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Did you know that former Syrian chief-of-staff, Anwar Bannud, was the only Syrian officer to reach a rank of colonel under the French mandate?
Did you know that in response to "Heil Hitler", Karl Schneider said he regretfully could not cure Adolf Hitler, as he was an ophthalmologist, not a neurologist?
Did you know that officialese can be traced to the exercise of authority going back as far as the oldest human civilizations?
Did you know that the 18th-century Burmese chronicle Maha Yazawin of Toungoo Dynasty has formed the basis for all subsequent histories of the country?
Did you know that the Point Gammon Light was turned into an observation tower for bird-watching?
Did you know that the Polish-Latin dictionary written by the Polish Arian Jan Mączyński in 1564 included translations of jargon, and was a subject of a satirical poem by Jan Kochanowski?
Did you know that the US-31–Island Lake Outlet Bridge (pictured in video) in Charlevoix, Michigan, is the fifth bridge to cross the channel at that location?
Did you know that the inaugural King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1951, with the then-largest prize ever in British horse racing, was won by Supreme Court?
Did you know that the white waratah, mountain and Mueller's geebungs are three members of the protea family found only in Tasmania?
Did you know that when Dr. Joseph Brittan caused a scandal in England, he responded by emigrating to Christchurch, New Zealand, following his brother Guise Brittan?
Did you know that 35 days after the December 1988 Spitak earthquake, six people were rescued alive from a collapsed building?
Did you know that Dardanella featured a Chinese man dubbed the "Douglas Fairbanks of Java"?
Did you know that Eustachy Trepka, Stanisław Murzynowski, and Hieronim Malecki were early Polish Lutherans who translated the Gospels, works of Martin Luther, and other religious texts while working in Królewiec (Königsberg) in the 16th century?
Did you know that Jim Bottomley set the Major League Baseball single-game record for runs batted in during the 1924 season, a record that still stands?
Did you know that Nico Ladenis was the first self-taught chef to win three Michelin stars?
Did you know that Sergei Bondarchuk, the director of the Academy Award-winning Soviet film War and Peace, first offered the role of Pierre Bezukhov to Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov?
Did you know that Yad Kennedy, an Israeli memorial to John F. Kennedy designed by architect David Resnick, is shaped like the trunk of a felled tree, symbolizing a life cut short?
Did you know that a female literary critic and a Jewish senator were among the noted promoters of Romania's fascist movements?
Did you know that according to Buddhist cosmology, in the beginning of the world, Maha Sammata was elected by the people of Jambudvipa, the only habitable continent on earth, to be their first monarch?
Did you know that footballer Ergys Kace was born in Albania, but moved to Greece at the age of three?
Did you know that in 1995, the Egyptian left-wing leader Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament by Hosni Mubarak?
Did you know that in the 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash, an aircraft exploded in a fireball but when rescuers arrived they found one of the passengers walking around the wreckage?
Did you know that none of the fillies Moonshell, Shahtoush, Love Divine, Imagine, Eswarah, Light Shift, and Look Here ever won another race after winning the British Classic Race Epsom Oaks?
Did you know that the BBC documentary, The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea, explores the legend claiming that the pharaoh Hatshepsut built ships that were capable of sailing to the Land of Punt?
Did you know that the East Asian banded red snake can harbour tapeworms and eating its raw meat may lead to parasitic infections?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Dam was built on the Santa Ynez River to impound 14,500 acre-feet (17,900 dam3) of water, but about half of the reservoir's capacity has been lost due to siltation?
Did you know that the base of Bach's cantata Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, for the feast of Michael on 29 September 1724 is a hymn by Paul Eber sung to a famous tune?
Did you know that the migratory Caspian lamprey is more threatened than the freshwater Carpathian brook lamprey?
Did you know that the most popular species for Christmas trees in Denmark and most of Europe is the Nordmann fir?
Did you know that there are approximately thirty shrines and Roman temples on the slopes of Mount Hermon?
Did you know that tourism in the Republic of Ireland accounts for around 4% of the Irish GNP?
Did you know that Gilla Gerzon, the Director of the Haifa USO, had 241 trees planted in Israel in memory of the 241 Americans killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing?
Did you know that Mary Buckland, a scientific illustrator, took a year-long geological tour as a honeymoon with her husband William Buckland?
Did you know that Mulugeta Buli created a private security cabinet for Emperor Haile Selassie?
Did you know that Purshottam Solanki, the Fisheries Minister of Gujarat, allegedly caused a loss of ₹400 crore (US$72.4 million) to the state government when granting contracts for fishing in reservoirs?
Did you know that Terry Francois was the first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
Did you know that according to local Muslim tradition, the prophet Muhammad leaned against a stone in the southern Syrian town of Mahajjah?
Did you know that an asteroid that Swiss physics teacher Michel Ory thought he had discovered in 2008 turned out to be a periodic comet, and the discovery earned him an Edgar Wilson Award?
Did you know that during his address to the 12th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Governor Trittle expressed concern about the cowboys in the southwestern parts of the territory?
Did you know that during the Philippine–American War, the Capture of Malolos cost only eight American lives?
Did you know that in 1905 Cherry Lass won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes and the Epsom Oaks, but finished third in the St. Leger Stakes and missed the Fillies Triple Crown in British horse-racing?
Did you know that numerous piles of trash were set ablaze when Baltimore's garbage collectors and police officers conducted overlapping strikes in July 1974?
Did you know that one-term state legislator John Gurley Flook wrote the bill in 1868 to establish a land-grant agricultural college, which grew and became today's Oregon State University?
Did you know that since 1979, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Peshawar is the only direct market for gemstones from Pakistan (example pictured) and Afghanistan?
Did you know that tennis player and Australian Open winner Algernon Kingscote was the son of novelist Lucas Cleeve?
Did you know that the 52-Hertz whale is known only by its unique sound (listen, speeded up ten times to 520 hertz), the only one of its kind ever recorded, and has been called the loneliest whale in the world?
Did you know that the East German police comedy Hands Up or I'll Shoot, produced in 1965, was banned by censors and only released in 2009?
Did you know that the European Commission-funded news portal Presseurop translates and publishes news articles from over two hundred sources into ten European languages?
Did you know that the morning sun star's predatory attacks on other starfish are not always successful, as the velcro star and the rainbow star fight back and the slime star emits repellent mucus?
Did you know that the propaganda film Berdjoang was the Japanese overlords' only feature-length film in the Dutch East Indies?
Did you know that while pancreatic injury is less common than other abdominal injuries, its diagnosis can be very difficult due to the location of the pancreas in the body?
Did you know that Amanita thiersii has the genetic capability to decompose cellulose and can survive on it alone?
Did you know that Bach based his chorale cantata Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114, on the hymn by Johannes Gigas and first performed it on 1 October 1724, two days after his previous chorale cantata?
Did you know that Boletus abruptibulbus, Leccinum arenicola, and Phylloporus arenicola are the only North American Boletaceae mushrooms that grow in coastal sand dunes?
Did you know that German organist Günther Kaunzinger studied with Maurice Duruflé, taught at the Catholic University of America, and recorded the complete works of Louis Vierne?
Did you know that Jeptha Vining Harris, a Mississippi militia general during the American Civil War, was the son of Jeptha Vining Harris, a Georgia militia general during the War of 1812?
Did you know that King Koko of Nembe captured a Royal Niger Company trading post and took hostages who were later eaten?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Michael Jamtfall retired at the age of 25?
Did you know that Rihanna described her 2012 single "Diamonds" as "happy and hippy rather than dancey"?
Did you know that at the Royal Academy School, Peter Rouw trained Samuel Joseph, who is known for creating a statue of William Wilberforce?
Did you know that commercial fishing of the redfish was restricted to prevent its extinction after chef Paul Prudhomme popularised it in a dish?
Did you know that six of Fred Young's films have the word Solo in the title?
Did you know that the German town of Bacharach was captured by Spanish forces led by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba on this day in 1620?
Did you know that the Lepiota mushroom species L. ananya, L. anupama, L. babruka, L. babruzalka, L. harithaka, L. nirupama, L. shveta, and L. zalkavritha all have names derived from Sanskrit?
Did you know that the Port Royal, Virginia, Horne's restaurant is the last remaining of the former chain?
Did you know that the Sixth Asian Science Camp, hosted by Israel in Jerusalem, is the largest Asian Science Camp event to date?
Did you know that the first Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, Alfred Franklin, withdrew from society and went to live alone in the desert?
Did you know that the management regimen for Ridley Bottom nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England, calls for both hay cutting and grazing by sheep?
Did you know that the shooting down of an F-117 in 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the first confirmed downing of a stealth aircraft?
Did you know that the songs "Si Tú Me Besas" and "Ella Lo Que Quiere Es Salsa" helped Víctor Manuelle become the artist with the most number-one singles on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart?
Did you know that when Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov ordered White Coke, President Truman quickly obliged?
Did you know that Ariffien, who directed two Japanese propaganda films, was initially an Indonesian nationalist?
Did you know that Fred G. Hughes, who served as President of the Council in the 19th Arizona Territorial Legislature, was a gambler and embezzler and was killed by a bolt of lightning?
Did you know that Gene Sharp's book Gandhi as a Political Strategist seeks to rebut what it asserts are six mistaken views about Gandhi that have "masqueraded as 'realistic' assessments"?
Did you know that Katy Perry made her maiden performance in India at the 2012 Indian Premier League opening ceremony?
Did you know that Madrid's Palacio de Velázquez (tiled palace arch pictured) by Ricardo Velázquez Bosco was built for the 1883 Exposición Nacional de Minería, with tiles by Daniel Zuloaga?
Did you know that Njoo Cheong Seng's first film without his wife was 1941's Djantoeng Hati?
Did you know that Norwegian football club Kristiansund BK was founded in 2003 by local rivals Clausenengen FK and Kristiansund FK?
Did you know that Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia, was once told that the Wilhelm Carpelan, the small green vessel moored in front of the company's head office in Finland, was a "Motorola spy ship"?
Did you know that Twinkle Toes, used in Christchurch to demolish tall buildings following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, is the largest excavator in the Southern Hemisphere?
Did you know that a blog was created on tumblr to cover the errors found on the new version of Apple Inc.'s map app?
Did you know that in both 1969 and 2009, Helmuth Rilling conducted the Gächinger Kantorei in Bach's Mass in B minor at the festival Bachwoche Ansbach in St. Gumbertus?
Did you know that the Denkoroku by Keizan, the Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen, is not historical fact?
Did you know that the Laymoor Quag nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England, is a refuge for the Great Crested Newt?
Did you know that the domicile cup fungus degrades wooden historical monuments in Moldavia?
Did you know that the landlady's wig can be confused with the similar red alga Cordylecladia erecta, both of which grow on sand-covered rocks?
Did you know that though Oliver Bosbyshell claimed to have been the first Union soldier wounded in the American Civil War, his name does not appear on official casualty lists?
Did you know that Bartolomé Sureda was director of three royal factories, La Moncloa, Buen Retiro (picture of an art piece made in the factory) and Cristales de La Granja?
Did you know that Fly, a 2009 play about the Tuskegee Airmen, uses a tap-dancing Griot figure to express emotions through sound and dance for characters who had to control their behavior and hide their emotions?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez's partnership with American cable television network nuvoTV will see her work on the creative side of the network, as well as managing marketing and program production?
Did you know that Paresh Mokashi's debut film, Harishchandrachi Factory, depicts the making of India's first feature film, Raja Harishchandra (1913), and in 2009 was India's official entry to the Academy Awards?
Did you know that a 1.7-ton, 130-year-old cannon was stolen and transported 3000 miles from Pasadena to Cambridge as part of the Caltech–MIT rivalry?
Did you know that although its colonies are commonly known as "sewage fungus", Sphaerotilus natans is bacterial?
Did you know that ceramic parchment grows on rotting wood?
Did you know that human rights lawyer Suliman al-Reshoudi was convicted of possessing literature by social anthropologist Madawi al-Rasheed?
Did you know that only eight restaurants in the UK have been awarded three Michelin stars?
Did you know that police fingerprinted over 45,000 men to find the killer of June Anne Devaney, the first time mass fingerprinting had been used to solve a crime?
Did you know that prior to the broadcast of Grey's Anatomy's season nine premiere, ABC asked Patrick Dempsey to remove a spoiler photo from his Twitter?
Did you know that social engagement has been positively linked to health and happiness?
Did you know that the captain of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, Bridie Kean, is nicknamed "bird" because people in the United States could not pronounce her first name correctly?
Did you know that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius celebrates 150 years today, singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer?
Did you know that the mineral collection of Lady Clive, a pioneer among female rock collectors, is one of the most important historic mineral collections at the National Museum Wales?
Did you know that the northwest tower and spire of St Mary's Church, Longfleet, form one of Poole's most important landmarks?
Did you know that the successful Byzantine defence in the Siege of Nicaea in 727 encouraged Emperor Leo III the Isaurian to proceed with his policy of iconoclasm?
Did you know that the truffle-like species C. argyrionus, C. basorapulus, C. caesibulga, C. cinereoroseolus, C. kaputarensis, C. maculobulga, C. nebulobrunneus, and C. sinapivelus, all newly described in 2010, are known only from New South Wales?
Did you know that Bose Ikard was an inspiration for the character of Josh Deets in Lonesome Dove?
Did you know that Brow Monument and Brow Monument Trail (geo disc pictured) still has a survey marker placed by John Wesley Powell in 1872?
Did you know that Camelot's bid to win this year's Triple Crown of English Thoroughbred Racing failed when he was beaten by three-quarters of a length at the St. Leger Stakes by Encke, a 25/1 longshot?
Did you know that Eva Naa Merley Lokko was the first female engineer to be employed at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and is the first Vice Presidential Candidate of the PPP in Ghana?
Did you know that Irish Republican politicians in the 1920s were expected to pay for their own meals in order to prevent political corruption?
Did you know that LdMNPV's EGT gene is responsible for the infected larvae's 'zombie-like' behavior?
Did you know that The Backstreet Boys had a song called "Fuck Off"?
Did you know that in 1947 Prince Philip held his stag night at The Hinds Head in Bray, Berkshire, which went on to win a Michelin star under chef Heston Blumenthal?
Did you know that it is unclear whether William Augustus Hancock built the first building in Phoenix, Arizona, or only the first building after the town was established?
Did you know that the Beaverslide haystacker is named after Beaverhead County, Montana?
Did you know that the Christchurch, New Zealand, suburb of Linwood is named after Joseph Brittan's house?
Did you know that the Humble Oil Building was once the largest office building in Houston, and was the first office building in the city with central air conditioning?
Did you know that the Market Gate of Miletus was damaged from above and destroyed from below?
Did you know that the fungus Stereum ostrea gets its common name "False Turkey-tail" due to its great resemblance to the Turkey-tail (Trametes versicolor)?
Did you know that the linguist Ekkehart Malotki refuted the common myth that the Hopi have no concept of time?
Did you know that the sale of William Robinson's farm to the government paved the way for land reform in New Zealand?
Did you know that the sea urchin Echinometra viridis hides in crevices while Echinometra lucunter and Echinometra mathaei dig themselves into the surrounding rocks?
Did you know that the starfish Leptasterias polaris and Leptasterias tenera both brood their developing eggs?
Did you know that Australian adventurer Ben Carlin travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 mi) over land and sea in a modified Jeep, becoming the first person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle?
Did you know that Clandestine Childhood is Argentina's submission for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
Did you know that Death of a Salesman, a 1966 television remake of Arthur Miller's 1949 play by the same name, won three Primetime Emmy Awards at the 19th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1967?
Did you know that José Paniagua never returned to Major League Baseball after flipping off an umpire?
Did you know that King George III called James Luttrell, captain of HMS Mediator at the action of 12 December 1782, "the best of [a] strange family"?
Did you know that Michael Le Bourgeois was the first Jerseyman to sign a professional rugby contract with Jersey?
Did you know that although set in Europe, parts of RED 2, the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film RED, were filmed in Montreal?
Did you know that following the capture of Baldwin I of Edessa in 1104, the inhabitants of al-Fu'ah, Sarmin and Maarrat Misrin in northern Syria revolted against their Crusader rulers?
Did you know that sugar is extracted from the stems of Saccharum officinarum and Saccharum barberi, but it is the flower heads of Saccharum edule that are eaten?
Did you know that the Cumberland Dusky Salamander is believed to hybridize with the Ocoee Salamander?
Did you know that the black jumping salamander, the dwarf false brook salamander, the admirable false brook salamander, the Smith's false brook salamander and Thorius pennatulus are all endemic to Mexico, and critically endangered?
Did you know that the genus Clivia was named after Queen Victoria's childhood governess, the Duchess of Northumberland, who was the first to cultivate those plants in Great Britain?
Did you know that the sponge brittle star is often found living on the surface of the red tree sponge?
Did you know that the two-centuries-old tomb of Mah Laqa Bai, a Nizam-era Urdu poetess and courtesan, was renovated in 2011 using funds from the Consulate General of the United States in Hyderabad?
Did you know that Edward Upcott, Acrobatic Gymnastics Men's Pairs world champion in 2010 and Spelbound flyer, has had chronic asthma since infancy, almost dying from his first attack?
Did you know that Inoe Perbatasari's last films all dealt with the Indonesian National Revolution?
Did you know that Tuber lijiangense, T. microspermum, T. microspiculatum, T. polyspermum, T. sinoalbidum, and T. sinoexcavatum are Chinese truffles that have been described as new species in the past two years?
Did you know that confused terminology and misconceptions about strepsirrhine anatomy and phylogeny were factors in the media hype over the "Ida" fossil?
Did you know that hundreds of thousands of art pieces were looted from Poland during World War II by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?
Did you know that in 1967, Jack Jarvis became the first horse trainer to be knighted by the Queen?
Did you know that in Flight of the Butterflies, writer-director Mike Slee documents Dr. Fred Urquhart's decades-long study into the migration of the monarch butterfly in 3D IMAX format?
Did you know that part of John London's punishment for his role in a failed plot against Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was to ride through several towns seated backwards on a horse and be pilloried?
Did you know that the $10 million Battle of the Dance dinner theater in Anaheim, California, closed after 18 months, partly because the food was so bad?
Did you know that the 1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team was the first Alabama squad to play in New England and fly to a game for their contest against Boston College?
Did you know that the Giant's Grave is in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Penrith, Cumbria?
Did you know that the Norwegian Troll Satellite Station in Antarctica's Queen Maud Land is one of only two ground stations capable of communicating with all low Earth orbit satellites?
Did you know that the orange knobbly star produces dark eggs which drift with the current and orange eggs which sink immediately to the seabed?
Did you know that the red-cheeked salamander, which is distasteful to predators, is mimicked by the harmless imitator salamander?
Did you know that Geastrum fimbriatum, Lycoperdon marginatum, P. rubicundus, Scleroderma polyrhizum, S. verrucosum, Clathrus crispus and the wood witch are fungi that have been featured on postage stamps?
Did you know that Johnny Cash took most of the lyrics of "Folsom Prison Blues" from Gordon Jenkins' song "Crescent City Blues"?
Did you know that Ludwig Gies designed the eagle found hung at the front of the Plenary Hall of the modern Reichstag Building in Berlin?
Did you know that Martin Dardis linked a Watergate burglar to US President Nixon's reelection campaign with a check written by fundraiser Kenneth Dahlberg, a pilot Dardis had rescued in the Battle of the Bulge?
Did you know that Rabbi Akiva Ehrenfeld, founder of Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem, was the guest of honor at an official reception hosted by the President of Austria in Vienna's Hofburg Palace in 1995?
Did you know that during the Second Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the United States Department of State had been infiltrated by 57 "card-carrying Communists"?
Did you know that in 1963, Paddy Prendergast became the first Irish-based horse trainer to win the  British trainers' championship, retaining the title for the succeeding two years?
Did you know that most of the film directors of the Dutch East Indies were ethnic Chinese?
Did you know that of the five women who served on the New Zealand Legislative Council (Mary Dreaver pictured), three were there to abolish the institution?
Did you know that one reviewer called "A Single Blade of Grass" "yet another adventure in weird, Native American mysticism from the folks at 1013 Productions"?
Did you know that the Sacramento Mountain Salamander is preyed on by the western terrestrial garter snake?