you know that the advertising campaign "Love in the Afternoon" only became lucrative for ABC when advertisements chronicling the troubled union of Luke and Laura were aired, bringing General Hospital to the top of the U.S. soap opera ratings?
Did you know that the deadly mushroom Clitocybe dealbata is known as the "sweating mushroom" because this is a striking side effect of consuming it?
Did you know that Charles Calhoun, the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, served in the United States Navy during World War II before enlisting in the Coast Guard?
Did you know that General Stanislav Poplavsky was one of thousands of Soviet officers who served as commanders, advisors and officials in the People's Republic of Poland during the Stalinization period?
Did you know that George Washington's threshing barn was an early example of an American round barn?
Did you know that John Oliver Wheeler and his grandfather Arthur Oliver Wheeler mapped the Selkirk Mountains?
Did you know that Philip Blaiberg survived for more than nineteen months after receiving the second heart transplant ever?
Did you know that Polish Navy admiral Włodzimierz Steyer commanded the Polish Army in the Battle of Hel, the longest battle of the Polish September Campaign?
Did you know that Squad Five-O grew from an indie band and eventually signed to the general market label Capitol Records before disbanding in 2006?
Did you know that a recent oil discovery in Bojonegoro is the biggest in Indonesia for three decades and one of the biggest reserves in Indonesia?
Did you know that the Empire State Building in New York City was illuminated with blue lights on April 5, 2005 to mark the 10th anniversary of National Poetry Month which is celebrated every April in the United States?
Did you know that the Minute Women of the U.S.A. was a militantly anti-communist organization for American housewives in the 1950s?
Did you know that the four corners of the main crossroads in the historic town of Ross in Tasmania are known as Temptation, Recreation, Salvation and Damnation?
Did you know that the relics of St. Florian kept in St. Florian's Church were brought to Kraków from Rome for political reasons?
Did you know that the representatives at the Vilnius Conference in 1917 elected a 20-member Council of Lithuania to negotiate with the Germans for the independence of Lithuania?
Did you know that the statue of the Virgin and Child in the porch of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford was cited as evidence in Archbishop Laud's execution trial, and has bullet holes made by Oliver Cromwell's troops?
Did you know that 16th-century Genevan reformer John Calvin held Bible studies in the Calvin Auditory?
Did you know that 17th-century philosopher Cesare Cremonini refused to look at the Moon's mountains through Galileo's telescope, believing that Aristotle had proven the Moon was a perfect sphere?
Did you know that Able Seaman Just Nuisance is the only dog to have been officially enlisted in the Royal Navy?
Did you know that Ann Ebsworth was the first female High Court judge to be assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, the previous five having all been assigned to the Family Division?
Did you know that Indian Test cricketer Murali Kartik was expelled from the first intake of the National Cricket Academy due to indiscipline?
Did you know that Iñaki de Juana Chaos began a hunger strike in November 2006 to protest what he believes to be unlawful imprisonment by the Spanish government?
Did you know that Little Mikey was a character who appeared in a television advertisement for Quaker Oats' Life cereal that was aired in the United States for over 12 years?
Did you know that Sausenburg Castle in Germany was destroyed in 1678 by the army of French Marshall Creque during the Franco-Dutch War?
Did you know that archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre, discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel, was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood?
Did you know that because the horse does not have a gall bladder, they can only have up to 20% fat as part of their equine nutrition?
Did you know that grid fins are used on the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB) so it can fit inside a C-130 aircraft?
Did you know that the Brunswick Manifesto, issued during the French Revolution to intimidate Paris, backfired and spurred further revolutionary action?
Did you know that the Dutch barn was the first non-native barn model ever built in the United States?
Did you know that the House of Lords declined to hear an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal in Aerotel v Telco and Macrossan's application, concerning the patentability of computer programs in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Seal Slough tidal channel in California hosts a thriving marshland habitat despite encroachment by a sewage treatment plant and two schools?
Did you know that the The Bull Ring is a henge that was built in the late Neolithic period near Dove Holes in Derbyshire?
Did you know that the causes and extent of Olmec influences on Mesoamerican cultures are still being debated long after they were first raised at a conference in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in 1942?
Did you know that Colin McDonald and George Thoms were Australian cricketers who, uniquely, opened the batting for their club, state and national teams in the same season?
Did you know that Colony Collapse Disorder is a syndrome describing the increasing die-off of honey-bees and other arthropods?
Did you know that French geologist Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois was the first to arrange the chemical elements by atomic weight, but his design was ignored by many chemists?
Did you know that Mark Kellogg became the first Associated Press correspondent to die in the line of duty when he was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Did you know that RNA-binding piwi proteins are required for the formation of sperm in many animals, including mammals?
Did you know that Uzbekistani artist Nikolai Shin spent more than two decades working on his 44-metre-long painting Requiem, which depicts the  1937 deportation of the Koryo-saram to Central Asia?
Did you know that a road in Charlcombe, Somerset, England is closed for two months every spring to allow frogs and toads to cross safely?
Did you know that plant cells go through an additional stage in their cell cycle, the preprophase, which does not occur during mitosis in animal cells?
Did you know that the 101 female Members of Parliament elected in the United Kingdom in Labour's landslide general election victory in 1997 were popularly known as Blair Babes?
Did you know that the Polish Second Army was the second major formation of the Peoples' Army of Poland fighting alongside the Soviet Union in the Second World War?
Did you know that the first of the Joe McDoakes series of one-reel short subjects began as a project to teach students at the University of Southern California movie making before being bought by Warner Bros. for $2500 in 1942?
Did you know that the five themes of geography is an educational framework for geography adopted in 1984 by the Association of American Geographers?
Did you know that British Postmaster General Reginald Bevins's promise in November 1962 to "do something" about the BBC programme That Was The Week That Was was immediately countered by the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan?
Did you know that French Major General René Cogny, who later commanded French forces during the First Indochina War, was captured in June 1940 by the German army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?
Did you know that Isidore van Kinsbergen had to dig and to clean for four months before he could take the first picture of the 9th century Indonesian Buddhist monument of Borobudur in 1873?
Did you know that Lyman Reed Blake devised a sewing machine for sewing the sole to the vamp of the shoe?
Did you know that New Zealand rugby union player Billy Stead co-authored The Complete Rugby Footballer while on tour with the All Blacks in 1905-6?
Did you know that Pinchas Rosen, Israel's first Minister of Justice, served in the German army during World War I?
Did you know that besides founding Phi Tau Sigma, Guy Livingston was also responsible for developing a sanitation certification program for foodservice managers that was later adopted by the federal, state, and local governments in the United States?
Did you know that kissing the statue Il Gobbo di Rialto marked the conclusion of a traditional Venetian punishment in which petty criminals were forced to run naked through the streets from Piazza San Marco?
Did you know that robotic jockeys are used in camel racing events in Qatar in an effort to phase out the widespread use of forced child labor in the races?
Did you know that the Frank and Ernest comic strip first remarked that Fred Astaire "was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ... backwards and in high heels," according to The Yale Book of Quotations?
Did you know that the Old Admiralty House, a national monument in Singapore, was used by the British Armed Forces for strategic planning during World War II?
Did you know that the Pianta Grande di Roma by Giambattista Nolli of 1748 was still being used in urban planning in Rome down to the 1970s?
Did you know that the San Bruno Creek Trail provides a key link in the San Francisco Bay perimeter trail, but a two-mile detour inland is required?
Did you know that the original Act of Independence of Lithuania, which was signed on  February 16, 1918, is still being searched for by historians?
Did you know that the subtropical ridge helps steer tropical cyclones?
Did you know that the town of Sayram in Kazakhstan has earned the nickname "Little Uzbekistan" because of its large Uzbek population?
Did you know that Aaron Clark was the only Whig Party candidate ever elected mayor of New York City?
Did you know that Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?
Did you know that Blackadder Goes Forth, the final series of the BBC situation comedy Blackadder, is noted for its sensitive depiction of World War I trench warfare, and was placed 16th in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes by the British Film Institute?
Did you know that Brian Williams was one of three Welsh farmers in the "farming" front row at Neath RFC?
Did you know that Hawaii Route 560 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 because of its historical character of one lane bridges?
Did you know that Hurricane Sergio in 2006 was the strongest Pacific hurricane  on record in the month of November?
Did you know that Jamestown Rediscovery is an ongoing archaeological project of the APVA which discovered the long-lost remains of the first fort built by the settlers at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony?
Did you know that Old Walton Bridge was the subject of a painting by Canaletto in which he included an image of himself painting?
Did you know that a general contractor makes submittals which are required by the architect and engineer for verification that correct products will be installed in a construction project?
Did you know that approximately 10,000 young Germans known as the Ritchie Boys served in the United States Army in World War II helping conduct psychological warfare against Nazi Germany?
Did you know that grape and raisin toxicity is a potential cause of acute renal failure in dogs?
Did you know that one method of torture used by the French Army in the Algerian War of Independence was to throw prisoners into the sea from helicopters in so-called death flights?
Did you know that retired Seventh United States Army General Frederick Kroesen survived an RPG-7 anti-tank rocket attack by the Red Army Faction?
Did you know that the 1971 Harley-Davidson Super Glide, the first factory custom motorcycle, used an Electra Glide frame mated to Sportster forks?
Did you know that the British Indian Association played a catalytic role in building up Indian political consciousness?
Did you know that the Bronx, New York farmhouse which belonged to Isaac Varian, mayor of New York City from 1839-41, currently houses the Museum of Bronx History?
Did you know that the Great Western Railway's Cornish Riviera Express was named following a public competition in The Railway Magazine?
Did you know that the insanity of Australian serial killer Catherine Birnie is believed to have been caused by the death of her son?
Did you know that American college basketball player Javaris Crittenton is projected by major media outlets such as ESPN to be a potential first round draft pick in the 2007 NBA Draft?
Did you know that Archbishop Anthony Forbes Moreton Clavier was ordained as a priest by five different churches in five years?
Did you know that Beverley Baxter raised circulation of the Daily Express from under one million to over two million during his four years as editor?
Did you know that Dallas Theological Seminary, a center of dispensational Christian theology and alma mater for people including Chuck Swindoll and Hal Lindsey, has been in operation since 1924?
Did you know that Eldon Hill (quarry pictured) in the Peak District, England lost much of its area through limestone quarrying between 1950 and 1999?
Did you know that England's cricket selectors picked "coloured" Basil D'Oliveira to replaced the injured Tom Cartwright for the tour to South Africa in 1968-69, triggering the cancellation of the tour and leading to the exclusion of the South African cricket team from international cricket until apartheid was abolished in 1991?
Did you know that Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, was rescued by UNICEF and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier?
Did you know that Joseph Legros, who first performed in 1764, was the principal tenor at the Paris Opéra until his retirement in 1783?
Did you know that Kazimierz Pelczar, a Polish professor of the Stefan Batory University and pioneer of oncological research, was one of the 100,000 victims of the Ponary massacre?
Did you know that M. Athalie Range was the first black since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a state agency in Florida?
Did you know that New York's "Timothy's Law" mandated that New York health insurance plans provide coverage for biologically-based mental health conditions comparable to coverage for physical ailments?
Did you know that Ponary massacre lasted for 3 years as 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius?
Did you know that Rembrandt collected the works of Hercules Seghers (example pictured) and partially reworked two of his works?
Did you know that Thomas Vose Daily resigned his position as Archbishop of Brooklyn one week after being criticized by the Massachusetts attorney general in a report on the recent Roman Catholic sex abuse cases?