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Did you know that the May 1938 interception of the Rex was the largest training exercise conducted up to that time by the United States Army Air Corps?
Did you know that the former Arab village of Majdal Yaba with its large fortress was the center of power of a clan that controlled up to 25 villages in Sanjak Nablus?
Did you know that there have been nine head coaches who have spent their entire National Hockey League head coaching careers with the Montreal Canadiens, a Canadian professional ice hockey franchise?
Did you know that there is suspicion that the death in prison of Kenneth Michael Trentadue was related to the Oklahoma City bombing?
Did you know that while serving in the elite Russian Preobrazhensky regiment, Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy served with the future literary critic Faddei Bulgarin?
Did you know that Bill Johnston was the last Australian to take 100 wickets on an Ashes tour of England, being the leading wicket-taker during the 1948 Invincibles tour?
Did you know that Canadian authorities used the academic enrollment list of a diploma mill to arrest 24 students they wrongly accused of being an "al-Qaeda sleeper cell" in Project Thread?
Did you know that Freedom House, founded in 1949, raised money to support Operation Exodus, a voluntary desegregation and busing project in Boston before court-ordered desegregation?
Did you know that Iraqi lawyer Dheyaa al-Saadi was elected president of the Iraqi Bar Association in 2006, but his election was annulled because he was once a member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party?
Did you know that Lisa Rossbacher, president of Southern Polytechnic State University, is the first female geologist to become a university president?
Did you know that Merrill Connally, a county judge, played a part in Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Did you know that New South Greenland was a phantom island near Antarctica, described in 1832 by Benjamin Morrell, who was called "the biggest liar in the Southern Ocean"?
Did you know that North Audley Street in Mayfair, London, is named after the English moneylender Hugh Audley?
Did you know that Olav Ulleren, who in 1999 left his position as mayor of Tinn, Norway to become a State Secretary, lost his new position after less than one year?
Did you know that Ole Georg Gjøsteen—supported by his brother Johan—is considered the "father"  of Norway's comprehensive school system?
Did you know that Oleg Bogayev was honored for his absurdist play about an impoverished Russian pensioner who engages in fanciful correspondence with Queen Elizabeth II, Vladimir Lenin, and Robinson Crusoe?
Did you know that Oregon politician Ralph Carey Geer's grandson, Homer Davenport, was a political cartoonist?
Did you know that Ramon Vila Capdevila continued to fight against the government of Francisco Franco for 24 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that Ray Lindwall was Australia's equal-leading Test wicket-taker on the 1948 Invincibles tour of England?
Did you know that Wayne Connally, a brother of former Texas governor John Connally, was honored as "Governor for a Day" on October 7, 1971?
Did you know that William Lobb earned the sobriquet "messenger of the big tree" for introducing the Chilean "monkey puzzle" tree and the massive North American "Wellingtonia" to English commerce?
Did you know that a study at Berijam Lake by the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History indicates that the near threatened Grey-breasted Laughingthrush has suffered from habitat degradation?
Did you know that an exit bag, consisting of a large, clear plastic bag with a drawstring, is a commercially available device for committing suicide?
Did you know that before being used by American soldiers in the Vietnam War, the racial slur "gook" was originally directed towards Filipinos?
Did you know that five former members of the Portland Trail Blazers have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that in the Prussian partition of Poland, Germanization policies had the opposite effect of strengthening Polish national consciousness?
Did you know that the Abbott-Holloway Farm has two of the only four pre-1840 buildings in Bethlehem, Indiana, that were not destroyed by fire or tornado?
Did you know that the Frazier–Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1935 as violating the Fifth Amendment?
Did you know that the German Social Democratic Party in Poland was formed in 1922 by the merger of Silesian branches of the German SPD, USPD and the Austrian SDAP?
Did you know that the Konovalyuk Commission has claimed that Ukraine's arms sales to Georgia before and during the 2008 South Ossetia War adversely affected the country's defense capabilities?
Did you know that the SS Empire Advocate was seized twice by Britain—from Germany after the First World War, and then from Italy during the Second World War?
Did you know that the U.S. state of New York offers a school tax rebate program that saves homeowners money by reducing the assessed value of a home when calculating the property tax?
Did you know that when Tuscany issued its first postage stamps (example pictured) in 1851, Donatello's heraldic Marzocco of Florence was featured?
Did you know that Barack Obama biographer Christoph von Marschall compares his life story with the American Dream?
Did you know that Dorje Pakmo ('The Diamond Sow') is the highest female incarnation in Tibet, and the third-highest ranking person in the lamaist hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama?
Did you know that Geoffroy's Tamarin engages in both  polyandrous and polygynous mating?
Did you know that Joseph Kahn and Howard Pack had both been in the fur trade before entering the shipping business, culminating with their 1965 purchase of Seatrain Lines?
Did you know that Nolan Reimold led the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in home runs (20), runs batted in (60), total bases (137), on-base % (.496), and slugging % (.770) throughout the baseball regular season?
Did you know that Norwegian resistance fighter Gregers Gram conducted several sabotage missions together with Max Manus, before being killed in an ambuscade in 1944?
Did you know that Order of Australia Medal recipient Bill Scott began writing poetry while serving in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II?
Did you know that Polish writer Franciszek Karpiński is best remembered through his hymns and carols?
Did you know that Republican Joan Huffman, a former Houston judge who won a special election to the Texas State Senate on December 16, 2008, became the sixth woman in the 31-member chamber, a legislative record?
Did you know that William Kaufmann developed the counterforce approach in the 1950s, in which a Soviet invasion of Western Europe would be met by a sequence of escalating responses, not by massive retaliation?
Did you know that a 1930 proposal in the Czechoslovak parliament for greater autonomy for Transcarpathia, presented by the Autonomous Agrarian Union, gained support from the German National Socialists?
Did you know that after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, George Henry Chapman served as a judge in the Indiana Criminal Court, and later a state legislator in the Indiana Senate?
Did you know that as Texas Attorney General from 1957 to 1963, Will Wilson cracked down on prostitution rings operating in such Texan cities as Galveston, Beaumont, Texarkana and Victoria?
Did you know that out of three partitions of Poland, the Austrian partition had the most local autonomy, but was also the poorest?
Did you know that out of three partitions of Poland, the Russian partition was the largest and most populous?
Did you know that the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army received a Presidential Unit Citation for its role in the Siege of Bastogne?
Did you know that the Chinese beverage suanmeitang is made with ingredients such as sour plums, sweet osmanthus, licorice root, rock sugar, and rose petals?
Did you know that the Marine Corps Test Unit along with the 3rd Marine Corps Provisional Atomic Exercise Brigade carried out mock maneuvers 3,500 yards away from the detonation site of a nuclear bomb?
Did you know that the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in the First World War took 14,000 casualties out of a strength of 60,000 men?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Li Shigu, in his illness, refused to endorse his brother Li Shidao as his successor because Li Shidao spent too much time painting and playing the bili?
Did you know that the army career of the Tang Dynasty general Wu Shaocheng was launched when the general Li Xilie adopted his suggestions in the campaign against Liang Chongyi?
Did you know that the fifth season premiere of the television show Lost, titled "Because You Left", was the first episode of the series to be both shot and edited in high-definition?
Did you know that the funeral of C. N. Annadurai, who held the post of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for just two years, was the most attended until that time making it a Guinness record?
Did you know that though it is generally agreed that paintings by Jean Malouel survive (possible work pictured), no one work is universally accepted as his?
Did you know that vascular myelopathy refers to an abnormality of the spinal cord in regards to its blood supply?
Did you know that when the Wildwood was commissioned she was named USS PC-1181, and was only renamed the Wildwood after she was decommissioned?
Did you know that Alliance for Labor Action launched a $4 million organizing drive targeting African American workers in Atlanta, Georgia, in the fall of 1969?
Did you know that Archbishop Robert Knox, father of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Edmond Knox, founded the Belfast Church Extension Society?
Did you know that Bartlett's bisection theorem can be used in the design of quartz crystal filter circuits to overcome drawbacks of traditional ladder topology?
Did you know that Bless You Boys is Sparky Anderson's diary as manager of the first American League baseball team since the 1927 Yankees to "lead the race from wire-to-wire" and win the World Series?
Did you know that Burnt Hair Records was part of Michigan's space rock music scene in the 1990s?
Did you know that Mayor of New York City Ed Koch was sworn into office on New Year's Eve 1977 in the Manhattan home of David Margolis, president of Colt Industries, a firm founded in 1836 by Samuel Colt?
Did you know that Mech Platoon was the first real-time strategy video game released for the Game Boy Advance?
Did you know that Old Albany Post Road in Philipstown, New York, is one of the oldest dirt roads still in use in the United States?
Did you know that Sir Douglas Fox was, with James Greathead, joint engineer of the Liverpool Overhead Railway – the first electric elevated city railway in the world?
Did you know that Temple House of Israel in Staunton, Virginia, was founded in 1876 by Alexander Hart, a former major in the Confederate States Army?
Did you know that although the Nationalist Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party belong to opposing alliances in national Indian politics, they are both partners in the governing coalition in Meghalaya?
Did you know that as little as five milligrams of the chemical agent phenyldichloroarsine can induce severe vomiting?
Did you know that blind blues musician Cortelia Clark won a Grammy for his 1966 album recorded live on a sidewalk in Nashville, Tennessee?
Did you know that changes in Formula One car racing rules introduced in 1978 banned the use of the Brabham BT46B "fan car" after it won its first—and only—race at the Swedish Grand Prix?
Did you know that eunuch admiral Yishiha is credited with constructing the only two Ming Buddhist temples ever built in modern-day Russia?
Did you know that following the death of Brian Rossiter, his father took High Court action (Four Courts pictured) against An Garda Síochána?
Did you know that in 2005, the fishing industry in China reported 32.4 million tons of fish from aquacultures, more than 10 times that of the second-ranked country, India?
Did you know that it took 59 years and a legal battle through the High Court of Australia for the Warumungu, a group of Indigenous Australians, to regain their land claim?
Did you know that payments made by Lockheed president Carl Kotchian to encourage purchases of his company's L-1011 aircraft led to the arrest and conviction of Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka?
Did you know that the 1921 Oscar Micheaux-directed race film The Gunsaulus Mystery was inspired by the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan?
Did you know that the Israeli Air Force's first heavy bombers were three B-17 Flying Fortresses smuggled to Israel in the late 1940s by Charles Winters and his associates?
Did you know that the Japanese Army used 320 mm mortars to frighten American Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima?
Did you know that the U.S. Army continued production of staphylococcus enterotoxin type B for several months after a 1969 policy statement ended the biological warfare program?
Did you know that the laboratory of Dr. Wade Regehr conducts research on axon terminals in the brain to further understanding of disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, and clinical depression?
Did you know that two of the 48 episodes of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse served as pilots for the 1960s television shows The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables?
Did you know that when threatened, the redeye gaper rapidly takes in water to swell its body?
Did you know that A&M Records released three versions of Phil Ochs' "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" because of the song's reference to marijuana?
Did you know that African American singer Cora Green performed the Yiddish tune Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen in the 1938 race film Swing!?
Did you know that Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War?
Did you know that Canadian martial artist Tomasz Kucharzewski, who fought in an estimated 300 fights, was described as "happy-go-lucky" by his trainer due to his friendly demeanor?
Did you know that Chronotron, the only flash-based video game out of ten games nominated for the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo's prestigious "PAX 10," was developed by only one person?
Did you know that Cors Caron represents the most intact surviving example of a raised bog landscape in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway built the Great Northern Depot in Wayzata, Minnesota, in 1906 after moving the former stop a mile east of town 12 years earlier in a dispute with town residents?
Did you know that Japan's entomological warfare program in China during World War II used plague-infected fleas and cholera-coated flies to kill nearly 500,000 people?
Did you know that Oregon banned alcohol twice before the rest of America: once prior to statehood (from 1844 to 1845) and then again in 1915, four years before passage of the 18th Amendment?
Did you know that Patriarch Gregory II Youssef of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church spoke against the proposed doctrine of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council?
Did you know that Poet's Daffodil is a source for Narcissus oil, one of the most popular fragrances used in high quality perfumes?
Did you know that Robert Brandon, goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later Chamberlain of London, was the father-in-law of the artist Nicholas Hilliard and of Captain John Martin of the Jamestown Colony?
Did you know that South African ANC activist Kate Molale organised a pioneer movement in the struggle against the 1953 Bantu Education Act?
Did you know that Sports Illustrated described high school player Kevin Laue as "the most exciting player in basketball" because of his playing skill with only one hand?
Did you know that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs recorded "Bwatue" with African musicians more than ten years before Paul Simon famously did the same thing for his Graceland album?
Did you know that William Cowper Alexander lost the 1856  election for the Governor of New Jersey by less than 3,000 votes?
Did you know that devotees across faiths swarmed St. Michael's Church, Mumbai, as news of a reported "bleeding" Jesus picture spread in June 2008?
Did you know that in February 1962, Motor Cycling magazine achieved a best one-way speed for the Norton 650SS of 119.5 mph—more than 10 mph faster than the rival Triumph Bonneville?
Did you know that in the early 20th century, growers in the Champagne region rioted and burned down the city of Aÿ over producers using grapes from the Loire Valley, Germany and Spain to make champagne?
Did you know that out of 300 entries for the Honor Award from the United States Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Roberts & Todd was one of eleven who won the award?
Did you know that the 1811 comet vintage of Veuve Clicquot has been described as one of the first modern Champagnes made according to the méthode champenoise?
Did you know that the 1989 Valvettiturai massacre was called "India's My Lai" by the Indian politician George Fernandes?
Did you know that the 21st Chancellor of the University of Toronto, Samuel Beatty, was the first person to receive a PhD in mathematics from a Canadian university?
Did you know that the Gray-handed Night Monkey is nocturnal and monogamous?
Did you know that the Transfiguration of Jesus, described in the Synoptic Gospels, is believed to have taken place where the Church of the Transfiguration now is located?
Did you know that the extinct arachnid Attercopus was once considered as the world's oldest spider?
Did you know that the inspiration for the character Judy Ann Santos played in the film Ploning was based on a Cuyonon folk song from the Palawan town of Cuyo?
Did you know that unlike Bordeaux and Burgundy, vineyards in Champagne are classified according to what village they are in?
Did you know that unlike its modern-day relative the gharial, the extinct crocodilian Aktiogavialis lived in saltwater?
Did you know that when Vladimir Putin introduced George W. Bush to his dog Koni, Putin is reported to have said she is "Bigger, tougher, stronger, faster, meaner—than Barney"?
Did you know that Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalents series of cloud photographs are regarded as the earliest examples of abstract photographic art?
Did you know that Don Tallon was preferred as Australia's first-choice wicket-keeper over Ron Saggers during the Invincibles tour, despite conceding a higher rate of byes in the warm-up matches?
Did you know that Francis S. Hoyt, the first President of Willamette University in Oregon, USA, graduated from Wesleyan University, a school his father helped to found?
Did you know that Grower Champagnes have been described as "artisanal winemaking" for their focus on terroir rather than on producing a consistent "house style" that is associated with larger Champagne houses?
Did you know that Iolani Luahine, considered the high priestess of the ancient hula, was said to be able to "call up the wind and the rain" and to "make animals do her bidding"?
Did you know that Israel has the highest solar energy use per capita in the world?
Did you know that McIDAS software has been used to process meteorological data and images from space probes?
Did you know that Prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine increasingly popular internationally, is believed to have also been produced in Ancient Roman times?
Did you know that a schoolteacher from the U.S. state of Ohio donated the first 14 acres (5.7 ha) of Mary Jane Thurston State Park, named in her honor?
Did you know that after Lavrentiy Beria was arrested in June 1953, Sergei Kruglov succeeded him as the Soviet Union's Minister of Internal Affairs?
Did you know that as Champagne ages on its lees, the breakdown of yeast cells imparts unique flavors of acacia, biscuits and nuttiness as well as a creamy mouth feel?
Did you know that at the 41st International Eucharistic Congress, Lutheran Church in America President Robert J. Marshall received a lengthy standing ovation after opening with the two words "Fellow Christians"?
Did you know that illustrated medieval chronicles are among the first works of Swiss historiography?
Did you know that the Alberta Taciuk Process, an above-ground dry thermal retorting technology, is named after its inventor William Taciuk and the Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority?
Did you know that the Colombo Cricket Club Ground, a small multi-use stadium in Sri Lanka, has hosted three Test matches?
Did you know that the Situationist pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life accused French students of taking refuge from their ideological subservience in miserabilism and bohemianism?
Did you know that the Sri Lankan Army's LRRP, a covert special operations unit, has assassinated several top level Tamil Tigers commanders during the Sri Lankan civil war?
Did you know that the Zarqa River, which is Jordan's third largest, is so polluted that it is considered an "environmental blackspot"?
Did you know that the isolation of antibodies and flu viruses from birds on Tryon Island, a coral cay off the coast of Queensland, Australia, led to the development of antiviral drugs, such as Tamiflu?
Did you know that the sarin-filled M125 bomblet was a sub-munition in the M34 cluster bomb and four American missile systems?
Did you know that when Brackley railway station was visited by the Royal Train in 1950, the King and Queen had to step on a box when leaving the train because its door was far above the platform?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Ernie Toshack, tired of signing autographs, had a friend sign for him, who incorrectly signed Toshak?
Did you know that DeShawn Sims is the first Michigan Wolverines men's basketball player to have at least 20 points and 20 rebounds in a single game since Phil Hubbard did so in the 1977 NCAA Tournament?
Did you know that Mario Menéndez, who was the governor of the Falkland Islands, surrendered Argentine forces to the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War?
Did you know that Noel Dossou-Yovo is presently President of the Professors World Peace Academy in the Republic of Benin?
Did you know that Peter Benchley wanted to write about pirates, but editor Thomas Congdon preferred his idea for a novel about sharks that became the bestseller Jaws?
Did you know that Robert McKechnie was the University of British Columbia's longest-serving chancellor?
Did you know that Roderigue Hortalez and Company was a fictitious front organization set up by France to help American revolutionaries fight England?
Did you know that Turkish female aviator Nezihe Viranyalı was educated in civil aviation at the University of Tennessee following an invitation by the renowned American pilot Jacqueline Cochran?
Did you know that after Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, the parliamentarians of the German Christian Social People's Party in Czechoslovakia joined the Sudeten German Party?
Did you know that for most of its history, Champagne was pinkish and non-sparkling?
Did you know that genopolitics studies the genetic basis of political behavior and attitude?
Did you know that in 1872, Western University in Kansas, USA, selected Charles Henry Langston, abolitionist, politician and future grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, as principal of its new normal school?
Did you know that kibbutz Re'im has started a project to become the first community in Israel with its domestic power consumption provided entirely by solar energy?
Did you know that the Cobb and Frost-designed Chicago Opera House, built 1884–85, was one of the first buildings constructed using general contracting?
Did you know that the Liberty ship SS Timothy Bloodworth was the first ship to be hit by a V-2 rocket?
Did you know that the boga, an improvised plastic cannon used in New Year's celebrations in the Philippines, has been banned by the government since 2006?
Did you know that the monastery of Champmol was founded in 1383 as the dynastic burial-place of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, but only ever contained two monumental tombs?
Did you know that the owner of Fairhope Plantation near Uniontown, Alabama, organized his own artillery unit during the American Civil War?