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Did you know that the Deutschhaus building in Mainz served as the seat of the first democratic elected parliament in Germany during the Mainz Republic and is the seat of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag today?
Did you know that the Silver Fish, the highest award in the Girl Guides and scouting movement, can be traced back to November 1909?
Did you know that the famous ending to the M*A*S*H episode "Abyssinia, Henry" was kept a secret from the entire cast, with the exception of Alan Alda, until the moment of filming?
Did you know that the rules of Swedish football played in the late 19th century were a mix of association football rules and the rugby football rules because of a misunderstanding?
Did you know that the sole surviving portion of the work of 4th-century musical writer Alypius is the chief source of modern knowledge of Greek musical notation?
Did you know that French Olympic shooter Léon Moreaux won his first of seven Olympic medals at the age of 38?
Did you know that Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York?
Did you know that Russian playwright Pavel Katenin was deported from St. Petersburg in 1822 for booing a favourite actress of the city's governor, Count Miloradovich?
Did you know that psychedelic rock group Circus Maximus was the launching point for the career of country musician Jerry Jeff Walker?
Did you know that the King/Drew Medical Centre, a major public hospital in South Central Los Angeles, was founded in response to the 1965 Watts Riots?
Did you know that "My Star" was the first song that Latvia entered into the Eurovision Song Contest, making them the last of the Baltic states to debut at Eurovision?
Did you know that Bearcat Stadium of Northwest Missouri State University, originally opened in 1917, is the oldest stadium of any NCAA Division II school?
Did you know that Bellot Strait is a 2 km passage of water separating Somerset Island from the northernmost point on mainland North America?
Did you know that Boletus calopus, a European mushroom, derives its scientific name from the Ancient Greek for "pretty foot," referring to its attractive stalk?
Did you know that Bolko II of Świdnica was the last independent duke of the Piast dynasty in Silesia?
Did you know that Harriett Everard was hit by a piece of falling scenery during rehearsals for The Pirates of Penzance, and likely never fully recovered from her injuries?
Did you know that Kanken Toyama, who developed the Shudokan school of karate, was originally an elementary school teacher?
Did you know that a subtlety was an elaborate medieval dish that was supposed to entertain and surprise diners with extravagant decorations or by imitating other types of food?
Did you know that the Paramarines was a short-lived parachute-trained unit of the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II, but its members were never dropped by parachute into combat?
Did you know that the immortal DNA strand hypothesis was proposed in 1975 by John Cairns as a mechanism for adult stem cells to minimize mutations in their genomes?
Did you know that British Admiral of the Fleet Michael Pollock, was gunnery officer on the HMS Norfolk when she fought the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst during the Battle of North Cape?
Did you know that BŻ-1 GIL was the first Polish experimental helicopter?
Did you know that a recent fire in the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine (traditional Ukrainian church pictured) was set to cover up the theft of 18th-century cassones?
Did you know that a statue stands where Matangini Hazra was shot in 1942 during the Quit India Movement?
Did you know that the English nursery rhyme Bobby Shafto was an electioneering song by the 18th Century British MP, Robert Shafto?
Did you know that when Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, Confederate Brig Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, Lincoln's White House went into mourning?
Did you know that John von Sonnentag de Havilland was one of only two officers at the College of Arms to have been born in the United States?
Did you know that Mölle, a coastal harbour town in southwest Sweden, was built from fishing wealth, but now hosts high technology conferences?
Did you know that Tadeusz Hołówko became one of the first victims of the assassination campaign carried out by the members of the radical Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists despite his relatively moderate stance in the Polish-Ukrainian conflict?
Did you know that experiments with winged tanks, meant to glide into a drop zone and provide support for airborne forces, were tried but abandoned by several military forces?
Did you know that the Sevso Treasure is a hoard of silver objects from the late Roman Empire?
Did you know that wearing the Gandhi cap became a steadfast tradition during the Indian independence movement that is continued by Indian politicians to this day?
Did you know that Halltorps Manor on Öland island has been the site of a Viking settlement, a royal game reserve used by Swedish kings, and a medieval manor house?
Did you know that Hugh Talbot was roundly panned for his performance as Frederic in the premiere of The Pirates of Penzance?
Did you know that Hurricane Alberto of 2000 completed the largest loop ever observed over the Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that William Garwood, an American silent film actor, starred in 149 films in under 10 years—between 1909 and 1919?
Did you know that a co-founder of the Slavophile movement, Ivan Kireevsky, turned for wisdom to the elders of the Optina Monastery, rather than to Western philosophers?
Did you know that during the Ulm Campaign in 1805, French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte eliminated an entire Austrian army by capturing 60,000 troops?
Did you know that the Himalayan Brown Bear is considered the source of the legend of the Yeti?
Did you know that the Largo, a Socialist Classicism complex in central Sofia, Bulgaria, accommodates a number of state institutions?
Did you know that the Xiao'erjing is a system of writing Sinitic languages such as Mandarin in the Arabic script?
Did you know that the failed Pakistan coup attempt of 1995 aimed to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan by overthrowing prime minister Benazir Bhutto?
Did you know that the first American ship sunk in World War II hit a German mine off Cape Otway in the Southern Ocean?
Did you know that California's Rubicon Point Light, at 6300 ft above sea level, is the highest lighthouse in the United States?
Did you know that Fredesvinda Garcia was a Cuban singer who recorded just one album, a year before her death?
Did you know that Japanese historian and economist Taguchi Ukichi has often been referred to as the Adam Smith of Japan?
Did you know that Mauisaurus was the largest plesiosaur to roam New Zealand waters and that it gets its name from the Māori god Maui?
Did you know that National Political Institutes of Education, elite secondary schools in Nazi Germany, only accepted students considered to be "racially flawless" and therefore did not admit pupils who needed glasses or had bad hearing?
Did you know that Slimey the Worm is the smallest character on Sesame Street?
Did you know that credit and royalties for the 1968 Arthur Brown song "Fire" had to be shared due to similarities to another song, "Baby, You're a Long Way Behind"?
Did you know that feminism in Poland is traditionally divided into seven historical periods, the first one dating to the beginning of the 19th century?
Did you know that the Leather cannon was an early 17th century attempt of making a mobile cannon that would bridge the gap between muskets and heavy stationary artillery?
Did you know that the Peachliner people mover in Komaki, Japan was planned originally to carry 43,000 passengers daily, but only carried an average of 2670 per day during 15 years of operation?
Did you know that the Wrinkled Toadlet is also commonly known as the Chubby Gungan?
Did you know that the dome of  St. Francis de Sales church in Philadelphia is a prime example of the Guastavino tile arch system?
Did you know that "Dziesma Par Laimi" is the only Latvian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest to be performed in Latvian?
Did you know that 19th century London song-writer Helen, Lady Dufferin was admired by Disraeli, compared with Helen of Troy in a poem by Browning, and had a village named after her?
Did you know that Asif Hossain Khan, a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner at the age of just 15, was brutally beaten and seriously injured by the police of his own country?
Did you know that British Conservative MP Sir Ian Lloyd left his native South Africa in 1955 due to his opposition to apartheid, but was later called "Botha's mouthpiece" for his advocacy of closer links with South Africa to stimulate reform?
Did you know that David Eldridge is the earliest known person of European descent to die in the Western Reserve, and the first person to be buried in the newly-created city of Cleveland?
Did you know that Layman Pang, a wealthy merchant and Zen Buddhist in Tang Dynasty China, once put all of his possessions in a boat and sank them in a river?
Did you know that a fountain was built by the British colonial government to commemorate Tan Kim Seng's $13,000 contribution towards Singapore's first public waterworks?
Did you know that in one of the first tests of Hajile, an experimental British World War II retrorocket system, a gigantic block of concrete was dropped through the roof of the workshop from 2000 ft?
Did you know that sanitary sewer overflow is a common condition, mostly associated with heavy rainfall, leading to discharge of billions of gallons of raw sewage to the environment each year?
Did you know that the 1985 trademark infringement case of Canfield v. Honickman, involving the makers of Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge soda, continues to be used as an example during the study of trademark product law in the U.S.?
Did you know that the name of the museum Na Bolom in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico is a pun playing on the Lacandón Maya word for house of the jaguar and the name of Danish mayanist Frans Blom, whose home it was?
Did you know that Łazienki Palace was the site of the famous Thursday Dinners during the times of Enlightenment in Poland?
Did you know that "Lopšinė Mylimai" is the least auspicious debut entry in Eurovision Song Contest history, finishing the 1994 Contest in last place without scoring a point?
Did you know that Turkic-speaking Greeks of Georgia and Ukraine refer to themselves as Urums, a term which derives from the Arabic word for Roman?
Did you know that a tornado that hit Dantan in India on March 24, 1998 killed over 250 people?
Did you know that the Lainzer Tiergarten is a 2,450-hectare (6,054-acre) wildlife preserve in the city of Vienna, Austria, and is home to approximately 1,000 wild boars?
Did you know that the photograph Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath of a severely deformed, naked child was deliberately posed with the agreement of her mother to illustrate the terrible effects of Minamata disease, a form of mercury poisoning?
Did you know that "Kylie Said To Jason" was a deliberate attempt by then-cash-strapped British band The KLF to have a hit single, however it failed to enter the UK Top 100?
Did you know that Jyoti Prasad Agarwala is regarded as the father of Assamese cinema?
Did you know that Mykola Skrypnyk, who had promoted an independent Bolshevik Ukraine, and later led the Ukrainization program of the Ukrainian SSR, chose to shoot himself rather than recant his policies?
Did you know that Pagoda Street in Chinatown, Singapore was named after the pagoda-like gopuram of Sri Mariamman Temple?
Did you know that St Laurence Church, Ludlow, England has an extensive collection of medieval misericords and other wood carvings, but may be best known as poet A.E. Housman's gravesite?
Did you know that Virginia politician Charles F. Mercer switched between five different political parties during his 22-year service in the United States Congress?
Did you know that according to Mongolian folklore, the escort that buried Genghis Khan committed suicide to make his grave impossible to find?
Did you know that all buildings of the Vitra furniture factory in Germany have been designed by internationally renowned architects, including Frank O. Gehry?
Did you know that although Saint-Porchaire ware began the French tradition of high ceramic art, only some seventy examples survive?
Did you know that an early trial of the effectiveness of the Lagonda flamethrower as a deterrent to Luftwaffe dive bombing attacks on Merchant Navy vessels was utterly unsuccessful?
Did you know that the Collegio di Spagna, a college for Spanish students at the Italian University of Bologna, was founded in 1364 and counts Ignatius of Loyola and Miguel Cervantes among its alumni?
Did you know that the Common Inkcap, an edible mushroom, contains an Antabuse-like substance which renders it poisonous when consumed with alcohol?
Did you know that the Curse of the Colonel refers to a reputed curse placed on the Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot, Col. Harland Sanders?
Did you know that the Sarikoli language is often referred to as "Tajik", despite being only distantly related to Tajikistan's national language?
Did you know that the Soviet dramatist Nikolai Erdman was awarded the Stalin Prize at the period when he was not allowed to live in Moscow owing to his "criminal record"?
Did you know that the influential French writers Jacques Rivière and Alain-Fournier both failed the entrance examination for Paris's École Normale Supérieure?
Did you know that the movement to secure the rights of Sami as an indigenous people in Norway was in large part made visible by civil disobedience?
Did you know that when Krishna Mohan Banerjee, a member of the famous Young Bengal group in Kolkata, in British India, converted to Christianity in 1832, he lost his job in David Hare’s school?
Did you know that Agatha, mother of Saint Margaret of Scotland, could have been either a daughter of Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev or a daughter of the Bulgarian Tsar?
Did you know that Alby, Sweden is a mesolithic settlement, the earliest known  of any humans on the island of Öland?
Did you know that Fred Sullivan was the brother of Arthur Sullivan, who dedicated the hymn "The Lost Chord" to his memory?
Did you know that Scouts' Day is a special day observed by members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement throughout the year when all Scouts re-affirm the Scout Promise?
Did you know that Sten Rudholm is a member of the Swedish Academy and today the only living Swedish non-royal knight of the Order of the Seraphim?
Did you know that rational egoism is the idea that it is always in accordance with reason to pursue one's own interest, used by Ayn Rand as the rationale behind objectivism?
Did you know that the French poet Georges de Brébeuf is most well-known for his verse translation of Lucan's Pharsalia which was warmly received by Pierre Corneille, but which was ridiculed by Nicolas Boileau?
Did you know that the Stora Alvaret, a World Heritage Site on the island of Öland, Sweden, has rich biodiversity, even though the soil mantle on this 26,000 hectare limestone barren is less than two centimeters deep?
Did you know that the T-43 tank was devised as a replacement to the Soviet T-34 medium tank, but was scrapped in favour of simply improving the armament of the T-34?
Did you know that the Vitra Design Museum was American architect Frank Gehry's first European commission?
Did you know that the only working, full sized, Caisson lock ever built, was on the Somerset Coal Canal at Combe Hay, Somerset in England between 1795 and 1805?
Did you know that "Octopus giganteus" is the pseudoscientific name given to a large carcass, postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida in 1896?
Did you know that 51 nations participated in the FIBA World Championship as of the 2006 tournament?
Did you know that Elm Farm Ollie in 1930 became the first cow to be milked while flying in an airplane?
Did you know that Operation Poomalai was a humanitarian supply airdrop over Jaffna, Sri Lanka by the Indian Air Force in June 1987, and was the first active intervention by India in the Sri Lankan Civil War?
Did you know that Sajal Barui, who escaped after being convicted of murdering his family, was recaptured by the West Bengal police for theft without his true identity being discovered?
Did you know that the Golden Madonna of Essen is the oldest preserved sculpture of the Virgin Mary?
Did you know that the Kennedia nigricans, or the Black Coral Pea, is a robust Western Australian species of climbing plant that spreads to over 18 m2 (200 ft2)?
Did you know that the founders of the Indian spice manufacturing company MDH were popularly known as Deggi Mirch Wale, the "Pot Chilli People"?
Did you know that the name of the endangered language isolate Huave, spoken in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, probably comes from a Zapotec word meaning "people of the sea", but that the Huave people who call themselves Ikoots refer to their language as ombeayiiüts, "our language"?
Did you know that the painting The Face on the Barroom Floor, in Central City, Colorado, was inspired by a poem, and that it in turn inspired a chamber opera?
Did you know that "Ernold Same", a song from Blur's 1995 album The Great Escape, was narrated by the current Mayor of London Ken Livingstone?
Did you know that Ed Brown was an African-American slave who rose to become a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey and a Kentucky Derby-winning horse trainer?
Did you know that Indian serial killer Raman Raghav targeted street urchins and beggars sleeping in the open on roadsides and slums in Mumbai?
Did you know that Isaac Albalag was a Jewish philosopher whose liberal interpretations of the Biblical account of the Creation, in accordance with the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the world, stamped him in the eyes of many as a heretic?
Did you know that in order to demonstrate the versatility of the Holman Projector, a British anti-aircraft mortar, a trial was staged in front of Prime Minister Winston Churchill using a number of beer bottles as ammunition?
Did you know that the Bangladeshi musician and composer Samar Das, who composed over 2,000 songs and was the music director of over 50 films, also played a prominent role in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971?
Did you know that the Cockpit-in-Court theatre in the Palace of Whitehall was used to stage court masques for the Stuart Kings of England, but was originally built by Henry VIII as a venue for cockfighting?
Did you know that the Holophusikon was a museum of natural curiosities and ethnographic items collected by Ashton Lever and exhibited in London from 1775?
Did you know that the Miami blue butterfly may be the rarest insect in the United States, and that its continued survival may depend on a captive breeding program at the University of Florida?
Did you know that the Ythan Estuary in Scotland contains the most extensive dunes formation in Europe and is also the site of a Stone Age settlement?
Did you know that the single-grain experiment conducted between 1907 and 1911 would lead to the development of modern human nutrition?
Did you know that British Labour politician Reg Freeson spent 23 years as an MP, including 14 years on the front bench, but was deselected in 1985 due to his "sensible left" views and replaced by Ken Livingstone?
Did you know that Hamel, a town located in the South West of Western Australia, owes its name to solicitor and politician Lancel Victor de Hamel, the former owner of the land where the townsite is situated?
Did you know that New Zealand Test cricketer Martin Donnelly also played rugby union for England?
Did you know that Walter Stauffer McIlhenny, president of McIlhenny Company (1949-1985), maker of Tabasco sauce, was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal?
Did you know that athlete Gretel Bergmann left Germany for America because she was discriminated against for being Jewish, and that she refused to return to attend festivities when the Berlin-Wilmersdorf sports complex was named in her honour?
Did you know that modernization of the Ostkreuz station in Berlin, the busiest interchange station of the city's transportation system, has been proposed since 1937 and is due to start next year?
Did you know that the "O. P. Q. Letters" were written anonymously in a failed attempt to incite an insurrection in Texas in 1834?
Did you know that the Belgian Impéria was one of the first automobiles available with a sunroof?
Did you know that the office of Garter Principal King of Arms was created for William Bruges (pictured kneeling) around 1415?
Did you know that Edwin B. Hart studied physiological chemistry under Nobel Laureate Albrecht Kossel before leading research that would lead to controlling anemia and goiter?
Did you know that Shahzia Sikander, 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant", is a Pakistan-born American artist who specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting?
Did you know that funding for the Prussian Academy of Sciences was originally provided by giving it a monopoly on the sale of calendars?
Did you know that local farmers would drive rock laden wagons onto the Ada Covered Bridge in Ada, Michigan to prevent it from washing away during floods?
Did you know that the Liverpool Irish was the popular name for a battalion of the British King's Regiment raised by Liverpool's large Irish community in 1860?
Did you know that Czech Second World War fighter pilot František Fajtl briefly flew for the French Air Force before commanding units in the Royal Air Force and then a Czechoslovak regiment formed by the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Yakov Bulgakov, Catherine II's emissary in Istanbul, managed to obtain a plan of the Turkish naval offensive while being imprisoned in Yedikule during the Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792?
Did you know that a specimen of Australia's largest mushroom Phlebopus marginatus from Western Victoria weighed in at 29 kg, and caps can sometimes reach 1 metre across?
Did you know that iridodialysis is a localized separation or tearing away of the iris from its attachment to the ciliary body?
Did you know that numismatists billed the United States Series of 1896 Educational Series Silver Certificates as the most beautifully designed bills due to their use of neoclassical allegorical motifs?
Did you know that Francesco Xanto Avelli was unusual among Umbrian maiolica painters as he signed and dated much of his work?
Did you know that Nancy Dickerson was the first female news correspondent on the CBS television network?
Did you know that at the Battle of Stone Houses in 1837, a band of American Indians defeated a group of Texas Rangers by smoking them out of their shelter?
Did you know that listening to Mangalkavya epics was said to bring spiritual and material benefits?
Did you know that the Slutsk defence action was the short-lived attempt to defend Belarusian independence from Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the Polish-Soviet War?
Did you know that the athletic competition Sunflower Showdown, between Kansas State and the University of Kansas, traces back to a fight over the location of the state university in the 1860s?
Did you know that the famous Russian orientalist of Azeri origin, Muhammad Ali Kazim-bey, was converted to Christianity by Scottish Presbyterian missionaries in 1821?
Did you know that Birdcage Walk in the City of Westminster, London, is named after the Royal Menagerie and Aviary which was located beside it in the reign of Kings James I and expanded by Charles II?
Did you know that British athlete Don Thompson was nicknamed "Il Topolino" (Italian for "Little Mouse") when he raced to victory in the 50km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while wearing a képi and sunglasses ?
Did you know that Fighting Solidarity, created in response to the martial law in Poland of 1982, was among the most radical splinters of Solidarity?
Did you know that Islay Herald Don Pottinger became interested in heraldry when commissioned to paint a portrait of Sir Thomas Innes of Learney?