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Did you know that the Battle of the Bismarck Sea was a devastating Japanese defeat during World War II?
Did you know that Dutch bus-building firm Den Oudsten was founded in 1926 and went out of business in 2002?
Did you know that the 16-year part of Donna Beck on the American soap opera All My Children, played by Candice Earley, was originally meant to be just a short-term role?
Did you know that You Bet Your Life was a radio and television quiz show hosted by Groucho Marx?
Did you know that rubbing the statue of Victor Noir in Père Lachaise Cemetery supposedly "enhances fertility"?
Did you know that the Supreme Court of Sweden ceased to render verdicts in the name of the Swedish monarch in 1974?
Did you know that the Seattle Fault is believed capable of producing an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale?
Did you know that The Brighter Day is the only explicitly religious soap opera ever to air on American network television?
Did you know that some Native Americans called the Douglas Squirrel the "Pillillooeet"?
Did you know that the Wicked Witch of the West controls the Winged Monkeys through the power of the Golden Cap?
Did you know that the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia pioneered the use of incubators for newborn intensive care?
Did you know that the main sounds made by Lichtenstein's Hartebeest are a bellow and a sneeze-snort?
Did you know that Commodore Horatio Bridge was the first officer to employ the idea of comprehensive fleet supply within the United States Navy?
Did you know that past Olympic mascots include several bears named Misha, Coal, Howdy and Hidy, and dogs Cobi and Waldi ?
Did you know that pineconefish have no apparent sexual dimorphism?
Did you know that the AVE Mizar was a flying car created by attaching part of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford Pinto?
Did you know that the Monty Python song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a parody of the type of song featured in Disney films?
Did you know that Governor-General outranks the Prime Minister in the New Zealand order of precedence?
Did you know that historical hearsay states John of Kolno came to the New World in 1476, 16 years ahead of Christopher Columbus?
Did you know that the French village of Giverny, best known as the home and landscape subject of Claude Monet, is a pre-Roman town known in ancient deeds as Warnacum?
Did you know that the Roman abacus incorporated mixed-base arithmetic?
Did you know that Frances has tied Arlene (at eight times) as the most-used name for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that Johannes Bugenhagen introduced the Protestant Reformation to Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century?
Did you know that Wikipedia has lots articles about Persian Kings?
Did you know that the city of Swakopmund, Namibia has some of the world's best examples of German Art Deco architecture?
Did you know that the mysterious objects known as Black triangles may actually be hybrid airships?
Did you know that the now-closed Opryland was the official theme park of NASCAR?
Did you know that there are five different kinds of lox?
Did you know that Buchwald v. Paramount may (or may not) have set a precedent for questioning spurious Hollywood accounting practices?
Did you know that many of the Dartmoor longhouses built during the Middle Ages still stand today?
Did you know that some historians consider the Baltimore riot of 1861 to be the first bloodshed of the American Civil War?
Did you know that the English mediæval shrine statue Our Lady of Ipswich, ordered to be destroyed during the Reformation, might have survived in an Italian village?
Did you know that the History of Buddhism includes a century of Greco-Buddhist interaction, primarily around Bactria?
Did you know that the city of Vancouver, British Columbia sits on the Burrard Peninsula?
Did you know that the disputed Cherokee Strip in Kansas was the result of a boundary conflict between the Osage, Cherokee and United States federal government which lasted from 1854 until 1866?
Did you know that the dominant art form of the English Renaissance was the play?
Did you know that the history of the incipit runs from ancient Sumeria through to modern word processors?
Did you know that the Rome Laboratory in New York is one of four superlabs run by the U.S. Air Force?
Did you know that Richard Blumenthal is Connecticut's Attorney General and was awarded the Raymond E. Baldwin Award for Public Service by the Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2002?
Did you know that as many as 150 people a year attempt to commit suicide by jumping from either the Bosporus Bridge or Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Turkey?
Did you know that the Malayan tapir species of tapir and the only one native to Asia?
Did you know that the Romanian riots of 1989 led to the only bloody overthrow of a Communist regime in Europe?
Did you know that the history of Buddhism includes a century of Greco-Buddhist interaction, primarily around Bactria?
Did you know that British lying-in-state ceremonies take place at Westminster Hall?
Did you know that the Malayan Tapir is the only species of tapir native to Asia?
Did you know that the Venetian Arsenal is mentioned in Dante's Inferno?
Did you know that the international Harmon Trophy is awarded to the most notable aviator of the year?
Did you know that the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada was 1965's Hope Slide?
Did you know that the most famous accomplishment of the Israeli Engineering Corps is breaching the Suez Canal during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War?
Did you know that the word "high" in high treason differentiates that well-known crime from the more obscure petty treason?
Did you know that there are three major kinds of arcade cabinet: upright, sit-down and cocktail?
Did you know that the 1945 Trial of the Sixteen helped the USSR consolidate its control over Poland?
Did you know that the Cork Opera House in Ireland was built in 1855, burned down in 1955, and rebuilt in 1963?
Did you know that the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace is the only U.S. presidential library that is not a part of the official National Archives and Records Administration system?
Did you know that Antarctica's Lemaire Channel is such a popular tourist destination that it's nicknamed Kodak Gap?
Did you know that Leyton F.C. had to win a High Court action in order to call itself the oldest football club in London?
Did you know that Vertigo actress Barbara Bel Geddes was the daughter of designer Norman Bel Geddes?
Did you know that the United Kingdom was the first country to offer its citizens a postal savings system?
Did you know that the literary genre known as Bangsian fantasy sets its action wholly or partially in Hell?
Did you know that the word ecology was coined by Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
Did you know that a potassium deficiency known as hypokalemia can be a side effect of certain medications?
Did you know that communication with submarines is difficult because salt water is a conductor which blocks electromagnetic radiation?
Did you know that it's unclear whether Euripides' play Electra was written before or after Sophocles' version?
Did you know that most contemporary robotic telescopes are in the hands of amateur astronomers?
Did you know that plant sexuality is most diverse among angiosperms?
Did you know that the Bonfires of Saint John festival in Spain uses discarded furniture as tinder for the fires?
Did you know that the zigzag method of using a knife and fork is particular to the United States?
Did you know that British admiral Alexander Cochrane was responsible for the bombing of Fort McHenry which resulted in the authorship of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
Did you know that Ethelbert of York's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome?
Did you know that with the exception of three snapshots taken by Sonderkommandos, the Auschwitz Album is the only extant photographic evidence of the inner workings of the Auschwitz concentration camp?
Did you know that the 33 Edicts of Ashoka in north India and Pakistan are the first tangible historical evidence of Buddhism?
Did you know that the Indian national flag is called Tiranga?
Did you know that Barbara Billingsley was so typecast as June Cleaver on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver that she could not get acting jobs for nearly twenty years?
Did you know that Hoot was novelist Carl Hiaasen's first book geared toward young adults?
Did you know that the British film It Happened Here is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the film's eight years production schedule as the longest ever?
Did you know that the Italian-invented human torpedo was first used in World War II to severely damage the British battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth?
Did you know that the crustaceans known as giant isopods, which live in the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, can grow up to 45 centimetres long?
Did you know that Lake Urmia, Iran's largest lake, is too salty to support fish?
Did you know that Urdu literature is dominated by poetry, often of the ghazal form?
Did you know that eugenicist Paul Popenoe introduced marriage counseling to the United States?
Did you know that the Dashanzi Art District is considered to be Beijing's version of Greenwich Village or SoHo?
Did you know that the U.S. military's Tybee hydrogen bomb, missing off the coast of the state of Georgia since 1958, may recently have been discovered?
Did you know that the legendary Buenaventura River was imagined to parallel the significance of the Mississippi River within the western North America?
Did you know that 19th century American vigilance committees had different purposes depending on their geographic location?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra, Jr.'s kidnapping in 1963 led his father to habitually carry a roll of dimes?
Did you know that Rajpath, which runs from the presidential residence Rashtrapati Bhavan to the war memorial India Gate, is probably the most important ceremonial avenue in India?
Did you know that poorly written Regency romance novels can often be identified by their incorrect use of styles and titles of peers?
Did you know that the only excavated stand-alone timber circles in the British Isles are those at Seahenge in Norfolk and the early phases of The Sanctuary in Wiltshire?
Did you know that the second-highest ranking official in the Kingdom of Hungary was the Palatine?
Did you know that the feminist group Women on Waves built a gynaecology unit on board of ship and performs abortions in international waters?
Did you know that the first post office in the Bahamas was probably on Crooked Island?
Did you know that the most famous boardwalk in the United States is probably the one in Atlantic City, New Jersey, thanks to its association with the Monopoly board game?
Did you know that the initial arctic convoys of World War II set sail from Iceland?
Did you know that the symbol of Fatima's hands, while widespread in Middle Eastern Islamic societies, is not officially condoned by Islam?
Did you know that Elizabeth Barton was executed for high treason in 1534 for prophesying the death of King Henry VIII?
Did you know that the 1953 movie Robot Monster was so poorly received, its director attempted suicide?
Did you know that timber from the leadwood tree burns very slowly and is often used for nightlong fires intended to keep animals at bay?
Did you know that when complete, B of the Bang will be Britain's tallest sculpture?
Did you know that the unfinished Ca' Rezzonico appears in a early 18th century painting of Venice's Grand Canal by Canaletto?
Did you know that the Dutch delicacy Croquet is rumored to contain offal?
Did you know that according to the Oxford English Dictionary the longest English word with one syllable is squirrelled?
Did you know that André Maginot, for whom the Maginot Line was named, was awarded the Medaille Militaire for valor during World War I?
Did you know that Fort Calgary, in what is now Calgary, Alberta, was originally named Fort Brisebois?
Did you know that at the height of the Cold War, Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the USA to the USSR?
Did you know that before Helen Gallagher became well-known for her role as matriarch on Ryan's Hope, she won a Tony Award for her work in the revival of No, No, Nanette?
Did you know that the Cathedral of Magdeburg is the highest church in East Germany and houses the grave of Emperor Otto I. the Great?
Did you know that Karel Kuttelwascher was the most famous World War II flying ace of Czech nationality?
Did you know that dhabawallahs are Indian lunch carriers that make, on average, only one mistake in every 6000 deliveries, even though they do all their work manually?
Did you know that physiological sound localization relies primarily on binaural cues for determining source azimuth, and head-related transfer functions for determining source elevation?
Did you know that the aftermath of the Revolt of 1173-1174 is depicted in the Peter O'Toole-Katharine Hepburn movie The Lion in Winter?
Did you know that the discovery of the J/Ψ particle in 1974 earned two physicists the Nobel prize as it confirmed the idea that baryonic matter (such as the nuclei of atoms) is made out of quarks?
Did you know that weight transfer causes the traction of tires on a car to vary?
Did you know that Alfred J. Kwak, a duck from a Dutch television cartoon, lives in a clog?
Did you know that dabbawalas are Indian lunch carriers that make, on average, only one mistake in every 6,000,000 deliveries, even though they do all their work manually?
Did you know that Victor Chang AC was a famous Australian heart surgeon and was murdered on 4 July, 1991, following an extortion attempt on his family?
Did you know that earthquake lights, although described in 373 BC, were not convincingly documented until the 1960s?
Did you know that only fragments of the famous altar triptych by Geertgen tot Sint Jans could be saved after the siege of Haarlem of 1572-1573?
Did you know that the Astrakhan Cossack army existed from 1737 until 1919 when they were defeated alongside their White Russian allies  during the Russian Civil War?
Did you know that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw holds the remains of a Polish soldier killed at the Battle of Lvov in 1919?
Did you know that cotton candy was first sold to the public at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?
Did you know that the books and manuscripts in the Renaissance era Cotton library were categorized by their location in relation to busts of Caesars shelved alongside them?
Did you know that in 1968, Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall became the first Olympian disqualified for drug use, for drinking two beers?
Did you know that Dragon's teeth were square-pyramidal concrete fortifications used during the Second World War to impede the movement of tanks?
Did you know that at age 19 after Barry Watson lost his job as a soap opera child star, he used to park cars at the House of Blues night club in Los Angeles?
Did you know that the PHOSITA or "person having ordinary skill in the art" is a legal fiction used by the patent law to check if an invention is just too obvious?
Did you know that the album Louder Than Bombs by The Smiths consisted of all singles and B-sides that hadn't been released before in the United States?
Did you know that the movie I Am Cuba was filmed in 1964 as Cold War Soviet propaganda but only became widely viewed internationally when it was shown to audiences in the United States in 1994?
Did you know that in high energy physics experiments, wire chambers are used to detect the path of particles emitted from the collisions in particle accelerators?
Did you know that pre-dreadnought battleships saw their most notable service in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905?
Did you know that the Berlaymont building in Brussels, Belgium houses European Commission headquarters?
Did you know that the evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes ends with the Guyot Stage, and that most, if not all, the volcanoes west of Kure Atoll are guyots?
Did you know that the visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 led to the reinvigoration of the kilt and tartan as symbols of Scottish national identity?
Did you know that zoomusicology studies sounds, vocalizations and the organization of the noisy communications of animals?
Did you know that developing countries hoping to participate in globalization are experimenting with a U.S.-originated economic policy called Rubinomics?
Did you know that narrow gauge railways are cheaper than standard-size tracks and are often built in developing countries?
Did you know that the style and subject matter of German Expressionism, which produced movies like Nosferatu, influenced film genres like horror and film noir?
Did you know that the yobidashi serves as a sumo wrestler's handyman, promoter and assistant?
Did you know that when the John Bull ran under its own power in 1981 it became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world?
Did you know that Clay Oliver Hill is the Populist Democratic Viking candidate for the 2004 United States presidential election?
Did you know that Japanese toilets are the most technologically advanced toilets in the world today?
Did you know that U.S. late-night talk-show host Johnny Carson was once a writer for The Red Skelton Show?
Did you know that active camouflage would allow people to change clothing color or luminosity like chameleons and blend into their surroundings?
Did you know that among those who do not believe John the Apostle was the author of the Johannine works of the Bible, John the Evangelist is the most commonly mentioned possible alternative author?
Did you know that in mathematics, an Apollonian gasket is a fractal generated from three circles, any two of which are tangent to one another?
Did you know that the Angolan War of Independence lasted from 1961 until 1989, even though Portugal left Angola in 1975?
Did you know that the Great Train Robbery of 1963 is the best-known example of the type of mail fraud known as "theft from the mails"?
Did you know that the Roman era of the early history of Switzerland began when the armies of Julius Caesar drove the Helvetii back from Gaul?
Did you know that the Ten Years' War, which began in 1868, was the first attempt by Cuba to secure its independence from Spain?
Did you know that the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands is the only U.S. District Court without an associated U.S. Attorney's Office?
Did you know that the process for the evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II was reversed in 1944?
Did you know that the trans-Planckian problem refers to the appearance of unlikely quantities beyond the Planck scale in black-hole physics and inflationary cosmology?
Did you know that the year and a day rule regarding homicide was abolished because of advances in medicine and forensic science?
Did you know that France Antarctique, a short-lived French colony, was not in Antarctica but in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
Did you know that Joe Massino, formerly the head of New York's Bonanno crime family, was described as a real-life "last don"?
Did you know that Liederkranz cheese is extinct?
Did you know that New Zealand is sometimes called The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise?
Did you know that Operation Predator, a U.S. government initiative, seeks to end child sex tourism, which may victimize as many as two million children annually?
Did you know that actress Susan Sullivan made comebacks to television no less than twice?
Did you know that the Viceroyalty of La Plata—covering Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay—was the last viceroyalty created by Spain?
Did you know that all Native American pottery made before the arrival of Europeans was done without the use of a potter's wheel?
Did you know that alternative theories of speciation besides natural selection include Lamarckism and orthogenesis?
Did you know that crop losses caused by the desert locust are described in the Bible and the Qur'an?
Did you know that the Polynesian Rat is used to track human migrations across the Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that the Sausage Valley of WWI-era France was so named because the Germans frequently flew a sausage-shaped observation balloon above it?
Did you know that Domela Nieuwenhuis was Holland's first major socialist?
Did you know that Irish pirate radio is a general consequence of the lack of commercial radio until 1989?
Did you know that Toronto, Ontario was once known as Methodist Rome?
Did you know that Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis was the first major socialist of the Netherlands?
Did you know that many bog bodies from the time of the Roman Iron Age have been found in southern Scandinavia?
Did you know that market power is usually a predicate to anti-competitive behavior?
Did you know that there is some debate about whether a Gm7 add 11 or G sus 4th chord opens the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night"?
Did you know that there's no Dr Pepper in a Flaming Dr. Pepper?
Did you know that with a peasant revolution Chinese emperor Huizong was overthrown, ending the Yuan Dynasty?
Did you know that Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, the national library of Québec, and the public library of the city of Montréal, will share a facility beginning in 2005?
Did you know that Dunston Pillar, a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, England, was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous eastern heathlands?
Did you know that Joseph Schenck was the first chairman of 20th Century Fox?
Did you know that WWI vet and Tour de France winner Ottavio Bottecchia was killed by either fascists or an angry farmer?
Did you know that a real-life German alchemist named Johann Georg Faust was the inspiration for Marlowe-Goethe Faust of fictional fame?
Did you know that the Burgundy Wars led to the annexation of Burgundy by France?
Did you know that the Nephila genus of long-jawed orb weaver family of spiders spins gold-colored webs?
Did you know that the charity organization Child's Play raised over $250,000 in 2003 in the form of cash and toy donations from the readers of popular web comic Penny Arcade?
Did you know that 1940's The Mark of Zorro is often considered the best of the Zorro movies?
Did you know that Larnach Castle is one of only two castles in New Zealand?
Did you know that Pictish stones are the largest visual relics of Picts of Scotland?
Did you know that Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings were intended to decorate the bedroom of his friend and fellow painter, Paul Gauguin?
Did you know that ostracoderms are the earliest known vertebrate animals?
Did you know that the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. has hosted an Inaugural ball under every U.S. President since Calvin Coolidge?
Did you know that the helix-turn-helix structural motif is found in many proteins that regulate gene expression?
Did you know that the iconic Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong Point?
Did you know that Sigismondo d'India, a 17th century Italian composer, produced music in nearly all the forms of the day, including monody, madrigal and motet?
Did you know that golf ball design is a real world application of Platonic solids?
Did you know that the American Winterberry is also called the fever berry for its medicinal use among Native Americans?
Did you know that the Müller-Thurgau hybrid grape is a 19th century cross between the Riesling and Chasselas?
Did you know that the USS Pogy was named after a Californian trout and sank 16 ships during World War II?
Did you know that the judges on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland, wear red robes, rather than the traditional black?
Did you know that Jill Ker Conway grew up on a sheep farm and was Smith College's first woman president?
Did you know that the Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, 1942–1943, was the last battle fought on the soil of the United States?
Did you know that the Comedian Harmonists was one of the most successful 20th century musical groups in Europe before World War II?
Did you know that the Z machine, operated by Sandia National Laboratories, is the most powerful x-ray generator in the world?