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Did you know that Pope Pius XII Church policies after World War II involved global reconstruction of war-damaged Catholic institutions?
Did you know that Union Army Paymaster General Benjamin Brice changed the recruitment of deputy paymasters from being political nominees to ones who passed examinations?
Did you know that Victory Boulevard, running the 25-mile length of the San Fernando Valley, is mentioned in Randy Newman's I Love LA: "Victory Boulevard (We Love It!)"?
Did you know that before Danish director Bille August made his Oscar-winning Pelle the Conqueror, he had great domestic success with the children's television series and movie Busters verden?
Did you know that current Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister and ambassador to the OAS Jorge Valero, a vocal spokesman for the Chavez government, fell out with his brother Hidalgo, an anti-Chavez activist?
Did you know that in 999, Bishop Bernard of Gaeta had to seek help from an aide of the Emperor Otto III to force the diocese's slaves to work?
Did you know that in his easy re-election in the 2004 North Dakota gubernatorial election John Hoeven was endorsed by the state teachers' union, which normally supports Democrats?
Did you know that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial, which deteriorated during its building?
Did you know that part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 was rushed through, which enabled the Russian government to allow Matisse's painting of The Dance into the UK?
Did you know that the 1951 film Where No Vultures Fly is a fictionalised account of the work of the conservationist Mervyn Cowie?
Did you know that the Calhoun Beach Club building in Minneapolis, Minnesota has served as a social club, a TV studio, a hotel, apartments, a home for the elderly, and most recently as a sports and social club?
Did you know that the Kaipara Harbour of Northland, New Zealand, was named at a hāngi on the Pouto Peninsula, at which the para fern (Marattia salicina) was served?
Did you know that the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations required all 241 UK work-related deaths in 2006/7 to be reported — even if the victims take a year to die?
Did you know that the South Carolina secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at Columbia's First Baptist Church, due to a smallpox outbreak?
Did you know that the Willamette Collegian, the college newspaper of Willamette University in Oregon, was named an all-star publication by the National Pacemaker Awards a record 16 times in a row?
Did you know that the Yokohama Museum of Art has Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse represented in its collection?
Did you know that the book Description of Africa by the Muslim slave Joannes Leo Africanus was an important source of information on the North African Islamic civilization during the European Renaissance?
Did you know that the subject in art of Christ taking leave of his Mother has no biblical basis but derives from medieval devotional writing?
Did you know that 16 people died when the top two floors of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on Reseda Boulevard  collapsed in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake?
Did you know that American late model dirt track racer Scott Bloomquist races at selected high money events instead of in national touring series?
Did you know that Arthur A. Denny, one of Seattle's founders and a lifelong teetotaler, had customers buy their liquor from sea captains so he could stay out of the transactions?
Did you know that Bishop George Algernon West, the Lord Bishop of Rangoon 1935–1954, became for two months the Bishop of Atlanta, Georgia while the Japanese occupied Burma?
Did you know that Canterbury Music Hall, which opened in 1852, was the first purpose-built tavern music hall?
Did you know that David Beckham and Victoria Adams were given a replica of Cheshire's Rookery Hall as a cake at their engagement party?
Did you know that Nalknad Palace in the Indian state of Karnataka was the final refuge of Chikka Veerarajendra, the last king of Kodagu?
Did you know that Padfield in Derbyshire belonged to William the Conqueror, but was given away by his heirs, firstly Henry I, then Henry II and then Henry VIII?
Did you know that Russian musician Vassily Vassilievich Andreyev is considered the father of the academic folk instrument movement in Eastern Europe?
Did you know that Soviet scholars coined the term ‘democratic satire’ to describe the three-century old Russian tale of Frol Skobeev?
Did you know that Union's Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church was the first church in New Jersey to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that Vietnamese-born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs?
Did you know that Western Brook Pond, a landlocked fjord in Gros Morne National Park on the island of Newfoundland, was the site of a 30 m (98 ft) tsunami in the early 20th century?
Did you know that despite his complete lack of mountaineering experience, the English adventurer Maurice Wilson reached an elevation of 22,700 feet (7,450 m) on his doomed solo attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1934?
Did you know that double flowers were first documented as a floral abnormality in ancient Greece and are found in many common flower varieties including impatiens (example pictured), carnations, camellias and roses?
Did you know that the Australian common Leaf curling spider is unusual in that pairs cohabit in the same leaf, though at opposite ends, even before mating at maturity?
Did you know that the Channel-billed Cuckoo of Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia is the world's largest brood parasite?
Did you know that the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis' Military Park can never be sold?
Did you know that the author of The Strange Death of Tory England advises UK Conservatives to learn from the conservatism of the socialist George Orwell?
Did you know that the water managed by the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company of London was once described by a microbiologist as "the most disgusting I have ever examined"?
Did you know that Epigraphia Carnatica, compiled by Benjamin L. Rice, contains a study of about 9000 inscriptions found in the Old Mysore region of India?
Did you know that Funny Car drag racing pioneer Jack Chrisman set a class record at 188 mph, only to have the engine blow up two weeks later and the car burn to the ground?
Did you know that George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury, helped organise the building of fifty new churches to replace those lost in the Great Fire of London?
Did you know that Grover Cleveland laid the cornerstone of the central sculpture at Lafayette Square when he was Mayor of Buffalo, and dedicated it when he was New York Governor?
Did you know that John Knatchbull was the first person to plead moral insanity in Australia?
Did you know that Kashmir Singh, an Indian spy, was released last week after 35 years of captivity in Pakistan?
Did you know that Keewassee, a Potowatomi warrior, attempted to destroy a dam built by settler William Davis and was severely beaten with a hickory rod when caught?
Did you know that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, wrote the story for the 1938 Columbia movie serial The Secret of Treasure Island?
Did you know that Marzieh Meshkini's 2000 film The Day I Became a Woman depicts three stages in the lives of Iranian women, focusing on a nine-year-old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow?
Did you know that Paul Cézanne's The Bathers is often considered his greatest work and one of the masterpieces of modern art?
Did you know that Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy won the 2007 Rookie of the Year Award by a near-unanimous vote despite missing almost a third of his first season in the NBA due to injuries?
Did you know that Southampton Corporation Tramways tram No. 45 was purchased for preservation by the Light Railway Transport League?
Did you know that critics from the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly have described "The Other Woman" as the worst episode yet of the fourth season of the television show Lost?
Did you know that film composer Mateo Messina has written a benefit symphony concert for the Seattle Children's Hospital each year for the past decade?
Did you know that gothic Trinity College Kirk, a 1460 memorial to King James II of Scotland, was demolished in 1848 to make way for Edinburgh's Waverley Station?
Did you know that novelist Joseph Conrad was strongly influenced by his uncle and mentor Tadeusz Bobrowski, who is himself remembered in Poland as a notable memoirist?
Did you know that over 120,000 cubic yards of asbestos-containing sediment from an active, slow moving landslide is deposited into Swift Creek, Washington each year?
Did you know that rumored use of lard or tallow, offensive for religious reasons, to lubricate paper cartridges was one of the causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Did you know that the American Loyalist surveyor Augustus Jones fled to Canada, where he raised families by a Mohawk wife and a Mississauga mistress?
Did you know that the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims uses 70,000 fiber optic lights to represent the number of people killed by the atomic bomb?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court case Radovich v. National Football League, which held professional football subject to antitrust law, began with a brief drafted on the back of a napkin?
Did you know that the wood of Myoporum sandwicense, a shrub-like plant known as "bastard sandalwood", was used by the early Hawaiians as log frames for thatched houses and torches for night fishing?
Did you know that American football head coach Skip Holtz is the son of the famed college football coach Lou Holtz?
Did you know that British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferable-vote system?
Did you know that Chamunda, a fearsome aspect of the Hindu Divine Mother, was worshipped by ritual human and animal sacrifices along with offerings of wine?
Did you know that Gaffney Ridge, an undersea ridge in the South China Sea, was named for Paul G. Gaffney II, President of Monmouth University and a former United States Navy Vice Admiral?
Did you know that Grey's Anatomy writer Gabrielle Stanton appeared as the character "Gabrielle" in the 1998 film Free Enterprise?
Did you know that Ismat ad-Din Khatun was the wife of two important medieval Muslim princes, Nur ad-Din and Saladin?
Did you know that Messina, Italy, known as Messene during the Sicilian Wars, was sacked by the Carthaginians in 397 BC in retaliation for the attack on Motya by Dionysius I of Syracuse?
Did you know that Naulakha pavilion, situated in Lahore Fort, was the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling's novel The Naulakha and his house Naulakha?
Did you know that Nazi Germany's animal protection laws were the first in the world to place the wolf under protection?
Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member Kjell Bondevik was the uncle of Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik?
Did you know that Paul Simon's ballad "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" portrays Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte as a secret admirer of doo-wop music?
Did you know that Polish novelist Bolesław Prus's tomb at Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery was designed by his nephew, the sculptor Stanisław Jackowski?
Did you know that according to Ukrainian folklore, the girl who finds Chervona Ruta, "Red Rue" in Ukrainian, on Ivan Kupala Day, will be happy in love?
Did you know that after having over 912 million barrels of oil pumped out since the late 19th century, the Coalinga Oil Field, the eighth-largest oil field in California, is close to exhaustion?
Did you know that garden plant Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream', a hybrid of G. banksii from humid subtropical Queensland and G. bipinnatifida from the Mediterranean climate of Western Australia, tolerates the climates of both its parents?
Did you know that mole rats home through their large burrows using the Earth's magnetic field?
Did you know that much of medieval Chester Castle was rebuilt in neoclassical style by architect Thomas Harrison around 1800?
Did you know that the 2003 Insight Bowl, won by California 52–49 on a last-second field goal, was the second-highest-scoring regulation-length college football bowl game in history?
Did you know that the 2007 Texas Longhorns football suspensions involved seven players, including one of the highest-ranking recruits for the Texas Longhorns college football team?
Did you know that the Battle of Shaizar in 1111, between King Baldwin I of Jerusalem's Crusader army and a Seljuk army led by Mawdud bin Altuntash of Mosul, ended in a tactical draw?
Did you know that the Edinburgh Phrenological Society started its own journal to promote phrenology in 1824, after the Royal Medical Society refused to publish the results of a debate about the subject?
Did you know that the Howmet TX earned the first win for a gas turbine racing car in 1968, before earning three more victories and setting six FIA land speed records?
Did you know that the RMS Sylvania was built for the transatlantic trade but spent only the first 10 years of her 46-year career in that role?
Did you know that the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop was owned by the same family for over 140 years, and served two American presidents and Robert E. Lee?
Did you know that the Sydenham Hill Wood and the adjacent Dulwich Wood in South London form the largest remaining tract of The King's Wood?
Did you know that the Telugu film Amma Cheppindi was inspired by the science fiction story Flowers for Algernon?
Did you know that the Tjängvide image stone is held to show a man, or Odin himself, arriving at Valhalla on Sleipnir where he is welcomed by a valkyrie?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Boletus barrowsii is popular with maggots, who often beat mushroomers to their goal?
Did you know that the original arcade cabinet of the shooter game The Typing of the Dead used two QWERTY keyboards?
Did you know that the palm Actinorhytis calapparia is widely cultivated in Southeast Asia and Malesia, where local villagers attribute it magical or medicinal powers?
Did you know that Ólchobar mac Cináeda, king of Munster and abbot of Emly, may be the "king of the Irish" who sent an embassy to Charles the Bald announcing Irish victories over the Vikings in 848?
Did you know that "Spieprzaj dziadu!" (Polish for "Piss off, old man!"), said by current Polish President Lech Kaczynski, has become one of the most famous phrases in modern Poland?
Did you know that A Walk to Beautiful, a film about five Ethiopian women with childbirth injuries, was picked by the International Documentary Association as the best feature documentary of 2007?
Did you know that Cumberland was a short-lived rugby league team in the inaugural NSW premiership season in 1908?
Did you know that Dennis Letts, who began acting at the age of fifty, made his Broadway theater debut in December 2007 in August: Osage County, which was written by his son, Tracy Letts?
Did you know that English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough, and not in Haworth with all her family?
Did you know that Honoré de Balzac's novel Louis Lambert contains many autobiographical elements relating to his time at an Oratorian school in Vendôme?
Did you know that Jonathan Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is considered by many, including Swift himself, to be his best poem?
Did you know that Jonathan Swift's 1709 poem "A Description of the Morning", which discusses contemporary life in London, provided inspiration for William Hogarth's series of paintings Four Times of the Day?
Did you know that Knut Rød, a Norwegian police inspector who arranged the deportation of over 500 Jews to Auschwitz in 1942, was acquitted after the war although no one denied he did it?
Did you know that Nurul Izzah Anwar, daughter of Malaysia's de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, defeated a three-term minister incumbent in her first contest for a parliament seat in Lembah Pantai?
Did you know that Salem First United Methodist Church is the tallest building in Salem, Oregon and is also the oldest Methodist church west of the Rocky Mountains?
Did you know that Silas C. Overpack's Michigan logging wheels, designed to haul logs across rough terrain, were 9 to 10 feet (2.7 to 3 m) high and always painted red?
Did you know that St John the Evangelist's Church in the village of Sandiway, Cheshire, was designed by John Douglas who had been born in the village and who was lord of the manor of Sandiway?
Did you know that Te Kopuru once had the largest sawmill in New Zealand?
Did you know that Ukrainian Baroque architecture (example pictured) is distinct from Western European Baroque in its moderate ornamentation and simpler design?
Did you know that after retiring, former Premier League footballer Adrian Whitbread worked in four different clubs as assistant coach for Martin Allen?
Did you know that most of the land that makes up the Santiam State Forest today was acquired by Oregon authorities because of delinquent taxes or purchases at minimal costs prior to foreclosure during the Great Depression?
Did you know that oil tanker MV Transpacific is currently under contract to transport fuel for the U.S. Defense Department for US$18,848 a day?
Did you know that only one of the twenty-six tunnels on the Blue Ridge Parkway is in Virginia?
Did you know that the Mitchell Recreation Area near Bly, Oregon, is the only location in the continental U.S. where Americans were killed during World War II as a direct result of enemy action?
Did you know that the town of Gratiot, Wisconsin is named after French–American U.S. Indian Agent Henry Gratiot?
Did you know that writer-director Zoe Cassavetes appeared in her late father's film Minnie and Moskowitz at the age of one?
Did you know that Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, who founded Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky, appeared on the TV show This is Your Life in 1955 to raise money for the college?
Did you know that French mycologist René Maire wrote a work on the local flora of the Haute-Saône in the Franche-Comté region of northeastern France when he was only 18 years old?
Did you know that Garry Lake and the Christian cross are both translated as Hanningajuq in the local Inuktitut language?
Did you know that Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy's oldest national park?
Did you know that Lady Florence Dixie, feminist, big game hunter, war correspondent, and suffragette, was the aunt of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas?
Did you know that Lake Piso, a brackish water lake in western Liberia, is the largest in the country?
Did you know that Maria, the Finnish form of Mary, is the most popular Finnish name used during the modern era?
Did you know that Robert D. Knapp's squadron failed to see any action in World War I because the propellers for their Handley Page O/400 bombers arrived late?
Did you know that Slindon Cricket Team was the winning team recorded on the earliest surviving cricket scoresheet?
Did you know that Wesley L. McDonald was the last admiral to hold the Allied Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Command, and lead the U.S. Atlantic Fleet at the same time?
Did you know that excavations at Chandravalli in the Indian state of Karnataka have unearthed coins of Roman emperor Augustus and Chinese Han emperor Wu Ti?
Did you know that jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's song "Ogunde" is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods"?
Did you know that listed buildings in Peckforton, Cheshire, include a carved stone elephant bearing a replica of a medieval castle?
Did you know that more than half of the United Kingdom's specialist victim recovery dogs were used during the search for nine-year-old Shannon Matthews?
Did you know that neoclassical Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi portrayed George Washington with a Roman haircut and a toga?
Did you know that quarterback Jack Crabtree of the Oregon Ducks football team was named Most Valuable Player of the 1958 Rose Bowl even though his team lost the game?
Did you know that several US Navy WWII troop transports, such as USS Hermitage, USS Monticello and USS Lejeune, were former ocean liners that were seized from the enemy?
Did you know that the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, Israel, is named after Hillel Yaffe, a doctor who served nearby Jewish settlements in the early 20th century?
Did you know that the ethics guidelines for Israeli broadcasting have been revised four times since their introduction in 1972, and are now four times their original length?
Did you know that the final decades of Visigothic rule in Spain have been labelled "protofeudal" by Spanish historians, but this label has been largely rejected in English historiography?
Did you know that the same spectacular mountain, Kriváň, links a Polish rock band, a King of Saxony, and the Slovak national movement from the 19th century?
Did you know that two of the oldest buildings in Manchester's Shambles Square were physically moved twice – once in 1974 and again in 1999?
Did you know that , according to Tirechán's life of Saint Patrick, King Lóegaire mac Néill refused to be baptised by Patrick, as his father Niall of the Nine Hostages had said that he must be buried in the walls of his fort on the hill of Tara?
Did you know that 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
Did you know that Chris Levesque was studying for an exam when the Vancouver Canucks signed him to an emergency one-game National Hockey League contract?
Did you know that French comics artist Patrice Killoffer was in 2005 the first foreigner to design stamps for the Swiss Post?
Did you know that Kiz, Utah, now a ghost town, was named for the first woman to settle in the area?
Did you know that Maharam's Synagogue in Lublin, Poland was burnt down during the Cossack–Muscovite invasion in 1655?
Did you know that Oakmere Hall in Cheshire was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant?
Did you know that Senegalese hip hop group Positive Black Soul's name abbreviation, PBS, is a play on that of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais, PDS?
Did you know that Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet established the Madras Record Office, the oldest record office of the British East India Company and one of the oldest archival institutions in the world?
Did you know that St. Patrick's Blue, rather than green, was long the colour most associated with the patron saint of Ireland, and is present on Ireland's Presidential Standard?
Did you know that Thomas Clarke Luby and James Stephens took the oath as founding members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood on Saint Patrick's Day, 1858?
Did you know that a passenger train ran away backwards for over three miles (5 km) following a collision in Torquay railway station?
Did you know that members of the Senegalese rap group Daara J were hired by campaigners in the Senegalese election of 2000 to edit their speeches?
Did you know that on the festival celebrated in the month of Toxcatl the Aztecs sacrificed, flayed and ritually cannibalized a young man who had been impersonating the god Tezcatlipoca for an entire year?
Did you know that physicists Herbert Anderson, Eugene Booth, G. N. Glasoe, John Dunning, Francis Slack and Enrico Fermi worked on splitting atoms in the basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University in 1939?
Did you know that the 2007 documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience was based on a collection of writings by U.S. soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Did you know that the Albatros was the last sailing ship in European waters carrying commercial cargo?
Did you know that the Emancipation Memorial, a monument in Washington, DC depicting Abraham Lincoln in his role of the "Great Emancipator", was paid for by former slaves?