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Did you know that former Romanian secret police chief Nicolae Pleşiţă, notorious for his dealings with Carlos the Jackal, admitted dragging dissident writer Paul Goma around his cell by his beard?
Did you know that people used home-made balloons and submarines to escape across the inner German border between East and West Germany during the Cold War?
Did you know that philanthropist James W. Davidson spent CAN$250,000 of his own money in 1914 and 1915 to establish over 20 branches of Rotary International on three continents?
Did you know that referee Johnny LoBianco awarded boxer Roberto Durán a 1972 knockout despite his apparent low blow, with sportswriter Red Smith stating "anything short of pulling a knife is regarded indulgently"?
Did you know that the 1915 film The Italian tells the story of an immigrant played by George Beban who goes to America in search of fortune but finds a "Darwinian jungle" on New York's Lower East Side?
Did you know that the 1974 floods along the Finke River in Australia's Northern Territory resulted in the dramatic spread of the introduced Athel Tamarisk (T. aphylla) through the desert?
Did you know that the American progressive rock/avant-jazz group The Muffins were influenced by the English Canterbury scene?
Did you know that the Australian town of Acland, once host to Queensland's oldest and smallest continuously worked coal mine, now has a population of one?
Did you know that the Byzantine chapel of the Theotokos of the Pharos at Constantinople housed a huge collection of holy relics, many of which were acquired by Louis IX of France for his Sainte-Chapelle?
Did you know that the Classic Period Mesoamerican archaeological site of Bilbao on the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala, features a significant amount of sculpture with ballgame imagery?
Did you know that the cryptographic primitives CAST-128, CAST-256, Grain, and HAVAL were all designed using bent functions for cryptographic security?
Did you know that the epic anti-war film Civilization (poster pictured), depicting Jesus walking through the carnage of war, was credited with helping re-elect U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916?
Did you know that the last recorded sighting of the Knob-billed Duck, now thought to be extinct in Sri Lanka, occurred in Lahugala Kitulana National Park?
Did you know that the new world's record for the largest formation of women skydivers was organized by the daughter of Lamb Chops puppeteer, Shari Lewis?
Did you know that the recording of "Fría Como el Viento" by Luis Miguel became his third number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart?
Did you know that the term "Moonie" was first used by American media sources to refer to members of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in 1974, during church events at the Madison Square Garden?
Did you know that while being a member of the Spanish colonial guardia civil, Francisco Carreón also served as a member of the Philippine Revolutionary group Katipunan?
Did you know that women complained when celebrity chef Neven Maguire posed for a Food & Wine photo shoot alongside a bikini-wearing model and a plate of food?
Did you know that "Black Is Black," a 1966 song by Los Bravos, was the first international hit single by a Spanish rock band?
Did you know that "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" was a popular pacifist song of World War I?
Did you know that American folk blues guitarist and Grammy-winning music historian Elijah Wald is the son of prominent biologists Ruth Hubbard and Nobel laureate George Wald?
Did you know that Bank Indonesia Governor J. Soedradjad Djiwandono was not officially informed of his dismissal from office in 1998 until six days after President Suharto's decree?
Did you know that Cranbury Park near Winchester, England, was the home of Sir Isaac Newton?
Did you know that Dutch rocker Wally Tax learned English by age 11 by working as a pimp for American sailors in the Port of Amsterdam?
Did you know that Horkstow Bridge in North Lincolnshire, completed in 1836, is the only suspension bridge designed by Sir John Rennie, builder of London Bridge?
Did you know that James Howden invented the marine forced draught system that was used on the Lusitania and Mauretania?
Did you know that Paul L. Foshee, who served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, holds a patent on an airplane mount bracket?
Did you know that Spinellus fusiger is a pin mold that parasitizes several species of mushrooms?
Did you know that Tutinama is a collection of 52 Persian stories narrated through a parrot to prevent his owner from committing adultery while her husband was away?
Did you know that amateur telescope maker Robert E. Cox helped make the first live coverage of a solar eclipse?
Did you know that husband and wife Heinrich and Therese Vogl portrayed the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre on June 26, 1870?
Did you know that images from the 1965 book A Child Is Born were sent into space aboard the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes (replica pictured)?
Did you know that in 1900 alone the Eastern German provinces lost about 1,600,000 people due to Landflucht?
Did you know that more than 6,000 fans of Michael Jackson attended at a memorial service at U.S. Steel Yard in Gary, Indiana?
Did you know that the French Church in Bucharest, Romania, is topped by a Gallic rooster?
Did you know that the Vienna-born historian Saul K. Padover wrote definitive biographies of figures as diverse as Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson?
Did you know that the monogram of King Haakon VII of Norway, H7, became a resistance symbol during the Second World War?
Did you know that the sculptor Emile Norman's largest and most famous work is a four-story high endomosaic window in the lobby of the Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco?
Did you know that the writers of the title track to Toby Keith's 2009 album American Ride told him he was "the only guy in the world that could get away with cutting" that song?
Did you know that wine produced from grapes grown in Washington, California, Chile, Argentina or South Africa can be labeled "Cellared in Canada" and sold as Canadian wine?
Did you know that Adolf Bniński, Polish presidential candidate in 1926, was the Government Delegate of the Polish Underground State for the Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Archbishop Leon Tourian was assassinated in a Manhattan church on Christmas Eve, 1933, for his refusal to publicly support independent Armenia?
Did you know that C. Gardner Sullivan, once named among the ten greatest contributors to the motion picture industry, has four films in the U.S. National Film Registry?
Did you know that Elia Kazan's 1947 film Boomerang!, about a murder defendant whose innocence was proven by the prosecutor, was based on the true story of Harold Israel?
Did you know that English actress Maxine Audley was married four times?
Did you know that English author Selina Davenport, in an attempt to support herself and her two daughters after separating from her husband, ran both a coffee house and a dance school?
Did you know that George Osbaldeston was twice Master of the Quorn?
Did you know that Lady Emma Herbert, a bridesmaid of Camilla Parker-Bowles, is now a circus trapeze artist?
Did you know that The Atlanta Constitution wrote that William S. Hart's face was "the synonym for power and manliness" in its review of the film Wagon Tracks?
Did you know that in May 2007 alone, 987,000 unique visitors tried Starfall, a free website that helps children learn to read?
Did you know that in the 1861 Tsushima Incident Japanese warships failed to repel a Russian naval intrusion and had to be helped by Britain's Royal Navy?
Did you know that in the 2003–04 AHL season, Binghamton Senators defenceman Andy Hedlund went 17 games without scoring a goal following his game-winning shot against Syracuse?
Did you know that medieval English bishop Alexander of Lincoln was patron of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, who dedicated his Prophecies of Merlin to the bishop?
Did you know that over 19 days, the magnitude-6 1703 Apennine earthquakes progressed southwards 36 km and killed an estimated 10,000 people?
Did you know that silent film star Clara Williams, known for her "forty famous frocks", appeared in more than 100 films between 1910 and 1918?
Did you know that the 58-foot (18 m) motor yacht Sundowner, manned by Charles Lightoller, his son Roger, and a Sea Scout called Gerald, evacuated 130 men from Dunkirk?
Did you know that the Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport was the first building in Wales designed by Richard Rogers?
Did you know that the Jensen Arctic Museum in Monmouth, Oregon, is the only museum on the West Coast other than in Alaska that focuses solely on Arctic culture?
Did you know that the Mahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara is one of the Solosmasthana, the 16 religious sites in Sri Lanka that Buddhists believe to have been hallowed by visits of Gautama Buddha?
Did you know that the museum of Epidaurus has a reconstruction of part of the entablature of a Temple of Artemis, dated to 370–310 B.C.?
Did you know that 29 years after his defection to the Soviet Union, American Victor Norris Hamilton was discovered in a mental hospital?
Did you know that George Washington and James Fenimore Cooper visited the springs at Brookside, an early resort in Ballston Spa, New York?
Did you know that John Travolta's older brother Joey Travolta produced the documentary film about autism Normal People Scare Me?
Did you know that Joseph Flores, the first Chamorro Governor of Guam, also published the island's first locally owned newspaper?
Did you know that Llandovery Bank, established in Wales in 1799, was known locally as the "Black Ox Bank" because it issued banknotes bearing a black ox?
Did you know that Phuntsok Wangyal, a progressive pro-communist Tibetan who founded the Tibetan Communist Party, once taught at Tromzikhang in Barkhor, Lhasa?
Did you know that Pindus National Park is one of three areas in Greece that hosts populations of bears?
Did you know that Tacchi Venturi, the personal liaison between Mussolini and the popes, was the architect of the Lateran Treaty, which created Vatican City and made Catholicism the state religion of Italy?
Did you know that Truman C. Everts was lost for 37 days while exploring what would become Yellowstone National Park?
Did you know that Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz was suspected of involvement in the first of several military coup attempts in Pakistan?
Did you know that William J. Calhoun's report on the death of an American in Cuba persuaded President McKinley that war against Spain was advisable?
Did you know that a feud between Bartolomeo Prignano and Pierre de Cros fueled the outbreak of the Western Schism?
Did you know that despite the efforts of fledgling writers Norman Lear and Larry Gelbart, Celeste Holm bombed after only eight episodes in her 1954 CBS sitcom Honestly, Celeste!?
Did you know that old houses in England saw an increased number of visitors in the 1840s due to published lithographs depicting architecture and historical scenes in them drawn by Joseph Nash?
Did you know that one of the tenants of Bloomington, Illinois' Eastland Mall had operated a store in town since 1892?
Did you know that professional wrestler Misterioso, Jr.'s nickname translates as "the King of Yogurt"?
Did you know that the 1976 crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 452 is the all-time worst aviation accident in Turkey?
Did you know that the Hankensbüttel Otter Centre  won first prize in the German Ministry of Transport Regions of the Future competition in 2000?
Did you know that the Kultur Lige was a socialist Jewish organization associated with the Jewish Labour Bund, established in Kiev in 1918, whose aim was to promote Yiddish language literature, theater and culture?
Did you know that the Riverside International Automotive Museum in Riverside, California, houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of Maserati road cars in the United States?
Did you know that the biography Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now concludes the influence of religion on Morrison's music may be his most lasting contribution?
Did you know that the brilliantly-coloured blue and black neon cuckoo bee of Australia is a parasite of the Blue banded bee?
Did you know that the former Union Mill Complex in Ballston Spa, New York, was built to manufacture textiles, but later produced paper bags and, even later, chocolate?
Did you know that the three Habsburg-class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy since the ironclad SMS Tegetthoff of the 1870s?
Did you know that the three high crosses at Monasterboice—including Muiredach's High Cross—have been described as possibly Ireland's greatest contribution to European sculpture?
Did you know that while naval attaché in Tokyo, future four-star admiral Frederick J. Horne became the first United States Navy officer to be decorated by the Empire of Japan?
Did you know that "Papa" De Hem's oyster-house in Soho was patronised by poets, spies and rock-stars?
Did you know that "Stop Lasnamäe!" was one of the slogans of the Estonian Singing Revolution?
Did you know that Anna Deinet created the role of Brangäne in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, the first of two Wagner characters she premiered?
Did you know that Charles Langdale was one of the first Roman Catholics in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829?
Did you know that Discovery Channel called Ardi, "The evidence that Darwin could only have dreamed of"?
Did you know that Eugenio Pacelli's (future Pope Pius XII) 1936 visit to the United States was planned, in part, to investigate and silence Catholic priest and New Deal opponent Charles Coughlin?
Did you know that Far Rockaway High School in Queens, whose alumni include three Nobel Prize laureates and Bernard Madoff, stopped accepting students in 2008 as part of a planned closure due to declining grades?
Did you know that Mimi Weddell, whose acting career started in her mid-sixties, was named as one "The Most Beautiful New Yorkers" by New York magazine in 2005 at age 90?
Did you know that W. Horace Carter won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for anti-KKK reporting, "waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger" that led to the conviction of over 100 Klansmen?
Did you know that by the 17th century, the Norman church of St James the Less in Lancing, West Sussex was so dilapidated that birds were nesting and pigeons were breeding inside?
Did you know that during filming of The Emperor Waltz in Jasper National Park, director Billy Wilder had California pines planted on location because he was unhappy with the look of the native trees?
Did you know that following the capture of Kafr 'Inan during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, its inhabitants were expelled by the Israel Defense Forces on three separate occasions in 1949?
Did you know that footballer Arthur Wood had a metal plate inserted in his forehead following an injury received in the First World War, and was never again able to head the ball?
Did you know that for the score of the Prince of Persia, composer Inon Zur combined classical orchestral music with Arabic flutes and the woodwind duduk?
Did you know that in 1644, during the English Civil War, Haggate was the scene of a skirmish in which five people were killed by King Charles I's troops?
Did you know that in June 2004, the only businesses in operation at Normal, Illinois' College Hills Mall, now The Shoppes at College Hills, were three anchor stores and a restaurant?
Did you know that in Toyota v. Williams, the U.S. Supreme Court held that under the ADA, a disability includes limitations in a "major life activity", but excludes limitations in specific job-related tasks?
Did you know that it is uncertain whether the extinct oryzomyine rodent Megalomys audreyae came from Barbuda or Barbados?
Did you know that journalist Savik Shuster who used to work for Russian TV channels now prefers to work for the Ukrainian TV because he felt the Russian Government was limiting his journalistic freedom?
Did you know that most attacks on humans by the blacktip reef shark consist of people being bitten on their legs or feet while wading in shallow water?
Did you know that potbelly sculpture is a crude non-Maya sculptural style distributed along the Pacific slope of southern Mesoamerica and dating to the Preclassic Period?
Did you know that some of the thrust horses in Montana's Adel Mountains Volcanic Field fold some of the intrusions, while others are cut by them?
Did you know that the 1863 Point Douglas-St. Louis River Road Bridge, near Stillwater, Minnesota, is the oldest standing stone arch bridge in Minnesota?
Did you know that the Seinfeld writers, attempting to produce a "Quentin Tarantino version of a sitcom", included the title character’s death in a dream sequence in "The Baby Shower"?
Did you know that the discovery of geometrical body Gömböc in 2006 helped understanding the body shape of turtles?
Did you know that the termite Globitermes sulphureus uses  autothysis, a form of suicidal altruism, to entangle intruder ants in a sticky substance?
Did you know that Antonio Frasconi spent ten years creating an artwork that shows the people who disappeared during the dictatorships in Uruguay?
Did you know that Bill Cullen took the Guinness World Record for the largest ever book signing by signing 1849 copies of his self-help book Golden Apples on 16 April 2005 in Easons, O'Connell Street?
Did you know that De Hoop, located in Norg, Drenthe, is the only windmill in the Netherlands still equipped with Bilau sails?
Did you know that Euphorbia celastroides, a spurge closely related to the poinsettia, is sometimes used as a treatment for cancer?
Did you know that Hirsh Lekert, a Bundist, tried unsuccessfully to assassinate the governor of Vilna, and became a folk hero in the Jewish workers’ movement, with poems and dramas written about him in Yiddish?
Did you know that Hurricane Brenda was the first tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Mexican state of Campeche?
Did you know that Lord Nuffield rejected the first designs for the buildings of Nuffield College, Oxford by the architect Austen Harrison, saying that they were "un-English"?
Did you know that Luise Jaide created two roles in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle?
Did you know that Marie Haupt, Josephine Schefsky‎ and Friederike Grün‎ each premiered a character in Richard Wagner's first Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in August 1876?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Christine was the easternmost forming Atlantic tropical cyclone on record?
Did you know that a church in Worthing, England, has the world's only known replica of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, hand-painted at two-thirds scale by an untrained artist?
Did you know that according to the book Who's Your City?, in the United States the highest concentrations of people whose dominant personality trait is neuroticism are found in the New York and ChiPitts area?
Did you know that in the 1679 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Brandenburg was forced by France to return recently conquered Swedish Pomerania to Sweden?
Did you know that nine years before being cast as J. Homer Bedloe on CBS's Petticoat Junction, Charles Lane appeared as a hard-nosed newspaper editor in Peter Lawford's short-lived NBC sitcom, Dear Phoebe?
Did you know that risk management firm Verisk Analytics raised $1.9 billion in its October 7, 2009 initial public offering, making it the largest IPO in the United States to date in 2009?
Did you know that seismologists use isoseismal maps (example pictured) to help work out the epicenter, focal depth, magnitude and mechanism of an earthquake?
Did you know that the Belgian-born Dutch politician Robert van Genechten collaborated with the German occupiers in Belgium during World War I and in the Netherlands during the Second World War?
Did you know that the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends special "Destination: Imagination" won the Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or More)" in 2009?
Did you know that the Sholes and Glidden typewriter was the first commercially successful typewriter?
Did you know that the engine house of the Pinchbeck Engine, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument?
Did you know that the leader of the Bund and organizer of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Victor Alter, was executed on Stalin’s orders, which provoked an international outcry of protest?
Did you know that the name of the village Kokrebellur, an important breeding ground for the Spot-billed Pelican, is derived from the word "Kokkare" meaning stork or pelican in the Kannada language?
Did you know that the teenage Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar's music collection had a long-term influence on the musical style of Johann Sebastian Bach?
Did you know that under university president of Northwest Missouri State University Dean L. Hubbard's tenure a program was started to replace students' printed textbooks with the electronic books or ebooks?
Did you know that , having begun as an affiliate of the fascist Iron Guard, Romanian author Ion Negoiţescu became a noted anti-fascist, before defying the communist regime as an openly homosexual dissident?
Did you know that Cantharellus lateritius may typically be distinguished from other chanterelles by its smooth under surface?
Did you know that Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, was founded by Jonas Gilman Clark in 1887?
Did you know that Jesuit Louis J. Gallagher, who brought to Rome the relics of Andrew Bobola which were rescued from the Bolsheviks by Edmund A. Walsh, later published books about both men?
Did you know that Lucas Murray, who was born blind, is one of the first British people to learn to visualise his surroundings using a technique similar to bats and dolphins, called echolocation?
Did you know that Maria Gulovich sheltered Jews, worked for the anti-fascist underground, and was awarded the Bronze Star for saving the lives of OSS agents during World War II?
Did you know that Marie Wadley helped to introduce legislation to establish the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Oklahoma and later served as its first president?
Did you know that Mary of Woodstock, daughter of Edward I of England, travelled widely as a nun despite a papal travel prohibition?
Did you know that Michał Klepfisz, a hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, saved his comrades' lives by throwing himself on a German machine gun?
Did you know that Nikolai Militov and Makary Ivanov of the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church in Kenai, Alaska, travelled the Kenai Peninsula and vaccinated thousands of Alaskan natives against smallpox?
Did you know that Per Arne Watle, current chairman of Hurtigruten and former CEO of Widerøe, was also president of the European Regions Airline Association?
Did you know that The Kinks founded their own recording studio and record label in 1973, named "Konk"?
Did you know that William Herbert Shipman owned a historic house in Hilo, Hawaii, a refuge from World War II near a volcano, and a remote beach estate where endangered nēnē were raised?
Did you know that banker Jacob Furth, whom historian Bill Speidel called "Seattle's leading citizen for thirty years," began his career as a confectioner in Budapest?
Did you know that in 1991, Victor Erlich, the grandson of Henryk Ehrlich, was informed that his father, a Jewish Bund leader who had been executed on Stalin’s orders, had been "rehabilitated"?
Did you know that in 941 CE, the Byzantine chamberlain Theophanes, commanding only 15 old ships armed with Greek fire, defeated a Rus' fleet of 1,000 ships?
Did you know that more than 4,000 people died in 1933 on Nazino Island in the Soviet Union, many of whom were deported there only because they did not have an internal passport?
Did you know that realising the many sexual and drug pressures facing young people, a student association in Morocco encourages their youth to seek Answers, Solutions and Knowledge?
Did you know that the Encyclopaedia Hebraica, which Bracha Peli started in 1946 with her son, Alexander supervising, issued its final volume 50 years later?