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Did you know that Murray Klein, the co-owner of Zabar's food market, sold Beluga caviar at a loss rather than lose a high profile publicity and price war with archrival Macy's, which was later dubbed the "Beluga caviar war" by the press?
Did you know that Spanish anarchist Joan Peiró served as Minister of Industry in the Spanish government, and was later executed by the government of Francisco Franco?
Did you know that Thomas Mullins was cashiered in 1815 for failing to have his regiment pick up fascines and ladders, contributing to the British defeat at the Battle of New Orleans?
Did you know that Tomotley, a Native American historic site in Monroe County, Tennessee, is currently submerged by an artificial lake?
Did you know that a New York appeals court recently ruled that Sneha Anne Philip died in the collapse of the World Trade Center even though she had been missing since the night before the attack?
Did you know that butterfly motifs in the textiles of Oaxaca reflect pre-Christian spiritual beliefs among the Mazatec people?
Did you know that ethnographer Eric Mjöberg, leader of the first Swedish scientific expedition to Western Australia's Kimberley region, smuggled out indigenous human remains and that 90 years later, Sweden returned all 18 boxes of them?
Did you know that of the fifty examples of Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Renaissance engraving Battle of the Nudes known in modern times, sixteen are in the United States?
Did you know that sea otter conservation efforts have included successful translocations of sea otters from Alaska to British Columbia and Washington?
Did you know that the Bradshaw Trail is a historic overland stage route and the first road connecting Riverside County, California USA to the Colorado River?
Did you know that the Kaimai Tunnel running through the Kaimai Ranges is the longest rail tunnel in New Zealand?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that an employer lockout during a whipsaw strike is not an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act?
Did you know that the USA's first locally designed jet engine, the Lockheed J37, spent ten years in development but was never used on a production aircraft?
Did you know that the first post-war survey of sympathy for Nazism in Germany was conducted in 1947 by the Allensbach Institute?
Did you know that with the 2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal, 16,000 birds were destroyed in Itahar, but health workers retreated from villages that refused to kill their birds?
Did you know that American trauma surgeon Tom Shires operated on both Texas governor John Connally and gunman Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Did you know that Billy Mercer became caretaker assistant manager of Sheffield Wednesday in October 2006, having previously played for rivals Sheffield United?
Did you know that Chiquibul National Park surrounds the ancient Mayan site of Caracol?
Did you know that Flora Solomon pioneered staff benefits programs at Marks & Spencer that influenced the development of the British National Health Service and Labour's concept of the welfare state?
Did you know that Gay Talese's The Kingdom and the Power from 1969, about the personalities that shaped The New York Times, is credited with beginning the trend of books that report about the media?
Did you know that Lepoglava prison (Croatian: Kaznionica u Lepoglavi) is the oldest and largest prison located in Croatia?
Did you know that Master of Wines, David Peppercorn and his wife Serena Sutcliffe questioned the authenticity of Imperial bottles of Château Pétrus owned by Hardy Rodenstock, inciting a controversy?
Did you know that SGX Centre, a twin building development in Singapore, was built at a location to be the gateway to the new downtown?
Did you know that Sir George Everest, after whom Mount Everest was named, is buried at St Andrew's Church, Hove, despite being born in Wales, dying in London and having no apparent connection with the church or town?
Did you know that at Traverse des Sioux on the Minnesota River, Sioux tribes were induced to enter into an 1851 treaty, ceding 24 million acres (9.7 million ha) for seven cents per acre?
Did you know that despite a requirement from the Michigan Legislature it connect three counties within ten years of its founding, after 21 years the St. Joseph Valley Rail Road had completed only 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of track, all in St. Joseph County?
Did you know that halos commonly used in Georgian imagery of royalties are missing in wall paintings of medieval Georgian monarchs (examples pictured) discovered at the Betania Monastery?
Did you know that passing the Level 4 diploma program from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust is strongly encouraged before taking the Master of Wine examination?
Did you know that swimming Hall of Famer Harry Holiday won 6 NCAA championships, and set 7 world and 18 American records in the mid-1940s but never competed in the Olympics due to World War II?
Did you know that the 1996 TV film Hidden in America reminded viewers that on any given night, up to five million children in America go to bed hungry?
Did you know that the Academy of Music in Warsaw, the oldest and largest music school in Poland, is named after the most famous of its students, Fryderyk Chopin?
Did you know that the Pickering Operations Complex, a high-rise telecommunication hotel in Singapore, has eight refrigerating plants each with a capacity of 300 tons, and 16 control centres?
Did you know that the SIA Building, a skyscraper in Singapore, is the flagship building of Singapore Airlines?
Did you know that the Tumblagooda sandstone contains the earliest record of animals walking on the land?
Did you know that the case of Styllou Christofi, the penultimate woman to be hanged in Britain, failed to cause a public outcry because she, in the opinion of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint, was not very glamorous?
Did you know that the environment of Florida supports the breeding of 34 species of non-native fish, a higher number than any other place on earth?
Did you know that the first Hillsboro Public Library that opened in 1914 was the only Carnegie library built in Washington County, Oregon?
Did you know that the first postage stamps of Israel were issued on May 16 1948, within 48 hours of the independent republic being proclaimed?
Did you know that the international ice hockey career of Art Berglund spanned five decades?
Did you know that while only three Avro Chinooks, Canada's first jet engine design, were ever built, they led to the very successful Orenda design that followed?
Did you know that Academy Award-nominee Tamara Jenkins spent time at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, to write her screenplay for The Savages?
Did you know that American painter George Cooke's Interior of St. Peter's Rome, measuring 17 by 23.5 feet, was the largest oil painting of its time, and still ranks among the world's largest?
Did you know that Ancient Tondo became so prosperous that the Kingdom of Brunei had to attack it and set up a rival settlement to keep it in check?
Did you know that Colorado state senator Chris Romer has proposed using a wiki-like web site to involve citizens in drafting legislation?
Did you know that French actuary Maurice Princet is known as "the mathematician of cubism" for the role he played in birth of the art movement?
Did you know that Raymond Jacobs maintained to have been the last surviving member of the original party of Marines who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima?
Did you know that at 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the Missouri River Valley drains one-sixth of the United States, and is the longest river valley on the North American continent?
Did you know that award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google"?
Did you know that during the 2004-2005 vintage, the European Union wine growing zones accounted for nearly 70% of worldwide wine production?
Did you know that during the construction of Samsung Hub, a high-rise commercial building in Singapore, the building sank on one side from 3 mm to 39 mm in just four months?
Did you know that the Michigan Railroad Commission twice condemned the St. Joseph Valley Railroad because of the poor condition of the latter's line?
Did you know that the Owyhee Dam near Adrian, Oregon, was the tallest dam of its type in the world when it was completed in 1932?
Did you know that the Peachtree Road Race, held annually on July 4 (U.S. Independence Day) in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world's largest 10 kilometer road race with 55,000 runners participating in 2007?
Did you know that the death of Orvil Dryfoos, publisher of The New York Times from 1961 to 1963, was attributed to stress from a 114-day strike by his staff?
Did you know that the first Styxosaurus fossil to be discovered had about 250 stones in its stomach that it probably swallowed for ballast?
Did you know that the first stamps of Palestine (Rachel's tomb stamp, pictured) under the British Mandate were trilingual, due to a League of Nations requirement?
Did you know that the lead ship of the Frederick Funston class, the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89), was named after a US Army General lampooned by Mark Twain?
Did you know that the physical and chemical properties of water are markedly different when it is heated under pressure at temperatures between 100 and 374°C?
Did you know that the two parts of California State Route 139 were constructed by a joint highway district of Lassen and Modoc Counties and by the U.S. federal government before being turned over to the state?
Did you know that vineyard owners in the Provence wine region of Cassis used to hire prostitutes from Marseilles to assist with picking grapes at harvest time?
Did you know that 6 Battery Road, a high-rise in Singapore, was on completion the largest building for the Standard Chartered Bank Group worldwide, and represented the largest single investment by a British company?
Did you know that Avenue Charles de Gaulle in N'Djamena is a rare street in Chad to have retained its French name despite President François Tombalbaye's Authenticité Africanization program?
Did you know that Captain Philip Broke personally led the boarding party from HMS Shannon onto the USS Chesapeake?
Did you know that Cullen Football Club played on a golf course when they were first formed in 1890?
Did you know that Herbert Armitage James, who was headmaster of Rugby School for 14 years, had one of the best stamp collections in England?
Did you know that John Percival, when headmaster of Rugby School, gained the nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their football shorts below the knee with elastic?
Did you know that Keith Munyan, Jr., the Los Angeles photographer who has done publicity shots for Hilary Duff, Cindy Crawford,  Jessica Simpson, and other celebrities is himself a former model?
Did you know that Khotyn Fortress, site of the Battle of Khotyn between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in 1621, is one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine?
Did you know that Louisville's Union Station was the largest such facility in the southern United States?
Did you know that Margaret Downey's first major public activism for atheism was in response to the Boy Scouts of America refusing to renew her son's membership due to his professed atheism?
Did you know that Thaddeus Radzilowski, a Polish-American historian, is a cofounder of the Piast Institute?
Did you know that a 1907 mansion in Hollywood, California known as Jualita was the location for scenes from the film Rain Man and the TV show The O.C.?
Did you know that about 12 million people were forced laborers in Nazi Germany during World War II, and less than 2 million received direct compensation after the war?
Did you know that after surviving the battles at Badoeng Strait and Midway, the Japanese destroyer Asashio was sunk in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea while picking up survivors from her sister ship, the Arashio?
Did you know that after the New Zealand Railways Department's RM class Thomas Transmission railcar was written off in 1925, the railcar's body was used as a private dwelling?
Did you know that dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, USA?
Did you know that during the later stages of World War II, the Bordeaux wine estate Château Lascombes served as a headquarters for the Allied forces?
Did you know that fungus Tricholoma pardinum was responsible for over 20% of cases of mushroom poisoning in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century?
Did you know that state senator Mike Kopp is the only Gulf War veteran currently serving in the Colorado General Assembly?
Did you know that the first bank in Oregon was co-founded by William S. Ladd who had previously built the first brick building in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944?
Did you know that when Indian Agent Robert Neighbors was introduced to Comanche Chief Old Owl, the Comanches were so pleased with the agent’s generosity that they proposed adopting him into their tribe?
Did you know that while repelling Soviet advances across the frozen Lake Suvanto, Finland managed to capture 12 anti-tank guns, 140 machine guns, 200 light machine guns and 1500 rifles in the Battle of Kelja in 1939?
Did you know that British Labour MP James Lamond was criticised in the 1980s as an apologist for the Soviet Union because he defended the invasion of Afghanistan?
Did you know that Grey Towers is the only U.S. National Historic Site managed by the U.S. Forest Service, since it was the home of its first director, Gifford Pinchot?
Did you know that Heimir was a Gothic hero who evolved into a traitor through centuries of story-telling?
Did you know that Independent Operational Group Polesie, composed of mostly reserve and second line troops, was nonetheless the last  regular unit of the Polish Army to capitulate during the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
Did you know that Jake Simmons, Jr. was the most successful African-American entrepreneur in the history of the petroleum industry?
Did you know that Juliusz Wertheim, a Polish pianist, conductor and composer, was a mentor of Arthur Rubinstein, considered one of the greatest piano virtuosi of the 20th Century?
Did you know that Oak marble gall contains large amounts of tannic acid, which was used for making iron gall ink?
Did you know that Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, head of the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1900 to the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, is credited with inventing the game of snooker?
Did you know that Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier made the Bugatti 370 – a $200,000 watch in honour of the supercar Bugatti Veyron – which won the 2006 "Watch of the Year" Award from the Japanese press?
Did you know that Tunisian Railways operates a standard gauge network in the North and a meter gauge network in the South of Tunisia?
Did you know that USOC president Doug Roby initially took no action against Tommie Smith and John Carlos after their Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics, but expelled them after an IOC threat to expel the entire U.S. track team?
Did you know that Wally Weber, football player, coach and broadcaster at Michigan for 45 years, was renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency" and sounding like an "an educated foghorn"?
Did you know that William Hogarth's prints Beer Street and Gin Lane contrast the misery of gin drinkers with the happiness and good health of those who drink beer?
Did you know that before he became involved in the Ituri conflict, alleged war criminal Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was a nurse?
Did you know that financier Gurdon Wattles was responsible for building the historically significant Wattles House in Omaha and the Wattles Mansion in Hollywood?
Did you know that rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a manuscript, but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating clergy, or scoring tools for tests in education?
Did you know that tais weaving in East Timor is performed solely by women, using techniques passed down through generations in an oral tradition?
Did you know that the CPF Building, which houses the Central Provident Fund Board, was the site of a silent protest by four people demanding greater transparency and accountability in Singapore?
Did you know that the French wine region of Châteauneuf-du-Pape has a wine law banning the overhead flying, landing or taking off of flying saucers?
Did you know that the Great Phenol Plot of 1915 was to divert phenol from U.S. explosives production to prop up German Bayer's aspirin business?
Did you know that the New Zealand Railways Department's experimental RM class Westinghouse railcar was the first railcar to enter revenue service in New Zealand?
Did you know that the SS Charles W. Wetmore negotiated the St. Lawrence River rapids in 1891 to become the first whaleback ship to operate outside the Great Lakes?
Did you know that the WWII-era Windsor-class attack transport USS Queens (APA-103) was sunk as an artificial reef off Texas in 2007?
Did you know that the tide of the Texas-Indian Wars was turned at the Battle of Bandera Pass when six-shot revolvers were used for the first time against the Comanches?
Did you know that while Isko Moreno was running for vice mayor in Manila in 2007, posters were distributed of him wearing only swimming briefs?
Did you know that Bill Keightley is one of only two people who have never played for nor coached the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team to have their jerseys retired by the University of Kentucky?
Did you know that English publishers John Stockdale and his son John Joseph Stockdale were involved in separate lawsuits decades apart, which led to changes in the law in 1792 and in 1840, respectively?
Did you know that Equine Hippique Canada, Canada's official equestrian federation, describes itself as a "little known and hardly recognized" entity, despite selecting the Olympic teams?
Did you know that John "Willy" Williams , the Australian World War II air ace who later took part in the "The Great Escape", became a POW merely three days after being promoted to command No.450 Squadron RAAF?
Did you know that Michiko Maeda, the first Japanese actress to appear nude in a mainstream film, was banned from Japanese cinema for 42 years for disobeying a director?
Did you know that Miś Uszatek, a children's cartoon about a bear and his friends, is one of the best-selling export products of Polish TV?
Did you know that Robert Parker's newsletter The Wine Advocate was the first to widely adopt the 50–100 scale wine rating scale, using it as parallel to the American educational grading system?
Did you know that Seattle pioneer David Denny married his own stepsister, made and lost a fortune worth US$3 million, and survived an axe-blow to his head at age 67?
Did you know that TenneT, the Dutch transmission system operator, is a joint owner of the ±450 kV, 580 km (360 mi) NorNed, the longest high-voltage undersea power line in the world?
Did you know that according to his Memoir, 18th-century painter Julius Caesar Ibbetson (work pictured) was named after the caesarean section which delivered him after his mother fell on the ice?
Did you know that an ongoing strike by Gaelic footballers and hurlers in County Cork, Ireland, has led to Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern asking for the players and the county board to resolve their dispute?
Did you know that in a college prank televised across the United States, spectators at the 1961 Rose Bowl unknowingly displayed the word "CALTECH" in an altered card stunt instead of the nickname of one of the teams on the field?
Did you know that many villages in Tajikistan received only one to two hours of electricity per day during an on-going energy crisis in Central Asia?
Did you know that paintings by Henry Howard in the "Grand Revolving Temple of Concord" in Green Park had to be saved by the cavalry from "the multitudes of idle and dissolute spectators"?
Did you know that the European fungus Ramaria formosa, found under beech trees, resembles a yellow-tipped pink piece of many-branched coral?
Did you know that the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Switchback Railroad, the second railroad built in the United States, was a major precursor to the roller coaster?
Did you know that the charitable Sheffield Town Trust funded a cricket match which aimed to "prevent the infamous practice of throwing at cocks"?
Did you know that the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered?
Did you know that the postage stamps of the Palestinian National Authority have featured many well-known figures, but those with Pope John Paul II might be fake illegal stamps?
Did you know that the rivalry between Leeds United and Manchester United football clubs has its roots in the 15th century English civil war, the Wars of the Roses?
Did you know that vin jaune, from the French wine region of Château-Chalon, is made with a layer of yeast that grows on top of the wine while in the barrel?
Did you know that when the 18th century artist Alexis Simon Belle had his son baptized, the godmother was only six years old?
Did you know that Annie Fargé, who played a scatterbrained French wife to an American architect in the 1960 CBS sitcom Angel, was described by Time as "easily the brightest newcomer to situation comedy" though the series folded after one season?
Did you know that Dr. John Roberton proposed "medical police" and advocated use of cantharides whilst another Dr. John Roberton was a pioneer of obstetrics?
Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story "The Business Man" using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats?
Did you know that Lactarius helvus, a mushroom whose smell has been likened to Maggi instant soup or fenugreek, was implicated in the poisoning of 418 people near Leipzig, Germany?
Did you know that Laporte (courthouse pictured), one of thirteen municipalities in Sullivan County, is Pennsylvania's smallest county seat by population?
Did you know that NASCAR official Robin Pemberton's decision concerning the final outcome of the 2007 Daytona 500 resulted in his brother's team finishing second instead of first?
Did you know that Narmada Bachao Andolan, a NGO in India, was the main reason for World Bank to conduct its first-ever independent review of any of its projects?
Did you know that Princess Louisa Maria Teresa was called by a Royal Stuart Society paper the "Princess over the Water", an allusion to the title King over the Water?
Did you know that Saint-Bris is the only appellation out of 150 in the French wine region of Burgundy where the wines may contain the grape variety Sauvignon blanc?
Did you know that William Bambridge, the father of England Football international Charles Bambridge was a member of the Te Waimate mission, New Zealand who became official photographer to Queen Victoria?
Did you know that a poster in the 2003 Estonian European Union membership referendum called on Estonians to vote yes "for access to millions of sexier men"?
Did you know that architect Otto Königsberger illustrated his uncle Max Born's popular physics book?
Did you know that every year 70,000 to 80,000 migratory birds visit Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary, an artificially created forest in West Bengal, India?
Did you know that halfback Chuck Ortmann punted 24 times in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl, having decided the best strategy was to keep the slick ball on the other side of the field in the opponents' hands?
Did you know that judge Michael W. Mosman was involved in U.S. Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick while working as his law clerk?
Did you know that key donors of land to Louisville, Kentucky's 26-mile (42-km) parkway system included a veteran of the Confederate Army and a notorious political boss?