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Did you know that the monument to Mother Featherlegs near Lusk, Wyoming has been called the only monument to a prostitute in the United States?
Did you know that Derek Freeman was an anthropologist whose refutation of Margaret Mead's work "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology"?
Did you know that Maria Yakunchikova was a Russian painter who lived in Paris and was active primarily in western Europe?
Did you know that Princess Louise-Marie of France, the youngest of the 10 children of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, amazed the court when she asked her father to allow her to become a Carmelite nun in 1770?
Did you know that Richard Stücklen was the longest serving member of the German Bundestag, winning election 11 times between 1949 and 1990?
Did you know that Santa Rosa Creek was the scene of an 1827 baptism of a Pomo maiden, which event led to the naming of the creek and also the city of Santa Rosa, California?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Dean was one of four Atlantic hurricanes in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season to lose their circulation and subsequently re-develop?
Did you know that a record 7238 salmon made the trip up the 310 metre Pitlochry fish ladder in 2006?
Did you know that the Château de Courances has been acclaimed as "the epitome of the French formal garden style in which château and environment form a whole"?
Did you know that the Joint Expedition Against Franklin was a small battle during the American Civil War for which seven Union sailors were awarded Medals of Honor?
Did you know that the medieval Slavic Milceni tribe, ancestors of the Sorbs of Germany, are mentioned in The Song of Roland?
Did you know that Esplanade Park, built in 1943, is one of the oldest parks  in Singapore, and has a number of historical landmarks which include the former Indian National Army Monument site and The Cenotaph?
Did you know that Grandi's series 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · is divergent and appears to equal 0, yet in some sense "sums" to 1⁄2, producing a paradox once linked to the creation ex nihilo of the universe?
Did you know that Jackson Pollock 's No. 5, 1948 was sold by David Geffen to David Martinez for the inflation adjusted price of $140 million dollars, making it the world's most expensive painting sold at an auction as of November, 2006?
Did you know that John Pasche, an art designer most famous for designing the "Tongue and Lip Design" logo for the popular band The Rolling Stones, has also done work for musicians like Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Judas Priest and The Who?
Did you know that Sukhbir is often referred to as the Prince of Bhangra?
Did you know that Theobald Stapleton's 1639 catechism was the first Roman Catholic book in Irish to be printed in antiqua, and that it used simplified spellings that did not become standard for another 300 years?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Beryl was the second tropical storm of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season, and spread flooding and tornadoes up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States?
Did you know that the 1928 Thames flood was the last time central London was flooded?
Did you know that the President of the Bundestag is ranked ahead of the Chancellor of Germany according to the German order of precedence?
Did you know that the medieval Horne Church in Denmark has box seating for the nobility that was used by the family of astronomer Tycho Brahe?
Did you know that 17th century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark?
Did you know that Australian Test cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from an Indian bookmaker known only as "John" in return for pitch and weather reports?
Did you know that Colonel Denning State Park, which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel?
Did you know that Harry McNish was one of only four crew members of the Endurance not to receive the Polar Medal, and that his grave remained unmarked for almost 30 years?
Did you know that K-Klass are a house music group from North Wales that purchased an underground bunker for use as a recording studio?
Did you know that Loretta Perfectus Walsh was the first woman to enlist in the U.S. military?
Did you know that Motilal Sheel, a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835?
Did you know that Penley, a small village near Wrexham in north east Wales, was home to a hospital founded on the orders of Sir Winston Churchill after World War II to care for Polish ex-servicemen?
Did you know that Sir Edwin Landseer's iconic painting, Monarch of the Glen, was intended for the House of Lords, but the House of Commons refused to grant the £150 commission?
Did you know that The Greek Slave, a statue by Hiram Powers, became a symbol for abolitionists in the United States in the years prior to the American Civil War?
Did you know that according to Statistics Canada, 60 percent of Canada's population are classified as White?
Did you know that at nearly seventy percent, the rate of homicides in the United States involving gun violence is significantly higher than that of other developed countries?
Did you know that during the Shiraz blood libel, the first to start the pogrom of the Jewish quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
Did you know that social dancers exchange partners several times during a mixer dance, to increase their chance of dancing with new people?
Did you know that the Mahishya caste is one of the predominant Hindu castes in West Bengal, India?
Did you know that the Temporary Constitution of the Republic of China was the first ever constitution in China?
Did you know that the oldest continuously operational tavern in Philadelphia is McGillin's Olde Ale House, which opened in 1860?
Did you know that the thriller The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté) won eight awards at the 2006 César Awards?
Did you know that the witch's hat is the common name of a colourful orange-red toadstool?
Did you know that via Giulia, projected for Pope Julius II, was the first attempt since antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of Rome?
Did you know that Battle of the Border refers to the series of battles in the opening stage of the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland in September 1939?
Did you know that Elizabeth Godfrey was the most outstanding female goldsmith of her generation in 18th century Britain?
Did you know that Pamheiba made Hinduism the official religion of Manipur in 1717 C.E.?
Did you know that Saner Wonggoun was the number one fugitive of the U.S. Air Force from 1994 until he was caught by the Royal Thai Police in October 2006?
Did you know that Stanford professor Kate Lorig developed a peer-led chronic disease self management course which is the basis of the Expert Patient Programme of the British National Health Service?
Did you know that a type of car modification named Bippu is alleged to have originated from ties to the Yakuza?
Did you know that film composer Richard Harvey has a collection of more than 600 different musical instruments?
Did you know that in addition to being a painter, Wolf Huber was active as an architect, but that no buildings designed by him have survived?
Did you know that nineteeth-century entrepreneur Maunsel White of New Orleans invented a wine sauce in honor of his friend Andrew Jackson that is still manufactured today?
Did you know that rice brokers in Osaka in the Edo period were the forerunner of banking in Japan?
Did you know that the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, the largest open pit iron mine in the world, is so large that the nearby town of Hibbing, Minnesota was relocated in 1919 to allow more iron ore to be mined?
Did you know that the New York Sports Express, a free weekly newspaper designed to take a lighter look at sports, lasted only a little over one year on the hurried streets of New York City?
Did you know that the Northern Red-legged Frog is a near-threatened species, whose male defends breeding pond territory with nocturnal displays?
Did you know that the Pereshchepina Treasure was discovered in 1912, when a Ukrainian shepherd boy literally stumbled over a gold vessel and fell into the grave of Kubrat, the founder of Great Bulgaria?
Did you know that the Tagore family, with over three hundred years of history, has exercised the greatest influence on reawakened Bengali spirit?
Did you know that the USS Hunchback was a steam powered ferryboat converted into a gunboat for the American Civil War?
Did you know that the song "Ninanajna" has two very different sets of lyrics - one in English and one in Macedonian?
Did you know that the use of the word "yeoman" in the U.S. Naval Reserve Act of 1916, rather than "man" or "male", enabled women to enlist in the U.S. Naval Reserve with the rank of Yeoman (F) during World War I?
Did you know that walking fish can actually skip, crawl, slither, and even climb trees?
Did you know that while working on the Somerset coalfield William Smith, who became known as the "Father of English Geology", developed the The Principle of Faunal Succession by observing the strata?
Did you know that Ivan Argunov, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting, spent his entire life as a serf?
Did you know that United States Executive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged communist affiliations?
Did you know that funeral trains were once a common method of transporting coffins to cemeteries, but are now almost exclusively used for state funerals?
Did you know that the Egyptian actress Faten Hamama has received more than forty awards and starred in almost one hundred films?
Did you know that the album City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture was the second-best-selling soundtrack of 1998 in the United States?
Did you know that Laments by 16th century Polish poet Jan Kochanowski, a masterpiece of the Polish Renaissance, were inspired by the death of the poet's young daughter, Urszula?
Did you know that Mountain Mint was used by the Koasati as a treatment for laziness?
Did you know that Ratnakar Matkari combined social realism in supernatural thrillers, which was a pioneering idea in Marathi literature?
Did you know that rally driver Lucien Bianchi, who had driven across 10,000 miles of treacherous terrain, crashed out of the lead of the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon with only 150 miles to go?
Did you know that the South Korean long track speed skater Lee Kyu-Hyuk has held the 1500 m world record, despite never winning a World Cup event or an Olympic medal at the distance?
Did you know that the Varmint of Burke's Garden was a coyote that terrorized the community of Burke's Garden, Virginia, in 1952?
Did you know that the body of the victim of the Red Barn Murder, in Suffolk, England, was discovered in 1828 after her stepmother reported dreaming about it?
Did you know that the clocks on the Great Lavra Belltower have only stopped once during their existence, when the nearby Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was blown up during the Second World War?
Did you know that the pen is mightier than the sword, an adage coined in 1839 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a play about Cardinal Richelieu, had numerous historical predecessors?
Did you know that 17 days after the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the Soviet Union joined the invasion, ensuring the fall of the Second Polish Republic?
Did you know that illiterate American slave quiltmaker Harriet Powers sold her now-museum-quality quilts in the 1880s for only a couple of dollars?
Did you know that the Fairfield Osborn Preserve is home to a great variety of fauna including one of the world's largest salamanders?
Did you know that the Pariser Platz in Berlin is named after the French capital in memory of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813?
Did you know that the Pungoteague River Light was the shortest-lived screwpile lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay, and may have been the shortest-lived lighthouse in the United States?
Did you know that Luton Town Hall was burnt to the ground following a riot at the Peace Day celebrations marking the formal end of World War I on 19 July 1919?
Did you know that in the early 1900s the illegal paramilitary Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party assassinated hundreds of Russian officials, policemen and secret agents responsible for repression in partitioned Poland?
Did you know that the California slender salamander has a physique to invade narrow tunnels of earthworms for predation and cover?
Did you know that the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, a book of Aztec herbal remedies in Latin, was returned to Mexico by Pope John Paul II after more than four centuries of changing hands in Europe?
Did you know that the ancient Athenian sacred ships included a galley which was believed to be the ship that carried Theseus to Crete to face the Minotaur?
Did you know that the barndoor skate is a species of fish that is threatened with extinction from overfishing despite not being targeted by the commercial fishing industry?
Did you know that the fiscus Iudaicus was a tax imposed on all Jewish subjects of the Roman Empire after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, the proceeds of which were used to fund a temple of Jupiter in Rome?
Did you know that the medieval Armenian sect of Tondrakians denied the immortality of the soul,  the afterlife, the church and its feudal rights?
Did you know that the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?
Did you know that Laura Callahan, a former senior director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was found to have obtained her academic degrees through a diploma mill run out of a converted Motel 6?
Did you know that at least 3,000 Vendel Age burial mounds in Grobiņa, Latvia indicate the existence of a prosperous Viking colony there?
Did you know that since 1994, the mural arts program of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network has created more than 2,500 murals across Philadelphia?
Did you know that the 1592 book Nine Worthies of London charted the rise of nine tradesmen and apprentices to the nobility?
Did you know that the Chubb detector lock was developed in 1818 in a competition sponsored by the British Government to create an unpickable lock and remained unpicked until 1851?
Did you know that the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 entry "Desire" was the first Maltese entry in 28 years to have Maltese lyrics?
Did you know that the Malay Agenda is one half of the Malaysian social contract, pertaining to the special status of Malays in Malaysia?
Did you know that the Tatarbunary Uprising in Budjak, Bessarabia was led by a pro-Soviet revolutionary committee which called for unification with the Ukrainian SSR and an end to "Romanian occupation"?
Did you know that the painting The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, has recently been verified as an authentic Caravaggio, and not a relatively worthless copy?
Did you know that the site of the early Viking hill fort of Alaborg, Russia, was turned into a quarry for construction of a highway during the years of Stalinism?
Did you know that the song with which Thor Salden won the Belgian preselections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 reached Number 1 in the Flemish music charts?
Did you know that the summit of Ben More Assynt is the highest point in the Scottish county of Sutherland?
Did you know that while visiting Mödlareuth in 1983, then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush  alluded to John F. Kennedy's statement "Ich bin ein Berliner" by exclaiming, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!"?
Did you know that "On Again...Off Again" features influences from both dance music and opera, the only time that such a combination has appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest?
Did you know that Michael Groce indirectly started the Brixton riot of 1985?
Did you know that Sarskoye Gorodishche near Rostov, Russia has been interpreted as either a Varangian outpost on the Volga trade route or the capital of the Finnic Merya?
Did you know that Tsar Alexander II of Russia signed the Ems Ukaz, a decree banning official use of the "non-existent" Ukrainian language, whilst enjoying a spa at Bad Ems, Germany?
Did you know that Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?
Did you know that because of its unique geology, a 230 hectare area of Rosthwaite Fell in Cumbria, England was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1985?
Did you know that every extant individual of the cycad Encephalartos woodii is male?
Did you know that excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl-on-the-Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all inscribed with Runic graffiti?
Did you know that journalist Simon Regan established the magazine Scallywag, which did much to propagate baseless rumours that British Prime Minister John Major was having an affair with a Downing Street cook?
Did you know that the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars of the 16th century saw significant territorial gains for the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and forced the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to ally itself closer with the Kingdom of Poland, forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that the Thanksgiving 1984 Nor'easter deposited a 197-foot Venezuelan freighter in the backyard of a Palm Beach, Florida socialite, where it remained for several months?
Did you know that the Thoroughbred racehorse Sarazen won the United States Horse of the Year Award for two consecutive years in the 1920s?
Did you know that the barrel vault was developed chiefly by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but endured to be a mainstay of medieval and even modern architecture?
Did you know that the finds at the village of Gnezdovo near Smolensk include an early folding razor, the first pivoted scissors found in Eastern Europe, and the earliest inscription in the Old Russian language?
Did you know that the pigment responsible for the colour of the bright green Parrot Toadstool is not chlorophyll as it is a fungus?
Did you know that the primary disposal method for human feces in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya is the  unsanitary flying toilet?
Did you know that the publisher of Mirror Buzz, a Mumbai Mirror supplementary magazine, was arrested in 2005 after the magazine featured images of nude women on its front cover?
Did you know that the self-taught weapon designer Aimo Lahti designed over 50 weapons of all types prior to and during World War II, including the successful Suomi M-31?
Did you know that the soldier in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy reunited with his family after six years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp?
Did you know that Hashim Suboh controversially called for the use of force in enforcing the Malaysian social contract?
Did you know that Minnie Evans received inspiration for her colored pencil drawings from her dreams?
Did you know that Nordic Classicism (example pictured) was formerly regarded as a mere interlude between two far wider-known architectural movements, Art Nouveau and Functionalism?
Did you know that charcoal merchant Thomas Britton ran a series of concerts in his loft at which the most famous musicians in London performed?
Did you know that even though American lawman Harry Love cut off and preserved the head of notorious bandit Joaquin Murrieta, many people still didn't believe the man was dead?
Did you know that former executive director of the Institute of Food Technologists Howard W. Mattson became active in promoting organ donation after receiving a heart transplant?
Did you know that instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction?
Did you know that the  free trade union SLOMR, established in opposition to the communist Romanian government, was suppressed one year before the creation of Solidarity, its more successful Polish counterpart ?
Did you know that the City of Amsterdam spent €160,000 on an unsuccessful soil sanitation program to save the Anne Frank Tree, one of the oldest chestnut trees in the area?
Did you know that the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order?
Did you know that the UK Government Decontamination Service was set up in 2005 after increased threats of terrorism to help the United Kingdom resist and recover from biological, chemical and nuclear incidents?
Did you know that the blood of the skink Prasinohaema virens is bright green, due to an accumulation of the bile pigment biliverdin?
Did you know that the only piece of the Palais Strousberg to survive World War II, a set of gates bearing the British Coat of Arms, was incorporated into the modern British Embassy in Berlin?
Did you know that the striking of a French consul with a fly-whisk by Ottoman ruler Hussein Dey was used as a pretext for the invasion of Algiers?
Did you know that while the engineering treatises of Italian Renaissance artist Taccola were widely copied and studied during his lifetime, printed copies were not made until the 1960s?
Did you know that Acanthomintha duttonii is an endangered wildflower that is found only in a six mile long strip on the San Francisco Peninsula?
Did you know that French lighthouse Phare de la Vieille was operated manually as late as 1995?
Did you know that Nicolas Grollier de Serviere invented a type of bookwheel that allowed many heavy books to be read at the same time?
Did you know that Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer, who was affected with cerebral palsy and was unable to talk or use her limbs, became an author and prominent disability rights advocate?
Did you know that William King Gregory, a leading authority on vertebrate evolution and the preeminent expert on human dentition, was initially taken in by the Piltdown Man, a hoax which was purported to be an early human?
Did you know that a squircle is a variety of superellipse that has properties between those of a square and a circle?
Did you know that modern Romania's most notorious serial killer, Ion Râmaru, was himself the son of a serial killer?
Did you know that the Mark II radio telescope built in 1964 at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK was the first telescope to be controlled by a digital computer?
Did you know that the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia?
Did you know that the pinax, an ancient Greek votive tablet, has given several modern European languages their word for "art museum", as exemplified by Munich's Alte Pinakothek?
Did you know that Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park was formerly home to one of the few colonies of the endangered Mediterranean Monk Seal in the Western Mediterranean?
Did you know that Ching-Thang Khomba was the first king of a unified Manipur?
Did you know that Cupressus pigmaea is a vulnerable cypress tree that occurs in a dwarfed form to populate pygmy forests, as well as a full size tree?
Did you know that Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was the deadliest air disaster of 1997, claiming the lives of over 230 people?
Did you know that Giulio Campagnola was the first engraver to use stippling in his works?
Did you know that Polish painter Jan Matejko smuggled arms to Polish insurgents during the January Uprising in 1863?
Did you know that Red Road is the first of three films in the Advance Party trilogy, each of which are to be set in Scotland using the same characters and cast, and directed by a different first-time director each time?
Did you know that Scamozzi's Villa Molin near Padua served as military command headquarters during the Great War?