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Did you know that Franco Freda, one of the main Italian far right ideologues, has been put to trial for the Piazza Fontana bombing, which was originally believed to have been perpetrated by anarchists?
Did you know that Iftikhar ad-Daula, Fatimid governor of Jerusalem during the siege of 1099, surrendered Jerusalem to Raymond of Saint-Gilles in the Tower of David and was then escorted out of the city with his bodyguard?
Did you know that Isaac Goodnow, a Free-Stater from New England, helped combine two settlements in Kansas Territory to form a new town named 'Boston', which was later re-named Manhattan?
Did you know that James Turner Morehead was the first Governor of Kentucky to be born in that state?
Did you know that McGregor Lake, a man-made reservoir in Southern Alberta, receives most of its water from canals linked to the Bow River despite being in the Oldman River drainage basin?
Did you know that Michelle Rocca, longtime girlfriend of singer Van Morrison, was the first woman to appear on one of Morrison's album covers since his then-wife Janet Minto in 1971?
Did you know that Orator Hunt's presentation of the first petition in support of women's suffrage was received in Parliament with ribald laughter?
Did you know that Shakadvipi (Bhojaka) is the only division of brahmins whose origins are said to be outside India?
Did you know that Squilla mantis is the only native stomatopod to be fished for on a commercial scale in the Mediterranean Sea?
Did you know that a rock-cut basin may eventually form a circular holed stone, and passing through the hole was considered to have healing properties according to legend?
Did you know that according to the 2R hypothesis, the genomes of modern vertebrates are the result of two rounds of genome duplication hundreds of millions of years ago?
Did you know that actress, writer and producer Michelle Paradise created the television series Exes and Ohs without an agent?
Did you know that before Hannibal crossed the Rhône River with his Carthaginian forces to battle the Gauls, he sent a detachment under Hanno, son of Bomilcar to cross at a different point upriver for an ambush?
Did you know that despite declines in production in recent years, Victoria still produces almost 19.5% of Australia's crude oil?
Did you know that during the World War II amphibious offensive known as the Kerch-Eltigen Operation, the Red Army landed 75,000 men and over 10,000 tons of munitions and material near Kerch in eastern Crimea?
Did you know that in 1995 The Virgin Islands Daily News, with a staff of only 18 full-time reporters and editors, won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, beating the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Charlotte Observer?
Did you know that on the death of Governor George Madison, Kentucky lieutenant governor Gabriel Slaughter was refused the title of "governor" by a hostile state legislature and was referred to as "acting governor" for the duration of his three-year administration?
Did you know that popular Turkish fusion band Yansımalar has recorded an album with Erkan Oğur, the inventor of the first fretless classical guitar?
Did you know that the 1905 Great Seimas of Vilnius (program pictured) was the first national congress in Lithuania, which attempted to outline Lithuania’s autonomy within the Russian Empire?
Did you know that the Black Dirt Region of Orange County, New York contains the largest concentration of muck soil in the United States outside of the Florida Everglades?
Did you know that the Franco-Hova War resulted in the demise of the Merina monarchy of Madagascar?
Did you know that the Markonahalli Dam across the River Shimsha in India had to be partly demolished in order to prevent excess water from flooding the villages?
Did you know that the architecture of the Singapore Power Building was influenced by Gerhad M. Kallmann's Boston City Hall and Le Corbusier's Sainte Marie de La Tourette?
Did you know that the banning of the Buddhist flag and the subsequent shootings of nine Buddhists who were protesting the ban on the birthday of Gautama Buddha led to civil unrest which toppled Ngo Dinh Diem's regime?
Did you know that Charles K. Landis attracted residents to his new city of Vineland, New Jersey to clear land and grow grapes, which were purchased by Thomas Bramwell Welch, founder of Welch's, to make "unfermented wine"?
Did you know that Crystal Grottoes is the only show cave in the U.S. state of Maryland?
Did you know that Eastern school whiting caught along the coast of Queensland are frozen whole, shipped to Thailand for processing and then sold in Japan?
Did you know that French artist Antoine Berjon's variations on flower painting included a still life with a shark's head?
Did you know that James W. Parker spent nine years in the Comancheria searching for his family?
Did you know that Mormon abstinence from drinking caffeinated beverages goes back to a 1918 Improvement Era article by Frederick J. Pack?
Did you know that Nikolay Kruchina, a top Soviet official, committed suicide by jumping out of his window after learning about the failure of the Soviet coup attempt in August 1991?
Did you know that Noble Threewitt worked for 75 years training Thoroughbred racehorses before retiring on his 96th birthday?
Did you know that Singapore's Ee Hoe Hean Club, a century-old millionaires' club for Chinese businessmen, became a headquarters of an anti-Japanese movement in Southeast Asia from 1937-1942?
Did you know that Thalassina anomala, a mud lobster found in Indo-Pacific mangrove swamps, is used in Thailand in powdered form or steeped in alcohol as a remedy for asthma?
Did you know that Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly American war veteran, killed three tourists in Central Station in Montreal, Canada hoping to intimidate Pope John Paul II prior to his 1984 visit to Canada?
Did you know that Thomas J. Ryan was the prosecutor at the court-martial of American naval officer Charles B. McVay III, who had been his friend for 25 years?
Did you know that U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Prize winner Gary S. Becker and baseball player Joe Garagiola were all School Safety Patrol members?
Did you know that a community centre will be incorporated in Sengkang New Town's new sports complex?
Did you know that the 1940s experimental aircraft Vought V-173 featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of a flat, somewhat disk-shaped body with a pair of three-bladed propellers?
Did you know that the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College were given powers of governance after the College charter was signed by George III of the United Kingdom in 1769?
Did you know that the Kentucky General Assembly responded to unpopular rulings by Justice William Owsley by dissolving the Court of Appeals on which he served?
Did you know that the Ladoga Canal was constructed at the behest of Peter the Great and was one of the first canals created in  Russia?
Did you know that the Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti-American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell?
Did you know that the Palazzo Malta in Rome, Italy was granted extraterritoriality by the Italian Government and is the property of the Sovereign Order of Malta?
Did you know that the first labor investigations by a United States government body were prompted by petitions from the Lowell girls, textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the mid-nineteenth century?
Did you know that Christine Langan distracted a man from jumping off of a multi-storey car park by speaking to him in a Manchester accent until the police arrived?
Did you know that Clarence Herbert Smith, who invented the stump-jump plough under the direction of his brother, later produced the machine for sale because the patent taken out by his brother was left to lapse?
Did you know that Daphne Pearson was the first woman awarded the George Cross for acts of bravery during World War II?
Did you know that David Fung performed Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Sydney Symphony in the Sydney Opera House at only 19 years of age?
Did you know that Hasan Saltık, called "The Anthropologist of Folk Music" by Time magazine, was saved from a three-year jail term because the prosecutor was a fan?
Did you know that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
Did you know that National Medal of Science recipient Evelyn M. Witkin's interest in mutagenesis led her to discover mechanisms of bacterial DNA repair?
Did you know that New Zealand's North Island Robin was originally thought to be a subspecies of the New Zealand Robin, but mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis has shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene?
Did you know that Turkish record label Kalan Müzik was suspended for a song with the word "Kurdistan" in it?
Did you know that at the time of Roman rule in Palestine, the village of Um ar-Rehan, now located in the Barta'a enclave of the Seam Zone, held a hundred houses, a road system and a Roman bathhouse?
Did you know that in 1949, the Swedish dentist Alice Timander was considered for expulsion from the Swedish Dental Association after she appeared publicly in a bikini?
Did you know that in Estonia, a digital signature is considered legally equivalent to a manual signature through the successful Estonian ID card project?
Did you know that the computer-player of the 1979 video game Video Chess could take up to ten hours to decide a move?
Did you know that the territorial governor of Montana Preston Leslie pardoned a prostitute convicted of grand larceny because the penitentiary was not equipped to accommodate women?
Did you know that zoologist Georgina Sweet was the first woman to receive a DSc from the University of Melbourne and the first female recipient of the David Syme Research Prize?
Did you know that Count Henry Russell held receptions for princes and notables in a cave on the peak of Vignemale in the Pyrenees?
Did you know that Gord Bamford, a country music singer, was one of only two Canadian artists invited to perform at the Global Artist Party at the 2007 CMA Music Festival?
Did you know that MinnPost plans a non-profit Minneapolis-Saint Paul online newspaper that readers who wish for hard copies can print on demand?
Did you know that Miriam Rodon-Naveira, a Puerto Rican scientist, was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory?
Did you know that Omaha, Nebraska is the original home of the Reuben sandwich, Omaha Steaks and ConAgra Foods?
Did you know that Tan Teck Guan Building was the site of Singapore's first medical school, and has been conserved as a national monument?
Did you know that WikiPilipinas is the first online encyclopedia based in the Philippines?
Did you know that citrus fruits white sapote, hercules' club and rue are all members of the family Rutaceae?
Did you know that controversy arose over the ABC television network's licensing and production of a doll based on fictional rapist Todd Manning?
Did you know that four of the thirty-eight IRA members that escaped from Maze Prison in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?
Did you know that in 2007, the first Australian outbreak of equine influenza caused a nationwide ban on horse racing?
Did you know that romance novelist Nancy Warren wrote real-life NASCAR driver Carl Edwards into two of her novels?
Did you know that the Toronto Magnetic Observatory had to be moved as the University of Toronto's electric lighting was interfering with observations?
Did you know that the Treatise of Garcia of Toledo was written as a satire against Pope Urban II and Bernard, Archbishop of Toledo in the eleventh century?
Did you know that the apparent disparagement of Singapore as a "little red dot" by former Indonesian President B.J. Habibie has come to be used by Singaporeans with pride?
Did you know that the participants of the Channel 4 programme Dumped were not told that they would be living on a landfill site for three weeks?
Did you know that the pieces of dougong, an ancient Chinese structural element of interlocking wooden brackets, are cut to fit so perfectly that no glue or fasteners are needed?
Did you know that though the Indian rivers, Tunga and Bhadra originate at Gangamoola, they flow separately for more than 145 km (90 mi)?
Did you know that Pope Martin V objected to the wording of the inscription on the tomb of Antipope John XXIII in the Florence Baptistry because he thought it implied John had died as pope?
Did you know that despite being open for only two years, the Naomi Institute earned a reputation as one of the leading educational institutions in pioneer Nebraska?
Did you know that electrocardiogram technicians responsible for recording ECGs in hospitals reduce medical errors in the emergency reporting of ECGs?
Did you know that in 1847, the German engineer Gustav Schleicher, who later became a veteran of the Confederate Army, founded a commune in Texas to prove the truth of communist ideals?
Did you know that in 1995-1997 a Centers for Disease Control program identified over a hundred patients likely suffering from life threatening infections new in the history of emerging infectious diseases?
Did you know that in 2005 John Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, chose to resign rather than continue reducing the number of journalists at the paper?
Did you know that in late 1992, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior banned the neo-Nazi groups German Alternative (DA), Nationalist Front (NF), German Comradeship Alliance (DKB), and the National Offensive (NO) all within a month?
Did you know that many of the carnatic musicians of the Mysore Kingdom were also trained in Western classical music?
Did you know that over 70,000 Dark-eyed Juncos have been counted in a single day at the Bird Observatory in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada?
Did you know that the Byron Nuclear Generating Station produced about 2,300 MWe in 2005, enough electricity to supply 2 million average U.S. households?
Did you know that the Hal Far Fighter Flight, a British fighter unit formed during the siege of Malta, is the source of the myth that only three aircraft formed the entire fighter cover for Malta in June 1940?
Did you know that the Peshtigo Fire Museum features an intact tabernacle, one of the few items to survive the deadliest natural fire in United States history?
Did you know that the Wendish Crusade of 1147 was a largely unsuccessful campaign of Saxons and Danes against the Polabian Slavs concurrent to the Second Crusade?
Did you know that the cityscapes of water-colorist Floris Arntzenius (self-portrait pictured) were mostly painted in misty or rainy weather, so the subjects could be reflected on the wet asphalt?
Did you know that the first company union in the United States was created by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in response to the bad publicity generated by the Ludlow massacre?
Did you know that the main building of the Krzyżtopór Castle, a Baroque structure in Poland, has been a ruin since the Swedish Deluge?
Did you know that the small population of Estonian Ruhnu sheep is thought to descend from animals left on Ruhnu Island by Swedes?
Did you know that Alexander Novikov, double Hero of the Soviet Union and pioneering commander of the Soviet Air Force, was used to frame Marshal Zhukov, then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin?
Did you know that Patrick Nash helped change the city charter, which called for a special election in the case of death of the Chicago Mayor, so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly?
Did you know that Presbyterian minister Robert Jefferson Breckinridge is known as the father of the public school system in Kentucky?
Did you know that Sir T. L. Yang was the first ethnic Chinese to become Chief Justice of Hong Kong under British colonial rule?
Did you know that coffin portraits (example pictured) of nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were meant to create an impression that the deceased is taking part in the funeral?
Did you know that during World War II, Shepton Mallet, the oldest operating prison in Britain, was used as the protective storage of important government documents including the Magna Carta and Domesday Book?
Did you know that fox tossing was a popular blood sport in parts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Did you know that the Bank of the Holy Spirit, founded by Pope Paul V in 1605, was the first national bank in Europe?
Did you know that the National Art Gallery of Singapore will incorporate two national monuments — the Old Supreme Court Building and the City Hall (both pictured)?
Did you know that the Native American Old Connecticut Path from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Connecticut River across from Hartford, was the very first of the American trails that led west from the Atlantic seacoast settlement, towards the interior?
Did you know that the Suevic king Rechiar was the first Germanic monarch to convert to Nicene Christianity, the first to mint his own coins, and the only to ever ally with the peasant rebels called the bagaudae?
Did you know that the United States threatened privately to cut off aid to Ngo Dinh Diem's Catholic regime as a result of chemical attacks on Buddhist protestors in Huế, Vietnam in 1963?
Did you know that the bootleg album The Lost Paris Tapes contains the last known recording by Jim Morrison?
Did you know that the citizens of Perugia compelled the surrender of the citadel of Gérard du Puy, the cardinal-nephew of Pope Gregory XI, during the War of the Eight Saints with a trebuchet nicknamed the cacciaprete ("priest chaser")?
Did you know that the gulf sturgeon, a subspecies of the Atlantic sturgeon, fasts for eight to nine months each year?
Did you know that Benjamin Aaron helped negotiate the first contract between a county and its public employee union in California history in 1968?
Did you know that Coptic architectural monuments in Christian Cairo include the Hanging Church, one of the oldest in Egypt?
Did you know that Graham Linehan, co-creator of Father Ted, made his directorial debut with the comedy horror short film Hello Friend?
Did you know that Olga D. González-Sanabria, a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor, is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center?
Did you know that aeronautics engineer Paul Moller plans to sell the M200G Volantor, a flying saucer-style aircraft, in the United States by early 2008?
Did you know that although enterprising citizens were said to have dragged a flatboat up Spring Creek to establish Bellefonte, Pennsylvania as the head of navigation and the county seat in 1800, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation canal did not reach the town until 1848?
Did you know that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the Palæozoic fossils known as Chitinozoans (SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
Did you know that the Governor's residence in Gibraltar is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a nun who was bricked up alive into a chamber wall?
Did you know that the Hughes Brothers became the first sibling duo allowed by the DGA since Jerry and David Zucker to take co-credit as directors for their 1993 film Menace II Society?
Did you know that the Hypothenemus hampei, a small  coleopter insect native to  Africa, is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee crops worldwide?
Did you know that the Lobel's Maple is one of very few trees that grow with a narrow, erect crown, known as a fastigiate form, naturally?
Did you know that the United States Youth Council received more than 90 percent of its funds from the Central Intelligence Agency?
Did you know that the first HMS Ark Royal was sunk in 1636 when she struck her own anchor and stove in her hull whilst underway?
Did you know that the sixteen eight-million-year-old cypresses found in Northern Hungary in 2007 had been preserved without being fossilized?
Did you know that three Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross for their role in the Battle of Mont St. Quentin, a battle that the commander of the British Fourth Army, General Henry Rawlinson, considered Australia's greatest military achievement of the war?
Did you know that when a rival took over an estate belonging to Sir Walter Clarges, Clarges used his position as a Member of Parliament to send the interloper to jail?
Did you know that American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?
Did you know that Father Hyacinth (Jacek) Gulski had such a gift for singing that he was nicknamed the "Polish Nightingale"?
Did you know that Henry III of France took to calling Catherine of Cleves "the mistress of Saint-Mégrin", in reference to a young nobleman killed by her illustrious husband?
Did you know that Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822) was the first university student ever to self-identify as Estonian, thus contributing to the Estonian National Awakening?
Did you know that Rachel Plummer wrote the first book about being a slave to the Comanche Native Americans?
Did you know that Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of Scotland and England?
Did you know that aiguillettes are decorative tags or tips for cord or ribbon, usually of gold and sometimes set with gemstones or enameled, used to decorate 16th and 17th century clothing and hats?
Did you know that as part of Smirnoff vodka's Sea advertising campaign, parent company Diageo toured England with an installation capable of making saline or polluted water potable?
Did you know that former basketball player Jim Krebs wrote a humorous article for Sports Illustrated about surviving a plane crash during his third season in the NBA?
Did you know that model Albert Reed, selected to appear in September 2007 on the United States television show Dancing with the Stars, admits that he cannot dance?
Did you know that photographer Hans Namuth took over 500 black and white images of abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock at work in his studio in 1950?
Did you know that the Permanent North American Gaeltacht is an officially designated Irish speaking area in English/French speaking Ontario, Canada, the first of its kind outside of Ireland?
Did you know that the short-lived Industrial Syndicalist Education League was both the first and the largest syndicalist organisation ever in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the use of turtle excluder devices has decreased the number of sea turtles accidentally killed by shrimp fishermen by 97%?
Did you know that Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi‎ became the first Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range in 717?
Did you know that Emmy-nominated actor Leon Russom has portrayed two different characters in two different branches of the Star Trek franchise?
Did you know that Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando and Nick Nolte were all born to German-American families in Omaha, Nebraska?
Did you know that James Dahlman, Omaha, Nebraska's "perpetual mayor," was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" after the number of saloons doubled during his term?
Did you know that Portuguese soldier and explorer Francisco Barreto led an expedition to Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
Did you know that Queen Victoria sanctioned the British South Africa Company to issue the British South Africa Company Medal in honour of the troops who served in the Matabele Wars?
Did you know that although the Youguo Temple collapsed in 1847 when the Yellow River flooded, its Iron Pagoda has survived six floods and remained intact for almost 1,000 years?
Did you know that centenarian Nittoor Srinivasa Rau, was the first chief of the Central Vigilance Commission of India and also the first to translate Mahatama Gandhi's autobiography to Kannada?