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Did you know that in the Battle of Kissoué during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II, the outnumbered defenders at Quneitra, Syria surrendered because they ran out of ammunition?
Did you know that the Austrian Rieger Orgelbau and Czech Rieger-Kloss are two organ-building firms formed after World War II with origins in a single company?
Did you know that the Church Slavonic word for "nativity scene" has come to denote "the den of depravity" in modern Russian?
Did you know that the Darjeeling Ropeway was stopped on 19 October 2003 after four tourists were killed in an accident?
Did you know that the PS Moyie was the last working sternwheeler in Canada and is the oldest intact sternwheeler in the world?
Did you know that the developer of the Mendota Hills Wind Farm provided landowners with contracts for up to $1,500 per megawatt of electricity produced by wind turbines on their land?
Did you know that the first poet in the Russian language, Symeon of Polotsk, was ethnically Belarusian?
Did you know that the inmates of San Pedro prison run a hotel for visiting tourists and sell cocaine to the local community?
Did you know that the novel Pioneer, Go Home! (adapted into the Elvis movie Follow that Dream) was inspired by squatters who settled on land created when Florida built a bridge to Pine Island?
Did you know that the pentadic numbers on the Spirit Pond runestones have led to speculation that they contain an authentic record of Thorfinn Karlsefni's expedition to Maine in 1010?
Did you know that the prehistoric marine reptile Excalibosaurus was named after King Arthur's sword because of the sword-like appearance of its upper jaw?
Did you know that the proglacial lakes of Minnesota were massive freshwater lakes covering many times the area of the Great Lakes at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation?
Did you know that the staff of the mayor of Mirik, West Bengal vowed to spend a month's salary in SMS voting for Indian Idol contestant Prashant Tamang, the first finalist of Nepalese descent?
Did you know that the words "Never Again" were supposedly inscribed in English and Hebrew on the first warhead from Israel's nuclear program?
Did you know that though George Bernard Shaw called fellow Edwardian playwright St John Hankin’s death "a public calamity," his work was largely neglected until the 1990s?
Did you know that when the Italian medalist and sculptor Leone Leoni was accused of counterfeiting by Pope Paul III's jeweler in 1540, he came so close to killing the man that he was sent to the galleys?
Did you know that Dr. Henry Woodward was the first British colonist of colonial South Carolina?
Did you know that Fernando Amorsolo was the first Filipino to be distinguished as a National Artist of the Philippines in painting?
Did you know that Hindus in the ancient Tamil country worshipped different deities depending on the landscape of the region they lived in?
Did you know that In Nomine Domini, promulgated by Pope Nicholas II in 1059, established cardinal-bishops as the sole electors of the pope?
Did you know that Joseph Jukes, an English-born colonial Australian geologist, sketched the very first complete map of Australia?
Did you know that Laurence Mancuso was the founding abbot of the Eastern Orthodox monastic community of New Skete, which is known for its dog training?
Did you know that Operation Salaam was a World War II covert operation led by the aristocratic explorer László Almásy to insert two German spies into British-held Cairo?
Did you know that Saint Maximilian Kolbe sacrificed his life at Auschwitz to save the life of Polish Army sergeant Franciszek Gajowniczek?
Did you know that Texas Tech track and field runner Sally Kipyego is the first Kenyan woman to win an NCAA cross country individual championship?
Did you know that Yavapai is an overarching term for four distinct tribes of Native Americans from central Arizona?
Did you know that authorship of a research article in fields such as genome sequencing and particle physics is sometimes claimed by over 100 scientists?
Did you know that the Battle of Damascus was the final action of the Allied advance on Damascus in Syria during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II?
Did you know that the Moldavian intellectual Gheorghe Asachi opposed his country's union with Wallachia and endorsed the pro-separatist electoral fraud of June 1857?
Did you know that the Pub Design Awards are annually given to exceptional pubs in the UK that have undergone construction work?
Did you know that the WWF in 1986 introduced a stable of masked wrestlers to keep the injured wrestler Andre the Giant on television, but off the ring?
Did you know that the first shot fired by British Empire forces in World War I was targeted at the German ship Pfalz which was departing Melbourne, Australia as Britain declared war on Germany?
Did you know that the four state-owned Regional Health Authorities run all the public hospitals in Norway?
Did you know that the last territorial expansion of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, took place in 1972, creating Greater Bratislava with the 17 current boroughs?
Did you know that the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, prematurely announced the death of Bishop Donald Trautman?
Did you know that 4th century martyr Emygdius is said to have carried his own severed head away after being decapitated?
Did you know that American systems theorist Debora Hammond explores new ways of thinking about complex systems that support more participatory forms of social organization?
Did you know that Bill Apiata of the Special Air Service of New Zealand was the first ever recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand?
Did you know that Birtles Shorrock Goble, the founders and original singers/songwriters of Little River Band, are legally prevented from using that band name?
Did you know that Charles A. Johns went from being a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court to a justice on the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1921?
Did you know that Crystle Stewart won the Miss Texas USA title on her fifth attempt, after placing first runner-up for two consecutive years?
Did you know that Moffat Library in Washingtonville, New York, was formally opened in 1887 but did not have any books until bookcases were bought a year later?
Did you know that Sir Richard Garth was a barrister, MP, Privy Counsellor and Chief Justice of Bengal as well as Lord of the Manor of Morden?
Did you know that Wing Commander George H. Stainforth AFC RAF was the first man to exceed 400 mph in an aircraft?
Did you know that during the Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982, future leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy wore a sandwich board reading "The real Roy Jenkins is number 5"?
Did you know that former professional boxer Giichi Nishihara was the writer-director of such Japanese cult pink films of the 1960s and 1970s as Abnormal Reaction: Ecstasy and Grotesque Perverted Slaughter?
Did you know that in 1942 survivors of the British submarine P36 were shipwrecked again less than six weeks later when the submarine HMS Olympus hit a mine off Malta?
Did you know that national service in Cuba's law enforcement agencies is regarded as more dangerous than serving in the country's armed forces?
Did you know that news of the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar was reported in the Gibraltar Chronicle a fortnight before it reached England?
Did you know that only two of the fourteen French cardinals were in Italy at the start of the papal conclave, 1549-1550 because a clause of the Concordat of Bologna allowed the pope to redistribute their benefices if they died in Rome?
Did you know that students at Iowa State University are traditionally not considered "true Iowa Staters" until after they have been kissed underneath the Campanile at the stroke of midnight?
Did you know that the First National Bank of Omaha, founded by Herman Kountze, is a privately held company in its sixth generation of family ownership?
Did you know that the Victoria Cross for Australia, instituted in 1991 as the highest award for gallantry that can be awarded to Australian military personnel, has yet to be awarded to anyone?
Did you know that there are fords at Illinois' White Pines Forest State Park (crossing pictured) allowing visitors to drive through the stream?
Did you know that Angola gained its independence from Portugal through the Alvor Agreement?
Did you know that Claude Pompidou was responsible for choosing much of the art for the Centre Georges Pompidou, named after her husband?
Did you know that Estonia joined World War II in 1940, after the Soviet Union blockaded the country, a Finnish airliner was shot down and three diplomatic couriers were killed?
Did you know that Fumio Kyuma resigned as Japanese Minister for Defense over statements that the atomic bombing of Nagasaki "could not be helped" while also representing Nagasaki in the Diet of Japan?
Did you know that Halsey Ives was involved in six world's fairs, directed the art departments of two of them, and was the first director of the Saint Louis Art Museum?
Did you know that Luxembourg City Hall was constructed while all of Luxembourg outside the capital was controlled by rebel forces?
Did you know that Salazar's associate Fernando Santos Costa was appointed Deputy Minister of War while holding only the junior rank of captain?
Did you know that Vibhuti Narayan Singh was the last king of the ancient city Benares?
Did you know that a portion of Connecticut Route 108 was part of an early highway system in the town of Stratford, Connecticut?
Did you know that airman Timothy Tovell smuggled a French orphan adopted by his squadron as a mascot back to Australia in an empty sack of oats?
Did you know that although Lloyd Hunter played trumpet and led a big band for 38 years, he only recorded once, for the race record label Vocalion?
Did you know that couching embroidery technique, in which yarn laid on top of fabric is held in place with small stitches, featured in the creation of the Bayeux tapestry and Central Asian suzani rugs?
Did you know that the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is the largest African American parade in the United States?
Did you know that the Luxtorpeda, looking more like a cross between a rail bus and a limousine than a train, was the fastest and most luxurious train in interbellum Poland?
Did you know that the church of St John the Divine, Kennington suffered severe bomb damage in 1941 during World War II but was restored and re-opened in 1959?
Did you know that the fifteenth and sixteenth-century Hochstetter family were for a time on a par with the Fugger and the Welser controlling metal ores in Bohemia, Slovakia, Hungary and Tyrol?
Did you know that the first family-run  Hawaiian language preschool, or Pūnana leo (Hawaiian: "nest of voices"), was opened illegally?
Did you know that the short film 5 Men and a Limo showcases the world's five most prolific English language film trailer voiceover artists narrating a shared limousine ride?
Did you know that the town of Santikhiri in northern Thailand has been home to a "lost division" of the Republic of China Army since 1961?
Did you know that though students and educators agree on the importance of student engagement in learning, there is little consensus on a working definition?
Did you know that Abraham Klausner was the first rabbi at the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated?
Did you know that Darjeeling's Rock Garden was built to re-attract tourists following the damage to the industry caused by the actions of the Gorkha National Liberation Front?
Did you know that Miss Pittsburgh was the first plane to deliver airmail between Pittsburgh and Cleveland?
Did you know that Rob Mazurek's avant-garde Chicago Underground projects began as a workshop at local jazz club The Green Mill?
Did you know that St. Stephen's is the last remaining Bulfinch-designed church in Boston?
Did you know that Y. G. Parameshwara was the first blind Indian to qualify as a doctor?
Did you know that cross stitches are part of the embroidery traditions of the Balkans, Middle East, Afghanistan, Colonial America and Victorian England?
Did you know that many Japanese POWs continued to toil in Siberian labor camps ten years after the end of World War II?
Did you know that the 1646 Union of Uzhhorod was brokered by the Basilian monastic order on the model of the earlier Union of Brest?
Did you know that the American merchant Stephen Sayre was committed to the Tower of London on charges of plotting to kidnap King George III?
Did you know that the Blue-faced Honeyeater of eastern and northern Australia is also known as the "Bananabird" for its fondness for that fruit?
Did you know that the smallest papal election since the expansion of suffrage to all cardinals was undertaken by only six cardinal electors?
Did you know that the television drama Hill Street Blues imitated the visual style of The Police Tapes, a low-budget documentary about a police precinct in the South Bronx?
Did you know that the versorium, the world's first electrical device, was invented in 1600 by one of Queen Elizabeth I's physicians?
Did you know that Dungeons & Dragons, an album by Midnight Syndicate, is the only official soundtrack to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game?
Did you know that Lee Choon Seng, a Singaporean philanthropist built a Buddhist temple with the intention of liberating the spirits of those killed during the 1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang?
Did you know that Observatory Hill, Darjeeling, the site of Darjeeling's oldest Buddhist monastery is now home to a Hindu temple?
Did you know that Rabanus Maurus's attribution of the Liber Pontificalis to Saint Jerome was the prevailing view throughout the Middle Ages?
Did you know that although Paul MacGillivray's main interest was natural history, he was also the president of the Medical Society of Victoria and a member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria?
Did you know that although no fossils of the extinct Malagasy Hippopotamus have been dated within the last 1,000 years, villagers in Madagascar described a similar creature still alive as recently as 1976?
Did you know that as many ballots were cast in four days electing Chris Young and Hideki Okajima in the All-Star Final Vote as in ten weeks electing the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game starting lineup?
Did you know that as the Northern Division headquarters for the Illinois Central Railroad the Amboy Depot had authority over 53 train stations?
Did you know that auto racing icon Dan Gurney tricked competitors into installing his Gurney flap upside down?
Did you know that before he became Pope Urban IV, Jacques Pantaléon mediated the Treaty of Christburg between the pagan Prussians and the Teutonic Knights?
Did you know that despite being dissolved as a kibbutz in the 1980s, Ir Ovot continues to host Christian volunteers working on its Solomonic/First Temple period archaeologic site?
Did you know that in three years during World War II, the U.S. Army prisoner of war camp called Camp Atlanta had more occupants than the nearby town of Atlanta, Nebraska has had in its entire existence?
Did you know that more than 13.5 tonnes of gold were extracted in 13 months at Poverty Reef, near the Australian town of Tarnagulla, Victoria from an area only 3 metres wide and 120 metres deep?
Did you know that no piece of goldwork embroidery has ever actually used pure gold?
Did you know that the 1922 Swatow Typhoon killed 50,000 people in Swatow (now Shantou, China), out of a total population of 65,000?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Ministerium was the first Lutheran church body in North America?
Did you know that the SS Suevic of the White Star Line ran into rocks off the coast of England while steaming at full speed in dense fog at night in 1907 but everyone on board survived?
Did you know that the administrative capital of Samarai in Papua New Guinea was demolished in World War II to avoid its falling into Japanese hands?
Did you know that the musical piece composed by Will Schaefer for the United States Bicentennial earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination?
Did you know that the racially charged Escambia High School riots, which reached a climax in 1976, continued in various forms for five years?
Did you know that voice exchange, the preeminent compositional technique of the medieval Notre Dame school, died out in art music but remains a characteristic feature of rounds?
Did you know that 19th century Polish noble and farmer Stanisław Chełchowski published academic works ranging from ethnography through agriculture to mycology?
Did you know that Benjamin Pearse, later an influential provincial politician in British Columbia, came to Vancouver Island working for Hudson's Bay Company?
Did you know that Danny Barcelona was a Filipino American self-taught drummer for Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars jazz band?
Did you know that Gunnhild, "Mother-of-Kings", the wife and queen of Erik Bloodaxe of Norway, was rumored to be a witch?
Did you know that Indian youth Meraj Khalid Noor was used for political campaigning in Muslim-dominated areas of Bihar as he resembled Osama Bin Laden?
Did you know that Raeapteek in Tallinn, Estonia is one of the oldest continuously running pharmacies in Europe?
Did you know that Roman Catholic priest Paul Couturier helped establish the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity?
Did you know that after the HMS Tyger wrecked in 1742, the crew survived 56 days on a desert island and another 56 days sailing to Jamaica in small boats, at a loss of only 11 out of 281 men?
Did you know that brewer and politician Michael Thomas Bass introduced legislation into the British House of Commons to ban organ grinders as nuisances?
Did you know that global mining magnate Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. was the inspiration behind the character Auric Goldfinger in author Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger?
Did you know that in the Islamic tradition, Bahira was a Christian monk who foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future prophetic career?
Did you know that musician Ian Craig Marsh, once of pop groups The Human League and Heaven 17, began his career in a band called "Musical Vomit"?
Did you know that the "Amerikansky Golland" class submarines ordered by the Imperial Russian Navy also served in the Soviet and United States navies?
Did you know that the Australian White-naped Honeyeater derives its Latin epithet lunatus from the crescent-shaped markings on its nape?
Did you know that the Code of Ur-Nammu is the world's oldest extant example of a legal code?
Did you know that the Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse are among the oldest Canadian buildings of their type?
Did you know that the Hibbs Bridge on the Snicker's Gap Turnpike, which partly replaced the first toll road in the United States, still carries traffic, and is being rebuilt in its original state?
Did you know that the prosperous Caspian Sea port of Abaskun disappeared from records in the 13th century?
Did you know that the site of a crashed JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft is now marked with a sculpture of a crumpled paper aeroplane?
Did you know that the village of Montgomery, New York, was originally named Ward's Bridge?
Did you know that while Mary Wollstonecraft wrote her revolutionary treatise the Rights of Woman in six weeks, its novelistic sequel, The Wrongs of Woman, was still unfinished at her death, despite a year's work?
Did you know that Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founder Myra Hemmings starred, co-produced and co-directed the 1941 film Go Down, Death! The Story Of Jesus and the Devil?
Did you know that Emma Crawford was described as "the principal benefactress" of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane for her work in establishing several religious schools?
Did you know that Istanbul's Vefa Kilise Mosque is an example of a Byzantine church since converted into an Ottoman mosque?
Did you know that Lapland's Sjisjka railway stop was built in part because it was the only place in the country where the letters SJ occurred in the name twice?
Did you know that Michael Dadap, the popular Filipino guitarist, is married to the eldest sister of American cellist Yo-Yo Ma?
Did you know that Polish I Corps in Russia, originally intended to fight for the Triple Entente against the Central Powers, was forced to ally itself with the German Ober Ost forces?
Did you know that advertising executive Lois Wyse came up with the slogan "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good!"?
Did you know that after his defeat in the American Civil War, Union Army General William Sooy Smith returned to engineering and helped build the Glasgow Railroad Bridge, winning the Centennial Exposition prize in 1876?
Did you know that after the Battle of Deir ez-Zor in World War II, most Syrian troops avoided capture by changing into civilian clothes?
Did you know that despite only being eight inches tall, the Tiny Hawk, a raptor found throughout much of the central neotropics, successfully hunts hummingbirds?
Did you know that in a Danish referendum in 1916 64.2% of the voters were in favour of selling the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States?
Did you know that the Augustinian monk Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro was instrumental in persuading King Robert of Naples to make Petrarch the first poet laureate since antiquity?
Did you know that the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile's French neoclassical building was built to commemorate the centenary of the independence of Chile?
Did you know that the German historian Albert Brackmann argued that the Poles should be pushed farther eastwards, into Ukraine?
Did you know that the Hungarian-born Jew Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was successively a Presbyterian missionary in Canada, a British Member of Parliament, an international double agent, a German right-wing politician, and a Buddhist abbot in China?
Did you know that the Illinois Central Stone Arch Railroad Bridges in Dixon, Illinois were constructed without the use of bonding materials?
Did you know that the Kallanai dam, built by Karikala Chola to support agriculture in ancient Tamil country, is considered the oldest water-regulation structure still in use?
Did you know that the Pali Lookout in Hawaii was originally the site of the bloody Battle of Nu'uanu, where 400 warriors were driven over a cliff by Kamehameha I?
Did you know that the papal election of 1061, the first carried out solely by cardinal bishops, resulted in a war between Pope Alexander II and Antipope Honorius II?
Did you know that the wimple piranha is a specialized predator whose diet consists primarily of fish scales?
Did you know that Australian bishop Sydney James Kirkby, who presided at the synod to elect the successor of Archbishop John Charles Wright, actively worked to not be given the job himself?
Did you know that French Jesuit Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville introduced the Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) and Pagoda Tree (Styphnolobium japonicum) to Europe?
Did you know that George W. Taylor assisted unions by mediating more than 2,000 strikes, but also helped draft New York's Taylor Law—which banned strikes by public employees?
Did you know that Lorenzo M. Tañada was the longest-serving senator in Philippine history?
Did you know that Ossubtus xinguense is an endangered species of fish that has an unusual downturned mouth which gives the appearance of a beak?
Did you know that The New 7th Storey Hotel, a budget hotel catering to backpackers in Singapore, is actually nine storeys high and was the tallest building in the Beach Road area in the 1950s?
Did you know that many modern breeds of hound trace their bloodlines back to the extinct Southern Hound and North Country Beagle?
Did you know that the Israeli four-door Jeep Wrangler-based AIL Storm was produced before Jeep's own model?
Did you know that the Mayfair Club, the real life underground gambling hall loosely depicted in the movie Rounders, was in the mid-80's the training grounds for five poker players who have since won 20 World Series of Poker titles?
Did you know that the Narasinganavar family residing in the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest undivided families in the world?
Did you know that the United States superhero film John Hancock went through four directors before succeeding in being made with director Peter Berg?