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Did you know that Vakkom Moulavi was the founder of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned by the Government of Travancore  due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan P. Rajagopalachari?
Did you know that although Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue of him?
Did you know that in 1983, Rich Mountain Community College was formed as a merger of Rich Mountain Vocational-Technical School and Henderson State University's off-campus programs?
Did you know that internet service provider McColo, taken down in November 2008, hosted the world's biggest botnet and was responsible for at least half of all email spam?
Did you know that seven Cornish fishermen sailed to Australia in the lugger Mystery in 1854–55, a journey which is being recreated today by the Spirit of Mystery?
Did you know that the 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake caused four fault scarps that, together, measured 59 kilometres (37 mi)*?
Did you know that the border between Wales and England (The River Dee pictured) has followed broadly the line of Offa's Dyke since the 8th century, but was only finally determined in law in 1972?
Did you know that the death of Charles Gough was depicted in poetry and art by Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Francis Danby and Edwin Landseer?
Did you know that the design of the art nouveau Germania definitive stamp was personally chosen by Emperor Wilhelm II?
Did you know that the recipe for the Tom Collins cocktail first appeared in the 1876 edition of The Bartender's Guide by noted American mixologist Jerry Thomas?
Did you know that the shagreen ray is also known as the "fuller's ray" because its spiny back resembles devices used for fulling cloth?
Did you know that theories about the Shugborough inscription ciphertext include a love message, a biblical verse, a clue to a preserved Jesus bloodline or a reference to the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail?
Did you know that Confederate General Henry C. Wayne gained a First Class Medal of Mammal Division by the Société impériale zoologique d'acclimatation for his introduction of the camel to the United States?
Did you know that Florizel von Reuter, a child prodigy on the violin, later developed psychic interests and wrote books describing communications with dead composers, including Paganini and Rimsky-Korsakov?
Did you know that Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter, international cricketer, novelist and marksman who founded the British Army's sniping school during the First World War?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church, Guildford served as pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Guildford until the consecration of the current cathedral?
Did you know that John Marius Trana went from being an illegal trade union leader during the German occupation of Norway to being chairman of the Norwegian Union of Railway Workers?
Did you know that Lucie Skeaping, a leading exponent and broadcaster on early music, has also worked with contemporary composer Michael Nyman, historian Simon Schama and comedian Ken Dodd?
Did you know that Mount Silverheels was named after a popular dance-hall girl in the now-deserted ghost town Buckskin Joe, Colorado?
Did you know that Norwegian trade unionist Ludvik Buland, sentenced to death by the Nazi authorities in 1941, was later reprieved, only to die in a Nacht und Nebel camp four years later?
Did you know that Sean Payton is the only head coach of the New Orleans Saints to lead the team to a National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game?
Did you know that Sir Kirby Laing served as Deputy Lieutenant of both London and Hertfordshire?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Olivia in 2006 was the eighth tropical cyclone to receive the name Olivia in the Eastern Pacific ocean?
Did you know that U.S. journalist John Whitaker received the Italian War Cross for his coverage of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia but was expelled from Italy in 1941 for critical reports on the fascist regime?
Did you know that a blue Rayon I postage stamp of 1850 is the most expensive Swiss stamp ever sold at auction?
Did you know that employees at radio station WIXI in Jasper, Alabama, reported that for more than 30 years their radio studios were haunted?
Did you know that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon?
Did you know that the .44 Colt revolver cartridge was used in both percussion and centerfire and both  black and smokeless powder loadings?
Did you know that the Convincing Ground massacre of Gunditjmara people in 1833 or 1834 was caused by a dispute over a beached whale?
Did you know that the Esma Sultana Mansion, a multipurpose event venue in Istanbul, Turkey, looks ruined because only its interior was reconstructed after a 1975 fire?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Navy auxiliary patrol boat HMAS Vigilant was the first aluminium ship built in Australia?
Did you know that the Sunburst community, a Southern California commune combining elements of mysticism, Christianity and Hopi rituals, was once one of the largest shippers of organic products in the U.S.?
Did you know that the names of the two main characters of Nicholas Sparks' 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe are a Christmas present to his in-laws?
Did you know that the nematode Capillaria aerophila is a parasite that infests the respiratory system of carnivorous mammals, including dogs and foxes?
Did you know that the oldest known turtle is the 220 million year-old Odontochelys, a prehistoric turtle with teeth and possessing only half a shell?
Did you know that the plant genus Regelia is named after the 19th-century Russian botanist Eduard August von Regel and is found only in Australia?
Did you know that when Kjell Almskog left his job as CEO of Kværner in 2001, he became known for receiving a golden parachute worth 78 million kr?
Did you know that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues?
Did you know that Air Marshal Charles Read broke with tradition by refusing to sit for the usual portrait painted of retiring RAAF Chiefs of the Air Staff?
Did you know that California hunter Seth Kinman, who claimed to have killed over 800 grizzly bears, gave several U.S. Presidents chairs made from grizzly bears and elkhorns?
Did you know that English landscape architect Edward Milner designed three public parks in Preston, Lancashire, as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine in the 1860s?
Did you know that Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa?
Did you know that Hindi is the language used for educational and official matters in Bihari culture?
Did you know that Nicolas Sarrabat, a French scientist and Jesuit, conducted experiments on the circulation of plants, argued that magnetism was caused by a fire at the Earth's centre, and discovered the largest comet ever recorded?
Did you know that Norman Lear's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television?
Did you know that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals, noting that "chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
Did you know that Riccardo Cassin made the first ascent of the Walker Spur of the Grandes Jorasses without initially knowing exactly where the mountain was?
Did you know that Robert J. Morris lost a bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1958, and then ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964 and 1970, losing both times to George H. W. Bush?
Did you know that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?
Did you know that Ueli Maurer, the former president of the nationalist Swiss People's Party, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Swiss governmental election?
Did you know that Women For Sobriety, a group founded in 1976 as an alternative to twelve-step addiction recovery groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, had over 200 chapters as of 1998?
Did you know that after organist Dudley Savage's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
Did you know that during the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Confederate General James Argyle Smith was shot through both thighs and survived?
Did you know that in 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges?
Did you know that species of "cannonball fungi" (genus Sphaerobolus) may forcibly eject their spores a horizontal distance of 6 meters (20 ft)?
Did you know that the Beverly Hills Diet, which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
Did you know that the Handlebar Club (member pictured), a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?
Did you know that the Ineligibility Clause of the U.S. Constitution places limitations upon the ability of members of the U.S. Congress to serve in other branches of the U.S. Federal Government?
Did you know that the Nariman House, which was home to a Chabad house, was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks?
Did you know that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Edgar was forced to fight unsupported for a time during the Battle of Copenhagen after the next ship in line, HMS Agamemnon, ran aground?
Did you know that the Westchester Tornado of July 2006 was the strongest tornado recorded in Westchester County, New York?
Did you know that the first guidebook to the English Lake District was written in 1778 by Catholic priest Thomas West?
Did you know that the police shooting of Rahul Raj, a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
Did you know that when it was completed in 1959, the Narrows Bridge in Perth, Western Australia, was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world?
Did you know that Albert Einstein, according to writer Illana Katz, may have had autism?
Did you know that Byron's 1819 poem Mazeppa inspired paintings by the French artists Eugène Delacroix, Claude-Joseph Vernet, and Théodore Géricault?
Did you know that Congregation Beth Israel, the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church?
Did you know that Diana Mitford had an appendectomy on the spare-bedroom table of the Mitford sisters' childhood home, Asthall Manor near Burford in Oxfordshire, England?
Did you know that French-designed cannons, manufactured in both the North and the South, were the primary artillery weapons of the American Civil War?
Did you know that John F. Kelly's 2003 promotion to brigadier general while in Iraq was the first promotion of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel in a combat zone since Chesty Puller's 1951 Korean War promotion?
Did you know that Kasim Reed, a 2009 Atlanta mayoral candidate, is known for keeping the battle emblem of the Confederate States of America from being considered for inclusion on the Georgia State Flag?
Did you know that Robert Howlett, photographer of the iconic picture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, died from exposure to the arsenic and mercury used in the photographic process?
Did you know that Shigeko Higashikuni was the elder sister of Akihito, the reigning Emperor of Japan?
Did you know that Wahsatch, Utah, established in 1868, was the first of many camps set up in Utah by the Union Pacific Railroad in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad?
Did you know that a St. Andrew's cross was printed in four positions in place of a stamp on each sheet of the 1850 Austrian stamps so that the price would be an even number of Gulden?
Did you know that despite their names, the revolver cartridge .476 Enfield, .455 Webley, .476 Eley, and .455 Colt all interchange?
Did you know that rioting in 2001 involving Christians and Muslims in Jos, Nigeria, caused over 1,000 deaths along with many buildings, cars, and people being burned?
Did you know that south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers, and masons once spoke Meshterski, a secret language that includes many loanwords and metaphors?
Did you know that the Fountain of Qayt Bay, built by the Mamluks in the fifteenth century, has a large reservoir beneath it?
Did you know that the Fremont Canning Company, owned by Frank Daniel Gerber and Daniel Frank Gerber and known for its Gerber Baby logo, pioneered the commercial baby food industry in the U.S.?
Did you know that the German football club Dansk Gymnastik Forening Flensborg, founded in 1923, is a club of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig?
Did you know that the Great Fire of 1922 in the Timiskaming District, Ontario (aftermath pictured), was called one of the ten worst natural disasters in Canadian history?
Did you know that the Panamanian Night Monkey is one of the few monogamous monkey species?
Did you know that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Agamemnon ran aground in both the first and second Battles of Copenhagen, in 1801 and 1807, respectively?
Did you know that the career of Tang Dynasty official Zhao Jing was launched after he was praised for his petition for frugality in the funerals of Emperors Xuanzong and Suzong?
Did you know that the military career of Australian Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch spanned 40 years, including seaplane flying in the 1930s and a tenure as Chief of the Air Staff during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the title of the 1944 race film Go Down Death derives from a poem by the African American writer James Weldon Johnson?
Did you know that Adam Stanisław Grabowski, Prince-Bishop of Warmia, was a patron of the arts and a representative of the Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that Alexander Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman (illustration pictured) has been described as "the best poem written anywhere in the 19th century"?
Did you know that Bob Blake was voted the most popular ice hockey player in Buffalo, New York, in 1941?
Did you know that Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden did not marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard, until 27 years after plans for their marriage were abandoned in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot?
Did you know that Ingrid Semmingsen was the first female professor of history in Norway?
Did you know that James Godkin was simultaneously the chief editor of the Daily Express newspaper and the Dublin correspondent of The Times of London?
Did you know that Paul McCartney's condition for guest starring in The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Vegetarian" was that Lisa, who becomes a vegetarian in the episode, remain one for the rest of the series?
Did you know that Polish sculptor Maria Albin Boniecki practiced his craft even when imprisoned in the Nazi Majdanek concentration camp?
Did you know that Serenity High School, the oldest public substance-abuse recovery high school in Texas, has served students from over 25 area high schools since opening in 1999?
Did you know that Wessagusset Colony was the site of Miles Standish's real-life attack against Native Americans as depicted in Longfellow's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish?
Did you know that William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux  was imprisoned and fined £1,000 by Queen Elizabeth for harbouring the Jesuit Edmund Campion?
Did you know that after executing Caesar Gallus, officer Apodemius grabbed his shoes, ran quickly from Pula to Mediolanum, and threw them at the feet of Roman Emperor Constantius II to prove his cousin's death?
Did you know that as a result of the Saxon Brother War and the subsequent divisions of land, Saxony was no longer one of the most powerful German states?
Did you know that before becoming a professor of the sociology of law, Vilhelm Aubert was a member of the Norwegian anti-Nazi resistance group XU?
Did you know that before serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Brigadier General Stephen Gardner Champlin had his own law practice in Albany, New York?
Did you know that due to the subtly non-local nature of quantum reality, apparent telepathy can be achieved in games between separated players (example pictured)?
Did you know that forage fish (anchovy pictured), which feed the world's great marine predators, are now being removed from the oceans on an industrial scale and fed instead to farmed fish, pigs, and poultry?
Did you know that in 1865, Dr Edward William Pritchard, who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law, became the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow?
Did you know that in 1954, Israel walked out of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission after the commission failed to condemn Jordan for the Scorpion Pass Massacre?
Did you know that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$5-9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company?
Did you know that mathematician Karen Vogtmann co-authored a paper which produced a method for quantifying the difference and computing the distance between two phylogenetic trees?
Did you know that the 1932 National Hunger March, the largest hunger march in the 1920s and 1930s, led to days of widespread violence in central London?
Did you know that the Camp of Great Poland was an interwar fascist-influenced right-wing organization that aimed at toppling the Sanacja-dominated Polish government?
Did you know that the Durham Performing Arts Center opened in November 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas, at a cost of US$48 million?
Did you know that the Erie Land Light was the first lighthouse built by the United States Government on the Great Lakes?
Did you know that the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, England, contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world?
Did you know that the bǎ construction in Chinese grammar has been used to perform neuroimaging studies of language processing and to evaluate theories of construction grammar?
Did you know that the campus of the now-defunct University of Plano included a pagoda that had been the Malaysian pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair?
Did you know that the mid-19th century stone arch Bridge No. 3 over Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania, USA, is listed on the Historic American Engineering Record even though it was destroyed in a 1996 flood?
Did you know that Imero Fiorentino has served as a lighting designer for every U.S. President since Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Did you know that Japanese jūdōka Shokichi Natsui became the first World Judo Champion in 1956?
Did you know that Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India and the only one to have held the office for two terms?
Did you know that Singaporean backstroke swimmer Yip Pin Xiu, who has muscular dystrophy, won a gold and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, setting two world records in the process?
Did you know that Tadeusz Pyka was appointed in 1980 to lead a Polish government commission to negotiate with strikers at Gdańsk, despite vowing that he would have "nothing to do" with the strikers' main representative body?
Did you know that after Caltech eliminated its meteorology department, which was founded and led by Irving P. Krick,  most of the staff left to join Krick's private weather business?
Did you know that during the Crusader era in Palestine, the village of Kafr Lam (fortress pictured) was sold to the Hospitallers by the lord of Caesarea for 16,000 besants?
Did you know that overchoice refers to the situation where when faced with too many choices, people become indecisive and unhappy?
Did you know that plans for the Royal Danish Navy's 1911 Havmanden-class submarines were seized by the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the First World War and used as the basis for their own U-20-class submarines?
Did you know that the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal forced the resignation of Alberta's first Premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford?
Did you know that the Hawaii State Legislature declared October 29, 2005, "Samuel Kamakau Day," in recognition of the Hawaiian scholar who wrote over 200 articles about Hawaiian history?
Did you know that the USS Timbalier, a Barnegat class seaplane tender, served as a postwar cruise ship until 1989?
Did you know that the body of Spence Broughton remained hanging in a gibbet on Attercliffe Common, near Sheffield, for 36 years after his execution for robbery in 1792?
Did you know that the core group of paintings in the Orleans Collection (a Rembrandt pictured) remained together for two centuries in Prague, Stockholm, Rome, Paris and London?
Did you know that the orchid Odontoglossum crispum, first discovered in the Andes Mountains in 1841, was highly sought after in Victorian England, when varieties sold at auction for more than 150 guineas?
Did you know that typical symptoms of Urbach-Wiethe disease, a rare autosomal recessive disease, are a hoarse voice and beaded papules around the eyelids?
Did you know that what became Monster Worldwide, the parent company of the Monster.com jobs website, was started by Andrew McKelvey in 1967 as a Yellow Pages advertising company?
Did you know that when the Worcester Common Outlets shopping mall was completed in 1971, it had the world's largest parking garage?
Did you know that Aleksandr Pushkin's 1827 poem The Gypsies inspired some eighteen operas and six ballets, including Rachmaninoff's Aleko?
Did you know that Clewer Mill Stream, a backwater of the River Thames, used to be out of bounds to boys from nearby Eton College and a punishment of 100 lines could be handed down for going there?
Did you know that Confederate General John W. Frazer surrendered the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War without a fight?
Did you know that David Rubinger was the first photographer to receive the Israel Prize?
Did you know that Emerson Rodwell, a former captain of the Tasmanian cricket team, scored 11,542 runs and took 331 wickets in his club career, as well as earning the Military Medal in Borneo during World War II?
Did you know that Ian Chapman was the first former pupil of The Football Association's School of Excellence to play in The Football League?
Did you know that Jose C. Abriol was the first person to translate the Catholic Bible into Tagalog?
Did you know that Loyal B. Stearns served in the Oregon House of Representatives after his father served there, but before his father served in the Oregon State Senate?
Did you know that Midnight Madness is an annual pep rally-like event that celebrates the first day that U.S. college basketball teams are allowed to practice?
Did you know that after retiring as a footballer, Mike Trusson worked as marketing manager for a football-themed restaurant in London?
Did you know that after the French city of Metz was captured by the U.S. Army in the World War II Battle of Metz, German units in nearby isolated forts continued to hold out?
Did you know that at 700 days, Rob Van Dam had the longest ECW Television Championship reign?
Did you know that historical structures in Yellagonga Regional Park include the City of Wanneroo's oldest residence and an early winery?
Did you know that one bacterial strain of Streptomyces griseus has the capacity to produce up to 34 different secondary metabolites including antibiotics?
Did you know that one of the Roman soldiers in the Mesa Arizona Easter Pageant Jesus the Christ was played by NFL offensive lineman Deuce Lutui?
Did you know that radio station WHAL in Phenix City, Alabama, used to broadcast from a defunct airport terminal?
Did you know that the 1947 film Juke Joint was considered a lost film until a print was located in Tyler, Texas, in 1983?
Did you know that the 1971 restoration of Westbury Court Garden, a 17th-century water garden in Gloucestershire, only used plants that had been introduced to the British Isles before 1700?