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Did you know that in combat areas of the Eastern Front of World War II, German soldiers were ordered to shoot any dog because it might be an anti-tank dog?
Did you know that in the United Kingdom a drought is defined as fifteen consecutive days or more with less than 0.2 millimetres of rainfall?
Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Hale, Cheshire, England, is the grave of John Middleton, who was reputed to have been over 9 feet (3 m) tall?
Did you know that mob boss Gennaro Angiulo's high-school ambition was to be a lawyer?
Did you know that prior to reclamation of the Polaris mine, the 700 feet (210 m) long warehouse that stored concentrated ore was the largest building in Nunavut?
Did you know that the Russell Drysdale's 1948 painting The cricketers has been described as "possibly the most famous Australian painting of the 20th century"?
Did you know that the United States Navy conducted Operation Teardrop in 1945 in the mistaken belief that German U-boats were en route to attack the United States east coast with V-1 flying bombs?
Did you know that the four Brandenburg-class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the German Imperial Navy?
Did you know that the pet parrot species the Yellow-billed Amazon is only found on the island of Jamaica?
Did you know that the spadenose shark exhibits the most advanced form of placental reproduction in fishes?
Did you know that the two roads that use former New Jersey Route 65, Port Street and Doremus Avenue, dead-end just after their respective intersection?
Did you know that wet storage stain, more commonly known as "white rust", is a very selective type of corrosion that only occurs on fresh zinc surfaces that are stored in close quarters and collect moisture?
Did you know that Austrian Jewish author Elfriede Gerstl as a child had to hide in a wardrobe to avoid deportation to a concentration camp?
Did you know that Beverly Hills, California, produces more than 874,000 barrels of oil a year, with approximately 11 million barrels in reserve, and oil wells on campus at the local high school?
Did you know that Brandenburg and Pomerania settled their conflicts in the Treaty of Soldin, but fought it out when Pomerania disobeyed?
Did you know that Clarence Cazalot quadrupled Marathon Oil's net income during his first year as chief executive?
Did you know that Jacques Callot's series of etchings The Large Miseries of War were so called to distinguish them from a smaller set of Miseries?
Did you know that Jens Book-Jenssen was Norway's best-selling recording artist of the 20th century?
Did you know that Jim Bunning, currently a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, was the Pittsburgh Pirates' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1968?
Did you know that Kiliaen van Rensselaer is an ancestor of the van Rensselaer family of New York, which included two Lieutenant Governors, five Congressmen, and the tenth-richest man in American history?
Did you know that Leonese nobleman Fruela Díaz gave, as a gift to Queen Urraca of León, a horse worth the equivalent of 5,000 sheep?
Did you know that Mount Widerøe, Antarctica, is named for Viggo Widerøe, who flew aerial photography planes to map 80,000 km2 (31,000 sq mi) of the continent's coast?
Did you know that Polish archaeologist Mieczysław Domaradzki, who was based in Bulgaria for 22 years studying the archaeology of Thrace, discovered the ancient market centre Pistiros?
Did you know that Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi, a fertile California ranch exceeding 8,780 acres (35.5 km2), was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares, who was married at 14 and widowed at 17?
Did you know that William of Pagula's book Oculus Sacerdotis, intended to be a manual for parish priests, was written in such a way that many of the priests couldn't read it?
Did you know that after William Finch described Delhi in 1611 as a city of seven forts and fifty-two gates, more Gates of Delhi (example pictured) were built by the Mughals and British — but only 13 gates still exist in good condition?
Did you know that all but one of Masami Hirosaka's IFMAR titles were won driving cars by Yokomo and their home market distributor Associated Electrics?
Did you know that at only 0.32 miles (0.51 km) long, New Jersey Route 64 is a state highway that consists primarily of a bridge over Amtrak-maintained railroad tracks?
Did you know that commissioners of the Alaska Road Commission declared that it had "no pretense of having built roads adapted for automobile travel" (bad road pictured)?
Did you know that mainstream Japanese film journal Kinema Junpo chose director Tatsumi Kumashiro's The World of Geisha as one of the best ten Japanese films of 1973 despite its being in the softcore Roman porno genre?
Did you know that of the two formats of Ashokan Edicts (Delhi) namely, rock edicts and stone pillar edicts, the in-situ rock edict found in 1966 links Delhi’s history with the Ashokan era (273–236 BC)?
Did you know that polyaryletherketone (PAEK) is a family of thermoplastics that are used in high temperature applications and surgical implants?
Did you know that semi-professional football player Nevin Saroya featured in the football-themed film Mean Machine?
Did you know that several Armillaria species are bioluminescent?
Did you know that the 2009 Serbian Air Force MiG-29 crash killed Lieutenant Colonel Rade Randjelovic, Serbian Air Force's display pilot and commander of the 98th Air Base?
Did you know that the Election Commission of Nepal oversaw approximately 10,000 polling places, 10,000 candidates, and 234,000 election workers during voting for the Nepalese Constituent Assembly?
Did you know that the Swedish reality show Wild Kids has been described as a children's version of Survivor?
Did you know that the gorgon Medusa is a common theme in the mosaic decoration of Villa Armira, a Roman villa near modern Ivaylovgrad, Bulgaria?
Did you know that the history of transport in Somerset has gone from the Sweet Track, an ancient causeway, to a modern international airport?
Did you know that the hydraulis or water organ of the Dion Archaeological Museum is the first water organ found in Greece, and believed to be the oldest excavated to date anywhere in the world?
Did you know that Christopher Elrington, general editor of the Victoria County History, was a professor at the University of London even though he never taught there?
Did you know that Dr. Wacław Olszak, Polish physician and former mayor of Karviná, Czechoslovakia, was murdered by Nazis just ten days after the war started?
Did you know that Francisco Goya's series of etchings The Disasters of War was not published until 35 years after his death, when there was no risk of political repercussions?
Did you know that Georgia Tech halfback and College Football Hall of Fame inductee "Stroop" Strupper used lip-reading to overcome deafness?
Did you know that Samuel Clucas was offered a soccer scholarship in the United States after studying sports development at Lincoln College?
Did you know that Takashima Shūhan was the first major proponent of Western firearms at the end of Japan's Seclusion period in the 19th century?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, god Shiva proposed to his consort Parvati at Guptakashi?
Did you know that due to technical malfunctions, it took nine years from the date SL95 trams of Oslo, Norway, were ordered until all units were in service?
Did you know that even though Karen Platou in 1921 was the first woman elected to the Norwegian Parliament, the first woman to sit in that assembly was Anna Rogstad, ten years earlier?
Did you know that in 1770, James Cook named two landmarks near Cook Island, New South Wales, Mount Warning and Point Danger because he nearly shipwrecked there?
Did you know that in 1949, a monument in recognition of Dr. Niels Ebbesen Hansen and his contributions to the Horticultural Department was erected on the campus of South Dakota State College?
Did you know that in Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc, the mortal remains of the last Aztec emperor are on public display?
Did you know that most of the exhibits at the International Maritime Museum Hamburg are from the private collection of Peter Tamm, who started collecting when he was six years old?
Did you know that the 122 miles (196 km) Dorcheat Bayou in Arkansas and Louisiana was once navigable for several months a year to access the Red River?
Did you know that the 13,000-square-foot (1,200 m2) Thomas H. Hoatson House in Laurium, Michigan, is the largest mansion in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan?
Did you know that the ILO's Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention neither authorizes nor prohibits union security agreements, "such questions being matters for regulation in accordance with national practice"?
Did you know that the U.S. Coast Guard's Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron uses .50-caliber rifles to shoot out the engines of fleeing drug runners?
Did you know that the dark, puffadder, brown, and Natal shysharks (puffadder shyshark pictured) of South Africa are so named because they curl into a ring when threatened and "shyly" cover their eyes with their tails?
Did you know that the fragrance of the flowers of Magnolia × wieseneri has been likened to that of a pineapple?
Did you know that the owners of the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts in Alamogordo, New Mexico, gave the building away to local government so that state funding could be used to renovate the building?
Did you know that the recently discovered Speleonectes atlantida is an eyeless crustacean equipped with powerful prehensile limbs and poisonous fangs that function as hypodermic needles?
Did you know that the religious Vision Interfaith Satellite Network evolved into the Hallmark Channel?
Did you know that the songs on Ferdinand Richard's solo album En Avant are sung in eight different languages?
Did you know that when actress Gerda Ring had to flee from Norway to Sweden during World War II, she started the theatre group Fri Norsk Scene, together with her husband Halfdan Christensen?
Did you know that while filming Counsellor at Law, director William Wyler had to resort to placing cue cards around the set because lead actor John Barrymore kept forgetting his lines?
Did you know that 70 paintings of Sofia (example pictured), the capital of Bulgaria, by Tyrolean-born painter and engineer Joseph Oberbauer are to be exhibited in Sofia's planned museum of local history?
Did you know that British auto racing team CR Scuderia won races in all three series it participated in during 2008 as well as two championships?
Did you know that Buffalo's "Ockie" Anderson scored more points in the 1920 NFL season (the league's first) than four entire teams?
Did you know that Carrie Underwood's single "Cowboy Casanova" was rush-released on YouTube after an unfinished mix of the song leaked online?
Did you know that Charles of Lorraine-Commercy was the one of the most trusted lieutenants of Prince Eugene of Savoy?
Did you know that Eddie Gillette led the Wisconsin Badgers football team to an undefeated season and in baseball "beat some of the best pitchers in the 'Three-Eye League'"?
Did you know that Egawa Hidetatsu designed and built in 1853–54 the artillery batteries of Odaiba at the entrance of Edo (modern Tokyo), to prevent an intrusion by the United States fleet of Commodore Perry?
Did you know that Faith Bible High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, closed for a day after a student received a threatening message on AOL Instant Messenger?
Did you know that Fred Griffiths, who played twice for the Wales national football team, was killed in action during the First World War?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon, native Rick Dancer announced he was running for Oregon Secretary of State while on air working for KEZI?
Did you know that Judge Richard Posner's 2009 book, A Failure of Capitalism, moves away from his past advocacy of free-market capitalism and criticizes the Bush administration's policies?
Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned in the Belgaum Fort during India's struggle for independence?
Did you know that No Jacket Required is highest selling release from the discography of Phil Collins, having been certified diamond for sales of over 10 million copies in the United States?
Did you know that Pope Constantine, in 711, was the last pope to visit Constantinople for over 1250 years?
Did you know that Sir John Henry Pelly was Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and Governor of the Bank of England?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Wendy of 1999 was labeled "the most serious storm of the century" by the local government in Wenzhou, China, where it killed 133 people?
Did you know that U.S. President Herbert Hoover was once the manager of the Gwalia Gold Mine in Western Australia?
Did you know that although he failed to win the office himself in 1883, Thomas Z. Morrow's brother-in-law and son were both elected governor of Kentucky in 1895 and 1919, respectively?
Did you know that before 1977, hundreds of wild elephants in North-East India were captured each year by mela shikar, a traditional method involving a lasso?
Did you know that between studying maths at Cambridge University and becoming a highly cited neuroscientist, Stephen Dunnett was a social worker in the London Borough of Southwark in the mid-1970s?
Did you know that decltype can be used to "clean up function syntax mess" in C++ programming?
Did you know that iPod Touch/iPhone game Doodle Jump has been the top paid downloaded app in five countries including the US?
Did you know that the HAWAII MR1 mapping system was used to find the USS Yorktown, a shipwreck 17,000 feet underwater?
Did you know that the Indonesian Dayak Unity Party was dissolved in 1959 when President Sukarno issued a ban on ethnic political parties?
Did you know that the Nyack, New York, post office has been renamed in memory of two local police officers and a security guard slain in the 1981 Brinks robbery?
Did you know that the depopulated Palestinian Arab village of Alma was once the biggest centre for growing olives in the District of Safad?
Did you know that , in his 1765 work A Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World, theologian Jonathan Edwards argued that God's purpose in creating the world was not human happiness but His own glory ?
Did you know that Australian singer Lana Cantrell, a 1968 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist, later became an entertainment lawyer in New York City?
Did you know that CFL rookie Bobby Keyes won a $1,000 player pool for grabbing the Edmonton Eskimos' first interception of the 2009 season?
Did you know that Carletonomys, a rodent related to modern rice rats, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina?
Did you know that Chamchuri Square, an office/residential/retail building complex in Bangkok, Thailand, stood uncompleted for almost ten years due to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis?
Did you know that Fred McQueen, the son of Steve McQueen, is in 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope, one of the most expensive Japanese films ever made?
Did you know that Leonid Rogozov had to perform an appendectomy on himself because he was the only doctor stationed at the Soviet Antarctic research station Novolazarevskaya?
Did you know that Miranda Lambert's new album Revolution is slated to include songs co-written by Blake Shelton as well as Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum?
Did you know that Pavel Argeyev, a Russian flying ace, fought on both the Eastern Front and the Western Front for both Russia and France during the First World War?
Did you know that SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, a German-built pre-dreadnought battleship, was sold to the Ottoman Empire, renamed Heireddin Barbarossa, and sunk by a British submarine during World War I?
Did you know that Tawang Monastery in northeastern India is said to be the largest Buddhist monastery in the world outside of Lhasa, Tibet?
Did you know that William Britten illustrated many images from Lord Tennyson's early poems, including: a lonely woman, a corpse, a jilted lover, drug users, an odd saint, a sleeping lady, a knight, and waves?
Did you know that after B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II ended the first round-the-world airplane flight, Curtis LeMay of SAC said the USAF could now fly to "any place in the world that required the atomic bomb"?
Did you know that at the 2000 Camp David Summit, Yasser Arafat denied that a Jewish Temple ever existed in Jerusalem?
Did you know that in the 1950 confidence vote for the Indonesian Natsir cabinet, the National People's Party was the sole party without ministers of its own to support the government?
Did you know that singer Myriam received a gold certification in México for an album that included a cover version of the number-one song "Simplemente Amigos"?
Did you know that the F.N.B.P.B. bakery workers' union, founded in 1960, is the oldest member of the Confédération générale du travail du Burkina trade union centre in Burkina Faso?
Did you know that the mica cap mushroom has glistening particles on top that are remnants of a universal veil?
Did you know that the one off Winton Train commemorates Sir Nicholas Winton, the "English Oskar Schindler"?
Did you know that the then Crown Prince of Austria Karl I praised Galicia's Jews for their patriotism during the Russian occupation of 1914–15?
Did you know that while heading the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Harry Fett worked for the preservation of the site Bryggen in Bergen, and the mining town Røros?
Did you know that Arsenal Park Transilvania, one of Europe's few military-themed amusement parks, has villas named after Douglas MacArthur, Julius Caesar, and Eremia Grigorescu?
Did you know that Caroline Moore was 14 years old when she discovered supernova 2008ha?
Did you know that David Snell, who was the first person to allege that Japan had tested its own atomic bomb prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, later became a writer for Life Magazine?
Did you know that France's Madagascar expedition of 1883 (bombing action pictured) was triggered by the will to remove British economic and religious influence from the island of Madagascar?
Did you know that Giuseppe Verdi did not want Eugenia Tadolini to sing Lady Macbeth in his opera Macbeth because her voice was too beautiful?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon, based Beyond Words Publishing's first book retailed for over US$2,000, with one copy presented as a gift to the Japanese Emperor?
Did you know that a sotie is different from a farce in that it uses allegorical protagonists, rather than real people?
Did you know that director Frank Capra cast street people from Downtown Los Angeles as extras in the 1933 film Lady for a Day?
Did you know that in 1729, when his plantation Corotoman was destroyed, Robert "King" Carter I lamented in his diary about the total destruction of his wine cellar?
Did you know that in May 2008, an amateur astronomer discovered an unusual supernova-like object in the galaxy NGC 300 (ultraviolet image pictured)?
Did you know that in the lawsuit Ney v. Landmark Education Corporation and Werner Erhard, a default judgment of over US$500,000 was entered against Erhard?
Did you know that in the legal case Werner Erhard and Associates v. Christopher Cox for Congress the plaintiff claimed charges of libel and slander for being referred to as a "destructive cult"?
Did you know that the Montreal Gazette of November 18, 2008, included the Papineau-Labelle Wildlife Reserve in the 10 hot spots of Quebec's wilderness that "you should experience before you die"?
Did you know that the Scolanova Synagogue, one of four synagogues confiscated and turned into churches in Trani, Italy in 1380, is now a synagogue again?
Did you know that the Tasmanian Masked Owl is threatened by competition for nest hollows by feral bees, kookaburras and possums?
Did you know that the list of alumni of Union College in Schenectady, New York, includes one President of the United States, a Secretary of State from both the Union and the Confederacy, and numerous Congressmen?
Did you know that the video sharing website Trilulilu is one of the most visited websites in Romania, with an average of 2.2 million unique visitors per month?
Did you know that "Kicks," a 1966 hit single by Paul Revere & the Raiders, was called "a dumb anti-drug song" by singer-songwriter David Crosby?
Did you know that American Dumbo rescue flights (aircraft pictured) worked with submarines and surface boats to help save downed airmen in the Pacific War?
Did you know that Bhima Devi Temple Complex in Haryana, India, includes the restored ruins of a Hindu temple dated from the 8th to 11th century AD and Pinjore Gardens from the 17th century?
Did you know that Cut, a 2009 ad designed to promote domestic violence awareness, was deemed too violent to appear on British television?
Did you know that Dennis Gorski sponsored legislation in the New York State Assembly that preserved the right to declare "loss of fetus" as a serious injury in automobile accidents?
Did you know that Maltman Barry, a British political activist, was a friend of Karl Marx, but stood for election as a Conservative?
Did you know that SMS Weißenburg, a German pre-dreadnought battleship, was sold to the Ottoman Navy, and later came to the rescue of the battlecruiser Goeben, another former German warship in Ottoman service?
Did you know that Shirley Huffman, the first female mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, worked to change the city's charter to allow her more time in office?
Did you know that The Edw. Malley Co. department store operated for 130 years and was billed as "The Metropolitan Store of Connecticut"?
Did you know that according to 1996 research into sexuality in music videos, hip-hop and R&B scored highest in an analysis of sexual content?
Did you know that after being reported as dead in LIFE magazine, Don Bell was greeted with "Hello, Lazarus" by General MacArthur?
Did you know that at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Communications Workers of America v. Beck is a dispute over a US$10-a-month agency shop fee?
Did you know that in Dutch Golden Age painting a lute (example pictured), stocking or bird may represent a visual sexual pun?
Did you know that part of Audenshaw, Greater Manchester and a section of an ancient ditch that according to folklore was the site of a bloody battle between Saxons and Vikings, was destroyed in the 19th century by the construction of Audenshaw Reservoirs?
Did you know that staff members of the Maria Mitchell Association conduct research into topics as varied as exoplanets and the American Burying Beetle?
Did you know that the 19th century New York City saloon Hole-in-the-Wall employed two female criminals as bouncers?
Did you know that the Battle of San Marino was fought between Allied and German forces inside a neutral country?
Did you know that the Romanian–American Refinery was one of several refineries bombarded by the allied powers in Operation Tidal Wave during World War II?
Did you know that the architectural style of the manor houses known as dwór or dworek (example pictured) that evolved during the late Polish Renaissance period still inspires some contemporary Polish manors?
Did you know that the convicted killers known as the Scissor Sisters dismembered and beheaded their mother's partner, chopped off his penis and dumped most of his body in the Royal Canal?
Did you know that the distinctive "na-na-na-na" sound found in the music of the Katamari Damacy series was created by sound director Yū Miyake as an experiment in creating memorable video game music?
Did you know that the first airborne lifeboat carried by bombers converted to air-sea rescue service was designed in the UK by Uffa Fox?
Did you know that the song "Voices Carry" was originally written and sung by 'Til Tuesday's lead singer, Aimee Mann, as to a woman?
Did you know that two of the three daughters of the Louisiana real estate developer and Springhill mayor Jesse L. Boucher became Hollywood actresses?
Did you know that Burkinabè politician and revolutionary ideologue Valère Somé was forced into exile to Congo-Brazzaville after the overthrow of Thomas Sankara?
Did you know that Chrysler vehicles won 34 races in the 1966 NASCAR season, after winning only six in the previous season?