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Did you know that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon, on New Year's Eve for 64 straight years?
Did you know that Down Among the Z Men (1952) is the only film starring all four original members of The Goons: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine?
Did you know that Dulcie Holland's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, described as "one of the greatest treasures of Australian music", waited 47 years for its first public performance?
Did you know that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1990 album Scène de vie was certified Diamond in France, Double-platinum in Switzerland and Platinum in Canada?
Did you know that Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon's sole federal district court?
Did you know that India's USD 650–750 million aid for Afghanistan has bolstered bilateral relations and made it the largest regional provider of aid since overthrow of the Taliban?
Did you know that Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1?
Did you know that Lawrence Wroth wrote the definitive book on the American colonial period printing trade while working as a librarian at Brown University?
Did you know that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the University of Oregon's baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in 1981?
Did you know that Otto Soemarwoto’s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during Indonesia's Saguling Dam project?
Did you know that Ringeriksbanen railway would reduce rail travel from Oslo to Bergen, Norway by 60 km (37 mi)?
Did you know that Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests?
Did you know that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's SF novel To the Stars was nominated for a 2001 "Retro" Hugo Award?
Did you know that a German Empire was first proclaimed on 28 March 1849 with the so-called Paulskirchenverfassung, or Constitution of the German Empire?
Did you know that a bipartisan commission was established by law in 2003 with the mandate to study prison rape in the United States?
Did you know that in 1977, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a SF film screenplay called Revolt in the Stars which is very similar to his Xenu story from the Scientology space opera theology?
Did you know that the Dunbar Hotel was the heart of LA's jazz scene with visits by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong?
Did you know that the Eberswalde Hoard, a collection of 81 gold objects weighing 2.59 kilograms (5.7 lb), is an important find from the European Bronze Age?
Did you know that the Harris Theater is the first new performing arts venue built in downtown Chicago, Illinois since 1929?
Did you know that the Norwegian torpedo boat HNoMS Kjell was known as "Terror of the smugglers" when she intercepted rum runners during Norway's prohibition?
Did you know that the Thomas T. Gaff House is the residence of the Colombian ambassador to the United States?
Did you know that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the American Civil War was over a saloon?
Did you know that the worst terrorist attack against tourists in Egypt was in November 1997, when gunmen killed 57 tourists and 4 Egyptians (location pictured)?
Did you know that when Hibernian F.C. applied to join the Scottish Football Association, the SFA told them that the SFA were catering for Scotsmen, not Irishmen?
Did you know that 14th-century explorer Ibn Battuta visited the Mali Empire during the reign of Mansa Suleyman?
Did you know that Atlanta Braves pitcher Pete Smith threw three of his four career shutouts in 1988, the season after his rookie year?
Did you know that Carlisle Floyd decided to adapt Olive Ann Burns' novel Cold Sassy Tree into an opera after his sister gave him a copy?
Did you know that although allies during the Vietnam War, bilateral relations between China and Vietnam deteriorated due to disputes over the Gulf of Tonkin and Cambodia, resulting in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979?
Did you know that as a result of the 2008 Karnataka state assembly elections the Bharatiya Janata Party formed its first state government in southern India?
Did you know that employee uniforms at the Topaz Hotel in Washington, D.C. have been described as "punk Buddhist"?
Did you know that prior to colonial times, written literature was virtually absent from Burkina Faso, with the country's first novel not published until 1962?
Did you know that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations"?
Did you know that the Analatos Painter, Mesogeia Painter and Polyphemos Painter (work pictured) were early Greek vase painters of the Proto-Attic period, active between 700 and 650 BC?
Did you know that the British Army changed its plans for operations in Greece during World War II on medical advice from Australian Brigadier Sir Neil Fairley?
Did you know that the Cathedral Church of the Prince of Peace, the episcopal see of the bishop of the Christ Catholic Church founded by Karl Pruter, is said to be the smallest cathedral in the world?
Did you know that the Horse Grenadier Guards were a unit of the British Household Cavalry until 1788, originally serving as mounted infantry to reinforce the Horse Guards Regiment?
Did you know that the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name?
Did you know that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public holiday in Hull, England, until the Restoration?
Did you know that the original hot dog on a stick to be served at Cozy Dog Drive-in was called a Crusty Cur?
Did you know that the original owner of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, D.C. building died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic?
Did you know that the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda?
Did you know that writer Robert W. Peterson, whose seminal 1970 book Only the Ball was White called attention to the overlooked history of Negro league baseball, was also a prolific writer of magazine articles for the Boy Scouts of America?
Did you know that Bruno Sacco, the Italian-born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975 and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be four inches (10 cm) too tall?
Did you know that Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba's assistance after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work, Storer House, was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver, producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix?
Did you know that Hurricane Huko had effects in all three North Pacific tropical cyclone basins?
Did you know that Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madavan Nair declared at the Raman Science Centre, Nagpur that India would have astronauts in space by 2015?
Did you know that Indian actress Kamalinee Mukherjee's poem was selected for an international poetry contest in Washington, D.C. just before she began her acting career in the Telugu film industry?
Did you know that Matthew Bruccoli, a scholar on F. Scott Fitzgerald, owned a collection of Fitzgerald memorabilia valued at US$2 million?
Did you know that Mieszko Bolesławowic could have become a king of Poland, if he had not been poisoned?
Did you know that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised?
Did you know that Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970?
Did you know that No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons, a 2001 report by Human Rights Watch, blamed feigned ignorance by prison officials for the allegedly widespread prison rape in the United States?
Did you know that Roujin Z is a 1991 Japanese anime film about a computerized hospital bed with its own built-in atomic power reactor?
Did you know that Steven Spielberg originally cast Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo as Pumpkin in the film Memoirs of a Geisha?
Did you know that Swiss illustrator Albert Lindegger was responsible for murals at the headquarters of the cantonal police and the crematorium in Berne?
Did you know that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Harry S. Truman once lived in the Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?
Did you know that William Rankin is the only person to survive a parachuting descent through a thunderstorm cloud?
Did you know that after the Mendiola massacre on January 22, 1987, the Filipino Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila?
Did you know that although both Hebrew and Arabic texts are written from right to left, the question mark is mirrored in Arabic (؟) but not in Hebrew punctuation?
Did you know that in 1928, the Mayo Beach Light tower was removed from its site on Cape Cod and re-erected in California as the Point Montara Light?
Did you know that in Norse mythology, the Æsir-Vanir War between two tribes of gods resulted in the unification of the tribes?
Did you know that of the 30 covered bridges that once stood in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, only Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown remain, all of which were built in 1850?
Did you know that the 5th-century Sassanian Emperor of Iran Yazdegerd I (pictured on coin) was given the epithets of Ramashtras ("the most quiet") as well as Al Khasha ("the harsh")?
Did you know that the Delaware breed of chicken (chick pictured) was once the favorite broiler on U.S. East Coast farms, but is now critically endangered?
Did you know that the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a shark?
Did you know that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a separate spur just for Western Kentucky University's Heating Plant?
Did you know that the Moika Palace, a museum about the murder of Grigori Rasputin by Prince Felix Yusupov, was also the scene of the homicide?
Did you know that Arthur Byron Coble's classic 1929 monograph Algebraic geometry and theta functions was still being published by the American Mathematical Society as late as 1982?
Did you know that Christopher Smart spent five years in a mental asylum and wrote his most important works, Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, during this time?
Did you know that E.S. Richardson, a Louisiana educator for whom the E.S. Richardson Elementary School is named, ended his career as an administrator of the wartime Office of Price Administration?
Did you know that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson?
Did you know that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain?
Did you know that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives' request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988?
Did you know that Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor?
Did you know that Marathi film Shwaas was India's official entry to the 2004 Oscars but faced financial problems to showcase and promote the film?
Did you know that Odell McBrayer, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent crime?
Did you know that Philip Cochran was the inspiration for the character "Flip Corkin" in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff?
Did you know that Platte Mound M, maintained by students from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, is believed to be the largest letter "M" in the world?
Did you know that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned James Joyce's Ulysses for containing "a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages?
Did you know that as a poet, Antoni Edward Odyniec was a mediocre imitator of his friend, the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, but left colorful memoirs describing Mickiewicz's private life?
Did you know that half of all Quebec's program spending for the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture is devoted to the nationally significant wetlands in the biosphere reserve and region of Lac Saint-Pierre?
Did you know that ship-owner and Norwegian Parliament member Hans Eleonardus Møller has been described as the "father of Norwegian marine insurance"?
Did you know that the Bahá'í population in the United Arab Emirates is estimated to be the second-largest in the Middle East?
Did you know that the Church of St. Catherine in St. Petersburg was taken over by the Soviets, closed, ransacked and twice burned out, before being returned to the Catholic Church in 1992?
Did you know that the core of the Medieval Bulgarian Army was the heavy cavalry, which consisted of 12,000–30,000 heavily armed riders?
Did you know that the first coinage used in Brunei were Chinese coins (example pictured), which were referred to as the pitis?
Did you know that the initials of John Hathorn and his wife carved into brick on their house in Warwick, New York show the influence of Germanic building traditions?
Did you know that there are more than twenty runestones on the Isle of Man?
Did you know that Andreas Frederik Krieger was one of the most vocal critics of the morganatic marriage between Frederick VII of Denmark and Louise Rasmussen?
Did you know that Christopher Smart's Hymns and Spiritual Songs were composed in a mental asylum where the author was held for "religious mania"?
Did you know that Eleanor King was a principal dancer and choreographer in the early days of American modern dance?
Did you know that Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship in recent years?
Did you know that Madagascar's unique wildlife, such as the Red-bellied Lemur, is one of the country's main tourist attractions?
Did you know that Romanian businessman Gheorghe Ştefănescu was executed for selling large quantities of adulterated wine?
Did you know that Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay, Half Nelson?
Did you know that in addition to its bus services, Louisville's Transit Authority of River City operates diesel-powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and shopping districts?
Did you know that instead of discarding runes in favour of the Latin alphabet, the Scandinavians developed the extended medieval runes?
Did you know that the 7th District Police Station, on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of Hill Street Blues?
Did you know that the Espada Cemetery was the first formally sanctioned burial ground in Havana, Cuba?
Did you know that the Hungarian Communist Party, despite losing badly in the 1945 election and doing just slightly better in 1947, held absolute power by 1949?
Did you know that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
Did you know that the Yūshūkan, a Japanese military and war museum owned and operated by Yasukuni Shrine, has been at the center of an international controversy?
Did you know that the diet of the Crescent Honeyeater changes from nectar and invertebrates to wholly insects during the breeding season?
Did you know that the statue of Daniel Webster that sits on top of the Daniel Webster Memorial in Washington, D.C. was a gift by the founder of the Washington Post?
Did you know that there are at least 296 historic places listed on the U.S. National Register in Chicago, including a German U-boat?
Did you know that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War Two?
Did you know that Bob Beck led the effort to capture and breed the remaining wild Guam Rails, Micronesian Kingfishers and other endangered Guamanian native birds in captivity?
Did you know that Christopher Smart's Hymns for the Amusement of Children were finished by the author while in debtors' prison and that he died before receiving notice that the work was a success?
Did you know that Erik Fankhouser is the first West Virginia native to become a professional bodybuilder?
Did you know that Harry Peckham, along with Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, wrote the first cricket rules to include a leg before wicket clause?
Did you know that John McCain was a member of the VA-46 Clansmen (insignia pictured) when he was wounded during the 1967 USS Forrestal fire off the coast of Vietnam?
Did you know that Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-century Ethiopia, which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless?
Did you know that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of the General Belgrano, resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting?
Did you know that McDonald's Cycle Center in Chicago, Illinois provides lockers, showers, a snack bar, bike repair, and bike rental to bicycle commuters?
Did you know that Minnie Lou Bradley, a Texas Panhandle rancher, was the first woman ever to head the American Angus Association?
Did you know that St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove, one of nine Coptic churches in the British Isles, has an iconostasis which is believed to be the tallest in the world?
Did you know that Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners?
Did you know that after being shipwrecked on Malé Atoll in 1973, Tony Hussein Hinde  pioneered surfing in the Maldives, which was previously unknown in the country?
Did you know that as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations, 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for free eye treatment?
Did you know that one of the humanoid robots created by Japanese roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi was listed in Time’s Coolest Inventions in 2004?
Did you know that since its establishment in 1986, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan has spent $4.5 billion to protect wetlands used by migratory birds in North America?
Did you know that the Church of Daniel's Band, based in Michigan, chose its name from the title of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in London?
Did you know that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký?
Did you know that the Java, first mentioned in print in 1835, is the second oldest breed of chicken in the United States?
Did you know that the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that, starting in the late 12th century, its inhabitants gradually moved out to an undefended village nearby called Tehran?
Did you know that the Red Bridge, one of the former Aar bridges in Berne, was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" because of frequent fatal accidents?
Did you know that the SS Carsbreck survived being torpedoed by Heinrich Liebe's U-38 in 1940, but was sunk by Reinhard Suhren's U-564 in 1941?
Did you know that the Vermont Square, Lincoln Heights, and Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles?
Did you know that the winners of the Twenty20 Champions League, a tournament between Twenty20 cricket champions from Australia, England, India and South Africa, will collect a prize estimated at £2.5 million?
Did you know that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"?
Did you know that Eugene C. Barker's 1925 work The Life of Stephen F. Austin has been described as the best single piece of scholarship on a Texas topic?
Did you know that GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to the State Duma, while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of Russian politician  Anatoly Chubais?
Did you know that Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, believed to be the city's last surviving gothic building?
Did you know that Jørgen Aall, one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814, went out of business as a ship-owner only four years later?
Did you know that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York?
Did you know that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky?
Did you know that before Jean Miélot created an illuminated manuscript for Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, he produced a "dummy" version, complete with pictures, decorations and text?
Did you know that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk?
Did you know that most historians believe stories about Dutch shipwreck survivors of the Concordia, settling at a desert oasis in Australia in 1708, were a hoax?
Did you know that the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf courses in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Mountain Gorillas (juvenile pictured) of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are the prime tourist attraction in Uganda?
Did you know that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200 million of funding from the United States federal government?
Did you know that the Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych, intended to celebrate traditional Roman paganism, was incorporated into a Christian reliquary for almost 500 years?
Did you know that the historic district in Warwick, New York (downtown pictured) reflects the village's development from a stop on a colonial road to an early 20th-century summer resort town?
Did you know that two members of the country music group One Flew South met while starring in a production of the Broadway musical The Civil War?
Did you know that while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms, much of it is generated from the fundamental vocabulary?
Did you know that writer Neil Gaiman invented the fiction that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie?
Did you know that Christopher Smart's The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was mocked for its dedication to a three-year-old child?
Did you know that Church of Scientology International official Leisa Goodman went on a six-month mission to investigate the treatment of Scientologists in Germany?
Did you know that Fortified Area Silesia were Polish fortifications constructed along the interbellum border of Poland and Germany in the area of Upper Silesia?
Did you know that Jeita Grotto (statue pictured) in Lebanon has the world's longest stalactite, at 8.2 m (27 ft)?
Did you know that Pakistani actress Veena Malik has emerged as one of the leading women on Pakistani television with her abilities in improvisational mimicry?
Did you know that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for Space Jazz – a concept album companion to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth?
Did you know that The Fourth Tower of Inverness is a radio drama that combines Americana and old-time radio with past life regression, Sufi wisdom, Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism?
Did you know that Y1, a strain of tobacco containing twice as much nicotine, was developed by Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the nicotine content?
Did you know that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography?
Did you know that actor George Takei's autobiography To the Stars was featured on display for a month at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library?
Did you know that after agreeing to a prisoner exchange following the 1799 Siege of Mantua, the Austrians reneged by arresting soldiers of the Polish Second Legion as "deserters"?