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Did you know that the snow events of the 2014 Winter Olympics will be hosted in the ski resort of Krasnaya Polyana, which had its origin in the Tsar's hunting lodge?
Did you know that Anna Mae Winburn led the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the only integrated, all-female big band of the 1940s?
Did you know that Marcin Dunin, primate of Poland, was once interned and arrested by the Prussian authorities?
Did you know that a "witch's egg", the immature form of the carrion-odoured common stinkhorn, is eaten in parts of France and Germany?
Did you know that at the 25th CMA Music Festival in 1996, country music artist Garth Brooks signed autographs for 23 hours and 10 minutes without taking a single break?
Did you know that fear of retaliatory terminations is a leading obstacle to union organizers in their efforts to unionize a workplace?
Did you know that girls received the right to inherit the Danish throne as the result of a referendum in 1953?
Did you know that in three days of nearly non-stop negotiations, Nathan Feinsinger mediated an end to a 1947 pineapple workers' strike which threatened the entire Hawaiian economy?
Did you know that the Danish land laws referendum of 1963 is the only referendum in the history of Denmark to have been held by a minority of parliament?
Did you know that the First cabinet Gerhardsen in 1945 featured the first female Norwegian Government minister, Kirsten Hansteen?
Did you know that the Tarxien Temples in Malta were discovered when the owner of a field figured that the large stones his workers kept hitting while ploughing may have some archaeological significance?
Did you know that the demolition of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District in Omaha, Nebraska represents the largest loss of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places to date?
Did you know that the first Baptist baptism in Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river Inhul of today's Kirovohrad Oblast?
Did you know that those opposed to the construction of the Stroudwater Navigation used poetry to support their cause?
Did you know that 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan was born in an apartment above a 19th century commercial building in downtown Tampico, Illinois?
Did you know that Charles Sargeant Jagger sculpted three World War I memorials, all in London?
Did you know that English missionary Andrew White, the "Apostle of Maryland", celebrated the first Catholic mass in the original Thirteen Colonies on March 25, 1634 on St. Clement's Island?
Did you know that Father Joseph Le Caron, the first European to see Lake Huron, also assisted at the first Catholic mass in Quebec and performed the first Christian marriage in Canada?
Did you know that General Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War dispatch boat Monohansett was a chartered Martha's Vineyard ferry?
Did you know that John Little, established in 1845, is the oldest department store in Singapore?
Did you know that Pelton's Rose Gentian was recently discovered by a retired mechanic and is only found in a single county in Arkansas?
Did you know that Vanvoorstia bennettiana is the only protist on the IUCN's Red List?
Did you know that all of the publications of 17th century Milanese historian Gregorio Leti were listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?
Did you know that an unnamed hurricane in 1975 attained hurricane status further north than any other Pacific hurricane before dissipating near Alaska?
Did you know that besides taking the athletes' oath, Paul Aste also competed on the bobsleigh track that he designed for the 1964 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that despite over a hundred years of scientific study, fierce debate still rages about how arthropods' heads are constructed?
Did you know that during engineering work in 1979, the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel severed the main railway line between London and Edinburgh for five months?
Did you know that in 1894  officials in Whiteside County, Illinois paid a man $1.50 per day to watch the construction of Lyndon Bridge?
Did you know that the American neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard developed an intracellular recording microelectrode, that revolutionized research in neurobiology?
Did you know that the Australian native Dagger Hakea is an effective plant for sheltering small birds such as the Superb Fairy-wren, especially in the natural landscaping style of gardening?
Did you know that the Malvern Roller Mill was closed in 1942 due to shortages caused by World War II?
Did you know that the Poker Players Alliance hired former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato to help overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that makes it illegal for financial institutes to deal with online gambling sites?
Did you know that the Union Station in Omaha, Nebraska was the first Art Deco style train station in the United States?
Did you know that the architect Hans Price was responsible for the distinctive look of buildings in Weston-super-Mare, England, during the Victorian era?
Did you know that the modern-day role of women in the Philippines is similar to their social status during pre-colonial times?
Did you know that the naval history of China goes back as far as the Spring and Autumn Period (722 BC-481 BC)?
Did you know that though musicologist Knud Jeppesen wrote that without voice crossing "no real polyphony is possible," many counterpoint exercises prohibit it?
Did you know that 18th century brothel-keeper Jane Douglas sold condoms in silken bags to her customers?
Did you know that John Hill, former Texas Attorney General, was prominent in shutting down the Chicken Ranch known as the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas?
Did you know that Juliana Anicia commissioned the largest church of pre-Justinian Constantinople?
Did you know that Sozodont (advertisement pictured) was an extremely popular oral hygiene product whose name came from the Greek meaning "to save the teeth"?
Did you know that Union Army color bearer Thomas J. Higgins received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Vicksburg during the US Civil War at the request of his Confederate captors?
Did you know that William Leybourn wrote the first English language astronomy compendium?
Did you know that William W. Powers State Recreation Area's Wolf Lake co-hosted a BioBlitz by over 150 scientists who unofficially counted 1,815 species in a day?
Did you know that in 1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first radio station to broadcast Major League Baseball on the radio?
Did you know that infanticide is committed by animals as diverse as gray langurs, pigs, jacanas and water bugs?
Did you know that nineteenth-century ventriloquist Alexandre Vattemare originally studied to be a physician, but was refused a diploma after making cadavers seem to speak during surgical exercises?
Did you know that the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court case NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. allowed all workers in unionized workplaces to have a union representative present during management inquiries that might result in discipline?
Did you know that the Christian Specht Building is the only existing building with a cast iron facade known in Nebraska today, and one of the few ever built there?
Did you know that the critically endangered totoaba, a member of the drum family which weighs up to 100 kg, is found only in the northern end of the Sea of Cortez?
Did you know that the first chancellor of the University of Houston, Andrew Davis Bruce, was a former lieutenant general in the US Army and the founder of Fort Hood?
Did you know that the first railway in Germany, the Bayerische Ludwigsbahn, was originally mostly horse-hauled because of the high cost of importing coal from Saxony?
Did you know that there is a 14 foot (4.3 m) tall miniature Stick style house on the grounds of the Ellwood House in DeKalb, Illinois?
Did you know that 75% of the tombstones (example pictured) in Vermont's Hope Cemetery were designed by the people they house?
Did you know that Besalú was an independent county from 988 to 1111, when Ramon Berenguer III inherited it, annexing it to the County of Barcelona?
Did you know that Choke, an upcoming film adaptation of the 2001 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, will be the author's first film adaptation since Fight Club?
Did you know that Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades is actually the work of Hippolytus of Rome, but was considered Josephus's by his translator William Whiston?
Did you know that Megaloprepus caerulatus, a giant damselfly with a wingspan of up to 19 centimeters (7.5 inches), breeds in water-filled tree holes?
Did you know that Rice People, a 1994 drama film by director Rithy Panh, was the first Cambodian film to be submitted for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
Did you know that Song Du-yul, a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster in Germany, was the only South Korean to attend the 1994 funeral of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung?
Did you know that World War II Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser Kuma was torpedoed by a Royal Navy submarine while engaged in anti-submarine warfare training?
Did you know that after seeing the documentary, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan was moved to admit the existence of the S-21 torture center in Phnom Penh after years of publicly denying it?
Did you know that although in 1939 the Polish Army had an elaborate plan for defence against the Soviet invasion, it couldn't implement it when the invasion began due to being committed against an earlier German invasion?
Did you know that despite being known from many specimens, the fossil Fuxianhuia remains one of the most controversial Cambrian arthropods?
Did you know that the 1993 film Heaven & Earth, directed by Oliver Stone, was  based on the life of the Global Village Foundation initiator Le Ly Hayslip, who had a cameo appearance in the film?
Did you know that the 2007 main event World Series of Poker bracelet, awarded on July 17, 2007, is made with 136 grams of 18-carat white gold set with 120 diamonds?
Did you know that the Dima Halim Daoga and the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland broke ties because of competing separatist ideologies?
Did you know that the Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project that allows members of the public to help classify previously unseen images of galaxies?
Did you know that the Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard ferry, Sankaty, set fire to the famous whaler Charles W. Morgan before being commissioned as a minelayer by the Royal Canadian Navy?
Did you know that the Polish-Teutonic War of 1519-1521 was the last of the Polish-Teutonic Wars, and ended with the Prussian Homage?
Did you know that the Roman merchants who traded with ancient Tamil country, used the monsoon winds to reduce the travel time between Egypt and India to forty days?
Did you know that the San Rafael Wilderness was the first U.S. Primitive Area to be reclassified as wilderness after the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act?
Did you know that the Shuguang spacecraft was designed by the People's Republic of China with the goal of achieving a manned space flight in 1973?
Did you know that the United States Army formed 106 tank destroyer battalions in World War II, all of which were disbanded by 1946?
Did you know that the hostility of English alchemist Thomas Charnock's neighbours forced him to barricade himself in his cottage?
Did you know that the unimportance and consequent emptiness of Kalikata afforded the British room to settle there and establish Calcutta?
Did you know that Édouard Richard, a two-term member of the Canadian House of Commons and Acadian historian, practiced law with future Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier?
Did you know that Alexander Pope was expelled from Twyford School for writing a poem that poked fun at one of his school masters?
Did you know that Arundinaria appalachiana is one of only three bamboos native to temperate North America?
Did you know that Gundoin was the first Duke of Alsace, a duchy which existed as part of the Frankish Empire from the 630s?
Did you know that Ian Pont is the only professional cricketer to have played a professional baseball game?
Did you know that John Henry Dearle (example of work pictured) was an apprentice tapestry weaver to Pre-Raphaelite artist and craftsman William Morris who rose to become Morris & Co.'s chief designer and Art Director after Morris's death?
Did you know that Pakistani artist Anwar Shemza changed his name so it would match that of his studio in Lahore?
Did you know that Sabarna Roy Choudhury sold to the British, for Rs. 1,300, the land rights of Sutanuti, Kalikata and Gobindapur, that ultimately merged to become Calcutta?
Did you know that Shardha Ram Phillauri, a Punjabi, wrote the first Hindi novel?
Did you know that due to safety concerns, a number of U.S. states require air ambulance services to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems?
Did you know that family lawyer Harry Fain played a significant role in the introduction of no-fault divorce law in California in 1970?
Did you know that for special effects in the 2001 Cambodian film, The Snake King's Child, live snakes were glued to a cap worn by the lead actress?
Did you know that on the same day Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36-0 in the Scottish Cup that 18 miles away in Dundee, Dundee Harp had beaten Aberdeen Rovers 35-0?
Did you know that the Chinese philosopher Wang Chong (27-97 AD) accurately described the water cycle in meteorology?
Did you know that the Klaus Advanced Computing Building is named for Chris Klaus, who donated $15 million to his alma mater, Georgia Tech, when he was just 26?
Did you know that the Timucua Indians of the St. Johns culture left many large shell middens, including one estimated to be 75 feet high, even though shellfish were a minor part of their diet?
Did you know that the auto racing division of Sigma Automotive (later known as SARD) became the first Japanese team to compete in the 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans?
Did you know that the construction of the Édifice Price was originally so criticized that it caused an ordinance prohibiting buildings exceeding 65 feet in Old Québec?
Did you know that the former Schiller Piano Factory in Oregon, Illinois has been a shopping center since 1975?
Did you know that the former imperial vineyard at Abrau-Durso is known for a brand of Russian wine marketed as the Soviet Champagne?
Did you know that the fruit of the apple dumpling was one of the first bushfoods to be commonly eaten by Europeans in Australia?
Did you know that the known writings of Caius, Presbyter of Rome exist only in fragments, many of which were preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea?
Did you know that while Angelina di Marsciano was preaching in Naples, she was arrested under charges of sorcery and Manichaeism, because of how readily young women accepted her call to virginity?
Did you know that Academy Award-winning American singer Barbra Streisand filled in a tooth gap with Aspergum when she started out in theater?
Did you know that John Wylde (1781-1859) at one time filled the post of Deputy Judge Advocate of New South Wales, where he effectively had to simultaneously perform the roles of committing magistrate, public prosecutor and judge?
Did you know that Karnataka is home to the largest concentration of Siddhis (a tribe of African descent) in India?
Did you know that Stirling Moss is the only racing driver who was given a distinctive caricature design (wearing a helmet), differing from the usual design, by Autosport's cartoonist Jim Bamber in 1998?
Did you know that What to Expect When You're Expecting has been called "the Bible of American pregnancy" and consistently tops the New York Times Best Seller list in the paperback advice category?
Did you know that York radiate groundsel (Senecio eboracensis) is a hybrid plant species thought to have evolved suddenly within the last 300 years?
Did you know that after the Hospital Real de Todos os Santos was destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, its remains were demolished to create a public square?
Did you know that in 2007, British forces serving in Basra, Iraq were accused of using killer badgers as a weapon?
Did you know that it has been suggested that the Parthenon Frieze might be a war memorial for the Athenian dead at the Battle of Marathon?
Did you know that smoking (cigarette pictured) has a history that dates back at least 5,000 years and is one of the most widely practiced recreational activities in the world?
Did you know that the Mosque of Kefeli in Istanbul was used jointly as a church by Roman Catholic and Armenian believers before becoming a mosque?
Did you know that the dwarf pygmy goby (Pandaka pygmaea), a freshwater fish from  the Philippines, is the smallest fish in the world?
Did you know that the nickname Ned arose from an instance of rebracketing, as children interpreted the term of endearment "mine Ed" as "my Ned"?
Did you know that the vigilante actions of the Omaha Claim Club, including many founding fathers of Omaha, Nebraska, were later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Baker v. Morton?
Did you know that Canada's first female columnist wrote under the pseudonym Faith Fenton so she could retain her day job as a teacher?
Did you know that Chao Tzee Cheng, a Singaporean forensic pathologist, performed over 25,000 autopsies?
Did you know that Chen Wen Hsi was the first Singaporean artist to be conferred an honorary doctorate by the National University of Singapore?
Did you know that Kobayashi Kiyochika, the last great ukiyo-e artist, extensively studied photography and Western-style painting, the two forms which heralded the demise of his art?
Did you know that Kumortuli neighbourhood of Calcutta supplies images of Goddess Durga to Indian communities in about 90 countries?
Did you know that Russian poet Dmitri Prigov wrote approximately 36,000 poems with much of his work distributed as samizdat?
Did you know that Saionji Kinmochi, the 11th Prime Minister of Japan, was a member of the Saionji family, a line of court nobles stretching back to the 12th century?
Did you know that Wilhelm von Pressel designed the first railroad in Turkey?
Did you know that an effigy mound in the shape of a turtle is located in the Beattie Park Mound Group in downtown Rockford, Illinois?
Did you know that in one Indonesian legend, Prince Panji's vanished bride disguised herself as a man and became king of Bali?
Did you know that several of the Orkney islands' highest points are named "Ward Hill" due to the many old warning beacons in the area?
Did you know that the 2005 docudrama The Burnt Theatre is set in Cambodia's Suramet National Theatre, which was destroyed by a fire in 1994?
Did you know that the 2007 Super 14 Final between the Bulls and the Sharks was the first all-South African final in Super rugby history?
Did you know that the English-born activist Maria Rosetti was the model for Constantin Daniel Rosenthal's personification of Romania?
Did you know that the Evelyn tables, acquired by John Evelyn in Padua in 1646, are thought to be the oldest anatomical preparations in Europe?
Did you know that the Jews in Pagan Armenia were deported from Palestine to Armenia by Tigranes the Great?
Did you know that the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales was commissioned by the Governor of Havana but took so long to build that another five Governors had come and gone before it was completed?
Did you know that the Robert Weber Round Barn is one of 31 round barns constructed in a four-county area centered on Stephenson County, Illinois?
Did you know that the Romanian Symbolist writer Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was an anarchist, an associate of the occultist Sâr Péladan (both pictured), and a supporter of his country's alliance with the Central Powers?
Did you know that the U class submarine HMS Vandal had the shortest career of any Royal Navy submarine, being lost with all hands just four days after its commission?
Did you know that the assassination of Ottoman sultan Osman II came about in part due to the military reforms made following his defeat at the Battle of Khotyn in 1621?
Did you know that the capital city Chang'an during the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) had 111 Buddhist monasteries and 41 Daoist abbeys within its walls?
Did you know that the city of Piteşti was the original site of Seventh-day Adventist activities in Romania?
Did you know that the spy Aldrich Ames handed over U.S. secrets to the Soviets at the Brickskeller saloon near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that under the First Organic Laws of Oregon, the de facto constitution of the Provisional Government, women could get married at the age of 14?
Did you know that Bhudev Mukhopadhyay taught at Hindu, Muslim and Christian schools?
Did you know that Boden Fortress not only served to protect northern Sweden from enemy attacks, but was also used to store some 280 tonnes of the Swedish gold reserve?
Did you know that Jewish mandarin Zhao Yingcheng helped rebuild Kaifeng's synagogue after its destruction in 1646?
Did you know that Loai al-Saqa was denied entry to his own trial for wearing a copy of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's uniform?
Did you know that Maes Titianus penetrated farther along the Silk Road than any other Westerner in Antiquity, reaching the Stone Tower of Tashkurgan in the Pamirs?
Did you know that Nicolás Zúñiga y Miranda considered himself the President of Mexico for two decades, despite losing in each of the ten elections he entered?
Did you know that Olimpia Maidalchini, the sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X, spent three days after his death looting the papal palace before his body was found?
Did you know that Pyongyang's Central Zoo was accused of staging death matches between caged animals for the filming of a so-called nature documentary?
Did you know that Rico J. Puno, a popular Filipino pop singer, launched his career by incorporating Tagalog lyrics into the American song The Way We Were, among others?
Did you know that Short's goldenrod, one of the world's rarest plants, grows only in parts of Kentucky and Indiana?
Did you know that Singapore's Middle Road is home to over 21 Hainanese clan and sub-clan associations?
Did you know that Swedish chemist Gustaf Erik Pasch invented the safety match?
Did you know that U.S. President Ronald Reagan lived in an apartment on the second floor of the H.C. Pitney Variety Store from 1919 to 1920?
Did you know that catfish of the genus Dekeyseria can rapidly change their colouration to fit their mood or their surroundings?
Did you know that in mid-1939 almost 5000 Poles volunteered as living torpedoes?
Did you know that madame Anna Wilson, the "Queen of the Underworld" in early Omaha, Nebraska, bequeathed her 25-room brothel mansion to the city to use as an emergency hospital upon her death?
Did you know that the Karrinyup Shopping Centre was the first mall in Western Australia to implement a complete ban on smoking?
Did you know that the Olson Hotel in Ainsworth, British Columbia had a two-story outhouse?
Did you know that the Singapore Stone (fragment pictured), a sandstone slab bearing an undeciphered 13th century inscription, was blown up by the British in 1843 to make way for a fort?
Did you know that the Trumpeter Swans introduced into the Wye Marsh in the 1980s were the first seen in Ontario since 1884?
Did you know that the William H. Roberts House is the only property in Pecatonica, Illinois listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the government of Korkai, an important industrial center of ancient Tamil country, employed convicts as pearl divers?
Did you know that yak racing is a spectator sport held at many traditional festivals in Tibet and Mongolia?
Did you know that 1900 was the only year in the history of Baltimore City College that no public commencement was held because the students made fun of the professors in the school's yearbook?
Did you know that Abada (engraving pictured) was only the second rhinoceros seen in Europe since the Roman era, and was thought by some observers to be a unicorn?
Did you know that Będzin Castle, an important fortress in medieval Poland, fell into disrepair in the Renaissance era, was almost demolished in the 19th century and was rebuilt only in the 1950s?