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Did you know that Communist Romania's Foreign Minister, Grigore Preoteasa, was killed in an aircraft accident after refusing to wear a seat belt during landing?
Did you know that Pike Island in Minnesota was part of the 100,000 acres (405 km²) purchased from the Dakota Indians in 1805 by Zebulon Pike?
Did you know that Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the first member of the Japanese Imperial Family to die during World War II?
Did you know that Pulau Senang was a penal settlement in Singapore but shut down after only three years when a riot broke out in 1963?
Did you know that Remuh Synagogue is the only functioning synagogue in Kraków, Poland?
Did you know that Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?
Did you know that Walter Hancock designed the first steam-powered bus to travel from London to Brighton?
Did you know that as they don't require fans, ejector venturi scrubbers are able to handle exhaust gases more corrosive or sticky than other systems can?
Did you know that the first comprehensive campaign of unionized labor was the subject of the 1979 Academy Award-winning film Norma Rae?
Did you know that , in addition to the seven-day week, the Javanese calendar incorporates a five-day week, which runs concurrently to produce a repeating cycle of 35 days?
Did you know that Abraham Bosse (work pictured) wrote the first Manual of Etching, and was forced in 1661 to resign from the French Royal Academy of Art and Sculpture in a row over methods of perspective?
Did you know that Antonio Fontanesi (work pictured) was one of three foreign artists chosen by the Meiji government to oversee Japan's first public art school?
Did you know that Graham Creek in California was a seasonal hunting and gathering ground for prehistoric Pomo and Wappo people?
Did you know that Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II, and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters?
Did you know that Mafioso Totò Riina eulogised Giuseppe Calderone as a great peacemaker, despite having been allegedly responsible for ordering his death?
Did you know that Texas politician Maury Maverick, Jr. killed a bill to sentence convicted communists to death by adding a poison pill amendment to sentence suspected communists to life imprisonment?
Did you know that U.S. judge Charles Crookham held a mock funeral for Roman numerals when they were retired from use in state pleadings?
Did you know that Ye Htoon was the final director-general of the Burmese Scout Movement before the military junta disbanded it in 1964?
Did you know that Zimbabwe is the only cricket team to not lose its first Test match since Australia won the very first Test in 1877?
Did you know that controversy arose over the naughty nurse uniforms worn by staff at Arizona's Heart Attack Grill?
Did you know that in 1944 a railway ferry on the Norwegian railway Rjukanbanen was sunk to 430 meters depth to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons?
Did you know that printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market?
Did you know that six Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres are charged with globally tracking tropical cyclones?
Did you know that the Austrian-born writer Gregor von Rezzori acted in several movies alongside stars such as Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni or Charles Aznavour?
Did you know that the Karr-Koussevitzky bass was given to Gary Karr after Koussevitzky's widow reported seeing his ghost embrace Karr on stage?
Did you know that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 is a law passed by the United States Congress in December 2006 for the purpose of protecting the reputation and honor of US military heroism medals due to the larger number of fake military heroes in the USA?
Did you know that the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?
Did you know that the support that Australian author Mary Grant Bruce gave to racial stereotypes and social Darwinism in her books was redacted from later editions?
Did you know that venturi scrubbers use the named effect explained by Bernoulli's principle to remove unwanted particles from an exhaust stream?
Did you know that Article 10 of the Constitution of Malaysia guarantees citizens certain rights on condition that these rights are not restricted by the government?
Did you know that Broadway actress Evelyn Hoey was found shot dead in the bedroom of oil heir Henry H. Rogers's grandson in 1935?
Did you know that Henry Percy was killed in a battle against Henry IV of England, whom he had helped to gain the Crown in a coup d'état?
Did you know that John Singleton Copley's painting, Watson and the Shark, was based on a real-life shark attack that occurred in Havana, Cuba in 1749?
Did you know that Julien Wiener is the only Jewish Australian Test cricketer?
Did you know that Operation Show Me How was a major Interpol narcotics bust concerning the transporting of  heroin within the covers of the children's book Show-Me-How-I-Can-Paint?
Did you know that Peter Gadsden, the 652nd Lord Mayor of London, was born in Canada and became a Companion of the Order of Australia?
Did you know that astrophilately is the area of philately connected with human spaceflight?
Did you know that former NASCAR chairman Bill France, Jr. once used a mule while helping with the construction of Daytona International Speedway?
Did you know that in the Oregon ghost town of Boyd only the wheat fields are still operational?
Did you know that snowmelt from the Carhuasanta travels farther than water from any other source to reach the mouth of the Amazon River?
Did you know that towns given specific meteorological warnings during storms are known as breakpoints?
Did you know that Jason Bedrick, a New Hampshire state representative, is that state's first Orthodox Jewish elected official?
Did you know that as a teenager, Chiri Yukie prepared the first Japanese translations of several of the yukar sagas of the Ainu people?
Did you know that on October 5 1914, a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I?
Did you know that the Certosa di Pavia was commissioned by Gian Galeazzo Visconti to be built halfway between his two courts in Milan and Pavia?
Did you know that the Department of State Lands is one of Oregon's oldest government agencies?
Did you know that the Vedic Mathematics genre was revived after Hindu Shankaracharya Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja rediscovered it in the form of sixteen sutras?
Did you know that Farrer Park is where Singapore's first racecourse was built and the island's aviation history began?
Did you know that Kenneth Cummins was one of the last five confirmed British surviving veterans of World War I, having served in the Royal and Merchant Navies in the First and Second World War respectively?
Did you know that Roland Winters, who played the role of Charlie Chan in six films, was just over 6 months younger than Keye Luke, who played his son?
Did you know that SPLA-Nasir was a breakaway faction of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army that aligned with the government in the Second Sudanese Civil War?
Did you know that Starkad was a legendary Norse hero blessed by Odin but cursed by Thor?
Did you know that Vincenzo Ragusa was an Italian sculptor hired by the Meiji government of Japan from 1876 to 1882 to introduce Western art techniques in order to revive Japan's own ancient sculptural arts?
Did you know that Vix Pervenit, an encyclical promulgated by Pope Benedict XIV in 1745, condemned the charging of interest on loans as "illicit and usurious"?
Did you know that Worlds End State Park in Pennsylvania is sometimes erroneously known as "Whirls End State Park", its official name for seven years?
Did you know that although 99.8% of the population is Muslim, there is no official religion in Turkey?
Did you know that an impact wrench can deliver very high torque to a fastener, while only requiring minimal effort from the user, and is one of the most commonly used air tools?
Did you know that between the 10th and 14th centuries, the Indian state of Karnataka was ruled by the Hoysala Empire?
Did you know that one of the finest khachkar memorial stones is located at Goshavank Monastery in Armenia, the place where the law of Armenia was first codified by Mkhitar Gosh in the late 12th and early 13th century?
Did you know that one ship had to deal with Hurricane Tanya twice in two different areas of the North Atlantic Ocean five days apart in 1995?
Did you know that platypus venom is delivered by small spurs on the male's hind limbs?
Did you know that the 1870 poem "The Heathen Chinee," written by Bret Harte as a satire of racial prejudice, was publicly embraced as a mockery of Chinese immigrants, and shaped anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. more than any other work at the time?
Did you know that the Blue Bridge, the widest in St. Petersburg, Russia, derives its name from a 19th-century tradition of color-coding the bridges across the Moika River?
Did you know that the high-pitched quack of the Call Duck was used to lure wild ducks into funnel traps?
Did you know that Arnold Miller defeated W.A. "Tony" Boyle in 1972 for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America after Boyle murdered union reformer Joseph Yablonski?
Did you know that Corporal Bryan Budd is being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, only the 13th such award since the Second World War?
Did you know that Howard Zahniser died a few months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, after spending eight years authoring and promoting it?
Did you know that Jaime Navarro was the opposing and winning pitcher for the inaugural Texas Rangers game at The Ballpark in Arlington in 1994?
Did you know that Paul Haenlein was the first to create a dirigible airship powered by an internal combustion engine?
Did you know that Pulau Sejahat was a British military encampment in Singapore during World War II whose gun batteries were never used against Japanese invaders?
Did you know that Romania's Piteşti prison housed the largest and most intensive form of brainwashing through torture ever carried out in the Eastern bloc?
Did you know that Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo broke the code of omertà in 1992, becoming the first senior Sicilian clergyman of the Catholic Church to openly condemn the Mafia?
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt Lake, a large artificial reservoir located along the Salt River, is the largest lake located entirely within the U.S. state of Arizona?
Did you know that in 1920 a Secret Court, headed by university President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals, resulting in nine expulsions?
Did you know that neoclassical Staszic Palace in Warsaw was temporarily given a Russo-Byzantine redesign upon Poland's partition?
Did you know that the American singer Mary Fahl's first full-length solo album contains a song first written over 800 years ago in the extinct language of Mozarabic?
Did you know that the British art collector Sir George Beaumont always took his favourite Claude Lorrain painting, with him on coach journeys in a specially-designed case?
Did you know that the Columbian Issue, the first U.S. commemorative postage stamps, included the first female portrait on American postage — Spain's Queen Isabella?
Did you know that the Illiana Expressway is a proposed Interstate-standard tollway connecting northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana?
Did you know that the Silesian-born scholar Heimann Hariton Tiktin, one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics was initially destined to become a rabbi?
Did you know that the Yerazi—an Azeri clan that originated in modern-day Armenia but left before the Nagorno-Karabakh War—have dominated politics in Azerbaijan since Soviet times?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Brook Watson featured his leg which he had lost in a shark attack?
Did you know that the creators of the Alcazaba fortification in Málaga, Spain, reused materials from nearby Roman ruins?
Did you know that the fictional radio listeners Dave and Sue exemplify the target audience for BBC Local Radio?
Did you know that the hslVU protein complex that degrades damaged proteins in bacteria, probably resembles the evolutionary ancestor of the proteasome, a required component of all eukaryotic cells?
Did you know that the slogan Juan Valdez drinks Costa Rican coffee, popular on bumper stickers in Costa Rica, prompted a lawsuit from Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia?
Did you know that the video game Daze Before Christmas allows the player to transform into "Anti-Claus", a blue-suited, devilish looking version of Santa Claus?
Did you know that those who fear bees should know that bee smokers are useless when fending off bee swarms?
Did you know that "Fast as You Can" is Fiona Apple's only top forty single in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that American composer Stephen Paulus gained fame with a 1982 opera based on The Postman Always Rings Twice, one of his nine operas?
Did you know that Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter each wrote a chapter of the  short story "A House to Let"?
Did you know that Guido Verbeck, a Dutch-born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898  arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas?
Did you know that Göteborgs BK, founded in 1875, is the oldest football club in Sweden known by name, and only played Swedish football, a local variant?
Did you know that Ralph Bigland worked as a cheesemaker across Europe before becoming an officer of arms and eventually Garter Principal King of Arms?
Did you know that Richard Tregaskis, American war correspondent and author best known for his first-hand account Guadalcanal Diary,  was almost killed in Italy in 1943 when shrapnel cut though his helmet and penetrated his skull?
Did you know that Shreve, Crump & Low, North America's oldest jeweler, built prestigious trophies such as the Davis Cup and the Cy Young Award?
Did you know that Skowronek was an Arabian stallion who became a lead horse in the Crabbet Arabian Stud?
Did you know that Spanish government minister and European Commissioner Loyola de Palacio deflected speculation that she was an Opus Dei member, noting that she was named after Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus?
Did you know that St. Michael's Castle was built like a medieval fortress for the personal protection of the Russian Emperor Paul I, who ironically was assassinated in his bedroom shortly after moving in to his new castle?
Did you know that a church of the Order of the Holy Ghost once stood at the site of the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków?
Did you know that cowboy pool is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards with more standard pocket billiards characteristics, and requires a player to intentionally scratch in order to win?
Did you know that the Soviet D-10 tank gun of World War II was built until 1979 for the world's most common tank (the T-55), which remains in service?
Did you know that the ancient Chinese sect known as the Way of the Celestial Master established a theocratic state in Sichuan province during the 2nd century CE?
Did you know that the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop to pair with a female figure skater from another country?
Did you know that the world's longest lasting lightbulb is 105 years old and has burnt continuously since 1976?
Did you know that American composer Alla Pavlova lived close to ground zero and dedicated her first symphonic work to the memory of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks?
Did you know that Buzz Holmstrom was the first person to row alone all the way down the Colorado River from Green River, Wyoming to the Boulder Dam?
Did you know that Corporal Mark Wright will be posthumously awarded the George Cross for entering an unmarked minefield in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, attempting to save other injured soldiers?
Did you know that Estonians defeated invading Sweden in 1220 at the Battle of Lihula?
Did you know that Eugène de Beauharnais returned the territories of the Napoleonic Italy to provisional Austrian rule in 1814 by the Convention of Mantua?
Did you know that Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion in 1974 was a Soviet creation?
Did you know that Owen Glendower, the last independent Prince of Wales, who disappeared in 1412, has many aristocratic English descendants through his great-grandson Sir John Donne (work pictured), the Yorkist courtier, soldier and diplomat?
Did you know that Pasillo is the "national music" of Ecuador but originated from the Viennese Waltz?
Did you know that in the Battle of Rhium, Phormio used his climatic knowledge of the Corinthian Gulf to help defeat a Spartan fleet that outnumbered his Athenians more than 2 to 1?
Did you know that megaherbs on the uninhabited New Zealand sub-antarctic islands almost became extinct by overbrowsing by livestock introduced to support shipwrecked sailors?
Did you know that shortly before Christmas 1942, an alleged Nazi spy was captured by the Garda in Castletownroche, a small  Irish village?
Did you know that the 1983 text adventure game Snowball, the first of the Silicon Dreams trilogy, contained over 7,000 locations?
Did you know that the Barbican of Warsaw became obsolete almost immediately after its construction in 1548?
Did you know that the Nanai language, despite having only a few thousand speakers left, continues to contribute loanwords to languages with even fewer speakers, such as Udege?
Did you know that the Printing Presses and Publications Act gives the Home Affairs Minister of Malaysia "absolute discretion" in granting and revoking publication and printing permits?
Did you know that the Spenser Somers Foundation is named after a student from Edina, Minnesota who suffered from Ewing's sarcoma?
Did you know that the effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina were the worst from a hurricane in the state since that of 1999's Hurricane Floyd, and included US$450 million in damage and three deaths?
Did you know that the steviol glycosides found in stevia plants are natural sweeteners up to 300 times sweeter than sugar?
Did you know that the treasure of Tillia tepe, Afghanistan, was re-discovered after it was thought to have been destroyed by the Taleban, and is now on display at the Musée Guimet in Paris?
Did you know that the zigzag staircase leading to the Baroque sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte at Braga was designed so as to encapsulate the Three Virtues?
Did you know that Birger Dahlerus was a Swedish businessman and friend of Hermann Göring, who made numerous trips between Germany and England in 1939 in an attempt to avert the Second World War?
Did you know that Emily Helen Butterfield was Michigan's first licensed female architect, and designed many college fraternity and sorority crests thanks to her interest in heraldry?
Did you know that Just a Gigolo (1978), David Bowie's second major film, was so poorly received by critics that the singer quipped, "It was my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one"?
Did you know that King's College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne left Durham University in 1963 to form the new Newcastle University, following a narrowly defeated proposal to rename the university the "University of Durham and Newcastle" in 1952?
Did you know that Swedish disco singer-songwriter Bimbo Boy took his stage name from starlets that the media identifies as bimbos, even though the term himbo would have been more technically correct?
Did you know that canine hydrotherapy was initially used only to treat racing greyhounds?
Did you know that geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years?
Did you know that in 1932 Paramahansa Yogananda urged young people to pool resources, buy land, and create World Brotherhood Colonies, nearly 40 years before the intentional community movement of the late 1960s?
Did you know that noted labor historian Selig Perlman is the uncle of author Judith Martin, better known as Miss Manners?
Did you know that on November 22, 2006, at least ten people were killed in a burning leather factory in India after being trapped behind locked emergency exits?
Did you know that the 180-degree turnout, or rotation of the leg, featured in ballet allows for greater extension of the leg, especially when raising it to the side and rear?
Did you know that the Blauhöhle in Germany's Swabian Alb is a huge cave system with more than 50-meter (164-feet) high caverns that can be accessed by diving through the Blautopf?
Did you know that the Cossack victory at the Battle of Konotop remains a classic example of the battle won and a war lost?
Did you know that the First Engineer Bridge in St. Petersburg, Russia, named after the nearby Engineer Castle, is one of the most decorative of the city's more than 500 bridges?
Did you know that the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California, has several endemic endangered species and is the second-largest freshwater wetland in Northern California?
Did you know that the Singer's Bridge, designed by architect Vasily Stasov, was called the Yellow Bridge and is the third-widest bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia?
Did you know that the Zamość Synagogue was one of the first buildings added to the 'ideal' Renaissance city of kanclerz Jan Zamoyski?
Did you know that , unlike normal lithium ion batteries, the lithium iron phosphate battery does not explode under extreme conditions?
Did you know that Alexander Macklin and James McIlroy successfully amputated Perce Blackborrow's gangrenous toes while stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica?
Did you know that Oliver Smith is the youngest-ever local party president in British political history?
Did you know that Portuguese Josefa de Óbidos was one of the few women dedicated to painting (pictured: still life by her) in the Baroque era?
Did you know that Ron Powers, co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Flags of Our Fathers (2000), was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize?
Did you know that The Breakfast (formerly The Psychedelic Breakfast) had four songs from their self-titled DIY studio album featured on the MTV series Undressed in 1999?
Did you know that a payaos is a type of fish aggregating device used in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines?
Did you know that the Henschel Hs 123 was a sesquiplane dive bomber and close-support attack aircraft flown by the Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War and the early part of World War II?
Did you know that the camouflage of the pygmy seahorse is so effective that the original specimens were only found after their host gorgonian had been collected and placed in an aquarium?
Did you know that the cope given to the Rt. Revd. David Urquhart upon his inauguration as the ninth Bishop of Birmingham in November 2006 featured the emblems of Aston Villa and Birmingham City, the two most prominent football teams of the city?
Did you know that the mathematician Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer patients?
Did you know that the writer August Silberstein was sentenced to five years' jail in 1854 for writing satire about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but was pardoned after one year?
Did you know that American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was the first woman to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts in composition and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music?
Did you know that Bayajidda, the mythical ancestor of the Hausa people of West Africa, is said to have fathered three children with three different women?
Did you know that Irfan Pathan, the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of a match, grew up playing cricket inside a Baroda mosque where his father was the muezzin, and could not afford equipment until his domestic team furnished it, at age 15?