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Did you know that the Singapore case Chng Suan Tze v. Minister for Home Affairs, which held that courts could assess the lawfulness of orders made under the Internal Security Act, was overridden by statute in 1989?
Did you know that the champion of the new Australian Baseball League will be awarded the Claxton Shield, given to the top Australian baseball team since the first national tournament held in 1934?
Did you know that the earliest known account of Lebanese fossils is attributed to Herodotus?
Did you know that the favourite dish of former World Lightweight Boxing Champion Freddie Welsh was Chicken Maryland, despite his professed vegetarianism?
Did you know that the leaders of the September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt vowed to base their rule on that of slain President Ngo Dinh Diem?
Did you know that the northern white beech is actually a member of the mint family?
Did you know that the plot of the platform video game The Simpsons: Bart & the Beanstalk mimics that of the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk?
Did you know that the post office in Middleport, New York, is one of only three in the state using the same Colonial Revival-modernist design?
Did you know that while commanding the Crisbecq Battery during the Normandy invasion, Walter Ohmsen had another artillery battery fire on his position, which helped earn him the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross?
Did you know that Bach scored a tenor aria for oboe da caccia, recorder and bassoon in his cantata Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69a, for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity?
Did you know that Bristol Central Library moved into its current location next to the Abbey Gatehouse on College Green in 1906, and its former building on King Street is now a restaurant?
Did you know that Captain Anthony Molloy's court martial and disgrace following the Glorious First of June was attributed by some to a curse from a woman he had dishonored?
Did you know that Cecilia Bartoli sang the title role of Bellini's Norma for the first time in concert in the Konzerthaus Dortmund?
Did you know that Ida Siekmann, the first casualty at the Berlin wall, died after she jumped out of her third floor apartment at Bernauer Strasse?
Did you know that John Idzik, University of Detroit head coach until it discontinued its football program, was fired by the Baltimore Colts, along with the entire coaching staff, on two separate occasions?
Did you know that Lawrence (illustrated), Prior of Durham, composed a life of the Irish saint Brigid?
Did you know that Lena Horne and Shirley Chisolm attended the same racially integrated Girls High School?
Did you know that Michigan fullback Mel Anthony set a Rose Bowl record with an 84-yard touchdown run in 1965?
Did you know that Nick Pace, a mixed martial artist, won the inaugural Ring of Combat Bantamweight title by defeating his opponent via d'arce choke in the first round?
Did you know that Norman Mailer and Isaac Asimov attended the same Boys High School?
Did you know that Ragnvald Gjerløw played a main role in re-establishing the Diocese of Stavanger?
Did you know that a chance encounter at Goodrich Castle in 1793 inspired William Wordsworth's famous poem We are Seven?
Did you know that an unwanted guest may have been served a "cold shoulder" of mutton?
Did you know that as son of a Lebanese Arab father who was raised by Jewish stepfathers after his father's death, Bradley M. Campbell quipped that his "aspiration is to become ambassador-at-large in the Middle East"?
Did you know that at the Palace of Westminster in May 1945, the 73-year-old British Conservative Member of Parliament Harry Selley built a 200-brick wall in 58 minutes whilst wearing a bowler hat?
Did you know that despite their names, Little Bolton had a larger acreage than Great Bolton?
Did you know that former Michigan running back Chuck Heater coached national championship football teams at Notre Dame and Florida?
Did you know that in 2005, Raheel Raza became the first woman to lead mixed-gender Muslim prayers in Canada?
Did you know that in a letter of 22 April 772 to Probatus, who later served as his ambassador, Pope Adrian I claimed to rule a "republic of the Romans"?
Did you know that research by Dr. Harold Ginsberg on adenoviruses led to the development of gene therapy, in which modified versions of viruses can be used to implant healthy versions of genes to treat disease?
Did you know that the 1991 Racha earthquake was the most powerful ever recorded in the Caucasus?
Did you know that the 2008 historical drama/black comedy film Time of the Comet set a new box office record in Albanian cinemas?
Did you know that the British Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Keatinge was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India?
Did you know that the Phoenix Suns were featured in all of the National Basketball Association's outdoor games?
Did you know that the cast members of The Simpsons provided their voices for The Simpsons Cartoon Studio, a computer program released in 1996 that lets users create their own Simpsons cartoons?
Did you know that the design of the Medina, New York, post office, has only been reused in Salem, Indiana?
Did you know that the former featherweight world boxing champion Andre Routis spent two years in Morocco as a mechanic for the French Colonial Army?
Did you know that the tower of St Andrew's Church, Bywell, Northumberland, was built in about 850 as a defensive structure?
Did you know that there is a legend that the body of Saint Oswald, king of Northumbria, rested on the present site of St Oswald's Church, Kirk Sandall, South Yorkshire, after his death in 642?
Did you know that "Tuesday's Child", an episode of the BBC medical drama Holby City, was filmed entirely on location in Ghana?
Did you know that Australian Edward Both invented the Both Respirator, an iron lung made from plywood, to fight a polio epidemic in 1937?
Did you know that Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club broke their transfer record, paying £5,000 to sign Johnny McNichol, who at the time had not played a single game in the Football League?
Did you know that Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine, called Dr. Robert M. Chanock his "star scientific son"?
Did you know that Eric Berry played the part of Charles in Pippin for six years?
Did you know that Gaza's "swish, stylish" Al Deira Hotel is built of mudbricks?
Did you know that Harry George Woolley, who holds a club record for the most penalty minutes spent off the field, also donated the Most Sportsmanlike trophy to his lacrosse league?
Did you know that Oscar Ludvig Stoud Platou was a law professor for five years after becoming blind?
Did you know that Somerset's Sophie Le Marchand has stumped three batsmen in an innings twice in Twenty20 cricket?
Did you know that Waldemar Stoud Platou founded Hansa Brewery?
Did you know that after being fined due to an incident, professional baseball player Tal Abernathy promised his teammates that if he was ever fined again he would buy them all a steak?
Did you know that after losing his seat in the House of Commons in January 1910, the British politician and pastor George Nicholls stood again eight times over the next 19 years, without success?
Did you know that although the epicenter of the 1887 Sonora earthquake was in Mexico, it was the only historical earthquake to cause considerable damage in Arizona?
Did you know that as a child French executive pastry chef Florian Bellanger was allergic to chocolate, but now claims it is his favorite ingredient?
Did you know that in 1915 the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.1 became the first type of aircraft to be produced by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's aircraft factory Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk?
Did you know that in Colombia there were 2,832 murders of trade unionists between 1 January 1986 and 30 April 2010, making it the most dangerous country in the world in which to be a trade unionist?
Did you know that pastry chef Candace Nelson opened the world's first cupcake-only bakery?
Did you know that the Admonitions Scroll (detail pictured), a treasured possession of the Qianlong Emperor, was bought by the British Museum for only £25 in 1903?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian coastal defense ship SMS Wien was the only ship from the Monarch-class to be sunk during World War I?
Did you know that the English lace manufacturer and Liberal Party politician Sir Arthur Black donated two homes in Nottingham to the National Children's Home?
Did you know that the Mana by-election, 2010 was caused by the resignation of Winnie Laban, who has been appointed as the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington?
Did you know that the Palazzo Chupi is named after a lollipop?
Did you know that the River Tern passes to the north of the Buntingsdale Hall in Shropshire?
Did you know that the Servoss House, on the Erie Canal outside Medina, New York, uses an unusual structural system consisting of stacked wooden planks?
Did you know that the Settha Palace Hotel in Vientiane is a boutique hotel, housed in a renovated French Indonese colonial building?
Did you know that the Star Carr house in North Yorkshire, England, was built by Stone Age hunters 10,500 years ago and is the oldest dwelling ever found in Britain?
Did you know that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers originally proposed a large reservoir by damming the Anacostia River at Massachusetts Avenue SE, but built the much smaller Kingman Lake in 1920 instead?
Did you know that the top three finishers in 1962 MVP award voting – Maury Wills, Willie Mays, and Tommy Davis – all played in the 1962 National League tie-breaker series?
Did you know that Angel Bakeries is the sole supplier of hamburger buns for McDonald's restaurants in Israel?
Did you know that Berman's Bakery, Israel's second-largest, got its start by peddling black bread and honey cakes to Christian pilgrims on their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
Did you know that British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Gordon Drummond Campbell had been an educational adviser to King Chulalongkorn of Siam?
Did you know that British Labour Party politician William Jackson was injured in the Battle of the Somme?
Did you know that Christopher Nugent was the third United States Marine to receive the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that Danish orienteer Ida Bobach won three gold medals at the 2010 Junior World Orienteering Championships, winning the sprint, the long course and the relay?
Did you know that Kickapoo Joy Juice was a fictional alcoholic beverage in a comic strip before it was produced in real life as a soft drink?
Did you know that Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.2 was the first type of aircraft operated by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service that could carry bombs?
Did you know that Michael Taylor led Michigan to consecutive Big Ten football championships and became the school's all-time leader in passing efficiency?
Did you know that Montreal Alouettes kick returner Tim Maypray returned a missed field goal for a touchdown twice in 2010—both against the Saskatchewan Roughriders?
Did you know that Ohio's Paulding County Courthouse was patterned after Michigan's Lenawee County Courthouse?
Did you know that Smaalenenes Amtstidende was the first newspaper in Østfold county, Norway?
Did you know that Tadahiro Matsushita is one of only four People's New Party members in the House of Representatives of Japan?
Did you know that Terry Byrne was the only person to accompany David Beckham to the changing room after his red card in the 1998 World Cup, and later became his personal manager?
Did you know that Up was the second animated film to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, after Beauty and the Beast?
Did you know that a 1999 internet hoax led people to believe that a wealthy family in the 16th century would share bacon with their guests so they could sit around and "chew the fat"?
Did you know that a Vermont window is said to let coffins through, but keep witches out?
Did you know that a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a £750,000 penthouse at Brighton's Van Alen Building?
Did you know that although the Montmartre funicular is considered part of the Paris Métro, it requires a separate ticket?
Did you know that before becoming a professional mixed martial artist, Eduard Folayang was a high school teacher?
Did you know that during the Battle of Ratsua, Frank Partridge became the youngest Australian soldier to earn the Victoria Cross?
Did you know that one of the textbooks written by Ludvig Stoud Platou was reissued 15 times, including 7 times by his son Carl Nicolai?
Did you know that the Medina, New York, armory was the first one designed by new state architect George Heins?
Did you know that the Slav Epic cycle of paintings by Alfons Mucha consists of 20 canvases, up to six metres tall and eight metres wide?
Did you know that the Van Wert Bandstand is the only extant historic bandstand in western Ohio?
Did you know that the first New Zealanders were Eastern Polynesians, who are thought to have arrived in New Zealand around 750 years ago?
Did you know that the font dating from about 1300 in St John's Church, Throapham, South Yorkshire, depicts human faces from the three continents that were known at the time of its carving?
Did you know that the largest organized collection of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts is housed in Saint Petersburg?
Did you know that the lithium salt of the hexafluorophosphate anion is a common electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries?
Did you know that the only life-tariff prisoner in the UK protesting his innocence is Jeremy Bamber?
Did you know that the port of Aransas City lost its customhouse after Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar relocated it to the self-named town of Lamar?
Did you know that to show his opposition to Wilhelm II, Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz forbade any demonstrations of mourning for the deaths of emperors Wilhelm I and Frederick III?
Did you know that 95% of adults have been infected by human herpesvirus 7, a virus that can cause influenza-like illness and seizures but normally causes no symptoms?
Did you know that BioShock Infinite, Irrational Games' next title in its video game series, is set during 1912 in a giant airborne city constructed at the height of American exceptionalism?
Did you know that British Conservative Party politician William Carlile owned Gayhurst House in Buckinghamshire, the former home of one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot?
Did you know that Ivar Eskeland was accomplished as a philologist, publisher, translator, biographer, literary critic, newspaper editor, theatre worker, radio personality and organizational leader?
Did you know that James B. Longacre's design for the Shield nickel symbolizes the strength of the US federal government through the unity of the states?
Did you know that Jobar, a suburb of Damascus, is home to the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue?
Did you know that Ludwig von Wurmb, a general from Hesse-Kassel during the Napoleonic Wars, was known as the "bitter Wurmb" to distinguish him from his siblings?
Did you know that Sir Richard Glass, who was knighted for his part in creating the first transatlantic telegraph cable, lasted only a few months as an MP?
Did you know that Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet, British ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, commissioned his own friend Luigi Mayer to draw pictures of places in the Ottoman Empire for his collection?
Did you know that The Titan's Goblet, an 1833 landscape painting by Thomas Cole, "defies full explanation" according to the museum that owns it?
Did you know that Zydeco musician Roy Carrier started out playing la la on a frottoir?
Did you know that a New Jersey State Senator unsuccessfully attempted to block Marianne Espinosa's renomination to family court, citing complaints that she "giggles and throws pencils on the desk during testimony"?
Did you know that astronomers believe that the Great Comet of 1264 and the Great Comet of 1556 were the same comet?
Did you know that at the St Albans by-election in 1943, John Grimston was elected without a vote after his opponent William Douglas-Home missed the deadline for nominations?
Did you know that because Prince George produced many of his plays under pseudonyms, most of his audiences were unaware a Prussian prince was behind them?
Did you know that in 1896, Edward Ford built the 32-room George P. MacNichol House for his daughter, and the next year built the 27-room Ford-Bacon House across the street for himself?
Did you know that in 1972, the Uganda Development Corporation's portfolio was swelled with the addition of 90 nationalised British holdings?
Did you know that the Antoni Gaudí-inspired "Crazy House" in Da Lat, Vietnam, has been variously compared to the works of Salvador Dali and Walt Disney?
Did you know that the British politician Frederick William Verney was a former Church of England clergyman who had been made a Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?
Did you know that the FC Barcelona Museum attracts 1.2 million yearly visitors, making it the second most visited museum in Barcelona, only surpassed by the Museu Picasso?
Did you know that the Freemasons Tavern in Hove, with its elaborate mosaic exterior decorated with Masonic symbols, is "reminiscent of the Viennese Secession"?
Did you know that the New Ulyanovsk Bridge, one of Europe's longest bridges, took more than 23 years to complete due to economic difficulties following the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled that an Indian could not be tried for killing another Indian in Ex parte Crow Dog, resulting in the passage of the Major Crimes Act?
Did you know that the collapse of the Parrot Corporation, a manufacturer of floppy diskettes, caused a British political controversy?
Did you know that the court decision in Palila v. Hawaii saved the Palila, a critically endangered honeycreeper, from possible extinction?
Did you know that the distinct structures of different cellular organelles may be the effects of the differing mechanics of the many proteins that create them during organelle biogenesis?
Did you know that the lintel over the doorway of Holy Trinity Church, Coverham, North Yorkshire, consists of a re-used Anglo-Saxon cross shaft?
Did you know that the political documentary Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? won the Audience Award at the 2006 Silverdocs Documentary Festival?
Did you know that when Lieutenant Nevelskoy of the 14-gun Opyt surrendered to Captain Bathurst of the 42-gun frigate HMS Salsette, Bathurst returned Nevelskoy's sword because of the heroic fight he had put up?
Did you know that while being stipendiary magistrate in Sarpsborg, Oluf Falck-Ytter edited the newspaper Glommen anonymously?
Did you know that wool-stapler George Goodman was a four-time mayor of Leeds?
Did you know that American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Johnny B. Moore was once described as "one of Chicago's interesting secrets"?
Did you know that Jobs' vessel, the Blue Peter, was the first floating, frozen-fish processing outfit in Newfoundland?
Did you know that Lady Gaga's EP The Cherrytree Sessions, initially only available through Borders stores and digital outlets, was reissued in August 2010?
Did you know that MV Geysir was the center of a series of international incidents that involved Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Ken Starr, Elizabeth Dole, George Schultz and Ronald Reagan?
Did you know that Robert Brown Job was the oldest elected member of the Newfoundland National Convention?
Did you know that Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union was founded using only US$107 in 1950 and has since grown to over 500 million dollars in assets?
Did you know that after assassinating Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth fled into Maryland's Zekiah Swamp?
Did you know that after watching "the greatest single play" in team history, Bob Ufer exclaimed "Johnny Wangler to Anthony Carter will be heard until another 100 years of Michigan football is played!"?
Did you know that although Rangers won the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, they were banned from competing the following year because their fans started a riot?
Did you know that at a command performance of Box and Cox (1847) at Windsor Castle, Queen Victoria and her court "laughed heartily" at the hit London farce?
Did you know that despite their roles in her overthrow and counter-revolution, lawyers William O. Smith and William A. Kinney were later hired by Queen Liliʻuokalani?
Did you know that in the Singer World Series, Aravinda de Silva scored 334 runs and did not lose his wicket in all four innings he played?
Did you know that shot putter Ivan Ivančić is the oldest ever finalist at the World Championships in Athletics?
Did you know that software archaeology uses software visualization and other techniques to understand poorly documented legacy software?
Did you know that soul singer Veda Brown, who recorded for the Stax label in the 1970s, later became a cosmetologist, choir leader, and black history teacher in the Missouri Bootheel?
Did you know that studies have shown that media coverage of climate change significantly understates the strength of the scientific consensus on climate change?
Did you know that the 11th-century church of San Giovanni del Toro in Ravello, Italy, has a pulpit with Arabic script and motifs which influenced the Dutch artist M.C. Escher?
Did you know that the Andrei Pervozvanny class battleships were the only Old World battleships fitted with lattice masts?
Did you know that the Putnam County Courthouse in Ottawa, Ohio, built in 1912, was intended to be a landmark in 2000?
Did you know that the Queen's Aid House has a plaque commemorating Elizabeth I's aid in rebuilding Nantwich after a fire, the only time she is known to have contributed to such a cause?
Did you know that the US$1 million restoration of Old St. Andrew's Church, which many considered beyond repair, was the first major project in the 67 years of the Jacksonville Historical Society?
Did you know that the dramatist George Bernard Shaw campaigned for the Labour Party candidate at the St Albans by-election in 1919?
Did you know that the government of Indonesia did not provide funding for its national team until one month prior to the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics?
Did you know that upon Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis' death at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, he was succeeded by his uncle as heir presumptive to the Headship of the House of Thurn and Taxis?
Did you know that versions of Roberto Cantoral's songs have been recorded over 1,000 times by other artists, including Plácido Domingo, José José, Luis Miguel, Joan Baez and Linda Ronstadt?
Did you know that , called out of retirement to work on the murder case of JonBenét Ramsey, detective Lou Smit resigned 18 months later after concluding that "the Ramseys did not do it"?
Did you know that Aarti Sequeira, the sixth season winner of The Next Food Network Star, once worked as a producer for the cable news company CNN?
Did you know that Abbot's Palace, a roccoco palace in Oliwa funded by the last Cistercian abbot of the Oliwa monastery, Jacek Rybiński, was burned down by German troops during World War II?
Did you know that Angelo Gaja, owner of Piemonte wine producer Gaja, is often described as "the man who dragged Piedmont into the modern world"?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen has described his hit song "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" as the type of song he tends to want to throw out?
Did you know that Captain James Young's capture of a Spanish frigate in 1799 (illustrated) brought each of his seamen the equivalent of ten years' pay in prize money?
Did you know that R.C. Bannon, co-writer of Barbara Mandrell's "One of a Kind Pair of Fools," was formerly married to Barbara's sister, Louise?
Did you know that St George's Church, Little Thetford, is a 14th century Anglican church in the village of Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England, which was struck by lightning in 1886 and required extensive rebuilding?
Did you know that The Feildian, a monthly magazine of Bishop Feild College, was the first publication of its kind in Newfoundland?