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Did you know that the highest distinction among the Caloyers, a Greek monastic order, involves spending one's entire life alone, confined in a cave on top of a mountain?
Did you know that Major General Dan Harel was the Israeli commander in charge of the Gaza pull-out during the summer of 2005?
Did you know that Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, a strategy game featuring characters from major mecha animes, was originally never planned to be released in the United States due to licensing complications?
Did you know that a carcass was a kind of artillery shell fired from a mortar or cannon to burn down enemy defences?
Did you know that children sometimes stopped the Parenzana train by greasing rails with figs?
Did you know that in 1766, the collapse of the cupola of St. Andrew's Cathedral, St. Petersburg led to the arrest of the cathedral's architect?
Did you know that principles governing the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) date back to the diet of Ancient Greece?
Did you know that starting in 1893, Krupp armour quickly replaced Harvey armor as the primary form of protection used on capital ships?
Did you know that the Crusade cycle is an Old French cycle of chansons de geste concerning the First Crusade and its aftermath?
Did you know that the energy policy of the United Kingdom adheres to carbon dioxide emissions reduction of the Kyoto Protocol, but accepts transition in 2006 to a net energy importer?
Did you know that the second subtitle of title III of the USA PATRIOT Act largely modifies the Bank Secrecy Act in an effort to make it harder for money launderers to operate, and to make it easier for law enforcement and regulatory agencies to police money laundering operations?
Did you know that the true identity and current whereabouts of Philip Staufen, also known as "Mr. Nobody", who wandered into a Toronto hospital in 1999 and was diagnosed with amnesia, are still unknown despite an international search?
Did you know that HMS Prince Albert was the first Royal Navy warship to have her main armament mounted in turrets?
Did you know that Russian opera in the 18th century was dominated by Italian composers and singers?
Did you know that a carmen was a spell or incantation among the Ancient Romans, of which the oldest surviving examples are the Carmen Arvale and the Carmen Saliare?
Did you know that coccolithovirus, a giant double-stranded DNA virus, has 472 protein-coding genes, and is the largest known marine virus by genome?
Did you know that in the Bezdany train robbery of 1908, led by the future Polish dictator, Józef Piłsudski, the revolutionaries stole over 200,000 rubles?
Did you know that the Black-necked Stilt appears to be dressed in a tuxedo, and the chicks can swim competently two hours after hatching?
Did you know that the Caroline Books were a harsh argument against the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, commissioned by Charlemagne and sent to Pope Adrian I?
Did you know that the GayFest of 2005 was the first LGBT pride parade in Romania?
Did you know that the rostral columns in front of the St. Petersburg Bourse were intended to serve as beacons and are still lit on ceremonial occasions?
Did you know that Chechen military commander Said-Magomed Kakiev has been declared a Hero of the Russian Federation four times, making him one of the most decorated Russian citizens?
Did you know that Cividade de Terroso (map pictured) was one of the main fortified cities of the Castro culture, a stone civilization in Iberia, eventually destroyed by the Romans?
Did you know that Eton College owns its own rowboat manufacturer, Eton Racing Boats?
Did you know that General Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski was one of the architects of the Miracle at Vistula, the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War in 1920?
Did you know that Gestrinone, a medication for endometriosis that is banned by the IOC for its anabolic effects, has also been studied as a postcoital contraceptive?
Did you know that Jane Colden was the first female botanist to describe flora in the United States?
Did you know that Johannes Rietstap was the founder of modern heraldic theory in The Netherlands?
Did you know that KATRIN is an experiment to determine the mass of the neutrino by measuring the energies of electrons given off from the beta decay of tritium?
Did you know that Russian Hussar Alexander Bulatovich was a military aide to Ethiopian ruler Menelek II, a hieromonk in Greece, and leader of a banned religious movement?
Did you know that Ukrainian Patriarch Mstyslav was enthroned at the age of 92?
Did you know that although he was king of the Isubus of Cameroon, Young King William lacked the authority to stop the execution of a man accused of witchcraft?
Did you know that casting is the regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops?
Did you know that racecar driver Stan Fox barely survived a crash in the 1995 Indy 500, but later died in a head-on collision on New Zealand's North Island?
Did you know that the catastrophe was the final resolution of Ancient Greek tragedies, in which one or more main characters usually died?
Did you know that the film BloodSpell, licensed under Creative Commons, is the first feature-length production made using the computer game Neverwinter Nights?
Did you know that the fog which filled the stadium during the 2006 Super 14 Final forced some spectators to leave the match and watch it elsewhere, just to see the players?
Did you know that the popular German snack Strammer Max takes its name from a slang expression for an erection?
Did you know that a catoptric theatre was an ancient optical illusion in which a single elaborate scene appeared to be larger than the box that contained it?
Did you know that an unknown manuscript of opera libretto by writer Mikhail Bulgakov was found in Isaak Dunayevsky's archive after his death in 1955?
Did you know that bay mud is a significant estuarine ecological resource, but went unstudied until humans began building high-rise structures near bays?
Did you know that missionary Roger Youderian almost returned to the United States one month before he was killed in Operation Auca?
Did you know that the Antikythera wreck, discovered by Greek sponge divers in 1900, contained one of the first forms of a mechanised clock?
Did you know that the music video for the Fiona Apple song "Not about Love" (2006) features comedian Zach Galifianakis, and was filmed in and around his neighborhood?
Did you know that Arthur Rimbaud evoked the iconic image of Venus Anadyomene in a sardonic poem that introduced cellulite to high literature? (pictured: Venus Anadyomene by Titian)
Did you know that British architect Ron Herron proposed building massive robotic walking cities in 1964?
Did you know that Pallister-Killian syndrome is a rare congenital genetic disorder that cannot be detected through prenatal blood tests because it occurs only in the chromosomes of skin cells?
Did you know that Yucca Mountain Johnny is a cartoon character created to explain nuclear waste disposal to children, and has attracted controversy, being compared to Joe Camel?
Did you know that a catholicon was a purported universal remedy taken orally or rectally?
Did you know that a cento is a poetic work composed entirely of verses taken from other authors?
Did you know that the All Saints Church, Henley Brook, the oldest church in Western Australia, held its first service almost eight years before it was consecrated?
Did you know that the Anichkov Bridge in Saint Petersburg features one of the city's notable landmarks, The Horse Tamer, a group of four neoclassical bronze sculptures by Baron Peter Klodt?
Did you know that the Magdeburg Centuries is a 1300-year history of the Catholic Church, written particularly as a criticism of the papacy?
Did you know that the poem The Absent-Minded Beggar was written to raise money for servicemen's families during the South African War?
Did you know that Nicholas II of Russia and his family preferred the cosy apartments of the Anichkov Palace to their official residence, Winter Palace?
Did you know that Stanisław Warszycki, a wealthy 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnate, gave rise to many legends about his cruelty, and several places in Poland claim sightings of his ghost?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Larry caused five deaths and US$53.6 million in damage when it struck the Tabasco state of Mexico, the first landfall in the state since 1973?
Did you know that William Lee was U.S. President George Washington's personal servant, and the only one of his slaves freed by Washington in his will?
Did you know that bread and salt is a traditional greeting ceremony symbolizing hospitality in Slavic countries?
Did you know that in the Penguins' Rebellion, over 800,000 Chilean high school students demanded education reforms from the government of Michelle Bachelet?
Did you know that the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople?
Did you know that the endangered cui-ui sucker fish was a staple of the Native American Paiute tribe for over a millennium?
Did you know that the scandalous tales of Aristides of Miletus are still being discussed after over two millennia, although not one word of them has survived?
Did you know that the victory of Alexios I Komnenos over the Pechenegs at Levounion marked a resurgence of Byzantine military power after half a century of turmoil?
Did you know that Henryk Zieliński, a modern Polish historian who studied in the underground university in his youth, died in mysterious circumstances?
Did you know that Heraldo Muñoz, former National Supervisor of the People's Stores under Allende, is now Chile's Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations?
Did you know that Humphrey the whale may be the most publicized Humpback whale in history, having twice wandered off his migration course into San Francisco Bay?
Did you know that John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle inspired one of the pioneering works of British satire, and half a century later, fell down the stairs at the coronation of Queen Victoria?
Did you know that NASCAR driver Stephen Leicht, who started racing at age 7, was unable to participate in go-karting for 6 months after rupturing his spleen in an accident at age 11?
Did you know that Pando, an aspen colony, is the oldest known living being at 80,000 years, and the heaviest at six million kilograms (6,000 tonnes)?
Did you know that a zayat is a combination rest-house and religious school funded and run by Burmese  Theravada Buddhists, as an act of  daná (meritorious charity)?
Did you know that if one of the dams of Ukraine's Dnieper River reservoirs is destroyed, it may cause radioactive contamination of the whole Black Sea area?
Did you know that of the 27 U.S. Marines in World War II who threw themselves onto exploding grenades to save others, Richard K. Sorenson was one of only 3 to survive?
Did you know that the Byzantine Komnenian army was deployed in places as far-ranging as Italy, Hungary, and Egypt, and was instrumental in the Komnenian restoration of the empire?
Did you know that the EU legal doctrine of state liability was first introduced following the Italian government's failure to properly compensate laid off workers?
Did you know that the deployment of Panjandrum, an experimental British weapon devised during World War II, invariably resulted in the random firing of dozens of cordite rockets into the air?
Did you know that the film Autism Every Day, though praised by many parents of autistics, has been heavily criticized by people with autism?
Did you know that the remains of Henri Huet and three other noted war photographers, shot down in their helicopter over the Ho Chi Minh trail in 1971, have never been found?
Did you know that the technique of double-balloon enteroscopy allows any position along the gastrointestinal tract to be visualized in real-time? (pictured: polyp in small intestine)
Did you know that 19th-century German Wilhelm Hasenclever did not live to see the political party he co-founded get its present name, the Social Democratic Party of Germany?
Did you know that Australian Olympic medal-winning swimmer Gary Chapman died in a fishing accident, after retiring from swimming to pursue this very hobby?
Did you know that Christopher and Cosmas were two Japanese men who travelled the world's oceans with the English explorer Thomas Cavendish between 1587 and 1592?
Did you know that Popeye Village, where the 1980 film Popeye was filmed, is now one of Malta's most popular tourist attractions?
Did you know that Reverend William Mitchell was an Anglican missionary, and the first ordained person to provide Christian religious services in the Swan Valley area of the Swan River Colony in Australia?
Did you know that a circumferentor was an important tool to surveyors for mapping the North American frontier?
Did you know that a commission as an Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska gives authority over "all officers, seamen, tadpoles and goldfish" under one's command?
Did you know that former movie actress Vera Ralston personally insulted Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Winter Olympics, and won a silver medal?
Did you know that in the 1930 Polish election, due to government censorship, opposition papers were reduced to using images of Nietzsche, because he resembled dictator Józef Piłsudski?
Did you know that in the Finnish wilderness, a backpacker can spend the night in a rent-free wilderness hut?
Did you know that only one percent of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge is above sea level?
Did you know that spoons, eyeglasses, and toothbrushes have been removed from stomachs using endoscopic foreign body retrieval techniques with specialized cameras?
Did you know that the Ahmedabad Stock Exchange is the second oldest stock exchange in India, and first functioned under a banyan tree?
Did you know that the Alexander Column on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, despite its weight of 600 tons, is set so nicely that no attachment to the base is required?
Did you know that the Chartered Society of Designers is the world's largest and oldest chartered body of professional designers, and is unique in having designers of all disciplines?
Did you know that the Temple Sanitarium hired the first female anesthesiologist to work in the U.S., Dr. Claudia Potter, in 1906?
Did you know that the chrysargyron tax forced some Byzantine families to sell their children into slavery and prostitution?
Did you know that the works of Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski were banned for several years in the People's Republic of Poland, following his criticism of the government?
Did you know that 18th-century professional portrait painter Tilly Kettle was the first British painter to work in India?
Did you know that Abner Kneeland became the last person in the U.S. jailed for blasphemy, in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kneeland?
Did you know that British pianist Antony Peebles has performed in concerts in 128 different countries around the world?
Did you know that Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia was noted as a patroness of Schiller, Goethe, and Liszt?
Did you know that Super Typhoon Kate of the 1970 Pacific typhoon season, which struck the Philippines less than a week after Super Typhoon Joan, was at the time the deadliest typhoon ever to strike the Philippines?
Did you know that a client was an Ancient Roman who traded his vote for protection, in a similar way to the activities of modern organized crime?
Did you know that cledonism was an ancient form of divination by listening to the chance words of passers-by, an example of which appears in the Odyssey?
Did you know that if U.S.-based PacifiCorp decommissions the Condit Hydroelectric Project in 2008, Condit Dam will be the largest dam ever removed for environmental reasons?
Did you know that in almost 100 years of existence, Ireland King of Arms granted only three coats of arms?
Did you know that on every December 8th, families celebrating Fête des lumières in Lyon, France, line their windowsills with candles to express gratitude to Mary, mother of Jesus?
Did you know that the DSSAM Model is a computer simulation used to study water quality of the Truckee River, and assisted in conservation of two endangered species?
Did you know that ANTARES, a neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean Sea, will find neutrinos from outer space by looking downward, into the Earth?
Did you know that Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head Tour featured frontman Chris Martin performing songs after inhaling a helium balloon?
Did you know that Indian classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai was married to Vikram Sarabhai, considered the Father of the Indian space program?
Did you know that Maraba Coffee, the first Rwandan coffee to gain Fairtrade status, is used to make the only coffee beer sold in the British Isles?
Did you know that New York Times theater critic Howard Taubman said, "it is the destiny of the theatre nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing"?
Did you know that Saugumas, a Nazi-controlled Lithuanian secret police of the 1940s, was modelled after the infamous Gestapo?
Did you know that Sonoma Creek, a California-designated critical coastal watershed, drains the acclaimed Sonoma Valley Wine Country, and provides a home to many endangered species?
Did you know that Szeged's public transport company is one of only four city transport companies that operate tram service in Hungary?
Did you know that a new "dwarf" dinosaur, a sauropod named Europasaurus, was recently discovered in Northern Germany?
Did you know that climacteric years, occuring septennially, were considered critical and dangerous moments in an Ancient Greek's life?
Did you know that due to protests and financial problems, the Saint Petersburg Dam was one of the Soviet Union's most notorious long-term construction projects?
Did you know that economist Barbara Ward, an early advocate of sustainable development, was the first woman ever to address a synod of Roman Catholic bishops?
Did you know that shortly after Capt. William Swift was given command of the maiden voyage of USS Connecticut, it was recalled to port because of a bout of typhoid, and then run aground near Culebra, Puerto Rico?
Did you know that the Chinese box turtle has at least four common names, and there is debate over its genus classification?
Did you know that the Railsback curve shows that on a normally-tuned piano, low-octave notes will be lower and high-octave notes higher than expected, due to inharmonicity?
Did you know that the legendary Tamil stage and film artiste K. B. Sundarambal was also a political activist, and the first film personality to enter an Indian state legislature?
Did you know that the prosecution of writer and poet Perihan Magden for urging defiance of mandatory military service has complicated Turkey's negotiations for membership in the European Union?
Did you know that Britain's regulations on bread sales, as originated from the Assize of Bread and Ale (1266), were enforced for six centuries?
Did you know that Hindustani classical musician Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande ushered in a renaissance of Hindustani music by his reorganisation of Ragas?
Did you know that a type of reflex hammer was popularized as a medical instrument after two neurologists brawled in Vienna?
Did you know that the Diademed Sifaka is an athletic lemur whose small groups defend a rainforest territory of up to 125 acres by scent marking?
Did you know that web notes were an experimental attempt by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing to find a cheaper alternative to intaglio printing, but ultimately failed due to quality issues?
Did you know that Aleksander Krzyżanowski , commander of Polish resistance in the Vilnius region, was arrested by the Soviets after his unit helped them liberate Vilnius from the Germans?
Did you know that American country musician Cowboy Copas's private plane crashed in Tennessee in 1963, killing him and everyone onboard, including fellow country music star Patsy Cline?
Did you know that Perth Gaol was built in the 1850s to house convict labour, but by 1891, it was a geological museum?
Did you know that according to the U.S. NIH, elective c-section and natural birth have "similar degrees of risk" for most women?
Did you know that in Japan, the Simpsons are better known for appearing in C.C. Lemon commercials than for their television show?
Did you know that the Christian sect of Collegiants was formed in 1619 to defy the Synod of Dort, which had forced Holland to dismiss liberal ministers?
Did you know that the Hairpin Banksia spike contains over 1,000 individual flowers around a central woody axis?
Did you know that the Neo-Baroque equestrian Monument to Nicholas I (1859) is the only statue of a 19th-century tsar in Saint Petersburg that was not demolished or relocated during the Soviet era?
Did you know that the music video for the song "Vindaloo" was a direct parody of that of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve, which was in turn a mocking recreation of the music video for "Unfinished Sympathy" by Massive Attack?
Did you know that the native ornate plainchant of Benevento, Beneventan chant, co-existed with Gregorian chant for over a century before it was abolished by papal decree?
Did you know that the noble rhubarb of the frigid, sunburnt Himalaya creates its own protective greenhouse with ultraviolet-blocking panels?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Le Blond, chief architect of Saint Petersburg from 1716 until his death, introduced the distinctions between state apartments and private apartments into French architectural practice?
Did you know that M. E. Clifton James posed as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as part of an Allied deception plan called Operation Copperhead in 1944, and then went on to play himself in a 1958 biopic called I Was Monty's Double?
Did you know that Saltwood Castle in Kent, England, was the site where four knights plotted to kill Thomas Becket in 1170?
Did you know that U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Jay R. Vargas, one of four brothers who were decorated war veterans, requested that his medal be engraved with his mother's name instead of his own?
Did you know that the blind cave beetle Anophthalmus hitleri is threatened by poaching due to its curious name, which is a dedication to Adolf Hitler?
Did you know that the fruit of the colocynth is such a violent laxative that it was even used by pregnant women to induce abortion?
Did you know that Charles N. Haskell was the first governor of Oklahoma, and he played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution?
Did you know that Chile's current Interior Minister, Andrés Zaldívar, was also a senator and cabinet member in pre-Pinochet democratic Chile, a prominent democracy activist, and member of the successful opposition to the subsequent military regime?
Did you know that English architect Richard Roach Jewell designed many of the important public buildings in Perth, Western Australia during the latter half of the 19th century?
Did you know that Ewale a Mbedi may have been the first Duala leader to trade with Europeans in Cameroon?
Did you know that Hickman's potentilla is a rare plant discovered by Alice Eastwood, who climbed six floors through a burning building in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake to save her specimens?
Did you know that John Roberts was an Australian businessman who founded the construction company Multiplex, which is currently building the new Wembley Stadium in London?
Did you know that Typhoon Patsy (1970) was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865?
Did you know that although the Constitution of Singapore had been revised in 1958 to implement self-government for the then British colony of Singapore,  self-government was only officially achieved with the Singapore general election of 1959?
Did you know that offspring of the Blue Wildebeest can stand seven minutes after birth and run with the herd at two hours old?
Did you know that polyphenol antioxidants are a class of over 4,000 nutritionally-derived chemicals linked to immune system and cardiovascular health, due to their cellular role of oxidative species scavenging?