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Did you know that the death of Captain Henry T. Waskow in WWII was the subject of one of Ernie Pyle's most famous columns and the basis for the Oscar-nominated film The Story of G.I. Joe?
Did you know that the enmity between Tang Dynasty general Li Sheng and chancellor Zhang Yanshang began over a military prostitute?
Did you know that when the Church of St Demetrius was built in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, a rumour was spread that the saint would come to the city?
Did you know that 10,000 people were employed in the 1830s simply to build canals by the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act?
Did you know that Admiral Naokuni Nomura, WW2 Japanese naval attache to Berlin, returned home on U-511, a submarine that had been presented by Adolf Hitler to Japan in 1943?
Did you know that Betsy, a border collie, has intelligence greater than that of the great ape which is regarded as humans' closest relative?
Did you know that Court Avenue, Ohio, was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete?
Did you know that Czeslaw Lejewski, Polish philosopher and logician, who studied under Jan Lukasiewicz and Karl Popper, became one of the members of the Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic?
Did you know that Edward Jardine, after commanding 200 Union troops in an attempt to quell the New York Draft Riots, only escaped the rioters by wearing civilian clothes?
Did you know that Eli Hurvitz, Chairman of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, joined the company in the early 1950s as a dish washer?
Did you know that Empire, a 1962–1963 NBC Western dramatic series set on a New Mexico ranch, provided the first recurring role for future film star Ryan O'Neal?
Did you know that George Gordon Byron drew up a will leaving Nicolò Giraud, his young companion while in Greece, £7,000, but later changed his mind?
Did you know that Margaret Kelly Leibovici, a French-Irish dancer, was interrogated by the Gestapo in occupied France?
Did you know that Meinong's jungle is the name given to the ontological realm in which non-existent objects such as unicorns, square circles, and golden mountains subsist?
Did you know that Ntare Mwine is a Ugandan-American actor, playwright and documentarian who has appeared in Heroes and interviewed Idi Amin's brother?
Did you know that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has mandated a return to paper ballots after an extensive study as well as an experience with failing direct-recording electronic voting machines?
Did you know that Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, bought and destroyed Starbucks coffee mugs bearing Portland, Oregon logos in a media stunt to assert his city's independence?
Did you know that Ruatara, chief of the Ngā Puhi, hosted the first Christian mission in New Zealand in 1814?
Did you know that after Dale Earnhardt's first win, his crew chief Jake Elder said, "Stick with me, kid, and we'll win diamonds as big as horse turds"?
Did you know that between 1874 and 1884, Hans Mustad co-owned the industrial company O. Mustad & Son with his father Ole Hovelsen Mustad?
Did you know that carotene can be used to alter the optical properties of carbon nanotubes?
Did you know that the 1937 film Chintamani (promotional snapshot pictured) was the first Tamil film to run for a year in a single theatre?
Did you know that the Catedral de San Nicolás in Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia was built because the original church was believed to have been possessed by evil spirits?
Did you know that the English of Selim Aga, a former slave from Sudan, was so faultless that his book was believed to be fabricated by a Briton?
Did you know that the Iraqi Army launched an offensive into Saudi Arabia on 29 January 1991, leading to the Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War (U.S. Marine artillery pictured)?
Did you know that the Overman Committee, led by Senator Lee Slater Overman, investigated allegations that groups such as the United States Brewers Association were promoting "un-American activities"?
Did you know that the expansion of the New York Central Railroad isolated Main Street (houses pictured) in New Hamburg, New York while making Stone Street more accessible?
Did you know that the jeep problem is a mathematical problem in which a jeep must maximise the distance it can travel into a desert with a given amount of fuel?
Did you know that the liberal Jewish Folksgrupe played an important role in the 1917 Russian Provisional Government, but only obtained around 1% of the Jewish votes the same year?
Did you know that the orchid Masdevallia veitchiana, which can be found around Machu Picchu, was named after the founder of the Chelsea Flower Show, Sir Harry Veitch?
Did you know that the popular statement that USS Arizona (BB-39)'s 14"/45 caliber guns were never fired in anger is a myth?
Did you know that Clarin Mustad, a co-heir of the industrial corporation O. Mustad & Son, was also involved in the early automotive industry?
Did you know that David Drake wrote his first novel, The Dragon Lord, after another author declined to develop the plot Drake had written?
Did you know that Ivor McIntyre was lead pilot in two pioneering aviation feats, the first circumnavigation of Australia by air, and the first international flight by an RAAF plane and crew?
Did you know that Kodaikanal Lake was developed in 1863, amid the town of the same name, by the British and early missionaries from the USA?
Did you know that Nirvana's 1994 song "Heart-Shaped Box" was nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards, winning two of them?
Did you know that Odd Karsten Tveit, foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, was awarded the Brage Prize for non-fiction in 2005?
Did you know that United States Army officer James H. Trapier graduated one position below P. G. T. Beauregard in his class at the U.S. Military Academy and later served under him in the American Civil War?
Did you know that Venezuelan painter Cristóbal Rojas produced a painting of purgatory shortly before his death in the knowledge he was going to die from tuberculosis?
Did you know that William Wroth founded the first independent chapel in Wales in 1639, after he refused to obey King Charles' instruction to allow sports to be played on Sundays?
Did you know that former Norwegian Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Schjelderup was among the first ascenders of several mountains in Nordland county during 1910, including the 1,392-metre (4,567 ft) Stetind?
Did you know that in 1969, Major League Baseball player Kevin Collins was traded by the New York Mets with three other players for Donn Clendenon, who would be the World Series MVP that season?
Did you know that in the Canary Islands, palm syrup is made from sap collected laboriously from the crown of a date palm?
Did you know that retired Israel Defense Force Major General Eitan Ben Eliyahu flew as a fighter escort during Operation Opera in 1981, which resulted in the destruction of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor?
Did you know that the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home was the only home for Confederate veterans in Alabama?
Did you know that the Larmer Tree Festival has made the shortlist for three UK Festival Awards, including Best Toilets?
Did you know that the SS-physician Alfred Trzebinski, who was involved in the homicide of 20 children at the former school Bullenhuser Damm, was executed by hanging in 1946?
Did you know that the San Diego Padres' first Opening Day starting pitcher was Dick Selma, who received a win against the Houston Astros in 1969?
Did you know that the song "Gubben Noak" (Songs of Fredman no 35) offended the Swedish church so much that Lund chapter attempted to collect all prints and transcripts in circulation, in 1768?
Did you know that Alastair Borthwick's adventures ranged from hitchhiking to Ben Nevis in a lorry full of dead sheep to leading 600 men behind enemy lines during World War II?
Did you know that Dave Matthews Band received two Grammy Awards, one in 1997 for the song "So Much to Say" and another in 2004 for the song "Gravedigger"?
Did you know that Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism, Fauvism and Impressionism, and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin?
Did you know that Jean-Claude Latombe's motion planning algorithm Probabilistic Roadmap Method not only applies to robotic motion planning, but can also be used in protein trajectories simulations?
Did you know that Joe Hatten was the Brooklyn Dodgers' Opening Day starting pitcher when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947?
Did you know that Joseph Baptista coined the phrase "Swaraj is my Birthright" that was made popular by Lokmanya Tilak during the Indian independence movement?
Did you know that Maine produced more Union soldiers in proportion to its population than any other Union state in the American Civil War?
Did you know that Marcellus A. Stovall left West Point after one year but later became a general?
Did you know that Navagunjara is a beast in Hindu mythology, composed of parts of nine different animals?
Did you know that Nini Stoltenberg, the little sister of the Norwegian Prime Minister, has spoken openly about her past heroin addiction and has become an advocate for drug policy reform in Norway?
Did you know that Porlock Bay in England contains a submerged forest?
Did you know that STAR radio was named Liberian radio station of the year in 2008, winning a tape deck?
Did you know that Sweden's tallest building is Turning Torso, which rises 190 metres (620 ft)?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Ma Sui was removed from his command due to his disastrous proposal to make peace with Tufan?
Did you know that Thomas Johnes planted three million trees to make his Hafod Uchtryd estate picturesque?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Arlene of the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest storm to ever make landfall in Louisiana?
Did you know that Yitzhak Tabenkin, one of the founders of the socialist Kibbutz Movement, joined the Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War?
Did you know that in 1962, politicians Robin Bailie and Bob Cooper launched a journal entitled Review, even though they were only able to publish a single issue?
Did you know that in Shinto, yorishiro, such as sacred trees, attract spirits, give them a physical space to occupy and make them accessible to people for religious ceremonies?
Did you know that painter Sydney Curnow Vosper's most famous work, Salem, gained widespread popularity in Britain when it was used to promote Lever Brothers' Sunlight soap?
Did you know that salt workers in the Confederate States of America were immune from being drafted?
Did you know that the 73 class were the first New South Wales Government Railways locomotives built in Queensland?
Did you know that the Merck headquarters campus is home to the largest ground-mounted solar power tracking system east of the Mississippi River?
Did you know that the Waterford Covered Bridge, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, is nicknamed the "Old Kissing Bridge?"
Did you know that the historic Slipper Chapel in Norfolk, England was used as a cow-shed and barn for almost 400 years before being rededicated as a chapel in 1934?
Did you know that the planned community of Albany, Alabama existed for 40 years (1887 to 1927) and formed a major population center before merging with the modern city of Decatur, Alabama?
Did you know that the volcanic ring dike at Pawtuckaway State Park, an important orienteering venue in New Hampshire, resembles a meteor impact crater?
Did you know that ImageAmerica provided Google Earth with high resolution black and white images of New Orleans immediately after the events of Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that James L. Holloway, Jr. and James L. Holloway III are the only father and son to both serve as four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy while on active duty?
Did you know that Jingning County, in Gansu, People's Republic of China, is one of the seats of Chinese civilization, with a history dating back to the Neolithic era?
Did you know that Mary Ann Müller has been described as "New Zealand's pioneer suffragist"?
Did you know that New York's Sony Building, with its distinctive Chippendale roof, was originally built by AT&T as its headquarters, but they no longer needed the space after the Bell System divestiture?
Did you know that Richard Marson, former chief editor of the BBC's Blue Peter also worked freelance for such companies as Disney, Planet 24 and LWT?
Did you know that Saint Vigilius of Trent, stoned to death for overturning a statue of Saturn, was the first martyr canonized by a pope?
Did you know that Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss donated US$125 million to Harvard University, the school's largest gift?
Did you know that The Golden Fleece, written in 1628 by Sir William Vaughan while at his colony New Cambriol, was a fanciful attempt to galvanise his colonists into hard work?
Did you know that Willard L. Boyd, President Emeritus of The University of Iowa and The Field Museum, was one of the first recipients of the National Humanities Medal?
Did you know that Yamamoto Tatsuo, former head of the Bank of Japan, was the first businessman to become a cabinet minister in Japan?
Did you know that after they both appeared in the 1951 film Sailor Beware, Richard Clayton became a talent agent and represented James Dean?
Did you know that during a storm in the Dolomites, Mo Anthoine probably saved the life of Al Alvarez, who later wrote his biography?
Did you know that for both his tenures as Norwegian Minister of Finance (1905–1906 and 1920–1921), Edvard Hagerup Bull was both preceded and succeeded by persons who at one point were Prime Ministers?
Did you know that in 1913, baseball player Jim Viox set a rookie record for batting average by a second baseman that was not matched until 2007?
Did you know that one of sculptor Paul Manship's earliest public works, "The Four Elements", is at the former AT&T corporate headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan?
Did you know that the 1937 Tamil film Ambikapathy starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar was made by American director Ellis R. Dungan?
Did you know that the Ashtamudi Lake is the second largest and deepest wetland ecosystem in Kerala, India?
Did you know that the Laughing Baby, a YouTube viral video which has expanded into a worldwide internet phenomenon, has been viewed by over 65 million people including Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that the Local Void is an empty region of space, devoid of matter, lying adjacent to our own Milky Way galaxy?
Did you know that the congenital disorder fibrochondrogenesis may result in dwarfism, shortened ribs with a concave appearance, a severely underdeveloped jaw, an enlarged head, and even death during infancy?
Did you know that the dome-shaped nest of the Yellow-rumped Thornbill has a cup-shaped depression fake nest to distract attention from the real nest inside?
Did you know that the flora of Western Australia (floral emblem pictured) comprises 9437 native vascular plant species of 1543 genera within 226 families?
Did you know that Łaski's Statute of 1505 was the first codification of Polish law?
Did you know that Avraham Herzfeld, one of the founders of the Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Histadrut, was known for his habit of bursting into song, sometimes in the middle of his speeches?
Did you know that BuzzTracker was acquired by Yahoo! to complement its Yahoo! News product, and compete with other news aggregators including Google News and Digg?
Did you know that HMS Swiftsure fought at the Nile for the British, and at Trafalgar for the French?
Did you know that Johan Castberg became the first Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs, only to leave office after one year due to disagreements with Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen?
Did you know that Max Blouw was chosen unanimously by Wilfrid Laurier University's selection committee to become its seventh president?
Did you know that Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910–13 Antarctic expedition was the inspiration for two of Doris Lessing's novels, The Sirian Experiments and The Making of the Representative for Planet 8?
Did you know that Todd Friel performed over 1,500 times on stage as a stand-up comedian, mostly in venues in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area in Minnesota?
Did you know that Wilfrid Laurier University's senate voted unanimously in favor of instating John A. Pollack as the university's seventh chancellor?
Did you know that Window on the Plains Museum in Dumas, Texas, which preserves Panhandle history and culture, was relocated in 2001 from a former hotel to a new building?
Did you know that Yuan Dynasty dietician Hu Sihui's culinary encyclopaedia was the first book to contain a recipe for Peking Duck?
Did you know that all Nobel laureates in Economics are men?
Did you know that although the Round scad is considered a good food fish, it is mostly caught for use as bait?
Did you know that mathematician Brian Bowditch wrote a paper solving the angel problem of John Conway, proving that the angel can win and evade the devil in the "angel game"?
Did you know that the American Civil War saw buglers (infantry band pictured) required to learn forty-nine separate calls for infantry alone?
Did you know that the Capitol Loop, a state highway in Lansing, Michigan serving the State Capitol, was designated in a plan to revitalize downtown?
Did you know that the fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University, John Angus Weir, helped form the university's undergraduate music therapy program?
Did you know that towards the end of World War II, British Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front?
Did you know that while attempting to produce malleable platinum, Pierre-François Chabaneau lost his temper and smashed all of his laboratory equipment?
Did you know that 3-MCPD, a food contaminant sometimes found in soy sauce and oyster sauce, has male antifertility effects and may be used as a rat chemosterilant?
Did you know that Antonín Dvořák conducted the first performance of his oratorio Saint Ludmila at the Music Festival in Leeds?
Did you know that Beck has received four nominations for Best Alternative Music Performance at the Grammy Awards but only won it once, in 1997 for the album Odelay?
Did you know that Johan Christian Tandberg Castberg, father of Johan Castberg, served three terms in the Norwegian Parliament and was the first editor-in-chief of Varden?
Did you know that Kate Nash won the award for British Female Solo Artist at the BRIT Awards in 2008?
Did you know that Ne-Yo received four nominations at the Grammy Awards in 2008, winning the award for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Because of You?
Did you know that Robert Van Lierop is an American film director who became one of Vanuatu's senior diplomats in the 1980s?
Did you know that Sinop Fortress Prison in Turkey, abandoned in 1997, hosts hundreds of thousands tourists yearly thanks to its featuring in popular literature, music and film?
Did you know that Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, who was killed in action in World War I, lost his father, Sir Walter George Barttelot in the Boer War, while his son, Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot was KIA in World War II?
Did you know that out of the sixteen metropolitan regions of Norway, only one contains more than half a million inhabitants?
Did you know that screenwriter Oliver Crawford worked to remove an anti-Communist loyalty oath from the membership application of the Writers Guild of America, a relic of the Hollywood blacklist era?
Did you know that the 15th-century Guillaume Dufay wrote a Lament of the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople for a political show banquet to propagate a crusade against the Ottoman Turks?
Did you know that the 19th-century periodical The Eclectic Review gave its profits to the British and Foreign Bible Society?
Did you know that the Kennedy Administration positioned John R. Reilly on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ready to cut off Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech if the rhetoric got too inflammatory?
Did you know that the Russian anarchist-communist organisation Chernoe Znamia were the first with a deliberate policy of terror against the established order?
Did you know that the biography My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru recounts a child's experiences growing up in Bhagwah Shree Rajneesh's Osho movement?
Did you know that the first speeding ticket in Norway was given to a tram driver in 1894 on the Briskeby Line?
Did you know that the statues of the Two Working Men in Cork, Ireland were originally set to be unveiled outside the Liberty Hall in Dublin, but were deemed a traffic hazard?
Did you know that three different emperors ruled over the German Empire during 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors?
Did you know that Alfonsina Strada, nicknamed the devil in a dress, was the only female ever to compete in the Giro d'Italia?
Did you know that Arizona Territorial Governor Frederick A. Tritle presented Nevada's silver spike at the ceremony celebrating completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad?
Did you know that Chuck Riley's original opponent for the November 2008 election was disqualified for living in the wrong Oregon House District?
Did you know that George M. Keller added US$1 per share at the last minute to his company's bid for Gulf Oil, providing the margin needed to win a 1984 bidding war to buy Gulf in a deal valued at US$13.3 billion?
Did you know that Hesaraghatta Lake is a freshwater lake created from the Arkavathy River in 1894 to produce drinking water for Bangalore?
Did you know that Jens Boyesen, who in his early twenties was a secretary in the Norwegian resistance movement, later went on to become a top diplomat?
Did you know that Julia Morton was the "poison plant center in south Florida"?
Did you know that Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" was nominated for five awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008?
Did you know that Marie Curie is the only female Nobel laureate to have won multiple Nobel Prizes?
Did you know that The Californians, an NBC western which aired from 1957 to 1959, featured later Jeopardy! host Art Fleming as an ambitious lawyer?
Did you know that William Ernest Cooke was Western Australia's first government astronomer?
Did you know that Zion Memorial Chapel in New Hamburg, New York, represents a late stage of Gothic Revival architecture in American churches?
Did you know that by the time of the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive, none of the soldiers of the American 1st Gas Regiment had fired chemical weapons in combat?
Did you know that in 2007, archaeologists discovered that the Stonehenge Cursus is even older than Stonehenge?
Did you know that in the only inning he pitched in Major League Baseball, Cal Cooper gave up five hits, a walk and five runs for a lifetime ERA of 45.0?
Did you know that many battles were fought between the Croatian medieval cities of Kaptol and Gradec over ownership of Medveščak creek?
Did you know that motivational speaker and self-help author Shiv Khera has started a political party that opposes caste and religion-based reservation in India?
Did you know that of the thirty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University, seventeen have won the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Did you know that only the hero Sigurd could remove the sword that the god Odin plunged into the huge tree Barnstokkr, which stood in King Völsung's hall?
Did you know that the Golden Monarch (male pictured) is found in New Guinea and New Ireland but not in the large island New Britain which lies between them?
Did you know that the Ohio Solicitor General is appointed by the Ohio Attorney General to handle the office's  U.S. Supreme Court, Ohio Supreme Court and 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals appellate work?
Did you know that the bells of Altgeld Hall of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign play a short daily concert at 12:50pm despite not having a complete musical scale?
Did you know that the freshwater snail Viviparus georgianus, the "banded mystery snail", is native to the southeastern U.S. but is an introduced species in the northern U.S. and Canada?