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Did you know that the Volga Tatars believed that the Volga Bulgarian medieval city of Aşlı was founded there by Alexander the Great?
Did you know that the fast bowling during West Indies' tour to England in 1984 was so hostile that England Test cricketer Andy Lloyd was struck on the head and hospitalised, despite wearing a helmet, and Paul Terry's arm was broken?
Did you know that the fourth Nordic Football Championship tournament was started in 1937 but did not end until eleven years later as it was interrupted by the Second World War?
Did you know that the official recognition of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Transylvania in the late 18th century was the result of the activity of an Orthodox monk who was canonized two centuries later as Saint Sofronie of Cioara?
Did you know that the proposals for a new Crimean flag after the collapse of the Soviet Union included a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top and a blue-white-red tricolor design, which was officially adopted in 1999?
Did you know that Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden wrote three biographies about the Russian imperial family and about her own escape from Russia in 1917?
Did you know that Beata Brookes, Conservative MEP for North Wales for ten years, has been nicknamed "the Celtic Iron Lady"?
Did you know that British Conservative MP Norman Miscampbell turned down a knighthood because he thought it would prevent him enjoying his retirement from politics?
Did you know that George Cecil Ives created the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society to promote gay rights, and left 122 volumes of diaries and 45 of scrapbooks?
Did you know that Leon Wasilewski, first Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, was one of the chief supporters of the Prometheism policy aimed at breaking up the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Stefan Báthory assisted Vlad Dracula to reclaim the throne of Wallachia in 1476?
Did you know that The Christian by Hall Caine (published 1897) was the first novel in Britain to sell over a million copies?
Did you know that approximately 300 pieces of mail a day are still being sent to 10048, the ZIP code assigned to the former World Trade Center complex?
Did you know that in 1952 the Russian mathematician Veniamin Kagan resigned from his post at Moscow State University partly as a result of anti-Semitic practices there?
Did you know that just 51 days after Adam Air's loss of Flight 574, Adam Air Flight 172 snapped in half after a hard landing, but there were no casualties?
Did you know that the 22 Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the Iliad, as well as early versions of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John?
Did you know that the Red and Green Kangaroo Paw is the floral emblem of the state of Western Australia?
Did you know that the Spartan Cruiser was originally designed as a mailplane and even flew a test flight to Karachi as such, but was then transformed into a passenger airplane in 1932?
Did you know that the actions of Captain Alfred C. Haynes and the crew of United Airlines Flight 232 are often cited as an exemplar of good airmanship?
Did you know that the former KGB agent Yuri Nosenko was incarcerated for five years by the CIA including 1,277 days of interrogation, because the American agents did not believe he had truly defected?
Did you know that the legend of the smuggler Cruel Coppinger was embellished by the Reverend Robert Stephen Hawker when he published it in 1866?
Did you know that when it was shown at the Metropolitan Opera, Diana von Solange by Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was so poorly received that three hundred people signed a petition demanding that it be removed from the repertory?
Did you know that 1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + · · · (graph pictured), being the Cauchy product of two copies of 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · ·, is an example of a series that is Abel summable but not Cesàro summable?
Did you know that 16-year-old Cory Kennedy became an "Internet It girl" in 2006 without her parents even knowing?
Did you know that Edyta Górniak sang part of "To Nie Ja" in English at the dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, which almost caused the song to be disqualified?
Did you know that Goat Rock Beach in Sonoma County, California has a number of sea stacks and offers viewing of marine natural arches? ...
Did you know that Hernando Arias de Saavedra was the first native-born governor of a New World colony and issued the order leading to the modern-day partition of Argentina and Paraguay?
Did you know that Jacob Dacian, a Franciscan missionary to the P'urhépecha Indians of Mexico, spoke 8 different languages and was probably a son of King John I of Denmark?
Did you know that Kavirajamarga, the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language, was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar?
Did you know that Lou Ye's film Summer Palace was the first Chinese film to feature both male and female full-frontal nudity?
Did you know that Mount Omine is a sacred mountain in Nara, Japan, famous for its controversial ban on women and for its three tests of courage?
Did you know that Nicholas II of Russia, his wife and children have all been recognized as saints of the Russian Orthodox Church?
Did you know that Tolay Lake has yielded thousands of charmstones thrown into the lake by prehistoric peoples to invoke health and high crop yields?
Did you know that Vitamin C megadosage is an alternative medical practice which advocates huge doses of vitamin C to cure a wide range of diseases?
Did you know that many Australian wool, dairy, and wheat towns were created overnight when demobilized WWI and WWII soldiers accepted Crown land in otherwise uninhabited rural locations?
Did you know that modern billiard chalk, which is not actually chalk but a compound of silica and corundum, was invented by player William A. Spinks and a chemist friend in 1897?
Did you know that the Eastgate Clock in Chester is the second most photographed timepiece in the United Kingdom, after Big Ben?
Did you know that the Life Assurance Act 1774, still in force in Britain today, closed a legal loophole which had allowed life insurance policies to be used as a form of gambling?
Did you know that the illumination method used in modern light microscope design was invented by 27-year-old German graduate student August Köhler in 1893?
Did you know that the location of tropical cyclone formations are traditionally divided into seven basins?
Did you know that "Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet?" received three perfect scores at the start of voting in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 before ultimately coming in fourth, making Hungary the only debuting nation to lead the voting?
Did you know that Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was the second railway in the world that was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?
Did you know that Dr. Colin Skinner, a British molecular biologist, is attempting to walk around the world?
Did you know that Ousmane Sembène's 1966 Senegalese film Black Girl was one of the first Sub-Saharan African films to receive international acclaim?
Did you know that a shop drawing is not created by the architect or the engineer, but by the fabricator?
Did you know that in 1918 the issue of Lietuvos Aidas containing the text of the Act of Independence of Lithuania was confiscated by the German authorities?
Did you know that of the 95 Auk class minesweepers used in World War II only one was sunk by an enemy submarine and only 11 were lost in total?
Did you know that retired American football player William Fuller is one of the few players in National Football League history to record 100 career quarterback sacks?
Did you know that the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie is the oldest continuously operating theater in New York State?
Did you know that the Inuktun language, spoken by 1000 Inughuit people around Qaanaaq in northern Greenland, is related to Canadian Inuit languages?
Did you know that the Leo J. Ryan Federal Building, which opened in 1973, was named in honor of Congressman Leo J. Ryan, the first and only United States Congressman to die in the line of duty?
Did you know that the Stowe Recreation Path received the majority of its funding from selling of pieces of it, as small as an inch?
Did you know that the heart of Frederic Chopin is kept in an urn in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw?
Did you know that the last Hungarian inhabitants of Niedzica Castle, Poland, remained there until 1943 when the coming of the Soviet front in World War II inspired the last countess to abandon it with her children?
Did you know that the medieval bylaw, which states any Welshman loitering within Chester city walls after sunset may be shot with a longbow, has never been officially repealed?
Did you know that the mummified fossil of an Edmontosaurus annectens was secured by the American Museum of Natural History for $2,000?
Did you know that the pool game of baseball pocket billiards borrows both language and aspects of form from the game of baseball, featuring a pitcher, a home plate, runs and is played to nine innings?
Did you know that wandering spleen is a rare medical disease caused by the loss or weakening of the ligaments that help to keep the spleen in the upper left part of the abdomen?
Did you know that "Antietam" is misspelled on the facade of the Civil War Memorial in DeKalb County, Illinois?
Did you know that Albinus of Angers, who as bishop reportedly used diocesan funds to ransom people captured by pirates, thereafter became the patron saint against pirate attack and of coastal communities as far away as Poland and New Jersey?
Did you know that Free French Forces liberated all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France in November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon?
Did you know that James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait, and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was?
Did you know that Portuguese architect Mateus Fernandes is best known for his Manueline-style work at the Monastery of Batalha?
Did you know that Saturn Devouring His Son, by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, was painted directly onto the wall of his house and never intended for public exhibition?
Did you know that U-F2 was a French submarine that was taken as a prize by the Germans in 1940 from a dockyard, and was later converted for German usage?
Did you know that for participating in the American premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal against the wishes of the composer's family, Milka Ternina was never again invited to perform at Bayreuth?
Did you know that prominent Russian sculptor Fyodor Kamensky worked as a farmer in Florida?
Did you know that the Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca, built to defend the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba from pirate attacks, was captured and partially destroyed by pirates while it was being constructed?
Did you know that the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion in Canadian libraries during 1974?
Did you know that the Grade I-listed St. Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, England, was described as a "monster excrescence", "a cheese warehouse" and a "brick parallelogram" by some of its detractors at a heated Council meeting in 1893?
Did you know that the Monastery of Jesus in Setúbal, Portugal, the first building associated with the Manueline style, was built by Diogo Boitac?
Did you know that the National Art Museum of Ukraine's collections were first exhibited outside the country after it reached independence in 1991?
Did you know that the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine was used as a House of Political Education and a Bolshevik Club after the Russian Revolution?
Did you know that the Winter Garden Atrium was the first major structure in New York City to be completely restored following the September 11, 2001 attacks?
Did you know that the majority of Assyrians in Finland live in Oulu, the sixth largest city in the country?
Did you know that Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly Paradise without being allowed in, according to the Life of Saint Amaro?
Did you know that Czech decathlete Roman Šebrle, world record holder and 2004 Olympic winner, was injured in January 2007 when a javelin which had been thrown 55 metres pierced his shoulder?
Did you know that Kiev's Museum of Western and Oriental Art houses the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan announced his engagement to his first wife, Jane Wyman, at the Chicago Theatre?
Did you know that despite finishing its first season with a profit of $53,000, the Damrosch Opera Company was forced to close due to mounting deficits after only six years in business?
Did you know that in exchange for shutting down the Manhattan Opera Company and refraining from producing opera in the United States for ten years, Oscar Hammerstein I received over a million dollars from the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that in his recitals baritone David Bispham often sang English versions of songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and others?
Did you know that in the Old Javanese eulogy of Nagarakretagama, Kertanegara, the last king of the Singhasari kingdom, was deified into three deity forms?
Did you know that private investigator Bradley Willman used a Trojan horse to gain open access to 2,000 to 3,000 computers that had been used to visit websites of interest to pedophiles?
Did you know that six striking coal miners, nine of their family members, and one bystander were killed during the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911?
Did you know that the American mathematician Yudell Luke wrote two books on the probabilities of winning at the card game of cribbage?
Did you know that the Romanian communist politician Valter Roman was active not only in the Romanian Communist Party, but also in the communist parties in Czechoslovakia, France, and Spain?
Did you know that the Scottish island of Lunga is the location of the "well of the church of Saint Columba", which reputedly never runs dry?
Did you know that "Follow My Heart", performed in five different languages at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, was the fourth consecutive song by Poland in multiple languages?
Did you know that British Labour Party politician Lena Jeger, Baroness Jeger was the oldest female former member of the British House of Commons at the time of her death?
Did you know that British banker, Conservative MP, and conservationist Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith founded the Landmark Trust in 1965?
Did you know that Frank Brickowski played basketball in Italy, France and Israel for three years in the early 1980s, until the New York Knicks thought he was ready for the NBA?
Did you know that George Patterson's score of 271 is the highest total in a single innings for a cricketer from a non-Test nation?
Did you know that Group Captain (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Frederick Scherger was one of the few senior RAAF officers in Northern Australia to emerge from the inquiry into the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 with his career undamaged?
Did you know that J.C. Newman Cigar Company, founded in 1895, is America's oldest family-owned premium cigar maker?
Did you know that Silesia Stadium in Poland has hosted crowds of over 100,000 people, but its capacity was reduced below 50,000 to comply with international safety standards?
Did you know that a part of Rawa River in Silesia is currently so polluted it is officially classified as a sewage channel?
Did you know that kulintang music (kulintang pictured), a form of Filipino gong music, is said to have existed in North Maluku for centuries?
Did you know that one of the victims of convicted Balcony Rapist Paul Callow was awarded damages of $220,000 against the Toronto police force because it failed to warn women in her neighbourhood after four earlier rapes?
Did you know that the "Mohawk Valley formula," a strikebreaking plan devised during the Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937, was declared by the National Labor Relations Board to be "a battle plan for industrial war"?
Did you know that the Embassy Gulf Service Station in Washington, D.C. was designed to be reminiscent of banks and libraries?
Did you know that the German submarine U-777 was sunk in October 1944, less than 7 months after being launched?
Did you know that the Indian Institute in central Oxford, England was founded by Sir Monier-Williams in 1883 to provide training for the Indian Civil Service?
Did you know that the Monument to the Heroes of the Military Engineers' Army is dedicated to the Romanian military engineers of World War I, of whom more than a thousand were killed?
Did you know that the Moscow Pantheon (proposal pictured) was a Soviet project to construct a monumental memorial tomb for prominent Communist figures?
Did you know that the Romanian fascist politician Ion Sân-Giorgiu at first considered Antisemitism to be "an act of poverty of a failed intellectual", but soon changed his position calling Jews a "national cancer"?
Did you know that the exuberant "Smiling Faces" figurines from the Remojadas archaeological site are likely related to the local cult of the dead?
Did you know that the names of broad gauge railway locomotives were drawn from areas such as Greek, Roman and other mythologies, famous people, literature, flora, fauna, towns, geographical features, speed and power?
Did you know that Ahmad Hasan Dani, an expert of South Asian archaeology and Ancient history, was the first Muslim graduate of the Banaras Hindu University?
Did you know that Buster Martin, aged 100, is believed to be the United Kingdom's oldest employee?
Did you know that Francisco Serrão, one of the Portuguese vessel commanders sent by Afonso de Albuquerque to the 'Spice Islands', took a Javanese woman as his wife when his ship berthed at Gresik?
Did you know that Kasongo Ilunga, incumbent Minister of Foreign Trade for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is widely believed to be a non-existent person?
Did you know that Ladurée, which sells 15,000 macarons per day, opened a tea house in its Parisian pastry shop in the 1930s, to cater for society ladies, who at that time were not admitted to cafés?
Did you know that Lady Una Troubridge introduced the French writer Colette to English readers?
Did you know that Siba Singha established Shaktism, a Hindu sect, as the major religion in Assam in the early 18th century?
Did you know that Sol Spiegelman, a prominent American molecular biologist, is credited with creating the Spiegelman Monster?
Did you know that William Larrabee, the 13th Governor of Iowa, almost always posed in profile with the left side of his face showing, because the right side was disfigured in a childhood gun accident?
Did you know that a Junkers Ju88 was shot down and crashed on the drive of historic Hestercombe House on 28 March 1944?
Did you know that many regional cuisines of medieval Europe were heavily influenced by Arab cuisine through contact with Muslim Iberia and Sicily?
Did you know that pockets of resistance created during the German invasions of France in 1940 and Yugoslavia in 1941 developed into resistance movements that tied down several German divisions?
Did you know that the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, founded in 1751 by King George II of Great Britain, is the second oldest of seven academies of sciences in Germany?
Did you know that the Stag-moose (Cervalces scotti) went extinct about 11,500 years ago, part of a mass extinction of large North American mammals toward the end of the most recent ice age?
Did you know that the best-selling British author Edwy Searles Brooks is estimated to have published 800 adventure novels, including the Norman Conquest and Ironsides Cromwell serialized novels, under several pseudonyms?
Did you know that the main force of the Łódź Army was destroyed in the Battle of the Border during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, but an Operational Group held out for a month defending the Modlin fortress?
Did you know that the nearly circular shape of Lukanga Swamp, a wetland covering 2,600 km² in Central Province, Zambia, has led to speculation that it may be a crater formed by the impact of a meteorite?
Did you know that the oldest known remains of anatomically modern humans in the world were excavated in the Klasies River Caves?
Did you know that "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" (campaign banner pictured) was called the "Marseillaise" of the 1840 United States presidential election?
Did you know that American film director Jim Fields recently wrote, produced and directed a documentary called Bugeaters?
Did you know that Barnabé Brisson's 1559 De Verborum (frontispiece pictured) became the standard legal dictionary of the time and an authoritative source for lexicographers for centuries afterwards?
Did you know that Charles E. Peterson is widely considered to be the "godfather" of historic preservation in the United States?
Did you know that Danny Kaye, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Abbott and Costello and Sammy Davis, Jr. are among the performers to have graced the stage of the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that Dermodactylus was the first pterosaur (flying reptile) named from North America?
Did you know that Lance Armstrong's autobiography, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, headed the New York Times Best Seller list, and was the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2000?
Did you know that Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of the 1973 novel Das Boot, refused to give his Expressionist paintings to a museum unless it would also display his collection of curiosities?
Did you know that Steve Stanton, Largo, Florida's city manager since 1993, was fired for pursuing sex reassignment?
Did you know that Timothy Campbell was assigned the role of promoting an anti-wrinkle device from Amstrad's Health & Beauty division after winning the first series of the television show The Apprentice UK?
Did you know that after the publication of the non-fiction book Cults of Unreason, other writers used the title to refer to strange groups, including UFO cults?
Did you know that former world chess champion Garry Kasparov helped to organise the Saint Petersburg March of the Discontented on 3 March 2007?
Did you know that the Area Boys are a gang of Nigerian street children and teenagers who roam the streets of Lagos extorting money from passers-by?
Did you know that the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective was the first of six Frank Lloyd Wright designs to use spiraling ramps?
Did you know that the Indian poet and philosopher Dwijendranath Tagore wrote the book Boxometry about the construction of boxes?
Did you know that the Ottoman Bank, established as a private bank in 1856, became a central bank in 1863 and issued banknotes in the Ottoman Empire and then Turkey until 1931?
Did you know that the Pingo National Landmark, in the Northwest Territories, is the only national landmark in Canada protecting pingos?
Did you know that the Simpsons short Good Night aired April 19 1987 on The Tracey Ullman Show and was the first ever appearance of the Simpson family on television?
Did you know that the Sound Effects Choir can imitate the sounds of a car using only the mouth or other body parts?
Did you know that the United States National Weather Service's StormReady program was credited with saving the lives of more than 50 movie-goers in Van Wert County, Ohio in 2002?
Did you know that American music critic and editor Smokey Fontaine is the son of English documentary filmmaker Dick Fontaine, the maker of the 1984 BBC documentary Beat This: A Hip-Hop History?
Did you know that Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest, developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
Did you know that Fountaingrove Lake in Santa Rosa, California, is a habitat for the threatened Western pond turtle, and is surrounded by a championship golf course?
Did you know that Graeme Park is the only surviving residence of a colonial era Governor of Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Joseph Ingraham, an American sailor who discovered several of the Marquesas Islands, was lost at sea in 1800?