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Did you know that the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on Lake Saint-Jean in Quebec, Canada, had an original size of 23,040 acres (93.2 km2) but currently is only 3,600 acres (14.6 km2)?
Did you know that the Platt-LePage Aircraft Company, formed after one of its founders was impressed by a Nazi rotorcraft, beat Sikorsky for the contract to supply the first American military helicopter?
Did you know that under Article 9 of the Singapore Constitution no one may be deprived of life or personal liberty save in accordance with law, which a 1980 case says includes fundamental rules of natural justice?
Did you know that Íslendingur, the Icelandic replica of the Gokstad Viking ship that sailed across the Atlantic to L’Anse aux Meadows in 2000, is now displayed in the new Viking World museum in Reykjanesbær?
Did you know that 20 Province of Carolina traders and 300 Tallapoosa and Alabama Indians laid siege to Pensacola (then in Spanish Florida) in November 1707?
Did you know that General Lee and the Confederate Army retreated over the Sachs Covered Bridge after being defeated in the Battle of Gettysburg?
Did you know that St Mary the Virgin's Church, Little Hormead, Hertfordshire, is particularly noted for its preserved 12th-century ironwork door which depicts a serpentine dragon?
Did you know that Swedish emigrants brought kalvdans, a dessert made out of colostrum milk, to North America?
Did you know that Thomas R. Potts, the first mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, was a physician?
Did you know that according to Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, Lectionary 183 probably is the most valuable manuscript he had ever collated?
Did you know that after Soviet dissident Leon Trotsky and his wife obtained political asylum in Mexico in 1937, they were accommodated in artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's "Blue House", now a museum in Coyoacán, Mexico City?
Did you know that although Massachusetts is located at the 42nd parallel north, some of its rocks originated near the South Pole?
Did you know that although the seeds of Cycas rumphii contain a toxic glucoside, they can be made edible by pounding, washing and cooking?
Did you know that artist Teodoro Cano García was discovered by Diego Rivera and is known for his works depicting the Totonac culture of his native Papantla?
Did you know that pastor A. T. Powers, president of the American Baptist Association from 1957 to 1959, once led a blue collar church in Monticello, Arkansas, which paid him only US$12.50 per month?
Did you know that silos for the Advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile were intended to be 10 times harder than those used by Minutemen?
Did you know that the 14th century Englishman Thomas Fastolf is the first known to have reported cases in the papal court known as the Rota?
Did you know that the 1997 production of its passion play caused a controversy when the Park Performing Arts Center cast an African-American actor to play the role of Jesus?
Did you know that the Bremo Plantation at Bremo Bluff, Virginia, provided refuge to the family of General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Perry Nelson House – dubbed the "House of Politics" – was a place where Yankee farmers and politicians discussed issues of the day?
Did you know that the Yellow-fronted Parrot is from Ethiopia, while the Yellow-faced Parrot is from Brazil and Bolivia?
Did you know that the communist Moni Guha was amongst the first in India to criticize the 1956 line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the historian James L. McCorkle, Jr., has researched heavily on the importance of rural truck farming in feeding the urban population of the American South?
Did you know that the historical novel Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist, about the rise of modern physics, inspired a lecture by Steven Weinberg called "Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist"?
Did you know that the oriental mole cricket, Gryllotalpa orientalis, can not only dig a burrow a metre deep but can also swim?
Did you know that the ravens of the Tower of London are enlisted as soldiers of the Kingdom, and can be dismissed for unsatisfactory conduct?
Did you know that when the Ottoman Turks controlled Santorini, they still permitted production of the local wine, despite Islamic laws against alcohol, and even its trade to enemies like the Russian Empire?
Did you know that Brett Domino's song about Gillian McKeith was inspired by McKeith's exploits on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!?
Did you know that Charles Ingle, who composed the music for "My Old Dutch" (1899 sample right), gained his pseudonym in a "spirit of waggery"?
Did you know that Frank "Piano Mover" Smith was the first Chicago White Sox baseball pitcher to throw two no-hitters?
Did you know that Helena Bliss married her co-star from the original Broadway production of Gypsy Lady?
Did you know that Michael Rimington raised an irregular cavalry force in the Boer War, known as Rimington's Tigers?
Did you know that after the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Princess Catherine Yurievskaya, a daughter of Czar Alexander II, became a professional singer?
Did you know that between 90% and 98% of all amputees report retaining all or part of the missing limb in their body schema?
Did you know that in 1857, Peter White was a storekeeper, lawyer, county clerk, registrar of deeds, school board treasurer, postmaster, customs collector, state representative, and a newlywed?
Did you know that in 1952 the pastor L. L. Clover launched Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary with two students studying from his home in Minden, Louisiana?
Did you know that in 2010, Gus and Tavo Vildósola of the Vildosola Racing team became the first Mexican competitors to win the Baja 1000, an annual off-road race held in Mexico?
Did you know that snowy plovers nest in former salt evaporation ponds in the Moss Landing Wildlife Area?
Did you know that the 1946 fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, was the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history?
Did you know that the Class 15F 4-8-2 steam locomotives (example pictured) were the most numerous on South African Railways?
Did you know that the First Hungarian Reformed Church of New York on the Upper East Side is the only Christian religious building designed by Emery Roth?
Did you know that the Russian monitor Smerch was constructed at the Charles Mitchell shipyard in England, broken down, and shipped to Saint Petersburg for reassembly?
Did you know that the art of the United Kingdom only dates from 1707 onwards?
Did you know that the planned community of Celebration, Florida, was the 1989 brainchild of Pete Rummell when he was President of Disney Development Company?
Did you know that the speed skating venue for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was the last outdoor rink to hold Olympic speed skating competitions?
Did you know that until the Spanish Civil War, chocolate was a much more popular drink than coffee in Spain?
Did you know that Bill Mizeur never batted under .300 until his 14th season in professional baseball?
Did you know that George Leslie Hunter's early work was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake?
Did you know that Harry W. Child received a knighthood from the King of Sweden after giving the king a guided tour of Yellowstone National Park?
Did you know that Jeremiah Dummer (1643–1718) was the first American-born silversmith?
Did you know that Old Caloundra Light, a lighthouse inactive since 1968, was relocated twice, in 1970 and back in 1999, and was damaged on the second relocation attempt?
Did you know that Seattle's historic counterculture coffeehouse, the Last Exit on Brooklyn, was a noted chess venue frequented by grandmasters Peter Biyiasas and Yasser Seirawan?
Did you know that Sri Lankan politician A. M. M. Naushad, as Deputy Secretary of the UNP, created a problem for his party leader by advocating his view that "his community came first and the party next"?
Did you know that a turning enthusiast built the most elaborate commercial building in New Ulm, Minnesota?
Did you know that according to a study by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the civilian casualty ratio in wars fought since the mid-20th century has been 10 civilian deaths for every soldier death?
Did you know that after RAAF Tomahawk pilots John Jackson and Bobby Gibbes shared in destroying a Vichy French fighter plane in 1941, they tossed a coin to see who would take the credit for it?
Did you know that before he co-founded Soundcraft, Graham Blyth helped build the mixing console used by Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970?
Did you know that in its early years, the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra featured a solo performance by Isaac Stern and the premiere of a musical composition about a nuclear reactor?
Did you know that one design for a flight deck cruiser was described as a cross between a Brooklyn-class light cruiser and the aircraft carrier USS Wasp?
Did you know that over 30,000 eggs were used to prepare the paint and glaze that went into the elaborate decorations of the Šarena Džamija of Tetovo?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS Markgraf is a popular diving site in Scapa Flow, where it was scuttled in 1919?
Did you know that the Late Cretaceous crocodile relative Simosuchus (restoration pictured) ate plants and had a pug-nosed snout?
Did you know that the Lympha is an ancient Roman deity of fresh water?
Did you know that the Memphis Symphony Orchestra performs annual concerts in honor of the birthday of Elvis Presley?
Did you know that the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Car was designed not only to hide the MGM-118 Peacekeeper ICBM from Soviet attack but also to act as a platform for launching the missile?
Did you know that the Rosendale trestle, once the highest span bridge in the United States, was sold in 1986 for one dollar?
Did you know that the home of Danish sea captain Cornelius Jensen on the Jensen Alvarado Ranch is the oldest non-adobe structure in California's Inland Empire?
Did you know that there were numerous complaints from the contestants over dead rats and appliances floating at the venue for the sailing competitions at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona?
Did you know that there were only two successful prison breaks in the history of Chi Hoa Prison?
Did you know that Bruce DuMont, investigative reporter and host of Beyond the Beltway, is the nephew of the inventor of the first commercially viable television?
Did you know that Knute Rockne called Thomas A. Barry "the man who laid the football foundation at Notre Dame"?
Did you know that No. 61 Wing RAAF built a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway at Darwin, Northern Territory, in 1944 to accommodate a proposed deployment of 100 USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers that never eventuated?
Did you know that Rev. Shubael Dummer was killed at York, Maine, by the Abenaki in the Candlemas Massacre of January 1692?
Did you know that a self-educated Norwegian immigrant farmer built the finest farmhouse in Dodge County, Minnesota?
Did you know that access to the 1870 construction site of Sandy Cape Light on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, was so steep that materials were raised on a whim?
Did you know that an oxaziridine rearrangement reaction is the key step in the synthesis of erectile dysfunction medication yohimbine?
Did you know that basketball player Charlie T. Black won two national championships and was named the Helms Foundation National Player of the Year while at Kansas?
Did you know that film director Tracie Laymon won the 2009 award for Best Short Film from the Women's Image Network for her work directing the short film Inside?
Did you know that former CANOE Live host Janette Luu was the first ever Vietnamese TV anchor in Toronto, Canada?
Did you know that in St Peter's Church, Kingerby, Lincolnshire, is a slab carved with the effigy of a knight whose lower body and legs have been replaced by a cross?
Did you know that some chemical reactions are used for welding rail tracks (example pictured)?
Did you know that the French armored cruiser Sully struck a rock in Halong Bay, French Indochina, in 1905, only eight months after she was completed, and was a total loss?
Did you know that the German battleship Friedrich der Grosse was the flagship of the Imperial Navy during the majority of World War I, including the Battle of Jutland?
Did you know that the Gruta das Torres is a three-dimensional braided lava tube system, the longest in the Azores?
Did you know that the Office of Science in the Department of Energy is the predominant U.S. federal government sponsor for research in the physical sciences and initiated the Human Genome Project?
Did you know that the Viveros de Coyoacán was the first tree nursery in Mexico and the first large scale tree nursery in Latin America?
Did you know that the location of one of the venues of the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer was moved because the original site was too close to a bird sanctuary?
Did you know that the namesake of the Patrick Henry Hotel in Roanoke, Virginia, is the American Founding Father Patrick Henry?
Did you know that with the foundation of the Athonite Academy, near Vatopedi monastery, the monastic community of Mount Athos took a leading role in the 18th century modern Greek Enlightenment?
Did you know that within a year after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, one venue was converted into a baseball stadium while two others were imploded?
Did you know that Bremo Slave Chapel is the only place of worship known to have been built for slaves in the Commonwealth of Virginia?
Did you know that Chris Strachwitz, German-born founder of blues and Cajun music specialist Arhoolie Records, accumulated the largest private collection of Mexican and Mexican-American music in the world?
Did you know that Giovanni Orsini was the nephew of Pope Nicholas III, a legate for Pope John XXII, helped to drive Antipope Nicholas V from Rome, and took part in the election of Pope Benedict XII?
Did you know that John Francis Wheaton was the first African American elected to the Minnesota State Legislature?
Did you know that LZ7's 2010 single "This Little Light" is based around the 20th century gospel song "This Little Light of Mine"?
Did you know that Michigan footballer and Rhodes Scholar James K. Watkins became Detroit Police Commissioner and formed a group in 1936 "to save their country from a perpetuation of the New Deal"?
Did you know that New Zealand Army officer Rhys Jones, the next Chief of Defence Force, was told in 2000 that he would receive no further promotions?
Did you know that Sony plans to develop a Spider-Man reboot starring Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man that will be released in 2012 in 3-D?
Did you know that a novel pigment with antibiotic properties was discovered in fruit bodies of the golden-edge bonnet?
Did you know that after losing the Second 2010–11 Ashes Test to England, the selectors for the Australian cricket team thought that Beer could help them in the Third Test?
Did you know that although Owen Bieber intended to be an auto parts worker only for a single summer, he stayed on the job and later became president of the United Auto Workers?
Did you know that baseball player Socks Seybold held the American League home run record before Babe Ruth broke it in 1919?
Did you know that both bombings, in May 2008, by Spain's ETA in Legutiano and Getxo involved Citroën Berlingos?
Did you know that during the 1892–1894 war in the Eastern Congo, Baron Dhanis allowed his men to bring their wives, slaves and servants along with his army?
Did you know that e-Government and controlled thermonuclear fusion are among the long-term goals of the Medvedev modernisation programme in Russia?
Did you know that in 1899, Major League Baseball rookie Jimmy Williams set a Pittsburgh Pirates team record with his 27-game hitting streak?
Did you know that in August each year, City of London Councillor Sir Alpheus Morton used to present the Lord Mayor with a basket of mulberries from the garden at Finsbury Circus?
Did you know that the 1896 South Australian referendum was the first referendum to be held in Australia?
Did you know that the 1958–59 ABC reality show Confession, hosted by Jack Wyatt, featured criminals discussing the circumstances which propelled them into a life of lawlessness?
Did you know that the Bristol Festival of Ideas, set up in 2005 as part of the city's bid to become European Capital of Culture, now awards one of the most valuable annual book prizes in the UK?
Did you know that the California towns of La Placita and Agua Mansa, located across from each other on the Santa Ana River, were the largest settlements between New Mexico and Los Angeles in the 1840s?
Did you know that the Minnesota Building became more Moderne as it was being built?
Did you know that the bee Anthidium manicatum scrapes fur from leaves to line its nest?
Did you know that the science fiction film Laserblast consistently ranks among the Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 films list, and was featured in the last episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 broadcast on Comedy Central?
Did you know that under football coach J. White Guyn, the cash-strapped Kentucky program arranged to play Michigan to generate revenue, but travel costs limited its income and the team lost, 62–0?
Did you know that while most of Austria labels their wine similar to Germany, with names such as Spätlese and Auslese, producers in Wachau label their wines after feather grass, falconry and a green lizard?
Did you know that Anne Rouse's poetry often draws upon her experiences as a mental health worker, such as the preoccupations of patients on a dementia ward?
Did you know that Chicago's La Salle Hotel became a de facto White House during U.S. President William Howard Taft's extended stay in its presidential suite?
Did you know that Harry Yount killed 70 antelope in one day during a hunting competition, but was ashamed because "it went against his heart to kill so many innocent creatures just for the glory"?
Did you know that Heaven 17's 1981 song "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" was banned by the BBC over fears it libeled Ronald Reagan?
Did you know that IGN's Adam Ballard described the Wii video game Chrysler Classic Racing as "basically one giant, terrible commercial"?
Did you know that John Hartwell Cocke, who helped Thomas Jefferson build the University of Virginia, has been cited by historians for his knowledge of Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings?
Did you know that La Stazione, a restaurant and former train station in New Paltz, New York, burned down in 1907, killing the station agent's dog?
Did you know that Marie Kudeříková wrote her literary legacy while waiting for her execution in Breslau?
Did you know that Sir William Blackstone's A Discourse on the Study of the Law was his only work to survive its various editions without alterations by the author?
Did you know that The River was called a "porn movie" by the lead actor's father?
Did you know that Tsar Alexander II regarded his morganatic son Prince George Alexandrovich Yurievsky as a "true Russian", causing rumors that he was considering giving him dynastic rights?
Did you know that after acquiring the script for Santa Santita, the director did not start production for five years due to the lack of an appropriate lead actress?
Did you know that nearly 10,000 quartz artifacts were found at a Neolithic site known as the Scord of Brouster?
Did you know that of roughly 200 magic spells in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, five are intended to protect the dead from snakes in the afterlife?
Did you know that one in six of all English country houses (Tong Castle pictured) are thought to have been demolished during the 20th century?
Did you know that style of handwriting of lectionaries ℓ 296 and ℓ 1599 have resemblance to Codex Cyprius?
Did you know that the Magni M-16 Tandem Trainer autogyro is used by traffic reporters and farmers as well as sport pilots?
Did you know that the Pluton-class minelayers, built just before World War I, were the first purpose-built minelayers in the French Navy?
Did you know that the Wachau in Austria (abbey pictured) inspired the name of the Wachovia area in North Carolina?
Did you know that the phrase "more bang for the buck" was used to describe the United States' New Look policy of depending on nuclear weapons, rather than a large regular army, to keep the Soviet Union in check?
Did you know that the rainforests of eastern Australia harbour such trees as the yellow satinheart, five-leaf bonewood, northern yellow boxwood, shiny-leaved condoo, yellow bulletwood and veiny lace-flower?
Did you know that California Court of Appeal Associate Justice James A. McIntyre was previously a Little League Baseball manager?
Did you know that Chapultepec Park is the largest urban park in Latin America?
Did you know that Clancy Carlile wrote the novel and the screenplay for Honkytonk Man that starred Clint Eastwood?
Did you know that German epigrapher Nikolai Grube co-presented workshops teaching Maya hieroglyphs to native Maya in Mexico and Guatemala?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon, based Acumed, a medical device company, once built a motorcycle that included titanium body parts?
Did you know that Hyder Ali made a forced march of 130 miles (210 km) to bring British East India Company officials to negotiate an end to the First Anglo-Mysore War?
Did you know that Italian model and skydiver Roberta Mancino has performed several thousand skydives, including four while completely naked?
Did you know that John Tyner and Charles Krauthammer don't want you touching their junk, but Michael Kinsley wants you to go ahead and touch his, and Wendy Kaminer thinks Krauthammer just wants you to touch someone else's?
Did you know that Les Jackson, who fought in and later commanded the same squadron as his brother John, became the first RAAF fighter ace of the New Guinea campaign in World War II?
Did you know that Michigan football player "Octy" Graham at age 16 was called a "young Hercules" after "gripping machines did not register high enough to show his strength"?
Did you know that Olympia Bucureşti was the winner of the inaugural Romanian football championship held between 1909 and 1910?
Did you know that Slovenia's Velenje Castle, along with two castles in Šalek and Ekenštajn, played a key role in defending the routes from the Celje Basin to Carinthia?
Did you know that St Mary's Church in North Cockerington, Lincolnshire, England, stands a mile away from the village it served, sharing the churchyard of the adjoining parish church?
Did you know that The Skywalk Is Gone was the first short film to ever get a theatrical commercial run in Taiwan?
Did you know that Triple H won his match at the World Wrestling Federation's Armageddon (1999) event after hitting Vince McMahon, his father-in-law and boss, with a sledgehammer?
Did you know that in a plasma antenna, plasma is used instead of the metal elements of a traditional radio antenna?
Did you know that on October 21, 1915, a band of Mexicans invaded the United States and conducted a raid on Ojo de Agua in Texas as part of the Plan de San Diego?
Did you know that the A535 road in Cheshire is the main road that gives access to the Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Quinta Garden, both founded by Sir Bernard Lovell?
Did you know that the American historian Gerald W. Wolff collaborated on studies of six Indian tribes, the Arikara, Hidatsa, Mandan, Ponca, Ottawa, and Comanche?
Did you know that the Time pyramid, a public work of art begun in 1993, is scheduled for completion in the year 3183?
Did you know that the Trudenstein rocks in the Harz Mountains are so-named because they supposedly resemble a drude, a German witch-like figure associated with dreams?
Did you know that the Westerman Lumber Office and House is now home to Big Honza, who is "bigger, smarter and wiser" than Paul Bunyan?
Did you know that the church St. Bonifatius was built in Wiesbaden in Gothic Revival style, after a first building had collapsed?
Did you know that the manuscripts of Thomas Kantzow's 16th-century chronicles were rediscovered in 1729, 1832 and 1973?
Did you know that the wasp Megarhyssa macrurus paralyzes her prey by injecting it with an ovipositor 4 inches (10 cm) long?