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Did you know that the third of four expeditions sent in the late 19th century by French nobleman Marquis de Rays to an imaginary majestic colony called New France in present day Papua New Guinea, saw 123 Italian settlers perish of disease and famine?
Did you know that American sculptor Lynda Benglis sought to confront the male ethos in the arts community with an  advertisement in which she only wore a pair of sunglasses?
Did you know that Carlos Morales Troncoso, the foreign minister of the Dominican Republic, has degrees in both chemical engineering and sugar engineering?
Did you know that Gabriele Kohlisch is one of only two people to ever win World Championship gold medals in both bobsledding and luge?
Did you know that King George III was overjoyed at the destruction caused to the home of Joseph Priestley during the Birmingham Riots in 1791?
Did you know that Louise Pitre, a Tony Award-nominated musical theatre actress, was turned down after auditioning for the role of Josephine in the London musical Napoleon?
Did you know that Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski is the first female to hold the rank of Lieutenant General in the US Air Force?
Did you know that Patchin Place, a cul-de-sac in Greenwich Village known for literary residents such as Theodore Dreiser and E. E. Cummings, is now a popular location for psychotherapists' offices?
Did you know that Tung Hua Lin led a team that designed and built China's first twin-engine aircraft in a cave to avoid detection by the Japanese during World War II?
Did you know that catfish species of the genus Hypophthalmus are unusual among neotropical fishes because they feed on plankton by straining water over a fine sieve created by numerous long, thin gill rakers?
Did you know that former University of Kentucky basketball star Dirk Minniefield smoked marijuana the night before Kentucky's loss in the 1983 NCAA Tournament to the University of Louisville?
Did you know that income inequality increased in the United States in 2005 with the top 1% of earners having roughly the same share of income as in 1928?
Did you know that the Lajkonik is an unofficial symbol of the city of Krakow as well as an annual festival celebrated for over 700 years commemorating victory over the Tatar invasion?
Did you know that the Mitcham and Morden by-election in 1982 remains the last to see a gain by the British Conservative Party?
Did you know that the Poltava Bandurist Capella, directed by Hnat Khotkevych, was the first Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour North America?
Did you know that the Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture commemorates a Australian Army general, physician and historian who was killed in a plane crash during World War II?
Did you know that the Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska was the largest livestock market and meatpacking center in the United States from 1955 until 1973?
Did you know that the final episode of the 1986 television series Outlaws recycled footage from  The Oregon Trail, because actors Rod Taylor and Charles Napier appeared in both programs?
Did you know that the football song Hampden in the sun celebrates the record scoreline of the 1957 Scottish League Cup final?
Did you know that the recently beatified Paul Joseph Nardini died of pulmonary typhus he contracted when giving the last rites to a member of his parish?
Did you know that the song "Push The Button" was believed by some to relate to Iran's attempt to build nuclear weapons?
Did you know that three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment?
Did you know that "Comme Ci, Comme Ça" was performed in French at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, despite being the Cypriot entry?
Did you know that Akwasi Afrifa became Lt. General and head of state of Ghana after a coup d'état, was detained after a second coup, won parliamentary elections after a third and was executed after a fourth coup?
Did you know that Demologos, the first warship powered by a steam engine, saw only one day of active service in the U.S. Navy, carrying President James Monroe around New York Harbor?
Did you know that Edward Rosewater was the telegraph operator responsible for sending out Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" in 1863?
Did you know that The Lady with a Fan is the only Velázquez portrait in which the sitter has not yet been convincingly identified?
Did you know that because of Salvatore Pincherle, German mathematicians could attend the Third International Congress of Mathematicians despite a ban imposed during World War I?
Did you know that despite sending 8000 ARVN soldiers from out of district to stuff ballot boxes, South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem could not prevent his candidate from losing to Phan Quang Dan in a 1959 legislative election by a ratio of 6-1?
Did you know that in China, access to water supply and sanitation varies greatly between rural areas, where only 67% of the population has access to improved water supply, and cities, where 93% does?
Did you know that one of the largest rainwater harvesting projects in the world is being implemented in the rural areas of the state of Karnataka, India?
Did you know that the Burgsvik beds, a geological formation exposed on Gotland, Sweden, contain the only fossil euglenid ever discovered?
Did you know that the Cherokee Nation was induced to cede large portions of land in Tennessee and Georgia to the United States in the Tellico Blockhouse, Monroe County, Tennessee?
Did you know that the Danish firm Marcussen & Søn have built over 1000 organs since their foundation in 1806?
Did you know that the Old National Library Building, a much-beloved national icon of Singapore, was demolished despite a rare display of public opposition?
Did you know that the bark of the African tree Bombax buonopozense is burnt in Ghana to drive away evil spirits?
Did you know that the monopoly of The Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne over coal trade in the Tyneside area raised questions in the House of Commons in the 1620s?
Did you know that the prehistoric mammal Yanoconodon was a Eutriconodont, a group of early, ancestral mammals that in some cases, grew so big they were able to eat small dinosaurs?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Francis J. Woolley House was influenced by his first teacher, Joseph Silsbee, and the Arts and Crafts movement?
Did you know that a portion of the Palatine Library returned to Heidelberg in 1816, almost two centuries after it was looted from city by the Catholic League?
Did you know that abbot Gerald of Sauve-Majeure began the practice of celebrating mass and the Office of the Dead for 30 days for the recently deceased?
Did you know that although the first meeting of the Indian Independence League took place in Tokyo in March 1942, it was not formally proclaimed until June of that year in Bangkok?
Did you know that money donated in 1905 by the fans at Celtic Park football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland was given to the mother of international Scottish footballer Barney Battles, Jr. while Battles was still in the womb?
Did you know that opinion polls in Armenia suggest that 64% of its population favors eventual Armenian membership in the European Union?
Did you know that outlaws John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, and Baby Face Nelson were tried in the historic Landmark Center in St. Paul?
Did you know that sexual relations between a man and his daughter-in-law were fairly common in pre-revolutionary rural Russia?
Did you know that the discovery of Icadyptes salasi, a prehistoric five-foot-tall penguin in Peru, has caused scientists to reconsider the timeline of penguin evolution?
Did you know that the newly-merged Franco-Dutch firm Unibail-Rodamco is the largest public real estate company in Europe?
Did you know that the professional wrestling promotion International Championship Wrestling was owned and operated by Angelo Poffo, father of wrestling legend Randy Savage, and starred Randy Savage and his brother Lanny Poffo?
Did you know that the rotation of a star slows down as it grows older?
Did you know that the submarine HMS Storm was the first to be commanded by a British Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer?
Did you know that Australian male singing duo Bobby & Laurie had a national number-one hit with Hitchhiker for five weeks in 1966?
Did you know that Fort Pasir Panjang, part of the 11 coastal fortifications built to repel the Japanese invasion, saw little action during the Battle of Singapore?
Did you know that Hiptage benghalensis is considered a weed in Florida?
Did you know that Juanelo Turriano was forced to build a second version of his Artificio de Juanelo as the city of Toledo refused to pay for the first one?
Did you know that Marine corporal Charles W. Lindberg was part of the first flag raising on Iwo Jima hours before the famous photo was taken by Joe Rosenthal?
Did you know that Nkiru Books, the oldest African American bookstore in Brooklyn, was saved from being closed down by rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli in 2000?
Did you know that Robert Raymond founded Australia's longest running current affairs television program?
Did you know that St. Mary's Collegiate Church is the longest church in Scotland at 62.8 m?
Did you know that Texas has a long history of producing wine with grape vines planted by Franciscan missionaries over 100 years before vineyards were planted in California?
Did you know that Ulley reservoir was sold to Rotherham council for £1 in 1980, when it was no longer needed to supply drinking water?
Did you know that Williamsport, Pennsylvania was once known as the "Lumber Capital of the World" and is the birthplace of Little League Baseball?
Did you know that in New South Wales, a Sentencing Council which is the first of its type in Australia, conducts research to improve the consistency of sentencing of criminals?
Did you know that legend has it that Alexander Campbell slapped a muddy handprint on a prison cell wall in 1877 which has never been removed, despite extensive efforts?
Did you know that originally a mudflat, Lido Isle in Newport Beach was one of the first master planned communities in California?
Did you know that the 1870s Harrison P. Young House in Oak Park, Illinois was remodeled by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1895?
Did you know that the Adivasi Cobra Force was formed after ethnic conflict between Santal and Bodo erupted in 1996?
Did you know that the British architect William Benson was relieved from his position as Surveyor General of the Royal Works after falsely insisting that the House of Lords Chamber was in imminent danger of collapse?
Did you know that the Eastern Spinebill of Australian forests has adapted to urban gardens and can feed from Fuchsias as well as native banksias and grevilleas?
Did you know that the Silurian Lau extinction event caused the Earth to temporarily return to a condition similar to how it was before multicellular life evolved?
Did you know that the airport in the Nigerian city of Calabar is named after Margaret Ekpo, the 1950s civil rights activist?
Did you know that the organizers of the 1937 Soviet Census (poster pictured) were imprisoned because the counted population numbers were far lower than expected by Joseph Stalin?
Did you know that the steam rail motors, introduced by the Great Western Railway in 1903 to stimulate traffic, were so successful that they had to be replaced by conventional trains?
Did you know that women in the Early Pandyan Society dressed their hair differently according to their marital status?
Did you know that 19th century Polish general Ludwik Mierosławski led revolutionaries in Poland, Germany and Italy?
Did you know that Antonio Salieri's  opera Europa riconosciuta was recently revived for the re-opening of La Scala in Milan, after not being seen for 226 years after it premiered?
Did you know that Charles Chaplin decided the best way to bring The Tramp into the new era was by re-releasing three silent films he made with First National as a feature-length film?
Did you know that Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær made quantitative studies of plants in literature?
Did you know that Flight Lieutenant Bobby Gibbes landed his single-seat fighter in the North African desert in 1942 to rescue a comrade who had been shot down, jettisoning his own parachute to accommodate his passenger?
Did you know that Jacques-Louis David produced four slightly different versions of Napoleon Crossing the Alps between 1800 and 1805?
Did you know that Jeroen Straathof is the first and still only sports person in the world to represent his country at the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics?
Did you know that José María Robles Hurtado, a martyr during the Cristero War, placed the noose that would be used to hang him around his own neck, telling his executioner "Don't dirty your hands"?
Did you know that Lynn Visson, a United Nations conference interpreter, is also a Russian cuisine cookbook author?
Did you know that Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vice President of South Vietnam under Ngo Dinh Diem, was not allowed to take part in policy discussions and was slapped at the order of Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu?
Did you know that Seacliff Lunatic Asylum in New Zealand was plagued by landslips, a fatal fire in a locked psychiatric ward and allegations of abuse before reverting to a forest reserve?
Did you know that Spiral Scratch was the first independently-released Punk rock record, and inspired a wave of DIY record labels across the United Kingdom?
Did you know that although the South American Bittern is widespread, much about its life history remains little-known, due to its skulking habits?
Did you know that during the 1998 Guinea-Bissau Civil War, as many as 100 refugees an hour passed through the border checkpoint of Mpack, Senegal, which has a population of 518?
Did you know that only 395 De Tomaso Longchamp two-door 2+2 coupés (example pictured) have ever been built?
Did you know that the Arts Club of Chicago arose from the success of the Art Institute of Chicago's handling of the Chicago showing of the Armory Show?
Did you know that the Bangalore Palace in India, which was built to resemble Windsor Castle in England, has hosted music concerts of bands like Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones and Deep Purple?
Did you know that the Battle for Saigon in 1955 started as Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem tried to wrest control of the police from the Binh Xuyen organised gang licensed by Emperor Bao Dai?
Did you know that the Hills Memorial Library of Hudson, New Hampshire had 60% of all area residents sign up for library cards in 1909, its first year of operation?
Did you know that the Itchen Navigation canal provided an essential trading route between the historic city of Winchester and the port of Southampton?
Did you know that the Land of Onias, a region in Ptolemaic Egypt settled by Jewish military colonists, had its own Temple separate from that of Jerusalem?
Did you know that the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in Connecticut will be reconstructed as the first extradosed bridge in the United States?
Did you know that the Stephen Wright House in Paw Paw, Illinois is located on a road that was once a stage coach and Native American trail?
Did you know that the War of the Two Peters, fought between Castile and Aragon during the 14th century, lasted 19 years?
Did you know that the White Building in Bloomington, Illinois, represents an interesting example of the Chicago school architecture?
Did you know that the crown-cardinals of Austria, France, and Spain could exercise the jus exclusivae during papal conclaves from the 16th to 20th centuries?
Did you know that the film Hellbreeder's distinct look was created by being shot on color reversal stock and then cross processed?
Did you know that the first person in Britain to suggest studying modern history was eighteenth-century clergyman Joseph Priestley?
Did you know that the lifelong Democrat Jim Naugle is in his sixth straight term as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale and supported only Republicans for President since 1968?
Did you know that viable sperm has been extracted from cadavers up to 36 hours after the donor's death?
Did you know that Ariel, a sprite in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, may be based on the biblical Ariel in Isaiah?
Did you know that Bill Barber played tuba on a number of Miles Davis albums including Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain?
Did you know that Daniel Hughes was a mulatto raftsman who led fugitive slaves to freedom by transporting them in his barge and providing shelter at his Loyalsock Township, Pennsylvania home?
Did you know that Dumfries House, designed by John and Robert Adam in the 1750s, was recently bought by a consortium of charities organised by Prince Charles?
Did you know that Friz Freleng's 1937 cartoon Clean Pastures narrowly evaded Hollywood Production Code censors, before being removed from distribution by United Artists in 1968?
Did you know that Huynh Phu So, the founder of the Hoa Hao religious sect, converted his doctor after being put in a mental asylum by the French colonial forces?
Did you know that Liz Claiborne Inc. was the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500?
Did you know that Moodna Creek, a tributary of the Hudson, was originally known as "Murderers' Creek" after a family was massacred on its banks?
Did you know that Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge was the twenty-fifth Governor of Western Australia and the first officer of the Royal Navy to rise from boy seaman to captain of the Queen's yacht HMY Britannia?
Did you know that Selvarajah Rajivarnam was the fourth journalist to be killed on April 29, during the last three years of the Sri Lankan civil war?
Did you know that Sycorax, an unseen character in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, is viewed by some as a symbol of the silenced African woman?
Did you know that in 1968 Eldridge Dickey was the first African-American quarterback to be drafted to a professional American football league in the first round?
Did you know that the Australian legal case of D'Emden v Pedder followed United States legal precedent in holding that state and federal governments were immune from each other's laws?
Did you know that the Cheat Mountain salamander of West Virginia is the only vertebrate known to be unique to that state?
Did you know that the Dawesville Channel, a 2.5 kilometre long, 200 metre wide man-made channel near Mandurah, Western Australia, was built specifically to counter algal blooms?
Did you know that the Kannada film Shanti is one of just a few narrative films with only a single actor?
Did you know that the Queensland Court of Disputed Returns once heard an election dispute from a person who claimed that the Queensland Government was unconstitutional but who still wished to be elected to it?
Did you know that the Trygg class was a class of three torpedo boats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy and that they were all sunk during World War II, two after having been captured by the German Kriegsmarine?
Did you know that the United States Capitol crypt was intended as the entrance to George Washington's tomb?
Did you know that the Yamasee War of 1715-17 nearly annihilated the colony of South Carolina and paved the way for the founding of Georgia?
Did you know that the bark of Kleinhovia hospita is used to treat hair lice in Indonesia?
Did you know that the bestselling children's book The History of the Fairchild Family by Mary Martha Sherwood inspired the character of Pip in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations?
Did you know that the first teacher and practicing doctor in Portland, Oregon, Ralph Wilcox, killed himself with a Deringer pistol while at work at the federal court?
Did you know that the stray dogs Bummer and Lazarus were so popular with the people of San Francisco in the 1860s that they were given special exemption from the leash laws?
Did you know that when John Torrington's corpse was exhumed 138 years after his death, it was almost perfectly preserved?
Did you know that Francis Price Blackwood, a colonial Australian naval officer and sea surveyor, charted locations like Whitsunday Island and the Great Barrier Reef?
Did you know that George Rogers Clark was called the "Conqueror of the Northwest" because of his victorious Illinois campaign in the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that HNoMS Heimdal became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for illegal fishing when she seized the British trawler Lord Roberts in 1911?
Did you know that Hugh Johns commentated for England's only FIFA World Cup victory during his first year as a commentator?
Did you know that Irish cricketer and rugby union player Dickie Lloyd was regarded as one of the most famous pupils of Portora Royal School, alongside Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde?
Did you know that Rod Marsh was the first Australian wicketkeeper to score a century in Test cricket?
Did you know that during the Schmalkaldic War, the Imperial Duke Eric II fled from the Battle of Drakenburg (etching pictured) by swimming across the Weser River?
Did you know that in 1970, University of Oregon head baseball coach Don Kirsch fell to his death out of a second-story window at Stanford University Medical Center?
Did you know that scandal erupted after the Department of Justice initiated prosecution of Jackie Presser only to abruptly end it once the press revealed Presser had been an informant for the FBI for over 10 years?
Did you know that the Logan Fontenelle Housing Project in Omaha, Nebraska, along with restrictive covenants and redlining, were used to segregate African Americans in the Near North Side neighborhood?
Did you know that the Oregon Coast Range was created by a forearc basin along the Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that the Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation) (one page pictured) was one of the most popular illustrated books of the Middle Ages?
Did you know that the Swan by-election, 1918 not only resulted in the election of the youngest person ever to be elected to the Parliament of Australia, but directly prompted the introduction of instant-runoff voting in Australia?
Did you know that the poet Dinakara Desai is known as Chutuka Brahma (creator of chutukas) because he invented a four-line limerick form of Kannada poetry known as chutuka?
Did you know that "Being Boiled", the first single by The Human League, cost just £2.50 to record?
Did you know that Confederate brigadier general James Morrison Hawes studied advanced military tactics at the Cavalry School of Saumur, France?
Did you know that David Nash, the managing director of Nash Timbers, single-handedly stopped the Australian Government's practice of burning down old railway bridges, thus saving timber up to 400 years old?
Did you know that Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia gave away his cat to one of the soldiers tasked with his execution?
Did you know that Stoke City F.C. is the second-oldest English football league club, as it was founded in 1863?
Did you know that Takemoto Gidayū's contributions to the form of bunraku (Japanese puppet theatre) were so influential that all chanters (narrators) in bunraku are now called gidayū?
Did you know that W. Gene Corley investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center, as well as the performance of the Murrah Building in response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing?
Did you know that although the No Child Left Behind Act in the United States prescribes the consequences for schools failing to meet Adequate Yearly Progress, it leaves responsibility for defining that progress up to each state education agency?
Did you know that early 20th century German explorers mounted many expeditions to the Ramu river in German New Guinea in the hope of finding gold?
Did you know that in 1859 John Wise made the first airmail delivery in the United States?
Did you know that in an attempt to speed up the longest papal election in history, the magistrates of Viterbo removed the roof of the Papal Palace?