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Did you know that the Isted Lion, an important Danish war monument, was located in Berlin for almost 70 years, but was returned to Denmark on the orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Did you know that the Stinkpot turtle deters predators by releasing a musky smell from glands under its shell?
Did you know that Chicago composer Margaret Bonds wrote her first work, the Marquette Street Blues, at the age of five?
Did you know that Epiphanius's most important work, the Panarion, is ironically the only surviving source of information on several early Christian sects that he sought to eliminate with his writing?
Did you know that Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero, which premiered in 1625, was the first opera written by a woman?
Did you know that Muhammad had the Jewish tribe Banu Nadir expelled from Medina, their men killed, and their wives and property divided among his followers, choosing for himself the widow of the tribe's slain treasurer?
Did you know that Szinva Terrace, the newest public square in Miskolc, Hungary, features a small artificial waterfall built into the wall bordering the Szinva stream?
Did you know that the Russian Party of Revolutionary Communism was dissolved in 1920 after a decision of the 2nd Comintern congress, which ordered there could only be one communist party in each country?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Greenland depicts a polar bear raising its left forepaw, breaking with the heraldic tradition of showing the right forepaw raised, because polar bears are left-handed?
Did you know that the last male-line descendant of Alexander III of Russia, Count George Brasov, died in a road accident whilst exiled in France at the age of 20?
Did you know that the proposed Atlantica trade bloc would economically tie New England in the U.S. to the Atlantic Provinces of Canada?
Did you know that the recordings of Pyotr Leshchenko, "the King of Russian Tango", were banned in the Soviet Union as counterrevolutionary?
Did you know that with the coming of Tropical Storm Henri, parts of Red Clay Creek in Delaware experienced a 500-year flood?
Did you know that Belton House, a Carolean country house in Lincolnshire, was featured as the residence of Mr. Darcy's aunt in the TV version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
Did you know that CRISM is a spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and will be used to find minerals on the surface of Mars?
Did you know that Hewlett Packard's popular LaserJet 4 range of printers included the LaserJet 4LC, the first printer designed exclusively for the Chinese market?
Did you know that Microsoft chose Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee Chris Economaki to author the auto racing history portion of its Encarta encyclopedia?
Did you know that Portuguese jurist João das Regras aided John I of Portugal by refuting the arguments of pretenders to the throne during the 1383–1385 Crisis?
Did you know that because straw-processing was very important to the town, Twistringen's 750th anniversary was celebrated by building the world's largest straw hat, at over 5 m (16 ft) wide?
Did you know that science fiction and fantasy in Poland traces its origins to the Polish Enlightenment, and that many of its writers are translated into foreign languages—with the notable exception of English?
Did you know that the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580 raised tsunamis in the English Channel, flooding Calais and Boulogne?
Did you know that the Malay word Merdeka has been used in both Singapore and Malaysia to describe the campaigns for self-government and independence in both countries?
Did you know that the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church in Sofia, Bulgaria is a reorganized Ottoman mosque, built on the site of an Early Christian temple?
Did you know that Henryk Woliński, Polish resistance Armia Krajowa member, was responsible for the creation of Żegota and saving the lives of thousands of Polish Jews in WWII?
Did you know that Russian courtier Ivan Betskoy was rumoured to have been not only Catherine the Great's confidant but also her father?
Did you know that Yoshioka-Kaitei Station, located 149.5 metres below sea level within the Seikan Tunnel, is the deepest underground station in Japan?
Did you know that the British Levant Company avoided a fatal mistake of other chartered companies by paying their consuls and ambassadors a pension, so that they would not impose taxes on merchants for personal gain?
Did you know that tradition traces Clan Drummond, a Scottish clan from Stirlingshire, to Hungarian origins?
Did you know that Boyle Roche, an 18th-century Irish politician famous for his risible use of mixed metaphors and malapropisms, was a member of the same family as Diana, Princess of Wales?
Did you know that German tailor Franz Muller committed the first murder on a British train, in 1864?
Did you know that Russian General Denis Davydov was also a celebrated poet who created a specific genre, known as hussar poetry?
Did you know that Russian modernist writer Aleksey Remizov was also an expert calligrapher who sought to revive this medieval art form in Russia?
Did you know that during the 976-9 civil war in the Byzantine Empire, military support provided by Georgian prince David III of Tao was crucial to Emperor Basil II's continued reign?
Did you know that the 1040-foot-long Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania was the largest and most expensive stone railway viaduct when built in 1848, and is still in use by the Norfolk Southern Railway?
Did you know that the French West India Company was so successful at recovering commerce from the Dutch in the West Indies, that the company became obsolete after only 9 years in operation?
Did you know that the Namibian city of Otjimbingwe was the capital city before the modern capital, Windhoek, replaced it in 1892?
Did you know that the Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band played a record-setting 10-hour drum roll in 1934?
Did you know that three trophies are given to the winner of the annual Red River Shootout, one of college football's oldest rivalry games, played between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners?
Did you know that Aleksandra Piłsudska, a Polish revolutionary and second wife of dictator Józef Piłsudski, helped plan the Bezdany train raid?
Did you know that Australian boxer Jim Hall was buried in an unmarked grave, apparently to elude the man to whom he had sold his skeleton?
Did you know that Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, said to be Christopher Wren's favourite decorative painter, nevertheless did not secure the commission to paint the dome of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, finished in 1708?
Did you know that Russian playwright Yakov Knyazhnin was once thought to have been tortured to death after presenting a libertarian play to Catherine the Great?
Did you know that Tarquin the Proud modified the Roman festival of Compitalia to include the sacrifice of children's heads, but upon his expulsion, Brutus substituted heads of garlic and poppies instead?
Did you know that future High Court judge Sir John Vinelott sat by during an argument in a Karl Popper lecture as his mentor, Ludwig Wittgenstein, brandished a red hot poker before storming out?
Did you know that one of the shotguns used by the all-male pep squad RUF/NEKS of the University of Oklahoma during football games is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution?
Did you know that people protested outside NASCAR's headquarters after African-American driver Bobby Norfleet was not allowed to qualify for a 2000 Craftsman Truck Series race at Pikes Peak International Raceway?
Did you know that the A8(M) motorway is the shortest motorway in Northern Ireland at only one mile long, and has no junctions with any other roads along its entire length?
Did you know that the Banksia menziesii, named after 18th-century physician and naturalist Archibald Menzies, is also known as the Firewood Banksia for its burning properties and abundancy?
Did you know that the Lviv tram, opened on May 5, 1880 in Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary), is one of the last urban transit systems in the former Soviet Union to still use grooved rail?
Did you know that American sculptor Luis Jiménez, known for his large Southwestern and Hispanic polychromed fiberglass sculptures, was killed when a large piece of his work fell on him?
Did you know that Ann Hasseltine Judson was the first Protestant to translate a scripture into  Siamese, and legitimized the missionary calling for Christian women?
Did you know that Governor James B. A. Robertson called out the Oklahoma National Guard in order to restore law and order during the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921?
Did you know that Russian composer Ella Adayevskaya took her pseudonym from the notes played by the kettledrum in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmila?
Did you know that Union for Active Struggle was a secret paramilitary organization dedicated to reclaiming Polish independence, with support by Austria-Hungary against the Russian Empire?
Did you know that although Ernst Neizvestny's work had been denounced by Nikita Khrushchev as degenerate art, he was commissioned to sculpt Khrushchev's tomb?
Did you know that the 1900 Paris Exposition's Mareorama was a simulated sea voyage using two 2,460-foot-long (750 m) panoramic paintings and a giant motion platform?
Did you know that the Kell antigen system is a group of antigens on the human red blood cell surface that are important determinants of blood type and targets for autoimmune or alloimmune diseases that destroy red blood cells?
Did you know that the Kutiyapi is a two-stringed, fretted boat-lute with beeswax frets?
Did you know that the Motown recording "Do You Love Me" by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987?
Did you know that Artrain USA is a 5-car art gallery that tours the U.S. 11 months of the year, visiting small towns whose residents may not otherwise have a chance to see art up close?
Did you know that Ashta Pradhan, a council formed by Shivaji in 1674 to help him in administration, was one of the first instances of ministerial delegation in India?
Did you know that Captain William Reynolds, a veteran of the American Civil War, formally claimed the Midway Atoll for the United States in 1867 due to its abundance of guano?
Did you know that Czech basketball player George Zidek is the younger of the only father-and-son pair to have each played in European club basketball title games?
Did you know that Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, creator of the National Bank of Poland and author of many economic reforms in Congress Poland, also laid foundations for the industrialization of the city of Łódź?
Did you know that J. Dringwell Rymbai had to discontinue his education due to poverty, but became the head master of a school and eventually the Chief Minister of Meghalaya?
Did you know that Joseph Krumgold was the first author to win the Newbery Medal twice?
Did you know that Roman Emperor Trajan was heavily criticized for giving extravagant donations, called congiaria, to every citizen?
Did you know that the American Buffalo gold bullion coin will be the first .9999 fine 24-karat gold coin released by the United States Mint?
Did you know that the Swedish term yrast, meaning "dizziest", is used in nuclear physics to refer to nuclear states of high angular momentum?
Did you know that the name of the Azeri settlement Ramana, with natural gas vents where Zoroastrians still hold fire rites, might, according to conjecture, be derived from Roma, the Latin word for Rome?
Did you know that Ah Meng, a Sumatran Orangutan and tourism icon of Singapore, had breakfast with celebrities including the Duke of Edinburgh and pop star Michael Jackson?
Did you know that Akira Endo received the 2006 Japan Prize for his discovery of the popular statin drugs, used to treat high cholesterol?
Did you know that Piscataway Park was created to prevent development and protect the view across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon?
Did you know that Sabantuy is a Tatar summer festival which features such contests as Tatar wrestling, horse racing, race-in-sack, pillar-climbing, egg-in-spoon-in-mouth-racing, and finding a coin in a bowl of sour milk?
Did you know that Ulriksdal Palace was originally named Jakobsdal, after Jacob De La Gardie, and was one of the first buildings in Sweden with mansard roofs?
Did you know that a Roman man once received the surname of "Tricongius" for his ability to drink three congii of wine (9.8 litres; 2.6 gallons) in one sitting in a feat that he once performed before Emperor Tiberius?
Did you know that hydrological transport models are computer simulations analyzing the movement of water pollution in rivers, and have played a role in aiding endangered species?
Did you know that in 2003, the Cuban town of San Antonio de Los Baños had no water for 2 days while a 100-year old aqueduct supplying the city was being repaired?
Did you know that professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria?
Did you know that the Greenbrier Ghost (Zona Heaster Shue, pictured) is the only ghost in American history whose alleged testimony influenced a jury trial?
Did you know that the breakfast room at Tullgarn Palace in Sweden is furnished like a south German Bierstube, possibly reflecting the fact that King Gustav V's queen consort came from Baden?
Did you know that when NASCAR driver David Gilliland won his first career Busch Series race in 2006, driving for an unsponsored part-time team, commentator Hermie Sadler called it "the biggest upset in Busch Series history"?
Did you know that American tenor Charles Anthony has sung with the Metropolitan Opera for 52 consecutive seasons, which is unparalleled in company history?
Did you know that Betsey Stockton, the first unmarried female foreign missionary, was a manumitted slave who established schools in Hawaii and Canada?
Did you know that NASA test pilot Joe Walker's X-1E and record-setting X-15 were two of the very few research aircraft to have nose art?  (pictured, Joe Walker and the X-1E)
Did you know that Rugby union is considered the national sport of Fiji?
Did you know that Taiwan's non-profit Industrial Technology Research Institute spun off Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry?
Did you know that fuel burned by combustion equipment in large industrial plants is channeled to the atmosphere by large vertical pipes or vents called flue gas stacks?
Did you know that the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland abolished the office of the President of Poland, replacing it with the State Council of Poland?
Did you know that the disastrous Battle of Beroia resulted in the disappearance of the nomadic Pecheneg people from eastern Europe?
Did you know that the only recorded use of the phrase "We who are about to die salute you" in Ancient Rome was at a naumachia, a theatrical naval spectacular, not said by gladiators as is widely believed?
Did you know that the second line of the Valenciennes tram will open in 2007, but will reuse the platform of a railway line that opened in 1838?
Did you know that the song "Run-Around" by jam band Blues Traveler was first played at the CBGB club in New York City?
Did you know that tissue transglutaminase antibody testing has superseded all older blood tests in the diagnosis of coeliac disease?
Did you know that British Labour Party MP Roland Boyes continued in office after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1995, but his condition had deteriorated so much that, upon his retirement in 1997, he was unaware that his party had gained control after 18 years in opposition?
Did you know that Corné Krige and George Gregan, who respectively captained the South Africa and Australia rugby union teams in both the 2002 and 2003 Tri Nations Series, were born in the same hospital in Zambia?
Did you know that May crowning is a traditional Roman Catholic ritual in which the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary is ceremonially crowned to signify her as Queen of Heaven and Mother of God?
Did you know that a study on chemical analysis by Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a Portuguese military officer, scientist and statesman of the 19th century, motivated a special report by two of the most prestigious scientists of the time: Jean-Antoine Chaptal and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac?
Did you know that after Oklahoma Governor Henry S. Johnston was impeached in 1929, it would be 60 years before another U.S. Governor is impeached?
Did you know that by the time U.S. Civil War tokens were deemed illegal tender in 1864, there were about 25 million in circulation, in over 7,000 varieties?
Did you know that former Governor of Guam Bill Daniel provided 400 longhorns and hundreds of horses from his ranch for the John Wayne film The Alamo, in which he also starred?
Did you know that one can live, work, and play in Fermont, Quebec without going outside, because the town is bordered on two sides by a long building containing living, shopping, work and recreational facilities all under one roof?
Did you know that the Chilean National Plebiscite of 1980, which affirmed General Pinochet as president and approved a new constitution for Chile, was marked by irregularities?
Did you know that the Roman festival of hilaria, which allowed anyone to masquerade as any rank, was used in a plot to assassinate Emperor Commodus, by conspirators planning to disguise themselves as members of the Praetorian Guard?
Did you know that the earliest known Polish language sentence comes from the Book of Henryków, a 13th-century chronicle of a Cistercian abbey?
Did you know that the horseman depicted on the Coat of arms of Moscow was not identified with Saint George until the 18th century?
Did you know that Antoni Heda, one of the most successful partisan commanders in Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in World War II, was sentenced to death on 7 consecutive charges by the Polish communists' government?
Did you know that David Ross Boyd, the first president of the University of Oklahoma, planted nearly 10,000 trees on campus during his first 18 months in the post?
Did you know that although NASA originally thought that there was only one scalloped margin dome on the planet Venus, they have since discovered hundreds of them?
Did you know that at the Roman festival of Quinquatria in 59, Emperor Nero invited his mother Agrippina to his villa, as part of his plan to assassinate her?
Did you know that choreographer Gillian Lynne took up dance as a child to recover from the violent death of her mother?
Did you know that the Kassel glosses, one of the earliest written documents of the Old High German language, form a practical language guide for foreigners and include phrases containing the jocular xenophobic jibe "Romans are stupid, Bavarians are smart"?
Did you know that 3D Construction Kit, a utility for creating 3D worlds in Freescape, typically ran at one frame per second on the Commodore 64?
Did you know that Edward Schildhauer's design for the Panama Canal railway and lock machinery has remained in use for almost 100 years?
Did you know that His Master's Voice, one of the most acclaimed science-fiction novels of Stanisław Lem, is also one of Lem's strongest critiques of the science-fiction genre itself?
Did you know that among all European Union member states, Cyprus is the only presidential republic? (pictured: EU flag)
Did you know that the Congressional Country Club is one of the 100 Greatest Golf Courses as ranked by Golf Digest and it will host its third United States Open in 2011?
Did you know that the Swedish General and Privy Councillor Magnus Julius De la Gardie arranged regular receptions at his residence, a novelty never heard of in Sweden in the early 1700s?
Did you know that Alexander Korzhakov contends that his political adversaries wanted to kill his main rival in the 1997 parliamentary by-election in Tula in order to deem it invalid?
Did you know that Charlotte Wilson was murdered by Hutu rebels in Burundi during the Titanic Express massacre?
Did you know that Kazakhstan Temir Zholy is building a  transshipment railway to connect China with Europe using standard gauge?
Did you know that Maharaja Gulab Singh, founder of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, was illiterate?
Did you know that Nenets painter Konstantin Pankov had never seen a painting before he began painting landscapes of the Far North?
Did you know that career US diplomat George Wadsworth, Chargé d'affaires in Italy at the onset of World War II, was one of the last American personnel to leave the country?
Did you know that during Jake Gaither's tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University, his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships?
Did you know that even in perfect darkness, the retina spontaneously sends signals down the optic nerve, causing a sensation of gray called eigengrau?
Did you know that the "Cold War", held in MSU's Spartan Stadium, was the most-attended ice hockey game in history?
Did you know that the 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Infantry Division was a Polish military unit, created from volunteers and self-defence units of the Kresy territories?
Did you know that the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark in Oklahoma has received a license from the FAA to become a spaceport, and plans to launch space tourism flights by 2008?
Did you know that the National Labor Board established the doctrine of representational exclusivity in American labor relations, a rule still used today?
Did you know that Alevtina Kolchina was the first female Nordic skier and first person from the Soviet Union (now Russia) to receive the Holmenkollen medal in 1963?
Did you know that Higgins Glass refers to fused glass functional artwork produced by Michael and Frances Higgins of Chicago, in the latter half of the 20th century?
Did you know that Tsenacommacah was the name of the territory in eastern Virginia which was controlled by the Powhatan Confederacy at the time of the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 1607?
Did you know that Winsor McCay's animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was originally created for a vaudeville act where McCay would seem to interact with the cartoon dinosaur?
Did you know that former Eight is Enough actress Susan Richardson battled an addiction to cocaine after using the drug for weight loss following her pregnancy?
Did you know that the East Los Angeles community arts center Self Help Graphics & Art has been producing Chicano art for more than thirty years?
Did you know that Anthony Marreco was Junior Counsel in the British Delegation at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, and was later a founding director of Amnesty International?
Did you know that Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond, Virginia contains a steam locomotive and ten flat cars trapped in a collapse in October 1925 which were never recovered?
Did you know that a total of 19 tropical cyclones worldwide have been named Alice, making this one of the three most frequently used tropical cyclone names?
Did you know that habitual con artist Amy Bock impersonated a man in early-20th century New Zealand in order to marry and defraud her landlady's daughter?
Did you know that the U.S.-built Lynx reconnaissance vehicle  was rejected in favor of the M114 by the U.S Army, but sold to the Royal Netherlands Army and the Canadian Forces?
Did you know that the symphony said to have been written in 1809 by Ukrainian landowner Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky was later proven to be a hoax?
Did you know that Bennie Owen introduced the forward pass to the southwestern United States as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners football team?
Did you know that NASCAR driver-turned-broadcaster Phil Parsons is the (16 years) younger brother of 1973 Winston Cup champion Benny Parsons?
Did you know that an increasing number of countries are looking to regulate fast food advertising to try to reduce childhood obesity?
Did you know that the New Shepard is a commercial space tourism vehicle designed and assembled by Blue Origin which will start subscale flight testing in 2006?
Did you know that the Palace of Tau in Reims, France, is named after its shape, which resembles the letter T (tau, in the Greek alphabet)?