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Did you know that Joost van Dyk, a 17th century Dutch privateer and occasional pirate and slaver, established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands?
Did you know that Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse?
Did you know that Rasik Krishna Mallick, a student at Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges?
Did you know that Sigrid Hjertén, a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, suffered from schizophrenia and tragically died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy?
Did you know that in 1943, Prigat, a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the British Army in Israel?
Did you know that modern digital sundials display the current time with numerals rather than marking it with position?
Did you know that the 1960 mystery film Scent of Mystery was the first and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision?
Did you know that the Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?
Did you know that the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?
Did you know that the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean but on a grassy knoll in an open green field?
Did you know that Beckomberga hospital in Stockholm was designed according to a strict symmetrical pattern and used to be one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Europe?
Did you know that Hurricane Bob was the first of a record-tying six hurricanes to hit the United States in 1985?
Did you know that Indian author and journalist Peary Chand Mitra played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the "Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali prose?
Did you know that Kallol was perhaps, the first conscious literary movement to embrace modernism in Bengali literature?
Did you know that Picardo Farm, one of two historical farms preserved within Seattle city limits, is the oldest P-Patch allotment garden?
Did you know that Slant magazine said the Hilary Duff 2004 song "I Am" was "what Alanis Morissette might sound like if she had a lobotomy"?
Did you know that Swedish post-impressionist painter Nils von Dardel died in 1943, shortly after he came to prominence in his native country?
Did you know that Ukrainian-language publication and education flourished in Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, despite battles between Ukrainian, Bolshevik, Russian, Polish, German, and Cossack forces, and various anarchist and paramilitary bands?
Did you know that artists of the Mission School, a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?
Did you know that in 1804, the frigate Apollo and forty merchant ships in her convoy were wrecked off Portugal, the result of a single badly adjusted compass?
Did you know that original copies of the Herefordshire Pomona, a 19th century catalogue of apples and pears, command prices of over $20,000 when they come up for sale?
Did you know that the Rumsfeld Commission is considered by some foreign policy analysts to be the basis for the term "axis of evil", used by President George W. Bush in his 2002 State of the Union Address?
Did you know that the Soviet 76th "K. Y. Voroshilov" Division passed through 7,000 kilometres of former Soviet territory during the  Second World War, liberating over 600 towns and cities from Axis occupying forces?
Did you know that the Thomas Organ Company not only helped invent the market for electronic organs for the home, but also at one time held the manufacturing rights to the Moog synthesizer?
Did you know that the Underwood Canning Company went to packing their food products in tin because glass makers in Boston, Massachusetts could not keep up with the company's demands?
Did you know that the Västgötalagen, a text describing medieval provincial laws, is the oldest example of Early Swedish literature to survive in its entirety?
Did you know that the Warrior arcade game is considered to be the first versus fighting game and was released over a decade before the genre became popular?
Did you know that Anne Juliana Gonzaga became a Servant of Mary following the death of her husband, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in 1595, after receiving a vision of the Madonna, to whom her parents had prayed to cure her of a childhood illness?
Did you know that Flow my tears by English lutenist John Dowland (1563–1626) is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period?
Did you know that John Frush Knox was the only law clerk of the United States Supreme Court ever to write a memoir documenting their time spent in this position?
Did you know that Kaka Joginder Singh (alias Dharti Pakad) contested and lost over 300 elections in his 36 year political career?
Did you know that Michał Dymitr Krajewski's first book, Podolanka wychowana w stanie natury, życie i przypadki swoje opisująca ("The Podolian Girl: raised in the natural state, describing her life and events"), was responsible for initiating the first literary debate in Poland, and had seven editions in one year?
Did you know that in 2001, Shelby Howard became the youngest driver to compete in an Auto Racing Club of America race at the age of 15?
Did you know that the Rex Graham nature reserve, a disused chalk pit in Suffolk, supports 95% of the British population of Military Orchids?
Did you know that the destination hotel became popular in the 1800s, and their number has expanded to present times, along with the elaborateness of their amenities?
Did you know that the former owners of the Château de Louveciennes include Louis XIV, the courtesan Madame du Barry, the Camondo family, the politician Louis Loucheur, the perfumer François Coty, and the Nissan Group?
Did you know that Dallas Smythe, an early researcher of the political economy of communications, earned an FBI file for his volunteerism with the American League for Peace and Democracy?
Did you know that English Anglican clergyman Dr William Dodd was nicknamed the "macaroni parson" as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, and in 1777 became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn for forgery?
Did you know that Forward Pass, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?
Did you know that John F. Mackie was the first United States Marine to receive America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that Nestorianism was one of the first forms of Christianity to be introduced in Mongolia?
Did you know that Samuel A. Goldblith was able to publish a paper for the journal Science after World War II on malnutrition suffered at POW camps in the Philippines and Japan observed during the war from his own experience as a prisoner in those camps?
Did you know that Sonoma Coast State Beach is one of California's longest beaches and has rocks that have evidence of rubbing by mammoths 40,000 years ago?
Did you know that Tom Hickathrift is the East Anglian equivalent of Jack the Giant Killer?
Did you know that William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?
Did you know that Y Clwb Rygbi was the first Welsh language television programme to win a Royal Television Society Sports Award?
Did you know that according to legend, Saint Juthwara was beheaded by her stepbrother, Bana, because he believed her to be pregnant?
Did you know that guards on the mail coach had to remain outside for the entire journey and sometimes froze to death?
Did you know that the Air Hogs Stormlauncher is a radio controlled model capable of operation on land, water...and even air?
Did you know that the Golden Barrel is a popularly cultivated cactus from Mexico?
Did you know that the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in London in 1946 as a national British academic institution to promote and advance legal research, and is now part of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London?
Did you know that the PDSA Gold Medal is awarded to animals for gallantry and devotion to duty?
Did you know that the Qiandao Lake Incident in 1994 caused 32 Taiwanese tourist deaths, and the government of People's Republic of China were ineffective on solving the case, which directly leads to the massive increase of Taiwanese supporters on Taiwan independence?
Did you know that the libretto for Howard Hanson's opera Merry Mount was written without a composer in mind?
Did you know that the money for the construction of the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge was raised in small increments (nickels and dimes), raising the building a few feet at a time?
Did you know that when the Brother Jonathan sank off the coast of California in 1856, it was the worst shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the United States at the time?
Did you know that while most tornadoes form from supercell thunderstorms, tornadogenesis is a widely varied process, and can even occur under a normal cumulus cloud?
Did you know that "Splice the mainbrace" is an order given aboard naval ships to allow the crew an extra ration of rum?
Did you know that August Zaleski, president of the Polish government in Exile, refused to leave his office and for almost 20 years was opposed by the Council of Three?
Did you know that California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BC by indigenous Native Americans?
Did you know that Stan McCabe, who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
Did you know that Tingmissartoq, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius, was so christened by an Eskimo boy in Greenland, and that its name means "one who flies like a big bird"?
Did you know that William Franklyn was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973?
Did you know that a fire that broke out a few days before Hiralal Sen died destroyed all his films including India's first political film?
Did you know that a hurricane-sized cyclonic storm over 1500 kilometres in diameter was spotted near the Martian north pole in 1999?
Did you know that if the 2005 Azores subtropical storm, identified by the NHC in post-season reanalysis, had been named then Hurricane Wilma would have been named "Hurricane Alpha"?
Did you know that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
Did you know that the exploitation film Mom and Dad, grossed an estimated $40-100 million, and is the third highest grossing film of the 1940s?
Did you know that the small herds of marble cows that can be found in several locations around Texas are the work of Dallas sculptor Harold F. Clayton?
Did you know that through Greek trading colonies like Al Mina on the Syrian coast the Phoenician alphabet was transmitted to ancient Greece in the 8th century BCE?
Did you know that Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire sold its principal roof to an American new town that wished to emulate the appearance of a medieval European village?
Did you know that Channa, a charioteer of Prince Siddhartha, became a bhikkhu upon his master's attainment of buddhahood?
Did you know that George II of Moscow was responsible for the destruction of the Tatar trade emporium at Zhukotin on the Kama River?
Did you know that Honoré de Balzac once observed that "the heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue du Faubourg Montmartre"?
Did you know that Lyman Run State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of logging operations, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and a World War II Prisoner of War camp before becoming a state park in 1951?
Did you know that Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?
Did you know that Peter, the Lord's cat is the only animal to be given an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack?
Did you know that Princess Marie Adélaïde, the fourth daughter and sixth child of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, died in exile in 1800 having outlived all nine of her siblings?
Did you know that at 49, Douglas A. Warner III was the youngest ever CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc.?
Did you know that during World War II, the statues Winged Victory of Samothrace and Venus de Milo were housed in the Château de Valençay?
Did you know that in the Battle of Seattle (1856), the native attackers' only common language was Chinook jargon, so the settlers were able to hear and understand the attackers' shouted orders?
Did you know that the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway, once promoted to connect the Pennsylvania-New York oil fields with New York City, instead became part of the New York Central's line to the coal mines around Clearfield, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues in Bemidji, Minnesota are the second most photographed statues in the United States, behind only Mount Rushmore?
Did you know that the Polish capture of Wilno in 1919 set the stage for the future Polish-Soviet and Polish-Lithuanian Wars?
Did you know that the cry For your freedom and ours, one of the unofficial mottos of Poland, has been popularized by Polish soldiers, exiled from the partitioned Poland, who fought in various independence movements all over the world?
Did you know that the influential architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, who had amassed a fortune working on the notoriously unpopular Wall of the Farmers-General, was arrested and thrown in La Force Prison during the French Revolution?
Did you know that when the Transylvanian shepherd Badea Cârţan was found sleeping at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome in 1896, he was at first jokingly referred to as a Dacian who had fallen off a sculpted panel on the column and come to life?
Did you know that Blair Cherry was the first high-school football coach in Texas history to lead his team to three consecutive state championships?
Did you know that Carl Westman was one of the first Swedish architects to incorporate the Nordic National Romantic Style into his designs?
Did you know that Mandø, a Danish island in the Wadden Sea has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land?
Did you know that despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the city of Kolkata, British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave India on at least one occasion?
Did you know that electrothermal-chemical technology can now almost double the muzzle energy of a tank gun?
Did you know that the Swedish art collector Rolf de Maré created the world's first museum and research institute for dance?
Did you know that the concept of thermal death time started out in food canning, but has also found applications in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries?
Did you know that the his genitive was a briefly lived form for possessive nouns in the 17th century and may have given rise to the use of the apostrophe for genitives in Modern English?
Did you know that the most important source for early Irish history, The Chronicle of Ireland, had to be reconstructed from later, derivative works because no original copies survived?
Did you know that the simultaneous invasion of Georgia by the Soviet and Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in 1921?
Did you know that when first introduced to England there was confusion over whether the Rouen duck was named after the Rhône region, Cardinal de Rohan, the colour roan, or the town Rouen?
Did you know that "Heavy Harry", the only working example of the Victorian Railways H class, was the largest non-articulated steam locomotive ever built in Australia?
Did you know that Ateas, the best attested king of the Scythians, was killed in a battle with Philip II of Macedon at the age of 90?
Did you know that Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, the grandson of the late Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, was a Vice President of SEROS, Inc and Apex Realty and Developers in California?
Did you know that Macquarie University made its site's architect, Walter Abraham, a professor to give his opinions the same weight as those of the academic staff?
Did you know that Sir Peter Lely, the most popular portrait artist in England in the mid 1600s, was born Pieter van der Faes, and is reputed to have adopted the surname "Lely" from a heraldic lily on the gable of the house of his father's birth?
Did you know that The Drifters' hit "Under the Boardwalk" was recorded the day after lead singer Rudy Lewis' unexpected death?
Did you know that The Very Rev. Dr. Finlay A. J. Macdonald saw his calling as being "a lawyer for God" instead of a lawyer for man while studying philosophy?
Did you know that a complex system of artificial caverns, some excavated by the Greeks more than 2500 years ago, lies beneath Naples?
Did you know that an area of 500 hectares in the centre of Bucharest razed in the 1980s at the orders of Ceauşescu was called Ceaushima by the Bucharest residents?
Did you know that it is customary in Jewish homes to decorate the wall in the direction of prayer — mizrah — with artistic wall plaques inscribed with the word mizrah, scriptural passages, kabbalistic writings, or pictures of holy places?
Did you know that shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some sharks when they perceive they are in danger?
Did you know that the Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in Japan, because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
Did you know that the Hebrides Overture, also known as Fingal's Cave and composed by Mendelssohn, was inspired by the famous cave off the coast of Scotland?
Did you know that the Romanian Surrealist writer Geo Bogza, who adopted Socialist realism later in his life, was tried three times on charges of obscenity during the 1930s?
Did you know that the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter, an important Paleo-Indian site in Alabama, yielded over 11,000 artifacts ranging up to 9,000 years of age?
Did you know that the residents of the Findhorn Ecovillage have the lowest ecological footprint of any community measured so far in the industrialised world?
Did you know that the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?
Did you know that "Amour Amour", Luxembourg's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was performed by Plastic Bertrand a decade after the band achieved fame with "Ça plane pour moi"?
Did you know that General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
Did you know that Hurricane Erin was the longest-lived hurricane of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season?
Did you know that Kadambini Ganguly was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female conventional doctor in South Asia?
Did you know that Litchfield Towers is the largest and tallest dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh's main campus, at 22 stories in height and housing over 1,850 residents?
Did you know that Nestor Lakoba, a Soviet Communist Party chief in Abkhazia, was probably poisoned by Lavrentiy Beria, who then had his wife and son killed?
Did you know that Philippe Égalité's Château du Raincy near Paris contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?
Did you know that Sonoma Mountain produces Sonoma Valley premium wine grapes as high as 1700 feet in elevation and was a significant influence on the works of author Jack London before the Wine Country became famous?
Did you know that a Millwall brick is an improvised weapon made from folded newspaper?
Did you know that a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
Did you know that in the 2004 film Shallow Ground, actor Rocky Marquette plays a central character who is naked for the duration of the film?
Did you know that the Dutch Reformed Church, a  Greek Revival building in Newburgh, New York that has been declared a National Historic Landmark, is considered the latest extant work of architect Alexander Jackson Davis that still largely reflects his original vision?
Did you know that the National Liberal Party-Brătianu, created in 1930 by politicians who supported Carol II as King of Romania, became, in the space of three years, one of the monarch's most vocal adversaries?
Did you know that the Temple of Harmony, built in the grounds of Halsworth House in Goathurst, Somerset, England in 1767, is a replica of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in Rome?
Did you know that the Wesselenyi conspiracy in Hungary aimed at removing Austrian influence had the reverse effect?
Did you know that the basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne houses a fragment of a "miraculous" statue burned during the French Revolution?
Did you know that the expression "simon-pure", meaning "of untainted purity or integrity" came from the name of a character who is impersonated throughout most of Susanna Centlivre's 18th-century play A Bold Stroke for a Wife?
Did you know that the spacious Hall of Lost Footsteps was added to the medieval Palace of Poitiers at the behest of Alienor of Aquitaine, Queen consort of France and England?
Did you know that Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna kept her morganatic marriage secret until the death of her father, Nicholas I of Russia, in 1855?
Did you know that John Makepeace Bennett was a pioneer of Australian computer science who was involved in the construction of early computers in England?
Did you know that Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated  1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in Pinjarra, Western Australia?
Did you know that Marie Louise Élisabeth, later Duchess of Parma, was the eldest child of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, had a younger twin sister Henriette, and was one of only two of Louis' children to be married, the other being her brother, Louis, dauphin de France?
Did you know that Nagarjunakonda, a historic Buddhist town in Andhra Pradesh believed to hold some relics of Gautama Buddha was submerged by the construction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, the tallest masonry dam in the world?
Did you know that Piperia yadonii is a rare and endangered species of wild orchid whose survival may be influenced by the demand for increased golfing on the Monterey Peninsula?
Did you know that Saddam Beach in the Indian state of Kerala was given its name by local Muslim villagers after the Gulf War of 1991 in solidarity with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein?
Did you know that before Newton's law of universal gravitation, the universe was thought to have an absolute centre called the Central Fire towards which all objects must fall?
Did you know that the Greek colony of Phanagoria in present-day Russia was the seat of the last Bosporan kings, the capital of Great Bulgaria, and the residence of the exiled Emperor Justinian II?
Did you know that the Irish Thoroughbred Noor was the first racehorse ever to defeat two U.S. Triple Crown champions?
Did you know that the Ukrainian Catholic University is the first Catholic university to be opened and operated by an Eastern Rite Catholic Church?