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Did you know that copies of the 1982 biopic Will: G. Gordon Liddy, about a Watergate co-conspirator, are stored in the Nixon Presidential Materials collection at the U.S. National Archives?
Did you know that during the 1690 Battle of Québec, a group of French paddled a canoe up to the English flagship and under a hail of musket shots managed to return its ensign to the city unscathed?
Did you know that forensic scientist Paul Kirk, who is known for his work on the Sam Sheppard case, worked to isolate fissionable plutonium on the Manhattan Project?
Did you know that the F-111 fighter, the B-1 bomber, the Space Shuttle, and the Boeing fleet of commercial airliners were all tested at the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel?
Did you know that the Kalka-Shimla Railway track, a narrow gauge rail track in Himachal Pradesh,  has a length of 96 kilometres, passing through 102 tunnels and crossing 864 bridges?
Did you know that the La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial, dedicated to the missing British dead killed in the first few months of World War I, was built on land donated in memory of the 19th century French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau?
Did you know that the Laigh Milton viaduct, built in 1812, is the oldest surviving railway viaduct in Scotland and one of the oldest in the world?
Did you know that the gravestone of Abraham von Franckenberg, a 17th century mystic, is covered with as yet undeciphered mystical symbols?
Did you know that the island sub-species of the Tomtit are much larger than their mainland relatives?
Did you know that when builders told Lou Henry Hoover, who designed her own house, that some of her architectural ideas weren't done, she responded, "Well, it's time someone did"?
Did you know that Fort Senneville, built in 1671 near Montreal, included the most fortified windmill in New France, along with a machicolation and other castle-like features?
Did you know that Hurricane Katrina in 1981 caused two deaths?
Did you know that Katsuhiko Nakajima, a Japanese professional wrestler, represented as a freelancer by Kensuke Office, is the youngest junior heavyweight champion in history?
Did you know that Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park, which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
Did you know that Vodka Belt, an informal term for the territory where vodka is the most popular alcoholic beverage, wages a vodka war in support for vodka's traditional ingredients?
Did you know that during the 72 day session of the First State Duma in 1906, a total of 391 requests about illegal actions of the Russian government were filed, but only two laws were passed?
Did you know that following its industrialization, Bridgeport, Connecticut became a manufacturing center producing such goods as the famous Bridgeport milling machine, brass fittings, carriages, sewing machines, saddles, and ammunition?
Did you know that in 1990, it was revealed that a stay-behind army backed by  NATO had been active in Switzerland throughout the Cold War, preparing for a possible Soviet invasion?
Did you know that the 1957 film La Anam was selected as one of the best Egyptian films in history by the Egyptian Film Association in 1996?
Did you know that the 1989 secret files scandal in Switzerland resulted from the revelation that police had been engaged in illegal surveillance?
Did you know that the Phyllodon, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic found in present-day Portugal, may have been closely related to North American dinosaurs?
Did you know that the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force's Demonstration Squadron, selected Brigadier General Ricardo Aponte as their Spanish language narrator for the Latin America Tour of 1992?
Did you know that the charity song "The Magnificent" became a protest anthem of the Serbian anti-Milošević resistance?
Did you know that the citadel that once stood on the mountain of Tâmpa in Transylvania was never captured by an enemy force?
Did you know that the endangered Syncaris pacifica uses variable translucency and color changing crypsis for underwater camouflage?
Did you know that the paintings of the Giant's Causeway by Irish artist Susanna Drury were so detailed that the authors of the French Encyclopédie used an engraving of one as a reference, and included it in a supplementary volume?
Did you know that the pen-name of the Kannada poet, Karnataka Ratna and Jnanpith Award winner Kuvempu, was derived from his full name "Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa", Kuppalli being his native place?
Did you know that tradition indicates Nicasius of Rheims completed saying his prayer at his execution after he had been beheaded?
Did you know that , after a heavy bomb raid on the city of Heilbronn, raining fragments of the blast were lodged in cattle in the surrounding countryside, and that this meant days of slaughtering for veterinarians?
Did you know that ABC-TV's Broadcast Standards and Practices department placed a gagging order on the song "Jihad" by American thrash band Slayer during its live U.S. network broadcast?
Did you know that Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children?
Did you know that Hilda Hewlett was the first British female aviator to earn a pilot's licence?
Did you know that Peter Knowles,  a popular English football player,  voluntarily ended his football career at the age of 24, after becoming a Jehovah's Witness?
Did you know that TIME magazine's Gerald Loeb Award-winning article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" highlights the suicide of Noah Lottick?
Did you know that World Vision, an international charity organization, have developed various famine events that spread across the globe, notably the 30 Hour Famine?
Did you know that an inquiry into Sidhom Bishay's execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and renounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor?
Did you know that in 1977 United States President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech containing the local Geordie phrase "Ha'way-tha-lads!" at Newcastle Civic Centre, a civic centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England?
Did you know that the Altdeutsche Tracht (example pictured), a Renaissance-influenced fashion, was popular in Germany during the last years of the Napoleonic wars as a sign of resistance against "French fashion foolishness"?
Did you know that Ashoka's Major Rock Edict was the first and most impressive of Ashoka's edicts, and is the only one remaining unaltered in its original location?
Did you know that Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (Parijs van Java) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street?
Did you know that Chester Wilmot, the Australian War correspondent and military historian of the Second World War, was killed in an air crash in 1954?
Did you know that Edward Alleyn had to form a partnership with twelve others to meet the £1,000 cost to rebuild the Fortune Playhouse in London after it burned down in 1621?
Did you know that Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980 film Zigeunerweisen across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese Academy Awards?
Did you know that Sir Norman Hulbert claimed that That Was The Week That Was infringed Parliamentary privilege in 1963 when it named 13 MPs who had not spoken in the chamber of the House of Commons since they were elected in 1959?
Did you know that USS Luzon was an internal combustion engine repair ship, named after the Island of Luzon, the chief island in the northern Philippines?
Did you know that United States Marine Sergeant Aubrey McDade was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Iraq in 2004?
Did you know that Yogesh K. Gandhi and his Gandhi Memorial International Foundation were investigated by the United States Senate and Department of Justice for contributions to the Democratic National Committee?
Did you know that according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?
Did you know that more than six thousand Japanese people settled in North Korea voluntarily in the 1960s, accompanying ethnic Korean spouses returning under a repatriation campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean governments?
Did you know that the Percival Petrel, a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage, was used as a British communications aircraft in World War II?
Did you know that the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?
Did you know that the musical Foxy was a total flop in Dawson City in 1962, costing its producers their $400,000 investment, but was revived on Broadway in  1964?
Did you know that the pocket billiards game cribbage (balls pictured), named after the card game, allows 134,120,448,000 possible racking configurations?
Did you know that Carla Thorneycroft married Conservative Party politician Peter Thorneycroft in 1949, after their respective first marriages had both been dissolved and almost 20 years after the two were first engaged?
Did you know that Dimitrie Gerota, who is considered to be Romania's first radiologist, was forced to abandon this field after his hand had to be amputated as a result of radiodermatitis?
Did you know that Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia claimed to have a tumor to hide the fact she was pregnant with the illegitimate child of her lover?
Did you know that Indian copper plate inscriptions play an important role in the reconstruction of   India's elusive history?
Did you know that Jamaican actress and singer Amru Sani appeared on the same 1956 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show as Elvis Presley?
Did you know that Operation Queen was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the western front between Aachen and the Rur river in November 1944?
Did you know that a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
Did you know that five states have declared independence during the territorial history of Mexico, and all but Texas returned to Mexico?
Did you know that in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the love between Acis and Galatea ended when a jealous suitor, the Cyclops Polyphemus, killed Acis with a boulder?
Did you know that plants in the genus Gillenia (Gillenia trifoliata pictured) are often planted as ornamentals and used as an herbal remedy?
Did you know that the 1935 film Joymati, produced and directed by the noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala, was the first-ever Assamese language film?
Did you know that the Alexander Suvorov cruise ship stayed afloat despite its crash into a girder of an Ulyanovsk railway bridge that led to 177 deaths, and is still in working order today?
Did you know that the Balık sisters from Turkey claim to be the only identical twins who are both professional opera singers?
Did you know that the Grotto at Goldney House, Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with the shells of over 200 African and Caribbean species?
Did you know that the Presidential Palace in Kaunas was used as a movie theater during the Soviet rule of Lithuania?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy repair ship USS Mindanao was severely damaged and almost a third of her crew killed or injured when the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood blew up nearby in Seeadler Harbor in 1944?
Did you know that the eyespots of green algae and euglenids are the simplest and most common "eyes" found in nature?
Did you know that the first railway locomotive in China was in service for only 15 months between 1876 and 1877 before being purchased and deliberately destroyed by the ruling Qing Dynasty?
Did you know that the retired United States Air Force lieutenant general Nicholas Kehoe became the President and CEO of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in 2003 after 34 years of military service?
Did you know that Blackadder II, the second series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, contains many tongue-in-cheek references to the plays of William Shakespeare?
Did you know that Canadian scientist Bill Mathews was a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America?
Did you know that Irish poet John Keegan Casey was released from prison on the condition he leave for Australia, but instead he stayed in Dublin in disguise?
Did you know that Norwegian-born merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader in the United States?
Did you know that Singaporean citizenship was first granted in 1957, when Singapore was a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Wheeling Creek in West Virginia flows into the Ohio River a short distance downstream of a different Wheeling Creek in Ohio, on the opposite bank?
Did you know that Yoshiaki Yamashita, a pioneer of judo in the United States, was the first person to have been awarded 10-dan grading in Kodokan judo?
Did you know that because of its system of ravines, Toronto has been described as "San Francisco turned upside down"?
Did you know that in the 2001 Grand National, only two horses managed to complete the whole course without stopping?
Did you know that over 53,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II?
Did you know that the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus, founded in Australia in 1990, was the first organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere?
Did you know that the Palanga Amber Museum in Lithuania holds a collection of about 28,000 items of amber, including about 15,000 pieces that contain insects, spiders, and plants?
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church objected to the English translations in the Tyndale Bible, believing them to be purposeful mistranslations to promote anticlericalism and heretical views?
Did you know that the Russian architect Afanasy Grigoriev is best known for his refined Empire style mansions in Moscow (Khrushyov House pictured)?
Did you know that the Texas State University labor historian Gregg Andrews is also a folk musician who performs under the stage name "Doctor G"?
Did you know that the opening sequence to the 1983 Thai film Gunman was shot by the director, Chatrichalerm Yukol, while riding on the back of a motorcycle?
Did you know that the steel strike of 1959 led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history?
Did you know that 18th-century operatic star Anna Maria Strada was known as "the Pig" on account of her ugliness?
Did you know that 1939's Indramalati, directed by the Assam poet Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, was the second ever Assamese language film?
Did you know that 1971's Out of the Darkness was the first Thai science fiction film?
Did you know that Canadian ice hockey referee and organizer Fred Waghorne was the first to use a whistle to stop game play rather than the customary cowbell, when disruptive fans started bringing their own cowbells?
Did you know that English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts over the course of his lifetime?
Did you know that Kenneth Branagh had his earliest theatre appearances with Progress Theatre, including one minor role of "second policeman"?
Did you know that The Irish Famine debunks myths about the Irish Potato Famine, including one claiming that the country remained a net exporter of food during the famine?
Did you know that The Kinship of the Three is the earliest book on theoretical alchemy in China and is the earliest source to have mentioned the compositions necessary to create gunpowder?
Did you know that Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?
Did you know that a promotional video by the band The Bastard Fairies was described as "child abuse" on the talk show The O'Reilly Factor?
Did you know that medieval cannon were first used  by the English during the Hundred Years War at the Battle of Crécy?
Did you know that on July 1, 1940, Romanian military units attacked a Jewish funeral in the town of Dorohoi, killing 53 people according to official sources, but more than 165 people according to Jewish sources?
Did you know that the American merchant William Conner helped maintain  the Delaware's loyalty during the War of 1812 and identified the body of Tecumseh following the Battle of the Thames?
Did you know that the International Society for Science and Religion was founded by two winners of the Templeton Prize?
Did you know that the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plants complex in Slovakia became the first Soviet-era nuclear plant in Eastern Europe to have safety standards comparable to Western ones?
Did you know that the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have restored Indiana's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-20th-century level?
Did you know that the plant Erigenia bulbosa is known as "harbinger of spring" because it is one of the first plants to bloom in the hardwood forests of eastern North America each year?
Did you know that when Arno's Court Triumphal Arch was built in 1760, it incorporated statues from the Bristol city gates which were being demolished at the time?
Did you know that Eilley Bowers is one of the most researched, written and talked-about women in Nevada history?
Did you know that Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka came to power in Ghana through a military coup d'état in 1966, only to be deposed and killed in a further coup fourteen months later?
Did you know that England cricket captain Tony Greig said that England would make the West Indies "grovel" on their tour to England in 1976, but went on to lose 6 of the 8 matches?
Did you know that Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi became the youngest person to scale the Seven Summits when he ascended Mt. Everest in 1999 at the age of 25?
Did you know that Justus of Beauvais, a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?
Did you know that Rush Limbaugh guest-hosted the short-lived The Pat Sajak Show in 1990 and caused such an uproar with his controversial comments that the audience had to be removed from the studio?
Did you know that Shaul Shimon Deutsch left the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement to set up his own Hasidic court in 1995 and curates a museum of Biblical archaeology in Brooklyn, New York?
Did you know that The Dove, an American film released in 1974, is based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham, a 16-year-old who spent five years sailing around the world alone?
Did you know that during World War II the British military successfully airdropped homing pigeons into German-occupied France so that they might carry the locals' intelligence reports back to England?
Did you know that following the 1886 Seattle anti-Chinese riot the United States Congress paid the Chinese government $276,619.15 in compensation, but the victims received nothing?
Did you know that the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, which was founded in 1570 under the auspices of Charles IX of France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville, was the first academy in France?
Did you know that the Augustów Canal in north-eastern Poland was built in order to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea?
Did you know that the prehistoric badger genus Chamitataxus lived during the Late Miocene and is considered the most primitive badger genus in North America?
Did you know that the streak of a mineral, the color of the mark it makes when rubbed on a plate, is usually a more consistent identifier than the color of the original mineral?
Did you know that traveling evangelist Tom Short once matched wits with the Cult Awareness Network?
Did you know that when the English programmer Pete Shaw was still a teen, he had already written eleven technical computer books, published around the world in several languages?
Did you know that Lophostropheus from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary?
Did you know that Steve Fossett's Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft had a fuel fraction of nearly 85 percent, meaning it carried more than five times its weight in fuel?
Did you know that Varvara Yakovleva, a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church, was canonized as a martyr after she was killed with her former mistress, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna?
Did you know that the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Menges was hit by an acoustic torpedo in 1944, destroying the aft third of the ship, but remained afloat?
Did you know that the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, is the third largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
Did you know that the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra, is similar in form to the Analects of Confucius?
Did you know that the commands to fire the first Allied shots in World War One and the first Australian shots in World War Two came from Fort Queenscliff, Australia?
Did you know that the foreign minister of Turkmenistan Batyr Berdiyev was dismissed for poor knowledge of the native language Turkmen, before being arrested and convicted for his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Saparmurat Niyazov?
Did you know that Bennett Valley is one of the newest additions to the list of American Viticulture Areas?
Did you know that Cochiti Dam in New Mexico is one of the ten largest dams in the United States, the 23rd largest in the world, and the eleventh largest earthen dam worldwide?
Did you know that Jiri Dudacek, the first Czechoslovak ice hockey player to be selected in the first round of the National Hockey League draft, never left Czechoslovakia due to the protests of the country's sports minister?
Did you know that Torrent was the first American film starring the Swedish actress Greta Garbo?
Did you know that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally intervened to make sure the new post office in Ellenville, New York was built of stone instead of brick after residents complained to him via telegram?
Did you know that a forehead lift is a procedure used in plastic surgery to remove the deep "worry" lines that run across the forehead?
Did you know that adjuvants are sometimes used to modify the effects that a vaccine has on disease resistance by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine with much more vitality?
Did you know that during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, a secret synod of Ukrainian bishops in Pochaiv Lavra created the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church, canonically linked to the Moscow Patriarchate?
Did you know that professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005?
Did you know that the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
Did you know that the Macal River drains classic Mayan settlements and controls the flood stage of Belize's largest river?
Did you know that the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a diplomat in Paris, Rome, and Istanbul?
Did you know that the South African physician Abdullah Abdurahman became Cape Town's first coloured city councillor in 1904?
Did you know that the newly-named Oryctodromeus, a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first dinosaur described as making burrows?
Did you know that the publishers of the American music magazine Option once launched a spin-off fashion magazine, UHF?
Did you know that when the English actress Lucia Elizabeth Vestris took over the Olympic Theatre in 1830, she became the first ever female actor-manager in the history of London theatre?
Did you know that Albert Blaustein was a consultant on the national constitutions for over 14 countries and helped found the United States' Law Day?
Did you know that Elli Perkins, having refused psychiatric care for her schizophrenic son because of Scientology beliefs, was murdered by him?