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Did you know that the play Charlie Victor Romeo has a script consisting of the almost-verbatim cockpit voice recorder transcripts from six real-life air disasters?
Did you know that the three-month Great Tea Race of 1866 to bring tea to London from China almost ended in a tie?
Did you know that under the 1557 Edict of Compiègne all those who travelled to Geneva or published books in this Protestant city could be put to death?
Did you know that British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat?
Did you know that Dennis Spurgeon, formerly chief operating officer at uranium supplier USEC Inc., became U.S. Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy in 2006?
Did you know that Korean independence activist  Jang In-hwan  used Arthur Schopenhauer's "patriotic insanity" defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens, in San Francisco in 1908?
Did you know that New World, the first and largest family-oriented amusement park in Singapore, was known for its striptease, cabaret girls, and wrestling matches during its heyday?
Did you know that Teamsters president Dave Beck invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 117 times before a U.S. Senate investigating committee?
Did you know that Trowulan in Mojokerto, east Java, is surrounded by a huge archaeological site, and is believed to be the capital of the ancient Majapahit Empire?
Did you know that actor Frederick Baltimore Calvert toured America lecturing on the English poets and then toured England talking about America?
Did you know that an essential component for hillclimbing cars is named after racing driver Patsy Burt, who was once said to be a "waste of a beautiful motor car"?
Did you know that fighting during the 1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia actually lasted for more than six days?
Did you know that from 1985 through 2004, about seventy-five honey collectors from Gosaba and the surrounding areas of West Bengal were killed by tigers in the forests of Sundarbans, but none since?
Did you know that labour law expert Ron McCallum is the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at any university in Australia or New Zealand?
Did you know that many of the most famous Italian Renaissance artists were enlisted to provide temporary decorations for flattering allegories of a Royal Entry (example pictured)?
Did you know that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology?
Did you know that players had to submit their turns by ZX Microdrive cartridge in the play by mail version of video game Dark Sceptre?
Did you know that release of the award-winning film Lost in Beijing was delayed in part because censors insisted on removing a scene of a Mercedes-Benz driving through a puddle-filled pothole?
Did you know that some of Frank Sinatra's recordings of the 1964 song "My Kind of Town" change the original lyrics to omit reference to the Union Stock Yard which closed in 1971?
Did you know that the 1999 Athens earthquake and the 1999 İzmit earthquake, which happened less than a month earlier, gave rise to the "Greek-Turkish earthquake diplomacy"?
Did you know that the Belgian French Community Holiday celebrates a victory over the Dutch army, while the Dutch speaking region's holiday celebrates a victory over the French army?
Did you know that the International Plaza is the tallest commercial building with residential apartments in Singapore?
Did you know that the Italian invasion of Albania was launched by Benito Mussolini in April 1939 as a response to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, and was completed within five days?
Did you know that the Orthodox Church of France is a Western Rite Orthodox church that uses a restored Gallican liturgy known as the Divine Liturgy of Saint Germain?
Did you know that the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence contains one of the largest fresco-cycles in the city, with many details showing the life of Domenico Ghirlandaio's day?
Did you know that the namesake for Hondo Dog Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, won an award for valor just weeks before being killed in the line of duty?
Did you know that three 500-goal scorers appeared on a single hockey team for the first time during the 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings season, helping the team to win their tenth Stanley Cup?
Did you know that two Dutch professors who lost an article written by Samuel Iperusz Wiselius were nonetheless to join him in forming the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands?
Did you know that Aaron Sapiro, a Jewish-American lawyer and cooperative organizer in the farmers' movement of the 1920s, won a court case against Henry Ford for antisemitic comments in his book The International Jew?
Did you know that Belgium's sillon industriel (steelmaking pictured) was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe?
Did you know that Horseferry Road takes its name from a horse-ferry from The Embankment to Lambeth Stairs, once one of the most important Thames crossings in London, and which was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury?
Did you know that Tom Jennings won the 1977 U.S. Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Championship by coming back from a score of 196–42 to win by a score of 200–197, an event called the best comeback in billiards history?
Did you know that an easy keeper is a term used to decribe a horse, pony, or other equine that can live on relatively little food?
Did you know that facilitating, or "grease" payments to foreign officials, unlike bribes, are lawful under U.S. law, but still considered to be questionable from the point of view of business ethics?
Did you know that the French physician and agronomist Jules Guyot revolutionized the training of grape vines, and the Guyot-system is extensively used throughout vineyards in Europe?
Did you know that the May 1945 Battle of Kurylowka was one of the biggest clashes fought between the NKVD and Polish anti-communist resistance?
Did you know that the first gas works in the United Kingdom was built by the Gas Light and Coke Company, incorporated by Royal Charter in 1812 with a share capitalisation of £1m (approximately £9bn at today's prices)?
Did you know that the song "Swanee" was written in ten minutes by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar, and sold over two million copies after being recorded by Al Jolson in 1919?
Did you know that Anglo-Sudanese entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim is offering a US$ 5 million prize, plus $200,000 a year for life, to an African leader whose term as head of state meets certain criteria?
Did you know that British Member of Parliament Alfred Edwards, a Christian Scientist, campaigned to allow Christian Science Nurses to call themselves "Nurses" despite not being registered?
Did you know that David Quinn, a first-round selection in the 1984 National Hockey League entry draft, was forced to retire before turning professional due to being diagnosed with Christmas disease?
Did you know that Halotus was an Ancient Roman royal servant who, despite being a prime suspect in the poisoning of Claudius in 54 AD, was granted royal stewardship by Galba in 68 AD, even when the public was calling for his death?
Did you know that Hampshire and England cricketer Derek Shackleton took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket?
Did you know that Henry Fuseli's 1781 painting The Nightmare portrays a contemporary folktale about lone sleepers?
Did you know that Julius Joseph Overbeck was unable to be received into the Orthodox Church as a priest for his Western Rite project because he had married after his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest?
Did you know that Man Enters the Cosmos is one of four Henry Moore sculptures in Chicago, two of which are at National Historic Landmarks?
Did you know that NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?
Did you know that Sir Edward Tomkins, British Ambassador to the Netherlands and then France in the 1970s, owned Winslow Hall, a house often attributed to Christopher Wren, for nearly 50 years?
Did you know that although William McFetridge retired as president of BSEIU in 1960, his successor, David Sullivan, fought him for control of the union until 1964?
Did you know that diamonds have been known in India for at least 3000 years, but most likely 6000 years?
Did you know that female bolas spiders attract moth prey by mimicry of sex pheromones?
Did you know that in 1901, Dombrau, a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, was bought by a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria?
Did you know that in 2002, two firefighting airtankers crashed after their wings came off in flight, revealing safety problems that led to the permanent grounding of almost the entire U.S. fleet of tankers?
Did you know that the Black Kangaroo Paw (Macropidia fuliginosa; pictured), is a plant native to Western Australia and survives being burned to the ground?
Did you know that the Hilton Hotels brand, Waldorf-Astoria, is attempting to expand its brand beyond the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with new hotels such as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower in Chicago?
Did you know that the Old Loggers Path, a loop hiking trail in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, uses old logging railroad grades and roads, and its trailhead is a lumber ghost town?
Did you know that the inscription on the memorial stone of Ingram de Ketenis is the earliest known English inscription north of the River Forth?
Did you know that the residents of  Basanti and other deltaic islands in the Indian part of the Sundarbans thanked the French author Dominique Lapierre for the floating dispensaries he had provided?
Did you know that Ambler's Texaco Gas Station in Dwight, Illinois was the longest operating filling station along U.S. Route 66?
Did you know that Cosa Nostra boss Gerlando Alberti, on his arrest in 1980, claimed that he thought that Mafia was a kind of cheese?
Did you know that Dr. John Stevenson, 18th century Scottish merchant and developer of Baltimore, was known as the "American Romulus"?
Did you know that Ethel Benjamin was the first woman in the British Empire to present a legal case in court?
Did you know that Kelbessa Negewo was charged with murder in his home country of Ethiopia after one of the women who claims he tortured her discovered him working as a bellhop in an Atlanta, Georgia hotel elevator?
Did you know that King Narasaraja Wodeyar II, who ruled over the Indian Kingdom of Mysore for a decade in the 18th century, was either mute or preferred to remain silent throughout his rule?
Did you know that Sam Ormerod was the first manager to gain promotion to the First Division, the highest level of English football, with Manchester City F.C.?
Did you know that Spanish soldier Manuel la Peña was widely regarded as incompetent, but rose to become Captain General of Andalusia in the Napoleonic Peninsular War?
Did you know that U.S. Route 70 runs across the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and can be closed several times per week for missile tests?
Did you know that Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine was built in 1860 with many conveniences including wall-to-wall carpeting, central heating, hot and cold running water, gas lighting and a servant’s call system?
Did you know that a street corner in New York City is named after IRA member Joe Doherty, who was convicted in absentia for the murder of the highest ranking SAS officer killed during The Troubles?
Did you know that after hundreds of years of construction and use, few gunpowder magazines remain in the United Kingdom as gunpowder has not been manufactured there since 1976?
Did you know that architect Frank Lloyd Wright's belief that banks should not "put on the airs of a temple of worship" is reflected in the design of the 1905 Frank L. Smith Bank?
Did you know that in 1924, the Calgary Tigers became the first ice hockey team from Calgary to compete for the Stanley Cup?
Did you know that political donations in Australia up to $1500 were made tax-deductible in 2006?
Did you know that relative volatility in a liquid mixture of chemicals measures the difficulty of separating them by distillation?
Did you know that the First Texas Navy comprised four schooners: Brutus, Independence, Invincible and Liberty?
Did you know that the Global Community Communication Alliance, an Arizona religious sect led by the New Age figure Gabriel of Sedona, has been compared by the media to the Heaven's Gate group?
Did you know that the arcade conversion of the 2001 video game Ballistics features a unique reclined seating cabinet?
Did you know that wood paneling from the ruins of Colden Mansion in Montgomery, New York is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Did you know that Anne Montgomery, who has been a sportscaster for several local television stations as well as SportsCenter, was the first female football referee in Arizona?
Did you know that Dale Houston and his singing partner Grace Broussard, both performed as Dale and Grace while singing with other singers?
Did you know that Holmöarna, an island group in the Gulf of Bothnia, forms the largest island nature reserve in Sweden?
Did you know that Icelandic operatic soprano Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú, began her singing career in the 1970s with a folk and pop group?
Did you know that Romanian writer Dumitru Ţepeneag was a founding member of the Oniric group, an avante garde aesthetic movement, which tries to describe a world which cannot be seen?
Did you know that Singapore's Gallery Hotel, with its twisted cuboid form and seemingly random and multi-coloured windows, stands like a massive pop art signpost?
Did you know that Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills?
Did you know that gold was first discovered in Oregon in 1850 in the Illinois Valley near Cave Junction, Oregon, the same valley in which a 17-pound gold nugget was found, the largest in Oregon history?
Did you know that in 1986 the Basque coat of arms had one of its quarters removed following a legal suit by the Navarre Government claiming that the usage of the arms of a region on the arms of another was illegal?
Did you know that in April 1802, Georgian nobles who opposed the Russian annexation of Georgia were assembled in Tbilisi's Sioni Cathedral, surrounded by Russian troops, and forced to take an oath to the Imperial Crown of Russia?
Did you know that in April 1999, Australian Justice Carolyn Simpson joined Margaret Beazley and Virginia Bell to form the first all-female bench to sit in Australia, England or New Zealand?
Did you know that in graph theory, a pseudoforest can contain trees and pseudotrees, but cannot contain any butterflies, diamonds, handcuffs, or bicycles?
Did you know that natural oil polyols from soy beans are used to make car parts and mattresses?
Did you know that singer Al Bernard, known as "The Boy From Dixie", helped popularize W.C. Handy's blues songs, and also recorded as the female half of a vocal duo with Ernie Hare?
Did you know that the Emin Minaret in Turfan, Xinjiang, built in the 18th century during the reign of Qing Emperor Qianlong, is the tallest minaret in China?
Did you know that the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?
Did you know that the ashes of hillwalker and author Alfred Wainwright lie in his favourite fell, Haystacks in the Western Fells of the English Lake District?
Did you know that the autobiography has been called the oldest form of Egyptian literature?
Did you know that the design for the 1941 Art Moderne Illinois State Police Office in Pontiac was also used for the state police headquarters building in Rock Island, Illinois?
Did you know that the once-standing Palmer Mansion in Chicago, Illinois, had a self-supported spiral staircase which rose 80 feet into a tower?
Did you know that the seeds of Capparis masaikai found in Yunnan, China contain mabinlins, sweet-tasting proteins more than 100 times sweeter than sucrose on a weight basis?
Did you know that Ali Murtopo laid down the party platform for Sekber Golkar, which was instrumental to the party's success in the 1971 legislative elections and the transition to the New Order in Indonesia?
Did you know that American trade union leader William McFetridge switched from Democrat to Republican in 1948 and supported Thomas E. Dewey for president even though Dewey had successfully prosecuted his predecessor for labor racketeering?
Did you know that Charles B. Thompson, who had converted to Mormonism in 1835, later claimed to be the reincarnation of the biblical figure Ephraim and established a communitarian commune with his followers in Iowa?
Did you know that Church of Scotland clergyman William Couper protested against the introduction of episcopacy in 1606, but became Bishop of Galloway four years later?
Did you know that George P. Kane, Marshall of Police in Baltimore, Maryland, was imprisoned in Fort McHenry along with Mayor George William Brown and pro-South members of the city council by the Northern Army during the American Civil War?
Did you know that White House Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in the Ypres Salient contains 1163 World War I burials, including Private Robert Morrow who won a Victoria Cross, and four men executed for cowardice and desertion?
Did you know that about 22% of all reported species of mammals in Colombia are endangered or critically endangered?
Did you know that every autumn more than 23,000 Common Cranes stop at Matsalu National Park in Estonia, making it the biggest autumn stopping ground of Common Cranes in Europe?
Did you know that notable former residents of Zwanenburgwal, a canal and street in the centre of Amsterdam, include Dutch painter Rembrandt and philosopher Baruch Spinoza?
Did you know that the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska introduced both the Reuben sandwich and Butter Brickle ice cream to the world?
Did you know that the legislator from Kultali was sentenced by the Kolkata High Court, in 2005, to life imprisonment in a case where a mob dragged two persons out of their house and tortured them to death?
Did you know that the tamburi, the principal drone instrument in Carnatic music to this day, was introduced during the Vijayanagara era in India?
Did you know that "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world?
Did you know that 16th century Indian musician-composer Miyan Tansen laid the foundations of Hindustani classical music by mixing Sufi and Bhakti musical traditions ?
Did you know that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, recently elected president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a member of the Union of Communist Students in his youth?
Did you know that English inventor Edward Butler produced an early three-wheeled automobile capable of travelling up to 10 mph, but was prevented from adequately testing it because it exceeded the legislated speed limit of 4 mph at the time?
Did you know that John Harrison, seventeenth century benefactor of Leeds, is reputed to have slipped Charles I a tankard of gold coins disguised as beer?
Did you know that Kalanchoe pinnata, a succulent plant native to Madagascar, has been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago as being used as a traditional treatment for high blood pressure?
Did you know that Lord Canning wanted to build a port at Canning, now in West Bengal, that could rival Singapore but gave up when the Matla River surged its fury on the new port town in 1867?
Did you know that Nils Alwall initiated the treatment for two of the longest known survivors on dialysis worldwide over 35 years ago?
Did you know that Prince Dimitri Romanov is the first member of the Romanov dynasty to be married in Russia since its fall in 1917?
Did you know that Reinald, a 13th century Cistercian monk and Bishop of Ross, was nicknamed Macer, French for "skinny"?
Did you know that although William Quesse was convicted of conspiracy in 1922, less than five years later his union was one of the most politically powerful organizations in Chicago?
Did you know that over 130,000 species of plants from Colombia have been described?
Did you know that some editions of Tom Wolfe's first published book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, quoted Kurt Vonnegut, "Verdict: Excellent book by a genius", but omitted the rest of his quote, "who will do anything to get attention"?
Did you know that the 1955 novel Teneke by Turkish author Yaşar Kemal was adapted into an Italian opera of the same title by Fabio Vacchi in 2007?
Did you know that the Baal teshuva movement refers to the phenomenon that began during the mid-20th century, whereby large numbers of previously highly-assimilated Jews chose to move in the direction of practicing Judaism?
Did you know that the Building of Bath Museum was originally constructed in 1765 as a chapel for Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon?
Did you know that the Chinese national basketball team is guaranteed of a berth in the upcoming Olympics despite finishing ninth in the FIBA Asia Championship 2007?
Did you know that the Freedman's Savings Bank, created in 1865 for emancipated African-Americans, had 19 branches in 12 states and assets worth $3.7 million at the height of its success?
Did you know that the Hillsboro Civic Center was only the second city hall in America to earn an LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council?
Did you know that the Tsalenjikha Cathedral, a medieval cathedral in Georgia, is decorated with murals of Byzantine Palaeologan art from the 12th to 14th centuries?
Did you know that the bluestripe snapper was introduced to Hawaii in the 1950s as a sport fish, and now outcompetes native fish for space and food?
Did you know that the first drive thru in the United States is at Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop along U.S. Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois?
Did you know that Apo Reef in Sablayan, Mindoro is the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system and the largest in the Philippines?
Did you know that British farmer Sir Nigel Strutt, great-nephew of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Lord Rayleigh, declined an offer of  peerage, as did his great-great-grandfather, Joseph Holden Strutt?
Did you know that Chicago Police Department Police Commander Jon Burge was absolved of responsibility for police brutality and torture by statute of limitations after a $17 million investigation of 148 cases?
Did you know that Czech fighter pilot Otto Spacek survived three air crashes and won five Czechoslovak War Crosses during the Second World War, but then spent 40 years in exile in Canada after the Communists came to power?
Did you know that Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months?
Did you know that Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak-Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual Kawi-Balinese-Dutch dictionary was republished in English in 1971?
Did you know that Dykes on Bikes have regularly participated at gay pride events, such as Pride parades, Dyke Marches, and other LGBT events, such as the Gay Olympics, since 1976?
Did you know that Ebenezer Rhodes, Sheffield's Master Cutler, was declared bankrupt after losing money publishing books about Derbyshire?
Did you know that English biochemist Ernest Baldwin (1909 – 1969) was a pioneer in the field of comparative biochemistry?
Did you know that Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee originally served as Florida's first penitentiary?
Did you know that German physical chemist Max Volmer became head of a design bureau for the production of heavy water in the Soviet Union after the Second World War?
Did you know that Major-General John Hill rose high as a courtier and officer in the British Army in the reign of Queen Anne, becoming Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance despite having no particular military ability?