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Did you know that Luan Jujie is the only East Asian person to have won an Olympic gold medal in the sport of fencing?
Did you know that Mayurasharma was the founder of the Kadamba Kingdom of Banavasi, the earliest native kingdom to rule over what is today Karnataka state, India?
Did you know that Polish painter and critic Józef Czapski was twice sent to the Soviet Union to find missing Polish officers who had been executed by the Soviets?
Did you know that a Spokane, Washington, television station devoted the first 11 minutes of its Saturday evening newscast to the February 2007 arrests of Gonzaga University basketball player Josh Heytvelt and his teammate?
Did you know that after suppressing the Mytilenean revolt, the Athenian assembly considered executing the entire male population of Mytilene?
Did you know that at the Battle of Baia, Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus was struck by three arrows and almost died?
Did you know that during the blood-vomiting game, a famous Go game between Honinbo Jowa and Intetsu Akaboshi that lasted four days, Jowa made three unorthodox moves that were reputed to have been suggested to him by ghosts?
Did you know that the 1960 crash of Capital Airlines Flight 20 marked the third accident in three years involving a Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount?
Did you know that the Russian defense correspondent Ivan Safronov, who was writing about the third consecutive launch failure of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, died in a mysterious fall from his fifth floor apartment?
Did you know that the balloon framing method of wall framing became obsolete in the 1940s when it was replaced by the platform framing method?
Did you know that the locality of Boinka, Victoria, which has an area population of 28 people, celebrates Melbourne Cup Day each year despite being located 496 kilometres from Melbourne?
Did you know that Demi-Brigades were military formations created by France, to help better organize the French Revolutionary Army?
Did you know that Giovanni Dominici was initially refused admittance to the Dominican Order because of a speech impediment that was later reportedly cured after intercession by Catherine of Siena?
Did you know that Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862?
Did you know that Great American Country television host Nan Kelley (then Nan Sumrall) became Miss Mississippi in 1985 after her fellow Mississippian Susan Akin was crowned Miss America?
Did you know that Hurricane Guillermo in 1997 was the second strongest storm on record in the Eastern Pacific basin, with a minimal pressure of 919 millibars?
Did you know that Patrick Heenan, a Captain in the British Indian Army, was convicted of treason after spying for the Empire of Japan during the Malayan campaign of World War II?
Did you know that Wa-Wan Press was founded in 1901 by composer Arthur Farwell to publish works that incorporated traditional Native American music into new compositions?
Did you know that Whuppity Scoorie is a traditional celebration in Lanark, Scotland during which children run around a church three times swinging paper balls over their heads?
Did you know that William P. Bryant presided over the first criminal trial in what is now the U.S. state of Washington?
Did you know that a Secret Council of the Lithuanian Council of Lords dealt with all crucial state affairs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?
Did you know that after a 1731 fire, the Bastard brothers were responsible for the reconstruction of Blandford Forum (rebuilt town hall pictured) in a vernacular Baroque style?
Did you know that bottle pool, a hybrid game combining elements of pocket and carom billiards, was played by world-renowned quantum chemist and biochemist Linus Pauling?
Did you know that chocolate box art (example pictured) started in the late 19th century as box decorations, though the term 'chocolate box' is now used pejoratively to describe sentimental pictures?
Did you know that one of the  earliest known references to Karnataka, the name of an Indian state, is found in the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata?
Did you know that one submarine volcano located in Banda Sea of Indonesia is called the Emperor of China?
Did you know that the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut has architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture?
Did you know that the California Maritime Academy has named three of its four training ships Golden Bear (third ship pictured) since 1946?
Did you know that the Chappell Ganguly controversy in Indian cricket resulted in fiery street protests in Ganguly's home town of Calcutta and then raised debate in the Parliament of India?
Did you know that the McLaren F1 GTR, based on the production McLaren F1 supercar, won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans in its first year against purpose-built Le Mans Prototypes?
Did you know that the Portland Brownstone Quarries, which once provided brownstone to many landmark buildings in the United States during the 1800s, are now a National Historic Landmark and a regional scuba diving destination?
Did you know that the Romanian writer Paul Goma, whose citizenship was revoked by Ceauşescu’s regime in 1978, now resides in France as a stateless person?
Did you know that the Siribhoovalaya, a unique work of multi-lingual literature composed by Jain monk Kumudendu Muni, is written entirely using Kannada numerals, without the use of any alphabets?
Did you know that two members of the outlaw Banditti of the Prairie were lynched in Ogle County, Illinois on June 27, 1841?
Did you know that Cecil A. Bickley was one of the founders of Denver City, the largest community in Yoakum County on the Texas South Plains?
Did you know that Latvian composer Jāzeps Vītols was a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he taught Nikolai Myaskovsky and Sergei Prokofiev?
Did you know that Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz's The Laws of Pesach—considered an authoritative text on the observance of Passover by many North American Jews—started as a privately distributed newsletter?
Did you know that William Clowes Ltd.'s installation of noisy, steam-powered printing presses in 1823 irked the Duke of Northumberland so much that he brought its owner William Clowes to court?
Did you know that a series-parallel graph is a mathematical model  of series and parallel electric circuits with two different nodes called  source and sink, indicating the direction of the electrical current flow?
Did you know that at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, Yipsi Moreno became world champion in the hammer throw at the age of twenty, improving from an eighteenth place finish in 1999?
Did you know that early Baroque lutenist Michelagnolo Galilei was the younger brother of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei?
Did you know that since 1978, countries including Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States have compiled government reports on groups referred to as cults?
Did you know that some American slaveholders forced their slaves to drink an infusion of black haw to prevent abortions?
Did you know that the English nurse Lucy Osburn was chosen by Florence Nightingale to train Australia's first nurses?
Did you know that the Japanese guitar duo Gontiti wrote the soundtrack for the 2004 Hirokazu Koreeda film Nobody Knows?
Did you know that the Knob Creek Gun Range hosts a biannual event promoted as the "World's Largest Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show"?
Did you know that the Russian architect Alexander Zelenko was one of the authors of the linear city urban concept?
Did you know that the South African record set in 2001 by All-African shot put champion Burger Lambrechts was subsequently annulled because of a positive doping test?
Did you know that the Woodstock of physics refers to the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s March 1987 meeting that featured 51 presentations on superconductors and lasted until 3:15 AM?
Did you know that the interior and exterior of the Jose Maria Alviso Adobe in Milpitas, California have not significantly changed in 150 years?
Did you know that 18th century castrato Giuseppe Millico taught singing to Bourbon princesses and to Emma Hamilton?
Did you know that Australian soprano Gladys Moncrieff performed her famous role as Teresa in the musical comedy The Maid of the Mountains about 2800 times?
Did you know that British politician George Oliver once lost his seat at Ilkeston by two votes in the closest result in any British Parliamentary election, but later won by 30,398 in the fourth largest majority in 1951?
Did you know that Gavroche, a character from the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, lives inside an unfinished statue of an elephant in Paris?
Did you know that Paul Secon was an unemployed writer and musician living in New York City when he co-founded Pottery Barn with his brother in 1950?
Did you know that Richard Strauss helped the German composer Heinz Tiessen obtain a job at the Berlin State Opera in 1917?
Did you know that Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility in Hong Kong built from a landfill?
Did you know that Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the elite Indian Civil Service, played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?
Did you know that in surgery theory, the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak, a mathematician specializing in differential geometry?
Did you know that most of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory have not been divided into cadastral units?
Did you know that the 1966 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow?
Did you know that the Erdene Zuu monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in Mongolia, was built in 1585 using stones from the ruins of Genghis Khan's capital, Karakorum?
Did you know that the Flag of Springfield, Illinois was designed in a contest conceived by poet Vachel Lindsay in 1917?
Did you know that the Gate Church of the Trinity, originally constructed as an ascetic Kievan Rus' style church, is now lavishly decorated with Ukrainian Baroque style ornaments?
Did you know that the London cabinet-makers Ince and Mayhew were rivals of Thomas Chippendale in introducing Neoclassical furniture?
Did you know that the enzyme neprilysin  degrades amyloid beta, a peptide whose abnormal aggregation is implicated as a cause of Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that the recent flooding in Jakarta is considered to be the worst in the last three centuries?
Did you know that the remains of the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid, who became a victim of the Stalin purges, were moved from Magadan to his homeland of Nakhichevan in 1982 and reburied in a mausoleum built in his honor?
Did you know that two Beagle B.206 aircraft were built for evaluation by the UK Ministry of Aviation, resulting in an order for twenty aircraft for the Royal Air Force?
Did you know that Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Karen Rolton has scored the most runs for the Australian women's cricket team in women's Test cricket?
Did you know that Brigadier Sir Otho Prior-Palmer, a British Conservative Member of Parliament, accused a Labour MP of "never [having] done a damned day's work in his life", and claimed that Labour sent someone to stop Spitfire construction?
Did you know that Britain's first girls' reform school was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter, with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron's widow, at Bristol's Red Lodge?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee's honeycomb?
Did you know that Harry Kent worked both as a manufacturer of munitions and as a pub landlord whilst managing Watford F.C.?
Did you know that Italian-Australian hermit Valerio Ricetti shifted hundreds of tons of rock over 23 years to create his own utopia at Hermit's Cave near Griffith, New South Wales?
Did you know that Larry Blakeney, the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I-AA and then Division I-A?
Did you know that Madame Montour, of Native American and French Canadian heritage, was paid the same as a man when she worked as an interpreter for the colonial governments of New York and Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century?
Did you know that Scieno Sitter, a content-control software package created by the Church of Scientology, was referred to in the 2006 fictional film The Bridge?
Did you know that during his Eastern journey Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia visited Egypt, India, China and Japan travelling a distance of more than 51,000 km (31,500 mi)?
Did you know that eight of Australia's top fighter pilots attempted to resign their commissions in the final months of World War II, in the so-called Morotai Mutiny?
Did you know that the Romanian Communist ideologue Iosif Chişinevschi distanced himself from his Jewish origins and publicly supported the persecution of Jews?
Did you know that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has several programs aimed at conserving the habitat of the mission blue butterfly?
Did you know that the historical medical campus Maiden's Field (clinic pictured) in Moscow started as a court garden for medicinal herbs?
Did you know that the main tennis court at the Stade de Roland Garros, the home of the French Open in Paris, was renamed in honour of Philippe Chatrier, a former Davis Cup player and president of the International Tennis Federation from 1977 to 1991?
Did you know that "E depois do adeus" was one of two songs played on Portuguese radio to signal the beginning of the Carnation Revolution in 1974?
Did you know that Anthony Baldinucci, a Jesuit priest, often carried a cross and wore heavy chains while walking barefoot into towns where he was conducting missions?
Did you know that Chavundaraya, the builder of the Gomateshwara monolith at Shravanabelagola, was an army commander, minister and a famous writer of Kannada and Sanskrit literature?
Did you know that Mandritsa is known as the only Albanian village in Bulgaria?
Did you know that Matild Manukyan, a wealthy Turkish businesswoman of Armenian origin, made her fortune as a brothel owner?
Did you know that Nikita Balieff, a vaudeville performer, writer, impresario, and director, named his theater "Chauve-Souris" (bat) after a bat flew up out of the basement door and landed on his hat?
Did you know that a 2005 compendium of The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate, held annually at the University of Chicago since 1946, included contributions by Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman?
Did you know that during a 90-minute period on January 30, 1996, three commuters fell into the gap at the Long Island Rail Road station at Syosset due to icy platform conditions?
Did you know that the Barbarigo was a World War II Italian submarine that mysteriously disappeared in 1943?
Did you know that the Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles?
Did you know that the work of medical research scientists often includes toxic or radioactive materials and dangerous organisms?
Did you know that when the Dovre Railway was inaugurated in 1921, the train returning with the prominent guests crashed in the Nidareid train disaster, killing six people?
Did you know that "urban Indian" activist Bernie Whitebear was the brother of groundbreaking health care administrator Luana Reyes and of sculptor, curator and memoirist Lawney Reyes?
Did you know that George Ormerod, an English antiquary and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire in 1816?
Did you know that German toymaker Richard Steiff's invention of a toy bear received highest honors at the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair?
Did you know that Regal Mountain, an eroded stratovolcano in the Wrangell Mountains, is the third highest thirteener (a peak between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation) in Alaska?
Did you know that Walter Arthur Berendsohn, who successfully nominated Nelly Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes, wrote Die humanistische Front, the seminal book on German exile literature?
Did you know that WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs?
Did you know that a small Allied rearguard at the strategic pass of Thermopylae held off German forces invading Greece  in 1941 at the most recent Battle of Thermopylae?
Did you know that more is known about Neaira, a hetaera who lived during the 4th century BC in ancient Greece, than any other prostitute in classical antiquity?
Did you know that parti-coloured clothes, divided into different colours on the left and right when viewed from the front, became popular in late 14th century fashion, especially in England?
Did you know that taxi driver David Wilkie was killed during the UK miners' strike in 1984, when two striking coal miners dropped a 46 lb concrete block on his taxicab, which was carrying a working miner?
Did you know that the Bienwald is a large forested area in the southern Pfalz region of Germany, near the towns of Kandel and Wörth am Rhein?
Did you know that the Halmidi inscription, an Indian inscription, found near the tiny village of Halmidi, in Karnataka, India, is the oldest known inscription in the Kannada language?
Did you know that the Romanian Proclamation of Timişoara unsuccessfully called for lustration to be applied to former Communist Party officials?
Did you know that the award-winning Chinese film Cell Phone, with its box office profit of over ¥50 million, was the highest-grossing film made in China in 2003?
Did you know that the case of Angela Carder, a cancer patient who was forced to undergo a caesarean section in 1987, established the rights of pregnant women to determine their own health care in the United States?
Did you know that the icons and faces incised into Las Limas Monument 1 were used for a hypothetical reconstruction of the Olmec pantheon?
Did you know that English cannon batteries required artillery crews of twelve per gun?
Did you know that Giorgio Francia of Italy became the first non-German to win the German Formula Three Championship, by winning the title in the year 1974?
Did you know that Karaköy, part of ancient Galata, and an important commercial and transport center at the Golden Horn, was the birthplace of André Chénier, a French poet beheaded during the French Revolution?
Did you know that Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young, owner of the Yung See San Fong House in Los Gatos, California, didn't want it to be a bungalow, but a "bungahigh"?
Did you know that Steve Crowley, a Marine Security Guard, was posthumously promoted to the rank of Sergeant after he was killed in the 1979 U.S. Embassy Burning in Islamabad, Pakistan?
Did you know that at the time of his martyrdom in 202, Saint Charalampus was 113 years old?
Did you know that despite having no prior experience as a professional actress, Teresa Cheung was nominated for Best Actress in the 2004 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for her performance in Colour Blossoms?
Did you know that the 1983 rock and roll comedy film Get Crazy was a tribute to the famed Fillmore East theater, where director Allan Arkush once worked as an usher?
Did you know that the Karl Johanslussen is one of the locks and sluices between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea that give rise to the name of the Slussen area of central Stockholm?
Did you know that the Lupeni Strike of 1929 in Romania was originally blamed on Hungarian propagandists and Comintern activists?
Did you know that the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians?
Did you know that the forty-six Recreational Demonstration Areas, built as model parks near urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression, later became national and state parks, and in one case, Camp David?
Did you know that unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from involvement in religion and social reformation?
Did you know that Fyodor Schechtel, the architect of Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia, was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878 for "bad attendance"?
Did you know that German Luftwaffe fighter ace Walther Dahl shot down 128 enemy aircraft in the Second World War, including a USAAF B-17 that he rammed in 1944?
Did you know that Julius Fromm invented the latex condom in 1914 and marketed his invention under the name Fromms Act until he was forced to sell his business under Nazi rule?
Did you know that Procter & Gamble discontinued its praised "demi-couture" Rochas fashion brand in 2006, 81 years after it was founded?
Did you know that Ralph "Petey" Greene overcame a drug addiction and prison sentence to become an Emmy Award-winning radio and television talk show host and a guest at the White House?
Did you know that VolgaGES in Russia is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe as it produces 2541 MW?
Did you know that William the Conqueror's transport of over 2000 horses across the English Channel during the Norman invasion of England is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry?
Did you know that legendary Łysa Góra is the site of an ancient pagan temple, a ruined monastery that gave its name to the local mountain range and province and the tallest TV tower in Poland?
Did you know that silent film star Norma Talmadge started a famous Hollywood tradition when she accidentally stepped into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater?
Did you know that the Billboard top 10 live DVD War at the Warfield by American thrash metal band Slayer features one of the last shows drummer Paul Bostaph played with the group?
Did you know that the Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, Géraud Réveilhac ordered artillery to shell his own troops in order to force them to attack?
Did you know that the Fenari Isa Mosque in Istanbul represents one of the first examples of edifices with a quincuncial plan in Byzantine architecture?
Did you know that the French torpedo boat La Combattante ferried General de Gaulle and other Free French leaders across the English Channel from Portsmouth to Courseulles in Normandy on 14 July 1944?
Did you know that the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy's Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment, a combined whole-body dry suit and one-man life raft, allows submariners to escape from depths of up to 600 feet (180 meters)?
Did you know that until 1947 in Spain, Eurosia was the patron saint of demonic possession?
Did you know that Billy Walkabout is thought to have been the most highly decorated Native American in the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Danish painter Carl-Henning Pedersen was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall"?
Did you know that Otto Orseolo became Doge of Venice in 1006 at the age of 16, the youngest in history?
Did you know that Piers Corbyn claims that he can predict the weather a year in advance by observing solar activity?
Did you know that Russian philanthropist and financier Alexander von Stieglitz was the first governor of the State Bank of the Russian Empire?
Did you know that Shenxiu, one of the most influential Chan Buddhist masters of his day, is known as the “loser” in modern Zen circles?
Did you know that a 1934 survey of Japanese language education in the United States found only thirteen professors in the whole country fluent in Japanese?
Did you know that aussieBum, an Australian swimwear manufacturer, was founded by Sean Ashby in 2001 when he couldn't find the "Aussie cozzie" style of swimwear he grew up with?
Did you know that bergamottin, a chemical found in  grapefruit, is believed to be responsible for drug interactions known as the "grapefruit juice effect"?