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Did you know that Jerzy Sosnowski, a top Polish spy in Weimar Germany, caused two of his two lovers, each a German noble woman, to be executed by the axe?
Did you know that New York State Route 192 and its suffixed route, 192A, were two of only three decommissioned routes in Franklin County's section of Adirondack Park?
Did you know that Petticoat Hill, a nature reserve in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, is said to be named after laundry hung on a clothesline?
Did you know that in 1965 Rankin M. Smith, Sr. paid a then unprecedented 8.5 million dollars for the ownership of the Atlanta Falcons, a team in the NFL?
Did you know that newspaper writer Constance Drexel gained notoriety by falsely claiming that she was a member of Philadelphia's Drexel family?
Did you know that not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same colliery, but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials?
Did you know that one of the works of Maya Angelou, Georgia, Georgia (1972), was the first film to be written and produced by an African American woman?
Did you know that shrines dedicated to the Hindu sun god Surya usually face east, but the one at the Kasivisvesvara Temple in Lakkundi, Karnataka faces west?
Did you know that stencils known as Empègue were placed by youths on houses in Beauvoisin, France in August 2000?
Did you know that tax rates in Switzerland are set by voters through instruments of direct democracy?
Did you know that the Anglo-Zanzibar War, considered the shortest war in history, lasted around forty minutes?
Did you know that the Israeli mafia have extended their activities to foreign countries like the United States, South Africa, and the Netherlands?
Did you know that the Russian Tax Code was hastened into legislation in 1998 due to a growing financial crisis?
Did you know that the rare fallopian tube cancer is more prevalent in carriers of the BRCA1 and 2 mutations?
Did you know that the silver won at the 2008 Summer Olympics by the Singapore women's table tennis team, comprising Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu, is the second Olympic medal in Singapore's history?
Did you know that the soundtracks to FlatOut and FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage include five songs by English rock music group No Connection?
Did you know that to combat illegal entry by foreign nationals, India and China are currently building security barriers at their borders with Bangladesh and North Korea respectively?
Did you know that "Jack-Tor", an episode of 30 Rock, was the first episode of the series to air as part of NBC's "Comedy Night Done Right"?
Did you know that Giovanni Battista Bugatti executed 516 people between 1796 and 1865 on behalf of the Papal States?
Did you know that Japanese scientists have found anticancer activity in some Brazilian traditional remedies?
Did you know that Kentucky Senator Archibald Dixon was primarily responsible for the repeal of the slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise in Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory?
Did you know that Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei established Scandinavia's first electric tramway in 1894?
Did you know that Lactarius blennius has been described by various mycologists as edible, inedible and even poisonous?
Did you know that Marie Heim-Vögtlin, Switzerland's first woman physician, was required by law to have her husband's consent in order to be allowed to work?
Did you know that Meller's Chameleon catches insects and birds 50 cm (20 inches) away with its tongue?
Did you know that New Jersey State Senator Frank S. Farley was a key force behind the creation of the Garden State Parkway, derided by North Jersey legislators as "Farley's Folly"?
Did you know that Tsar Alexander I of Russia was so impressed with Willem Benjamin Craan’s map of the Battle of Waterloo he awarded the Dutch cartographer a precious ring?
Did you know that W. Otto Miessner founded the first public high school band in the United States in Connersville, Indiana?
Did you know that during the unusually long 15-day track of Tropical Storm Allison, the storm attained tropical or subtropical storm status on three separate occasions?
Did you know that in 1935, Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus founded the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands to avoid destruction of socialist history documents by Nazi Germany?
Did you know that in the 30 Rock episode "Fireworks", series writers Kay Cannon and Dave Finkel briefly appeared as a married couple?
Did you know that pre-Columbian savanna once covered much of North America?
Did you know that the Major Jacob Hasbrouck Jr. House in New Paltz, New York, is the last 18th-century stone house in the area still owned by the same family that built it?
Did you know that the North Baltimore Aquatic Club has produced seven Olympians, including Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff?
Did you know that the Obelisk of Theodosius, installed in Istanbul since 390, was originally erected in Egypt by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BC?
Did you know that the battleship Illinois, exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, was actually a full scale, detailed replica made of brick and cement?
Did you know that the tides at Kachemak Bay, Alaska have an average vertical difference of fifteen feet, and recorded extremes of twenty eight feet?
Did you know that Allen Bares, a former member of the Louisiana State Legislature, was awarded the Medal of Merit by France for promotion of the French language?
Did you know that Anglo-Irish baronet Sir Thomas Chapman lived part of his life under the name of Thomas Lawrence and was the father of Lawrence of Arabia?
Did you know that Augustasaurus' name comes from the mountain range of northwestern Nevada, where its fossilized bones were first discovered?
Did you know that Gabon's national park system takes up ten percent of its land area?
Did you know that Harlan Kredit was the first teacher from the U.S. state of Washington to be inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame?
Did you know that INSOR is the only non-government organization headed by president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev?
Did you know that Joseph McGahn, an obstetrician elected to the New Jersey Senate, was eulogized by The New York Times as the "principal architect" of legislation bringing casino gambling to Atlantic City?
Did you know that João Maria de Sousa is the current Attorney General of Angola?
Did you know that Kay Cannon, a writer for 30 Rock, appeared in an episode of the series "Episode 209", as a Human Table?
Did you know that Michael Redgrave owned White Roding Windmill during World War Two?
Did you know that NTR Gardens, which was built in the memory of actor-politician N. T. Rama Rao, was actually a water body until 1994?
Did you know that Phacelia sericea is a native subalpine perennial plant listed  by the Federal Highway Administration for roadside landscaping in Colorado?
Did you know that Uncle Tupelo's 1990 album No Depression is so associated with alternative country that its title is sometimes used as a synonym for the genre?
Did you know that a type of cast net was used by gladiators in Ancient Rome in a parody of fishing?
Did you know that after their success with the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona,  William E. Dodge, Jr. and his partners founded the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad?
Did you know that early in World War I, the cargo ship SS Montanan of the then-neutral United States, was fired upon and stopped by a Japanese warship?
Did you know that film producer Shauna Robertson became an assistant to filmmaker Mike Binder after meeting him at the summer camp memorialized in his 1993 film Indian Summer?
Did you know that mathematician Harald Bohr, brother of Niels Bohr, won a silver medal in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the 12-story Lincoln Tower is the tallest building in Washington County, Oregon?
Did you know that the 2000-seater laser auditorium at Hyderabad's Lumbini Park is the first of its kind in India?
Did you know that the Oslo City Council bought the city's two private street tram companies in 1924, and merged them into what would become Oslo Sporveier?
Did you know that the Port of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, was an independent customs port for two separate periods before becoming part of the Port of Manchester in 1894?
Did you know that while Bruce Springsteen's song "One Step Up" is about a relationship breaking up, the backing vocal was sung by his future wife Patti Scialfa?
Did you know that while Sulla's reforms in 82BC attempted to constitutionally strengthen the Roman Senate, it was his rule by dictatorship that ultimately became the model for Imperial Rome?
Did you know that 1994's Hurricane Gilma is the most intense Pacific hurricane to occur in July?
Did you know that Bagheera kiplingi, named after the black panther Bagheera from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, is the only spider species known to subsist on a mostly vegetarian diet?
Did you know that Hermitage Bridge is the oldest stone bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia?
Did you know that Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, the tutor of the future William II of the Netherlands, obtained a doctorate honoris causa from Oxford in 1811 while accompanying the young prince there?
Did you know that Leon Johnson, a West Indian cricketer, captained the West Indies team at the 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup?
Did you know that Mark Twain and General Custer visited P. T. Barnum in Iranistan?
Did you know that Nollaig Ó Gadhra's biography of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley is regarded as one of the most comprehensive biographies ever written in the Irish language?
Did you know that Ruby Bundleflower, an abundant weed in parts of Mexico, produces beans used in salsa?
Did you know that The Gift, the last novel written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian, was initially poorly received and partially rejected?
Did you know that Winston Churchill lost his first election, the Oldham by-election of 1899, after promising to vote first for, then against, the Clerical Tithes Bill?
Did you know that a phrase from poet Rosemonde Gérard became well-known when a jeweler engraved it on a medallion?
Did you know that although Gretna F.C. 2008 represents the town of Gretna, Scotland in association football, it has never played there, instead playing its home games eight miles away in Annan?
Did you know that former Major League Baseball player Kid Durbin, who was a baker at a restaurant after his career, died only one day after his 57th birthday due to coronary thrombosis?
Did you know that sang piao xiao is praying mantis egg case used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat impotence and premature ejaculation?
Did you know that the Amethyst Initiative, signed by over a hundred college presidents, seeks reconsideration of alcohol drinking age laws in the United States?
Did you know that the Bulgarian village of Petrevene celebrates "Watermelon Day" every August?
Did you know that the King road drag, a road grader widely used across North America for grading dirt roads in the early 20th century, was invented by D. Ward King?
Did you know that the Mitsubishi Type 73 Light Trucks were made bulletproof for the Japanese military deployed in Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
Did you know that the lyrics of Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast, the royal anthem of Denmark, first appeared in an 18th-century vaudeville play by Johannes Ewald?
Did you know that the underground Home Army courier, Irena Adamowicz, provided communication and moral support for the Jewish ghettos of several distant cities during the occupation of Poland?
Did you know that when the Japanese visual novel Memories Off was released for the PlayStation Portable, it shared its opening theme song with the visual novel Memories Off 2nd for the same system?
Did you know that 22-year-old ski jumper Anette Sagen played the mother of 70-year-old Bård Owe in the Norwegian movie O' Horten?
Did you know that Albert White was the first person to lead the Missouri Tigers men's basketball team in rebounds, points, and assists in the same season?
Did you know that Alfred Merle Norman, whose collection of 11,086 species was acquired by the Natural History Museum in  London, was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1906?
Did you know that Bill Ricker, one of the founders of fisheries science, developed the Ricker model, which can be used to predict how many fish are in a fishery?
Did you know that California's Gold Country quartz-mining industry was precipitated by a quartz gold discovery on Gold Hill?
Did you know that Charles Mears was known as the "Christopher Columbus of the West Coast"?
Did you know that Edmond Malone said Samuel Johnson's The Plays of William Shakespeare "threw more light on his author than all his predecessors"?
Did you know that Fireflight took six years to write their first album but only six months to write their second album Unbreakable?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright said of the Millard House that he "would rather have built this little house than St. Peter's in Rome"?
Did you know that German-born Jewish Egyptologist Käte Bosse-Griffiths published a novel in the Welsh language?
Did you know that HMS Sans Pareil, a former French ship captured at the Glorious First of June in 1794, was later used to hold French prisoners-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars?
Did you know that Henry S. Huidekoper received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg, and later helped to suppress the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
Did you know that Hubert Shirley-Smith wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on bridges?
Did you know that Kinoautomat, a 1967 film by Czechoslovakian director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
Did you know that Manhattan's Rose Hill neighborhood was the original site of Madison Square Garden, where millionaire Harry K. Thaw killed architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit?
Did you know that Project CHLOE, a proposed system to protect airplanes from surface-to-air missiles, was named for the character Chloe O'Brian on the American television show 24?
Did you know that Rodney Pattisson became Great Britain's most successful Olympic yachtsman in the 1976 Montreal Olympics until Ben Ainslie bettered his two gold medals and one silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
Did you know that Ross Jenkins played for Watford F.C. when they were both bottom and top of The Football League?
Did you know that The GrooveGrass Boyz, a bluegrass/funk group, had chart success in 1997 with a country version of the "Macarena"?
Did you know that U.S. Army Brigadier General James Dalton II was one of only 11 US general officers killed in action during World War II?
Did you know that US Olympic discus throw gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton said that the downside of the Beijing Games was that they conflicted with the opening of hunting season in California?
Did you know that Varanus albigularis, a species of monitor lizard found in southern Africa, may be able to count as high as six?
Did you know that WrestleMania, an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, has involved 94 celebrities in a 24-year span?
Did you know that after being declared defeated, Henry Overstolz successfully contested the mayoral election and unseated James Britton to become the twenty-fourth mayor of St. Louis, Missouri?
Did you know that although Brendan Nash was born and grew up in Australia, he qualifies to play international cricket for the West Indies because his father, who represented Jamaica at the Olympics, is of Jamaican origin?
Did you know that an artificial island built in 2006 in Kamfers Dam, Kimberley, has become one of six breeding colonies of lesser flamingoes in the world, and the only one in South Africa?
Did you know that at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Indian freestyle wrestler Sushil Kumar won his country's second medal in the sport since the 1952 Games?
Did you know that former Major League Baseball player Dan Norman was once traded with three other players for Hall of Famer-to-be Tom Seaver, as part of what New York Mets fans refer to as the Midnight Massacre?
Did you know that in 2006 the Philadelphia City Council proclaimed "Edie Huggins Day" in honor of her 40th anniversary as a reporter and journalist for WCAU-TV?
Did you know that in the Bombay Presidency, the famine of 1899–1900 had the highest mortality—at 37.9 deaths per 1000—among all famines and scarcities between 1876 and 1919?
Did you know that nearly 10% of dog attacks in the United States were caused by canines trained to be attack dogs?
Did you know that pro wrestler Gregg Groothuis's ring name "Jack Bull" was inspired by an interview with Dusty Rhodes, in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?
Did you know that tenth-century Icelandic chieftain Olaf the Peacock was known for his extravagant clothes?
Did you know that the 2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water?
Did you know that the Alamogordo Museum of History owns a rare 47-star U.S. flag, thought to have been made in 1912 to celebrate the entry of New Mexico into the United States?
Did you know that the Brazilian sex worker organization Davida created the fashion label Daspu which prostitutes presented at fashion shows, culminating in a show at the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial?
Did you know that the Great Mosque of Gaza, completed by the Mamluks in 1344, is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the Gaza Strip?
Did you know that the Kirkfield Lift Lock is located at the highest section of the Trent-Severn Waterway?
Did you know that the Neo-Baroque Yablanski House in Sofia, Bulgaria has been deemed one of the city's highest achievements in architecture of the 1900s?
Did you know that the Old Warner Brothers Studio, where the first "talkie" was filmed in 1927, has recently been the location for Judge Judy and Hannah Montana?
Did you know that the Orsini podestà of Viterbo was displaced by Charles of Anjou and replaced with a magistrate willing to expel the Orsini cardinals from the papal election, 1280–1281?
Did you know that the U.S. Congress incorporated the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1866 to connect Missouri and California, but the company only completed portions at each end?
Did you know that the tower of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow was used as a machine gun post by Bolsheviks in a battle against troops of the Russian Provisional Government?
Did you know that Bridgewater House, Runcorn, Cheshire, was built for the Duke of Bridgewater when he was supervising the building of the Bridgewater Canal in the 1760s, and is now used as offices?
Did you know that Daba Modibo Keïta,  2008 Olympian for Mali, was the first Sub-Saharan African to be a Taekwondo World Champion?
Did you know that Froduald Karamira, sentenced to death for his role in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, was one of the last individuals executed before capital punishment was abolished in the country?
Did you know that Iraqi American scientist Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz is the world authority on bladderpods?
Did you know that Jack DiLauro's 2.40 ERA is third best among New York Mets pitchers with at least 50 innings pitched?
Did you know that Metolius Springs in Oregon produces 50,000 gallons/s, enough to make the Metolius River one of the largest spring-fed rivers in the US?
Did you know that Tom Welling, who plays Clark Kent on Smallville, believes his lack of knowledge of the Superman mythology helps his performance?
Did you know that Voltaire's 1730 poem about Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans, was banned in most of Europe?
Did you know that a shattered goblet of Communion wine reportedly helped Saint Donatus of Arezzo convert 79 pagans to Christianity?
Did you know that a vitamin B-fortified beer was developed for the Philippine beer market?
Did you know that despite being personal secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Francis Charles Lawley's attempts at insider trading resulted in losses?
Did you know that for the Tang Dynasty, whether to honor the general Zhang Xun for his deeds during the Anshi Rebellion was controversial due to his engaging in cannibalism?
Did you know that four different men, including Frank W. Johnson and Sam Houston, claimed to be in charge of the Texian Army for several months during the Texas Revolution?
Did you know that the 1871 Hampden County Courthouse was built after a grand jury indicted county commissioners for not providing fireproof storage for county records and deeds in the previous courthouse?
Did you know that the 19th-century fad of Pedestrianism started with gambling over the speed of footmen by the British aristocracy?
Did you know that the 3,500 items owned by Amsterdam's Museum of Bags and Purses make it the world's largest collection of handbags and accessories?
Did you know that the Albert Medal was one of the awards given to Mark Addy for rescuing more than 50 people from the highly polluted River Irwell, Manchester, in the 19th Century?
Did you know that the Bhutanatha temples in India have a pillared hall extending into a lake?
Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Army's Type 89 I-Go medium tank (Otsu version) was the first diesel-powered tank to be mass-produced?
Did you know that the cargo ship SS Minnesotan carried five racing yachts from the East Coast to national championship races in Los Angeles?
Did you know that the neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee surrounding the former site of the Baron Hirsch Synagogue, the largest Orthodox Jewish congregation in the United States, has become a historic district?
Did you know that the scandals involving the British fraud and impostor Lord Gordon-Gordon led to a major international incident between the US and Canada?
Did you know that the synagogue built in 1925 by Congregation Beth Israel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the widely consumed porcini mushroom is often confused with the fungus Boletus pinophilus?
Did you know that 2008 Olympic handball champion Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk was also selected as the pivot on the tournament's All-star team?
Did you know that Chika Chukwumerije had financial backing unavailable to most Nigerian athletes because of his father Uche Chukwumerije?
Did you know that Craig Gillespie almost turned down the chance to direct Lars and the Real Girl when he heard the film's pitch?
Did you know that George Hammond Whalley, a British Member of Parliament, once claimed that the Pope had taken control of the Royal Artillery?
Did you know that Henny Moan acted in the Oscar-nominated Ni liv, later named the best film in the history of Norwegian cinema?
Did you know that Japanese anime director Rintaro has worked in animation for 50 years and co-founded the animation studio Madhouse?
Did you know that Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, an African American trombonist from the Mississippi River delta country, played at least five instruments in a 74-year musical career?
Did you know that On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover, a satirical book on the Prime Minister of New Zealand, was described as a treatise of "sociology, psychoanalysis and cringe-making erotica"?
Did you know that Shō Tai was the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom who abdicated when the Ryukyu Islands were annexed by Japan in 1879?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty generals Li Zhengji, Li Baochen and Tian Chengsi all ruled Chinese territories effectively independent of the imperial government?
Did you know that according to the New Mexico Legislature, the Sandia Hairstreak butterfly "symbolizes the ability of New Mexican residents to thrive year-round in a semiarid climate"?
Did you know that despite leaving the South West Africa People's Organization for the Congress of Democrats, Tsudao Gurirab was selected by his former party for the Pan-African Parliament?
Did you know that following show jumper Denis Lynch's Olympic ban for doping offences, the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland threatened to ban the equestrian team from participating in future Olympic Games?
Did you know that former Olympic champion Ángel Matos received a lifetime ban from the World Taekwondo Federation after attacking a referee in a bronze medal match at the 2008 Olympics?