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Did you know that 17th-century actress Julia Glover was sold in marriage by her father for £1,000?
Did you know that Gregory XV was acclaimed as the new pope in the papal conclave of 1621 even though Cardinal Robert Bellarmine had received the most votes in the ballot?
Did you know that Haraprasad Shastri discovered the Charyapada, poems written in the earliest-known precursor to the Indo-Aryan languages?
Did you know that Heitsi-eibib is a life-death-rebirth figure in the Khoikhoi mythology and as a result, his funeral cairns can be found in many locations in southern Africa?
Did you know that Levi Todd, the grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln, wrote the first and last contemporary accounts of the Battle of Blue Licks, one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that Opération 14 juillet, a French mission to rescue Ingrid Betancourt from FARC guerrillas, was launched without the knowledge of the French president?
Did you know that Polish war correspondent Melchior Wańkowicz was charged with "slandering the People's Republic of Poland", for criticizing the state in a private letter?
Did you know that Theodorus van Capellen was appointed a vice-admiral in the Dutch navy in 1814 even though he had previously been cashiered and sentenced to banishment for life for his role in a mutiny?
Did you know that Unabomber for President was a 1996 write-in campaign to elect Theodore Kaczynski as President of the United States?
Did you know that after Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms were published in the Saturday Evening Post,  25 million people bought posters of them?
Did you know that local legends say that a white witch lives in Mother Ludlam's Cave near Waverley Abbey in Surrey, South East England?
Did you know that only two days before Payment on Demand was scheduled to open at Radio City Music Hall, RKO executive Howard Hughes called the director and the two leads into the studio to film a new ending?
Did you know that the Church of Scientology purchased Castle Kyalami, formerly a tourist attraction near Johannesburg, to serve as an advanced Scientology spiritual retreat in South Africa?
Did you know that the Decker building, an 1892 Moorish-influenced design, is where Andy Warhol had his Factory from 1967 to 1973, and was shot in 1968?
Did you know that the Draco Dwarf spheroidal galaxy is one of the faintest companions of the Milky Way and the most dark matter dominated object known?
Did you know that the Luckey, Platt & Company Department Store in Poughkeepsie once claimed it had 2 miles (3.2 km) of counter space?
Did you know that the Pentecostal Union of Romania has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to conversions and high birthrates, with some families having up to 18 children?
Did you know that the brother of Australian rugby player Dean Mumm was assistant coach to the Fijian rugby team, whilst their grandfather played for the All Blacks?
Did you know that the medieval Swedish ballad "Stolt Herr Alf" contains an unusual name for the Norse god Odin?
Did you know that two people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed during the 2008 Egyptian general strike?
Did you know that Agnolo Bronzino's 1542 painting of Bia de' Medici was painted from the girl's death mask?
Did you know that Alojzy Ehrlich ate rolls and a Polish sausage while playing a table tennis match in which neither he nor his opponent scored for over an hour?
Did you know that Brad Avakian, Oregon's recently appointed Labor Commissioner, previously worked as a civil rights attorney, and was honored by two unions during his time in the Oregon Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that Fabian de la Rosa was not only mentor to the Filipino painters Fernando and Pablo Amorsolo, but a leading painter in his own right?
Did you know that František Kriegel was the only political leader of Czechoslovakia deported to Moscow in 1968 who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol dictated by Brezhnev?
Did you know that George Rea was the first paid president of the "New York Curb Exchange," now known as the American Stock Exchange?
Did you know that Gilbert Patten, the author of the Frank Merriwell dime novels, managed a semi-professional baseball team in Camden, Maine during the 1890–1891 season?
Did you know that Ingmar Bergman's film The Virgin Spring is based on the medieval Swedish ballad "Töres dotter i Wänge"?
Did you know that Lualhati Bautista’s Tagalog novel, Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa? became a film starring Vilma Santos, an actress turned first female governor of Batangas of the Philippines?
Did you know that Palwankar Vithal became the first Dalit cricketer to captain the Hindus team in the Bombay Quadrangular cricket competition, a milestone in the Hindu society's struggle against caste discrimination?
Did you know that Ronnie Thompson, the first Republican to have served as mayor of Macon, Georgia in the 20th century, also had a career as a singer of gospel and country music?
Did you know that Su Huan-chih is the second member of the Democratic Progressive Party to ever hold the position as Tainan County magistrate?
Did you know that William Whitaker introduced orange groves to Florida?
Did you know that a subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines operates restaurants in Brunei including two halal Chinese restaurants?
Did you know that although it is used in aquaculture, there are only two known cases of Palometa being traded as aquarium fish over a five-year period?
Did you know that although the Czech Republic village of Blevice has a Jewish cemetery it has no matching community?
Did you know that although the damages by Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi in 2002 were mostly minor, 41 counties in the state were declared federal disaster areas?
Did you know that at age 23, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen was the youngest Danish politician ever to participate in a nationally televised debate for party leaders?
Did you know that besides being the first president of the International Luge Federation, Bert Isatitsch was also a special education teacher?
Did you know that despite the recorded influence of American Sign Language, Filipino Sign Language has a history that can be traced from the works of European missionaries in the Philippines as early as the 1600s?
Did you know that exhibits at the Bailey House Museum on Maui include a 33 feet (10 m) fishing boat, a collection of snail shells, a unique wooden statue of a Hawaiian demi-god, and 19th century Maui landscapes?
Did you know that in order to cut costs, Olau Line re-flagged their cruiseferry Olau Hollandia to Luxembourg in January 1993, but were forced to revert the ship to German flag only a month later?
Did you know that pioneer Omaha physician George L. Miller served as president of the Nebraska State Historical Society after being labeled a "raving maniac" by the press?
Did you know that rumors of the beating of a teenage shoplifter set off a race riot in 1935 in Harlem, New York?
Did you know that the Norwegian black/death metal band Cor Scorpii cites inspiration from classical composers such as Prokofiev, Grieg, Rachmaninov, and Satie?
Did you know that the SS Blairspey was hit by at least three torpedoes from two different U-boats, but still managed to reach port because her cargo of timber kept her afloat?
Did you know that the chief purpose of the military order the Militia of Jesus Christ was to combat heresy?
Did you know that the former Farmer's and Manufacturer's Bank is the only commercial Greek Revival building in Poughkeepsie?
Did you know that Abraham Esau was the head of the physics section of the Reich Research Council, Nazi Germany's centralized planning institution for almost all basic and applied research?
Did you know that British politician Jock Stallard was expelled from the Labour Party in the 1950s for flying the red flag from St Pancras town hall, but later served as a Labour MP and life peer?
Did you know that David Powel compiled and published the first printed history of Wales in 1584, which popularized the legend that Prince Madoc discovered America in about 1170?
Did you know that Ermita are all namesakes for a character, a place, and a novel by Filipino author F. Sionil José?
Did you know that Fred Walker boosted sales of his new spread Vegemite, now an Australian cultural icon, by giving away free jars?
Did you know that Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Sidorenko, a World War II Soviet sniper, destroyed a tank and three tractors, in addition to killing five hundred Wehrmacht soldiers?
Did you know that Max Weber argued that the increasing rationalization of human life traps individuals in an "iron cage" of rule-based, rational control?
Did you know that Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, founder of the Mazdaznan religion, claimed to have been sent as a child to a secret society of Zarathustrians?
Did you know that Pei Guangting, a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, traced his ancestry to officials serving several dynasties, including the Han Dynasty?
Did you know that Rondel was the first racing team founded by current McLaren chairman and CEO Ron Dennis?
Did you know that Royal Brunei Catering, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines, was named as Best Regional Caterer 1995/1996 by Singapore Airlines?
Did you know that although the 1996 Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall in North Carolina, total damage amounted to only $1 million?
Did you know that former Anglican clergyman and Liberal Party life peer Tim Beaumont was the only Green Party representative in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1999 until his death in 2008?
Did you know that medieval Perpendicular Gothic Somerset Towers typically feature pinnacles, lacy tracery windows and bell openings, gargoyles, arches, buttresses, merlons, and external stair turrets?
Did you know that nationalists seek a Greater Nepal that extends into Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim in India?
Did you know that only about 10% of Brazil's water resources is located in the southeast, the agricultural and industrial heartland of the country, where 73% of the population lives?
Did you know that revolution in the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Revolution, included a three-year-long school strike against the russification of the Polish educational system?
Did you know that the American mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler married a former professor, who was actually a Russian double agent named Sergei Degaev?
Did you know that the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company was among the earliest and the last major electric streetcar systems in the United States?
Did you know that the asymmetrical monoplane BV 141 is one of many military aircraft designed by Richard Vogt?
Did you know that the entrance to Neptune's Grotto in Sardinia lies only around a meter (3 ft) above the sea, so the cave can only be visited when the waters are calm?
Did you know that the palm tree Ptychococcus lepidotus is used in the New Guinea highlands to make bows and arrows?
Did you know that the portrait by Pontormo of Maria Salviati with the young Giulia de' Medici is one of the first portraits in Europe of a child with presumed African and European ancestry?
Did you know that the sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard may not be the world's most unpleasant sound?
Did you know that while Peover Hall in Cheshire, England, is a Grade II* listed building, its stable block is listed Grade I because of its elaborate internal architecture?
Did you know that American actor Vincent Piazza was coached for a Puerto Rican accent by a woman who usually did the opposite?
Did you know that Bob Kames was given his stage name when an announcer on Armed Forces Radio could not pronounce his real name?
Did you know that Camling is an ancient and endangered Kiranti language, spoken by only about 10,000 people in eastern Nepal, Bhutan and India?
Did you know that Douglas Hadow slipped on the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn, dragging Lord Francis Douglas, Charles Hudson and Michel Croz to their deaths?
Did you know that Frank Morse  once outsourced the research for a speech on globalization to a company in India?
Did you know that Hawaii's Chain of Craters Road has been blocked repeatedly by lava flows from Kīlauea volcano since it was built in 1928?
Did you know that Hemerdon Mine in Devon, England is one of the world's largest sources of tungsten and tin, but has not been mined since World War II?
Did you know that Hugh Daily, a pitcher with only one arm, once struck out 19 batters in a Major League Baseball game?
Did you know that Jewish screenwriter Barry Levy has taught Hebrew at Temple Israel California in between writing jobs?
Did you know that My Brother, My Executioner, a 1970s novel by F. Sionil José, is a narrative about two half-brothers with opposing Filipino ideologies?
Did you know that Palwankar Shivram, brother of the Dalit cricketers Baloo and Vithal, was a spin bowling all-rounder who represented the All-India cricket team that toured England in 1911?
Did you know that Quirinus Kuhlmann, a German poet who called himself "son of the Son of God", was denounced as theologically and politically dangerous, and burnt at the stake for heresy in Moscow in 1689?
Did you know that Section 171 of the Criminal Code of Cyprus, which prohibited homosexual acts between men, was repealed just eight days before a May 29, 1998 deadline set by the Council of Europe?
Did you know that Spanish artifacts excavated at Citico, Tennessee suggest that the historic Native American site may have been the village of "Satapo" visited by the Juan Pardo expedition in 1567?
Did you know that Which Moped with Chrome-plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard?, a comedic novella by Georges Perec, has an index of rhetorical devices used, including anadiplosis and metalepsis?
Did you know that a painting by Antoine-Jean Gros shows Napoleon Bonaparte touching the armpit of a plague victim in Jaffa?
Did you know that before the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League adopted its current name, they had already won two Stanley Cups by defeating the Vancouver Millionaires in 1918 and in 1922?
Did you know that in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft?
Did you know that lumpenbourgeoisie, a neologism formed from lumpenproletariat and bourgeoisie, is used to describe colonial and neocolonial elites in Latin America?
Did you know that mineralogist George Switzer persuaded Harry Winston to donate the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution, establishing the National Museum of Natural History's gem and mineral collection?
Did you know that objects found in 1939 in the ship burial at Sutton Hoo (helmet pictured) were not a treasure trove as their owners intended to bury them permanently?
Did you know that on a 1922 expedition to Everest, Howard Somervell entertained fellow climbers by reading Shakespeare in the tents?
Did you know that some species of Vireo, a genus of passerines, bind their nests with spider silk and ornament them with spider eggs?
Did you know that the 2008 Hillsong United album The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One was released as a USB flash drive containing the MP3 files of the songs, embedded into a rubber wristband?
Did you know that the British colonials employed Indian agents called gomasthas to obtain goods from local weavers and fix their prices?
Did you know that the Militia of the Faith of Jesus Christ was founded to defend the lands of Amaury de Montfort, leader of the Albigensian Crusade?
Did you know that the Order of the Faith and Peace, founded by the Archbishop of Auch c. 1230 for the defence of the peace in Gascony, was patronised by Gaston VII of Béarn?
Did you know that the Palace Hotel in Perth, Western Australia was described at its opening as "one of the most beautiful and elegant hotels in Australasia"?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Yuwen Rong was known in traditional history to have served for 100 days—even though he only served 99 days?
Did you know that the automated tank cleaning machine used to clean oil tankers after discharging cargo was patented by Arthur Butterworth in 1920?
Did you know that the pastor of Burbank's St. Bellarmine Church was a World War I chaplain who modeled the campus on Monticello and Independence Hall?
Did you know that the polska—the Swedish word for Polish—is the signature music and dance form in Swedish folk music?
Did you know that "The Fires of Pompeii" is the first Doctor Who episode since the television show's revival where the cast filmed abroad?
Did you know that AT&T engineer Otto Zobel helped to establish that electronic noise cannot be completely eliminated from radio and cable transmissions?
Did you know that English cricketer Roger Davis was once struck so hard on the head by a ball that his heart and breathing stopped, and he had to be revived by a doctor from the crowd?
Did you know that George Francis Train promoted Columbus, Nebraska as "the new center of the Union and quite probably the future capital of the U.S.A." in order to sell Credit Foncier land there?
Did you know that Jean Follain was a corporate lawyer, magistrate and award-winning author and poet who wrote the poem "Death of the Ferret"?
Did you know that Louis XIV of France employed a native Chinese librarian, Arcadio Huang, to organize the royal library's collection of Chinese books?
Did you know that Muhamed, a German horse, seemed to extract cube roots and tap out the answer with his hooves?
Did you know that St Mark's Church in the small village of Vrba was mentioned in a sonnet by the Slovene national poet?
Did you know that Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino was the largest naval shipbuilding firm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
Did you know that Thomas R. Kimball gutted the central part of the Burlington Headquarters Building in Omaha to make it resemble the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad headquarters in Chicago?
Did you know that a pit crater (example pictured), unlike an impact crater, is formed by the ground sinking over a void such as an emptied magma chamber or caldera?
Did you know that although Norman Rockwell felt Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Worship were the most successful of his Four Freedoms painting series, Freedom from Want has had the most enduring success?
Did you know that coal mining in Nigeria, for which the Nigerian Coal Corporation had a monopoly until 1999, peaked in the 1950s, then suffered from the use of oil and the Nigerian Civil War afterwards?
Did you know that filming on The Office episode "Dinner Party" was interrupted for over four months due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike?
Did you know that in 1933, Ed Walsh (Jr.), son of Hall of Famer Ed Walsh, stopped Joe DiMaggio's minor league record 61 game hitting streak?
Did you know that in the 1830s, anticipating construction of the Long Island Rail Road, land developer Ambrose George purchased a large tract of land between  Bethpage and Hardscrabble in Suffolk County?
Did you know that incendiary ammunition may be used against tanks, as it can penetrate armor and spread  phosphorus through the compartment, burning the crew and depleting their oxygen?
Did you know that mutations in the FLNB gene cause boomerang dysplasia, a lethal congenital disorder in which the limbs' long bones malform into the shape of a boomerang?
Did you know that river miles measure distances along a river from its mouth and are used to reference locations and to name islands?
Did you know that the 1943 Greater East Asia Conference praised Pan-Asianism and condemned Western colonialism but did not produce plans for the region's development?
Did you know that the O. H. Booth Hose Company in Poughkeepsie was named after the fire chief who formed it after a previous company of volunteer firefighters quit because they were jealous of other companies' facilities?
Did you know that the Rev. Teddy Boston was immortalized as "the Fat Clergyman" in The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. V. Awdry?
Did you know that the headquarters for Crater Lake National Park are in the Munson Valley Historic District near the summit of the Cascades where average annual snowfall is 533 inches (1,354 cm)?
Did you know that when Gui de Cavalhon besieged Castelnaudary in the fall of 1220 he requested assistance from friend and fellow troubadour, Bertran Folcon d'Avignon, in a poem?
Did you know that A. V. Meiyappan produced India's first dubbed film, Harischandra, in 1944?
Did you know that Cyclone Gamede in February 2007 was among the wettest tropical cyclones on record, dropping more than 5.5 metres (18 ft) of precipitation in a nine day period on Réunion island?
Did you know that East German athlete Henry Lauterbach competed on an international level in both high jump and long jump?
Did you know that Egypt had an active national cricket team before World War II, but only one player was a native Egyptian?
Did you know that Italian Jesuit priest Sabatino de Ursis moved to China in 1607 to assist Matteo Ricci in his astronomical research, and attempted to reform the Chinese calendar?
Did you know that John Heisman, namesake of the Heisman Trophy, played for the Brown Bears before eventually transferring to the University of Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Kevin Reiman, a MLS footballer for Real Salt Lake, helped Maryland U. win an NCAA title, then transferred after their addition of Robbie Rogers?
Did you know that Sans Pareil, one of five locomotives to compete in the 1829 Rainhill Trials, was later used on the Bolton and Leigh Railway?
Did you know that future ice hockey stars Brett Hull and Dominik Hašek participated in the Calgary Cup, a preview event for the 1988 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that having moved to South Africa to start his missionary work at age 22, Joseph Gérard died at age 83 in Lesotho without ever returning to his home country of France?
Did you know that in 1998, an oil fire at the Lost Hills Oil Field in Kern County, California burned for 14 days and was visible more than 40 miles (64 km) away?
Did you know that migrants from India form over 40% of the total population of the United Arab Emirates?
Did you know that neither the far right Lizard Union nor the communist Armia Ludowa, both parts of the Polish resistance in World War II, recognized the Polish Underground State?
Did you know that reputed 25-year-old gangster Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. was the victim of a notorious mob hit by a gunman wearing a Batman mask on Halloween in 1989?
Did you know that screenwriter Tim Calpin says he picked up most of his writing experience from the television series South Park, despite never being part of the writing staff?
Did you know that the Hasbrouck House is an unusually large Romanesque Revival dwelling for a city the size of Poughkeepsie?
Did you know that the Tang Chinese chancellor Zhang Jiuling offered a five-volume historical work that he authored as a birthday gift to Emperor Xuanzong?
Did you know that the former Lady Washington Hose Company firehouse in Poughkeepsie incorporates both Japanese and Gothic Revival elements in its design?
Did you know that the original specimen of the mauve splitting waxcap, a fungus from eastern Australia, found its way from Melbourne to Budapest but disappeared during the First World War?
Did you know that the papal election, 1292–1294 was the last election of a pope which did not take the form of a conclave?
Did you know that the world's largest factory trawler, the 144 metres (472 ft) long Atlantic Dawn, is able to process 350 tonnes of fish a day?
Did you know that there was an element of eroticism concerning death in Viking culture, and that the dead were often described as being received by a lady?
Did you know that when St. Andrew's Church in Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a Byzantine queen"?
Did you know that British international rally driver Tony Ambrose was given an MG sports car by his father for winning a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford?
Did you know that East German sprinter Sabine Günther won three gold medals in 4 x 100 metres relay at three different European Championships?
Did you know that Harlow Row was named for and designed by a former mayor of Poughkeepsie?