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Did you know that Jules Porgès was a financier central to the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa from the 1870s?
Did you know that Leonarda Cianciulli, the "Soap-Maker of Correggio", murdered three women and turned their bodies into soap and tea cakes?
Did you know that Semuliki National Park in Uganda is one of the richest areas of floral and faunal diversity in Africa?
Did you know that Sir John Gonson, a British Justice of the Peace for nearly 50 years in the early 18th century, was depicted twice in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress?
Did you know that alternative rocker and Pixies frontman Black Francis wrote the song "Crackity Jones" about a stay with a crazed roommate in Puerto Rico as an exchange student?
Did you know that an employee resignation letter from the son of Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr., patent attorney to the Wright Brothers, led to the demise of the Tucker Car Company and a $62 million donation to Georgetown University Medical Center?
Did you know that if you ever responded to a shaky telemarketing or sweepstakes solicitation, chances are that you have been placed into a sucker list and in the future you will be approached with a reloading scam?
Did you know that the "Shakespeare Lady", a schizophrenic street performer in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, has her own trading card?
Did you know that the Laura Spence Affair was a major UK political row started over comments made by British Chancellor Gordon Brown accusing Oxford University of elitism?
Did you know that the Partition of Midnapore to divide Midnapore, India's most populous district, was achieved 81 years after the first attempt in 1921?
Did you know that the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal?
Did you know that the Shelter was an experimental city car of the early 1950s designed and built by a Dutch engineering student with financial backing by the government of the Netherlands?
Did you know that the Smith Flyer was an automobile formed out of a wooden plank, two bucket seats, a driving mechanism and a power unit?
Did you know that the Viipuri Municipal Library, built to Aalto's groundbreaking design in 1935, was abandoned for a decade following the transfer of Viipuri to the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the needle-exchange programme John Turvey helped create in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside eventually became North America's first safe injection site?
Did you know that Hong San See, a Chinese temple and national monument in Singapore, was sited on a small hill for good feng shui and once commanded a good view of the sea?
Did you know that Juditha triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi, narrating the story of the Jewish widow Judith, who beheaded the invading Assyrian general Holofernes after he fell in love with her; and that all characters were interpreted by orphan female singers?
Did you know that Ravensburg State Park in Pennsylvania, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, is named for the ravens that still roost there?
Did you know that Susan L. Hefle's research led to the development of commercialized ELISA testing for food allergens?
Did you know that Swedish goalkeeper Karl Svensson was given his nickname Rio-Kalle after two heroic matches in the 1950 FIFA World Cup that were actually played in São Paulo and not in Rio de Janeiro?
Did you know that in 1998 Vishnu Bhagwat became the first service chief in independent India to be fired?
Did you know that modified starch is added to processed frozen foods to prevent them from dripping when defrosted?
Did you know that noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore?
Did you know that rock and roll pioneer Chan Romero wrote the 1959 hit, "Hippy Hippy Shake" which was covered by The Beatles?
Did you know that the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is an offshoot of the Phoenician alphabet that was used to write the Hebrew language from about the 10th century BCE until it fell out of use in the 5th century BCE?
Did you know that the Tamworth Pig is a rare breed of swine which has such a high bristle density that, unlike most pigs, it almost never suffers sunburn?
Did you know that the four large housing cooperatives that make up Cooperative Village on the Lower East Side of Manhattan were sponsored and financed by trade unions with ties to the Socialist Party of America?
Did you know that vulvar cancer accounts for about 4% of all gynecological cancers?
Did you know that Carolina Dogs employ a whip-like motion whilst pack hunting snakes?
Did you know that Edward Palmer, an early-19th century utopian socialist, advocated the complete abolition of money?
Did you know that Iliaş of Moldavia, Jagiello's brother-in-law, lost his throne and was blinded following Poland's withdrawal from Moldavian affairs?
Did you know that Mury, a protest song by Jacek Kaczmarski about events in Catalonia, became the unofficial anthem of Solidarity?
Did you know that Phil Fondacaro, an actor with dwarfism, portrayed the only Ewok to die on-screen in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi?
Did you know that color change in leaves during autumn is caused by reduced levels of the green pigment chlorophyll?
Did you know that groundbreaking on Christ's Resurrection Church in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1934 was marked by the placement of a symbolic stone brought from Jerusalem's Mount of Olives?
Did you know that innovative Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made?
Did you know that sanitation deficiencies are thought to be responsible for about 14,000 deaths per day at present, and were a major cause of 25 million deaths from the plague in Europe in 1348?
Did you know that the Martyrs' Cemetery holds the remains of both Iraqi insurgents and civilians killed during the First Battle of Fallujah in 2004?
Did you know that Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in the 1920 Treaty of Moscow, in exchange for the promise not to grant asylum on Georgian soil to troops of powers hostile to the Soviet republic?
Did you know that Ying Fo Fui Kun was the first Hakka clan association in Singapore, and its clan house at Telok Ayer was gazetted as a national monument in 1998?
Did you know that doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s?
Did you know that the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the rococo manor house at Damsgård, near Bergen, Norway, is one of the best preserved wooden 18th century structures in Europe?
Did you know that Antwone Fisher was born in a woman's prison in which his mother was incarcerated?
Did you know that British lawyer Sir Robert Megarry was tried at the Old Bailey in 1954 for submitting false income tax returns, but later went on to become a High Court judge, Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division and then Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court?
Did you know that between 1944 and 1962, up to 186,000 inmates passed through approximately 100 forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria?
Did you know that last week's first-ever football meeting between the University of Miami and Florida International University was marred by a massive brawl that led to the suspension of 31 players?
Did you know that the World's Largest Texas Flag, measuring 23 metres by 38 metres (75 feet by 125 feet), is unfurled on the field by members of Alpha Phi Omega before Texas Longhorn football games?
Did you know that Bamse was a St. Bernard dog that became the heroic mascot of the Free Norwegian Forces during the Second World War?
Did you know that British Labour Party Member of Parliament Martin Flannery was a Communist until the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was crushed by the Soviet Union, but remained on the far left?
Did you know that Daumantas of Pskov, a Lithuanian dynast involved in the assassination of the first Lithuanian king, was later canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church and became a patron saint of Pskov?
Did you know that Eilhart von Oberge's German poem Tristrant, dating to the late 12th century, is the earliest complete version of the Tristan and Iseult legend in any language?
Did you know that Katsu! is a shout used in Zen Buddhism to induce enlightenment, as well as in the martial arts to focus one's energy?
Did you know that Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis, the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal, is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933?
Did you know that Wollaston Lake is the largest lake in the world that drains naturally in two directions?
Did you know that both Herbert Witherspoon and Göran Gentele died before the opening nights of their first seasons as general directors of the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that detachments of Royal Marines and of seamen from the Royal Navy were formed into Naval Brigades to undertake operations on shore in the Crimean War, the Second Opium War, the Indian Mutiny, the Zulu War and Boer War, and the Boxer Rebellion?
Did you know that the Ch'onma-ho is a little known, indigenously produced North Korean tank; information on which has proven to be elusive even to the U.S. government?
Did you know that the first Howell Melon Festival became famous when it sent the Howell Melon Queen to visit President Eisenhower?
Did you know that Göran Malmqvist is a Swedish sinologist who in 1974 published a popular book called Chinese is not difficult?
Did you know that Keong Saik Road in Chinatown, Singapore was formerly a red-light district in the 1960s but is now the site of many boutique hotels?
Did you know that among the editors of Robotnik, an underground newspaper of the Polish Socialist Party, were Józef Piłsudski, future dictator of Poland, and Stanisław Wojciechowski, future president of Poland?
Did you know that before Umberto Meoli became an economic historian, he fought in the Italian resistance movement and was once imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist government?
Did you know that during one of the Caspian expeditions of the Rus, the city of Barda in Azerbaijan was saved from complete destruction only by an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus?
Did you know that in 1919, the discharge of the chief of police of Berlin led to a general strike and accompanying fighting known as the Spartacist uprising, in which over 500,000 workers took part?
Did you know that pioneering research on time-temperature canning conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Samuel Cate Prescott was never patented?
Did you know that the Challenge Yves du Manoir, a French Rugby union competition which ran from 1931 to 2003, was created by Racing Club de France with the support of CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde and AS Montferrandaise?
Did you know that the Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge is the first segmentally constructed concrete arch bridge in the United States?
Did you know that the monkey Ramu from the Indian state of Orissa was kept behind bars for five years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony?
Did you know that British free market economist Ralph Harris, considered to be an architect of Thatcherism, became a life peer shortly after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, but sat on the cross-benches in the House of Lords to show his political independence?
Did you know that Consumer Reports had their food testing done at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1950's thanks to a negotiated deal with the food technology department chair Carl R. Fellers?
Did you know that after receiving global media attention for pulling her kittens out of a burning garage, Scarlett the cat and her kittens received 7000 adoption requests?
Did you know that during the French Revolution, an effigy of Thomas Paine was burned before the door of the religious radical  Rev. Joshua Toulmin?
Did you know that knismesis and gargalesis are the scientific terms used to describe the two different sensations produced by tickling?
Did you know that the Stonehaven Tolbooth attained its greatest notoriety when three local Episcopalian clergymen were imprisoned for holding services for more than nine people, a limit established to discourage the Episcopalian religion in the mid 1700s?
Did you know that the Urdu movement, which sought to establish Urdu as the lingua franca of the Muslim communities of India, emerged from the fall of the Mughal Empire and became an integral part of the Pakistan movement?
Did you know that the Waterberg is a UNESCO designated Biosphere, where cattle overgrazing is being reversed to allow giraffe, rhino and Blue Wildebeest to repopulate?
Did you know that the constructor of two Polish submarines, Kazimierz Leski, became a spy during World War II and travelled across Europe disguised as a German general?
Did you know that the film Joshua Then and Now was Canada's entry to the 1985 Cannes Film Festival?
Did you know that the town of Hueyapan in the Mexican state of Morelos was conquered by the female conquistador Maria de Estrada?
Did you know that the vast Mongol Empire that once stretched from East Asia to Romania was brought down by the Red Turban Rebellion?
Did you know that John Wilson Danenhower, survivor of an Arctic expedition whose ship was crushed by ice, later committed suicide due to the grounding of the ship which was to be his first command?
Did you know that Lady Sybil Grant, the eldest daughter of the British Prime Minister Lord Dalmeny, in her later years, became an eccentric, spending most of her time in a caravan or up a tree, communicating to her butler through a megaphone?
Did you know that Lee McClung, a College Football Hall of Famer, also served as Treasurer of the United States,  advocating the withdrawal of worn, dirty banknotes on sanitary grounds?
Did you know that in 1971, a Damascus school founded by Ozar Hatorah, a Jewish religious education organisation, was named by Syria as having the highest grades in the country?
Did you know that pop singer Jasmine Trias is a descendant of Mariano Trias, the Vice President of the Tejeros Convention?
Did you know that Albert Tillman was the co-founder of the National Association of Underwater Instructors and developed the first university-level recreation and leisure studies program in the United States?
Did you know that Communist Romania's first Finance Minister, Vasile Luca, arrested in 1952 for having opposed the devaluation of the Romanian leu, was rehabilitated five years after his death in prison?
Did you know that Fort Randolph was an American Revolutionary War fort where Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, was murdered in 1777?
Did you know that Mars' south polar ice cap may be melting due to regional climate change?
Did you know that Orsten, fossil-bearing lagerstätten in Sweden and elsewhere, are called "stinking stones" from organic content that has been preserved since the Cambrian Period?
Did you know that Queen Anula of Sri Lanka is believed to have been the first female monarch in Asia?
Did you know that Shō Shōken wrote the first history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in 1650?
Did you know that a body part involved in a seizure can be paralyzed for minutes to days in an event known as Todd's paresis?
Did you know that a reservation, in international law, lets a State avoid or modify an obligation in a signed treaty?
Did you know that speed skater Joey Cheek was the first person to officially play the online game Darfur is Dying?
Did you know that the Alba Bible, one of the earliest translations of the Old Testament into a Romance language, was commissioned with the express intent of promoting tolerance between Christians and Jews?
Did you know that the Old Stone Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and is the oldest building on Public Square?
Did you know that the Rus merchants travelling along the Volga trade route brought goods from Northern Europe and Northwestern Russia as far as Baghdad?
Did you know that Ming Hsieh, whose parents were persecuted under the Cultural Revolution, began learning electrical engineering from his father and went on to develop biometric technology that made him one of the richest people in the world?
Did you know that National Park Seminary, in Forest Glen, Maryland, opened in 1894 as a finishing school, and that its architecturally whimsical campus was annexed by Walter Reed Army Hospital in 1942?
Did you know that The Pizza Tapes contain the only known version of Jerry Garcia performing Amazing Grace which was only played after Tony Rice's wife requested it?
Did you know that ocular ischemic syndrome, due to arterial hypoperfusion, could be an early warning sign of impending stroke?
Did you know that the Battle of Vyazma had a disconcerting impact on the entire Grande Armée, as it spread disorder to the center of Napoleon’s long retreating column of troops?
Did you know that the Råbjerg Mile, a giant sand dune, drifts across Jutland, Denmark at a rate of up to 18 metres a year?
Did you know that Domenico Pino, an Italian General of Division in Napoleon's Grande Armée, married a ballerina and sold the villa in Como that she inherited from her rich first husband to Caroline of Brunswick?
Did you know that Duxton Hill in Singapore used to be a notorious slum area with brothels, opium and gambling dens, but now belongs to a conservation area known as Tanjong Pagar?
Did you know that Roald Dahl Plass, a plaza in Cardiff Bay, has been used as the setting for both Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood?
Did you know that Sail Rock is a federally protected natural monument, located among village health resorts on the eastern shore of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Krai, Russia?
Did you know that The Cenotaph was Singapore's first major war memorial built in memory of the people who gave their lives in World War I, and was unveiled by the young Prince Edward of Wales, later King Edward VIII?
Did you know that The Wild Goose? was a handwritten newspaper read aloud to entertain and encourage the last convicts transported to Australia?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Bertha, the second tropical storm of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season, was one of only 3 tropical cyclones to make landfall on both Louisiana and Texas, with the others being Allison (2001) and Fern (1971)?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Tatar painter Baqi Urmançe painted Islamic calligraphy in the Soviet Union, something which was prohibited?
Did you know that jury nullification became a recognised part of Scots law after Carnegie of Finhaven was found not guilty in his 1728 trial of murdering Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne?
Did you know that purple drank is a mix of codeine-containing cough syrup and soda that was popularized by Southern rap songs, and was implicated in the overdose of a popular rap producer?
Did you know that the Tent City of Persepolis of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy was inspired by the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold meeting between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England?
Did you know that Charles Edward Magoon was appointed as Minister to Panama while already serving as the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to prevent any further disagreements between those two offices?
Did you know that Hood Mountain in California has high canopy mixed oak forests, pygmy forests and expanses of rock outcrop, and also has a vulnerable plant species named for it?
Did you know that Main Market Square in Kraków is one of the biggest medieval market squares in Europe?
Did you know that Matthew Robinson, older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jackie Robinson, was a world-class sprinter and won a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin?
Did you know that Metop-A is the first polar orbiting meteorological satellite launched by Europe, and is the second largest Earth observation satellite built in Europe, after ENVISAT?
Did you know that Milt Gross, writer of comics that used Yiddish-inflected English, also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novel He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too?
Did you know that Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
Did you know that RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap the imprisoned Rudolf Hess?
Did you know that Scottish socialist John McGovern was the treasurer of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, but later became an Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament?
Did you know that during the Mexican-American War, a revolt by the Californio and Mexican residents of Los Angeles forced American Marines to surrender Fort Moore?
Did you know that the  Black Book, a dissident manuscript, was written by Sudanese in a covert cell, who later helped form the rebel Justice and Equality Movement?
Did you know that the Count d'Orsay's poodle inspired Edwin Landseer to paint Laying Down The Law?
Did you know that the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois, a Registered Historic Place, is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?
Did you know that the Peoria State Hospital grounds are said to be haunted by the ghost of "Old Book" who possessed the form of a graveyard elm tree?
Did you know that the Shell Service Station in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was chosen for the National Register of Historic Places as an example of folly architecture, and over $50,000 has been spent restoring it to its original condition?
Did you know that the Valley Forge Pilgrimage, held every year since 1913, is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States?
Did you know that the early musical influences of Austrian jazz-fusion guitarist Alex Machacek, who has been praised by legends like John McLaughlin, included heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and KISS?
Did you know that the history of the late Roman and early Byzantine empires published by British historian Arnold Hugh Martin Jones in 1964 is still considered the definitive narrative of that period?
Did you know that the outside of the Great Western Hospital in Swindon is covered in 7600 m² (9090 sq yd) of cream-coloured precast concrete cladding panels, each weighing around 14 tonnes?
Did you know that Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, nearly thirty years after filming the original?
Did you know that Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic?
Did you know that in 1994, a wild Bottlenose dolphin in Brazil named Tião killed one man and seriously injured a second after they had been harassing the animal?
Did you know that temperance leader William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson lost his right eye after he was captured by a mob of medical students and paraded through the streets of London?
Did you know that the Rhodes blood libel — the accusation that the Jews of Rhodes ritually  murdered a Christian boy in 1840 — enjoyed active support from the consuls of several European countries?
Did you know that the seemingly irrational composition of El Greco's painting Opening of the Fifth Seal is a result of it being trimmed by about two meters in 1880?
Did you know that General Douglas MacArthur's staff threatened United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence with court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese-run firms in the Philippines, and that the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan in early 1942?
Did you know that Henry Ford helped stop construction of a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in order to gain admission to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club?