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Did you know that the Memorial Tunnel along the West Virginia Turnpike was the first tunnel in the U.S. to have closed-circuit television monitoring?
Did you know that the US Supreme Court ruled a defendant has a fundamental right not to be  tried in court if he lacks a rational and factual understanding of the charges against him?
Did you know that the country music group Carter's Chord comprises three sisters, whose parents were in Waylon Jennings' band The Waylors?
Did you know that the cutter HMS Entreprenante was the smallest British warship at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Did you know that the final section of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados  was closed by damage from the 1944 D-Day?
Did you know that the psychiatric hospital of Denmark's Capital Region treats about 35,000 patients with mental disorders every year, which is about 40% of the nation's total?
Did you know that the railcar that ran on the Shimoga-Talaguppa railway in India had to be reversed on a turntable, so that it could start its return journey?
Did you know that the relatively advanced age and poor health of Pope Paul III contributed to his successful election to the papacy in 1534?
Did you know that the trial of Satanta and Big Tree was the first time Native American war chiefs were tried for acts committed during a war party?
Did you know that Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington all visited the Yelverton Inn in Chester, New York?
Did you know that David Owen Dodd was a 17-year-old boy hanged as a Confederate spy in the American Civil War?
Did you know that Frederic A. Godcharles served as a Pennsylvania Representative and Senator, as director of its state library and museum, and wrote twelve volumes on its history?
Did you know that Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
Did you know that Jakub Wejher, one of 17th century Poland's richest magnates, founded the town of Wejherowo?
Did you know that John Duncan, a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and missionary,  was affectionately known as "Rabbi", due to his knowledge of Hebrew and his passion for the Jewish people?
Did you know that Lithuanian supermarkets offered cheaper beer, chocolate and soap to those who voted in the 2003 Lithuanian European Union membership referendum?
Did you know that Nguyen Than Hien and Nguyen Thuong Hien were among the leaders of the Quang Phuc Hoi, the first anti-colonial revolutionary group to advocate a republic for Vietnam?
Did you know that Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was buried in St. Francis Church in India?
Did you know that Sariputra, one the two chief disciples of Gautama Buddha, is frequently featured in the Jatakas alongside Mahamoggallana and the Buddha in their past lives?
Did you know that The Monkees' 1967 hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday" was named for a street in West Orange, New Jersey, where the song's authors, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, lived?
Did you know that a study by the University of Salford concluded that the high density of high-rise buildings in Salford has "a dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", in particular by encouraging drizzle?
Did you know that more than one million people in China invested in the Yilishen Tianxi Group Ponzi scheme, which involved breeding ants to be used as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine?
Did you know that photos of the rogue wave encountered by the MS Stolt Surf contributed to the growing evidence of their presence in the deep ocean?
Did you know that prior to Interstate 410 and the Interstate Highway System, Texas State Highway Loop 13 was the primary loop around San Antonio?
Did you know that since 1967 the state of Tamil Nadu in India has been ruled by Dravidian parties?
Did you know that softball pitcher Vicki Morrow was named Big Ten Player of the Year in 1987 after winning 26 games, including 18 shutouts, and striking out 446 batters?
Did you know that the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen published Scivias (illustration pictured) to share her religious visions?
Did you know that the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers that helped clear Bolshevik forces from Ukraine?
Did you know that the 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours included peerages for the heads of the British armed services of World War II and the first awards of the newly inaugurated Defence Medal?
Did you know that the Joint Communique in 1963 to end South Vietnam's Buddhist crisis broke down in one day, after a scuffle between Buddhists and police?
Did you know that the Milion of Constantinople was the origin of all the roads into the European cities of the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742 between the Anglicans and the Quakers of Philadelphia was caused by their inability to agree on who would supervise the election?
Did you know that the Swedish American Line was the first transatlantic shipping company to operate a diesel-engined ocean liner?
Did you know that the hiring of Tom Jurich by the University of Louisville was dubbed "the most significant day in the recent history of college sports in Kentucky"?
Did you know that the map by Piri Reis, a 16th century Islamic cartographer, is the oldest surviving Turkish map to show the Americas?
Did you know that the origins of Cabernet Sauvignon were likely an accidental crossing of Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc?
Did you know that the upcoming Paramount Pictures film G.I. Joe, based on the toy line, had its development delayed because of the Iraq War?
Did you know that there is a disagreement on whether Hurricane Emilia was a Category 5 hurricane?
Did you know that writer Charles Hamilton's estate complained to the BBC that the character played by Peter Stephens in The Celestial Toymaker too closely resembled Hamilton's Billy Bunter?
Did you know that 7% of electricity in New Zealand is generated by geothermal power?
Did you know that Anstey Hill Recreation Park in Adelaide, South Australia contains ruins of what was the largest plant nursery in the Southern Hemisphere?
Did you know that Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War, even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war?
Did you know that Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner was the first military woman to command an operational naval aviation squadron?
Did you know that Dada artist Marcel Duchamp's Bottle Rack was mistakenly thrown away as garbage?
Did you know that Douglas Fraser's lobbying and member mobilization were critical in convincing U.S. Congress to provide $1.2 billion in loans to a near-bankrupt Chrysler in 1979?
Did you know that Gregg Nations made his Lost writing debut with the episode "Eggtown" after being the script coordinator for over two seasons?
Did you know that Horatio Nelson credited William Locker as a major influence on his career?
Did you know that Hödekin, a house spirit of German folklore, is best known for saving the wife of a man of Hildesheim from committing adultery?
Did you know that Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion?
Did you know that Nguyen Quyen, principal of the Tonkin Free School, got his first teaching job by default?
Did you know that Pierre Galet is considered the "father of modern ampelography"?
Did you know that a high speed tablet press (animation shown) can punch out over one million tablets an hour?
Did you know that a papabile was asked during the papal conclave of 1572 by a representative of King Philip II of Spain to withdraw his candidacy in order to maintain peace in Italy?
Did you know that according to TV critic Gareth McLean, none of the Britons featured in the Channel 4 documentary series New Hero of Comedy are "Heroes"?
Did you know that construction for the bobsleigh, luge, and track to be used for the 2014 Winter Olympics has been delayed due to high downhill grades and location near a World Heritage Site, including near an endangered species of brown bear?
Did you know that naval heroes Peter Tordenskjold and Niels Juel are buried in Copenhagen's Church of Holmen?
Did you know that the Greater Lynchburg Transit Company doubled its patronage by providing Liberty University's shuttle bus service?
Did you know that the Imperial Russian Navy operated the Satakundskaya Flotilla, a gunboat unit on a Finnish lake during World War I, without ever actually firing a gun?
Did you know that the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?
Did you know that the Lithuanian Electricity Organization, a planned energy holding company, will be responsible for building a new nuclear power plant in Ignalina in 2015?
Did you know that the Siege of Candia in the Cretan War (1645-1669), lasted almost 22 years?
Did you know that the advice of Nguyen Thanh helped to form the partnership between Prince Cuong De and Phan Boi Chau in working against French rule of Vietnam?
Did you know that the initial Vietcong reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup that killed Ngo Dinh Diem was that it must have been a trick?
Did you know that two of North Carolina's most prominent authors, Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry, are buried near each other in the Riverside Cemetery in the Montford Area Historic District in Asheville?
Did you know that under the Vijayanagara empire, Kannada literature made major progress due to the development of its native metres?
Did you know that 13 years after his death in 1875,  the future Royal College of Art found a letter from the widow of Richard Burchett, headmaster for over 20 years, asking for a pension?
Did you know that Baseball Hall of Fame manager John McGraw said that Bill Monroe "was the greatest infielder he had ever seen"?
Did you know that Bordeaux wine merchants in the Middle Ages, concerned about the competition from nearby regions, prohibited trading access to Bordeaux until most of their wine was sold?
Did you know that Grits Gresham, the former host of ABC's The American Sportsman, revealed that Ronald Reagan used a gun to rescue a nurse from a mugging?
Did you know that Hagia Sophia in Turkey has runic inscriptions left by Vikings?
Did you know that Harry Blackmun's colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court felt his long history of baseball in the Flood v. Kuhn majority opinion was beneath the Court's dignity?
Did you know that Hillary Rodham called children's rights a "slogan in need of a definition"?
Did you know that Kazys Grinius, the third Lithuanian President, was deposed in a military coup on his 60th birthday?
Did you know that Mohammed Atif Siddique was sentenced to imprisonment after being charged with collecting online files related to the War on Terror and encouraging classmates to watch videos of beheadings?
Did you know that Quoc An Temple in Huế was founded by a Zen monk from China, whose disciple lineage covers most of the Buddhists in southern Vietnam?
Did you know that Stieg Larsson's posthumously published Swedish crime novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was a best-seller critically compared with War and Peace?
Did you know that Tran Cao Van's plot to install Duy Tan as the independent boy Emperor of Vietnam happened only after he bribed the boy's chauffeur into allowing him access?
Did you know that Vogel State Park is one of the two oldest in the State of Georgia?
Did you know that a blue line marks where Pogue's Run once ran through downtown Indianapolis?
Did you know that according to the Books of Kings, ancient Egyptians captured and burnt down the Canaanite town of Gezer and gave it as a dowry to the Pharaoh's daughter?
Did you know that blind Nguyen Dinh Chieu's writings praising Vietnamese revolutionary Truong Dinh saw him regarded as the leading revolutionary poet in the south?
Did you know that canvaswork designs of plants called slips appliquéd on silk or velvet were often based on woodcuts from herbals?
Did you know that former Drexel University president Hollis Godfrey was an advisory member of Woodrow Wilson's Council of National Defense?
Did you know that in 1261, Caesar Alexios Strategopoulos reconquered Constantinople from the Latins, thereby restoring the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that people from County Carlow in Ireland are nicknamed "scallion-eaters" because, in the early 19th century, Carlow town supplied most of the onions in Leinster?
Did you know that short draw is a hand spinning technique that produces yarn suitable for weaving but not knitting?
Did you know that squab is the meat from a young domestic pigeon?
Did you know that the 1976 Football League Cup win made Tony Book the first to do so as both a player and manager?
Did you know that the Buddha statue of Long Son Pagoda in Nha Trang, Vietnam is a major vantage point over the city?
Did you know that the Hennepin, which transported construction aggregate around the Great Lakes early in the 20th century, was the first self-unloading bulk carrier in the world?
Did you know that the Saviour's Lutheran Church in Baku, Azerbaijan survived Joseph Stalin's rule by promising to pray for him?
Did you know that the author Amulya Malladi, an expatriate Indian, said that when she first moved to Denmark that "Danish sounded to me like the buzzing of bees"?
Did you know that the formulas John Knox and Harlan J. Brothers came up with to calculate e were no more difficult than college-level calculus?
Did you know that uprisings broke out in 1916 over the jailing of Phan Xich Long, who declared himself Emperor of Vietnam and tried to arm his rebels with magic potion that supposedly made them invisible?
Did you know that Denmark's debut in the Eurovision Song Contest took place in 1957, when the country finished third and would be the most successful debutant until 1994?
Did you know that Frances Siedliska founded 29 communities of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth between 1875 and 1902?
Did you know that General Anthony Bacon, hero of Waterloo, resigned his commission in protest when the colonelcy of the 17th Lancers was purchased by Lord Lucan?
Did you know that Inteco, a Russian company owned by Yelena Baturina, controlled 20% of the construction in Moscow?
Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien was so incensed by the adaptation of proper names in the Dutch translation of The Lord of the Rings that he wrote a guide to advise future translators?
Did you know that Konrad Bartelski is the only British alpine ski racer to finish on the podium in a World Cup downhill race?
Did you know that New York Assemblyman Gregory R. Ball proposed a measure offering free education for United States military veterans?
Did you know that Ngo Duc Ke advocated the adoption of the Romanised quoc ngu to replace the chu nom script used in Vietnam for writing?
Did you know that Randi Weingarten, the openly gay president of the United Federation of Teachers, has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in New York City business?
Did you know that a large number of Rwandans converted to Islam after the 1994 Genocide?
Did you know that author Ken Kesey taught a course at the University of Oregon where he and thirteen students collaboratively wrote Caverns?
Did you know that eight well preserved Maronite mummies dating back to the 13th century were uncovered by speleologists in the Qadisha Valley, Lebanon?
Did you know that the Midway-Sunset Oil Field contains an estimated 584 million barrels of oil, which amounts to 18% of California's total estimated reserve?
Did you know that the Reichstag dome was originally designed as a cylinder by its architect Norman Foster?
Did you know that the Telugu film Anasuya was said to be inspired by the Hollywood film The Silence of the Lambs?
Did you know that the abbot of Linh Son Pagoda, one of the tourist attractions in Da Lat, Vietnam, has held the post for more than forty years?
Did you know that the current configuration of Sun Pass State Forest in Oregon was the result of a land swap between the state government and the federal forest service?
Did you know that the law professor Boudewijn Sirks has written on papyrology, food distribution in ancient Rome, and Sailing in the Off-Season with Reduced Financial Risk?
Did you know that the pot-de-fer was the first metal cannon?
Did you know that the young leaves and flowering stems of Senecio congestus can be made into a "sauerkraut"?
Did you know that Adolf Hitler never thought much of the Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders despite its iconic status in the U.S.?
Did you know that Filipino poet José García Villa was known for his extensive use of commas, which made him known as the "Comma Poet"?
Did you know that French cardinals in the Papal conclave of 1758 vetoed the candidature of cardinal Cavalchini when he was only one vote short of being elected to the papacy?
Did you know that French geometer Émile Lemoine proposed a system of five operations to measure the "complexity" of compass and straightedge constructions?
Did you know that NASCAR champion David Pearson won three auto races in a season in a Ray Fox-prepared Pontiac ?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Patrick H. Brady, commander of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, is one of four active Hispanic Admirals in the U.S. Navy?
Did you know that Romanian clergyman Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni was the first head of the church in Bessarabia after the Russian annexation?
Did you know that Royal Navy captain Kenneth Dewar was controversially court-martialled in 1928 for criticising his flag officer, an event the press described as a mutiny?
Did you know that Truc Lam Temple is named after the Zen sect founded by Emperor of Vietnam Tran Nhan Tong, who abdicated the throne to become a monk?
Did you know that in 1956 the Pidhirtsi Castle in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine burned for three weeks costing US$12 million in damages?
Did you know that in the post-WWII era, the Zidell family business based in Portland, Oregon became the largest shipbreaking operation in the U.S.?
Did you know that pig fat, cannabis oil, fish, scorpions and hot sand were used in various offensive weapons in ancient and medieval warfare?
Did you know that restaurant Beyti in Istanbul, famous for its Beyti kebab, once catered U.S. president Richard Nixon's Air Force One?
Did you know that seeds of the water lily Euryale ferox may be toasted and eaten like popcorn?
Did you know that the "Sound of Insanity" in Powderfinger's 2008 single "Who Really Cares (Featuring the Sound of Insanity)" is simply a sitar with synthesised effects overlaid?
Did you know that the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the UK for over twenty years?
Did you know that the Augustaion, named after the Augusta Helena, was the main public square in medieval Constantinople?
Did you know that the Brindavan Gardens in Karnataka is a Mughal style garden having a design similar to that of Shalimar Gardens in Kashmir?
Did you know that the Chinese government had no objections when the Eastern Orthodox Church canonized Metrophanes, Chi Sung and other martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion, but did object to canonizations by the Roman Catholic Church?
Did you know that the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj in Central America were conquered when the Kaqchikel people allied with a Spanish force?
Did you know that the Maratha Ditch was excavated around Calcutta, India, as a protection against attacks by Marathas, who, however, never attacked?
Did you know that the Sheffield Improvement Act 1818 required all owners of steam engines in the Yorkshire town to "consume" the engine's smoke?
Did you know that the broadhead catfish, a carnivore, can be fed with rice bran?
Did you know that the first medical missions in China began in part because the missionary Robert Morrison wanted to discover whether the Chinese pharmacopoeia could cure disease in the West?
Did you know that the monk responsible for the current state of Thuyen Ton Temple in Vietnam lived to 102 years?
Did you know that Abby and Julia Smith fought for women's suffrage by refusing to pay taxes to the Town of Glastonbury, Connecticut and almost lost their property Kimberly Mansion?
Did you know that Africans from the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the U.S. formed their own community of Africatown near Mobile, Alabama after the Civil War?
Did you know that Democrat Bob Holden was the first incumbent Missouri Governor to lose a primary?
Did you know that HMS Bonaventure became the first ship to re-enter service with the Clan Line after the end of the Second World War, having spent five years as a submarine depot ship?
Did you know that Heba Kotb, Egypt's first licensed sexologist, hosts a call-in show named The Big Talk where she gives Qur'anic advice?
Did you know that Interstate 37 is one of the few limited-access hurricane evacuation routes away from the Texas coast?
Did you know that Interstate 80 in Nevada crosses the Forty Mile Desert, the most dangerous part of the California Trail?
Did you know that Italy's Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico shipyard built two ocean liners named MS Stockholm for the Swedish American Line between 1936 and 1941, neither of which operated commercially?
Did you know that John Roby ignored some Lancashire oral traditions in writing about the boggart of Clegg Hall?
Did you know that Joyce Carlson, designer of the Disney theme park attraction "It's a Small World", was the first female employee to achieve a fifty-year service record with Disney?
Did you know that Kjesäter, a Swedish manor, was later the main assembly point for up to 50,000 refugees from German-occupied Norway during World War II?
Did you know that Sherefudin's White Mosque, where the mihrab, minbar and minarets have a folk art character subtly enhanced by the avant-garde geometries of their setting, won the 1983 Aga Khan Award for Architecture?
Did you know that St James's Hall, London's principal concert hall and home of the Philharmonic Society in the 19th century, had annual seasons of blackface minstrelsy?
Did you know that Tews Fall, located within the Spencer Gorge / Webster's Falls Conservation Area, is the tallest of 96 waterfalls found in Hamilton, Ontario?
Did you know that Times Square Stores, which went bankrupt in 1989, was once considered Long Island's most prominent discount department store chain?
Did you know that a Venetian foundation seeking to rebuild the Bucentaur (model pictured) has written to Nicolas Sarkozy for a financial contribution as compensation for Napoleon's 1798 destruction of the original ship?
Did you know that a group of Philippine congressmen were named after the Spice Girls?
Did you know that a poem by William Newton led to an end to gibbeting corpses in Derbyshire?
Did you know that after Dr. William Penny Brookes began organising Olympian Games in Much Wenlock, England, in 1850, he was credited with inspiring the modern games?
Did you know that as a non-military form of conscription, a Finnish rescue authority official is entitled to order anyone in the municipality to assist in a rescue operation?
Did you know that despite being a National Historic Landmark and the site of Washington's oldest known human remains, the Marmes Rockshelter was submerged after the Lower Monumental Dam construction?
Did you know that during the  Chicago Federation of Labor's 1903 convention, seven major brawls broke out, hospitalizing one man?
Did you know that much of Glencoe, Oregon, was relocated to the new town of North Plains after the railroad bypassed the old town?
Did you know that the 11th century Duke Yaropolk Izyaslavich is an Eastern Orthodox saint?
Did you know that the 13th-century troubadour Guilhem de Montanhagol encouraged the conversion of the Cathars to Catholic orthodoxy by persuasion and opposed their violent suppression by the Albigensian Crusade?
Did you know that the 1917 Pinar del Río hurricane is the third most intense cyclone to make landfall in Cuba, with a low atmospheric pressure reading of 928 mbar (27.40 inHg)?
Did you know that the Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek were Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth who offered their lives during the Holocaust in exchange for the release of citizens of Nowogródek?
Did you know that the Cray House is a rare surviving example of post-and-plank style, once common across the Eastern Shore of Maryland?