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Did you know that rebels from the South Vietnamese army fought the loyalists of Ngo Dinh Diem for the Presidential Palace in a 1963 coup, not realising that Diem had escaped through a tunnel in an attempt to evade capture?
Did you know that the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has made rainwater harvesting mandatory to address a critical water shortage?
Did you know that the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers lost 8,000 of its 15,000 members when Jamaica restructured local government services in 1984?
Did you know that the Roman emperor Augustus prevented Vedius Pollio from feeding a slave to his lampreys as punishment for breaking a glass?
Did you know that the Solar Sentinels, a NASA spacecraft designed to study the Sun, will have to survive at distances from the Sun only one-quarter of Earth's distance?
Did you know that the Tai chi classics are manuscripts and commentaries that are used as standards for the correct study and practice of the art of tai chi chuan?
Did you know that the annual Suicide Race is a horse race where riders charge down a 225-foot (70m) slope at a 62-degree angle into and through the Okanogan River?
Did you know that the dioptic lens at Start Point lighthouse was the first of this kind to be used by Trinity House?
Did you know that the first match between the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and the Wisconsin Badgers took place in 1890, starting the most played rivalry at the top level of NCAA competition?
Did you know that Dele Olojede's 2004 reports from Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan Genocide led him to become the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize?
Did you know that Howard Judd developed objective measures of the hot flushes experienced in menopause, which were later used to assess the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy?
Did you know that Prabhat Kalavidaru, a theatre group based in Bangalore, has performed the fairytale Cinderella over 1000 times since 1977 and that a few artists have acted in each of those performances?
Did you know that Robert E. Murray, a partial owner of Crandall Canyon Mine, which recently collapsed trapping six workers, says he was himself once trapped in a collapsed mine for 12 hours?
Did you know that Swiss-born peasant farmer Pierre Nicholas Dorsaz led Napoleon and his army of over 60,000 men, cavalry and artillery through the Alps to Italy in 1800 as part of a plan to surprise the Austrians there?
Did you know that Walter Braithwaite, who was dismissed for incompetence following the Battle of Gallipoli, was later commissioned to write an official report on the effectiveness of British staff officers during World War I?
Did you know that according to Allied military intelligence, the  27th Infantry Division was one of the very best German divisions in World War I?
Did you know that amygdalohippocampectomy is the removal of the hippocampus  and amygdala?
Did you know that epistemology questions how we know, while agnotology questions why we do not know?
Did you know that in his Pulitzer Prize-winning career as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, William Tuohy covered the Tet Offensive, the Fall of Saigon, The Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Did you know that in order to encourage more people to move from North to South Vietnam during the partition of 1954, CIA agent Edward Lansdale spread false rumors of a nuclear attack on the Communist north?
Did you know that the Baths of Zeuxippus, built sometime around the 1st century CE in Constantinople, housed over 80 statues of important historical figures like Aristotle, Homer, Plato and Julius Caesar?
Did you know that the Golden Mile Complex, which was designed as an avant-garde building with a stepped terrace structure, was once described as a "vertical slum" by a Singapore Nominated Member of Parliament?
Did you know that the Web encyclopedia glbtq.com has almost 2,000 entries categorized into Arts, Literature, and History and Social Sciences—and was called "the Britanniqueer Encyclopedia" by The Advocate?
Did you know that the first trade union in Botswana was not recognised by the ruling Bechuanaland Protectorate until 1964, 16 years after its formation?
Did you know that the only Egyptian Revival mausoleum to feature both a pyramid and a mastaba is found in Newburgh, New York's Old Town Cemetery?
Did you know that the perpetrators of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history spent almost all the US$6.7 million they embezzled on lottery tickets, in the hope of winning back even more than they had stolen?
Did you know that the social reform organization Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz has been labeled "un-Islamic" by upper caste Muslims?
Did you know that the use of Congreve rockets during the bombardment of Fort McHenry led to the line, "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" in the "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States?
Did you know that American pool player Jimmy Wetch gave up life as a road player and went pro after he was robbed of his winnings at gunpoint in 1993?
Did you know that Antonio Bagioli, musical director for one of the first Italian  opera companies to tour the United States, stayed behind for love, rather than continuing on to Cuba?
Did you know that Balfour, Orkney was built in 1782 to house tenants evicted to make way for the house now called Balfour Castle, then partly demolished later to improve the castle's view?
Did you know that Czech amateur astronomer Kamil Hornoch has discovered over 40 extragalactic supernovae?
Did you know that Epiphanius, Bishop of Pavia from 466 to 496, often influenced and changed the tides of war as a result of his negotiations with numerous war leaders?
Did you know that Ion Calvocoressi won an immediate Military Cross in Libya in 1942, and was married to the sister of Ludovic Kennedy for over 60 years?
Did you know that Rangayana is the only repertory in India that is sponsored by the government?
Did you know that Salvation Army officer Sir Arthur McIlveen was known for playing a phonograph in the battlefields of World War II, and was the unofficial padre to many brigades?
Did you know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem “Kubla Khan” drew inspiration from Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark?
Did you know that Susan Kiefel is only the third woman appointed to the bench of the High Court of Australia?
Did you know that Theudimer who signed the Treaty of Orihuela with the Moors conquering Spain was the same Visigothic count who had defended the peninsula from the Byzantine navy a decade or so earlier?
Did you know that Vasanta Habba, an annual cultural event organised by Nrityagram in Bangalore, is considered to be the classical Woodstock of India?
Did you know that advocates for pregnant patients' rights in the United States urge that a pregnant woman be allowed the company of her partner, friends, and/or family for emotional support during labor and delivery?
Did you know that chess grandmaster Yasser Seirawan invented a new chess variant in 2007, Seirawan chess, which features two new pieces to the chess: elephant and hawk?
Did you know that portal hypertensive gastropathy, (example pictured) a condition seen in patients with liver cirrhosis, makes the surface of the stomach look like the skin of a snake?
Did you know that the Amman Message was a statement issued by King Abdullah II of Jordan calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world?
Did you know that the Apple River Fort near Elizabeth, Illinois was completed in about one week during the Black Hawk War of 1832?
Did you know that the Protector lock, a lock design by  A. C. Hobbs, which was said by Hobbs himself to be impossible to crack, was defeated only one or two years after its patenting?
Did you know that the six permutations of the vector (1,2,3) form a hexagon in 3d space, the 24 permutations of (1,2,3,4) form a truncated octahedron in four dimensions, and both are examples of permutohedra?
Did you know that with Calcutta developing in the 18th century, the Janbazar neighbourhood was gradually taken over by the Portuguese, Armenians, half-castes and others, to become a grey area between Black and White Towns?
Did you know that 19th-century American poet Thomas Holley Chivers accused his former friend Edgar Allan Poe of plagiarizing "The Raven" and "Ulalume" from his own work?
Did you know that 19th-century U.S. Congressman Thomas D. English had an ongoing feud with Edgar Allan Poe, which inspired "The Cask of Amontillado"?
Did you know that Hinduism describes the peacock as the vehicle of several gods, including Ganesh, Skanda and Sarasvati?
Did you know that Jewish Croatian sculptor Oscar Nemon settled in England, and is best known for his many public statues of Sir Winston Churchill (example pictured)?
Did you know that U.S. Senator Carl Hayden once used an Apperson Jack Rabbit to pursue and capture two train robbers?
Did you know that dead bodies in Britain were often transported along special corpse roads?
Did you know that in 1924 Baptist  minister Herbert Dunnico became the first British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) to vote against a Labour government?
Did you know that one reason for the African Wild Dog name controversy is that endangered African Wild Dogs are being confused with feral domestic dogs?
Did you know that plant morphology is the science of the physical form and external structure of plants?
Did you know that the Black Hawk Tree in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin was so revered that it grew from the middle of a road without being cut down?
Did you know that the Double Seven Day scuffle was a fight in Saigon in 1963 between South Vietnamese secret police and journalists covering the Buddhist crisis?
Did you know that the Italian conquest of British Somaliland was the only successful Italian campaign of World War II without German support?
Did you know that the Spanish Paralympic basketball team were stripped of their gold medals from the 2000 Sydney Games because ten of their players did not have a disability?
Did you know that the Top 14 competition in French rugby union will test a change to the sport's bonus point system in the upcoming 2007-08 season?
Did you know that the first Festival of the Flowers in Medellín, Colombia took place in May in 1957 but was moved to August the following year to celebrate the independence of Antioquia?
Did you know that the lament of Jheronimus Vinders on the death of Josquin des Prez has been used for a computer game in modern times?
Did you know that the landscape architecture design projects of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. read like a guide to the National Park Service-managed sites of Washington, D.C.: National Mall, Jefferson Memorial, White House grounds, and Rock Creek Park?
Did you know that the tiyanak is an infant-like creature from Philippine mythology that is said to attack tourists with its fangs and claws?
Did you know that Byron's poem Darkness was written based on predictions that the sun would burn out on July 18 1816?
Did you know that Lakeridge Health Whitby was the first combination medical hospital and psychiatric hospital in North America?
Did you know that Lutgardis is reported as having levitated and dripped blood from her forehead when entranced?
Did you know that Sir Arthur Wellesley referred to the Battle of Sabugal as "one of the most glorious that British troops were ever engaged in"?
Did you know that Socrates, the last defender of orality in ancient Greece, denounced writing as 'inhuman' because it weakened the mind, the memory and the prospects for finding truth through dialogue?
Did you know that Stillman Creek became ironically known as "Stillman's Run" following the 1832 Isaiah Stillman-led debacle at the Battle of Stillman's Run?
Did you know that as a result of the 1832 Sinsinawa Mound raid the residents of Platteville, Wisconsin nearly fled to Galena, Illinois?
Did you know that matron literature is also known as hen lit, a play on the notion that it is chick lit for older women?
Did you know that the Bulldog Bash, one of the largest motorcycle festivals in Europe, was originally organized by the Hells Angels motorcycle club for bikers?
Did you know that under Archbishop Alwyn Rice Jones, the Church of Wales reformed its rules to permit the ordination of women priests and to allow divorcees to remarry in church?
Did you know that Albert F. A. L. Jones, awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1987 for his services to astronomy, is an amateur astronomer in New Zealand?
Did you know that Bob McGrory managed the English football team Stoke City for a period of 17 years, having previously played for the club for 14 years?
Did you know that Cable 243 by the Kennedy administration, which authorised preparations for a coup against South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, came after Kennedy's advisers signed off, wrongly believing that Kennedy had already approved?
Did you know that Erik Chisholm, former dean and director of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, was a Scottish musician often known as "Scotland’s forgotten composer"?
Did you know that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in both licensed and unlicensed versions?
Did you know that Major League Baseball for Nintendo was the first ever video game licensed by the MLB?
Did you know that Maria Longworth Nichols Storer became the first American woman to found a music festival when she planned and raised money for the now annually celebrated Cincinnati May Festival?
Did you know that Oscar Monnig donated one of the largest private collections of meteorites to Texas Christian University?
Did you know that Singaporean anime distributor Odex is asking for legal settlements from children as young as nine years old for copyright infringement through file-sharing?
Did you know that William Joseph Snelling, one of the first American realists, wrote the earliest accurate literary portrayal of the lifestyle of Plains Indians?
Did you know that causing a stack buffer overflow is one of the oldest and most reliable methods for hackers to gain unauthorized access to a computer?
Did you know that following the militia victory at the 1832 Battle of Horseshoe Bend (battlefield pictured) men under Colonel Henry Dodge scalped the eleven dead Kickapoo warriors?
Did you know that in 1991 Heinz Barth, former Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS, was granted a "war victim" pension while in jail for war crimes for involvement in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944?
Did you know that militia company commander John Giles Adams may have been killed by his own men during the 1832 Black Hawk War as he tried to order them to battle?
Did you know that the 42nd Infantry Division was formed in 1912, fought both on the Eastern and Western Fronts of World War I, and was the last regular division created in the Imperial German Army?
Did you know that the Latécoère 611, a reconnaissance flying boat for the Vichy French Navy, switched sides and joined the Free French after the Allied Invasion of North Africa in 1942?
Did you know that the Malinta Tunnel, a bomb-proof bunker on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines, was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and lined with concrete bought from the Japanese?
Did you know that the Zip to Zap, originally intended as a 1969 spring break alternative in Zap, North Dakota, was the only riot quelled by the National Guard in the history of North Dakota?
Did you know that the early settlers of Savanna, Illinois fended off a Native American attack in a bloodless battle known as the Plum River raid?
Did you know that the heart of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức remained intact after his self-immolation in response to the religious policies of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, leading Buddhists to regard him as a bodhisattva?
Did you know that the location of William D. Brown's Lone Tree Ferry landing, which prompted the founding of Omaha, Nebraska, was lost to historians until 2004?
Did you know that the tower of Paul Rudolph's The Concourse is octagonal in plan, as the number "8" is associated with prosperity in Chinese culture?
Did you know that when John Kuester became head men's basketball coach at Boston University, he was the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I?
Did you know that 62 people died in a fire on the sets of the TV serial The Sword of Tipu Sultan in Mysore, India?
Did you know that A Tragedy by 19th century poet, singer and composer Theo Marzials is frequently referred to as the worst poem ever written in the English language?
Did you know that Adolf Hitler served in the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division during World War I?
Did you know that Harlem on the Prairie, a 1937 race movie, is billed as the first "all-colored" western musical?
Did you know that James D. Henry died four days after the people of New Salem, Illinois supported him for the office of Governor of Illinois?
Did you know that Labour Party politician Ruth Dalton, who was the shortest-serving female MP in British history, represented Bishop Auckland for 92 days?
Did you know that Michiel Daniel Overbeek was the first amateur astronomer to detect supernova-related gamma ray burst effects?
Did you know that Murray's Ranch, a former guest ranch in Apple Valley, California, was unique in that it was owned by African-Americans and catered primarily to an African-American clientele?
Did you know that St. Mary's Basilica is the oldest church in Bangalore and the only basilica in the Indian state of Karnataka?
Did you know that a clock tower added to the old Washington County Courthouse in 1891 did not have a working clock?
Did you know that before the Hôtel de la Chambre was constructed in 1860, Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies used various meeting places, including a primary school in the town of Ettelbruck?
Did you know that in 1945, Congregationalist minister Geoffrey Nuttall became only the second nonconformist theologian to become a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford?
Did you know that six months after his nomination James W. Stephenson was forced to withdraw from the 1838 election for Governor of Illinois?
Did you know that the Central Fells, a group of hills in the English Lake District (Eagle Crag pictured), are generally lower than the surrounding hills?
Did you know that the Chicago-based Lincoln Towing Service uses satellite tracking to provide towing services for landlords with tenant parking problems?
Did you know that the Japanese science fiction film I.K.U. was the first pornographic film ever screened in the Sundance Film Festival?
Did you know that the U.S. government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that during an outbreak of an itch mite in August 2004, 54 percent of Crawford County, Kansas suffered from bites?
Did you know that the famous portrait "Pinkie" by Thomas Lawrence depicts poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's aunt?
Did you know that under English criminal law, intoxication is technically not a defence, but can negate the mens rea for specific intent offences?
Did you know that DeWitty, the largest African American village ever founded in Nebraska, existed for only 29 years?
Did you know that Jakob Künzler was an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide, the subject of his 1921 book In the Land of Blood and Tears?
Did you know that Kentucky lieutenant governor John W. Stevenson ascended to the governorship following the death of sitting governor John L. Helm just five days into his term?
Did you know that Roosevelt's World War I volunteers, a unit similar to Roosevelt's Rough Riders of the Spanish-American War, were authorized by the U.S. Congress to fight in France in 1917, but President Woodrow Wilson refused?
Did you know that Takakia is a genus of moss first discovered in the Himalayas in 1861, but no fertile plants were known until collected in 1993 in the Aleutian Islands?
Did you know that in group theory, a word is any written product of group elements and their inverses?
Did you know that several universities now offer courses on the politics of Harry Potter?
Did you know that the Mosque of Amr in Fustat, originally built in 642 CE, was the first mosque ever built in Egypt?
Did you know that the SMS Hannover and her four sister ships represented the last Deutschland class pre-dreadnought battleships?
Did you know that the Thomas Wilson, a whaleback freighter, was the last such freighter built without hatch coamings?
Did you know that the construction of the John T. Loughran Bridge in Kingston, New York, led to the creation of the Rondout-West Strand Historic District?
Did you know that the first customer of the Maine Diner, which has been featured on NBC's Today Show, crashed into a pole in the parking lot?
Did you know that the mud shrimp Pestarella tyrrhena has been used as bait by fishermen for over 200 years?
Did you know that while Sanskrit is the liturgical language for many Indian religions, only one daily newspaper, the Sudharma, uses it?
Did you know that while the first union was founded in 1927, Tanzania did not have a significant labor movement until the 1940s?
Did you know that 159 soldiers of the Malay Regiment  fought against a 13,000-strong Japanese force to defend a hill position in Singapore’s Kent Ridge Park?
Did you know that Al Hopkins and his group The Hill Billies originated the term "hillbilly music", and were the first to play country music for a United States president and the first to play country in a film?
Did you know that American musician Wade Mainer is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass?
Did you know that Arkhyz is the site of a former world's largest telescope and the oldest functioning church in Russia?
Did you know that David Yudelman asserts that South African Apartheid predates the traditional demarcation of the National Party's 1948 rise to power?
Did you know that Eleanor Davies-Colley was the first woman admitted as fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England?
Did you know that Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for The New Yorker, was convinced to write for The Atlantic Monthly when publisher David G. Bradley purchased ponies for Goldberg's children?
Did you know that Les Chouans, Honoré de Balzac's novel about royalist forces in France, was the first book he published without using a nom de plume?
Did you know that Major League Baseball relief pitcher Ramón Peña, younger brother of All-Star catcher Tony Peña, allowed no home runs to any of the 88 batters he faced despite 6.00 career earned run average?
Did you know that Swiss pharmacologist Hartmann F. Stähelin led the R&D of both the anti-cancer drug etoposide and cyclosporine A, an immunosuppressant used in organ transplantation?
Did you know that U.S. Representative John Y. Brown was censured by his peers for unparliamentary language during a speech denouncing General Benjamin F. Butler?
Did you know that a ditch excavated to fend off marauding Maratha soldiers, was filled up when the city was never attacked, to form a road from Shyambazar's five-point crossing?
Did you know that although an Iron Workers union member planted the dynamite in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, the 21 people who died in the explosion and fire were all workers and not managers?
Did you know that approximately 10,000 people were sent to an emergency field hospital at a quarantine station on Ninoshima, an island near Hiroshima, following the atomic bombing in 1945?
Did you know that arms, munitions, and Vietcong documents were planted prior to raids on South Vietnam's Buddhist pagodas as a pretext to crush protests over religious discrimination?
Did you know that as an Illinois State Senator James M. Strode introduced legislation authorizing a loan used to begin construction on the Illinois and Michigan Canal?
Did you know that during the Russo-Japanese War, the London Times refitted the Chinese ship Haimun, creating the world's first ship dedicated to war correspondence covering the on-going naval battles?
Did you know that in the 1990s, business process outsourcing company PeopleSupport gave their employees job titles such as gladiator, crusader, and marketing mechanic?