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Did you know that the Convention on the Continental Shelf codified international law relating to continental shelves during the first United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?
Did you know that the Dictum of Kenilworth agreed on Halloween 1266 created a reconciliation between the Barons and Henry III of England?
Did you know that the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was re-established on 15 March 1922, less than a month after Egypt was officially granted independence from Britain?
Did you know that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.10 seaplane was a military trainer of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service, and served from 1929 until the 1940 German invasion of Norway?
Did you know that the Northern River Street Historic District is a well-preserved transitional neighborhood between the industrial and commercial areas of Troy, New York?
Did you know that the Norwegian film Cold Prey 2 was the sequel to what was called "the best slasher flick" of 2006?
Did you know that the name of Shichirigahama, a beach in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, means "Seven Ri (approximately 27 km/17 mi) Beach" in Japanese, but it is only about one-tenth of that in length?
Did you know that the permanent collection on display at Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle, Washington includes "Sylvester", an excellently preserved mummy?
Did you know that three of the last four U.S. Presidents have been left-handed, as are both major party candidates for the 2008 election?
Did you know that African-American actor Gaius Charles is named as an homage to Gaius Julius Caesar?
Did you know that Australian-born lumber executive John A. Campbell was said to have introduced surfing on the Cornwall coast of England?
Did you know that Dushanbe riots in 1990 were sparked by the rumour that a couple of thousand Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan had been resettled to Dushanbe?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitchers Jesse and Virgil Barnes, who each made two Opening Day starts for the New York Giants, were brothers?
Did you know that Manor Community College, a Cambridge school, has a headteacher who used to present a BBC childen's programme?
Did you know that Naksansa is a Korean Buddhist temple founded in 671 CE near the place where the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva is believed to live?
Did you know that P. T. Rajan, the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency from April 1936 to August 1936, was a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford?
Did you know that Three Emperors' Corner is a former tripoint between the Austrian Empire, German Empire and the Russian Empire, created in the late 19th century in the aftermath of the partitions of Poland?
Did you know that Western Local Escort Force was organized by the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1942 as a response to German U-boat raids known as the Second Happy Time?
Did you know that Wycoller Hall is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a murdered wife, who foretold the hall's ruin?
Did you know that a tour guide at Fond du Lac's Octagon House claims that visitors hear the ghosts of an earlier owner's small children laughing and playing?
Did you know that after suffering from serious design problems, the Norwegian Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.9 fighter aircraft was retired in 1932 on the orders of defence minister Vidkun Quisling?
Did you know that cargo ship USS West Ekonk was laid down, launched, and completed in 73 working days in 1918, becoming the ninth-fastest-constructed ocean-going ship in the world?
Did you know that children have trouble attributing implicit meaning to aspect verbs implicating non-completion such as start, but find implicit meaning in degree modifiers such as half, as in half-finished?
Did you know that educational music has been shown in research to promote learning?
Did you know that guest stars on The Greatest Show on Earth, an ABC circus drama in 1963–1964, included Lucille Ball, James Coburn and Edgar Bergen?
Did you know that in 1889, Frank Wyatt created the role of the Duke of Plaza Toro in The Gondoliers before becoming owner of the Duke of York's Theatre?
Did you know that lawyer Hal Kant spent 35 years as principal lawyer and general counsel for the Grateful Dead, exercising so much influence with the band that his business cards identified his role as "Czar"?
Did you know that sightings of a ghostly figure in the Culbertson Mansion is one of Indiana's many ghost legends?
Did you know that the DR 6 nebula was nicknamed "The Galactic Ghoul" by scientists at NASA because of its resemblance to a human face?
Did you know that the Halloween Pennant is a North American species of dragonfly?
Did you know that the teenage couple in Nicholas Sparks' 1999 novel A Walk to Remember refrain from sex, due partly to the author's concern that such a plot twist might offend his readership?
Did you know that the theme of poison dress can be found in Greek mythology, Mughal Indian folklore, and American urban legends?
Did you know that when New Paltz's Elting Memorial Library caught a possible ghost on its security camera, the YouTube video received more views than the village has residents?
Did you know that Abram S. Piatt was an American Zouave colonel and Civil War general who later built a castle in Logan County, Ohio?
Did you know that Australian politician Christine Robertson once addressed a "Dorothy Dixer" question to the wrong Minister in Parliament?
Did you know that Australian politician Lynda Voltz's step-father and grand step-father were also politicians?
Did you know that Daryl Veltman was the first overall selection in the 2008 Entry Draft by the Boston Blazers of the National Lacrosse League?
Did you know that Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America?
Did you know that Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel won a medal as a fine artist in Paris before becoming a children's book illustrator (example pictured)?
Did you know that Naganandini is the 30th Melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music?
Did you know that New York noise-rock band Flux Information Sciences's 2001 album Private/Public was recorded before an invited audience of 50 friends who stood around the studio naked and blindfolded?
Did you know that St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam in County Galway, Ireland, contains a 12th-century arch which has been called "the finest example of Hiberno-Romanesque architecture"?
Did you know that William Headline, who spent 12 years as the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for CNN, was described by Wolf Blitzer as having "the best name in news"?
Did you know that actor Spencer Williams played a female fortune teller in his 1946 film Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.?
Did you know that an enterolith is a calculus found in the intestine of an animal, usually a horse or human?
Did you know that during World War I, the German Army produced shale oil from Yarmouk oil shale deposits in Jordan to operate the Hijazi Railway?
Did you know that during the mid-20th century, cemesto panels were used in both prefabricated housing and houses designed by prominent architects?
Did you know that four questions about how to assess the patentability of software-related inventions have been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office?
Did you know that gemstones and heroin are traded from Burma to China for motorcycles and household goods across the Shweli River, which forms part of the boundary between the two countries?
Did you know that in 1929, Western Australia celebrated its Centenary of foundation, which included dances, race meetings, an air race and other sporting events?
Did you know that in Hopi mythology, the Kachina Nataska enforces good behavior among children?
Did you know that in order to get her first and only film role, actress Phyllis Welch MacDonald had to sign a contract pledging not to marry or become engaged for six months?
Did you know that purity of the Sasthamkotta Lake water for drinking use is attributed to presence of a large number of larvae called cavaborus, which consume much of the lake's bacteria?
Did you know that the Apega of Nabis was an ancient torture device similar to the iron maiden, invented by King Nabis of Sparta (pictured on coin)?
Did you know that the Ediacaran organism Eoandromeda may represent the earliest animal fossil unless it turns out to be an alga?
Did you know that the Henry DeLand House has served as a private house, an inn, a speakeasy, a bar, a restaurant and most recently, a catering hall?
Did you know that the William Forst House was the site where the Confederate government of Kentucky was founded, commemorated nearby with the Confederate Monument in Russellville?
Did you know that the Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle established the internationally accepted definition of the precautionary principle?
Did you know that the blue trevally, a popular gamefish in South Africa, was first described in 1775 based on a specimen taken from the Red Sea?
Did you know that the call made by Limnodynastes dorsalis, a frog species in Western Australia, is similar to the sound of a plucked banjo string?
Did you know that the deep water offshore fish whitefin trevally has excellent eyesight in the dark due to the presence of tapetum in its eyes?
Did you know that writers associated with the modernist literary magazine Profil included Køltzov, Lunden, Obrestad, Haavardsholm and Vold?
Did you know that Actionable Offenses is a CD compilation of profane and sexually explicit phonograph recordings from the 1890s, which Anthony Comstock’s Society for the Suppression of Vice managed to get banned?
Did you know that Dr. T. M. Nair founded India's Justice Party along with Theagaroya Chetty?
Did you know that Estonia generates 90 percent of its power from oil shale?
Did you know that Grigory Orlov is credited with subduing the Russian plague of 1770-1772?
Did you know that Japanese admiral Misu Sotarō lost his left eye while commanding the Nisshin at Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War?
Did you know that Jens Jensen initiated the establishment in 1901  of the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres?
Did you know that John Philip Sousa's "Transit of Venus March" (listen) was rediscovered by a staffer at the Library of Congress in 2003 after it had been believed lost for over 100 years?
Did you know that King Dhatusena, who ruled Sri Lanka from 455 to 473, constructed 18 irrigation tanks, an irrigation canal, and the Avukana Buddha Statue?
Did you know that Lake Pichola, an artificial fresh water lake created in 1362, is named after the nearby Picholi village in Udaipur city?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan had three wins and no losses as the California Angels' Opening Day starting pitcher?
Did you know that The Mass Psychology of Fascism, a book written by Wilhelm Reich in 1933, blamed sexual repression for the rise of fascism?
Did you know that Waardenburg syndrome is named after Dutch ophthalmologist Petrus Johannes Waardenburg?
Did you know that after failed attempts for 1964, 1968 and 1972, the Calgary Olympic Development Association successfully brought the Winter Olympics to Calgary, Canada in 1988?
Did you know that after retiring from the entertainment industry, actress/singer Francine Everett took a clerical job at Harlem Hospital in New York City?
Did you know that an opponent of Australian politician Ian West suggested he was better known by "seagulls" than by the constituents of Manly?
Did you know that despite pioneer Japanese journalist Kuga Katsunan's advocacy of Japanese nationalism, government censors shut his newspaper down 30 times between 1889 and 1896?
Did you know that during Mexico City's colonial period, so many grand mansions were built that the city gained the nickname of the "City of Palaces"?
Did you know that the 2007 Bengali film Kaal, based on the lives of four women trapped in the world of human trafficking, is in trouble with the Bengali regional censor board over some scenes considered too graphic?
Did you know that the Gashash HaHiver trio, which included Shaike Levi, was awarded the Israel Prize in 2000 for lifetime achievement and contribution to Israeli entertainment and society?
Did you know that the Workers Committee for National Liberation, a communist labour group, was broken up by the Egyptian government in January 1946?
Did you know that the acceptance of a Cannes Gold Lion by the art director for Nike's Pretty television ad marked the first time the award was given to a Lebanese person?
Did you know that the cruise ship Costa Allegra was originally built as the container ship Annie Johnson?
Did you know that the gate piers of Ferne Park, a country house built in 2001 in Wiltshire, England, are Grade II listed structures?
Did you know that the mossy leaf-tail gecko of Madagascar possesses dermal flaps which disguise its outline?
Did you know that the oceanic dolphin Costero is officially the same species as the river dolphin Tucuxi, even though they have been unambiguously demonstrated to be genetically different?
Did you know that there are 30 million smokers in Japan, making the country one of the largest tobacco markets in the world?
Did you know that there are 91 locks on the Canal du Midi in the south of France?
Did you know that Expedia, Inc. made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Travelscape for over US$89 million?
Did you know that HMS Braak was seized and brought into the Royal Navy when the former Dutch ship anchored in Falmouth, unaware that the Dutch had gone to war with Britain?
Did you know that Hall of Famer Mel Ott made his final appearance as a Major League Baseball player pinch hitting for Ken Trinkle?
Did you know that Lou Dorfsman considered the Gastrotypographicalassemblage he created for the CBS Building's cafeteria to be his magnum opus?
Did you know that Polish composer Rafał Augustyn′s Symphony of Hymns took twenty years to complete, typically lasts for 100 minutes and requires an orchestra of over 170 players?
Did you know that Svend Borchmann Hersleb Vogt, the Auditor General of Norway from 1898 to 1923, was also a judge and a member of the Norwegian Parliament?
Did you know that Tiger's Whip, a piece of installation art by Singaporean artist Tang Da Wu, highlights how the tiger is being hunted for its penis?
Did you know that Tsomoriri, with an altitude of 4,595 metres (15,075 ft) in Ladakh, is the largest of the High Altitude Lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region entirely within India?
Did you know that at the time he was appointed Governor of Arizona Territory, C. Meyer Zulick was a prisoner in Mexico?
Did you know that five historic districts in downtown Troy, New York were merged in 1986 to create the Central Troy Historic District?
Did you know that for a short time in the late 1940s, it was planned that USS Hawaii (CB-3) would be the U.S. Navy's first guided missile cruiser?
Did you know that former child actor Roger Mobley served as a Green Beret in the Vietnam War and is now a Christian pastor in Texas?
Did you know that the 2006 novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery was a "publishing phenomenon" in Europe?
Did you know that the Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument, which honors Smith and the 10th Mississippi Infantry, is believed to be the second-biggest single-stone monument in the United States?
Did you know that the Gotham Book Mart in Manhattan's diamond district, with its iconic Wise Men Fish Here sign, was frequented by distinguished authors such as Henry Miller and Allen Ginsberg?
Did you know that the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics is the Colombian government agency in charge of managing the airspace, civil aviation, and the aviation industry in Colombia?
Did you know that the adolescent subject of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière died within a year of her portrayal by the French master?
Did you know that the citadel and city at Sigiriya in Matale, Sri Lanka were constructed by Kashyapa I in the 5th century?
Did you know that the first Chinese migrant to Madagascar arrived in 1862, starting a community that would become Africa's third-largest Chinese population?
Did you know that the first military aerodrome in Britain was at Larkhill, and the first squadron to use aeroplanes was formed there?
Did you know that the guns at Fort Nepean in Victoria, Australia fired the first Allied shots of both World War I and World War II?
Did you know that the musical Conversation Piece by Noel Coward starred a French actress, Yvonne Printemps, who spoke no English?
Did you know that the recent persecution of albinos in Tanzania and Burundi is based on the belief that their body parts have magical power and impart prosperity?
Did you know that while enrollment at U.S. tribal colleges and universities has increased significantly since 1982, California's only tribal college, D-Q University, had just six students in 2006?
Did you know that "Milk and Alcohol" ranked on Britain's top-10 hit singles chart in 1979 and was the biggest hit for the band Dr. Feelgood?
Did you know that Bernard Sainz, known as "Dr Mabuse" because of his success in horse racing and cycling, was jailed for three years for administering doping products?
Did you know that Bob McDonald, a Canadian Football League player who survived polio, was elected to the 25th Canadian Parliament at age 25?
Did you know that Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher Phil Niekro had no wins and six losses in eight Opening Day starts for the Atlanta Braves?
Did you know that Hanwei Group is the biggest producer of eggs in the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that Jean Robic, winner of the 1947 Tour de France, was so light that at mountain summits he was handed lead and mercury-ballasted drinking bottles for gravity-assisted descents?
Did you know that Market Square in Lviv, Ukraine, together with the historic city center, was recognized in 1998 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Did you know that Milton Hebald's 1960 sculpture depicted the 12 signs of the zodiac on the Pan Am Worldport at John F. Kennedy International Airport?
Did you know that On the Green Carpet was the first North Korean film to be invited to the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was screened in 2004?
Did you know that The Edgewater, an over-water hotel on Seattle's Central Waterfront, used to advertise that you could "fish from your room"?
Did you know that The Outsiders, a novel written by S.E. Hinton, has sold over 14 million copies since it was published in 1967?
Did you know that Thomas Gold Appleton, the brother-in-law of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow known as "the Boston wit", is reported to have said as he was dying, "It will be a new experience"?
Did you know that Wales rugby international and Welsh Rugby Union Secretary Bill Clement was awarded the Military Cross for his actions in World War II?
Did you know that actress Dina Cocea was known in Romania as the "Queen of the Theater" and received the country's highest civil award, the Order of the Star of Romania?
Did you know that computer software company Red Hat made its largest acquisition ever when it acquired free software support company Cygnus Solutions for US$674 million?
Did you know that five individual career records were set during the 2008 season of Canadian university football?
Did you know that technology company Dell made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased EqualLogic, a storage device manufacturer, for US$1.4 billion in January 2008?
Did you know that the Buffalo pebble snail is adapted to survive both on rocks in a fast stream and also on sandy bottoms in stagnant water?
Did you know that the Export Control Act of 1940 ceased the exportation of military equipment to pre-WWII Japan which pushed the United States and Japan closer to war?
Did you know that the Saint John River is one of six major rivers in Liberia?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy's SC-21 program to rethink warship design led to the "tumblehome" hull of the Zumwalt class destroyer?
Did you know that the connective tissue disorder gerodermia osteodysplastica is also known as "Walt Disney dwarfism" because the first known patients were described as resembling "dwarves from a Walt Disney film"?
Did you know that the elongated tails possessed by the males of some species of paradise-flycatchers are thought to be the products of sexual selection?
Did you know that the northernmost extreme point of Sweden is Treriksröset, where the borders of Sweden, Norway and Finland meet?
Did you know that the small mountain-top Aztec temple of El Tepozteco in Mexico, dedicated to the god of pulque, an alcoholic beverage, attracted pilgrims from as far away as Guatemala?
Did you know that when Tang Dynasty general Zhang Yi signed a peace treaty with Tufan, he made an offering of goats instead of the customary cattle and horses because he was embarrassed to be dealing with "barbarians"?
Did you know that Albrecht Dürer's Great Piece of Turf shows plants such as cocksfoot, creeping bent and hound's-tongue?
Did you know that David W. Mullins Jr. abruptly resigned in 1994 as vice-chairman of the United States Federal Reserve to join a "dream team" of financial engineers at the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management?
Did you know that E. Roger Muir, creator and producer of The Howdy Doody Show, suggested that the title puppet run for "President of the Boys and Girls" in the 1948 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that Father Nelson Baker, founder of the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York, is buried in the basilica's transept in a grotto hewn from Vesuvian black lava?
Did you know that Fort Pearce, a former defensive facility in Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia, was active during World War I but never fired its guns in anger?
Did you know that India's Mafia Raj, or "mafia regime," first emerged around the state-owned coal mines of Jharkhand?
Did you know that Kirk DeMicco, writer-director of the 2008 animated film Space Chimps, conceived of the film after hearing a line from Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff?
Did you know that Mark Rubin, a safety for the Penn State Nittany Lions, defeated Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps in swimming while in high school?
Did you know that Nazi Germany used thousands of Polish laborers to build infrastructure for their invasion of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Nike Flywire uses Vectran fibers to reduce the weight of shoes used in athletics, basketball, badminton, and tennis by as much as 50%?
Did you know that S&H Green Stamps, co-founded by Thomas Sperry, produced more trading stamps in some years than stamps printed by the U.S. Postal Service?
Did you know that Spectacle Reef Light, a lighthouse on Lake Huron, Michigan, has been described as "one of the greatest engineering feats on the Great Lakes"?
Did you know that Vienna Fingers cookies, first sold in 1915, were mentioned in American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple?
Did you know that Yunus-bek Yevkurov, the current president of Ingushetia, is a recipient of the Hero of Russia award, the country's highest honourary title?
Did you know that biologist J. B. S. Haldane replied "Precambrian rabbits" when asked what would destroy his confidence in the theory of evolution?
Did you know that conviction politics have been criticized as being a "hard ideology"?
Did you know that during World War II Robert Furman served as director of intelligence and espionage for the American atomic bomb project?
Did you know that in 1844 Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty established the Crescent, the first Indian-owned newspaper in Madras Presidency?
Did you know that in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told, California's Death Valley was used as the setting of Jesus' 40-day journey into the wilderness?
Did you know that magazine publishing company Condé Nast Publications made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased Fairchild Publications for US$650 million?
Did you know that out of the ten players that attended Morehead State University who eventually played in Major League Baseball, Ron Klimkowski was the only one who attended the college for only one year?