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Did you know that it is estimated that 40% of the Tamil and Malayalam Nadar caste are Christians?
Did you know that the Brabham BT19 driven by Jack Brabham was the first car bearing its driver's name to win a Formula One world championship race?
Did you know that the California Wine Country is known for its cuisine, recreation and history as much as viticulture?
Did you know that the July Theses, a set of proposals found in a speech by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, were inspired by his visits to Communist China, Korea and Vietnam?
Did you know that the late-15th century Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales, a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, is one of the most famous works composed by Josquin des Prez?
Did you know that the mother of Jamila Massey, an Indian actress and writer, refused to allow her to attend drama school, after the death of her father?
Did you know that the rare Pitkin Marsh lily is limited today to three small colonies, due to cattle overgrazing of its habitat and the flower's popularity with humans?
Did you know that the term "reserve heads", found in Ancient Egyptian tombs, is derived from the prevalent theory that they serve as an alternate home for the spirit of the dead owner if anything should happen to the body?
Did you know that , 23 years after explorer Charles Sturt found and named the Murray River, his brother Evelyn Sturt, a Police Magistrate and notable grazier, declared it absurd that the area would ever become agricultural?
Did you know that Adolfo Holley was the first Minister of War and Navy of the victorious revolutionary congressional junta in the Chilean Civil War?
Did you know that Assaji, the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant, converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples?
Did you know that British architect Jan Kaplický escaped from Prague to London in the wake of the Prague Spring, carrying only US$100 and a few pairs of socks?
Did you know that Chabad rabbi Milton Balkany misappropriated more than $700,000 of federal grant money from a charitable organisation that cared for disabled children?
Did you know that Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam after a fraudulent 1955 election run by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, polling 133% of registered voters in Saigon?
Did you know that Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the oldest church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was originally built by a Universalist Society but soon acquired by a Catholic French Canadian congregation?
Did you know that Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets is believed to have been the first professional painter of Chechen origin ever?
Did you know that Sara Gruen’s historical novel Water for Elephants recounts that circus workers were sometimes thrown off the circus train in the middle of the night, a practice known as "redlighting"?
Did you know that Tillamook Cheddar, a Jack Russell Terrier from Brooklyn, New York, is the world's most successful and widely shown animal artist?
Did you know that Work, painted over 13 years from 1852 to 1865, is generally considered to be the most important painting by Ford Madox Brown?
Did you know that aquarium filters are necessary to support life as aquaria are relatively small, closed volumes of water compared to the natural environment of most fish?
Did you know that numerous common idioms feature one of the various slang meanings of 'dime'?
Did you know that pattens were wooden-soled overshoes worn from the 14th to 19th centuries to raise the wearer above mud and dirt?
Did you know that the Australian cricket team's world record of 16 consecutive wins ended during its 2002 India tour, when India recorded only the third win in Test cricket history by a side forced to follow-on?
Did you know that the Gortyn code is the largest surviving piece of ancient Greek epigraphy?
Did you know that the Woodward & Lothrop Service Warehouse in Washington, D.C. still features a large pink neon sign identifying it as a Woodward & Lothrop property, even though the company is defunct?
Did you know that the cornerstone of moral syncretism is that religion cannot be the only arbiter of morality?
Did you know that the units of the Red Army and the Afghan army fought the Battles of Zhawar in 1985-86 to destroy a mujahideen supply base near the Pakistani border?
Did you know that when Birmingham-based early-music choir Ex Cathedra founded its Baroque orchestra in its 1983–1984 season, this was the first period instrument orchestra to be established in an English city outside London?
Did you know that Anuruddha, one of the leading five disciples of Gautama Buddha, was his cousin?
Did you know that Dr Brewer's A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar is a 19th century example of the persistence of the caloric theory of heat transfer?
Did you know that Innocence, a 2005 documentary film about a school in rural northern Thailand, influenced the Thai government to reverse cuts it had made in the education budget?
Did you know that Le Quang Tung, the Catholic head of South Vietnam's special forces had his CIA funding threatened because he concentrated on repressing Buddhists and raiding temples instead of fighting communists?
Did you know that Louis-Sébastien Lenormand invented what is now known as BASE jumping by parachuting from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in 1783 (jump illustrated), and also coined the word parachute?
Did you know that an apparition of Saint Michael is said to have convinced Antoninus of Sorrento and Catellus of Castellammare to found a new church after both resigned from the same bishopric?
Did you know that bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński was one of the leaders of the Bar Confederation, the first Polish uprising?
Did you know that despite the relatively low level of academic output by Professor Gary Chaison, he is widely cited in the American mass media?
Did you know that poison, over its 6500-year history, has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination?
Did you know that press passes grant the bearer access to crime scenes or other restricted areas unless it would interfere with the duties of emergency personnel?
Did you know that the Banat Bulgarian Stefan Dunjov participated in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification, and was the first Bulgarian to be promoted to the rank of Colonel?
Did you know that the fossil of Ichthyornis discovered by Benjamin Franklin Mudge was the first bird recognized to possess teeth?
Did you know that Al Sobotka, who drives the Zamboni for Detroit Red Wings games, is the namesake of the team mascot Al the Octopus?
Did you know that Brazilian bull rider Adriano Moraes is one of only three men to ride ten out of ten bulls at the U.S. National Finals Rodeo?
Did you know that Ellis Bent was the first barrister appointed as a judge in Australia?
Did you know that Lucceius Albinus had just been appointed Roman procurator and was still on his way to take office in Judea when the High Priest of Israel took advantage of the lack of imperial oversight to assemble a Sanhedrin and had James, the brother of Jesus stoned without Roman authorization?
Did you know that New York City's Central Park West Historic District contains only one building not felt to contribute to its historic character?
Did you know that Pectinaria australis, a marine ice cream cone worm of New Zealand, builds a delicate tube home from sand grains only one grain thick?
Did you know that S. graminifolium was one of only four Stylidium species collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander from Botany Bay in 1770 on their voyage to Australia with James Cook?
Did you know that The Crystals did not actually sing on their 1962 #1 hit "He's a Rebel"?
Did you know that a sculpture of Jesus near Tiškevičiai Palace in Palanga was torn down in 1948 and not reconstructed until 1993?
Did you know that archaeologists discovered bones of at least seven people sacrificed by druids in Havránok, Slovakia?
Did you know that in five years of operation during World War II, more than 747 vessels were built in the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California—a feat not equaled anywhere else in the world, before or since?
Did you know that naturalist Remington Kellogg used his time serving in France during World War I to collect specimens for universities in the United States?
Did you know that the Imperial Castle in Poznań was to be a symbol of Prussian power but was lost to Poland only eight years after its completion?
Did you know that the Poznań 1956 protests (memorial pictured) were the first major demonstration against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland?
Did you know that the geology of Gloucestershire (Garden Cliff pictured) is one of the most diverse in England, with rocks from the Precambrian through to the Jurassic represented?
Did you know that 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster case, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California schools?
Did you know that Eagle Grange No. 1 in Clinton Township, Lycoming County was the first grange to be established in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Eugene Antonio Marino became the first African American Catholic archbishop in the United States in 1988?
Did you know that George B. Schwabe served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1921 to 1922 and was the first and only Republican to hold that position until 2005?
Did you know that Hungerford Market, a food market in London for nearly 200 years, was demolished in the 1860s to make way for Charing Cross railway station?
Did you know that Jaina Island, a Maya necropolis, contains over 20,000 burials, with every one excavated having one or more ceramic figurines (example pictured)?
Did you know that The Wordless Book was invented by the London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon and employs religious symbolism and color psychology in evangelism?
Did you know that a view from the Plaza Mayor in Trinidad, Cuba, is featured on the 25 centavo convertible peso coin?
Did you know that architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building, in New York City, when it opened in 1929?
Did you know that convicted American felon Matthew Cox was so bold in committing over $15 million of mortgage fraud that he allegedly even took out a mortgage under the name of The Simpsons character "C. Montgomery Burns"?
Did you know that despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences?
Did you know that the 1903 Vagabond Hurricane is the most recent Atlantic hurricane to strike the state of New Jersey, and briefly threatened the life of President Theodore Roosevelt?
Did you know that the Bangladeshi filmmaker Alamgir Kabir was imprisoned by Ayub Khan for being a leftist?
Did you know that the Century apartments is one of the first residential buildings to be built in the Art Deco style, causing it to stand out from its Beaux-Arts neighbors on Central Park West?
Did you know that the LST-1-class tank landing ship USS Benzie County was featured in a World War II-era Camel cigarettes advertisement?
Did you know that the large reredos above the altar in St. Martin's Church in Brighton, England, includes 20 pictures and 69 statues, all of which were carved in Oberammergau, Germany?
Did you know that upon completion of Central Reclamation Phase 1 of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project in Hong Kong, the coastline of Central, Hong Kong was extended up to 350 metres beyond the original coastline?
Did you know that 18th century prostitute Sally Salisbury was sent to prison after a riot but was released by a judge who was infatuated with her?
Did you know that Dr John Billings was an Australian neurologist who developed the Billings ovulation method of family planning?
Did you know that Finland was close to becoming an independent kingdom in 1742?
Did you know that Grey's Scouts, despite starting off as a small provisional group, became one of the most effective and successful Special Forces units in the Rhodesian Bush War?
Did you know that Jewish-Polish historian Lucjan Dobroszycki who survived the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in World War II was known as the New York City YIVO's "research consultant to the stars"?
Did you know that Neil McLean persuaded the British government not to recognise the Yemen Arab Republic takeover of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen during the North Yemen Civil War?
Did you know that alongside the many honours, awards and medals bestowed upon him during his lifetime Winston Churchill was offered a dukedom, which he declined?
Did you know that although the modern trumpet is a recent invention, primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia?
Did you know that professional ice hockey player Bob Bailey was traded three separate times for Bill Dineen over a nine year period?
Did you know that the "Girl Grimmett", Peggy Antonio, was the first Australian to take a wicket in women's Test cricket?
Did you know that the Amoy dialect of Chinese formed the basis of Taiwanese?
Did you know that the Armenian community of Dhaka played a major role in education in Bangladesh, and owned major landmarks, such as the gardens of Shahbag and Bangabhaban?
Did you know that the Chaga mushroom has been used as a folk remedy in Eastern European countries for ulcers, cancer and gastritis since the 16th century?
Did you know that the Poznań International Fair is the largest trade fair in Poland?
Did you know that the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park (logo pictured) is the first national tribute to home front American women?
Did you know that the city of Mysore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, has been called the "Cultural Capital of Karnataka"?
Did you know that the process of adding sugar to wine prompted 900,000 people to protest in the French Languedoc, culminating in riots that killed five people?
Did you know that Antoni Szylling was captured by the Germans as a Major in the Russian Army during World War I, and was captured again by the Germans in World War II as a General of the Polish Army?
Did you know that Belgium's Carnival of Binche, which features a "battle of confetti", is the culmination of a build-up lasting 50 days?
Did you know that Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter was the first of its kind in Hong Kong?
Did you know that Charles Frederick Field was the basis for Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House?
Did you know that Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is an ancient Sumerian tablet describing how Enmerkar of Uruk forced the people of Aratta to contribute materials for the ziggurats he was building?
Did you know that Hypancistrus is a genus of catfish with suckermouths, including popular aquarium fish such as the zebra pleco?
Did you know that Leela Majumdar, author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali?
Did you know that NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS, for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or beyond?
Did you know that Neil Doak was named in the Ireland squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup but did not play, just missing out on becoming the first Irish dual cricket/rugby union international since the 1960s?
Did you know that in 1906 The New York Times praised The Langham apartment building, noting among its modern amenities "real ice"?
Did you know that in the 1957 Polish legislative elections, only 723 of 60,000 candidates were allowed to run?
Did you know that it is unclear whether the Church of St Abamūn in 13th century Busiris was dedicated to Abāmūn of Tarnūt or Abāmūn of Tukh?
Did you know that pharmacist Sir Hugh Linstead introduced the British Act of Parliament which criminalised cannabis cultivation?
Did you know that the "secret university" largely organised by Frank Bell in a World War II POW camp taught subjects as diverse as Urdu, pig-farming, civics and chess?
Did you know that the earliest known examples of polyphonic music, dating from the 9th century, are written in Daseian notation?
Did you know that the modern meaning of "ballad", a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form, came about from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway composers?
Did you know that the typical Amsterdammertjes that line the streets of Amsterdam will be gradually removed?
Did you know that All Saints' Church in Daresbury, Cheshire has stained glass panels depicting characters from Alice in Wonderland?
Did you know that Grey Herons began nesting in the Kaggaladu heronry in only a single tree?
Did you know that Put Down Your Whip, a 1939 oil painting by Xu Beihong, recently sold for US$9.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a Chinese painting at an auction?
Did you know that Sorubim is a genus of catfish with shovel-shaped long noses?
Did you know that Stephana de Quinzanis once threw herself upon a cartload of thorns in imitation of a penance done by St Thomas Aquinas?
Did you know that an appellate court panel immediately freed Wisconsin civil servant Georgia Thompson on conclusion of oral arguments, an almost-unheard of occurrence?
Did you know that botanist Leonard John Brass was born and died in Australia, served in the Canadian Army, became an American citizen and did most of his fieldwork in New Guinea?
Did you know that chal is a traditional Turkic drink made from fermented camel's milk, which is popular in Central Asia, as well as in the Near East?
Did you know that citizens from the city of Narni, Italy tried to kidnap Dominican mystic Columba of Rieti for their own city, but she escaped?
Did you know that despite the country's oil revenues, only 87% of Venezuelan citizens have access to potable water and 71% have access to sanitation?
Did you know that during the Holocaust, Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît created fake passports and baptism certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Southern France?
Did you know that educator Eliot Wigginton, editor of the landmark 12-volume Foxfire oral history anthologies, had to give up teaching in 1992 after pleading guilty to child molestation?
Did you know that the Auto-Lite Strike culminated in the "Battle of Toledo," a five-day melee between 6,000 striking workers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard that left two dead and more than 200 injured?
Did you know that the Saint Petersburg–Hiitola railroad was completed by 1917, but a year later the Finnish Civil War caused traffic to stop, with a mile of track removed?
Did you know that the Swedish-Norwegian Union Jack of 1844 became so unpopular that it was contemptuously nicknamed the Sillsalaten, after a colorful dish of pickled herring, red beets and apples?
Did you know that the ancient goddess Venus derived her epithet Venus Erycina from her celebrated temple on Mount Eryx in Sicily?
Did you know that the bestselling 1906 erotic novel Josephine Mutzenbacher is thought to have been written by Felix Salten, the author of Bambi?
Did you know that the crown in the coat of arms of Amsterdam is the Imperial Crown of Austria?
Did you know that the idiom forty winks relates to the biblical use of the number 40, thus meaning just the right amount of sleep?
Did you know that the soldiers of the Black Brunswickers dressed entirely in black and wore hats with Death's Heads on them to reflect their commander's hatred for Napoleon?
Did you know that the steam generated by the Southeast Steam Plant for the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota is enough to heat 55,000 homes?
Did you know that yaylag, the Turkic tradition of moving to highland pastures in the summer, started in the fourth millennium BCE?
Did you know that 11th century Muslim Al-Andalusian poet Wallada bint al-Mustakfi dressed in public in the fashion of the harems of Baghdad, without a customary hijab?
Did you know that Alwatan is the first and oldest Omani newspaper?
Did you know that British MP James Henderson Stewart was only one of four National Liberals to vote against Neville Chamberlain in the Norway Debate?
Did you know that British television programmes including Cluedo and The Forsyte Saga were partly filmed at Arley Hall in Cheshire?
Did you know that Camillo Ynitia was the only Native American on the northern frontier of Alta California to secure a large land grant for his tribe?
Did you know that Elvira Popescu, an actress, theatre director, and recipient of the Légion d'honneur, was one of four women who inspired Henri Matisse's painting La Blouse Roumaine?
Did you know that Kenneth Farrow GC attempted to rescue a boy from an underground aqueduct despite strong current, heavy deposits on the floor and almost no headroom or handholds?
Did you know that Phreatobius cisternarum, a species of catfish, is one of the few fish species that lives underground?
Did you know that Romanian socialist Constantin Mille amused himself by fabricating news about his activities and having them published in the Conservative Party press?
Did you know that US physicist Gaylord Harnwell was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh?
Did you know that Zen master Dahui Zonggao ordered the destruction of the Blue Cliff Record, his master's collection of koans, making it unavailable for the next two centuries?
Did you know that although Russian is the most widely used second language in Ukraine, it has no official status in the country?
Did you know that due to Claude de Bernales' marketing of the gold fields of Western Australia in the 1930s, production increased sevenfold and employment in the industry quadrupled?
Did you know that in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. the U.S. Supreme Court held that preliminary work activities should be included as working time under the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Did you know that legend says that Osanna of Mantua miraculously learned to read just by looking at a piece of paper with the words Jesus and Mary written on it?
Did you know that the Cave of Swallows is so large and wide that it is possible to navigate a hot air balloon through the cave with ease?
Did you know that the Declaration to the Seven was the first British pronouncement to the Arab states of the former Ottoman Empire advancing the principle of national self-determination?
Did you know that the Missa de Beata Virgine was the most popular of Josquin des Prez's masses in the 16th century?
Did you know that the Ouachita Madtom is a rare species of miniature catfish found only in central Arkansas?
Did you know that the homosexual content of the works of António Botto led Catholic students to call for the author's hanging?
Did you know that the prototypes for the WW II German U-boat fleet (Type II pictured) were designed by a Dutch company and built in Finland at the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard?
Did you know that Alan Davidson, regarded as one of the greatest left arm fast bowlers in the history of cricket, only took up the skill when his uncle's weekend team ran out of fast bowlers?
Did you know that Bollywood actress Shenaz Treasurywala was discovered while stuck in India when Kuwait Airways lost her luggage, including travel documents she needed to return to school in New York?
Did you know that Building 470 at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland housed fermentor tanks for producing Bacillus anthracis during the Cold War?
Did you know that Lloyd Groff Copeman, the inventor of the rubber ice cube tray, the electric stove and a toaster which turned bread automatically, was singer Linda Ronstadt's grandfather?
Did you know that after being captured by pirates, friar Matthew Carrieri offered to remain a captive in place of others, which shocked the pirate captain so much he set all the prisoners free?
Did you know that atop Berne's medieval clock tower Zytglogge a gilded figure of Chronos strikes the bell every hour?
Did you know that during the Mexican-American War, Ygnacio del Valle destroyed a gold mine on his property to prevent the Americans from gaining access to it?