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Did you know that the 1710 Bendery Constitution by Hetman Pylyp Orlyk was one of the first state constitutions in Europe?
Did you know that the Simca Ariane was created by combining the body of the old large Simca Vedette with the four-cylinder engine from the smaller Simca Aronde?
Did you know that the death of lighthouse keeper George Worthylake was memorialized in a broadside poem by the young Benjamin Franklin?
Did you know that Ken Richmond, the last gongman of the Rank Organisation, was a 1952 Summer Olympics wrestling medalist and actor in Jules Dassin's Night and the City?
Did you know that Orlov trotters were the fastest racing horses of Europe until they were superseded by American standardbreds in the 1870s?
Did you know that although related to modern filter feeding baleen whales, the recently discovered prehistoric whale Janjucetus had large serrated teeth implying that it fed on large fish or even sharks?
Did you know that ski treks were popular with Lev Landau, while Andrei Kolmogorov preferred swimming in the local ponds while they lived in the scientists' rest-home in Uzkoye?
Did you know that the Achilles tang was named in honor of Achilles, the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War and Homer's Iliad?
Did you know that the Swiss peasant war of 1653 was immediately caused by a currency devaluation in the canton of Berne?
Did you know that "Too Hot", Alanis Morissette's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991, was a dance pop song?
Did you know that Colombian writer Álvaro Cepeda Samudio wrote La Casa Grande, a novel based on the events of the Santa Marta Massacre, an event which also featured prominently in his friend Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Did you know that Indian Test cricketer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was previously a national break dancing champion of India?
Did you know that Walt Neubrand is one of three men responsible for the safety of the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup during its travels around the world?
Did you know that Yogendra Singh Yadav of the Indian army was awarded India's highest military honour posthumously in error, until it was realized that he was still alive recovering from injuries from the Kargil War?
Did you know that a small cottage in the Chester, England suburb of Handbridge inspired the song "Nowhere Man" by The Beatles?
Did you know that the 1622 wreck of the British East India Company ship, the Tryall  is the oldest shipwreck in Australia?
Did you know that the De La Salle University Pops Orchestra is the first pop orchestra in the Philippines?
Did you know that the Heartland Championship and the Air New Zealand Cup have replaced the National Provincial Championship in New Zealand rugby union?
Did you know that the MOPy fish holds the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded cyberpet?
Did you know that the automobile factory in Poissy, France, built by Ford SAF, was later owned by Simca, Chrysler and finally Peugeot, and continues production to this day?
Did you know that the new Monument to Alexander II in Moscow was built on a slope to symbolize that the emperor was an ordinary man, when the monument is viewed from behind?
Did you know that voice artists who made Gavrilov translations of foreign movies in Russia were once thought to have used a noseclip to conceal their identity?
Did you know that Banderia Prutenorum is a 15th-century manuscript by Jan Długosz, describing banners collected by Polish forces after their defeat of the Teutonic Order forces in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 AD?
Did you know that Beverston Castle is in ruin, not mainly from its role in warfare, but by a 1646 act of the English parliament to destroy its battlements, lest they be used by Royalists?
Did you know that Featherston prisoner of war camp was the site of a riot that lead to the death of 47 Japanese prisoners of war during World War II?
Did you know that Hurricane Kyle lasted 22 days, thereby becoming the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic basin?
Did you know that Ida Lewis is, to date, the only American lighthouse keeper for whom a light station has been named?
Did you know that Józef Zeydlitz served in the Polish Army for 65 years and took part in six wars, yet did not receive a single military award?
Did you know that Maria Kazimiera, the 17th-century Queen of Poland, became famous for the love letters she and her husband, King Jan III Sobieski, wrote to each other?
Did you know that Valéry Inkijinoff, a French actor of Russian-Buryat origin, was one of the favorite villains of French cinema from the thirties to the late sixties?
Did you know that during the Fremantle prison riot in 1988, seventy prisoners took fifteen guards hostage and started a diversionary fire to enable twelve prisoners to escape and that ironically, the fire's intensity prevented the escape?
Did you know that even though Kaaterskill High Peak was the first Catskill High Peak to be climbed, there is no official trail to its summit?
Did you know that in the papal Rome each fish monger had to give to the city councillors the heads of the fishes longer than a marble plaque which had been hung on a wall of the fish market, in Sant'Angelo?
Did you know that one of the first churches in Vilnius, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos, was once used by the local university as an anatomical theatre?
Did you know that the LORAX project to build an Antarctic rover shares a name with a Dr. Seuss character?
Did you know that the Zymne Monastery in Volynia is believed to have been named after a winter palace of Vladimir the Great that formerly stood on the spot?
Did you know that the container vessel Hansa Carrier spilled over 80000 Nike shoes into the Pacific Ocean and that they were used by scientists to track ocean currents?
Did you know that the cuisine of Somaliland has been influenced by Ethiopian, Arab, and Italian food traditions?
Did you know that the song "Congratulations" was almost banned from being performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 by Silvia Night due to an expletive in the lyrics?
Did you know that when it opened in 1999, Casino Sault Ste. Marie was Northern Ontario's first full-time charity casino?
Did you know that Singapore's Police Coast Guard is a coast guard and water police service that is also responsible for maintenance of order on most of Singapore's off-shore islands?
Did you know that in 1943, avant-garde French filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier founded a film school that was attended by Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud and Volker Schlöndorff?
Did you know that the Council House in Bristol, England features a blue and gold wall clock, encircled by the signs of the zodiac and equipped with its own wind indicator?
Did you know that the Kadam Rasul shrines are believed to display stone imprints of the footprints of Muhammad?
Did you know that the Malayalam movie Moonnamathoral was the first high-definition film to be digitally distributed to theatres via satellite?
Did you know that there are many unfinished buildings throughout the world that may never be completed or demolished because of the costs involved?
Did you know that Beinn a' Ghlo is a large mountain in Scotland that has three Munro summits, and is an SSSI?
Did you know that Fowlsheugh cliffs attract 170,000 breeding seabirds annually, and may be one of the few nature reserves with more vertical than horizontal land area?
Did you know that Gibbon's Tennis Court, a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England?
Did you know that Rafael Buenaventura, once-governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and one of the world’s top central bankers, was largely responsible for removing the Philippines from an FATF black list?
Did you know that Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) by Dorothy Wordsworth—her "masterpiece"—was never published in her lifetime?
Did you know that a fielder in cricket may only alter the ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of an artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering?
Did you know that an attack on the flanks of an enemy is known as a flanking maneuver and that this type of attack has been used in both land and naval battles?
Did you know that one factor in the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was that his assassin claimed Rabin was liable to an extrajudicial death sentence as a rodef under Jewish law?
Did you know that the 17th century Biaroza monastery in Biaroza, Belarus, has in its time been adapted into military barracks and a prison, and currently its ruins are an important baroque relic in the town?
Did you know that the Baharistan-i-Ghaibi is the only extensive historical document accounting the wars, events and life in Bengal during the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir?
Did you know that the Egyptian National Railways can trace its origin to the first railway in Africa and the Middle East, which began operating in 1854?
Did you know that the French sports car Matra Murena had an unusual seat configuration of three abreast?
Did you know that the Holland Island Bar Light in Maryland was once accidentally used for target practice by the United States Navy?
Did you know that the Matra Bagheera sports car was named after the Jungle Book character?
Did you know that the expression "pay on the nail" originated from the practice of closing deals by payment on brass tables called "nails", which can still be seen at The Exchange, Bristol?
Did you know that the government in exile at Mujibnagar proclaimed Bangladesh's independence and coordinated the Mukti Bahini during the liberation war?
Did you know that the gravestone of executed murderer, Floyd Allen supposedly read in part, "judicially murdered by the State of Virginia over the protests of more than 100,000 of its citizens"?
Did you know that the right-hand drive Simca 1300/1500 came with floor-mounted gear shifters having an inverted gear shift pattern?
Did you know that Hendren v. Campbell was a forerunner to the 1987 Supreme Court decision Edwards v. Aguillard to forbid the teaching of creationism in American public schools?
Did you know that acute fatty liver of pregnancy is a rare but life-threatening disease of pregnancy that is treated with urgent delivery?
Did you know that capillary action of molten brass or silver is used to greatly increase the strength of lugged steel bicycle frames?
Did you know that freestyle wrestler William Kerslake, who competed in three Olympiads and got a gold medal at the 1955 Pan American Games, was also a NASA engineer and co-inventor of the first ion thruster for space propulsion?
Did you know that the reconstruction of Kecharis Monastery in Armenia was delayed a decade due to an earthquake, war, blockade, and the collapse of the USSR?
Did you know that Banks' Florilegium is a series of 743 engravings of plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Cook's Pacific voyage between 1768 and 1771?
Did you know that City is a massive work of earth art by Michael Heizer that has been under construction for over thirty years in the Nevada desert?
Did you know that Fernando Alonso became the youngest ever polesitter and first ever Spaniard to attain a podium finish at  the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix?
Did you know that surgeon William Brydon was the only European of 16,500 British troops to survive the retreat to Jalalabad from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War?
Did you know that the Bangabhaban has served as the official residence for the Viceroy of India, Governor of East Pakistan and the President of Bangladesh?
Did you know that the Kullaberg Nature Reserve contains the brightest lighthouse in Sweden and is home to many rare species of plants and animals including the Red Kite?
Did you know that Jacek Dukaj's Black Oceans, a Polish science-fiction novel, received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award Polish award for sci-fi literature in 2001?
Did you know that Sesame Street's street scenes were centred around the fictional African-American Robinson family in early seasons, before the Muppets took on an increased role?
Did you know that the 1917 Silvertown explosion may have been the largest explosion to ever occur in London?
Did you know that the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when defrocked Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars?
Did you know that the Simca Aronde was named after the French word for swallow, a bird which appeared on the Simca logo when the model was presented?
Did you know that Bonin Petrels nesting on Midway Atoll declined from an estimated 500,000 birds in 1943 to 32,000 in 1995?
Did you know that Canadian scientist Shiv Chopra was terminated from Health Canada for informing the Senate of the health effects of Bovine Growth Hormone?
Did you know that Clay Mathematics Institute fellow Akshay Venkatesh is the only Australian to win medals at both the International Physics and Mathematics Olympiads?
Did you know that Hitler's Cross was a Hitler-themed restaurant in Navi Mumbai that was causing so much controversy that it had to drop its name after less than a week?
Did you know that Ludwika Maria Gonzaga was the queen consort of two Kings of Poland?
Did you know that Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean?
Did you know that Poliphilo, the main character in the Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was said to have felt "extreme delight," "incredible joy," and "frenetic pleasure and cupidinous frenzy" when he saw the buildings depicted in the book?
Did you know that Portlethen Moss is an acidic bog that played a role in stopping the Roman advance in Scotland and whose traversal was used in the Bishops' Wars?
Did you know that a school bus crossing arm is a safety device intended to protect children from being struck while crossing in front of a school bus?
Did you know that according to anthropologist Stanley Marion Garn, Neanderthal in China and Java were killed off by the more intelligent hominid Sinanthropus pithencanthropus, contributing to the Neanderthal extinction?
Did you know that complaints about the presence of liberal Catholic theologians such as Joseph Ratzinger at the Second Vatican Council led to the creation of the conservative study group Coetus Internationalis Patrum?
Did you know that murdered Australian designer Florence Broadhurst opened a performing arts academy in Shanghai before she became famous for her wallpaper designs?
Did you know that the Battle of Maclodio earned the Republic of Venice its largest permanent land area in its 1000-year history?
Did you know that the St. James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand, was nearly demolished in the 1980s and is said to be haunted by numerous ghosts?
Did you know that the facade of the Central Sofia Market Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria features a relief of the coat of arms of Sofia above the main entrance?
Did you know that the largely unexplored Buddhist archaeological site of Noapara-Ishanchandranagar in Bangladesh is conjectured to be the lost city of Karmanta Vasaka?
Did you know that the recent transport of the colossal Statue of Ramesses II from Cairo to the Giza Plateau was preceded by a mock move several weeks prior?
Did you know that "Ceol An Ghrá" was the first and only time that Ireland entered the Eurovision Song Contest with a song in Irish?
Did you know that Brian Kennedy's "Every Song Is A Cry For Love" was the 1000th song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest?
Did you know that Bubba the Grouper, the first known fish to receive chemotherapy, died recently in Chicago, Illinois?
Did you know that Central Sikh Temple was Singapore's first gurdwara when it was initially set up in a police barracks in the 1880s?
Did you know that Fernando Alonso became the youngest Grand Prix champion after winning the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix?
Did you know that Haraldskaer Woman, who lived around 540 BC, is one of the best preserved bog people ever discovered, and that forensic analysis reveals her last meal was blackberries and millet?
Did you know that Parthiv Patel had never played domestic first-class cricket prior to becoming the youngest Test Wicketkeeper in history at just 17 years and 102 days?
Did you know that Sano Fusako was kidnapped in Niigata, Japan in 1990 at age 10 and was not freed until nine years and two months later?
Did you know that a US$500 million ski village project promoted by Alfred Ford was rejected by the town of Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, due to the belief that local gods thought it was environmentally unsound?
Did you know that a lifeboat from the wrecked passenger steamship SS Valencia was found floating in good condition, 27 years after the ship's demise?
Did you know that architectural elements akin to those of the Olympic Stadium in Munich were incorporated in the Central Railway Station in Sofia during its latest renovation?
Did you know that mobile phone throwing is an international sport in which thrown mobile phones are judged by the distance and choreographics of the throw?
Did you know that the Conference of Rulers of Malaysia plays an important role in the Malaysian elective monarchy?
Did you know that the Kullen Lighthouse, a prominent landmark on the Swedish coastline, is the most powerful lighthouse in Scandinavia?
Did you know that the Matra Rancho was based on the popular Simca 1100 supermini?
Did you know that the Minus Cube mechanical puzzle, first manufactured in the Soviet Union, is a 3D variant of the 15-puzzle?
Did you know that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reanalysing Atlantic hurricane data to correct errors in the hurricane database dating back to the Apollo Program?
Did you know that the Royal West of England Academy housed the Bristol Aeroplane Company and the U.S. Army during World War II?
Did you know that American Civil War illustrator Alfred Waud made battlefield sketches that were quickly engraved and published by Harper's Weekly—allowing readers to visualize the war in an age before photographs appeared in press?
Did you know that Baron Karl von Reichenbach, the prolific German chemist who discovered paraffin, creosote and phenol, proposed the existence of a quack physical energy, the Odic force, that could be detected only by specially sensitive people?
Did you know that Harbhajan Singh was rewarded with an offer to become the Deputy Superintendent of Punjab police after becoming the first Indian cricketer to take a Test hat-trick?
Did you know that aviator Ruth Nichols, known at one time as the "Flying Debutante", flew every type of aircraft developed, from dirigible to supersonic jet?
Did you know that having served as both Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, Maria Echaveste is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a Presidential Administration?
Did you know that history of philosophy in Poland begins with the contributions of the 13th century philosopher, Witelo?
Did you know that it was feared the broadcast of the Italian 1974 Eurovision song Si, meaning yes would influence a referendum on divorce?
Did you know that one fan's elaboration of Quake's plot became the nearly four-hour film The Seal of Nehahra, the longest work of machinima at the time?
Did you know that structure relocation has saved several buildings from destruction by moving them without the need for disassembly?
Did you know that the British music journalist Everett True introduced Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love?
Did you know that the Cerro Grande Fire, a major forest fire in New Mexico, USA, menaced the Los Alamos National Laboratory and produced a smoke plume that extended to Oklahoma?
Did you know that the Desert Tree Frog is one of Australia's most widely distributed frogs?
Did you know that the Fiat 130 Coupé featured a button-operated mechanism allowing the driver to open the passenger-side door?
Did you know that the Spanish used Puerto Rican masks called caretas to frighten lapsed Christians into returning to the church?
Did you know that the choice of location for Florida's capital, Tallahassee, was influenced by a waterfall in what is now Cascades Park?
Did you know that the language of the Guatemalan ethnic group of Maya called Itza, who once ruled over Chichen Itza, is almost extinct even though there's still an estimated population of 30,000 of them?
Did you know that the small Fiat Cinquecento is among the few cars fitted with both transverse and longitudinal engines at the same time?
Did you know that the veteran Polish actress Irena Kwiatkowska is most remembered for her television series role in which she performed various unusual or absurd jobs?
Did you know that underwater explosions produce ocean surface waves that are similar to tsunamis?
Did you know that Biodiversity Action Plans are a primary tool of 189 nations to conserve threatened species, but the one nation who has signed, but not ratified, the underlying treaty has produced the most elaborate set of plans?
Did you know that In Dreams, the debut album by British child star Joseph McManners, was recorded in Prague and features music by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra?
Did you know that Mixmath is a Canadian board game similar to Scrabble, in which numbered tiles are played to form equations instead of letters forming words?
Did you know that according to Externism, a pseudophilosophy proposed by the famous fictitious Czech genius Jára Cimrman, in the end of every learning process we know nothing, but we know it precisely?
Did you know that for over 200 years the Ribeira Palace in Lisbon was the residence of the Kings of Portugal until its destruction in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake?
Did you know that most of the Muslims in Fiji are descended from those brought to the islands from India as indentured labourers between 1879 and 1916?
Did you know that on August 26, 2006 the Philippines won the inaugural World Cup of Pool held at Newport, Wales?
Did you know that the Gay Football Supporters Network recently voted Steven Gerrard top of their annual "Lust List" for the second year running?
Did you know that the Israeli entry for the 1987 Eurovision Shir Habatlanim, meaning The Bums' song led to a resignation threat by the Israeli culture minister?
Did you know that the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater, in Lviv, Ukraine combines details of the Renaissance and Baroque architecture?
Did you know that the Talbot Samba supermini car was the last Talbot passenger car ever made?
Did you know that the isolated population of Citrine Forktails on the Azores is the only population of dragonflies anywhere in the world known to reproduce by parthenogenesis?
Did you know that Australian cricket captain Brian Booth also represented Australia at the 1956 Summer Olympics in hockey?
Did you know that Ian Craig, the youngest ever Australian test cricketer and captain, later became the managing director of Boots pharmaceutical company?
Did you know that Indian-American teenager Gaurav Raja memorized 10,980 digits of pi in 2006 to break the North American pi memorization record?
Did you know that Polish politician and Sejm member, Joanna Senyszyn, gained media attention due to her distinctive, high-pitched voice?
Did you know that at the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Ronald Reagan committed a microphone gaffe when he joked that he had signed legislation to bomb Russia?
Did you know that at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Tarascan state was the second only to the Aztec empire in size and population?
Did you know that despite not being backed by the FDA, full-body scans are performed in the United States to screen for disease in healthy people?
Did you know that during Operation Cedar Falls in the Vietnam War, American and South Vietnamese troops captured 3,700 tons of rice, enough to feed 13,000 troops for a full year?
Did you know that in 1995, André Dallaire attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien after breaking into his residence at 24 Sussex Drive?
Did you know that portions of Chicago's Devon Avenue have been renamed in honor of Golda Meir, Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Sheik Mujib?