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Did you know that Vladimir Sukhomlinov, who was the Russian Minister of War at the outbreak of WWI, was relieved of duty amid accusations of espionage on behalf of Germany?
Did you know that the Chinese regent Sima Daozi (364-403) was described by historians as spending too much of his time drinking and feasting?
Did you know that the Elfin-woods Warbler, an endemic bird of Puerto Rico first observed in 1968, is the last New World warbler to be discovered?
Did you know that the National Black Law Students Association was formed to serve the needs and goals of black law students in 1968 and is one of the largest student organizations in the United States?
Did you know that the Provençal women troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries were known as trobairitz?
Did you know that the heavyweight champion boxer Thomas King became a successful bookmaker and rower after his retirement from the ring in 1863?
Did you know that the terms of the 1991 Sino-Russian border agreement between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China took over 6 years to implement?
Did you know that until the late 1980s, the most accurate tropical cyclone prediction model was purely statistical?
Did you know that "ultra" was a phrase frequently used in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore to describe racial chauvinists?
Did you know that Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk was established as the public broadcaster for the British Zone of Germany after World War II?
Did you know that Roger II's Palatine Chapel in Palermo combines the Byzantine dome and mosaics with Arabic arches and inscriptions?
Did you know that Salleh Abas was sacked as the Lord President of Malaysia for clashing with the government on the independence of the Malaysian judiciary?
Did you know that Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979?
Did you know that Television House on Kingsway in London served as the headquarters of Associated-Rediffusion, Independent Television News, the TV Times magazine, Associated TeleVision and Thames Television between 1955 and the early 1970s?
Did you know that Vanessa Mendoza, Miss Colombia 2001, was the first Black woman to win that title?
Did you know that klezmer musician Josef Gusikov became world-famous playing his invention — a xylophone made out of wood and straw?
Did you know that retired General Counsel Alberto J. Mora of the U.S. Navy championed an effort within the Defense Department to end coercive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay?
Did you know that some Australian Aboriginal languages use the aversive case to indicate that an object is feared?
Did you know that the Hood Event was an incident following the US invasion of Iraq where a group of Turkish special forces operating in northern Iraq was captured and interrogated by the US military, later becoming the basis for the 2006 film Valley of the Wolves Iraq?
Did you know that the battle of Krasnobród of 1939 was one of the last battles of World War II in which cavalry units fought on both sides?
Did you know that Castorocauda lutrasimilis, a recently described mammal relative that looked like an otter with a beaver's tail, evolved a semi-aquatic lifestyle 110 million years earlier than any other mammal-like animal?
Did you know that Islam in Poland traces its history to the 13th century, with the advent of Tartar settlers?
Did you know that James Foster was a Scottish-born Canadian goalie who helped lead Great Britain to its first and only Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1936?
Did you know that John Rut sent the first known letter from North America and that it was from St. John's, Newfoundland on August 3, 1527?
Did you know that The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?
Did you know that as a result of t'aarof, it is not uncommon for Iranian employees to work unpaid for a week before even discussing wages?
Did you know that hyperboloid structures in architecture are doubly-curved surfaces that may be formed entirely from a lattice of straight angle-iron and flat iron bars?
Did you know that the development of molecular biology was made possible due to the convergence between biochemistry and genetics?
Did you know that Erich Kempka was a chauffeur of Adolf Hitler and was called to testify at the Nuremberg trials?
Did you know that a count room is a room that is designed and equipped for the purpose of counting large volumes of currency?
Did you know that on January 8 1956, five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were speared to death after attempting to reach the Huaorani people of Ecuador in "Operation Auca"?
Did you know that the Church of St. Elisabeth in Marburg was one of the earliest purely Gothic structures in Central Europe and served as the model for the Cologne Cathedral?
Did you know that the Cormorant is a project for a submarine launched aircraft currently under development at Lockheed Martin's Skunk works research facility?
Did you know that the real name of the G.I. Joe character Dusty is Ronald W. Tadur?
Did you know that the shooting of the government critic Archbishop Óscar Romero on March 24, 1980 was one of the causes of the El Salvador Civil War, in which 75,000 people died?
Did you know that the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" was first recorded by Perry Como in 1941?
Did you know that three Byzantine emperors ended their lives as monks of the Studion, the largest monastery of Constantinople?
Did you know that Bill Ashdown is the only person to have played first-class cricket both before the First World War and after the Second World War?
Did you know that Russia won the 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War, because of its superior technology, despite Persia upscaling its efforts at the end of the war, and declaring it a holy war?
Did you know that Szymon Konarski was a 19th-century Polish radical politician who believed in a revolution of all peoples of the Russian Empire that was to bring freedom and democracy to all?
Did you know that Vasyl Avramenko is often referred as "The father of the Ukrainian dance"?
Did you know that dimethyl dicarbonate or DMDC is a colourless liquid with a sharp odour, which is used as a beverage preservative or sterilant?
Did you know that national legislative elections will be held in Thailand on April 2, 2006, following the decision by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to dissolve the lower house of the Thai legislature, the House of Representatives?
Did you know that the Athénée Palace hotel in Bucharest, Romania, now a Hilton, may have been Europe's most notorious den of spies in the years leading up to World War II, and only slightly less so during the Cold War?
Did you know that the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service was a non-combat branch of the Royal Australian Navy that recruited women, in order to alleviate manpower shortages resulting from men being assigned to combat roles during World War II?
Did you know that the call of Mangrove Black Hawk is a distinctive piping spink-speenk-speenk-spink-spink-spink...?
Did you know that each year in the U.S., several sites complete soil contamination clean-up by using microbes that eat up toxic chemicals in soil?
Did you know that on January 21, 2006 Ilan Halimi, a French Jew, was kidnapped by a gang of Muslim immigrant youths and subsequently tortured to death, with the motive being either money or anti-Semitism?
Did you know that the Argo Merchant, a derelict oil tanker, ran aground only 25 miles off Nantucket Island in 1976, causing one of the largest oil spills in history?
Did you know that the National Resources Commission controlled 70% of Chinese industry in Republican China?
Did you know that the Ottawa rules are a set of guidelines for doctors to aid them in deciding if a patient with foot or ankle pain should be offered X-rays to diagnose a possible bone fracture?
Did you know that the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata - the seat of the Governor-General during the Raj - was built on the lines of Kedleston Hall,Derbyshire?
Did you know that the Rosenbaum House is the only building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the U.S. state of Alabama?
Did you know that the Russian administrator Pavel Kiselyov was responsible for the creation of an important transport artery in Bucharest - a boulevard which now bears his name?
Did you know that the Scintillant Hummingbird has bronze-green upperparts and a rufous and black-striped tail?
Did you know that the Soviet general Valentin Varennikov, one of the members of the State Emergency Committee which organized the Soviet coup attempt of 1991, was eventually acqutted by the Russian court and took a seat in the State Duma?
Did you know that the first Navy Minister of Imperial Russia, Nikolay Mordvinov, started his career serving on English ships in America?
Did you know that the postminimalist artist, Gabriel Orozco, once sliced a Citroën DS into three pieces length-wise, removed the central piece and then re-attached the two sides leading to an arrow-like automobile?
Did you know that the typical singing cowboys of early Western films were white hat wearing clean-shaven heroes with the habit of showing their emotions in song?
Did you know that through the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Usenet newsgroup, Babylon 5 creator and writer J. Michael Straczynski is often credited as being the first TV producer to directly engage with his fans on the internet, and have their comments impact the look and feel of his work?
Did you know that Bob Dylan's infamous performance of "Maggie's Farm" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was seen by his band's organist Al Kooper as "sort of a disaster"?
Did you know that In re Debs was a 1895 Supreme Court case that resulted in an unanimous ruling affirming the right of the United States government to issue an injunction to halt strikes affecting interstate commerce and U.S. Mail?
Did you know that Italo Santelli is widely considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing"?
Did you know that Jarilo was a major Proto-Slavic deity of vegetation, fertility and spring, also associated with war and harvest?
Did you know that in 1998, a study proposed to relocate Jordanhill railway station, a station currently located in Glasgow, Scotland near the Jordanhill Campus of the University of Strathclyde and the Jordanhill School that opened in 1887?
Did you know that the Black slug is the only species of slug that when disturbed contracts into a hemispherical shape and starts rocking from side to side to confuse predators?
Did you know that the Brazilian city of Corumbaíba was founded after a local rancher saw a white wolf, which, according to a legend, would give him good luck, and then built a chapel thanking his luck?
Did you know that the Reesor Siding 1963 Strike which left 3 people dead, was the deadliest confrontation in Canadian labour history?
Did you know that the fleets of Gisulf II of Salerno sometimes turned to piracy against Amalfi and Pisa?
Did you know that Joseph McCoy was a 19th century cattle baron who is often cited as the inspiration for the phrase "The Real McCoy" because he made good on his pledge to Texas ranchers to get them a good price for their Longhorn cattle if they drove them from Texas to Kansas on the Chisholm Trail?
Did you know that Preparing for Emergencies was a British Home Office programme to increase public safety after several major disasters, including the Madrid bombings, SARS outbreak and UK foot and mouth crisis?
Did you know that Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879 ?
Did you know that Rough Castle Fort is the best preserved Roman fort along the Antonine Wall?
Did you know that S. R. Rao led the excavations of Dwaraka — the mythical city of Krishna submerged in the Arabian Sea?
Did you know that the 1934 jazz standard "Stars Fell on Alabama" was inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama a century earlier, in 1833?
Did you know that the Iberian Ribbed Newt's ability to keep live sperm in its cloaca for up to 5 months was a reason it was chosen to be flown into space?
Did you know that the S500 was the first production car from Honda?
Did you know that the endangered subspecies California Clapper Rail, a chicken-sized bird that rarely flies, has chicks that can swim when they are just two hours old?
Did you know that Anna of Kashin, a Russian medieval princess, was twice canonized as a holy protectress of women who suffer the loss of relatives?
Did you know that Catherine the Great wrote several comedies and an opera libretto for the productions of the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg?
Did you know that Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn was Michigan State University's most successful football coach with a winning percentage of 85.7 over seven years, including a 28-game winning streak from October 14, 1950 through October 17, 1953?
Did you know that Jatin Das, an Indian freedom fighter, died after sixty three days of hunger strike demanding rights for prisoners and undertrials in Lahore jail in 1929?
Did you know that NKVD official Yakov Blumkin organised and personally took part in an expedition to find the Shambhala, a mystical kingdom hidden in the Himalayas?
Did you know that The Exile, the first African American talking film, was a semi-autobiographical film about a Black rancher in South Dakota, with elements of interracial romance and some nightclub scenes set in Chicago?
Did you know that The Observatory, a Singaporean space rock band released their first album packaged as a diary, complete with torn pages and paperclipped photos?
Did you know that the English Canal was a partially completed canal project started in 1864 that would connect the iron ore fields in northern Sweden with the Gulf of Bothnia?
Did you know that the Sanssouci Picture Gallery is the oldest extant museum built for a German ruler?
Did you know that Blanton C. Winship, a veteran of Spanish-American War and World War I survived an assassination attempt while he was Governor of Puerto Rico in 1938?
Did you know that Hieronymus Bosch paintings helped inspire the Surrealist movement?
Did you know that Klarälven, Sweden's longest river, was the last Swedish river where log driving was practiced, ending in 1991?
Did you know that Mustelus hacat is a species of smooth-hound shark discovered in 2003 in the Sea of Cortez, off the coast of Mexico?
Did you know that Peter Joseph Lenné's gardening academy in Potsdam was the first school to formally teach garden architecture?
Did you know that Tran Duc Thao, a Vietnamese philosopher, attempted to reconcile Marxist philosophy's dialectical materialism with Husserlian phenomenology?
Did you know that gastric lymphoma is the most common lymphoma affecting the gastrointestinal tract?
Did you know that in Islam, Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery?
Did you know that the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas was formed in December 20, 1895, when the Missionary District of Northern Texas was granted diocesan status and that it now includes more than seventy parishes and schools in the diocese?
Did you know that Stony Clove Notch, a pass in the Catskill Mountains, was once so narrow that it could only be traversed by people walking in single file?
Did you know that a fall of red rain in Kerala in 2001 might have contained microbes of extraterrestrial origin?
Did you know that botanist Tomitaro Makino, despite dropping out of grammar school, named over 2500 plants and is known as the "Father of Japanese Botany"?
Did you know that the Cossack Hetman and the later Muscovite voyevoda Petro Doroshenko signed a treaty with Sultan Mehmed IV recognizing the Cossack Hetmanate as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that the German hip-hop crew Fünf Sterne Deluxe made their 1999 comeback with the single "Ja Ja..., deine Mudder", a German take on the dozens?
Did you know that the Italian scholar Girolamo Maggi wrote and illustrated two detailed treatises, from memory, while chained in a dungeon in Istanbul?
Did you know that the Lübeck Cathedral collapsed during an Allied bomb raid in 1942 but was subsequently restored?
Did you know that the Mexican actress Leticia Palma's dispute with Jorge Negrete led to the end of a career described as "one of the most interesting presences" of the cinema of Mexico?
Did you know that until 1988, a woman could apply for and receive an Australian Passport in her future married name, before she was actually married?
Did you know that Bhulabhai Desai negotiated a secret power-sharing deal with Liaquat Ali Khan in 1945 that would have prevented the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan?
Did you know that Bonnybridge, forming part of the "Falkirk Triangle" in Scotland, is considered by many UFO enthusiasts to be world's number one UFO hotspot, with around 300 sightings every year?
Did you know that Ramy Brooks, a competitor in the 1,049 mi 2006 Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska, is one of the few Native Alaskans competing in the event?
Did you know that Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Jew, was a close friend of Hitler and according to a MI6 report, perhaps the only woman who could exercise influence on him?
Did you know that Tom Cousineau was drafted first overall in the 1979 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills, but never played a game with them?
Did you know that a steam-powered locomotive built specifically by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1893 for its Empire State Express passenger train was the first manmade object on wheels to exceed 100 miles-per-hour?
Did you know that although the Park Theatre was considered the highest-class playhouse in New York, Edgar Allan Poe criticized it for being infested by rats?
Did you know that an Indo-Corinthian capital is a Buddhist adaption of the Greek Corinthian capital, often incorporating images of the Buddha?
Did you know that an agent of the Malaysian Special Branch so successfully infiltrated the Malayan Communist Party that he was in turn ordered by them to infiltrate the Special Branch?
Did you know that at its first years Kiev Zoo had to move its animals into the food storage of the main Kiev railway station  for the winter?
Did you know that in local gigantism, parts of a limb can take gigantic shapes, without affecting other parts of the body?
Did you know that the Renaissance composer Cornelis Verdonck wrote the only known motet written to be performed on the back of an elephant?
Did you know that the docu-drama The Road to Guantanamo, depicting the incarceration of three British detainees at Guantanamo Bay, is the first film to be released simultaneously in theatres, on DVD and on the Internet?
Did you know that the early contact lens pioneer August Müller demonstrated his technique for grinding scleral lenses by correcting his own severe myopia?
Did you know that while the female and male sexual organs of Congdon silktassel are on separate plants, it is the pendant male catkins that are more showy?
Did you know that Jerry Reuss was one of a few players in Major League Baseball history to play in four different decades?
Did you know that Matvei Muranov was one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive the Great Purge?
Did you know that Super typhoon Nancy is one of the eight typhoons to receive a special name from the Japan Meteorological Agency?
Did you know that jazz singer Ilse Huizinga is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz?
Did you know that rumour had it that Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneer of British orthopaedic surgery, would attack people and break their bones in order to reset them?
Did you know that the Afghan Church in Mumbai was built to commemorate the dead of the First Afghan War of 1838?
Did you know that the Allies broke through the largest German entrenched position in World War One at the Battle of the Hindenburg Line?
Did you know that the Ancient Greeks credited Broteas, the ugly son of Tantalus, with an ancient rock-cut cliff-face carving of the Great Mother of the Gods in modern Turkey?
Did you know that the Council of Nablus, held in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1120, established punishments for adultery, bigamy, homosexuality, and sexual relations with Muslims?
Did you know that the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 destroyed 300 acres and nearly 2,000 buildings and was put out with help from fire engines as far away as Knoxville, Tennessee?
Did you know that the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama is famous for the ghostly image of a murdered man's face that can be seen in one of its windows?
Did you know that the aluminum smelting plant in Tursunzade is the largest aluminum manufacturing plant in Central Asia?
Did you know that the compound 4-ethylphenol, produced by the spoilage yeast Brettanomyces, can make wine smell like band-aids?
Did you know that the oldest written constitution of a Greek city was discovered in an inscription at Dreros in Crete?
Did you know that the race movie, a genre of films produced for black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the United States between 1915 and 1945?
Did you know that the recently discovered deep-sea decapod Kiwa hirsuta was dubbed the yeti crab by its discoverers on account of its hairy appearance?
Did you know that January 26th, which in 1950 became the Republic Day of India, was also the day of the promulgation of Purna Swaraj Declaration in 1930?
Did you know that Richard Ingoldesby, Governor of New Jersey, caused the defeat of a bill to raise 200 men for an invasion of Canada in order to remove the Quakers from all public offices in New Jersey?
Did you know that the name Japanese War Tuba was a name applied to the acoustic locators used by Japan during World War II?
Did you know that the spangenhelm was the most popular war helmet in Europe and the Middle East during the early Middle Ages?
Did you know that Hurricane Felix in 1995 was a moderately powerful hurricane that, despite not making landfall, caused severe beach erosion and 8 deaths along the East Coast of the United States?
Did you know that Norway's first regional theatre, the Hålogaland Teater, used to be housed in a disused margarine factory in the Arctic Circle town of Tromsø?
Did you know that William Burnet, Governor of New Jersey and New York, obtained his position of governorship by trading his job as comptroller of the customs with Robert Hunter?
Did you know that folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's most famous book, 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, is named after a ghost that Windham believed haunted her home?
Did you know that over 5,000 Rosenwald Schools in the United States were built primarily for the education of African Americans with funds donated by Julius Rosenwald, who was part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company?
Did you know that several Turkic nomads of the Kipchak clan settled in Georgia in 1118 and served in the Georgian military ranks for nearly two centuries?
Did you know that the ASTRA National Museum Complex includes 90 hectares of exhibits about Transylvania, but also includes objects such as an Ancient Egyptian mummy?
Did you know that the Ascension Convent in the Moscow Kremlin, known as a traditional burial place of Muscovite tsarinas, was dismantled in 1929 to make room for the Red Commanders School?
Did you know that "The Grange" in Upper Manhattan was the only home ever owned by Alexander Hamilton, and that he died only two years after the Federal style house was completed in 1802?
Did you know that a house was held to be haunted by poltergeists as a matter of law in the 1991 New York case Stambovsky v. Ackley, making the Nyack, New York house the only legally haunted house in the United States?
Did you know that cosmonauts such as Grigori Nelyubov, dismissed from the Soviet space program, were airbrushed out of official photographs, leading to early Cold War speculation of failed missions even when the actual reasons for dismissal were sometimes mundane?
Did you know that during the Gothic War in the 4th century, the Goths killed a Roman Emperor, destroyed a Roman army and laid waste large tracts of the Roman Balkans?