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Did you know that the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft, proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail?
Did you know that the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States?
Did you know that the Ribbon of Saint George is worn in Russia on Victory Day as an act of commemoration of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War?
Did you know that the Wissenschaft des Judentums or "the scientific investigation of Judaism", was a  19th century movement by Jewish philosophers in Berlin  premised on using scientific methods to analyze the origins of Jewish traditions?
Did you know that Apple Computer's PowerBook 5300 got the nickname "HindenBook" after the Lithium ion batteries used in the original design were shown to burst into flames under certain circumstances?
Did you know that Edwin Maher was the first non-Chinese television journalist to be a news anchor on China's state-run China Central Television?
Did you know that Hakeem Olajuwon was the last player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA men's basketball tournament while playing for a team that failed to win the title, earning the honor in the 1983 tournament?
Did you know that Roadway air dispersion modeling was developed in the late 1960s and applied to two controversial major highway court cases in Virginia and New Jersey by 1971?
Did you know that Saint Stephen of Perm invented the Permian alphabet for the Komi people in order to facilitate their education and eventual conversion to Christianity?
Did you know that University of Texas at Austin professor Jonathan Sessler developed molecules called "texaphyrins," used to treat neoplastic and cardiovascular disease and named after their resemblance to the state flag of Texas?
Did you know that a recent cricket match saw the record for highest team total for a single innings in One-day Internationals broken by both the teams, and has been called the greatest ODI match ever by much of the cricket media?
Did you know that the Battle of Krasny Bor was a World War II battle in which neutral Spain assisted Germany with an all volunteer infantry division?
Did you know that the Daytona Beach Road Course was the site of fifteen world land speed records, and the course was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR?
Did you know that the plot of the award-winning Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light" is similar to that of the Japanese folktale The Dream of Akinosuke?
Did you know that the prosauropod dinosaur Efraasia was misidentified at least four times before being recognized as a separate genus?
Did you know that while the gold ceiling mosaics that gave the basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia its name are no longer present, it still contains tombs such as those of Saint Augustine mentioned by Dante in Il Paradiso?
Did you know that Doe Lang, who performed on Broadway and appeared in TV soaps, also authored best-selling self-help books and is the president of an image consulting firm?
Did you know that The Falling Man is a photograph by Richard Drew depicting a man who had jumped from the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York?
Did you know that in 1977, K. Leroy Irvis of Pennsylvania became the first Black American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States?
Did you know that the eminent Russian culinary writer William Pokhlebkin was in fact a notable expert in the history of diplomacy, but also the author of A History of Vodka, and that his name was thought to be a pen name?
Did you know that Alonso Manso was the first bishop to arrive in the New World and also the first Inquisitor General of the Indies?
Did you know that Imbabura is an inactive stratovolcano in northern Ecuador which is revered in local folklore as a protective parent?
Did you know that Sir Henry Segrave's accomplishments inspired the Segrave Trophy, which is awarded to the British subject who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water?
Did you know that a 1906 football match between a team of youngsters from Kraków and the troupe of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is one of the milestones in the history of football in Poland?
Did you know that in 1978, the nitrate-base film vaults of both the US National Archives and George Eastman House autoignited?
Did you know that the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to former United States President Ronald Reagan?
Did you know that the Vietnamese "poet of love" Xuân Diệu wrote a poem about the love affair between the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, fueling speculations that he himself was homosexual?
Did you know that the Washoe Theater in Anaconda, Montana was the last Art Deco theater constructed in the United States?
Did you know that the boojum phenomenon in superfluidity physics is named after an imaginary monster in a poem by Lewis Carroll?
Did you know that the history of Berne, the Swiss capital, begins not with her founding in 1191, but with the Helvetian oppidum Brenodor that Caesar conquered in the Gallic Wars?
Did you know that Balchug island opposite Moscow Kremlin takes its name from the Tatar word for "marsh"?
Did you know that Georgia’s capital Tbilisi functioned as the center of an Islamic emirate under the Arab rule from 736 to 1122?
Did you know that Parlophone's "?" trademark, made famous on The Beatles UK records, is actually not the British pound sign, but a Germanic "L" for the Lindstrom in  Carl Lindstrom Company?
Did you know that Sanford N. McDonnell, the chairman emeritus of McDonnell Douglas Corporation, is also a past national president of the Boy Scouts of America?
Did you know that Sillustani is a pre-Incan burial ground with burial towers known as chullpas?
Did you know that Tony Saunders was the first player selected in the expansion draft when Major League Baseball added teams in 1997?
Did you know that historian Doane Robinson conceived of the idea of Mount Rushmore in order to attract greater tourism to South Dakota?
Did you know that most knights of the Middle Ages wore chausses as leg protection?
Did you know that the French inventor Félix du Temple accomplished in 1874 a short flight with his steam-powered aircraft Monoplane, often considered the first manned powered flight in history?
Did you know that though the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth decreased from 1620s till its end, the number of its provincial governors kept increasing, as the offices of a lost province could not be dissolved?
Did you know that when the British Army attacked the Agra Fort in 1803, a cannon ball fired by the artillery struck the Takht-i-Jahangir  (throne of Jahangir), but only caused a superficial crack on one side?
Did you know that Beekman Winthrop, the third American Governor of Puerto Rico, was a direct descendant of both John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts, and John Winthrop, the Younger, the first Governor of Connecticut?
Did you know that Gideon Brecher (1797 - 1873) was a Jewish Austrian physician and writer who wrote what is most likely the first scholarly article on circumcision, Die Beschneidung der Israeliten, etc., in 1845?
Did you know that Ludwig Fahrenkrog was a German artist who founded one of the first neopagan religious groups, the Germanic Faith-Community, in 1907?
Did you know that Marie Palace (1839-44) was the last Neoclassical imperial palace to be constructed in Saint Petersburg, Russia?
Did you know that Prasoon Joshi, an award-winning advertising executive is also a lyricist for Bollywood movies?
Did you know that Satyajit Ray, the noted Indian film director, also wrote popular fiction, especially detective stories and science fiction in Bengali?
Did you know that a cuttie-stool is the Lowland Scots name for a three legged stool that was thrown by Jenny Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk, in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637?
Did you know that only 6% of Pacific hurricanes make landfall on the United States, and that the state of Arizona is affected by a tropical cyclone only about once every five years?
Did you know that some elements of the Jules Verne adventure story Two Years' Vacation are to be found in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, written 66 years later?
Did you know that the Vanessa Carlton song "A Thousand Miles" became popular amongst U.S. troops serving in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and was the most requested song on the radio station BFBS Middle East in April 2003?
Did you know that the White House Tee Ball Initiative was created by President George W. Bush to promote baseball and softball by allowing youth Tee Ball events on the grounds of the White House in 2001?
Did you know that Commander Edwin Taylor Pollock became the first American governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands by beating the commander of the USS Olympia in a race to Saint Thomas?
Did you know that Langley Park makes Perth the only city in the world where aircraft can land in the central business district?
Did you know that Marcel Boulestin, who appeared on the BBC's experimental television broadcasts in 1937 was the first television chef?
Did you know that Surendranath Banerjea founded the Indian National Association, the first Indian political organization in British-ruled 19th-century India?
Did you know that due to the legend which states that "as long as Davie Poplar doesn't fall, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will continue to prosper," the tree has been filled with cement?
Did you know that environmental noise health effects place millions of people at risk of hearing loss, cardiovascular disease or even abnormal fetal development?
Did you know that the Boy Scouts of America 50-Miler Award, given to those who hike or paddle 50 or more miles, is designed to encourage personal fitness, self-reliance, and a practical understanding of conservation?
Did you know that the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering of the Pennsylvania State University, founded in 1908, was the first industrial engineering department in the world?
Did you know that the play Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson explores the disillusionment of former American anti-war activists in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate?
Did you know that the scarf worn by members of the Young Pioneers, the national youth organization of the Communist Party of China, corresponds to a triangle that is missing from one of its flags?
Did you know that Marcos Daniel is the highest placed Brazilian tennis player on ATP's ranking despite not winning any official ATP tournament?
Did you know that New Mexico's Carson National Forest, named after Kit Carson, contains Anasazi artifacts?
Did you know that Tom Stoppard's play Rough Crossing is a loose adaptation of Hungarian dramatist Ferenc Molnár's Play at the Castle?
Did you know that automated CPR machines such as AutoPulse are used to treat cardiac arrest in both humans and animals?
Did you know that diamond magnate Woolf Barnato won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times, and in 1930 won a race across France in his Bentley against Le Train Bleu?
Did you know that in the course of the Crimean War, the British and French Navies undertook three attempts to lay a siege to the town of Taganrog?
Did you know that the 1859 McLane-Ocampo Treaty would have given the United States extensive free trade and transit rights across Mexico and the right of military intervention, in exchange for a $4 million loan to the Benito Juarez government then fighting a civil war, but was never ratified by Congress?
Did you know that the Chinese House in Potsdam was Frederick the Great's attempt to follow the contemporary Chinese fashion, which originated in France?
Did you know that the Peruvian village Písac gets its name from a ruined Incan citadel which represents the wing of a partridge?
Did you know that the TV Land Awards have been awarded annually since 2003 by the TV Land network to reward classic television?
Did you know that the global stratotype for the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary is a cliff at Fortune Head, southeastern Newfoundland?
Did you know that the official death date of the Soviet statesman Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878-1938) was changed to 1943 as part of Khruschev's policy to minimize the scope of the Great Purge by falsifying the dates of its victims' deaths?
Did you know that Andrey the Elder, brother of Ivan III, sponsored the construction of the first stone edifices in his capital, Uglich?
Did you know that Historic Jamestowne is a National Historic Site on  Jamestown Island on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia operated by the Colonial National Historical Park of the U.S. National Park Service?
Did you know that the Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev, who sang with great success at La Scala and the Paris Olympia, was not allowed to pursue an international career by the Soviet Ministry of Culture?
Did you know that the Royal Navy operated a secret training and anti-submarine warfare base at Seacliff in Scotland during World War I?
Did you know that Gessius Florus became the Roman procurator of Judea due to his wife's friendship with Emperor Nero's wife Poppaea?
Did you know that Polish bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski, founded Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th century European libraries?
Did you know that an estimated 892 Edsel Bermuda station wagons were produced before the model was dropped after a single year of production?
Did you know that famous Russian painter Ilya Repin contributed to the Russian connections in Australia by helping to create  the Orthodox Church of Saint Vladimir on Robertson Road in Sydney?
Did you know that the Korzhenevskaya Peak in Tajikistan is one of the five "Snow Leopard Peaks" of the former Soviet Union?
Did you know that Deneb is the only character to appear in all four of Quest's video games in the Ogre Battle series?
Did you know that Natalia Goncharova, the wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin, was rumoured to have had a liaison with Nicholas I of Russia after the death of her husband?
Did you know that North Berwick Harbour was built in the 12th century as a ferry port for St. Andrews bound pilgrims, while Pagans believe "Satan himself" once worshipped on the Harbour's "Auld Kirk Green"?
Did you know that Sarat Chandra Bose, the brother of Subhash Chandra Bose attempted to obtain independence for a united Bengal with Muslim leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1947?
Did you know that in the 26 uses of the Page playoff system in championship curling tournaments, only once has a third- or fourth-placed team won the tournament?
Did you know that soil conservation was first practiced by the Phoenicians, and today it embraces disciplines such as hydrology, microbiology and soil chemistry research?
Did you know that the Washington Hebrew Congregation is a Reform Jewish congregation in the District of Columbia that has operated continuously since its formation on April 25, 1852, by twenty-one members?
Did you know that the arrano beltza, the black eagle flag of the Basque nationalist movement, derives from the seal used by Sancho III of Navarre a thousand years ago?
Did you know that the long-running German TV show Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst is the only German television format to have entered the United States, where it is produced by Fox as America's Most Wanted?
Did you know that while Aleksandra Pakhmutova composed pieces for the symphony orchestra and a ballet, her fame in the former Soviet Union rests primarily on 400 songs she composed back in the 1960s and 1970s?
Did you know that Emperor Paul of Russia ordered the name of his mistress Anna Lopukhina to be given to warships and to be inscribed on the standards of his Leib Guard?
Did you know that in an engagement on Lake Huron, a small British force captured two American gunboats in the summer of 1814?
Did you know that the Westfield Brandon is one of five shopping malls in the U.S. state of Florida managed by the Australian Westfield Group?
Did you know that the seal emblazoned on the flag of Nashville, Tennessee displays a Native American holding a skull that is believed to be Oconostota, former leading Chief of the Cherokee Nation?
Did you know that ADMA, a chemical found in human blood, produces adverse effects that may lead to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and erectile dysfunction?
Did you know that Adwaita, the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive, the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company?
Did you know that Cuicocha is a crater lake in the Ecuadorian Andes which was created by a massive Phreatic eruption in the 11th century BC?
Did you know that Lantian Man, who was discovered in China in 1963, preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?
Did you know that Repnin Sejm of 1767-68 in Poland was so named after the Russian Empire ambassador Nicholas Repnin, who coerced the Sejm (Polish parliament) into accepting his demands?
Did you know that The Impressions' 1967 single "We're a Winner", written by Curtis Mayfield, was a socially conscious song which became an anthem for the American Civil Rights movement?
Did you know that the Golden Charter of Bern — the bull that made Berne, Switzerland, an Imperial Free City in 1218 — is now considered to have been forged decades later by the Bernese themselves to confirm the rights they had seized?
Did you know that the recent Capitol Hill massacre is regarded as the worst mass-killing in Seattle since the 1983 Wah Mee Massacre?
Did you know that Amantaní, an island on Lake Titicaca, is also known as the "Island of the Kantuta", the national flower of Peru and Bolivia?
Did you know that Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, now recognized as one of the leading poets of Polish baroque, considered his career as a courtier much more important than that of a poet?
Did you know that Jean Armand de Lestocq, a French physician, wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth?
Did you know that Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States?
Did you know that Rusumo Falls was a significant site during the 1994 Rwandan genocide as thousands of dead bodies flowed underneath the bridge while a simultaneous stream of refugees crossed over it, fleeing into Tanzania to escape the fighting?
Did you know that the Lieven princely family claims descent from Caupo of Turaida, one of the first Livonians to convert to Christianity?
Did you know that we know about Latin profanity from both graffiti at Pompeii, and from the poems of Martial, Catullus, and Horace?
Did you know that when Jester Center was built in 1969, it was the largest dormitory in North America, the largest building in Austin, Texas, and the largest building project by the University of Texas at Austin?
Did you know that George Mason University basketball coach Jim Larranaga motivated his players in their 2006 NCAA regional final by telling them their opponents from the University of Connecticut didn't know what conference they were in?
Did you know that researchers are studying the waters of Soap Lake in Washington with the hope of learning about life on Mars?
Did you know that the City of London Yeomanry was a regiment of the British Territorial Army which served at various times as a cavalry, infantry, artillery, anti-aircraft, and armoured unit, and now forms a squadron of the Royal Corps of Signals?
Did you know that the term Cicisbei refers to legal and generally respected companions and often lovers of married women in eighteenth-century Italy?
Did you know that J.S. Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations was named for 14-year-old virtuoso harpsichordist and composer Johann Gottlieb Goldberg?
Did you know that the Glasgow Inner Ring Road was only half complete when it was abandoned in 1980, leaving several incomplete junctions, one of which ends abruptly in mid-air?
Did you know that the first Slavonic translations of the Bible were prepared by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century?
Did you know that the level of copyright protection of photographs in Switzerland depends, among other things, on whether the image constitutes an "individual expression of thought"?
Did you know that there were six claimants for the title of Roman Emperor in the Year of the Six Emperors (AD 192–193)?
Did you know that British Rail had a design for a flying saucer?
Did you know that Proclamation of Połaniec from 1794, abolishing serfdom in Poland, is regarded as the most famous legal act of the Kościuszko Uprising?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II once worked as a lorry driver?
Did you know that Saint Jack, a 1979 fiction film about a prostitute in Singapore and the only Hollywood film about Singapore to be shot on location, was banned in the country until 2006?
Did you know that Werowocomoco was the chief village of the Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia where Captain John Smith of Jamestown was rescued from execution by Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan?
Did you know that although the parents of Juan Bautista Rael, a Stanford University professor and folklorist, sent him away for schooling due to limited educational options in their town, he focused his academic career on the folk plays and religious songs of that region?
Did you know that before restoring ferry service across the Hudson River between Newburgh and Beacon, NY Waterway had to strengthen the boat's hull so it could withstand river ice?
Did you know that consumers of casu marzu, a Sardinian cheese, are advised to wear eye protection while enjoying it, since the live maggots  inhabiting the cheese can jump 15 cm?
Did you know that in 1827, the only open pit amber mine in the world was established in Yantarny?
Did you know that in Sweden, a court ruled that the name Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 was unacceptable?
Did you know that such characters of medieval romance as Palamedes, Dinadan, and Lamorak make their first appearance in the prose romance of Tristan?
Did you know that the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is the northernmost supercomputer cluster in the world?
Did you know that the Ostrog Bible of 1580 was the first complete printed edition of the Bible in a Slavic language?
Did you know that the Russian Admiral Samuel Greig died days after his most famous victory—the Battle of Hogland?
Did you know that the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that operated in Arizona, New Mexico and California from July 1, 1897 till July 1, 1902?
Did you know that the pseudonymous author of the defunct left-wing muckraker blog Media Whores Online has not yet been identified?
Did you know that Arcady Boytler was born in Russia but produced some of the most successful films of the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico?
Did you know that Dining in refers to a formal military dinner, a practice thought to have begun in 16th Century England in monasteries and universities, adopted by the British Army during the 18th Century and revived in the U.S. Military during World War II?
Did you know that Kajetan Sołtyk, 18th century Bishop of Cracow, an important politician in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was eventually declared insane by his political opponents and removed from power?
Did you know that Souvenir of Their Visit to America was the first Beatles' EP released in America, but did not chart?
Did you know that after Egyptian land reform individual land ownership in Egypt was limited to a maximum of 200 feddans?
Did you know that at the end of World War II, ten German nuclear scientists were detained and wiretapped at a house in England as part of Operation Epsilon in order to determine how close the Nazis had come to building an atomic bomb?
Did you know that the Azerbaijani geologist Farman Salmanov, who discovered huge oil fields of Western Siberia in 1961, was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor at the unusually young age of 37?