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Did you know that Finnish soldiers nicknamed the 20 ITK 40 VKT "Vekotin", or "gadget"?
Did you know that George William Beatty (pictured, right) flew his first solo flight on July 23, 1911, and set a U.S. altitude record with Al Welsh (pictured, left) that same day?
Did you know that Montana's 30 percent tax on coal production, upheld in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century"?
Did you know that Nan Vernon provided the end credit music of both of Rob Zombie's Halloween films and has been noted for being part of the "singer-songwriter trend" of women nurturing folk music's rebirth?
Did you know that University College London Union is the oldest students' union in England?
Did you know that Virginia Shehee, Louisiana's first woman state senator, once bought a pig at a 4-H show, the proceeds of which helped a boy with cerebral palsy to learn how to walk?
Did you know that William Chaloner was a counterfeiter, swindler, charlatan, sham plotter, and agent provocateur, who was convicted by Isaac Newton, sent to Newgate Prison, and hanged on the gallows at Tyburn?
Did you know that William Sharman, a finalist in the 110 meter hurdles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, is also a classically trained pianist and has a master's in banking and finance?
Did you know that after a failed jail escape, anarchist Harold Thompson had 31 years added to his life sentence?
Did you know that after ingesting caffeine, spiders fail to build a proper web (see picture)?
Did you know that after the German occupants shut down several underground newspapers in Norway in February 1944, Bulletinen was the only one remaining with contacts to the leadership of the civil resistance?
Did you know that as Clarenceux King of Arms, Robert Cooke arranged the state funeral of Sir Philip Sidney?
Did you know that in 2008, Cole Hamels became the fifth player in Major League Baseball history to win the World Series MVP Award and the League Championship Series MVP Award in the same season?
Did you know that in the midst of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Indonesian Murba Party pledged to send volunteers to Cuba?
Did you know that the Louisiana oral historian Hubert D. Humphreys was a charter member of the faculty at Louisiana State University in Shreveport?
Did you know that the Oregon Geographic Names Board was established by Governor George Chamberlain in 1908 to assist the United States Board on Geographic Names in naming geographic features within the state of Oregon?
Did you know that the Ryūkyū Shimpō, founded in 1893 by former royal prince Shō Jun, was the first newspaper in Okinawa?
Did you know that the Wayne Wonder song "No Letting Go" is about a girl who is not mentioned by name?
Did you know that the first time the Soviet prototype of the Ilyushin Il-40 ground-attack aircraft fired its guns in the air its pilot was temporarily blinded and both jet engines flamed out?
Did you know that the range of the Central American Squirrel Monkey within Panama has been reduced, and no longer includes its type locality of David?
Did you know that the residents of England's Butt Hole Road raised £300 to have the name of the street changed to keep tourists away and end jokes about the street's name?
Did you know that 14 of the 16 founding congregants of New York's Peekskill Presbyterian Church were women?
Did you know that Caleb Green holds The Summit League's all-time scoring and rebounding records?
Did you know that Claude Lambie scored Burnley's first-ever competitive hat-trick?
Did you know that Grunge Lit is an Australian literary genre which features gritty depictions of urban and suburban life revolving around a nihilistic pursuit of sex, drugs and alcohol?
Did you know that Jimmy Melbourne, who co-incidentally was murdered in Melbourne, was the first Indigenous Australian to play Australian rules football at a senior level?
Did you know that Josefin Crafoord originally declined an offer to appear on the Swedish version of Dancing on Ice because she did not know how to skate?
Did you know that USC quarterback Gaius Shaver was the leading rusher in the American football competition at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games?
Did you know that according to ancient Tibetan annals, the founder of the Tibetan Empire, Songtsän Gampo, is believed to be buried at the Valley of the Kings in modern day Qonggyai County?
Did you know that as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s, Robert Spinrad oversaw development of such products as Ethernet, laser printers and "the first modern personal computer"?
Did you know that at the Blind Chess Olympiad, the players are required to announce their moves, so the games are often recorded on tape rather than paper?
Did you know that grants given to the British Library by the Friends of the British Library have enabled it to acquire many historical treasures, such as the Dering Roll?
Did you know that in 1900, Wilf Waller was the first South African footballer to play in the English Football League?
Did you know that music on The O.C. included world premieres of singles by the Beastie Boys, Gwen Stefani and U2?
Did you know that physician Hans Eng was a part of the Osvald Group's hit list during World War II?
Did you know that specimens of the tiger cowry have been found at Pompeii, where they were most likely used as ornaments?
Did you know that the 14th Searchlight Battery was the only Finnish Army unit comprised entirely of women during World War II?
Did you know that the Australian swellshark can survive out of water for more than a day?
Did you know that the Buddhist Pantheon (personage pictured) incorporates more than 3,000 Buddhas and deities?
Did you know that the Church of St Matthew and St James is described in the Buildings of England series as "one of the best Victorian churches in Liverpool"?
Did you know that the City Beautiful-inspired Foster Building was the first terra cotta building in Schenectady, New York?
Did you know that the Legal Framework Order, 1970, issued by Gen. Yahya Khan, set the rules for the first direct popular elections in the history of Pakistan?
Did you know that the Tontine Coffee House, established in 1793, is recognized as the antecedent to the New York Stock Exchange?
Did you know that the city of Anadarko in the U.S. state of Oklahoma is named for the Nadaco, a Native American tribe from Texas?
Did you know that the lawn mower was invented in a small English village called Thrupp?
Did you know that the only operating cable ferry in Estonia crosses the Emajõgi river in Kavastu?
Did you know that the wild population of the critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeater comprises fewer than 100 birds and is largely restricted to the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve?
Did you know that 20th-century composers including Kagel, Ligeti, and Xenakis wrote music for cellist Siegfried Palm?
Did you know that Charlie Burns is the only person to have been a player and a head coach for the Minnesota North Stars at the same time, doing so in the 1969–70 NHL season?
Did you know that Greek monk Maximus the Confessor dominated the Lateran Council of 649, the first council convened by a pope to claim ecumenical status?
Did you know that Icehouse Wilson, a member of "Oakland's first World Champion Baseball team," had a career batting average of .000 in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Jan Birger Jansen, Johan Scharffenberg and Sven Arntzen, all with background in the Norwegian resistance movement, were later members of the National Association for Referendum?
Did you know that Lloyd Brazil, once called "the ideal football player," averaged more than eight yards per carry and gained 5,861 yards in three years at the University of Detroit?
Did you know that Sakae Menda was the first person in the history of Japan to be exonerated while on death row?
Did you know that after being named to the All–Western Athletic Conference team before the 2008 season, American football tight end Rob Myers suffered a turf toe injury that forced him to miss the entire season?
Did you know that although Paul W. Bryant High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named for football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, a court order prevented the school from using "Bears" as its mascot?
Did you know that as many as twenty generations of the agricultural pest green peach aphid have been reported in warmer climates over the course of a year?
Did you know that bellum se ipsum alet, "war feeds itself", was a military strategy used during the Thirty Years' War?
Did you know that five years before he was cast as banker Theodore J. Mooney on The Lucy Show, Gale Gordon played the co-owner of a department store on the NBC sitcom Sally?
Did you know that growth rates for broadleaved trees on the British Isles exceed those of mainland Europe?
Did you know that jasmine is the national flower of Tunisia?
Did you know that on the final day of the 1959–60 Football League season, Trevor Meredith scored the goal that won the league title for Burnley?
Did you know that soccer club Atlético Independiente changed to play in red after seeing Harry Linacre and Nottingham Forest F.C. on the club's first foreign tour in 1905?
Did you know that songwriter and composer Paul Dresser amassed a large fortune writing songs in the 1890s but spent and gave away most of it before dying penniless in 1906?
Did you know that the British RSPCA now formally prosecutes individuals who are cruel to fish?
Did you know that the Geumsansa temple in Gimje, South Korea, served as the training ground for the Buddhist volunteer corps along with monks against Japanese invasions of Korea in the end of the 16th century?
Did you know that the Peekskill, New York, post office includes neoclassical arched windows in its Colonial Revival design?
Did you know that the Scottish Referendum Bill 2010 proposes that a referendum on Scottish independence be held on St. Andrew's Day 2010, Scotland's official national day?
Did you know that "Pop" Warner's undefeated 1917 Pitt Panthers football team, known as "The Fighting Dentists", featured dental students "Katy" Easterday, "Tank" McLaren, "Skip" Gougler and "Jake" Stahl?
Did you know that Cannonball Adderley recorded "I'm on My Way," his 11-year-old nephew Nat Adderley, Jr.'s first song, for his 1967 album Why Am I Treated So Bad!?
Did you know that Charterhouse Cave is the deepest cave in Southern England?
Did you know that French Resistance fighter and spy Hélène Deschamps Adams served as the basis for video game character Manon Batiste?
Did you know that Hurricane Fred, which formed and dissipated near Cape Verde earlier this month, was the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to appear east of 35°W?
Did you know that Lankapura Dandanatha, a general of the army of Parakramabahu I, led an expeditionary force to South India to assist a Pandyan king?
Did you know that Pabonka Hermitage, near Lhasa, is one of the earliest known buildings built by Songtsän Gampo in the Tibetan Empire and is believed to be the site at which the Tibetan alphabet was invented?
Did you know that Pitt All-American Tom Davies threw a touchdown pass, ran 80 yards for a touchdown, returned a kickoff 90 yards and returned an interception 60 yards in the same game?
Did you know that Queen Teuta of Issa, who briefly ruled Illyria in the 3rd century BC, is depicted on the Albanian 100 lekë coin?
Did you know that SS-Untersturmführer Hans Stark admitted that during the mass gassing of prisoners at Auschwitz, he inserted the Zyklon B into the gas chamber himself when a medical orderly did not turn up?
Did you know that Star Air Service, founded by three pilots in 1932, is the predecessor to Alaska Airlines?
Did you know that William J.C. Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick, a British flying ace in the First World War, scored his first victory when he was a test pilot and was awarded the Military Cross for capturing that enemy plane?
Did you know that a six-year-old boy was killed in 2004 when his head was crushed in a revolving door at the entrance of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Tokyo?
Did you know that block books (page pictured), short religious books printed from woodcuts containing both the text and illustrations, were once believed to pre-date the Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455), but are now known to date mostly from the 1460s and later?
Did you know that blues singer Jesse Fortune, better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers at his Chicago barbershop?
Did you know that during conversion of the Dequindre Cut into a greenway, the existing graffiti art was left in place and new additions encouraged?
Did you know that in the entire discography of George Michael, the most successful release in his homeland is a 1998 compilation titled Ladies & Gentlemen, which has been certified sevenfold platinum?
Did you know that retired banker and former Louisiana legislator Loy F. Weaver was as an FBI agent cited five times for outstanding performance and personal bravery by Director J. Edgar Hoover?
Did you know that the Cimarron Redoubt in southwestern Kansas was built as a fortification and later converted to a post office?
Did you know that the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants aimed to prevent girls in London from becoming prostitutes, criminals and alcoholics by training them as domestic servants?
Did you know that the State of Oregon laboratories for health and environmental quality used to be located in an old parking garage before moving to a new facility in Hillsboro, Oregon?
Did you know that the first seaplanes to be used in combat were based on the Austro-Hungarian battleships of the Radetzky class in 1912 (the lead ship Radetzky pictured)?
Did you know that the milk shark is so named because of a belief in India that eating its meat improves lactation?
Did you know that the observation deck atop Trzy Korony in Pieniny National Park (Poland) hangs over a 500-metre (1,600 ft) precipice with a near perfect view of the Dunajec River Gorge?
Did you know that the passenger capacity of a public transit system is affected by headway?
Did you know that the region formed by Ilfov County and Bucharest accounts for 19% of exports and 40% of imports in Romania?
Did you know that Bjørn Kjos, former fighter jet pilot, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and now CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle, débuted with his first spy thriller in 2006?
Did you know that Chick Lathers quit Major League Baseball in 1913 to become a car salesman for Ford Motor Company?
Did you know that Dublin's 2009 Liffey Swim  was the 90th anniversary of the race and saw electronic timing used for the first time?
Did you know that Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson of the John Jorgenson Quintet portrays French guitarist Django Reinhardt in the film Head in the Clouds?
Did you know that Maj. Gen. Charles Bond was credited with shooting down nine-and-a-half Japanese planes and was himself shot down twice while serving with the Flying Tigers in Burma and China?
Did you know that Maurice Lenz, a physician, professor, and radiation therapy pioneer, was internationally known amongst his peers for his fluency in English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish?
Did you know that Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim, an influential figure in Haifa and a leader of the Istiqlal, was exiled to the Seychelles for his role in the 1936 Arab revolt in Palestine?
Did you know that William Warren Bartley, author of the biography Werner Erhard, also served several years as philosophical consultant to Erhard's est training?
Did you know that although color-blind, Nicholas U. Mayall was better able to detect faint galaxies than most other astronomers?
Did you know that lawyer Albert L. Gordon, a heterosexual who became a gay rights activist after his son came out, successfully challenged a 1915 California law that criminalized oral sex?
Did you know that the 10th century reservoir Surajkund and the 8th century dam Anagpur are both located in Haryana, India?
Did you know that the Moine Supergroup, a sequence of Neoproterozoic metasediments forming the main outcrop in the northwest Scottish Highlands, is named after 'a'Mhoine', a peat bog in northern Sutherland?
Did you know that the Oregon Chorale based in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA has performed five tours in Europe?
Did you know that the Texas historian Ernest Wallace was once a consultant to the Justice Department regarding suits filed by the Kiowa and Comanche against the U.S. government?
Did you know that the bass-baritone Gustav Hölzel was dismissed from the Vienna State Opera because he changed the words of a song that he was singing in the role of Friar Tuck?
Did you know that the hay tedder was a machine that allowed one man and one horse to do the work of fifteen laborers, and improved the aroma and color of hay?
Did you know that the outlying islands of Scotland include the highest sea stack in the British Isles and one of the most isolated islets in the oceans of the world?
Did you know that the reviewer from The Times was so unnerved by Sarah Waters' book The Little Stranger that she confessed she had to stop reading it?
Did you know that 1991's Hurricane Grace contributed to the formation of the 1991 Halloween Nor'easter, commonly known as the "Perfect Storm"?
Did you know that 2009 Michigan Wolverines starting quarterback Tate Forcier got his nickname from the 1991 movie Little Man Tate?
Did you know that Alf Rolfsen has decorated three of the walls in the Central Hall of Oslo City Hall, where the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held every year?
Did you know that Angelika Amon discovered two gene regulatory networks that regulate the exit of cells from mitosis to the G1 phase?
Did you know that De Sterrenberg is the only windmill in Drenthe winded by a fantail?
Did you know that George Cruikshank, in Artist and the Author, disputed the origin of William Harrison Ainsworth's stories about evil gypsies, a famous thief, treasonous Catholics, a dark prison, burned sinners, an old miser, a horny king, and a stupid queen?
Did you know that Heroes Cross on Caraiman Peak, illuminated at night by 300 light bulbs of 500 watts each, can be seen from dozens of miles away?
Did you know that a joint Nazi-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk was held on September 22, 1939, to display the power of the newly formed Soviet-Nazi pact to the whole world?
Did you know that a persimmon regiment was a nickname for three Union army regiments that had an unusual fondness for eating persimmons?
Did you know that although Atka mackerel are most common to the Bering Sea, they have been reported as far south as Redondo Beach, California?
Did you know that as dean of Columbia College, Carl Hovde advocated for more lenient treatment of participants in the Columbia University protests of 1968, as "the demonstrations were not without cause"?
Did you know that baseball player Slick Coffman pitched an 11-inning victory over Hall of Famer Lefty Grove in his first game in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that center George Gregory led the Columbia Lions in 1930–31 to its first title in what was to become the Ivy League, and was later named as the first African American All-American basketball player?
Did you know that gymnast Věra Čáslavská was four times elected the Sportsperson of the Year of Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that in the wrongful death lawsuit Slee v. Erhard, the plaintiff claimed her son's death was due to est training?
Did you know that music licensing for Rihanna's song, "Take a Bow", was offered at a discounted price for the Glee television episode "Showmance"?
Did you know that the CART motor racing series changed the 2001 German 500's name to the American Memorial following the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that the French colonial administration in Guinea opposed the founding of the political party Socialist Democracy in 1954, as they feared it would split the anti-Sékou Touré vote?
Did you know that the House of Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel, was made by architect Erich Mendelsohn for under £15,000 after lengthy price negotiations?
Did you know that the Nikkatsu Roman Porno film Love Hunter (1972) was confiscated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, and became the last film to be tried for obscenity in Japan to this day?
Did you know that the Zappas Olympics were a series of four athletic contests held in Athens between 1859 and 1889 and are considered as precursors to the modern Olympic Games?
Did you know that the leader of the Ottoman forces at the Battle of Parkany (painting pictured) was later executed for failing to defend their Hungarian lands?
Did you know that the researchers who lived in the GE Realty Plot in Schenectady, New York, were collectively responsible for over 400 patents and one Nobel Prize?
Did you know that when Cannes Film Festival officials called Zhang Yimou's Not One Less a propaganda piece, he accused them of "discrimination" against Chinese cinema and withdrew the film from the festival?
Did you know that while Venice lost some territories in the Peace of Turin in 1381, it was in fact winning the Venetian–Genoese Wars?
Did you know that 4,000 people applied to be in the audience of Pat Kenny's new programme The Frontline?
Did you know that Arthur P. Luff is considered one of the founders of 20th century forensic medicine?
Did you know that Australian Army engineers uncovered and destroyed more than 17 kilometres (11 mi) of Viet Cong tunnels in the Ho Bo Woods as part of Operation Crimp during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Countess Mariya Volkonskaya renounced her rights, titles and possessions to follow her husband in Siberian exile?
Did you know that Herbert K. Pililaau was the first person from Hawaii to receive the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that James Wilkes Maurice defended Diamond Rock for three days in 1805 until surrendering due to water and ammunition shortages?
Did you know that Pope Sergius I successfully avoided arrest by the Byzantine protospatharios after rejecting the canons of the Quinisext Council?
Did you know that Rancho Buena Ventura, the northernmost Mexican land grant in California, was given to Pierson B. Reading in 1844 even though he was never a Mexican citizen?
Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson donated his birthday, by formal deed, to Henry Clay Ide's daughter, Anne, because she was born on Christmas Day?
Did you know that Trabzonspor were the first Turkish soccer team entitled to participate in the UEFA Women's Champions League?
Did you know that a French engineer who built the Bellary Fort was executed by Hyder Ali because the fort was lower than a nearby hill?
Did you know that almost 30 years after quitting his career as a composer, Gervase Hughes returned to music in 1960 as a writer of books on musical subjects?
Did you know that over the course of his 44 year career as a writer and editor with the Bend Bulletin, Phil Brogan trained numerous young journalists including Tom McCall, who later became governor of Oregon?
Did you know that radio star Rolf Kirkvaag walked through a blizzard with a broken leg to get help after surviving the plane crash at Hummelfjell?
Did you know that the Honda DN-01 motorcycle is the first road-going consumer vehicle with hydrostatic drive?
Did you know that the Perry Professorship of Jurisprudence at the Government Law School in Bombay was established in 1855 to honour judge Thomas Erskine Perry?
Did you know that the machinima-based music video Dance, Voldo, Dance was featured at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of an exhibit in 2006?
Did you know that the removal of an icon of Christ from the Chalke, the main ceremonial entrance to the Great Palace of Constantinople, marked the beginning of the Byzantine Iconoclasm?
Did you know that the series Svenska Hollywoodfruar follows Swedish women living a glamorous lifestyle in the Hollywood-area with rich American husbands?
Did you know that the silky shark is the most common source of ornamental shark jaws sold to tourists in the tropics?
Did you know that when British mosaicist Elaine M Goodwin and three fellow artists founded an exhibiting group in 2008, they deliberately avoided the word "mosaic" due to its negative perception in the art world?