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Did you know that battle for trade was a phrase introduced by Polish communist propaganda for the nationalization of private sector shops?
Did you know that four Japanese War Memorials found in the Japanese Cemetery Park were built without knowledge of the British colonial government of Singapore?
Did you know that some scholars interpret the petroglyphs of Kamyana Mohyla in Ukraine as precursors of the Sumerian cuneiform script?
Did you know that the Community Court of Australia's Northern Territory aims to reduce re-offending by involving the indigenous community in the sentencing process?
Did you know that the peacekeeping Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion, created in the late 1990s, is serving as part of the Kosovo Force?
Did you know that Englishman Peter Marner was the first batsman to hit a century in one-day cricket, in the first round of Gillette Cup matches in 1963?
Did you know that General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge, was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor?
Did you know that General Sir Edward Jones  was the only man to follow his father as a member of the Army Board in the 20th century, and later served as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in the House of Lords?
Did you know that Ghazi Mullah proclaimed that only the elimination of Russians from the Caucasus would please Allah?
Did you know that Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
Did you know that Handigodu Syndrome is an osteoarthritic disorder endemic to the Malnad region in Karnataka, India?
Did you know that Hjalmar Hvam came up with the design for the world's first safety ski bindings while recovering from a skiing injury in hospital?
Did you know that Itzik Zohar scored Israel's first international goal in football after gaining full admittance to UEFA?
Did you know that John Campanius, an early Lutheran missionary to Delaware, transliterated the Lenape language and created one of the first documents to be written in a Native American language?
Did you know that Józef Franczak, last of the cursed soldiers, was a resistance fighter for over half his life?
Did you know that Paul Henkel, operating out of his son's printing house, became the first and only Lutheran publisher in the United States for years?
Did you know that Saint Gangulphus, who was murdered by his wife's lover in 760, is invoked as a patron against adultery and marital difficulties?
Did you know that St. Assam's Church in Raheny, Dublin, has been the site of Christian worship since 1189?
Did you know that U-515 sank seven Allied ships in a 12-hour period during her third patrol of the war?
Did you know that after the 1607 Battle of Guzów, the victorious King Sigismund III Vasa gave a general amnesty which punished nobody and decided nothing?
Did you know that although largely forgotten, Spring in Park Lane is still the British film with the highest cinema attendances in the UK?
Did you know that for the past 16 years Michael Kesterton has written a column in The Globe and Mail made up of a collection of odd news stories pulled from various sources?
Did you know that in 1877 naturalist John Muir described the waterfall in Eaton Canyon as "a charming little thing, with a low, sweet voice, singing like a bird, as it pours from a notch in a short ledge, some thirty or forty feet into a round mirror-pool"?
Did you know that in his varied career in French politics, Raymond Janot was concurrently mayor of a small town and secretary-general of the international French Community?
Did you know that investigative journalist John Sweeney stated his outburst in the documentary Scientology and Me was a by-product of viewing the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights exhibit, "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death"?
Did you know that investment banker Bill Hambrecht has pledged $2 million to help start an American Football league to compete with the National Football League?
Did you know that motorsport announcer Ken Squier coined the phrase "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500?
Did you know that ribbon diagrams, which represent the three-dimensional structure of proteins, are produced by a computerized spline function?
Did you know that slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line, and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
Did you know that the Bukit Batok Memorial was built by Australian POWs to honor the war dead of the Japanese and Allies from Singapore's Battle of Bukit Timah?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Belisarius held the last Roman triumph ever to be awarded to a private citizen for his victory in the Vandalic War?
Did you know that the Hill of Ash near Kerch was the first Scythian royal mound excavated in modern times?
Did you know that the Historic Michigan Boulevard District came to be one of the most famous one-sided streets as a result of the legal persistence of Aaron Montgomery Ward?
Did you know that the Splendid Fairy-wren of Western Australia is more closely related to the Crow than the original European Wren?
Did you know that the Susquehanna Boom led to Williamsport, Pennsylvania having more millionaires per capita than any other city at the time?
Did you know that the US Supreme Court overturned the suspension of seventy-five students from Marion-Franklin High School?
Did you know that the Xhosa Wars veteran Stephen Bartlett Lakeman became an Ottoman pasha and, late in his life, helped create the Romanian National Liberal Party?
Did you know that the heaviest domestic pig on record weighed over a long ton but died before it could be exhibited at the Century of Progress in 1933?
Did you know that the modern history of aviation in Bangladesh began by meeting the needs of the Royal Indian Air Force for its World War II Burma campaign?
Did you know that the mounds of Indian Mound Park on Dauphin Island, Alabama are composed of oyster shells discarded over centuries by migrant Indians?
Did you know that when British charity Aid Convoy's first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to Macedonia, it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter Simon Mayo?
Did you know that Oregon Governor Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose martial law in 1914?
Did you know that cricketer Charles Macartney, who set a record for the most runs scored in one day, first learnt to bat with apples from the family orchard?
Did you know that during World War II, Allied leaders met at the Droxford Station of the Meon Valley Railway to plan Operation Overlord?
Did you know that the climate of Florida includes snowfall or sleet as early as November (in 2006) and as late as April (in 2007)?
Did you know that the construction of the Asama class cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy began as a private venture by the British shipbuilder Armstrong Whitworth of Elswick, for projected export business?
Did you know that the law enforcement agencies of Adjara made a gift of four cars and two two-roomed apartments to six of its most successful officers?
Did you know that the practice of cumul des mandats in French politics, holding multiple political offices at different levels of government concurrently, has been used by Jacques Chirac and Ségolène Royal?
Did you know that thermal vent ecosystems have been discovered in the Aegean Sea, in the caldera of Kolumbo underwater volcano?
Did you know that Cecilia Krieger, who translated the work of Sierpinski into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?
Did you know that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
Did you know that Gerlachovský štít, Slovakia's highest mountain, has been renamed seven times due to regime changes?
Did you know that Government Sanskrit College was the first college of the ancient city of Benares, established in 1791?
Did you know that Gregory S. Martin was the first non-Navy officer nominated to head the United States Pacific Command, but withdrew after Senator John McCain questioned whether he had "the quality to command"?
Did you know that Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
Did you know that Józef Franczak, last of the cursed soldiers, was a Polish resistance fighter for 24 out of 45 years of his life?
Did you know that L.L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park is the first new full-service state park in Oregon since 1972?
Did you know that Norm O'Neill's maiden Test century helped the Australian cricket team win its only Test on Pakistani soil for 39 years?
Did you know that Rhode Island ratified the United States Constitution more than a year after the new government had started operating?
Did you know that Samuel Azu Crabbe was named and fired as Chief Justice of Ghana in a decree specifically made for the purpose by the Supreme Military Council that had appointed him four years earlier?
Did you know that Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time, a 1939 painting by Salvador Dalí, is believed to be a criticism of the sexualisation of child stars by Hollywood?
Did you know that Stereo Type, by the Welsh composer Guto Puw, was written for the combination of amplified typewriters and tape and was premiered in a shopping centre in Bangor, Gwynedd?
Did you know that Tunnel Mountain has never had a tunnel run through it, and the name is due to an error by Major A.B. Rogers while surveying for the Canadian Pacific Railway?
Did you know that Ujjayanta Palace was rebuilt in downtown Agartala, India after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1897?
Did you know that a Three-Year Plan succeeded in rebuilding the economy of Poland from World War II devastation?
Did you know that after taxiing past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402, BOAC flight 911 also crashed, with 188 total lives lost in less than a day?
Did you know that all five species of the catfish genus Epactionotus are endemic to limited geographic areas in Brazil and Argentina?
Did you know that before police duty belts, British female police officers had to apply for permission to carry handcuffs?
Did you know that between 1952 and 1976 members of the Soviet Armed Forces sports society won more than a hundred gold medals at Summer Olympics?
Did you know that in the 1950s Dr. Leonidas Berry started the Berry Plan to provide medical counseling clinics for young drug addicts in Chicago?
Did you know that sexual size dimorphism in the Brown Songlark is among the most pronounced in any bird, with males as much as 2.3 times heavier than females?
Did you know that the 1902 British Home Championship football tournament was won by Scotland in a replay after the deciding match was marred by the deaths of 25 spectators when a stand collapsed at Ibrox Park?
Did you know that the Aranthalawa Massacre, by the Tamil Tigers, resulted in the deaths of 30 young novice monks, their mentor, and four other civilians?
Did you know that the Australian town of Great Western, Victoria is home to a series of labyrinthine tunnels ("drives"), originally made by miners searching for gold and now used to store sparkling wine while it is resting and settling?
Did you know that the Finnish-Novgorodian Wars only ended with the Swedish conquest of Finland in 1249, resulting in the Swedish-Novgorodian Wars?
Did you know that the Foedus Cassianum, named after the negotiator, Spurius Cassius, was the first of many foederati signed by Rome?
Did you know that the Kirchberg convent, built in 1237, is one of the oldest female church houses in central Europe?
Did you know that the Squander Bug was a propaganda character created to encourage saving in the United Kingdom during World War II?
Did you know that the Walter Gale House is the earliest independent design by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
Did you know that the bear Wojtek was an officially enlisted soldier of the Polish II Corps and a participant in the Battle of Monte Cassino?
Did you know that the energy lobby contributed 19 million dollars to United States political campaigns in the 2006 election cycle?
Did you know that the number of North Koreans in Russia has increased due to a decline in the North Korean economy?
Did you know that the only written version of the Arthurian ballad "King Arthur and King Cornwall" was torn up and used to start fires?
Did you know that the rape case involving a party at De Anza College has drawn national criticism and focus on the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office?
Did you know that the test for enrollment at Germany's Helmut Schmidt University involves not an intelligence test, but military training and troop procedures?
Did you know that Bidhannagar College, a government college in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, had to move out of its old premises because of student overpopulation?
Did you know that Donald Johanos, music director and conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, was given an award by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1991 for "adventuresome programming of contemporary music"?
Did you know that Germerius is said to have been given as much land as the shadow of his cloak could cover (about a six miles radius) by Clovis I in exchange for his prayers?
Did you know that Mahalo.com is a human-powered search engine whose lead investor Sequoia Capital helped start both Yahoo! and Google?
Did you know that Mammes of Caesarea is said to have been breast-fed by his father?
Did you know that Manson Family member Paul Watkins gave testimony to the Los Angeles District Attorney which helped explain Helter Skelter?
Did you know that footballer George Wynn was Manchester City's leading goalscorer in three consecutive seasons?
Did you know that for Lee Ritenour's first album, First Course, he drafted his friends, including Dave Grusin, Frank Rosolino and Tom Scott, from Dante's and the Baked Potato club in Studio City?
Did you know that giant vegetables are entered in competitions around the world, with seeds being traded over the Internet?
Did you know that pachamanca is a Peruvian dish which has its origins in Inca cuisine?
Did you know that some species of fish undergo a genetically programmed sex change during their development?
Did you know that the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Edward R. Hills House was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1976?
Did you know that the Wallachian poet Ion Heliade Rădulescu advocated a radical transformation of the Romanian language on the basis of Italian neologisms?
Did you know that the bombing of Zurich in World War II led to court martial proceedings with Jimmy Stewart as presiding officer?
Did you know that the catfish of the genus Batasio are found in fast-flowing hillstreams throughout South and mainland Southeast Asia?
Did you know that the disinvestment from South Africa campaign in the late 1980s was a key factor pressuring the South African Government to embark on the negotiations which ultimately led to the dismantling of apartheid?
Did you know that the house of University President Marion L. Brittain was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that the nest of the Scarlet Honeyeater is a tiny cup of shredded bark bound with spiders' webs?
Did you know that the recently released diary of teenaged Polish Holocaust victim Rutka Laskier has been compared to the diary of Anne Frank?
Did you know that the repertoire of the Australian passerine, the Red-capped Robin includes "tinkle" and "blurt" calls?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright designed the George W. Smith House in 1895 as one of a series of low-cost homes but it was not constructed until 1898?
Did you know that French Minister of Marine Jean-Marie Charles Abrial fought in both World Wars and was imprisoned on accusations of collaboration with the Nazis?
Did you know that German composer Christian Geist died of the bubonic plague in 1711, along with his wife and children?
Did you know that Lake Taupo's Hatepe eruption around 180 AD devastated much of New Zealand's North Island and turned the skies red over China and Rome?
Did you know that Robert Kotei, then Ghana's high jump record holder, once successfully foiled a military coup against the NRC government, only to be executed years later after a successful coup against his own SMC government?
Did you know that famed Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof lived in a Tibetan monastery while he recorded the height and location of the highest peak outside of the Himalayas, Minya Konka?
Did you know that in a few of the international cricket matches played by India in the 1990s, more than half of the players in the Indian team belonged to the state of Karnataka?
Did you know that nearly one in every twelve suicides by firearm is a multiple gunshot suicide?
Did you know that the 1863 Battle of Shimonoseki was the first naval confrontation between the U.S. Navy and a Japanese fleet?
Did you know that the New York Giants, an NFL American football team, were founded in 1925 by a bookmaker with an investment of US$500, and their estimated value has increased to nearly $900 million?
Did you know that the Soviet MT-55 bridge layer tanks were  modified by the Czechoslovakians using their gap measuring mechanism and infrared equipment and renamed as the MT-55A?
Did you know that the father of cricketer Peter Burge had to resign from Queensland's selection committee when his son was being discussed for selection?
Did you know that the first Western abbot of Singapore's Buddhist Poh Ern Shih Temple was an American?
Did you know that B. V. Karanth trained alongside Dr. Rajkumar under Gubbi Veeranna, one of the pioneers of Kannada theater?
Did you know that Gasparo Berti's experiment in atmospheric pressure and vacuums led to the invention of the barometer?
Did you know that Henry Pering Pellew Crease was appointed British Columbia's first Attorney General by Governor (and ex-HBC Chief Factor) Sir James Douglas?
Did you know that Kung Fu Jimmy Chow is a cartoon parody that has the appearance of a dubbed Japanese anime?
Did you know that Leyla Mammadbeyova was the first Azerbaijani female aviator and the second parachutist woman in the former Soviet Union?
Did you know that Neil Harvey once helped the Australian cricket team win a Test by deliberately throwing away his wicket when Pakistan attempted to thwart a victory by time wasting?
Did you know that Oleh Lysheha, educated at Lviv University, was the first Ukrainian poet to receive the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation?
Did you know that Paul Philippoteaux was a noted painter of cycloramas, cylindrical paintings over 100 yards long, whose effect was so realistic they have been likened to IMAX movies?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan is the only American President to have his diaries published into a best selling book?
Did you know that Shakespeare's religion is speculated by many scholars to have been Catholic?
Did you know that Slabsides, John Burroughs' historic log cabin  in West Park, New York, is only open to the public two days every year?
Did you know that William A. Brady is the only person to have managed two undisputed heavyweight champion boxers?
Did you know that a massive mudflow destroyed two-thirds of the Valley of Geysers on June 3, 2007?
Did you know that the Aberfeldy Distillery closed for two years during World War I, because they could not get barley?
Did you know that the Australian Harvey family includes the leading Australian batsman of the 1950s Neil Harvey as well as his grandnephew Robert Harvey, who won consecutive Brownlow Medals as the best player in Australian Football?
Did you know that the Orange Mill Historic District between Newburgh and Gardnertown, New York, features the only remaining 19th-century gunpowder mill complex in the state?
Did you know that the Russo-Japanese War vintage Japanese cruiser Yakumo was the only warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy (aside from prizes-of-war) to have been built in Germany?
Did you know that the Sicilian revolt caused so many slaves to leave mainland Rome that the Vestal Virgins prayed for the desertion to stop?
Did you know that the original painting of Hogarth's Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn was destroyed in a fire in 1874?
Did you know that 2006 Winter Olympics speedskating champion, Shani Davis', welcome-home celebration was held at the Harold Washington Cultural Center?
Did you know that Deborah Lawrie became the first female pilot with an Australian airline after winning a landmark sex discrimination case against Ansett Airlines?
Did you know that Dutch amateur football club IJsselmeervogels received the Dutch Sports Team of the Year Award in 1975, for reaching the semi-final of the KNVB Cup?
Did you know that Ernest Austin set the whole of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress for solo organ, at a length of nearly three hours?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1915 Emil Bach House in Chicago was originally a "country home" that now stands on a busy city street in the Rogers Park neighborhood?
Did you know that Scottish clergyman Alexander Edward was deprived of his parish after the establishment of Presbyterianism, and later became an architect?
Did you know that World War II historian Janusz Piekałkiewicz fled Poland in 1956, relying on mountaineering and secret resistance routes?
Did you know that in order to stem a population decline a "dollar block" promotion was held in the Australian town of Jandowae, Queensland where 38 parcels of land were sold for one dollar each?
Did you know that males of the endangered South Andean Deer have a distinctive black "face mask" that forms an elongated heart-shape?
Did you know that religion in the Western Ganga Dynasty included influences from Jainism and the Hindu sects Shaivism, Vedic Brahminism and Vaishnavism?
Did you know that the 1909-built Wright-Bock Fountain, attributed to both Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Bock, was completely replaced with a replica in 1969?
Did you know that the Andrew O. Anderson House in DeKalb, Illinois, a design by architect John S. Van Bergen, has long been mistaken for a Frank Lloyd Wright building?
Did you know that Australian soldier Ringer Edwards survived 63 hours of crucifixion by Japanese soldiers during World War II?
Did you know that Charles Wilfred Orr wrote more settings of A. E. Housman's poetry than any other composer?
Did you know that Erica Larson, a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, won the Pikes Peak mountain marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history?
Did you know that Europe's largest sewage treatment plant is in Psyttaleia, Greece?
Did you know that Polish Baroque historian and poet Wespazjan Kochowski has been considered one of the most typical representatives of the szlachta philosophy of Sarmatism?
Did you know that Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi were assassinated by two surface-to-air missiles?
Did you know that poor performance in the twilight of the career of Graham McKenzie, Australia's leading pace bowler of the 1960s, led to mistaken fears that he had contracted hepatitis?
Did you know that the Brandenburg Navy fought in many battles in the Baltic Sea before merging with the Prussian Navy in 1701?
Did you know that the Caves of Nerja were discovered in 1959, and opened as a tourist attraction a year later?
Did you know that the Wiseman hypothesis proposes the accounts of the book of Genesis were written hundreds to thousands of years before Moses, and that Genesis names the authors?
Did you know that the performance of La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina in Warsaw in 1628 was the earliest performance of an Italian opera outside of Italy?