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Did you know that the Anjajavy Forest holds many endangered species including four of the 99 pairs of Madagascar Fish Eagle?
Did you know that the City of York was a British barque which sank after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island within sight of its destination?
Did you know that the Hunnestad Monument, one of Scandinavia's largest Viking memorials, was destroyed at the end of the 18th century?
Did you know that the Polish minority in Lithuania is the country's largest non-Lithuanian ethnic group?
Did you know that the first time in World War II submersible tanks were used was on June 22, 1941, by German tanks of the 18th Panzer-Division?
Did you know that there are several theories about the origins of the name of Poland?
Did you know that when the Geats saw the Swedish king Ragnvald Knaphövde travelling among them without Geatish hostages, they deemed him so arrogant that they murdered him?
Did you know that 60 percent of Carnatic musicians in Karnataka come from Rudrapatna?
Did you know that Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes hired some painters and sculptors as assistants even though they didn't have experience as pastry chefs?
Did you know that Herkus Monte, one of the most famous leaders of the Great Prussian Uprising, was kidnapped in the 13th century by the Germans as a boy?
Did you know that La Casa Pacifica, President Richard Nixon's private retreat in San Clemente, California, became known as the "Western White House"?
Did you know that Munir Bashir, known for his mastery of the maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the Middle East during the 20th century?
Did you know that Poecilostomatoida are parasitic crustaceans?
Did you know that Rachel Paulose is the first woman in Minnesota to become a District Attorney?
Did you know that Serenade No. 10 for winds by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is scored for twelve wind instruments and double bass and consists of seven movements?
Did you know that Simplicity Patterns has been a leader in home pattern sewing since 1927?
Did you know that Stephan Körner's major philosophical work was in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of "exact" and "inexact" concepts?
Did you know that Surgeon General William Alexander Hammond both founded the National Museum of Health and Medicine and wrote the first American treatise about neurology?
Did you know that actor Edward Chapman, known for his role as "Mr. Grimsdale" in many Norman Wisdom films, tried to have Sir John Gielgud thrown out of Equity?
Did you know that criminal and boxer, James Field, was so feared by the police force of London in the 18th century, that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him?
Did you know that former British Member of Parliament Walter Scott-Elliot was murdered by "Monster Butler" Archibald Hall?
Did you know that in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the railway built in the United Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?
Did you know that poet and epistolary novelist Ann Eliza Bleecker lost three generations of her family fleeing to Albany during Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign?
Did you know that the Heinkel He 50, designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1931, was used operationally by Germany almost until the end of World War II?
Did you know that the word jazz was originally a California baseball slang term and was first applied to a style of music in Chicago?
Did you know that Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist of My Fair Lady, also co-wrote a disastrous musical version of Nabokov's Lolita?
Did you know that NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created by Germany in 1922 to illegally manufacture submarines?
Did you know that Soviet actor Pavel Luspekaev played in the classic Russian Ostern movie White Sun of the Desert with both feet amputated?
Did you know that labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?
Did you know that snow in Florida has been reported at least 34 times, including as far south as Homestead?
Did you know that the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines was temporarily abolished during the Japanese occupation?
Did you know that George Pocock invented a kite-drawn carriage that could outstrip the horse-drawn mail coach?
Did you know that Larantuka is an Indonesian district known for Roman Catholic Holy Week processions?
Did you know that Manseibashi Station in Tokyo was rebuilt after a 1923 earthquake and later became a museum?
Did you know that Queen band members teased Freddie Mercury for looking like a prawn in the video for It's a Hard Life?
Did you know that William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcropping that eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces of gold?
Did you know that according to Themba Mabaso, the State Herald of South Africa, the flag of the republic is like a written document?
Did you know that although the official cause of the 2007 Balad aircraft crash is fog, the insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq says they shot it down?
Did you know that former NCAA American football quarterback Wyatt Sexton's career for the Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did pushups in the street and proclaimed he was God?
Did you know that human amyloid precursor protein, when cleaved by specific types of proteases, generates the amyloid beta peptide that may be a cause of Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that in 1973, an experiment successfully demonstrated that spiders can spin webs in space?
Did you know that the Akhurian River is said to have turned completely red because of a major battle nearby?
Did you know that the Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic lime kilns in the U.S. state of Illinois?
Did you know that the Mayan ruins in Belize called Nim Li Punit take their name from the "big hat" headdress on an 8th century stela?
Did you know that the Nusa Kambangan, "the Alcatraz of Indonesia", has held a son of former President Suharto and terrorists of the 2002 Bali bombing?
Did you know that the Union forces in the American Civil War won the Battle of Simmon's Bluff without inflicting casualties?
Did you know that the medieval Margraviate of Brandenburg was called "the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire"?
Did you know that the yaw string, a simple tuft of yarn used as a flight instrument by the Wright brothers, is still in use today?
Did you know that when the Kälvesten Runestone was rediscovered in the walls of a church, it was removed and again used as building material?
Did you know that 1979's Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a hurricane in the Atlantic basin?
Did you know that Bolli Bollasson, a character in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdœla saga, is credited as the first West Norse member of the Varangian Guard?
Did you know that Donald Cameron of Lochiel, a major figure in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, was nicknamed the "Gentle Lochiel"?
Did you know that Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the Cricket World Cup award of Man of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup after he scored a record 673 runs?
Did you know that Leonard Crofoot, a dancer in The Singing Detective, has had three Star Trek roles?
Did you know that Lord Nolan was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life?
Did you know that Oil Creek State Park in Pennsylvania is the site of the world's first commercial oil well?
Did you know that as an art student, Soviet painter Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on an Arctic expedition aboard the doomed Chelyuskin steamship?
Did you know that in 1955, What's the Story, an American game show, was the last television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network?
Did you know that one sample of a proposed United States aluminum cent, dropped by a US Congressman, was found by a US Capitol Police officer and is now known as the Toven Specimen?
Did you know that the 1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire resulted in 25 deaths and prison sentences for the owners?
Did you know that the Siege of Lathom House during the First English Civil War ended in victory for the Cavaliers because the lady of the house, Charlotte de la Tremoüille, defended it defiantly?
Did you know that the ultra-modern disposable female urination device, which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922?
Did you know that African-American economist Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in economics?
Did you know that Bhai Taru Singh was a Sikh martyr who was executed for refusing to cut his hair?
Did you know that JMWAVE was a secret CIA base on University of Miami campus grounds during the 1960s?
Did you know that Ralphie, the live mascot of the Colorado Buffaloes, is actually a female American bison?
Did you know that feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan's draconian Peace Preservation Laws?
Did you know that lyrics from the B-52's song "Love Shack" were quoted in a 2005 majority opinion by Eleventh Circuit Court judge William H. Pryor, Jr.?
Did you know that most of the trees in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in Belize burnt down just five years after the reserve was established?
Did you know that the Abukuma, a veteran of the Pearl Harbor raid, was sunk in 1944 when her own Long Lance torpedoes exploded in the torpedo room?
Did you know that the George's Block in Sycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes of Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and Charles Sumner?
Did you know that the German actor Heinz Rühmann was 42 years old when he starred as a high school student in the 1944 film Die Feuerzangenbowle?
Did you know that the Palala River bluffs in Limpopo province, South Africa have 10,000 year old rock art from the Stone Age?
Did you know that the Paço Imperial, a Baroque palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, served as a main government seat for almost 150 years?
Did you know that the Polish writer Gustaw Morcinek survived three Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War?
Did you know that the Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 28 in New York City negotiated the first pension plan in the construction industry?
Did you know that the gene that creates the crest of the Bali Duck also causes physical defects which can kill it before it hatches?
Did you know that Bodysgallen Hall sits on the site of the home of a 5th century AD Welsh king?
Did you know that Gandhian economics, centering around the values of trusteeship, human dignity and equality, has been viewed as an alternative to left-wing and right-wing economic models?
Did you know that Jeannette Piccard piloted a hydrogen balloon to the stratosphere for Jean Piccard, likely namesake of Captain Picard of Star Trek?
Did you know that John McShain was a successful American contractor known as The Man Who Built Washington?
Did you know that New Zealand rugby union player Mark Hammett won four Super 12 titles with the Crusaders between 1996 and 2003 before being appointed as their assistant coach for 2007?
Did you know that St. George's Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the 19th and 20th century?
Did you know that a Lithuanian Heavy Draught horse could weigh up to 920 kilograms?
Did you know that a banjee is a young Latino or Black man who has sex with men and dresses in thuggish urban fashion?
Did you know that historian Henry William Carless Davis once served as a member of the British contingent to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?
Did you know that since the first Urdu language typewriter was created in 1911, the Urdu keyboard layout has evolved to accommodate the needs of the digital age?
Did you know that the Bellefonte Central Railroad once carried passengers and freight to Pennsylvania State University?
Did you know that the PEI Tenant League was an agrarian populist movement created in 1863 which overthrew the proprietary land system created by King George III in Prince Edward Island?
Did you know that Archibald Cameron of Locheil was the last man to be executed for his part in Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion?
Did you know that Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that Charles Leach was the only British Member of Parliament to have been disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act?
Did you know that Humshaugh in Northumberland, England, is acknowledged as the site of the first official Scout camp?
Did you know that Japanese author Mushanokōji Saneatsu emulated Leo Tolstoy in establishing a commune based on humanism and utopian socialism?
Did you know that Jonas Vileišis was a member of the Council which proclaimed Lithuania's independence in 1918?
Did you know that Julius Caesar appears in Norse mythology as the legendary king Kjárr?
Did you know that Komati Gorge has colourful bluffs that harbor the threatened Southern Bald Ibis?
Did you know that Lithuanian collective farm workers were 50% more productive than the Soviet average?
Did you know that New Zealand rugby player Andy Dalton suffered an injury that kept him from captaining the All Blacks side that went on to win the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup?
Did you know that Samuel T. Wellman built the first commercially successful open hearth furnace in the United States?
Did you know that about 1,400 people of Fryštát died in 1623 because of bubonic plague?
Did you know that construction of Żarnowiec, Poland's only nuclear power plant, was cancelled as the project neared completion?
Did you know that economist J. C. Kumarappa coined the term Gandhian economics to describe a school of thought based on Gandhism?
Did you know that the Golden Conure is also known as the Queen of Bavaria conure?
Did you know that the Loch Arkaig treasure, a large amount of specie provided by Spain to finance the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, is said to be still hidden at Loch Arkaig in the Scottish Highlands?
Did you know that the Piraeus Lion is an ancient Greek statue "embellished" with runic graffiti by Vikings?
Did you know that the Strangeways Prison inmate Gordon Park was convicted of murdering his first wife 28 years after the fact?
Did you know that the Suzuki MR Wagon was previewed as a concept car called Mum's Personal Wagon?
Did you know that the Young Bengal leader Ramgopal Ghosh was threatened with ostracism for opposing the Hindu religion?
Did you know that the charity Facing the World offers cosmetic surgery to children with facial disfigurements who live in countries where effective treatment is unavailable?
Did you know that the standing army created during the Thirty Years' War by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, developed into the Prussian Army?
Did you know that Emperor Frederick II ran an experiment that involved raising infants in isolation to discover what language God spoke?
Did you know that French soprano Germaine Lubin was imprisoned for three years after World War II for her alleged support of Nazi Germany?
Did you know that John Murray of Broughton was a Jacobite turncoat, whose evidence led to Lord Lovat's execution for high treason?
Did you know that Old St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire of London, had one of the tallest spires in the world?
Did you know that William Frederick Yeames' painting, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, has been reproduced as a waxwork at Madame Tussauds, London?
Did you know that students who finish a doctorate at the Georg-August University of Göttingen traditionally kiss the Gänseliesel, a statue in the center of Göttingen?
Did you know that the discovery of Archaeamphora longicervia, the first known carnivorous plant, suggests that flowering plants should have originated much earlier than previously thought?
Did you know that the life of Polish ship captain Mamert Stankiewicz was immortalized in a popular book series?
Did you know that Antoni Bohdziewicz, a Polish film director, was a member of the Armia Krajowa Polish resistance and worked on a documentary film made and shown entirely in besieged Warsaw?
Did you know that Egyptian actor Omar Sharif's first film role was in the 1954 film Sira` Fi al-Wadi?
Did you know that French historian Augustin Cochin was the son of Denys Cochin, a prominent right wing Deputy in the National Assembly of France?
Did you know that Guy de Rothschild temporarily moved to New York when the French government under François Mitterrand nationalized his bank?
Did you know that Mount Burgess is nicknamed the Ten Dollar Mountain because it was featured on Canadian currency?
Did you know that according to Germanic legends, the cruel king Níðuðr captured the divine smith Weyland and had him hamstrung to prevent escape?
Did you know that as a teenager, Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov was convicted of stealing mail and sentenced to three months in a monastery?
Did you know that ball culture, as seen in Paris is Burning, has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
Did you know that one of Atomic Games' most successful titles, Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far, topped their previous sale record by a factor of ten?
Did you know that one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
Did you know that the Swedish spelman Anders Ljungqvist, according to rumors, had a contract with the Nix, signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?
Did you know that the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in the United Kingdom was found at Aveline's Hole, one of the Caves of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England?
Did you know that tourism in Cameroon (bush taxi pictured) centers around wildlife such as elephants, giraffes, and gorillas?
Did you know that Château de Clermont belonged to the French actor Louis de Funès?
Did you know that Disco D specialized in hip hop music and was a 2005 pioneer in composing original ring tone works for cell phones?
Did you know that Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that John Perlman, one of South Africa's most popular radio presenters, resigned after blowing the whistle on political censorship at the South African Broadcasting Corporation?
Did you know that Lauren Nelson, newly crowned Miss America 2007, is the second consecutive winner from Oklahoma?
Did you know that Robert King High was mayor of Miami for ten years and unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Florida as a Democrat in 1966?
Did you know that endangered arthropods (example pictured) are becoming extinct in such large numbers that many are not catalogued?
Did you know that even though the Mooney aircraft company bears Albert Mooney's name, upon his death he held no ownership in the company?
Did you know that free-diver Herbert Nitsch can hold his breath for over nine minutes?
Did you know that in 2003-2004, ANA had to pay almost ¥100 m for flying too many passengers to Noto Airport?
Did you know that the 1916 Lorado Taft work, The Soldiers' Monument, constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?
Did you know that the Berlin Stadtbahn is built mostly as an elevated railway line with viaducts totalling eight kilometres of length, including 731 masonry viaduct arches?
Did you know that the Duchy of Veragua, granted to the grandson of Christopher Columbus, is a perfect square of land 25 leagues to a side?
Did you know that the Kaleva, a Finnish passenger plane carrying diplomatic post, was shot down by Soviet bombers in an act of aggression?
Did you know that the Norte Chico civilization is the oldest known civilization in the Americas?
Did you know that the Palace in the Quinta da Boa Vista park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was inhabited by one King of Portugal and the two Brazilian Emperors?
Did you know that the Polish cochineal gave its name to the color red and the month of June in many Slavic languages?
Did you know that the Ramban Synagogue, founded by Nahmanides in 1267, is the oldest active synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem?
Did you know that the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran not only proclaim the gospel in the pulpit but also on stage in songs and dances?
Did you know that the bulbs of Utah's state flower, the Sego Lily, were an important food source for Native Americans and the Mormon pioneers?
Did you know that the fictional planet Zenn-La, homeworld of the Silver Surfer, has been destroyed at least three times?
Did you know that the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter, a British deputy in Calcutta, earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?
Did you know that zookeeper Ram Brahma Sanyal's pioneering works on the scientific treatment of captive breeding led to his zoo's hosting the first live birth in captivity of a Sumatran Rhinoceros, a feat not replicated for 112 years?
Did you know that Aeroplanes Voisin, a major French aircraft manufacturer during World War I, was dissolved after the war when its cofounder Gabriel Voisin became more interested in designing automobiles than planes?
Did you know that English seaman John Vincent lost part of his upper lip when it froze to a metal cup during the voyage of the James Caird?
Did you know that Fossil Cycad National Monument, established in South Dakota in 1922, was withdrawn as a national monument in 1956 because all of the visible fossils had been stolen?
Did you know that Hurricane Flossy was the first tropical cyclone to significantly impact oil refining in the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you know that Southern stingrays, originally drawn to an area in Hol Chan Marine Reserve in Belize by food from fishermen cleaning their nets, are now a tourist attraction fed by local tour guides?
Did you know that Třinec Iron and Steel Works produces more than a third of the steel in the Czech Republic?
Did you know that U-106 was one of Germany's most successful submarines, sinking twenty-two Allied ships in World War II?
Did you know that highwayman Henry Simms invented a plot against the King to try to gain a pardon?
Did you know that modern dye tracing techniques are capable of detecting concentrations of dye as low as one part per trillion?
Did you know that on Malaita in the Solomon Islands, the mean daily temperature in the warmest month is only 3.4°F warmer than that of the coolest?
Did you know that television executive Barry Crane was such an avid contract bridge player his record number of masterpoints was not matched until six years after his death?
Did you know that the Arado Ar 197 plane was designed by Germany before World War II for a never completed aircraft carrier?
Did you know that the Lumber Exchange Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1885) is the oldest remaining building in the United States outside of New York City with more than eleven floors?
Did you know that the Monkey River feeds the second largest barrier-reef complex in the world?
Did you know that the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro was the setting for the coronation of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil in 1822 and several other important historical events?
Did you know that the Passeio Público of Rio de Janeiro, built between 1779 and 1783, is one of the oldest public parks in the Americas?
Did you know that the Roman bronze bust Pseudo-Seneca, known not to be Seneca since 1813, is probably an imaginary portrait of Hesiod?
Did you know that the first class Kaunas Fortress was captured by German forces in 1915 after eleven days of fighting?
Did you know that the lyrics of the debut song of Indian rock musician Rabbi Shergill were written by the 18th century Punjabi poet Bulleh Shah?
Did you know that "Vrede" was the first Eurovision entry to feature DJ scratching?
Did you know that Carnival in Flanders, which was performed only six times, is the least performed play to be recognized with a Tony Award?
Did you know that Gordon Macklin was the first president and CEO of NASDAQ, and later a board member of WorldCom up to its bankruptcy in 2002?