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Did you know that a variant of the helmet used by the Bulgarian Army in World War II is still in service?
Did you know that according to "Believe It or Not", Florian ZaBach played "The Flight of the Bumblebee" faster than any known violinist?
Did you know that cultivated Christmas trees are susceptible to such pests and diseases as the Balsam woolly adelgid and sudden oak death?
Did you know that in 1745 William Cleghorn won a University of Edinburgh position after his rival, David Hume, was described by the town council as amoral, an atheist, and a sceptic?
Did you know that the 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was buried in a communal grave?
Did you know that the Irish politician the O'Gorman Mahon commanded a Chilean fleet, fought thirteen duels, and won a by-election aged 87?
Did you know that the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in the southwestern United States was established in 1939 to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep and the name Kofa is a contraction of King of Arizona?
Did you know that ADP-ribosylation, a posttranslational protein modification, is involved in the actions of several bacterial toxins in diseases such as cholera and whooping cough?
Did you know that Clayton Jacobson II, a banker from Arizona, is credited with inventing the personal water craft?
Did you know that Colonel Gerardo Huber, a former DINA agent in charge of buying military supplies for the Chilean Army, disappeared in 1991 shortly after weapons disguised as humanitarian aid were discovered in Budapest?
Did you know that Duke University Fuqua School of Business Professor, financial economist and regular CNBC Closing Bell guest, John Graham was nominated for four Journal of Finance best paper awards before winning?
Did you know that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that Harvard Business School associate professor and financial economist Randolph Cohen has published research on the valuation of baseball star Alex Rodriguez?
Did you know that Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space flight in the United States, beginning with Alan Shepherd's maiden voyage in 1961?
Did you know that King of Sweden Charles Gustav was so impressed by Kazimierzowski Palace in Warsaw that he even ordered the window frames to be removed and transported to Sweden during the Swedish invasion?
Did you know that The Harvey School, a rural school in New York, was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?
Did you know that Vera Pezer, current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, is a four-time Canadian Ladies' curling champion and a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame?
Did you know that a woman, chamberlain Urszula Mayerin, was among the most influential figures at Sigismund III Vasa's court, signing official state documents in his name and receiving foreign ambassadors during his illness?
Did you know that an advertising spot immediately following Xinwen Lianbo, a daily news programme shown by most terrestrial television stations in mainland China, can sell for an estimated US$100,000?
Did you know that between 1872 and 1876 the buildings of Tampico, Illinois' central business district were destroyed by fire three times and tornado once?
Did you know that investment analyst Martin Fridson is often referred to as the "Dean of high-yield debt"?
Did you know that the 6th-century Songyue Pagoda is the oldest extant large pagoda in China and the earliest multiple-eave pagoda known?
Did you know that the Arly-Singou ecosystem shelters the largest remaining population of lions in West Africa?
Did you know that the Classic Veracruz culture of pre-Columbian Mexico was obsessed with human sacrifice as part of the Mesoamerican ballgame?
Did you know that the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists, as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration?
Did you know that the popularity of the Hexar AF, a 35mm fixed-lens, autofocus camera sold by Konica in 1993, was in part due to its "silent" operating mode?
Did you know that Buddhist monk Ekai Kawaguchi was the first Japanese citizen to travel to Nepal?
Did you know that Chinatown, San Francisco's waiter Edsel Ford Fong is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?
Did you know that Harriet Howard was not only Louis Napoleon's mistress, but also financed his successful 1851 coup d'état?
Did you know that Igo Sym, one of the most popular actors of interbellum Poland, was executed in 1941 by the Polish resistance for cooperating with German occupiers?
Did you know that Libya's Sirte Basin—which in some places lies more than 47 metres below sea level—contains roughly 80% of the country's known crude oil reserves?
Did you know that Parke County, Indiana  bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States?
Did you know that after spending a billion dollars developing borane-enriched "zip fuels" to power a new generation of jet engines, the US Air Force realized the entire idea was unworkable and had to abandon it all in 1959?
Did you know that in 2006, nearly 50,000 people were marooned in Labhpur and surrounding areas of Birbhum district in West Bengal because of floods?
Did you know that pianist Glenn Gould later criticized his own 1956 recording Bach: The Goldberg Variations, which had made him instantly famous?
Did you know that since 2002, New York's Middletown High School has seen the district superintendent convicted of sexual abuse, had one principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts and was ordered to reinstate a teacher?
Did you know that the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material?
Did you know that the Doctorfish tang has the largest range of its genus, which includes 38 species from three oceans?
Did you know that the Loch Lomond Golf Club occupies land previously held by Clan Colquhoun and uses the clan's seat of Rossdhu Mansion as its clubhouse?
Did you know that the Palace under the Four Winds in Warsaw was owned by an heir to an enormous fortune who went bankrupt after the lost war of independence with Russia?
Did you know that the Plaza film theatre in Bangalore, India  was modelled after the Piccadilly Circus in London?
Did you know that the U.S. Federal Government's largest provider of HIV/AIDS services, the Ryan White Care Act, is named after Ryan White, a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?
Did you know that the ancient Egyptians believed that a false door allowed the spirits of the dead  to receive offerings and to enter and exit the world of the living?
Did you know that the military doctrine of the cult of the offensive was one of the main causes of World War I?
Did you know that the recent Hurricane Humberto formed into a hurricane and made landfall faster than any other tropical cyclone on record?
Did you know that the supply of natural gas and electricity in New Orleans, Louisiana ceased as a result of the General Strike of 1892, plunging the city into darkness for four nights?
Did you know that Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel, his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment?
Did you know that Lois DeBerry is the first African-American woman speaker pro tempore of the Tennessee House of Representatives?
Did you know that Rachel Carson was so disappointed in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of her 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us that she never again sold film rights to her work?
Did you know that Rush Street, now known for its nightlife, has had four bridges over the Chicago River connecting the Loop to the Near North Side and once handled 50% of Chicago's north-south traffic?
Did you know that Swan and Maclaren is the oldest architectural firm in Singapore?
Did you know that Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia is the second Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem?
Did you know that cryptologist Harry Hinsley's realisation that German weather ships were the Achilles' heel of the Enigma code led to the capture of the Lauenburg?
Did you know that fossilised crinoid columnals from Lindisfarne which were strung together as a necklace or rosary became known as St Cuthbert's beads?
Did you know that hotels in Mannum, South Australia served patrons in boats from the second floor when floodwaters rose during the 1956 Murray River flood?
Did you know that one reviewer of Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Men apologized for his harsh review once he discovered a woman had written the book?
Did you know that the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Army is the only airmobile unit of the Ukrainian Airborne Forces which has BMD-1 and BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicles?
Did you know that the Fama-DFA Prize is named after University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Eugene Fama, a financial economist whose publications are the foundation of efficient market theory?
Did you know that the Plano Stone Church was constructed in 1868 to serve as the world headquarters for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints under the leadership of Joseph Smith III?
Did you know that the SGH War Memorial was gazetted as one of the nine historical landmarks that are closely linked with the history of medical education in Singapore?
Did you know that the annual Gorolski Święto is the largest cultural and folklore festival in the Zaolzie region of Eastern Europe?
Did you know that the chairman of the Tennessee House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee, Rob Briley, was arrested for vandalism and driving under the influence of alcohol after a 100 mph car chase?
Did you know that the efforts by Taiwan to distinguish itself from mainland China have their roots in the Cold War of the 1950s?
Did you know that the first complete map of Iceland, based on Björn Gunnlaugsson's 1831–43 survey, is mentioned in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth?
Did you know that the planetary nebula luminosity function is an accurate standard candle (luminosity measurement) outside Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way, despite an average error factor of two for distance estimates to planetary nebulae within this galaxy?
Did you know that the railways of Jamaica were the first built outside of Europe and continental North America and the first in a British colony?
Did you know that Alexandru Papana competed in bobsleigh for Romania at two Winter Olympics and later was involved in test flying the P-61 Black Widow?
Did you know that Carnegie Medal-winning children’s author Berlie Doherty has written the libretti for three operas?
Did you know that Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, was the first member of the Sikh diaspora?
Did you know that Fox Point State Park, a Delaware State Park which opened in 1995 along the Delaware River, was built atop a hazardous waste site?
Did you know that Lucas Bols is the oldest extant Dutch distillery?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Sam Zoldak's only home run in his major league career did not count after the game was cancelled because of rain?
Did you know that Thomas Milton Gatch, an Ohioan educator and politician, was the first president of Oregon State University to hold a doctorate degree?
Did you know that Welshman Sir Gore Ouseley arranged for Azerbaijan to become part of the Russian Empire in 1814?
Did you know that director Zhang Yuan's 1999 film, Seventeen Years was the first Chinese film allowed to film inside a Chinese prison?
Did you know that former Italian Prime Minister Mario Scelba was known as the "Iron Sicilian"?
Did you know that in Greek mythology, Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse that could talk?
Did you know that neither the U.S. nor Canada uses UNESCO-defined mandatory signs (example pictured) for traffic?
Did you know that scientists are concerned that the Bangali River in northern Bangladesh may merge with the Jamuna River and cause a loss of 100,000 hectares of land in the region?
Did you know that the 371-acre Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge provides nesting for 1.2 million seabirds—more than California and Washington combined?
Did you know that the Gudgeonville Covered Bridge in Girard, Pennsylvania is said by local residents to be haunted by the ghost of a donkey?
Did you know that the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
Did you know that the Pyramid of Senusret I was built in single-cell units instead of all at once, as was the norm?
Did you know that the rare Northern colletes bee was recently found to be thriving in the unique machair seaside habitat of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland?
Did you know that zero is even?
Did you know that 18-year-old online poker phenom, Annette_15, became the youngest person to ever win a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event?
Did you know that Florence Boulevard in Omaha, Nebraska was originally called the "Prettiest Mile in Omaha Boulevard" when it was designed by Horace Cleveland in 1892?
Did you know that Fort Runyon, built to defend Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War, was almost the same size, shape, and in almost the same place as the Pentagon, built 80 years later?
Did you know that Jane Addams was offered burial in the U.S. National Cathedral but instead opted for interment at her family's plot in Cedarville, Illinois?
Did you know that Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas, one of the founders of the Party of National Progress, was accused of book smuggling during the Lithuanian press ban?
Did you know that Piłsudski's Mound, built in 1937, is the youngest and largest of the four mounds of Kraków?
Did you know that Roosevelt Raceway, the first night-time harness racing track, saw the first mobile starting gate?
Did you know that Spec Keene's Willamette University football team was stranded in Honolulu for two weeks following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that Warsaw's Carmelite Church was the site of Fryderyk Chopin's first job?
Did you know that despite being hit by two torpedoes that broke her in half, only one life was lost in the sinking of the Liberty ship SS James B. Stephens?
Did you know that every Byzantine Emperor under the Angeloi dynasty was overthrown in a violent coup d'état?
Did you know that of the nine children born of Martina, Heraclius' wife and niece, four died in infancy, one had a twisted neck and another was deaf & dumb?
Did you know that the Ghurni clay dolls of West Bengal have been inaugurated by Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev?
Did you know that the Newton Food Centre is promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board for sampling Singaporean cuisine, despite allegations of overpricing and mediocre food quality by locals?
Did you know that the University of North Alabama's Rogers Hall served as the headquarters for the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1864?
Did you know that the area known as the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield has been inhabited by at least five Native American tribes?
Did you know that the blue plumage of the Australian Variegated Fairy-wren strongly reflects UV light?
Did you know that wolf collars with long spikes, now widely adopted by the BDSM community, were originally used to protect dogs from wolf attacks?
Did you know that 12,000-year-old Paleo-Indian artifacts, including a rare fluted point, have been found in a quarry near Goshen, New York?
Did you know that Alfred D. Jones, the original surveyor of Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska, was known for delivering mail from his stovepipe hat as the first postmaster of Omaha?
Did you know that Australian amateur astronomer Gregg Thompson has been acknowledged by supernova hunters for publishing comparison charts of the brightest galaxies?
Did you know that Linda Chavez-Thompson was the first woman, colored person, and  Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL-CIO?
Did you know that Nikolai Yevreinov's productions included a "monodrama" set inside the human breast and a re-creating of the storming of the Winter Palace by the Bolsheviks?
Did you know that Philippe de Champaigne's 1662 painting Ex-Voto was a votive offering in gratitude for the miraculous cure of his daughter?
Did you know that Samuel Parker was a lawmaker in the Provisional, Territorial, and State governments of Oregon?
Did you know that Stamford House in Singapore, at first an office building, was for a time in the early 20th century an annex of Raffles Hotel due to a shortage of hotel rooms?
Did you know that Turkish-German professional boxer Hülya Şahin, the undefeated junior flyweight world champion, is the only female member of her club Universum?
Did you know that after Evelyn Waugh brought a priest to anoint him on his deathbed, lapsed Catholic Hubert Duggan was reconciled to the church, an event Waugh fictionalised in Brideshead Revisited?
Did you know that architect John M. Van Osdel drafted the plans for the first architect-designed house in Chicago, formed Chicago's first architectural firm and ensured passage of Chicago's first building codes?
Did you know that around a third of New Zealanders claim no religious affiliation, including the leaders of both main political parties?
Did you know that medieval Liubice, the capital of Prince Henry of the Obotrites, was the predecessor to Lübeck, Germany?
Did you know that missionary Josiah Parrish drove the first spike for the Oregon and California Railroad, and had a land dispute reach the U. S. Supreme Court?
Did you know that poet, film producer and journalist Pritish Nandy is credited with opening India's first cyber cafe in 1996?
Did you know that the  Pentapolis of North Africa  is believed to be the birthplace of Saint Mark the Evangelist?
Did you know that the Katsuyama Eiheiji Line was forced to transfer operation companies because of two head-to-head train collisions within a year?
Did you know that the boulevards in Omaha, Nebraska are part of a 1889 system designed by Horace Cleveland that Omaha city planners are currently starting to reutilize to guide suburban street design?
Did you know that the cathedral in Haapsalu Castle is the biggest single-naved church in the Baltic countries?
Did you know that the death of Eugene Ejike Obiora, a naturalized Norwegian citizen,  was  caused by  positional asphyxiation when he was placed in a chokehold, then handcuffed on his stomach during arrest?
Did you know that the hearing for the Nanoor massacre case has stalled because of the defendants' repeated failure to appear in court?
Did you know that the renovation of Gardiner, New York's Town Hall was criticized because it destroyed a historic outhouse?
Did you know that to further the career of future Naval Minister Takarabe Takeshi,  close friend Takeo Hirose asked Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, father of Takeshi's betrothed, to veto the marriage?
Did you know that Justice Hans Raj Khanna was the lone dissenter when the Supreme Court of India ruled that those arrested during India's repressive Emergency period from 1975 to 1977 would have no rights to habeas corpus?
Did you know that Locust Grove, Samuel F. B. Morse's home near Poughkeepsie, was the first Hudson Valley estate to be designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark?
Did you know that Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is the only company in India authorised to manufacture the indelible ink which is used in elections to prevent fraudulent voting?
Did you know that Mzoli's, a popular Cape Town eatery, nightclub and tourist attraction, in the township of Gugulethu, South Africa, started off as a butcher's shop operating from a garage?
Did you know that Oregon's Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge was the first National Wildlife Refuge established west of the Mississippi River and will be a hundred years old next month?
Did you know that Otton de Grandson participated in three separate military expeditions to the Holy Land: the Ninth Crusade (1270–1272), the Siege of Acre (1291), and a Templar-Hospitaller offensive in Cilicia (1298)?
Did you know that Pierre Monatte was one of the few French trade-unionists and members of the French Left to oppose the Union sacrée national bloc during World War I?
Did you know that Spanish art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot, of the Dau al Set school, gained international fame for his Dictionary of Symbols?
Did you know that Tirpitz the pig rescued after the sinking of the SMS Dresden became a ship's mascot on one of the cruisers that sank the Dresden?
Did you know that at the peak of the 1979 student protests in Nepal, radicals tried to humiliate moderate student leaders by painting their faces black, garlanding them with shoes, and parading them on a push-cart through the streets of Kathmandu?
Did you know that partially as a result of the mythical "bomber gap" between the USA and USSR, the USAF built an enormous fleet of over 2,500 jet bombers to deter what turned out to be only twenty Soviet aircraft?
Did you know that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States?
Did you know that the Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia was once the largest prison in the Kingdom of Hungary?
Did you know that the Mayslake Peabody Estate, built for Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1921, has a secret staircase which leads from Peabody's private study to a bomb-proof basement?
Did you know that the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat is only the second species in its genus and the 26th endemic bat species from the Philippines to be described?
Did you know that the appearance of an outline of monkeys on a tree in Singapore drew large crowds as devotees believed that the images are a manifestation of the Monkey God and Hanuman?
Did you know that the gorge in China's Flaming Mountains,  near the ruins of  the once busy oasis city  of Gaochang,  was an important  pass on the ancient trade route, the Silk Road, skirting the deadly Taklamakan Desert?
Did you know that the last chief of Clan MacQuarrie sold off his clan lands in Scotland and joined the British Army, at age 68, and fought in the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that the only remnants of Mecklenburg Castle, a medieval castle located in present-day Germany, are parts of an earthen wall?
Did you know that Dick Mann was the first motorcycle rider to win AMA's career Grand Slam by winning on short track, mile, half mile, Tourist Trophy, and road racing race tracks?
Did you know that Giuseppe Maggiolini, a cabinet-maker from late 18th century Milan, also made marquetry flooring for royal villas in Lombardy?
Did you know that John Dement served as Receiver of Public Moneys in the U.S. Land Office under five presidential administrations?
Did you know that Peter Adolf Thiessen, who received a Stalin Prize for his work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, had joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925?
Did you know that South African anti-conscription activist Nan Cross once climbed a tank at a weapons exhibition and attached stickers to it reading: "Arms are for hugging, not killing"?
Did you know that after Oregon's Point Adams Lighthouse changed colors to reduce confusion, it caused a ship to run aground in 1881?
Did you know that the 2002 ITC Inferno, a fire that destroyed a six-storey business complex, claimed sixty lives, and injured more than a hundred in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was started by poor welding?
Did you know that the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo had its origins in a humble Jesuit mission known today as Pátio do Colégio?
Did you know that the engravings of French Renaissance artist Jean Duvet exhibit horror vacui, or a fear of leaving space unfilled?