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Did you know that Lawrence Olson, who was awarded the  Order of the Sacred Treasure, Japan's highest honour for foreigners, for his work on Japanese history, deciphered Japanese messages during World War II for the US Navy?
Did you know that Lord Uxbridge's leg became a tourist attraction after the Battle of Waterloo?
Did you know that Michael Varah, son of Chad Varah, achieved an athletics world record as part of a 4×800m relay team, and then spent 35 years working in the Probation Service?
Did you know that Ottomar Pinto has served three non-consecutive times as governor in the history of Roraima, Brazil?
Did you know that Seattle, Washington businessman Herman Sarkowsky was a co-founder of both the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers?
Did you know that The Gentleman Usher is the only play in which late 16th-century playwright George Chapman takes a positive view of women?
Did you know that University of Michigan Wolverine Tyrone Wheatley was not only both a Big Ten rushing and scoring champion, but also a Big Ten 110 meter hurdles champion?
Did you know that Zen Buddhist scholar Philip Yampolsky was the grandson of Franz Boas, the founder of Columbia University's anthropology department?
Did you know that a schoolboy's work gives an insight into life at Thomas Rossell Potter's country school "The Hermitage" in 19th century England?
Did you know that after the Champagne region, the Loire Valley produces more sparkling wine than any other region in France?
Did you know that in 2002, an officer of the Wellington Free Ambulance was accidentally shot by police during an Armed Offenders Squad training exercise?
Did you know that it was Napoleon Bonaparte who recalled Captain Bruix, after he was sacked for being a noble, to continue his distinguished naval career?
Did you know that mercury(IV) fluoride (model pictured), the first mercury compound ever to have an oxidation state of 4, was synthesized at 4 degrees above absolute zero?
Did you know that since humidity and the cold climate inhibited its production in the Low Countries, salt was imported from Iberia in the Middle Ages?
Did you know that the Gerald Loeb Award, administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is considered the most prestigious honor in business journalism?
Did you know that the airdate of "The Beginning of the End", the fourth season premiere of the television series Lost, means that the season may be interrupted by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike even if a settlement is reached?
Did you know that the establishment of Camp Joe Holt, the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America, had to be done in Indiana?
Did you know that the indologist Ernest Bender also published work on the Cherokee language?
Did you know that the location of the first mass in the Philippines in 1521 remains a matter of dispute?
Did you know that the mosque of Hirami Ahmet Pasha in Istanbul is the smallest Byzantine church of Constantinople still extant?
Did you know that 12,000 people paid 25 cents to view Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes, a ten-foot-wide landscape painting exhibited in 1859?
Did you know that Colorado State Senate president pro tem Peter Groff is the highest-ranking African-American elected official in the U.S. state of Colorado?
Did you know that Colorado state representative Amy Stephens wrote an abstinence-based sex education curriculum that was translated into over a dozen languages?
Did you know that John Cartier was eulogized by Edmund Burke for his Governorship of Bengal despite losing a third of the population during the 1770 famine?
Did you know that Myles Rudge wrote the lyrics to three Top 10 novelty songs in the 1960s, "Hole in the Ground", "Right Said Fred",  and "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"?
Did you know that New Zealand rugby union footballer Jimmy Hunter's 44 tries on the 1905 All Blacks tour is a record that is unlikely to ever to be surpassed?
Did you know that Nicaragua has the lowest electricity generation, the lowest percentage of population with access to electricity, and the highest dependence on oil for electricity generation in Central America?
Did you know that Robert Crouch led the Parliamentary campaign on the Crichel Down affair involving his constituency, which forced the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Sir Thomas Dugdale?
Did you know that Romanian communist poet Alexandru Toma adapted several works of his Classicist predecessor Mihai Eminescu, removing their pessimistic tone and adding Socialist Realist rhetoric?
Did you know that Westmoreland v. CBS demonstrated that  a public figure cannot win a libel suit in the United States unless reckless  and defamatory statements are evidence of actual malice?
Did you know that according to Jainism, the first  Purva of ancient knowledge would take a volume of ink equal to an elephant to write, whereas the last would require the ink volume of 213 elephants?
Did you know that among the founding members of Philomathes - a clandestine Polish student organization in Imperial University of Vilna in partitioned Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - was Adam Mickiewicz, one of the three national poets of Poland?
Did you know that attempts to soften the harsh tannic nature of the Tannat wine grape led to the development of the winemaking technique of micro-oxygenation?
Did you know that by providing government assistance to vineyard owners so they could replant and redesign their vineyards, the Flurbereinigung restructuring of the late 20th century had a dramatic impact on the German wine industry?
Did you know that during Operation Deep Freeze II in 1956, US Navy Rear Admiral George J. Dufek commanded the first aircraft to land at the South Pole, the C-47 Skytrain “Que Sera Sera”?
Did you know that in 1656, Judith Catchpole was tried before colonial Maryland's first all-female jury because a woman's expertise was needed to evaluate the evidence?
Did you know that in 1846 Albert Wilson became the first American merchant to open a store in Astoria, Oregon?
Did you know that in Rose Macaulay's novel The Towers of Trebizond (1956) the English traveller Aunt Dot aims to emancipate the women of Turkey by converting them to Anglicanism and popularizing the bathing hat?
Did you know that the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership has won £1,000,000 of grants to improve and promote six rural railway lines (Looe Valley Line pictured) in south-west England?
Did you know that the Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf cartoons Sheep Ahoy, A Sheep in the Deep, and Don't Give Up the Sheep were censored by ABC to remove a dynamite stick, a smoke break scene, and a spanking scene respectively?
Did you know that the author of Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography stated he had to go into hiding after receiving threats related to his yet unpublished book?
Did you know that the collision between aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and destroyer HMAS Voyager is the only event in Australian history to be subject to two Royal Commissions?
Did you know that the establishment of Mahendra Pratap's Provisional Government of India was one of the reasons that the Rowlatt Commission was set up to investigate German and Bolshevik links to nationalist terrorism in British India?
Did you know that the gardens of the Petit Trianon were once thought to be haunted?
Did you know that the shrimp scad was first scientifically described by Swedish naturalist Peter Forsskål in 1775, who mistook it for mackerel?
Did you know that 18th century English obstetrician Thomas Denman was an early advocate for inducing premature labour in cases involving a narrow pelvis or other conditions which endanger the mother's life?
Did you know that Adenovirus serotype 14 is an emerging virus, related to the common cold, that has recently caused 10 deaths in the United States, including at least one healthy young adult?
Did you know that American academic Jackson Bailey was decorated with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, the highest possible honor given by Japan to a foreigner?
Did you know that Brigadier Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls is the only member of the Coldstream Guards to have won the George Cross, the highest civil decoration of the Commonwealth of Nations?
Did you know that El Salvador has the highest geothermal energy production in Central America?
Did you know that Felipe Agoncillo, who topped the highest possible score in a bar exam, was also the outstanding first Filipino diplomat?
Did you know that François Denhaut built the world's first flying boat, or seaplane with a hull?
Did you know that Frederick Winslow Taylor developed the core of his philosophy of scientific management at Midvale Steel?
Did you know that Galicia started exporting plant cuttings to other European vineyards as early as the 14th century?
Did you know that Gautam Adani, a school dropout, is the 13th richest person in India?
Did you know that Indo-Guyanese lawyer and civil rights activist Rudy Narayan could, Michael Mansfield has written, have been the great black barrister of his generation?
Did you know that Julius Garfinckel, founder of the department store Garfinckel's, died from pneumonia on his 64th birthday?
Did you know that Robert Ropner, who built the first trunk deck ship in 1896, was sued for patent infringement because his design was similar to that of turret deck ships?
Did you know that Spencer Campbell regretted producing the year-long fly on the wall series The Living Soap, about students living in a purpose-built house, when some participants started deliberately avoiding the cameras after only a few days?
Did you know that USNS General R. L. Howze held the record for ships assisting the 1954 mass exodus out of North Vietnam with 38 births on board during Operation Passage to Freedom?
Did you know that USS General S. D. Sturgis was the transport ship assigned to deliver officials of the United States, Australia, Canada, Dutch East Indies, China and the Philippines to Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender ceremonies at the end of World War II?
Did you know that Valentyn Rechmedin, a Ukrainian journalist and writer, received the Order of the Red Star after World War II?
Did you know that Wotif.com only allows consumers to organise hotel reservations 28 days in advance?
Did you know that although Ernest Wild developed scurvy during the Ross Sea Party Antarctic expedition, and lost part of a toe and part of an ear to frostbite, he survived - but died of typhoid the next year in Malta?
Did you know that an offer sheet in the National Hockey League requires compensation in the form of future draft picks if a restricted free agent is signed by a different team in the league?
Did you know that following his term as Mayor of Boston, Frederick O. Prince advocated and oversaw the construction of the Boston Public Library's McKim Building in Copley Square?
Did you know that historian Holden Furber was appointed as a social science analyst to the Office of Strategic Services after the United States entered World War II?
Did you know that in  Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638,  she was excommunicated from the church,   bound and chained to a post, publicly whipped  and finally, after murdering her daughter,  hanged?
Did you know that nineteenth century New Zealand gum-diggers retrieved 5,000 tons of kauri resin a year for the varnish trade, and that the gum was Auckland's main export?
Did you know that playwright Sam Thompson's Over the Bridge about Northern Irish sectarian violence became Belfast's most-seen play despite a prediction it would "offend and affront every section of the public"?
Did you know that the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau produced the Soviet Union's only operational nuclear rocket engine?
Did you know that the German national rail strike of 2007 is the largest strike in history affecting Deutsche Bahn?
Did you know that the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal, built along the Susquehanna River in the 1830s, had a wooden bridge with a two-tier towpath to allow mules towing cargoboats in opposite directions to cross the river simultaneously without colliding?
Did you know that the last three piano sonatas by Franz Schubert, published eleven years after the Austrian composer's death, are often regarded as a trilogy?
Did you know that the northern whiting has been declared an invasive species in the eastern Mediterranean, having passed through the Suez Canal as part of the Lessepsian migration?
Did you know that the son of French Admiral Georges René Le Peley de Pléville was released as a prisoner of war because the British Admiralty thanked his peg-legged father for saving a British frigate 10 years earlier?
Did you know that the town of Booleroo Centre, South Australia is home to one of Australia's largest collections of tractors and steam engines?
Did you know that three out of every seventy-seven rainbow runners have five spines in their first dorsal fin, as a result of not being born with the normal six?
Did you know that British art forger Shaun Greenhalgh was a self-taught artist, yet managed to fool the British Museum, the Tate Modern, and Bonhams, Sotheby's and Christie's?
Did you know that Colorado Sen. Nancy Spence's bill to create a statewide school voucher program was the first to be enacted into law in the U.S. — and then overturned by state courts — after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris?
Did you know that Colorado state senator John Morse worked as an emergency medical technician, accountant, and police chief before entering the legislature?
Did you know that Japanologist Hugh Borton took up his field after being posted to Japan by a Quaker service organization?
Did you know that Madison Limestone, a layer of mostly carbonate rocks formed in the Mississippian period, serves as an aquifer and an oil reservoir in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains areas?
Did you know that Mary Perkins was the first female optician to be made a Dame Commander of the British Empire?
Did you know that Miyazaki Ichisada was known for adding a fourth phase to periodisation  of the history of China and Japan?
Did you know that Nguyen Truong To was called to serve Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam despite having earlier assisted France's colonization of southern Vietnam?
Did you know that Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King is believed to have prevented riots from breaking out in Indianapolis?
Did you know that a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat?
Did you know that a complete backstory was constructed by Mike Leigh for Vinette Robinson's character in Vera Drake, even though the role was minor?
Did you know that a report by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales almost led to a New South Wales judge being removed from office because of the time delays in giving decisions?
Did you know that although the Azad Hind Stamps are Cinderella stamps, the Indian Postal department deems them postage stamps?
Did you know that at the time of his death, A. Ronald Walton was estimated to have reviewed more language programs than anyone else in the world?
Did you know that fruit as a slang term developed in London with the costermongers and later in Cockney rhyming slang and Polari, with most variations becoming pejorative against gay men who have since reclaimed usages?
Did you know that in the 2000, 2001, and 2002 seasons of the Super 12, the Highlanders rugby union team went undefeated at their home ground of Carisbrook?
Did you know that landscape and portrait painter Herbert A. Collins made several portraits of naturalist John Muir as well as paintings of the evolution of Yosemite Valley?
Did you know that one of the first known instances of a composer specifically calling for the use of a bass violin, the predecessor of the modern cello, was in the opera Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi?
Did you know that the Barasoain Church, where three major events in Philippine history took place, became known as the Cradle of Democracy in the East?
Did you know that the Carlsberg papyrus is the most complete of the ancient Egyptian medical papyri, containing substantial amounts of artifacts of the original papyrus?
Did you know that the Crowcombe church spire was damaged by lightning in 1724 and the top has been planted in the churchyard ever since?
Did you know that the Korotoa River, a small stream in Bangladesh, was once a large and sacred river?
Did you know that the United Issarak Front leader Son Ngoc Minh declared Cambodian independence on June 19 1950?
Did you know that the ancient Kingdom of Nri was one of the few governments that governed its subjects with a taboo system instead of military power?
Did you know that the forthcoming television adaptation of the BBC Radio 2 sitcom Teenage Kicks, originally for BBC Two, has been taken over by ITV?
Did you know that the frigate HMS Alarm was the first ship of the Royal Navy ever to have a fully copper-sheathed hull?
Did you know that the owners of the Spade Ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills hired Civil War veterans and widows to circumvent homesteading laws?
Did you know that the term "doomsday cult" can refer to apocalyptic groups that prophesy catastrophe and those that attempt to bring it about?
Did you know that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder Harriet Josephine Terry wrote the sorority's hymn, "Hail Alpha Kappa Alpha Dear"?
Did you know that Angus Purden, regular presenter of the BBC's Cash in the Attic, modelled for Giorgio Armani for three years in Milan?
Did you know that Arpiar Arpiarian introduced realism to modern Armenian literature?
Did you know that Austrian film company Wien-Film was given its official mission statement in 1938 by Joseph Goebbels?
Did you know that Indologist Burton Stein was known for questioning the existence of the Chola Dynasty as an empire?
Did you know that John Gouriet organised the "Operation Pony Express" in 1977, where 100,000 films from the strikebound Grunwick laboratory were posted across the United Kingdom, getting around the refusal of the local postal workers to handle them?
Did you know that Pancha Carrasco became Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas?
Did you know that U.S. General Omar Bundy, who was awarded the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre for his service in World War I, was a veteran of the Indian War campaigns against Crow and Sioux Indians?
Did you know that Virgil Walter Ross animated Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for decades under Tex Avery and Fritz Freleng and received the highest awards in his profession?
Did you know that Winchester Cathedral is the longest of the medieval cathedrals of England?
Did you know that a Ghostbusters video game is scheduled for late 2008, a quarter-century after the original film?
Did you know that activist Terry Robbins inspired the name of the terrorist organization Weathermen with a Bob Dylan quote?
Did you know that after World War II, the Soviets took nearly 100 tons of uranium oxide as reparations from a facility of the company Auergesellschaft, accelerating their development of the atomic bomb by a year?
Did you know that as Burton Abbott was being executed in California's gas chamber in 1957, the governor was contacting the warden to stay the execution?
Did you know that more than 200 species of mammals (male kob pictured) display homosexual behavior including oral sex, genital stimulation, and urolagnia?
Did you know that painter and stage designer George Sheringham was one of the first recipients of the Royal Designers for Industry distinction?
Did you know that professor George E. Kimball gave a zero in physical chemistry to Isaac Asimov?
Did you know that some birds, including flamingos, display homosexual behavior?
Did you know that the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements had a combined cricket team from 1906 to 1961?
Did you know that the conflict between Communist Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu and his ideological rival Petre Borilă worsened after Ceauşescu's son Valentin decided to marry Borilă's daughter?
Did you know that the earliest Portuguese description of Malaysia, Tomé Pires's Suma Oriental, lay unpublished and presumed lost in an archive until 1944?
Did you know that the frigate HMNZS Canterbury was decommissioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy, sold to a trust for a symbolic NZ$1, and scuttled in the Bay of Islands by a former crewmember?
Did you know that the mythological sea creature Aspidochelone is so massive that it is said to have been mistaken for an island?
Did you know that tourism in Zimbabwe fell by seventy-five percent in 2000 compared to the previous year?
Did you know that under the leadership of its Ministry of Defense, Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons?
Did you know that Berlinka was a partially constructed highway built by Nazi Germany that was intended to span the Polish Corridor from Berlin to Königsberg, Prussia?
Did you know that Florida has over 20 official state symbols, including a state soil and a state wildflower?
Did you know that HMS Amphion was sunk in the opening 36 hours of the First World War?
Did you know that Rapides-des-Joachims, Quebec has no paved road connection with the rest of Quebec?
Did you know that Rear-Admiral Horace Hood was posthumously knighted following his death in the destruction of HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland in 1916?
Did you know that SantralIstanbul,  a modern art museum in Istanbul, Turkey, is located in what was the first power station of the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that a Cambridge University society has launched high altitude balloons that have taken a picture of the earth's curvature from a height of 32 km?
Did you know that stock investor Ronald S. Baron has nonetheless been nicknamed "the Count" since his student days?
Did you know that the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was the first bioterrorism attack in the United States, and one of only two confirmed terrorist uses of biological weapons to harm humans?
Did you know that the Battle of the Espero Convoy during the Mediterranean Campaign in World War II resulted in such a shortage of ammunition that planned Allied convoys to Malta had to be postponed for two weeks?
Did you know that the Mongolian Stock Exchange in Ulaanbaatar, the world's smallest by market capitalisation, is housed in a refurbished children's cinema?
Did you know that the River Bourne in Kent used to power a dozen mills in its 10 mile length?
Did you know that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Yasui v. United States and its companion case Hirabayashi v. United States that curfews for a minority group were constitutional during war time?
Did you know that the first McDonald's restaurant in Eastern Europe was opened March 24 1988 in a former family house in Belgrade, constructed by Serbian architect Dimitrije T. Leko in 1893?
Did you know that the wallet of Scottish curate Arnold Spencer-Smith was found in Captain Scott's Antarctic hut in 1999, about 83 years after Spencer-Smith died in 1916?
Did you know that when Hugh Randall Syme won the George Cross in 1943 for bomb disposal work, he became the most decorated member of the Royal Australian Navy at that time, having already been awarded two George Medals?
Did you know that 16th-century English diplomat Francis Bryan disgraced himself by throwing eggs and stones at the common people during a mission to Paris?
Did you know that Ashta Lakshmi are a group of Hindu goddesses who preside over eight sources of wealth?
Did you know that Georgia Tech professor Mark Guzdial was the inventor of Swiki, one of the earliest wiki engines?
Did you know that Gordon K. Douglass qualified for the Canadian national canoe paddling team, but was not allowed to go to the 1936 Olympics because he was American?
Did you know that John John Florence was the youngest ever surfer to compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing?
Did you know that Rev. Justus Henry Nelson (1850-1937) established the first Protestant church in the Amazon Basin and was a self-supporting Methodist missionary in Belém, Pará, Brazil for 45 years?
Did you know that Singapore's 5.4-ton Pegasus is the first helicopter-portable 155mm howitzer with a self-propelled capability?