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Did you know that the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico City was once a mint for manufacturing coins and even housed the Supreme Court of Mexico?
Did you know that the Old Cathedral of Cuenca carries a memorial plate indicating that its belltower is more famous than the Egyptian pyramids?
Did you know that the current governor of Malai District, Cambodia, is a former Khmer Rouge diplomat and aide to Pol Pot?
Did you know that the gambling magazine Total Gambler was Britain's most widely circulated monthly men's magazine when it launched in August 2005, with an initial print run of 650,000 copies?
Did you know that the smoking room of the D&C steamer City of Detroit III was put on display at a museum on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, after the ship was dismantled?
Did you know that the writers Solveig Christov and Toril Brekke both have been awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize?
Did you know that Arthur MacMahon was one of the first political scientists   to use empirical methods to study government?
Did you know that Chablis was so devastated by spring time frost that the whole region only produced 11 cases of wine during the 1957 vintage?
Did you know that Concert Allegro, the only piano work Edward Elgar composed for concert performance, has been called a "marriage between Bach and Liszt"?
Did you know that Herb Treat, unanimously selected as a 1922 College Football All-American, was hit by a car in 1943 and plunged nine stories from a hotel window in 1947?
Did you know that Mortuary Affairs, within the United States Department of Defense Quartermaster Corps, is tasked with the retrieval, identification, transportation, and burial of deceased military personnel?
Did you know that Salutat is an 1898 Thomas Eakins painting of a boxer, considered one of his finest achievements in figure-painting?
Did you know that Sinikka Kukkonen was the first World Champion in ski orienteering?
Did you know that Will Kane was Gary Cooper's second Academy Award-winning role?
Did you know that World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea?
Did you know that a 1997 wrestling event at Chantilly High School was canceled because of the "cartoonish" sterotypes portrayed by such wrestlers as "Wiseguy" Jimmy Cicero?
Did you know that according to the magico-medical text Cyranides, miscarriages caused by female demons such as Gello can be prevented by wearing an aetite as an amulet?
Did you know that architect Arieh Sharon, who had been a beekeeper on a kibbutz, later led a 180-person commission to plan the development of Israel?
Did you know that conductor George Georgescu first made music as a child by playing a violin between his legs like a cello?
Did you know that despite the Russian authorities' intention to turn the Teachers' Seminary in Veiveriai into a center of Russification, the seminary became a center of the Lithuanian National Revival?
Did you know that due to their rich biodiversity, Sri Lanka montane rain forests are  a globally important super-hotspot with a large number of  endemic species?
Did you know that in one of the major ancient Egyptian creation myths, the creator god Atum was said to have sneezed and spat out his offspring?
Did you know that poet Olav Angell was awarded a prize from the Arts Council Norway for his translation of James Joyce's novel Ulysses into Norwegian?
Did you know that the 1913 Street Car Strike in Indianapolis, Indiana, lasted eight days and left four dead and hundreds injured?
Did you know that the Norton P11 desert racing motorcycle was launched in the US under the advertising slogan Dynamite on wheels?
Did you know that the Norwegian ice block expedition of 1959 drove three tons of ice from the Polar Circle to the Equator – with no refrigeration – and lost only around 11% of the original weight?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Fengji's eight associates were known as the "eight passes" for the difficulty involved in going through them to meet him?
Did you know that the poet, novelist and children's author Karin Bang is a passionate collector of ancient dolls?
Did you know that the porcelain set Elka by the Czech designer Jaroslav Ježek was awarded the Grand Prix in design at the Expo '58 in Brussels?
Did you know that the red and yellow molded plastic  Cozy Coupe from Little Tikes was called the "world's best-selling car" for most of the 1990s by The New York Times?
Did you know that 1890s portrait photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf's influence upon fine art photography went unacknowledged for nearly 100 years, possibly due to gender discrimination?
Did you know that Ayya Nadar along with Shanmuga Nadar is credited for transforming the small village of Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu, India, into a thriving industrial town?
Did you know that David Dean Shulman has been active as a leader of international campaigns to defend the Palestinians under threat of eviction from such villages as Susya in the South Hebron Hills?
Did you know that Elizabeth Lee Hazen developed the world's first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin?
Did you know that Evan Vaughan Anwyl has proven patrilineal descent back to Owain Gwynedd, who claimed to be King of Wales?
Did you know that Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 was used in the James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me?
Did you know that Grand Funk Railroad's epic 1970 song "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" about a troubled sea voyage, is most commonly associated with emotions surrounding the Vietnam War?
Did you know that H. Vasanthakumar is a MLA in India,  owner of an entertainment channel, Vasanth TV, and of Vasanth & Co, one of the largest electronics retail chains in Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that Harald Gram, father of World War II resistance fighter Gregers Gram, was stipendiary magistrate in Oslo for 21 years?
Did you know that Harry Watson scored 36 goals at the 1924 Winter Olympics, making him the highest scoring male Canadian Olympic ice hockey player?
Did you know that I.C.C. Commissioner John J. Esch was accused of switching his vote in a case to secure renomination by President Coolidge and the Senate refused his confirmation, 39–29?
Did you know that Israel Prize recipient Avraham Yaski founded the largest architecture firm in Israel?
Did you know that Jack Grout, a PGA Tour competitor from 1931 to 1953, was the first and only teacher of successful professional golfer Jack Nicklaus?
Did you know that Marguerite Rawalt was the first woman ever to be elected as president of the Federal Bar Association?
Did you know that Verda Welcome was the first black woman to be elected as a State Senator?
Did you know that a 2009 study found that Polycap—a five-in-one polypill combining three high blood pressure medications, a cholesterol reducer and aspirin—could cut heart attack and stroke risk in half for many?
Did you know that although the songs "Tougher Than the Rest" and "Spare Parts" by New Jersey musician Bruce Springsteen were not released as singles in the United States, each became a Top-20 single in Europe?
Did you know that coprophilous fungi are species of fungi that feed on animal feces?
Did you know that egg whites, fish bladders and powder made from dried blood have been used as finings to clarify wine?
Did you know that following the upgrade of two Oslo T-bane lines, all aging T1000 trains of the system can be replaced by MX3000's?
Did you know that radio station KTIL in Tillamook, Oregon, was renamed KMBD in honor of talk show host Mildred Berkey Davy?
Did you know that the Franco-Ottoman alliance of 1536 between Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent has been called "the first nonideological diplomatic alliance" between a Christian and a non-Christian power?
Did you know that the Nidaros Cathedral West Front sculpture of Archangel Michael was based on Bob Dylan?
Did you know that the U. S. Custom House in Charleston, South Carolina, resembles  the U.S. Custom House in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by the same architect, Ammi  B. Young?
Did you know that the Wildlife Protection Society of India  maintains a network of undercover agents and informants who gather intelligence to combat wildlife poaching and the illegal trade of wildlife parts?
Did you know that the only American ship larger than a destroyer to survive the Dutch East Indies campaign was the light cruiser Marblehead?
Did you know that the tradition of a themed White House Christmas tree was started in 1961 by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (pictured, with JFK and tree)?
Did you know that when Ted Hough was signed by Southampton Football Club, his "transfer fee" was a round of 52 pints of beer?
Did you know that Broad Street in Reading, England – the site of a 1688 battle and crucial to the Earl of Essex's siege of the town – is now a pedestrianised shopping street?
Did you know that Cherry Springs Airport in Potter County, Pennsylvania, was closed because the night sky there was too dark?
Did you know that Fredrik Georg Gade, a tuberculosis and cancer researcher, himself died of bronchial cancer?
Did you know that Gus Cifelli won three college football national championships and an NFL championship with the Detroit Lions before being elected as a judge, where he served for over 20 years?
Did you know that Larry Scott, CEO of the WTA, put together the largest sponsorship in the history of women's athletics, an US$88-million deal with Sony Ericsson?
Did you know that R. G. Chandramogan, an entrepreneur from Sivakasi, is the head of Hatsun Agro Product Ltd, the largest private dairy in India?
Did you know that Rammstein's 2004 single "Mein Teil" was inspired by German cannibal Armin Meiwes?
Did you know that Savannah, the world's first steamship to cross the Atlantic, was converted into a sailing ship on returning from her historic voyage?
Did you know that during his time in the Isis-Urania Temple, E.W. Berridge wrote two of the Golden Dawn's knowledge lectures and collaborated on a third?
Did you know that during the recording of their new album Old Crows / Young Cardinals, Alexisonfire recorded seven tracks in seven days?
Did you know that extracts of the lichen species Cladonia furcata can kill leukemia cells?
Did you know that former KGBR disc jockey Tom Lyons advised his son against a career in radio by saying "Sell coke, run guns ... but don't ever go into radio."?
Did you know that in 1902, the Church of Norway priest Jens Jonas Jansen was called "dangerous" by bishop Johan Christian Heuch?
Did you know that in the 18th century, prisoners in the Marshalsea prison in London, such as John Baptist Grano, not only had to pay a prison fee, but could also pay extra to be allowed out each day?
Did you know that restaurateur Pascal Rigo owns the oldest flour mill in San Francisco?
Did you know that the South Park episode "Eat, Pray, Queef" conveys a pro-women's rights message by comparing men's contradicting opinions regarding farts and queefs?
Did you know that the former actor Adam Kennedy wrote the screenplay for the Gene Hackman film, The Domino Principle, about a convict turned assassin?
Did you know that the support website Get Satisfaction was created after its founders realized that on the Internet, when people had issues with companies, other people were often willing to help out?
Did you know that traumatic insemination is a practice in invertebrates where the male pierces the female's abdomen with his penis and injects his sperm into the wound?
Did you know that Arthur Bliss's first major work for orchestra, A Colour Symphony, depicts in music the heraldic significance of the colours purple, red, blue and green, and was dedicated to the conductor Adrian Boult?
Did you know that George Collier was shipwrecked, rescued, and then taken prisoner when his rescuer was captured by a privateer?
Did you know that H. Clay Earles, founder of Martinsville Speedway, the only original NASCAR track still in use, awarded grandfather clocks to race winners, with Richard Petty earning 12 clocks?
Did you know that Jessie Webb, an Australian academic and historian, was the first female teacher at the University of Melbourne?
Did you know that Michigan end Bernard Kirk, who Knute Rockne called the "apple of my eye," died of complications from a fractured skull days after being named an All-American in December 1922?
Did you know that after Saudi authorities listed alleged al-Qaeda member Zubayr Al-Rimi as a conspirator in the Riyadh compound bombings, he wrote a personal letter to George W. Bush insisting he was innocent?
Did you know that as of 2006, supplying fishing tackle for recreational fishing is an industry with annual sales of five billion dollars in the United States?
Did you know that despite historical border disputes, Poland–Czechoslovakia relations were friendly, and during WWII their governments-in-exile considered forming a confederation?
Did you know that director M. Night Shyamalan has been criticized for allowing Caucasian actors to play Asian characters in his upcoming film The Last Airbender?
Did you know that in 1718, General Vincens Budde's defense of Trondheim prevailed and General Armfeldt's retreat was likened to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow?
Did you know that in 1890–91, Wheelock G. Veazey served simultaneously as an Interstate Commerce Commissioner and as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic?
Did you know that in 1986 KWVR-FM of Enterprise, Oregon, became the smallest-market radio station to win a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television?
Did you know that in the Battle of Warsaw in 1705, a Swedish force of 2,000 men defeated a Polish-Lithuanian-Saxonian force five times as strong?
Did you know that on 31 March 1921, Arthur "Spud" Murphy became "Airman No. 1" on the roll of the newly established Royal Australian Air Force?
Did you know that philosopher Anathon Aall wrote an entry about his former brother-in-law Kristian Aars in the biographical dictionary Norsk biografisk leksikon?
Did you know that the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix was stopped after just 33 laps, out of 56, when torrential rain hit the circuit?
Did you know that the Academy of San Carlos, founded in 1781, was the first major art academy and the first art museum in the Americas?
Did you know that the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter, had about 20 percent fuel remaining when it arrived at the MS Bremen in the Subantarctic to winch off an injured crewman?
Did you know that the call of the male Cyclochila australasiae cicada can reach 150 decibels?
Did you know that the environmental organisation Counterpart Caribbean is a branch of the Counterpart International group based in Barbados?
Did you know that the mosaic puffball mushroom can bioaccumulate the trace metals copper and zinc?
Did you know that the music of Burnt Sugar has been described as "a big cloud"?
Did you know that the only known population of Irrawaddy dolphins in India is along the coast of Orissa?
Did you know that the parody novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies combines Jane Austen's 1813 classic, Pride and Prejudice, with elements of zombie fiction?
Did you know that Amar Kutir in West Bengal, India, once a place of refuge for independence movement activists, has been turned into a society for the promotion of arts and crafts?
Did you know that Bjørn Floberg, mostly known for playing unsympathetic roles, and comedian Robin Williams each played the same character in the 1997 Norwegian film Insomnia and its 2002 American remake, respectively?
Did you know that Canadian women's ice hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser, the highest scoring female Olympic hockey player, is credited with 14 goals and 20 assists?
Did you know that Gunnar Garbo, member of the Norwegian Parliament for four electorial periods, was later Ambassador to Tanzania?
Did you know that Independent Students Union was the student arm of Polish opposition movement Solidarity?
Did you know that La Minerve, Quebec, named after the historic La Minerve newspaper, has only a population of 1295 but swells to nearly 15,000 in the summer?
Did you know that Maria Antonescu, wife of Romania's World War II dictator Ion Antonescu, presided over charities financed though the extortion of local Jews?
Did you know that Minori Kimura made her professional manga artist debut at the age of 14 in the 1964 Spring Special issue of Ribon, a magazine published in Japan by Shueisha?
Did you know that Norwegian linguist Christian Stang was honored by the eponymous Stang's law?
Did you know that S. P. Adithanar was the founder of Dina Thanthi, a widely read Tamil newspaper?
Did you know that St Mary the Virgin Church in Brighton, England, stands on the site of a former church—designed as a replica of the Greek Temple of Nemesis—which collapsed in 1876?
Did you know that a fire in Saravana Stores, Chennai, in 2008 burnt out most of the building and killed two people?
Did you know that actress Louise Gold, playing Phyllis in a West End production of Follies, was described as "injured queen one moment, vamp the next"?
Did you know that although criticized for poor performance in the 2006 Lebanon War by the Winograd Commission, Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg was promoted to command the Israel Defense Forces's Gaza Division?
Did you know that even one hundred years after its discovery, the role of the amino acid ergothioneine (molecule pictured) in the human body remains a mystery?
Did you know that in 1938, California Assemblyman Charles W. Lyon won both primaries to win reelection, defeating Murray Chotiner in the Republican contest and Robert A. Heinlein in the Democratic?
Did you know that on a voyage to the South Pacific, Simon Hatley shot an albatross, an act which later became the basis for a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Did you know that right after the Byzantine capital of Constantinople fell to the Ottomans, the rulers of the Byzantine Despotate of Morea called upon the Ottomans to suppress their own peasant revolt?
Did you know that sister stations KTIX, KUMA, KUMA-FM, and KWHT share a single studio building at the west end of Eastern Oregon Regional Airport?
Did you know that the L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, D.C. now operates as a historic house museum?
Did you know that the Miami, Florida, group Take Back the Land breaks into unoccupied, bank-foreclosed houses and moves homeless families into them?
Did you know that the Tabor-Wing House in Dover Plains, New York, has an unusual amount of exterior ornamentation for a Federal style rural home?
Did you know that the stinkhorn fungus Pseudocolus fusiformis is commonly known as the stinky squid?
Did you know that Cincinnati streetcars were the main form of public transportation in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the turn of the 20th century?
Did you know that Cistercian architecture, "counted among the most beautiful relics of the Middle Ages", was made possible by the Cistercian Order's innovativeness and skill as metallurgists?
Did you know that Curtis Stone worked as an enforcer for drug dealers before becoming a Christian and founding Warriors 4 Christ Wrestling?
Did you know that Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1893 for his achievements in international arbitration?
Did you know that Hemming's Cartulary is the first surviving medieval English cartulary?
Did you know that Migingo, an island about half the size of a soccer field, is the subject of territorial dispute and a diplomatic conflict between Uganda and Kenya?
Did you know that according to Street Gang, a discussion at a dinner party, hosted by Joan Ganz Cooney in 1966, led to the creation of the children's television show, Sesame Street?
Did you know that astronomy professor Jens Fredrik Schroeter first learned his subject during childhood when his father, a sea captain, taught him how to use the sextant?
Did you know that during the Siege of Paris (1870–1871), chef Alexandre Étienne Choron cooked up many of the animals in the Jardin d'acclimatation's menagerie?
Did you know that in 1933, the German Socialist Labour Party of Poland supported the Bundist call for boycott of goods produced in Germany, in protest of the Hitler regime?
Did you know that some species in the lichen genus Sticta (Sticta hypochra pictured) can be used to assess the age of forests?
Did you know that ten days after a heart attack and surgery, Hillsboro, Oregon, mayor Tom Hughes helped demolish a building?
Did you know that the Gwangtonggwan in Seoul is the oldest continuously-operating bank building in Korea?
Did you know that the Puerto Rican royal palm is a useful tree for landscaping since its roots will not damage sidewalks?
Did you know that the Trithemius cipher, created by Johannes Trithemius, is vulnerable to attack because it lacks a key, which is said to break a rule of cryptology called Kerckhoffs' principle?
Did you know that the Tunnel de la mort (Death tunnel), an intersection in Montreal, was the scene of an inordinate number of serious car accidents?
Did you know that the anthraquinones, emodin glycosides, toxalbumins, and alkaloids found in coffee senna can be toxic to mammals when consumed in large quantities?
Did you know that the founder of the Cistercian Abbeyknockmoy in 1190, Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht, was buried there in 1224?
Did you know that the pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company was founded by American Civil War veteran Colonel Eli Lilly?
Did you know that the protein ASF/SF2 (molecular image pictured) is involved in the development of the human heart and the replication of HIV-1?
Did you know that under the Madhouses Act 1774 in the United Kingdom, keeping more than two lunatics without a license was punishable by a £500 fine?
Did you know that Augustin Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is considered one of the founding documents of the right-wing interpretation of the French Revolution?
Did you know that Charles Henry Tompkins was the first Union Army officer to receive the Medal of Honor during the Civil War?
Did you know that Guttorm Hansen, the President of the Norwegian Parliament who started his career as a mechanic, declined three offers for a government minister position?
Did you know that Henrik Mohn is credited with founding meteorological research in Norway?
Did you know that Li Fanwen got the opportunity to complete the first draft of his dictionary of the extinct Tangut language when Premier Zhou Enlai was told that only a few old scholars were able to read the complex Tangut script?
Did you know that Raja Chelliah, a public finance expert in India, received the Padma Vibushan award in year 2007?
Did you know that Robert Fielding polygamously married Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, a former mistress of King Charles II, within a month of marrying another woman?
Did you know that Teresa Edwards is the all-time leader for the most Olympic medals in basketball?
Did you know that University of Pittsburgh halfback Gibby Welch broke the single-season yardage record set by Red Grange, gaining 1,964 yards in just nine games in 1926?
Did you know that a mutation in the human homolog of the RNA splicing protein Prp24 is believed to cause the skin condition disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis?
Did you know that after the death of two original co-editors of Norsk biografisk leksikon, Gerhard Gran and Anders Krogvig, the third original editor Edvard Bull was joined by Einar Jansen?
Did you know that all citizens over the age of 16 in the People's Republic of China are required by law to carry personal identification?
Did you know that poet Harald Sverdrup`s literary breakthrough Sankt Elms ild (1958) earned him the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature?
Did you know that radio stations KGAL and KSHO are celebrating Oregon's sesquicentennial with a year-long series of historical vignettes?
Did you know that rockhounds come to the Ochoco Mountains in central Oregon to look for thundereggs?
Did you know that students from National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research in Orissa, India, attacked its Director during a protest about living conditions in the hostel?
Did you know that the New Jersey County Colleges is a system of 19 public community colleges with over 60 campuses in the U.S. state of New Jersey?