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Did you know that Hammam Yalbugha, a public bath in Aleppo, Syria, was built in 1491 by the Emir of Aleppo, Yalbugha al-Naseri?
Did you know that Helga Testorf, model for more than 240 works by Andrew Wyeth, has been called "the last person to be made famous by a painting"?
Did you know that Linda Mvusi, an architect who shared in an award for her work on the Apartheid Museum, won a best actress prize at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival?
Did you know that Oluf Reed-Olsen's blowing up of a bridge at Lysaker during World War II contributed to the surfacing of the Norwegian Administrative Council?
Did you know that Orchard Park has the first disc golf course in a Hillsboro, Oregon, park?
Did you know that President Theodore Roosevelt publicly recommended Eliza Calvert Hall's book Aunt Jane of Kentucky?
Did you know that Tearoom Trade, a study by sociologist Laud Humphreys of homosexual acts taking place in public toilets, caused a major debate on ethics in observation?
Did you know that a hole was made in 1997 in the belly of the Mahamuni Buddha statue at the Mahamuni Buddha Temple in Mandalay, Myanmar, aiming to steal embedded jewels thought to be inside?
Did you know that a seam along the eastern wall of the Temple Mount may be a clue to the location of the Acra, a Seleucid citadel in ancient Jerusalem?
Did you know that according to Conor Gearty, private and public nuisance in English law "have little in common except the accident of sharing the same name"?
Did you know that actress Amy Brandon Thomas was the daughter of famous playwright Brandon Thomas?
Did you know that as Emmerdale's Aaron Livesy, Danny Miller was involved in a gay storyline with his real-life flatmate Adam Thomas?
Did you know that interest in several primaries for the 1980 United States Senate election in Oregon was diminished partly due to the eruption of Mount St. Helens?
Did you know that the Australian Army's first regular infantry unit, the Darwin Mobile Force, was raised as a unit of the Royal Australian Artillery?
Did you know that the Cello web browser, released in 1993, was the first web browser for the Microsoft Windows operating system?
Did you know that the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique steamship Ariège was the first ship to enter the port of Safi, Morocco?
Did you know that the Museum of Cretan Ethnology was built to the specification of Georges Henri Rivière, creator of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris?
Did you know that the Seven Network program Today Tonight described Aaron Saxton's revelations about the Church of Scientology as "stunning" and "shocking"?
Did you know that the pipits (species pictured) are a genus, Anthus, of songbirds that evolved in East Asia during the Miocene before spreading around the world?
Did you know that Albanian artist David Selenicasi painted parts of the monastery of the Great Lavra, the first monastery built on Mount Athos?
Did you know that Bag & Baggage Productions staged the first professional, outdoor showing of a Shakespeare play in Hillsboro, Oregon?
Did you know that Dr. Fred Conklin received the Legion of Merit for setting up a mobile hospital in New Caledonia and later presented a medal to John F. Kennedy for heroism on the PT 109?
Did you know that Dr. Lillian H. South is credited with eliminating several contagious diseases from Kentucky, including hookworm?
Did you know that Edward Nicolls proposed that oak trees be grown in Sierra Leone for the Royal Navy?
Did you know that Kawkab America was the first Arabic-language newspaper published in North America?
Did you know that Kirsten Huser Leschbrandt, a former Norwegian MP and current board member of the S-E Norway Regional Health Authority, is a breast cancer survivor?
Did you know that Muhammad Naguib, who later became the president of Egypt, was severely wounded in the Battle of Hill 86 of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
Did you know that Race Foster and Marty Smith, co-founders of pet supply company Drs. Foster & Smith, hosted the Animal Planet TV show Faithful Friends for two years?
Did you know that at 44 tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
Did you know that female White-starred Robins in Malawi migrate away from their breeding grounds while the males remain in their territories?
Did you know that in the churchyard of St Kentigern's Church, Caldbeck, are the graves of John Peel, the subject of D'ye ken John Peel?, and Mary Harrison, the Buttermere Beauty?
Did you know that lemurs exhibit female social dominance?
Did you know that some beetles of the genus Zopherus are used as living brooches?
Did you know that the 1992 low-budget independent comedy film Meet the Parents was the inspiration for the 2000 blockbuster of the same name starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro?
Did you know that the German submarine U-39 was the first U-boat sunk in World War II?
Did you know that the Hooker Emerald was used for a belt buckle by an Ottoman Sultan?
Did you know that the Kaiser Friedrich III-class battleships (SMS Kaiser Barbarossa pictured) introduced the standard configuration for pre-dreadnought battleships in the German Kaiserliche Marine?
Did you know that the Svalbard Act established the economy of Svalbard as a free zone?
Did you know that the steam locomotive Olomana was considered by Walt Disney to have been the closest thing to a "Mickey Mouse engine"?
Did you know that tree surgeon Gaylord Silly has represented the Seychelles twice at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships?
Did you know that 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., was the last private building to be renovated under the 1974 Pennsylvania Avenue redevelopment plan?
Did you know that 6' 10" Mason Plumlee plays basketball for the NCAA finalist Duke Blue Devils alongside his 6' 10" brother Miles, and their younger 7' 0" brother Marshall plays in high school?
Did you know that American money was diverted from an airport to build the Patuxai monument in Vientiane, Laos?
Did you know that Bruce Lyttelton Richmond was the longest-serving editor of the Times Literary Supplement, for 35 years from 1902 to 1937?
Did you know that Butler men's basketball head coach Brad Stevens has won 89 games in his first three years, exceeding the previous NCAA record by 8 games?
Did you know that Dominica has one of the richest land gastropod fauna in the Lesser Antilles?
Did you know that Electric Picnic 2010 is expected to feature Leftfield, Roxy Music, Public Image Ltd. and a rap duo who perform wearing plastic bags to cover their heads?
Did you know that James Harrison, sometimes called the "man with the golden arm", is credited with saving the lives of two million babies?
Did you know that Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is named for the famous Jewish philosopher, rabbi and physician Maimonides?
Did you know that Sin has been described as the most controversial and most bohemian among F. Sionil José’s novels because it created an “artifice of sexual tension”?
Did you know that at the First Battle of Rellano, Pascual Orozco used the tactic of the máquina loca, a locomotive filled with dynamite, to defeat federal troops, but a similar trick failed him at the Second Battle of Rellano?
Did you know that at the age of sixteen, Aaron Kelly succeeded in being a top ten finalist in the ninth season of American Idol?
Did you know that communist activist Franz Jacob organized one of the largest resistance groups in Germany during World War II?
Did you know that in less than eight years, Michael Burry's hedge fund company returned 489.34% to investors, while the Standard and Poor 500 realized just over 2% over the same period?
Did you know that mottled skate is commonly served at weddings in South Korea?
Did you know that the FAMAS-awarded 1965 film Blessings of the Land is about a Filipino deaf-mute son who rose above his handicap?
Did you know that the FV103 Spartan armoured personnel carrier has been used by British Armed Forces to transport small air defence, reconnaissance and fire controller teams?
Did you know that the planned St. Johns-Indian River Barge Canal would have covered 35.2 miles (56.6 km) and linked the St. Johns River with the Intracoastal Waterway?
Did you know that there are a number of ghost stations along the Paris Métro, including two with no above-ground entrances?
Did you know that univariate analysis is the simplest form of quantitative (statistical) analysis?
Did you know that Árni Magnússon, who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, would do whatever it took to acquire an Icelandic book or manuscript?
Did you know that Cherokee humorist Will Rogers was named for William Penn Adair, a Cherokee statesman who advocated for the rights of Texas Cherokees?
Did you know that Gossia acmenoides (scrub ironwood) is named in honour of ex-Queensland Premier Wayne Goss?
Did you know that Kolsky Uyezd was established on the Kola Peninsula by the Tsardom of Russia as a result of the territorial claims from Denmark–Norway?
Did you know that although a quiet town now, Cuilapan de Guerrero, Mexico, was a major pre-Hispanic city and the site of a major Dominican monastery?
Did you know that among the ships fighting at Trafalgar were the British HMS Neptune, the French Neptune and the Spanish Neptuno?
Did you know that among victims of the 1994 Baku Metro bombings was jazzman Rafig Babayev?
Did you know that from his freshman year at Oak Park High School through his junior year at the University of Michigan, Herb Steger never lost a game of football?
Did you know that in Gillingham Borough Council v Medway (Chatham) Dock Co Ltd, the trial judge rejected the defendant's arguments, but still held that they were not liable?
Did you know that lemurs are primates that evolved and diversified on the island of Madagascar after arriving there at least 56 million years ago on a raft of vegetation?
Did you know that one possible explanation of the origin of the Flying Dutchman legend is a Fata Morgana (illustrated)?
Did you know that the Bhutan Textile Museum in Thimphu was supported technically by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts?
Did you know that the Duke of Wellington pub at High Coniscliffe, Durham, England, used to display Napoleon on its sign instead of Wellington?
Did you know that the North Sea patrols of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia during World War I were so monotonous that one sailor was driven insane?
Did you know that the Norwegian cities of Oslo and Bergen are governed through a parliamentary system?
Did you know that the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi was offered professorship for his painting Christ in the Desert, but rejected it?
Did you know that the Stevenson Memorial, painted by Abbott Thayer to honor Robert Louis Stevenson, was painted, in part, with a broom?
Did you know that the belted cardinalfish carries its developing eggs in its mouth?
Did you know that the ideas of Hermann Baumgarten not only influenced the political outlook of social theorist Max Weber, but also helped accelerate the unification of Germany in 1871?
Did you know that the seventeenth government of Israel was dissolved by Yitzhak Rabin following a breach of the Sabbath?
Did you know that voting for the mascot of the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship was done through the tournament's page on Facebook?
Did you know that Alex Silvagni's debut performances in the Australian Football League as a 22-year-old rookie is part of a shift in the recruiting philosophy to also recruit older players, not just 18-year-olds?
Did you know that American economist Adam Posen advises both the Bank of England and the United States Congressional Budget Office?
Did you know that Bidal Aguero, a civil rights activist in Lubbock, published El Editor, the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas?
Did you know that James Moore, hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army?
Did you know that Jethro Rothe-Kushel directed Alex Band's first music video at the age of 10 and went on to produce ten movies by the age of 28?
Did you know that SMS Schleswig-Holstein, one of the five Deutschland-class battleships, fired the first shots of World War II during the Battle of Westerplatte?
Did you know that The Blood Compact painting, currently displayed at the top of the grand staircase of the Malacañang Palace, was one of the last paintings created by Filipino artist Juan Luna?
Did you know that Wood's Monument at West Point was used as a navigational aide for ships passing down the Hudson River?
Did you know that although the South African RG-35 mine resistant ambush protected vehicle is powered by a diesel engine, it can also accommodate hybrid electric drive?
Did you know that an Australian couple bought the town of Wauconda, Washington, in an online auction for $370,601?
Did you know that both Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve and Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve are larger than any of Svalbard's seven national parks?
Did you know that despite being named for its distribution in the western hemisphere, the fungus Sarcoscypha occidentalis is also found in Asia?
Did you know that during the 2008–10 campaign, two friendly games between the German rugby union team and a selection of the British Forces Germany had to be cancelled because of bad weather?
Did you know that in the mid-1990s, Alf Tande-Petersen presented the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth most viewed television program episodes in Norway?
Did you know that sandstone blocks used in the construction of St John's Church, Crosscanonby, Cumbria, England, might originate from a former Roman building?
Did you know that swimmer Janine Pietsch won two gold medals at the 2006 World Championships, each by 0.25 seconds?
Did you know that the Bronze Age gold Casco de Leiro was a fisherman's chance find on a beach in Galicia, Spain?
Did you know that the Manas River, a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, is the largest river system in Bhutan?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Kola, a town in Russia, depicts a whale because whaling was the occupation of many town residents?
Did you know that the eight foot stone atrium cross of the former monastery of Acolman, Mexico, is an expression of "tequiqui" or Christian art executed by Indian craftsmen?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Poole, Cheshire, England, include a pinfold or cattle pound?
Did you know that the real estate developer Buddy Tudor won awards for the historic preservation of the landmark Bentley Hotel in Alexandria, Louisiana?
Did you know that the red flowers of the four related genera Oreocallis, Embothrium, Telopea and Alloxylon from South America and Australia have been around for over 60 million years?
Did you know that though clavarioid fungi were originally thought to comprise a single genus, they are now classified in multiple orders and families?
Did you know that Blessed Daniel Brottier, when asked by his mother what he wanted to be when he grew up, responded, "I will be the Pope"?
Did you know that Chantilly porcelain, a "soft-paste porcelain" made from c.1730 is not a true porcelain because it lacks "china clay", kaolin?
Did you know that Edward Cephas John Stevens initiated the land transfer that gave Christchurch, New Zealand, the park on which AMI Stadium now stands?
Did you know that JB's Dudley, which claims to be the UK's longest-running live music venue, began life as a disco night at Dudley Town F.C.'s social club?
Did you know that Jama Williamson, who plays the attractive surgeon ex-wife of Tom Haverford in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, also provided voices for the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas?
Did you know that James E. Boyd started nuclear research at the Georgia Institute of Technology while leading the Georgia Tech Research Institute?
Did you know that Laiko Vima was the only newspaper printed in Greek in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania?
Did you know that Punakha Dzong is the second largest and second oldest Dzong in Bhutan, constructed by Zhabdrung (Shabdrung) Ngawang Namgyal in 1637–38?
Did you know that SMS Zähringen, one of the five Wittelsbach-class battleships, was rebuilt after World War I as a radio-controlled target ship and destroyed by British Royal Air Force bombers during World War II?
Did you know that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is one of the key figures behind data.gov.uk, a UK Government project to open up almost all data acquired for official purposes for free re-use?
Did you know that Thomas Stewart, who designed the internationally recognized Woodhead Dam, was called "the father of consulting engineering in South Africa"?
Did you know that although Aniceto Ortega had a distinguished career as a physician and surgeon in Mexico, he is also remembered today for his 1871 opera Guatimotzin?
Did you know that footballer Sid Storey, who played for York City from 1947 to 1956, drove the open top bus that paraded the York team after winning the 1983–84 Fourth Division championship?
Did you know that former Spanish sailor Don Francisco de Paula Marín (1774–1837) introduced many crops such as pineapple to Hawaii?
Did you know that in October 2005, Craig Cobb told visitors to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda that he was there to celebrate the death of Rosa Parks?
Did you know that in the 1818 English case of Ashford v Thornton, the defendant demanded and was granted a right to trial by battle?
Did you know that since 1948 Israel has only lost 18 planes in air to air combat?
Did you know that the Anglo-Danish carved stones in St Mungo's Church, Dearham include a wheel-head cross, the Adam Stone, and the Kenneth Cross?
Did you know that the BBC reduced actor Alan Davies' fee for the Jonathan Creek episode "The Judas Tree" by 25 percent?
Did you know that the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer, better known as the Alles Machines, pioneered additive synthesis and served as the basis for several commercial instruments in the early 1980s?
Did you know that the People's Party of Syria was established in 1948 as the main opposition party to the National Party?
Did you know that the Spanish URO VAMTAC is similar to the American HMMWV, since both were developed to meet similar requirements?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Ballin (1892) was based in part on the assumption that the Journal of the House of Representatives is always accurate?
Did you know that the anti-war poster And babies shows half-naked women and babies killed at My Lai during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the captured Yugoslav seaplane tender Zmaj was used for shipboard trials of the Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) helicopter by the Kriegsmarine in 1942–43?
Did you know that the co-pilot of the lead C-47 at the Mitla Pass parachute drop, which launched the 1956 Suez War, was a woman, Yael Rom?
Did you know that the first imperial examination in the history of Vietnam was organized in 1072 during the reign of Lý Nhân Tông?
Did you know that the word game Trickster, a spin-off of Scrabble, includes changes to the original game such as allowing players to form proper nouns with their letters and stealing another player's tiles?
Did you know that there were no women among the 172 deputies elected to the Parliament of Syria in the 1961 parliamentary elections?
Did you know that Andreas Karasiak recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion, scored for double chorus, with two boys choirs, Knabenchor Hannover and Thomanerchor?
Did you know that Juan Luna's La Bulaqueña painting is a serene portrait of a Filipino woman from Bulacan wearing a Maria Clara gown?
Did you know that Juan Luna's Tampuhan painting depicts a Filipino man and a Filipino woman sulking after a lovers' argument?
Did you know that Juan Luna's The Parisian Life painting portrays three Filipino gentlemen and heroes glancing inquisitively at a woman while inside a café in Paris, France?
Did you know that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, also created the Maharishi Group, a $700 million non-profit conglomerate in India?
Did you know that Regency mansion Poole Hall in Cheshire, England, once housed an eclectic collection including teasmaids, mannequins, toy robots, a pinball machine and Keith Richards' Bentley?
Did you know that Richard II of England agreed to extend the 1389 Truce of Leulinghem with France after the English Parliament failed to ratify a permanent peace treaty?
Did you know that Sarah Beth Barnette, a senior at Lexington Christian Academy, is the first player from Lexington to win Kentucky's "Miss Basketball" award?
Did you know that a recent cyber attack targeted opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam?
Did you know that despite inheriting the vast Parker Ranch as a child, Richard Smart became an actor and singer in musical theater on Broadway?
Did you know that during his basketball career, John Hummer played for four head coaches who have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that in 1876 Llewelyn Kenrick, founder of the Football Association of Wales, organised and played in Wales' first international match?
Did you know that in 2006, Birkelunden underwent the first "conservation of a cultural environment in a city" in Norway?
Did you know that in choosing between the names Portland and Boston, Francis Pettygrove and Asa Lovejoy, the founders of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, settled the question by a coin toss?
Did you know that reality television star Kim Kardashian was brutally murdered in the South Park episode "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs", but she found it very funny?
Did you know that tenor Kurt Equiluz was the Evangelist in the first recording of Bach's St John Passion on period instruments with the Concentus Musicus Wien, Vienna?
Did you know that the Buddha Dhatu Jadi, also known as Bandarban Golden Temple, is the largest Theravada Buddhist Temple in Bandarban, with the second largest Buddha statue in Bangladesh?
Did you know that the Central American palm, Schippia concolor, exhibits the unusual germination strategy of transferring all resources from the seed to the seedling before any shoot growth occurs?
Did you know that the East Texas Historical Association was founded in 1927, disbanded during the Great Depression, and reborn in 1962?
Did you know that the Pavlos Vrellis Greek History Museum is the best known wax museum in Greece?
Did you know that the Pondicherry shark was last seen in 1979?
Did you know that the capilla abierta is considered one of the most distinct Mexican construction forms?
Did you know that the primary leaf veins for the extinct plant Trochodendron nastae are palmate rather then being pinnate like those in the living Trochodendron aralioides?
Did you know that the rice rat Oryzomys couesi is infected by two different hantaviruses?
Did you know that the turreted Johan Poulsen House in Portland, Oregon's Brooklyn neighborhood was built in 1891 and owned by a lumber magnate and a "doughnut king"?
Did you know that there was once a gallows in Low Coniscliffe, Durham, England?
Did you know that Australian record producer, Richard Pleasance, who was a founding member of 1980s band Boom Crash Opera, also composed the score for the 2006 feature film Kenny?
Did you know that Bouthaina Shaaban, a former Minister of Expatriates of Syria, has been described as the Syrian "regime's face to the outside world"?
Did you know that Darell Hammond co-founded KaBOOM!, an American non-profit organization that builds playgrounds for children?
Did you know that John Wesley preached in the kitchen of Gates Farm in Cholmondeston, Cheshire, England?
Did you know that Laura Berg is the most decorated athlete in softball at the Summer Olympics, with three gold medals and one silver?
Did you know that Margaret Ballinger, an M.P. for native South Africans, was hailed as the "Queen of the Blacks" in 1944?
Did you know that actor Jim O'Heir, who plays Jerry on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, once played the janitor of a genetics laboratory who held puppet shows with the failed experiments?
Did you know that although considered as the ideal woman in Philippine society, María Clara is also criticized as the "greatest misfortune that has befallen the Filipina in the last 100 years"?