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Did you know that the Suceava North railway station in Suceava was selected as a location for the film Gruber's Journey because the filmmakers believed the architecture was reminiscent of World War II?
Did you know that the Tibetan Annals form the oldest surviving Tibetan history providing a summary of events from the 640s to 764 CE, when Tibetan soldiers returned from sacking the Chinese capital, Chang'an?
Did you know that the green lanternshark often preys on squid and octopus much larger than itself, which it may overwhelm by attacking in packs?
Did you know that the largetooth cookiecutter shark has the largest teeth relative to its body of any living shark?
Did you know that the nose and tail sections of the Soviet Ilyushin Il-32 prototype cargo glider were hinged to open up to 95° to facilitate the loading of cargo?
Did you know that the song "Sentimental Lady," written by Bob Welch, which appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1972 album, Bare Trees, was re-recorded to feature on his 1977 debut album, French Kiss?
Did you know that with Kerry's victory in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Tadhg Kennelly became the first person to win medals at the highest level of Australian rules and Gaelic football?
Did you know that Andy "The Bull" McSharry, who was jailed for banning hillwalkers from his land, compared his opponents to the Mafia and patrolled his farm on a quad?
Did you know that Bath, the only entire city in England to be a World Heritage Site, was awarded that status largely because of its buildings and architecture?
Did you know that Great Grey Shrikes have been known to skilfully skin toads to prevent the poisonous skin secretions from spoiling the meat?
Did you know that Guo Moruo wrote a poem about the Liujiaxia Dam, while the displaced farmers received about RMB 364 per person?
Did you know that Jo Swerling initially declined to rewrite Frank Capra's first draft screenplay for the 1930 film Ladies of Leisure because he thought it was a "putrid piece of gorgonzola"?
Did you know that Robert Bloet, a medieval Bishop of Lincoln, appointed his own son Simon as Dean of Lincoln?
Did you know that Sandouping, China, has not only the world's largest power plant, but also 1,000 hectares of citrus orchards?
Did you know that after limited success in film, actor Patrick McVey won starring roles in three television series: Big Town, Boots and Saddles, and Manhunt?
Did you know that besides being a clown, mime, juggler, and sleight of hand magician, vaudevillian Avner the Eccentric is a certified Ericksonian hypnotist?
Did you know that hardstone carvings in semi-precious stones range from Neolithic Chinese jades and Olmec face masks (example pictured) to tiny animals by Fabergé?
Did you know that physical chemists Isabella Karle and her Nobel Prize-winning husband Jerome Karle retired in July 2009 after a combined 127 years of employment at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory?
Did you know that reviewers called The Wolf Woman the "greatest vampire picture of all" and its star, Louise Glaum, "the greatest vampire woman of all time"?
Did you know that the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond, Oregon, is the city's oldest church?
Did you know that the United States revenue cutter Jefferson Davis was named in 1853 for Jefferson Davis, later president of the Confederate States of America?
Did you know that the blurred and smooth lanternsharks form a species group distinguished from the rest of their family by the shape and arrangement of their dermal denticles?
Did you know that the first practical amphibious helicopter was created in 1941 when Igor Sikorsky fitted floats to his VS-300?
Did you know that the landmark Insurance Exchange Building in Long Beach, California, has housed a boy's clothing store, courthouse, dance studio, nightclub and Jamaican restaurant?
Did you know that when Friedrich Giesel discovered actinium independently from André-Louis Debierne, he wanted to call it "emanium"?
Did you know that Admiral Sir Francis Wheler's mangled body was washed up two days after the loss of his flagship HMS Sussex in 1694?
Did you know that Buster Keaton built a trestle bridge near Culp Creek, Oregon, just to burn it down for a movie?
Did you know that Ireland's annual National Ploughing Championships is Europe's largest agricultural event?
Did you know that Jerusalem Delivered, the epic poem by Torquato Tasso, has inspired at least 100 operas set in the Crusades?
Did you know that Marcel Oopa, French National Assembly member from Tahiti and the Polynesian autonomist R.D.P.T, died on Bastille Day 1961?
Did you know that Mette Hanekamhaug, at 22, became the youngest parliamentarian elected in the 2009 Norwegian parliamentary election?
Did you know that Travis Touchdown, the anti-hero of the Wii video game No More Heroes, was so named to "sound cool to a Japanese audience"?
Did you know that Yilun Yang is ranked as a 7 dan in the board game Go?
Did you know that a pastor of the First Congregational Church in Long Beach, California, vowed to defy an order to block homeless people from sleeping on the church steps?
Did you know that former Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Dale Sittig was credited with obtaining lighting for the Louisiana State University at Eunice's baseball stadium?
Did you know that only one Skinner & Eddy ship built for World War I service was lost in that conflict, but 31—including West Lashaway, West Elcasco, West Eldara, West Haven, West Hobomac, West Humhaw and West Maximus—were lost to enemy action in World War II?
Did you know that the "severe" and "assertive" former St Peter's Church in Shoreham-by-Sea was converted into a nursing home, retaining many of its original features?
Did you know that the 1920 film Sex, opening with its star performing a seductive "spider dance" clad in "a translucent cloak of webs", had its title censored in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the 1955 Hindi film Vachan marked composer Ravi's debut as a film music director?
Did you know that the Sky Room atop the Breakers Hotel was the local Airwatch headquarters in World War II?
Did you know that the rice rat "Oryzomys hypenemus", first identified from bones collected from caves in Antigua and Barbuda as early as 1958, still lacks a formal scientific name?
Did you know that "Pawnee Zoo", an episode of the American television comedy Parks and Recreation, features a fictional same-sex marriage between two penguins?
Did you know that Canadian writer Carol Shields died before she ever got to see the completed version of the screen adaption of her novel, The Republic of Love, despite being involved in the pre-production of the film?
Did you know that Matt Brown, from Idalou, Texas, won the gold medal for discus with a prosthetic leg at the 2008 Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro?
Did you know that Sister Pearl Corkhill was one of only seven Australian military nurses to win the Military Medal in the First World War?
Did you know that after serving in the Swedish and French militaries, Thure de Thulstrup later gained a reputation as "the foremost military artist in America" (example shown)?
Did you know that at the 1895 United Kingdom General Election, Tankerville Chamberlayne's election as a Member of Parliament was declared void because of electoral fraud?
Did you know that bankers, airline executives, Academy Award-winning directors, Bob Geldof and a representative from Coca-Cola were among delegates who attended the Global Irish Economic Forum in September 2009?
Did you know that lawyer, politician and anti-immigration activist Erik Gjems-Onstad also initiated the cyclosportive Styrkeprøven?
Did you know that the 2006 The Dawn album Tulad Ng Dati was not intended to serve as a soundtrack album for the film of the same title?
Did you know that the Black African Students Federation in France (F.E.A.N.F.) opposed the French 1965 Loi Cadre, which it considered as a move to Balkanize Africa?
Did you know that the Chrysotriklinos, the ceremonial hall of the Great Palace of Constantinople, was the model for Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel in the Palace of Aachen?
Did you know that the French occupation of Tunisia in 1881 (troops pictured) received the approval of both Great Britain and Germany, but that Italy protested in vain?
Did you know that the Norwegian airline Braathens' destinations included seven offshore oil fields served by Braathens Helikopter?
Did you know that the United Bible Society and Norwegian Protestant Mission have provided a New Testament in the Khassonké language for the Malian commune Tomora?
Did you know that the persecuted Cagots were only allowed to use the special holy water font when attending the church in Saint-Savin?
Did you know that the recently described synapsid Raranimus is the most basal member of the order Therapsida, from which mammals are a descendant taxon?
Did you know that unlike most Depression-era armories in New York, the Schenectady Armory was built in the center of its city rather than on its outskirts?
Did you know that when M.P. and Lord Mayor, Sir James Sanderson, bart. died, his widow helped make a rich prophet of William Huntington S.S.?
Did you know that when the play Trafford Tanzi was produced on Broadway, the cast included singer Deborah Harry as a professional wrestler and comedian Andy Kaufman as a referee?
Did you know that Ateneo and La Salle supporters wore yellow as a sign of respect for Corazon Aquino  who died a week prior to their first basketball game of the 2009 season?
Did you know that Emmy Award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh described one scene in Talk to Me where a teacher commits adultery with her 15-year-old pupil as "not so much about sex as about love"?
Did you know that Hereford Road Skew Bridge has been described as one of the most "skew" railway bridges in England?
Did you know that Irish folk-singer Tommy Sands received an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Nevada, Reno?
Did you know that Japanese settlement in Palau dates back to the 19th century?
Did you know that Kent Blazy, co-writer of Garth Brooks' "If Tomorrow Never Comes," has had a cut on all but one of Brooks' albums?
Did you know that Michael Lockett, a British sergeant who was killed by a roadside bomb, was the first British soldier awarded the Military Cross to die in Afghanistan?
Did you know that Milwaukee's first underground parking garage was built in 1927 in the basement of George Brumder's Germania Building?
Did you know that Randall's Thumb was the first of a long series of W.S. Gilbert's plays  at Marie Litton's newly christened Royal Court Theatre?
Did you know that Richard Adeney, who played principal flute with the English Chamber Orchestra, was a founding member of the Melos Ensemble?
Did you know that an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1980 argued that "everything we know as Hollywood traces to Wilfred Buckland", film innovator and Hollywood's first art director?
Did you know that in 1960, excavations uncovered the remains of a medieval fort from the Hussite Wars at the bottom of a lake in Záběhlice, Czech Republic?
Did you know that physical chemist Jerome Karle won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him the third alumnus of Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School to win a Nobel?
Did you know that scenes from the 2009 advertisement Carousel were used in the music video for 50 Cent's single "Ok, You're Right"?
Did you know that the Eureka Diamond, the first diamond discovered in South Africa, was used as a toy by the boy who discovered it, given away for free by his mother, and sent by mail to a mineralogist in an ordinary paper envelope?
Did you know that the National Bottle Museum in Ballston Spa, New York, was evicted from the historic Verbeck House by its parent organization?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Bayt 'Itab was situated on a rocky knoll identified as the biblical Rock of Etam, within which Samson hid after burning the grain of the Philistines?
Did you know that the confidential academic paper more commonly known as the "Cornell Paper", which detailed an abortive 1965 coup d'état attempt in Indonesia, was eventually published in 1971 to avoid any misconception of its contents?
Did you know that the restoration of  Jal Mahal plays an important role in improving the tourist industry of  Jaipur in Rajasthan?
Did you know that American opera singer Margaret Harshaw  portrayed more Wagnerian heroines on stage at the Metropolitan Opera than anyone else in the opera's history?
Did you know that Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington helped popularize the Portuguese wine Bucelas in London after he discovered it while fighting in the Peninsular War?
Did you know that Australian musician Jim Keays, who fronted The Masters Apprentices during 1965–1972, was diagnosed with myeloma in 2007 and is in remission after stem cell transplants?
Did you know that Edward Fokczyński knew that Poland had solved Germany's Enigma ciphers, but kept the secret even while being worked to death at Sachsenhausen?
Did you know that Emmy Award winner and Golden Raspberry nominee John Herzfeld has directed films about the Long Island Lolita, the Preppie Murder, Ryan White, Don King, and 2 days in the Valley?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske patented the aerial torpedo (example pictured) in 1912, and said it could be used against an enemy fleet in its own harbor?
Did you know that Robert Southey composed five epic poems that describe: human sacrifices, murderous Hindu demons, evil sorcerers, a Goth rapist, and a violent maid?
Did you know that at one point in the history of the TNA Women's Knockout Championship, a male argued that he was the rightful champion?
Did you know that casting director Caro Jones cast for more than 1,000 films and television shows, including Rocky, The Beverly Hillbillies and The Karate Kid?
Did you know that despite establishing the mandate that Port wine should only come from the Douro, the Marquis of Pombal allowed grapes grown from his own estate in Carcavelos to be used by Port producers?
Did you know that director Paul Weiland, whose credits include Mr. Bean, 66 and more than 500 television commercials, owns an 18th-century country estate in Wiltshire, England?
Did you know that during one of several British airborne operations in North Africa, an officer knocked unconscious was heard to ask a waiter for fish?
Did you know that in 1953, former SS-Obergruppenführer Emil Mazuw received an eight year prison sentence for severely abusing political prisoners and Jews?
Did you know that the Ballston Spa, New York, post office was once located in an opera house?
Did you know that the Wilsonville railroad bridge in Oregon does not need to be painted?
Did you know that the ancient city of Tikal in Guatemala was one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya civilization?
Did you know that the decision in Gyles v Wilcox established the legal precedent of fair abridgement, which later evolved into the modern concept of fair use?
Did you know that the designers of the proposed Vigilant Eagle system hope to be able to create an invisible protectant dome around an airport to block a missile?
Did you know that the map cowry is collected both for its shell and for food?
Did you know that wine critic Robert Parker has said that all Grolleau vines should be ripped out of the Loire Valley and replaced with other grape varieties?
Did you know that "Do-Over", the third-season premiere of the television comedy series 30 Rock, is the highest-rated episode of the series to date?
Did you know that Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi was the first non-Jewish member of an Israeli government?
Did you know that BBC traffic reporter Sally Traffic has also narrated poetry albums for the blind?
Did you know that Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen Coorte, who signed still lifes (example pictured) from 1683 to 1707, was almost completely forgotten until the 1950s?
Did you know that Ernst Märzendorfer was the first conductor to record the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn?
Did you know that Julius Anton Glaser's 1873 code of criminal procedure was the first to introduce trial by jury in Austria?
Did you know that L.C. Lecesne rose to prominence as an activist against slavery after the British Government compensated him for his illegal exile from Jamaica?
Did you know that Operation Fair Play was the codename for the 1977 military coup that overthrew the regime of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto?
Did you know that a series of measures taken by Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu, including official persecution of Jews, failed to sway Adolf Hitler from his demand that Romania cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary?
Did you know that after World War II, designs of the London Transport brand were simplified to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs?
Did you know that author Tom Spanbauer became so stressed while writing the LGBT novel The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon that he fainted in Penn Station?
Did you know that besides serving as famine food, the tree Balanites aegyptiaca can be used to make furniture, cooking oil, snail repellent, and glue, and provides raw materials for making birth control pills?
Did you know that historian Sue Eakin published an edited version of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black taken from New York into slavery in Louisiana?
Did you know that in 1833, romantic poet Panagiotis Soutsos envisioned the revival of the ancient Olympic Games, 63 years before the first International Olympics?
Did you know that in 2007, Rachel Robinson, the wife of Jackie Robinson, was the first non-player to be presented with Major League Baseball's Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award?
Did you know that prior to writing the episode "The Apartment" of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, writer Peter Mehlman had "barely written any dialogue in [his] life"?
Did you know that professional wrestler Dukes Dalton teamed with World Wrestling Entertainment veteran Steve Lombardi at a "Toys for Tots" event hosted by the United States Marines?
Did you know that six new species of marine slugs in the genus Phyllodesmium have been described in the last two years?
Did you know that the Abraham Glen House, now the Scotia branch of the Schenectady County, New York, public library, is a rare surviving Dutch Colonial heavy timber frame house in the Capital District?
Did you know that the Scotia, New York, post office was one of the last to be built in the state under Depression-era relief programs?
Did you know that the biography Van Morrison: No Surrender discusses the musician's spiritual exploration of Gestalt therapy, Jehovah's Witnesses, mysticism, Rosicrucianism, and Scientology?
Did you know that the golden-green carpenter bee defends its nesting burrow by blocking the entrance with its abdomen?
Did you know that the newspaper and radio of Vatican City during World War II ceased reporting the weather at the request of the Italian government?
Did you know that the only operable AWACS equipped aircraft of the  Iranian Air Force  was destroyed in a mid-air collision on 22 September 2009?
Did you know that the posthumous Michael Jackson album This Is It will include a spoken word poem by Jackson titled Planet Earth?
Did you know that the teddy bear bee of eastern Australia is covered with orange-brown fur?
Did you know that Abba Garima Monastery, located near Adwa, Ethiopia, contains the crown of the Emperor Zara Yaqob of the Solomonic dynasty?
Did you know that Bruce Spizer, a New Orleans tax attorney, wrote 2,592 questions for a special Beatles edition of the board game Trivial Pursuit?
Did you know that Colombia produces most of the world's emeralds (Gachala Emerald pictured)?
Did you know that Dymitr of Goraj, one of the most powerful people in the late 14th-century Kingdom of Poland, was instrumental in preventing the marriage between Jadwiga of Poland and William, Duke of Austria?
Did you know that Freddy Bienstock was the designated song screener for Elvis Presley?
Did you know that Gibraltar's National Day is celebrated every 10 September by releasing 30,000 red and white balloons which represent the people of Gibraltar?
Did you know that Jean de La Forêt was the first French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1534, and that he negotiated in 1536 a Franco-Ottoman treaty of alliance?
Did you know that Karen L. Gould, a scholar of French-Canadian literature and francophone women writers, is the first woman president of Brooklyn College?
Did you know that Richard Prince's controversial "rephotograph" of Garry Gross's nude image of  Brooke Shields at age 10 was recently banned from the Tate Gallery in London?
Did you know that Roy Frankhouser, a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, was arrested at least 142 times?
Did you know that W. S. Gilbert's 1878 play The Ne'er-do-Weel was the second that he wrote for actor E. A. Sothern, who did not appear in either?
Did you know that William S. Dix was recognised as one of the American Libraries' 100 most important figures although he never obtained a degree in library science?
Did you know that Women of the Sun was the first Australian television series to portray the lives of Aboriginal women in 19th-century Australia?
Did you know that Wong Fu Productions does not make a profit from the short films it produces?
Did you know that before taking Charles Darwin to South America as captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy visited the Galápagos Islands a decade earlier as a midshipman aboard HMS Owen Glendower?
Did you know that during the Second World War, the Japanese-American family of Tsuyako "Sox" Kitashima were interned in a horse stall?
Did you know that people of Austronesian origin traveled in and around the Philippine Islands using balangays, which were eventually used to trade with the Srivijayan empire?
Did you know that philanthropist Joseph Gurwin lost more than $36 million to Bernard Madoff, but promised he would continue making charitable donations even if he had "to sell apples on the street"?
Did you know that reticulated foam is used to protect the fuel tanks of military aircraft such as the A-10 Thunderbolt II?
Did you know that the Christian Byzantine Emperor Leo V performed pagan rituals in Constantinople at the signing of a peace treaty in 815 with the Bulgarians?
Did you know that the Indian film Shehar Aur Sapna, a love story set in a drain pipe, won the National Film Award for Best Film and Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for actor Nana Palsikar?
Did you know that the Klamath Diversion in the 1960s would have involved diverting the entire Klamath River to the Central Valley and Southern California?
Did you know that the Stone Bridge near Hart Mountain in Lake County, Oregon, is completely underwater?
Did you know that the rapid automatized naming of objects, pictures and colors in pre-literate children predicts their later success in learning to read?
Did you know that the spined pygmy shark (head pictured), dwarf lanternshark and pygmy ribbontail catshark are candidates for being the smallest shark in the world, all maturing at under 20 cm (8 in) long?
Did you know that French politician Jean Fontenoy, initially a communist, later became a fascist?
Did you know that John Cantius, patron saint of the Jagiellonian University, is buried in the Church of St. Anne, Kraków?
Did you know that Lucy Vodden was John Lennon's inspiration for the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?
Did you know that a legend ties the name of the late Roman Elenska Basilica in west central Bulgaria to deer sacrifice which predated its construction?
Did you know that although Andrew Bonar Law originally had fewer than forty supporting Members of Parliament, he became Leader of the UK Conservative Party after both of the frontrunners simultaneously withdrew?
Did you know that breaker boys were at risk for acid burns, asthma, black lung disease, accidental amputation, and death by smothering or crushing while working in coal breakers?
Did you know that despite historically good relations, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi called for Switzerland's dissolution in September 2009?
Did you know that footballer Tony Hawksworth had only made three appearances for Manchester United's reserve team when he made his Football League debut, but never played another League match?