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Did you know that most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses?
Did you know that textile arts are those arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct and decorate objects such as clothing, carpets, and curtains?
Did you know that the 1989 Malta Summit between the United States and Soviet Union was held onboard SS Maxim Gorkiy, a Soviet cruise ship that had partially sunk near Svalbard less than six months before?
Did you know that the 20-year tenure of District Attorney Joe Rubio, Jr. was marred by corruption which led to his father having spent more than three years in U.S. federal prison for conspiracy and extortion?
Did you know that the Atlantic Marine ecozone, with its dense fog and massive icebergs, has been feared by mariners who have dubbed its northern extent "Iceberg Alley"?
Did you know that the Métro léger de Tunis, a public transport system using light rail, is the only one of its kind in Africa?
Did you know that the Ormsby-class attack transports USS Ormsby and USS Sheridan earned six battle stars for WWII service apiece, and were both scrapped after accidents in 1969?
Did you know that the fictional character "Thirteen" in the FOX medical drama House is referred to as such on the show's daily call sheets to further propagate an inside joke within the show's narrative?
Did you know that the kiss between Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer on As the World Turns is the first kiss between gay male characters on a daytime American soap opera?
Did you know that the official cause of the Great Fire of 1811, which lasted for three days and burned down the whole Podil neighborhood of Kiev, was children playing with fire?
Did you know that the old block of the Bank of China Building in Singapore was the tallest building in the central business district, Raffles Place, from 1954 till 1974?
Did you know that the small private rooms called cabinets gave rise to the political sense of cabinet, after English monarchs began to discuss matters of state in these settings?
Did you know that traditional Chinese phoenixes in carved reliefs of the Qianling Mausoleum are modeled on ostriches?
Did you know that upon completion, the Mausoleum of Khomeini, under construction since Ayatollah Khomeini died, will have a tourist center, a university and a shopping mall?
Did you know that "are you other?" or "are you other being?" are Inuktitut translations of the name of Ahimaa Cave, hollowed out of a massive cliff by Qamanirjuaq Lake?
Did you know that Academy Award-winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of "The Ruptured Duck," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II?
Did you know that Crookham, a village in England, dates as far back as the Domesday Book, but that it split into Crookham Village and Church Crookham upon the founding of the nearby Christ Church in 1840?
Did you know that Lambda Sigma, a college sophomore honor society originally founded for women only, was required to disband due to Title IX and was reestablished under its current name in 1975?
Did you know that Odd Nansen, son of the famed scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen, founded Nansenhjelpen to help Jewish refugees escape the German invasion of Czechoslovakia to Norway, then survived Sachsenhausen himself?
Did you know that Qabala treasures, monetary treasure troves discovered in Azerbaijan, contain drachmas of Alexander the Great and denarii of four Roman Emperors?
Did you know that Satoru Kobayashi, one of Japan's most prolific directors, wrote and directed the first pink film in 1962?
Did you know that according to John of Ephesus, in 583, Empress Constantina, consort of Maurice, gave birth to the first heir born to a reigning Byzantine Emperor in over 100 years?
Did you know that after Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall resigned, F. Whitten Peters served as acting Secretary of the Air Force for 19 months?
Did you know that early plans for Washington, D.C. had the White House facing a convergence of radial avenues centered on the present-day North Lawn, with gardens descending to Tiber Creek in the present-day South Lawn?
Did you know that film editor Sam O'Steen collaborated on twelve films by Mike Nichols, earning Academy Award editing nominations for Silkwood and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf??
Did you know that historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast, held hostage in Jordan, shot at in Lebanon, kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya?
Did you know that most of Petroleum Road, a privately owned asphalt road in the Golan Heights, is marked on maps as inaccessible to traffic because of poor road quality?
Did you know that the Pine Creek Rail Trail, a 65 mile (105 km) rail trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania, was named one of "10 great places to take a bike tour" in the world by USA Today?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court held in NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. that although employees cannot be fired for exercising their right to strike, they can be "permanently replaced" by strikebreakers?
Did you know that the World War II-era Crescent City class attack transports USS Crescent City and USS Calvert each received ten battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation?
Did you know that the art critic Charles-Nicolas Cochin was a designer and engraver to King Louis XV's Menus-Plaisirs du Roi?
Did you know that the facade of Hitachi Tower in Singapore has three sections which break the verticality of the tower?
Did you know that the murder of Solomon P. Sharp was the inspiration for a number of literary works, including Edgar Allen Poe's Scenes From 'Politian'?
Did you know that the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district?
Did you know that the scientific name of the vase-shaped forest fungus Gomphus floccosus means 'woolly plug'?
Did you know that water from Tin Brook was diverted to create the first canal in New York history?
Did you know that "Palestinian archaeology" can refer to a field of archaeological inquiry known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and more recently, to archaeological research conducted by Palestinians themselves?
Did you know that "quickfire", a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds, was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime?
Did you know that 'HMS Incomparable was a design for a mammoth battlecruiser, proposed by British Admiral Jackie Fisher in 1915, but never built?
Did you know that , in December 2007, the Canadian bobsleigh duo of Pierre Lueders and Justin Kripps were the first people to slide down the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track that will be used for the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Bill Orwig hired Bob Knight as basketball coach at Indiana and has been inducted into the athletic halls of fame at three universities — Indiana, Michigan and Toledo?
Did you know that Burrabazar, in Kolkata, expanded from a yarn and textile market into a large wholesale market?
Did you know that Hans Thomsen, the German Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, D.C. immediately prior to World War II, directed an effort to influence the foreign policy platform of the 1940 Republican National Convention?
Did you know that Holocaust survivor Miles Lerman immigrated to the United States in 1947 and became a major figure behind the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary in Kerala, India, receives migratory birds from far away Siberia?
Did you know that Marie Hartwig, faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1930–1976, was a lifelong advocate for women's sports and one of the first women inducted into the school's Hall of Honor?
Did you know that Masaccio's fresco The Tribute Money is linked to Pope Martin V's 1423 agreement that the Florentine church be subjected to state tax?
Did you know that U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expanded the Human Terrain Team program to match anthropologists with every brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Did you know that University of Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Al Renfrew was the first person to play on a NCAA championship college hockey team and later coach a national champion?
Did you know that about three-quarters of the Oroville-Chico Highway (now Route 149) in California's Sacramento Valley has been absorbed by realignments of Routes 70 and 99?
Did you know that eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?
Did you know that in 1940, the USS American Legion transported a Norwegian Princess to the safety of America, along with a vital Bofors 40mm gun to be used as a mass production prototype?
Did you know that in the Japanese theatrical art known as Taishū engeki, it is not uncommon for fans to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of yen on gifts for the performers?
Did you know that many cellular phone ringtones use Music Macro Language, developed in the 1980s as a means of programming music on personal computers and video game consoles?
Did you know that official mail stamps were first introduced into the U.S. by the USPOD, due to an 1872 Republican election plan, to abolish free franking that 31,933 people were entitled to at a cost of US$5 million?
Did you know that the "sweaty saddle" aroma associated with Shiraz from the New South Wales wine region of the Hunter Valley is actually a wine fault?
Did you know that the Fuji Xerox Towers, a skyscraper in Singapore, was given the 2005 Energy Smart Label Award by the Energy Sustainability Unit and the National Environment Agency?
Did you know that the Port of Mainz was an important war harbour for the Roman fleet from which Roman ships patrolled the Rhine?
Did you know that the USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) ran hazardous support missions to the American garrison on the bitterly contested island of Guadalcanal for over 14 months?
Did you know that the Valens Aqueduct was the major water-providing system of medieval Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul?
Did you know that the fifth growth Bordeaux wine estate of  Château Cantemerle was not included in the original maps from the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855?
Did you know that the first Douglas DC-9 jet airliner to crash was West Coast Airlines Flight 956 in 1966?
Did you know that trains to London ran eastwards from Devonport Kings Road railway station when it opened in 1876, but from 1890 they ran westwards?
Did you know that twelve floors in Springleaf Tower, a skyscraper in Singapore, were sold at S$225 million in October 2007, while nine months earlier, they were sold at S$134 million?
Did you know that when Shiv Chowrasia, a former caddie, won the 2008 Indian Masters golf tournament, he became the third Indian to win a European Tour event?
Did you know that , at a debate on evolution in 1860, Bishop Wilberforce allegedly asked Thomas Huxley if it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey?
Did you know that Australian General George Vasey regretted to have sent a small unit too far without adequate support for the Battle of Kaiapit during World War II and considered himself lucky to have won?
Did you know that Dương Quỳnh Hoa, who socialized with Saigon elites during the Vietnam War, was a communist spy?
Did you know that Fir Island is the main northwest Washington wintering area of 30,000 to 70,000 snow geese that migrate from Wrangel Island in Russia?
Did you know that Francis Bok, who was held as a slave in northern Sudan for ten years, now works as an abolitionist for the American Anti-Slavery Group?
Did you know that Jeff Groscost oversaw the passing of an alternative fuels bill in Arizona whose cost ballooned from $10 million to $140 million?
Did you know that Lingyan Temple in Shandong, China features a nine-storey Song Dynasty pagoda, named the Pizhi Pagoda from the Sanskrit word pratyeka?
Did you know that Momoko Ueda became the youngest golfer in Japan LPGA Tour history to finish first on the money list?
Did you know that Most Rev. S. Arulappa, Archbishop of Hyderabad, was the youngest to be consecrated as a Roman Catholic Archbishop in India?
Did you know that Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Gail Neall was initially so bad that her coach filmed her as an example to other swimmers of what not to do?
Did you know that Otte Wallish calligraphed Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948 and helped design its first coins, but since it as yet had no name, he sketched the first postage stamps for a country called Yehudah?
Did you know that Penny Neer, 1982 AIAW discus champion and one of the top U.S. discus throwers, also blocked 64 shots for the University of Michigan women's basketball team?
Did you know that Red Plague, a poem of Józef Szczepański, commander of Batalion Parasol during the Warsaw Uprising, was banned in the People's Republic of Poland due to its anti-Soviet sentiments?
Did you know that Sergeant James Graham was declared the "bravest man at Waterloo" for closing the North Gate at Hougoumont, an act which Wellington claimed saved the battle?
Did you know that Shirazi wine from the Persian city of Shiraz was white and has nothing to do with the Shiraz grape used to make wine today?
Did you know that South Korean screenwriter and director Byeon Seung-wook spent five years working on the scenario for his 2006 directorial debut film, Solace?
Did you know that Vietnamese politician and dissident Hoang Minh Chinh was jailed twice after criticizing the Communist Party?
Did you know that a heather fire in 1996 revealed many more quern-stones than had been previously known on the ancient quarry site of Wharncliffe Crags?
Did you know that according to Lapsiporno.info, a blacklist of websites compiled by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation included those containing legal pornography?
Did you know that as a protest against what they call "Imperial Manila", the local government of Cebu Province forced all of its schools to sing the Philippine National Anthem in Cebuano instead of Tagalog?
Did you know that before becoming mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania in 1862, Prescott Metcalf started two railroads, numerous manufacturing firms, and was the director of a canal?
Did you know that cleaning up Quassaick Creek convinced Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to make environmental law his lifelong work?
Did you know that forthcoming Tamil film Aegan, starring Ajith Kumar, marks the directorial debut of choreographer Raju Sundaram?
Did you know that in March 2007, about five thousand workers were evacuated from Hong Leong Building in Singapore after tremors originating from Sumatra were felt?
Did you know that of the original 28.9 miles (46.5 km) operated by the Grand Rapids, Belding and Saginaw Railroad, less than 2 miles (3.2 km) remain in use?
Did you know that the Eneabba Stone Arrangement is an Aboriginal stone arrangement once thought to have been associated with survivors of the Vergulde Draeck, a Dutch galleon wrecked on the coast of Australia in 1656?
Did you know that the Simris Runestones include one of the earliest Scandinavian sources that mention Sweden?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy's Harris-class attack transports Leonard Wood, Joseph T. Dickman and J. Franklin Bell were all named after U.S. Army generals?
Did you know that the artillery of the Nguyen Lords was so strong that cannons were placed at 4 m intervals along a 12 km defensive wall to repel the rival Trinh Lords of Vietnam?
Did you know that the bobsleigh and luge track used for the 1992 Winter Olympics has 80 km (50 mi) of ammonia refrigeration piping and 40 km (25 mi) of electrical conduit running though its 6,500 m3 (8,500 cu yd) of concrete?
Did you know that the film crew of the forthcoming Tamil film, Kanthaswamy adopted two villages near Madurai to give film profits to?
Did you know that the origins of Pak Khlong Talat, the primary flower market in Bangkok, Thailand, date to the 1700s?
Did you know that the rooflines of the newest school in the Cornwall Central School District mimic the surrounding hills in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York?
Did you know that two 79th Academy Award Best Visual Effects nominees employed mathematician Ronald Fedkiw's model for their special effects?
Did you know that 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Quiana Grant served for four years as her mother's eyes while the latter underwent a series of corrective surgeries for chorioretinitis?
Did you know that Archduke Felix of Austria was once barred from entering Austria, and he held a news conference to announce his illegal arrival the day after sneaking in from Germany in 1996?
Did you know that Brest Fortress in Belarus was belatedly honoured by the USSR as a Hero Fortress in 1965 for its resistance to the Nazi invasion in 1941?
Did you know that De brief voor de koning (The Letter for the King) by Tonke Dragt was chosen in 2004 by the judges of the Gouden Griffel as the best Dutch children's novel of the past fifty years?
Did you know that Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels created illustrations of the life of the nuns of the abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs, shortly before it was closed on the orders of Pope Clement XI?
Did you know that Martin Corry, a Fianna Fáil TD for over 40 years, once suggested in the Dáil the use of poison gas to end the Partition of Ireland?
Did you know that Romany Marie's café was a bohemian hangout in Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists, visionaries, and other intellectuals from the 1910s through the 1950s?
Did you know that Singaporean artist Chua Ek Kay’s ink paintings blended traditional Chinese painting forms and Western art theories and techniques?
Did you know that Tibbia College, with 84 patents in herbal medicine, is the only medical institution in India to offer education and training in two ancient systems of medicine, Ayurveda and Unaani?
Did you know that U.S. politician William Waldo served as a county judge in Oregon after his younger brother served on the Oregon Supreme Court?
Did you know that due to its numerous attractions such as Lal Bagh, Bangalore, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka, is known as the "Garden City of India"?
Did you know that during the construction of Centennial Tower in Singapore, the tower rose 20 storeys in just three months?
Did you know that four of the five ships operated by the Hamburg Atlantic Line and their successors were named Hanseatic at some point of their tenure in the company?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court case Holloway v. United States sought to establish whether the Federal carjacking law applies to crimes committed with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who refuse a carjacker's demands?
Did you know that the Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States, making its owner Ted Turner the biggest private land owner in the country?
Did you know that the battle of the Dukla Pass was one of the bloodiest battles in Slovakia's history?
Did you know that the plot of the Lost episode "The Economist" was compared to the Book of Daniel, the TV series Alias, and the film Assassins?
Did you know that the sQuba, developed by Swiss company Rinspeed, is the world's first car that can be driven both on land and under water?
Did you know that the second movement of Symphony No. 21 in A major by Joseph Haydn has a mirror recapitulation, which is unusual for both a work of Haydn's and a symphony?
Did you know that three Queens of England  and several British nobles were beheaded in Tower Green, a space within the Tower of London?
Did you know that white nose syndrome has caused a mortality rate of over 90% of bats in some caves?
Did you know that 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Melissa Haro was the youngest fashion model contestant on the first season of Project Runway?
Did you know that British actress Anastasia Griffith spoke only in an American accent while auditioning for an American character on Damages?
Did you know that California's four-lane Bayshore Highway, now a freeway, was built to high standards in the 1920s and '30s, but was called "Bloody Bayshore" because of the number of crashes?
Did you know that Family Moving Day was the last entry in Beechwood Bunny Tales, a series of children's books written by French author Geneviève Huriet, to be translated into English?
Did you know that François de Troy was admitted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with a reception piece called Mercury cutting off the head of Argus?
Did you know that French miniature painter Jacquemart de Hesdin is noted for his marginalia (example pictured), shapes of animals and foliage which give manuscript pages a frame?
Did you know that Oregon judge William Gilbert opposed Joseph McKenna's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court after the two had served together on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals?
Did you know that Oregonian newspaper co-founder William Chapman served in the first session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature and was Iowa Territory's first delegate to the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that Sparrenberg Castle in Bielefeld, Germany, was built before 1250 by the counts of Ravensberg?
Did you know that Tony Spear, a leader of the Mars Pathfinder project, is now working to pursue the Google Lunar X Prize?
Did you know that a significant number of Iraqis have emigrated to Russia as early as the 1990s?
Did you know that after a recent shooting at Northern Illinois University, a report of a possible gunman on campus was posted on the school's website within 20 minutes?
Did you know that after bad reviews, the distributors of the 1992 animated film The Princess and the Goblin used enthusiastic comments from children in its promotional material?
Did you know that after the Chester Town Hall was officially opened in 1869 in Chester, England to replace an earlier building burnt down in 1862, another fire destroyed the council chamber in 1897?
Did you know that although London and South Western Railway passenger trains first arrived in Plymouth, England in 1876, its Plymouth Friary railway station terminus was not opened until 1891?
Did you know that computer simulation techniques were used to review the design of One Marina Boulevard in Singapore?
Did you know that former England under-21 goalkeeper Lee Grant has been described by Owls manager Brian Laws as "probably the most outstanding keeper" in the Championship?
Did you know that four countries are working together with Israelis and Palestinians to create a range of new cooperative economic projects to foster peace, in the Valley of Peace initiative?
Did you know that in the 250-year-old Durga Puja of Shobhabazar palace, the goddess (statue pictured) was offered homemade sweets because non-Brahmin patrons were not allowed to offer rice?
Did you know that moss of the genus Polytrichum has adapted to trap moist air between rows of lamellae?
Did you know that multiple-award winning Indian film Vanaja, which could not be screened in India because it found no takers, was the Master of Fine Arts thesis of its director, Rajnesh Domalpalli?
Did you know that paperback rights to Gay Talese's 1971 non-fiction novel about the Bonanno crime family, Honor Thy Father, sold for more money than the paperback rights to Mario Puzo's The Godfather?
Did you know that the 9,000 ton McCawley-class attack transport USS McCawley was accidentally sunk during the Solomons campaign in 1943 by friendly fire?
Did you know that the American tennis player Michael Leach gained national rankings in doubles playing with his father?
Did you know that the England national football team has only had fifteen managers since the position was made a full-time post in 1946?
Did you know that the Heywood class attack transport USS William P. Biddle rescued survivors from four US Navy troopships torpedoed during Operation Torch?
Did you know that the Islamic prophet Muhammad, while in Mecca, was a merchant involved in trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?