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Did you know that Manasbal Lake, with the sobriquet "the supreme gem of all Kashmir Lakes", is the deepest lake in the Kashmir valley?
Did you know that Norwegian piano manufacturer Karl Hals was also active in politics for the Conservative Party?
Did you know that One Night the Moon, a 2001 Australian film depicting the search for a missing child, was inspired by indigenous police tracker Alex Riley's work in the 1930s?
Did you know that Owen Thomas, managing editor of New York City-based gossip and news blog Valleywag, writes most of the website's articles?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Du Hongjian, immediately prior to his death, undertook tonsure and formally became a Buddhist monk?
Did you know that a medallion awarded by the city of Hamburg to honor "those—both Jewish and non-Jewish—who have contributed to Jewish life in Germany" is named for the Jewish First Mayor Herbert Weichmann?
Did you know that according to a survey by Reader's Digest, the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is New Zealand's second most trusted charity?
Did you know that after Captain George Blagdon Westcott was killed at the Battle of the Nile, Horatio Nelson gave his own medal from the battle to Westcott's family?
Did you know that as Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip, Yitzhak Pundak planned to relocate the Palestinian refugees there to a new city in the Sinai Peninsula, but met with opposition from Ariel Sharon?
Did you know that juvenile and adult Novaculichthys taeniourus are so different in appearance they have distinct common names?
Did you know that presenters Jay Burridge and Mark Speight created all of the art projects for the children's television show SMart?
Did you know that the 6th-century Archangel ivory, depicting the archangel Michael holding a sceptre and imperial orb, is the largest surviving Byzantine ivory carving?
Did you know that the Adriatic LNG terminal is the world's first offshore liquid natural gas terminal?
Did you know that the Fiji Crested Iguana was discovered when a scientist saw the lizard in the 1980 film Blue Lagoon?
Did you know that unlike other Dutch Colonial stone houses in the Hudson Valley, the Wynkoop House has no stone with the builder's initials?
Did you know that Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is a C.P.A. and lawyer whose first job assignment was the delinquency of then-owner of the White Sox Bill Veeck?
Did you know that Cubbon Park in Bangalore, India, has indigenous and exotic botanical species of 68 genera and 96 species with about 6,000 plants?
Did you know that Eduardo Galeano's 1978 revolutionary chronicle Days and Nights of Love and War inspired anarchist collective CrimethInc. to write their manifesto Days of War, Nights of Love 22 years later?
Did you know that Hungarian István Réti travelled to Turin, to paint  1848 revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, who had died there recently?
Did you know that Jens Landmark, Norwegian Lieutenant Colonel and director of Kongsberg Weapons Factory, also served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament?
Did you know that Julie Couillard's memoir My Story reveals confidential opinions that Canadian member of Parliament Maxime Bernier allegedly shared with her and was released eight days before Bernier is seeking re-election?
Did you know that M-67, a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, has remained essentially unchanged but the highways connecting to it have changed three times since 1919?
Did you know that MTA Regional Bus Operations consolidates all bus operations formerly maintained by MTA New York City Bus, MTA Long Island Bus, and MTA Bus?
Did you know that Nicholas Carr wrote a controversial article titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic Monthly?
Did you know that Ontario has more universities, with 22, than any other Canadian province?
Did you know that South African Jean-Michel d'Avray played football in England and Holland before becoming the last ever National Soccer League Coach of the Year in Australia?
Did you know that William Long, Minister of Home Affairs in Northern Ireland at the start of The Troubles, later became the skipper of a fishing boat?
Did you know that an oil painting by Ryūsei Kishida was auctioned for 7.731 billion yen, the highest price ever achieved for a Japanese painting?
Did you know that architect Sidney Eisenshtat designed a futuristic synagogue that was later a filming location for the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?
Did you know that art historian George Kubler declared The Wrestler, an ancient Olmec statuette, "among the great works of sculpture of all ages"?
Did you know that before Charles Aitken installed electric lighting, the Tate Gallery was cleared of visitors on dark and foggy days?
Did you know that in Shinto, a gongen represents a manifestation of a buddha from India to guide the Japanese people to salvation?
Did you know that only a few English churches celebrate the ancient custom of "clipping the church"?
Did you know that the 1962–1963 CBS sitcom The New Loretta Young Show (Loretta Young pictured) introduced audiences to later stars Dack Rambo and Ted Knight?
Did you know that the Welsh inventor Edwin Stevens devised the world's first wearable electronic hearing aid?
Did you know that the Zionist Socialist Workers Party broke with the World Zionist Organization after the 1905 WZO congress had rejected the proposal to resettle Jews in East Africa?
Did you know that two companies with the name Oregon Central Railroad both claimed the same federal land grants?
Did you know that Arthur Wimperis, after a career as a songwriter and librettist for British musical comedies, became an Academy Award-winning screenwriter in Hollywood, surviving a torpedo attack to get there?
Did you know that Arya Samaj spearheaded the 19th-century cow protection movement, Hindu opposition to Muslim cow sacrifice, leading to violent riots spreading all across India?
Did you know that Captain William Mounsey, in command of the much smaller HMS Bonne Citoyenne, captured a frigate and later commanded her as HMS Furieuse?
Did you know that Jack Montgomery, a Louisiana state senator from 1968 to 1972, was preceded and succeeded in the post by Harold Montgomery, and they were unrelated?
Did you know that John J. Leonard, a professor at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, developed a vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm for mapping the RMS Titanic?
Did you know that Kang Hye-jeong made her feature film debut in the 2001 science fiction film Nabi, winning Best Actress at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival?
Did you know that Neel Kashkari, six years after completing his MBA, was put in charge of the $700 billion U.S. Government bailout of financial institutions?
Did you know that Ole Hovelsen Mustad, namesake of the company O. Mustad & Son, also served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?
Did you know that Queensland lawyer Mostyn Hanger said it was "a chore" to be Chief Justice?
Did you know that Swaminarayan's biography, Satsangi Jeevan, comprises of 19,387 Shlokas among 360 chapters, in 5 volumes?
Did you know that Tam Spiva, from a family of small-town newspaper publishers, wrote scripts for such television series as The Brady Bunch and Gentle Ben?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Chang Gun was demoted over Emperor Dezong's erroneous belief that Chang had falsified signatures from his colleagues Guo Ziyi and Zhu Ci?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Karina is currently the shortest-lived storm in the 2008 Pacific hurricane season?
Did you know that after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake (destroyed building pictured), a number of infants were safely rescued from the Juárez Hospital despite being without food and water for seven days?
Did you know that after the standardisation of the German Shepherd Dog, other herding dogs in Germany became known as Old German Shepherd Dogs which is now the name given to a rare modern breed?
Did you know that among Connecticut's contributions to the American Civil War are the Henry rifle and the song "Marching Through Georgia"?
Did you know that having lost his father early, Norwegian Parliament member Nils Landmark was raised by Jens Stub, a founding father of the Norwegian Constitution?
Did you know that on Jackie Robinson Day of 2007, more than 200 baseball players wore number 42 in honor of the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's major league debut?
Did you know that the 2008 teen comedy film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was Lorene Scafaria's ninth screenplay but first novel adaptation?
Did you know that the 5th-century Palace of Lausus in Constantinople housed a vast collection of classical statues, including that of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Did you know that the Art Building is the third oldest building at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, but has been on campus longer than all but one other building?
Did you know that the Japanese manga Black God was created by a manhwa team of Koreans who do not know the Japanese language?
Did you know that the SS Schenectady, an oil tanker, broke in two while sitting at the dock in calm weather?
Did you know that unlike their peers in other Australian states, physiotherapists in New South Wales are subject to discipline by a special Physiotherapists Tribunal?
Did you know that Bob McLean, who is a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame, also played first-class cricket and scored a double century in the Sheffield Shield?
Did you know that Carson Parks, who wrote the hit song "Somethin' Stupid", was the brother of Beach Boys' collaborator Van Dyke Parks?
Did you know that Dave Levine, the president of an e-commerce company, was featured in the inaugural episode of Millionaire Matchmaker where he described the type of wife he sought?
Did you know that Dick Trickle, billed as the winningest short track driver in history, won his first race outside of his home region at the 1966 National Short Track Championships at Rockford Speedway?
Did you know that Empress Wang, the wife of Emperor Dezong of Tang, was empress for only three days prior to her death in 786 AD?
Did you know that Georg J. Lober′s sculpture of Hans Christian Andersen in New York City's Central Park was funded in part by contributions from Danish and American schoolchildren?
Did you know that India has supported Kazakhstan's bid to create a Caspian Sea naval fleet despite Russia's opposition?
Did you know that Jasper Goodwill, later a mayor in Louisiana, was given the middle initial "K" by the U.S. Army during World War I as a way to enhance identification of the soldiers?
Did you know that Jock Wilson, who died at the age of 105 in September 2008, was Great Britain's oldest D-Day veteran?
Did you know that John Harber Phillips, the legal counsel who defended Lindy Chamberlain, later became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia?
Did you know that Sir Davidge Gould, who served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was promoted to the rank of Admiral in 1825?
Did you know that Spain, which placed second at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 with "Su canción", was rumored to have given high marks to a competitor so it would not have to host the contest the following year?
Did you know that St George's Church, Everton and St Michael's Church, Aigburth were two of the three churches in Liverpool built by John Cragg which contained many cast iron components?
Did you know that Zac Brown Band's single "Chicken Fried" was previously recorded by The Lost Trailers, whose version was withdrawn after Brown changed his mind about licensing the song to that record label?
Did you know that before he became Chief Scout of South Africa, Nkwenkwe Nkomo was an anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela?
Did you know that despite being of common birth, the marriage of Falkes de Breauté made him "the equal of an earl"?
Did you know that during the World War II, English footballer Jimmy Boswell served in the same army unit as four other future Gillingham F.C. players?
Did you know that in Saskatchewan, Oban was known for having the last Interlocking tower at the CNR and CPR level crossing, until it was closed in 1990?
Did you know that the Bain Commercial Building is the only intact Second Empire-style building in Wappingers Falls, New York?
Did you know that the Fiji government claims the entire U.S. zoo population of Fiji Banded Iguanas are descended from illegally smuggled animals?
Did you know that the MIM-46 Mauler was the first in a long string of failed attempts to add armored anti-aircraft missile systems into the US Army?
Did you know that the Tugboat Spence and its barge Guantanamo Bay Express deliver cargo twice-monthly from Naval Station Mayport near Jacksonville, Florida to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba?
Did you know that the day that British East India Company acquired a sliver of land to build Fort St. George is celebrated as Madras Day in Madras, India?
Did you know that the penitential tone of John Audelay's poetry may have been influenced by his sense of responsibility for his lord's involvement in a fatal brawl?
Did you know that the power of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana was once so great its Grand Dragon D. C. Stephenson claimed "I am the law in Indiana"?
Did you know that the pre-Columbian ruins of Dainzú are distinguished by their gallery of bas-reliefs representing ball-players?
Did you know that the replacement of stale chewing gum, by a sales representative, led to the U.S. Supreme Court case of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co.?
Did you know that All Saints' Church, Childwall is the only medieval church in the metropolitan borough of Liverpool, England?
Did you know that American singer Becca provided the closing theme "I'm Alive!" for the episodes of the 2008 Japanese anime Kuroshitsuji?
Did you know that Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy, an Australian domestic science college for women, was officially opened on April 27, 1927 by Her Royal Highness Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon?
Did you know that France has strengthened bilateral ties with India by signing agreements allowing it to purchase French-made nuclear reactors, the Mirage 2000 fighters, and the Scorpène submarines?
Did you know that Georgia Tech professor Jeff S. Shamma and his MIT Ph.D. advisor Michael Athans both received the Donald P. Eckman Award, one of the most prestigious awards in control theory?
Did you know that Haruka Tomatsu, who provides two pieces of theme music for the episodes of the Kannagi anime, is also the seiyū of one of the series' titular characters, Nagi?
Did you know that Horatio Nelson called the captains who fought with him at the Battle of the Nile his "Band of Brothers"?
Did you know that Marguerite Sylva modestly told W. S. Gilbert at her sister's audition that she "sang a little" and, after demonstrating, was offered a part?
Did you know that Renaissance woodcuts by Hans Wechtlin (example pictured) cover both the chivalric ideal of war and graphic details of war wounds?
Did you know that Ronn Reynolds spent parts of six seasons as a Major League Baseball catcher, despite a career batting average of just .188?
Did you know that South Liberty Street in Poughkeepsie, New York, was renamed Garfield Place after the assassination of U.S. President James A. Garfield?
Did you know that Spiraea japonica, an invasive plant native to East Asia, was introduced in the United States as an ornamental plant?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Huaiguang saved Fengtian, where Emperor Dezong of Tang was at the time, from falling to the rebel Zhu Ci?
Did you know that Welsh politician David Lloyd George said that he would prize no honour more highly than his Honorary Fellowship of Jesus College, Oxford?
Did you know that William Trueheart was the acting U.S. ambassador to Saigon during the Vietnam Conflict, because his superior, Frederick Nolting, wanted a break from duties?
Did you know that army officer and M.P. William Hacket Pain was involved in planning and organising the Larne Gun Running operation, which helped to arm the Ulster Volunteers during the Home Rule crisis of 1912?
Did you know that cold weather kept the Montreal Expos on the road for their first 19 Opening Day games, until 1988 when Dennis Martínez became the starting pitcher of the team's first opening day home game?
Did you know that despite a 600-year long tradition of being the back garden of the Zagreb cathedral, the Ribnjak neighborhood in Zagreb, Croatia is a focal point of gang violence in the city?
Did you know that in 2000, an ammonia discharge into a tributary of the River Clun in Wales killed its entire population of European bullheads?
Did you know that the 1943 German Donbas Operations led to the destruction of 52 Soviet divisions, and the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod from the Red Army?
Did you know that the Celts were animists who believed that all aspects of the natural world contained spirits?
Did you know that the first person to learn what is in the United Kingdom Budget, presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Budget Day, is the Queen?
Did you know that the only print of Orson Welles' 1938 film Too Much Johnson was destroyed in a 1971 fire at Welles' home outside of Madrid, Spain?
Did you know that unique versions of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems "Mont Blanc" and "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" were rediscovered in a notebook 160 years after they were originally composed?
Did you know that "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1969?
Did you know that Alfred Philippe Roll was the French government's official painter?
Did you know that Bruce Voeller coined the term "acquired immune deficiency syndrome"?
Did you know that Dipor Bil reportedly provides its natural resources for the livelihood of 14 indigenous villages (1,200 families) located in its wetland ecosystem in Assam, India?
Did you know that Ensign O'Toole, a 1962–1963 NBC military comedy series starring Dean Jones, was filmed aboard the USS Frank E. Evans, which was thereafter destroyed following a collision?
Did you know that Kazakhstan and Turkey have sought to promote closer bilateral relations and foster close ties between Turkic nations of Central Asia?
Did you know that Olivia Colman bonded the cast of Beautiful People by arranging a visit from a mobile blood donor unit?
Did you know that Orson Welles originally planned to end his film Don Quixote by having Don Quixote and Sancho Panza survive an atomic cataclysm?
Did you know that Queen Victoria wore the George III Tiara, part of Elizabeth II's jewel collection, while being painted in Franz Xaver Winterhalter's The First of May?
Did you know that Solna Church (altar pictured), a round church in Stockholm from the late 12th century, was originally built for defense purposes?
Did you know that all U.S. Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan ordered glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia?
Did you know that alternative rock band The Strokes has been nominated for Best International Band three times from the NME Awards, winning it in 2006?
Did you know that both the first forensic pathologist and the first female pediatrician in Maine used to live in the Skolfield-Whittier House, now a museum in Brunswick, Maine?
Did you know that cancer specialist Julian Aleksandrowicz, a Polish Jew, joined Polish resistance Armia Krajowa after being aided in the Kraków ghetto by one of the Polish Righteous?
Did you know that former places of worship in Brighton and Hove, England, have been converted into a pub, a screen-printing factory, an art gallery and a sheltered housing complex, among other things?
Did you know that mountaineer William Woodman Graham had to abandon an expedition to Kanchenjunga when a porter accidentally burned his boots?
Did you know that over 3,000 Nebraskans participated in the American Civil War, though only 35 were killed in action?
Did you know that protests at the 2002 meeting of the World Bank in Oslo, Norway saw the police prepare for large riots, but turned out to be peaceful?
Did you know that the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution sparked army mutinies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika?
Did you know that the Alice Springs Reptile Centre has the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory, and has twice had its animals attacked by humans?
Did you know that the Amrita Club is one of only two brick Colonial Revival buildings in Poughkeepsie, New York?
Did you know that the Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles include Ray Charles' recording studio, a stadium that hosted two Summer Olympics, and an early home of the Oscar ceremonies?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil, near Jerusalem, is regarded by Muslims, Jews and Christians alike as a holy site for containing the tomb of Samuel?
Did you know that the dumbbell-shaped devices commonly seen on overhead power lines are Stockbridge dampers, used to suppress wind-induced vibrations?
Did you know that the wool used in the uniforms of the Confederate military caused many Confederate soldiers to suffer from heatstrokes on long marches?
Did you know that until the 1990s, the Short-beaked Common Dolphin and the Long-beaked Common Dolphin were considered the same species?
Did you know that Borgarting Court of Appeal dates back to at least 1047, at the time organized as a thing?
Did you know that Cloudland Canyon State Park, situated on Lookout Mountain in Georgia, contains many unusual sandstone boulder formations?
Did you know that County Route 41 in Onondaga County, New York, was once part of two state highways and one turnpike?
Did you know that Filipino proverbs were grouped into six categories by Damiana  Eugenio, a professor and author known as the Mother of Philippine Folklore (sample myth pictured)?
Did you know that Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz, Polish Righteous among the Nations, hid 15 Jews on their farm during World War II undeterred by public execution of their Ghetto liaison?
Did you know that Our Man Higgins, a 1962–1963 ABC sitcom, featured Stanley Holloway of My Fair Lady as an emphatic English butler to a suburban American family?
Did you know that Rettamalai Srinivasan, Dalit leader from the Madras Presidency, was a brother-in-law of famous Dalit activist Iyothee Thass?
Did you know that Snuppy is the world's first cloned dog?
Did you know that The New York Times moved in 1858 to a building at 41 Park Row, making it the first newspaper in New York City housed in a building built specifically for its use?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Kirsten of 1966 did $35.18 million (2008 USD) in damages and caused heavy rain all the way to Phoenix, Arizona when it made landfall?
Did you know that Zola Maseko was the first South African filmmaker to receive the top prize at FESPACO, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in 2005?
Did you know that a brutal rape of a Bengali child by her 35-year-old husband served as a catalyst for increasing the age of consummation to 12 in British India?
Did you know that after being rejected from HaShomer, a Jewish defense organization in Ottoman Palestine, Yosef Lishansky  founded a rival group called HaMagen, operating in the south of the country?
Did you know that after serving in a number of battles of the American and French Revolutionary Wars, Captain Ralph Willett Miller was killed in an accidental explosion aboard his ship HMS Theseus?
Did you know that during the 2007 Alum Rock earthquake, over 60,000 reports of the earthquake were received?
Did you know that experiments have indicated that ruffed lemurs can understand the outcome of simple arithmetic operations?
Did you know that historic Sleddale Hall, the filming location for Crow Crag in the 1986 cult film Withnail and I is derelict and has faced demolition in the past?
Did you know that offset agreements are one of the methods used to ensure a country's balance of trade?
Did you know that ripple can cause wavy lines on television pictures?