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Did you know that Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party?
Did you know that Odd With, member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Christian Democratic Party, was the grandfather of 2006 Pop Idol victor Aleksander Denstad With?
Did you know that Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein shot many miles of film in Mexico with the backing of American author Upton Sinclair to make ¡Qué viva México!?
Did you know that Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, popularized in American Civil War memorials, was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
Did you know that US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston, and a grandfather who was German Jewish?
Did you know that William Miles Maskell was a New Zealandic farmer and entomologist who advocated biological pest control?
Did you know that a nuclear bomb test that significantly fails to produce its estimated yield is called a fizzle?
Did you know that because it reflects Hungarian phonology, the original middle name of singer and comedian Ioan Gyuri Pascu was misspelled on his Romanian-issued birth certificate?
Did you know that in Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, is a brass chandelier which formerly hung in St Stephen's Chapel in the British House of Commons?
Did you know that publisher Gopal Raju, considered a pioneer of ethnic media in the United States, founded India Abroad, which claims to be the oldest Indian American newspaper in North America?
Did you know that pulmonary laceration was thought to be uncommon before CT scanning (example pictured) became widely available, because the injury is difficult to detect with X-rays alone?
Did you know that sanfedisti irregulars, led by Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo, toppled the Parthenopaean Republic in 1799, restoring the monarchy of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies?
Did you know that the Buis was first adapted for use as a fishing vessel in the Netherlands, after the invention of gibbing made it possible to preserve herring at sea?
Did you know that the Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant in  Klaipėda, Lithuania, constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s, is the first geothermal heating plant in the Baltic Sea region?
Did you know that the Medusa Rondanini in a prominent Roman collection was ignored until it was praised by Goethe in 1786?
Did you know that the Nebraska Republican Party nabbed Democratic candidate Max Yashirin's namesake domain name and posted unflattering photos of him there after he stood for Nebraska's 1st congressional district?
Did you know that the Pond Eddy Bridge, built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the US Navy's Casco-class monitors, long delayed due to the exacting standards of Chief Engineer Alban C. Stimers, proved barely able to float on debut and were quickly withdrawn from service?
Did you know that the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, Netherlands annually attracts around 10 million visitors?
Did you know that the Yan emperor Shi Chaoyi committed suicide to avoid capture, and that after his death, his head was delivered to the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an?
Did you know that the last old-Kannada grammar, authored by Bhattakalanka Deva in circa 1604 CE, followed the model of Sanskrit grammar?
Did you know that the military prowess of the Tulunid dynasty of Arab Egypt was due to its multi-ethnic army composed of Turkish people, Sudanese, and Greek soldiers?
Did you know that Belgian filmmaker Armand Denis, who became famous for his wildlife documentaries with his wife Michaela in the 1950s, began his career working as a scientist and inventor?
Did you know that Bobby Hull became the third player in NHL history to score 50 goals in a season during the 1961–62 Chicago Black Hawks season?
Did you know that British actress Jacqueline Voltaire won a "most bizarre sex scene" award in 2005 for her performance in the Mexican film Matando Cabos?
Did you know that Elvia Carrillo Puerto founded the first feminist leagues to provide family planning programs with legalized birth control in the Western Hemisphere?
Did you know that Hall of Fame goaltender Glenn Hall ended his record-setting 502 consecutive-games streak in the National Hockey League as a Chicago Black Hawk during the 1962–63 season?
Did you know that Israeli writer Eli Amir called for more Israeli literature to be translated into Arabic to promote understanding?
Did you know that a swift is a tool with an adjustable diameter used to hold a skein of yarn while it is being wound off?
Did you know that a young black aspiring actor by the name of James Earl Jones had his beginnings at the Ramsdell Theatre in Manistee, Michigan?
Did you know that at age 14 Amy Evans, a Welsh singer and actress, won the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Cardiff?
Did you know that fire is one of the most important forming processes of the geography and ecology of the Everglades?
Did you know that screenwriter Allan Loeb's agent dropped him the day he began writing the script that saved his career?
Did you know that sportswriter and Green Bay Packers employee Lee Remmel was one of twelve people to cover the first forty Super Bowls?
Did you know that the Kh'Leang Temple in Soc Trang is a Khmer Theravada building from 1533—predating Vietnamese settlement—which incorporates Greek architecture?
Did you know that the Silver Snoopy award is presented to recipients personally by astronauts?
Did you know that the barrack at Aghavannagh, which was primarily built so that British forces could more easily track rebels of the 1798 rebellion, became a youth hostel during the 1900s?
Did you know that the footprints of the Buddha often bear distinguishing marks, such as a Dharmachakra or the 32, 108 or 132 auspicious signs of the Buddha?
Did you know that the main hall of Tay An Temple contains around 200 Buddhist statues?
Did you know that the rural settlement of Mount Mee, Queensland, gets its name from the local Indigenous Australian word mia-mia, meaning "lookout"?
Did you know that to preserve national unity, Polish king Stefan Batory restored the city of Danzig's economic and religious privileges after an uprising?
Did you know that American manufacturing executive Chris J. Lee left the business of making air springs, elastomers, rate controls,  rope isolators and solenoid valves to run for Congress?
Did you know that England's Auditor of the Imprests, an office responsible for auditing the accounts of public officials such as the Paymaster of the Forces, became a lucrative sinecure before being abolished in 1782?
Did you know that Friedrich Guggenberger's U-81 sank the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal with a single torpedo?
Did you know that Gibraltarian degree-level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar?
Did you know that Heinrich Barbl, an SS-Rottenführer, helped install piping for the gas chambers at Sobibór extermination camp?
Did you know that Hurricane Alma was the first of three consecutive tropical cyclones to strike the Pacific coast of Mexico during a ten day span?
Did you know that J. Evetts Haley, the historian of the American West who ran in 1956 for governor of Texas, told Duval County political boss George Parr that "it will be my pleasure to lock you up"?
Did you know that Lakshmisha's 16th century Kannada writing, the Jaimini Bharata, focuses on the horse sacrifice chapter of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata?
Did you know that Methodist minister Ephraim Kingsbury Avery is amongst the first clergymen known to have been tried for murder in the United States?
Did you know that Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company is the world's largest limestone quarry?
Did you know that New Mill, Cross in Hand, was the last windmill to operate commercially by wind in Sussex?
Did you know that Sac Tu Tam Bao Temple was used by Vietnamese revolutionaries as a munitions factory by in the 1916 Cochinchina uprising?
Did you know that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa?
Did you know that The Reverend John H. Taylor served as post-Chief of Staff for former United States President Richard Nixon from 1979 to 1994?
Did you know that Van Hanh Zen Temple is the base of a team of Buddhist scholars who are producing a Vietnamese translation of the Pali Canon?
Did you know that association footballers Jimmy Willis and Steve Finnan are the only players to have scored in the top five divisions of English league football?
Did you know that dissidents within the Polish community in Omaha burnt down a church in the Sheelytown neighborhood in 1895 rather than relinquish control to the local Roman Catholic bishop?
Did you know that in 1838, Philip Kelland became the first English-born and wholly English-educated mathematician to hold the chair of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh?
Did you know that in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert?
Did you know that in a VFL game against North Melbourne, Fitzroy player Frank Curcio famously stated "hit me as hard as you like, but don’t hurt my fingers"?
Did you know that in addition to providing cargo service to Ascension Island, the freighter MV Ascension also helped researchers study its green sea turtle population?
Did you know that the author of Captain Lindley Miller's 1864 "Marching Song of the First Arkansas" has only recently been determined?
Did you know that the ghost town of Buffalo City, North Carolina was once the largest community in Dare County?
Did you know that 37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River?
Did you know that Amman's Mango House was built in separate halves for the two brothers who lived there?
Did you know that Daddy Cool’s 1971 single "Eagle Rock" remained at #1 on the Australian National charts for a record ten weeks before being replaced by the single "Daddy Cool" by another band cashing in their success?
Did you know that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States?
Did you know that Dr Arthur Henry Douthwaite's testimony in court against suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is said to have cost him the presidency of the Royal College of Physicians?
Did you know that Harley Parker, in 1973, was selected to be the first William A. Kern Institute Professor of Communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York?
Did you know that Italy's newly appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity, Mara Carfagna, used to be a showgirl and a glamour model?
Did you know that S.A. Swaminatha Iyer protested the British salt tax in India at the first session of the Indian National Congress in 1885?
Did you know that a report criticizing senior Pakistani leaders—including General Abdul Hamid Khan—over their conduct during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, was long suppressed by the Pakistani government?
Did you know that after writing Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz was sued for calling Alberta Martin's husband a deserter in the book?
Did you know that prior to his election to the Oregon State Senate, Rick Metsger was best-known as a sportscaster for a Portland, Oregon television station?
Did you know that the 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates, the worst Pirates team of the 20th century, were so bad that their catcher Joe Garagiola later said "In an eight-team league, we should've finished ninth"?
Did you know that the Kaleva Bottle House was built using over 60,000 bottles?
Did you know that the cargo ship MV Virginian, now under contract to Military Sealift Command, was accidentally hit by an Exocet missile while unloading cargo in Iraq in 1986?
Did you know that the day after the death of six IDF soldiers in the Battle of the Beaufort, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was still under the impression that it was won without casualties?
Did you know that the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, where the climate is temperate oceanic, was 33.3ºC (91.9ºF) at Kilkenny Castle on 26 June, 1887?
Did you know that the idiopathic inflammatory lung disease diffuse panbronchiolitis has the highest incidence among Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Thai cases, indicating a genetic predisposition among East Asians?
Did you know that Bert Haney lost an election to the U.S. Senate, but was later confirmed by the Senate for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
Did you know that Gilberto Gil describes his 2006 album Gil Luminoso as being religiously themed, although he is an agnostic?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Dom Zanni was once knocked unconscious in the seventh inning, yet went on to finish pitching the game and earn the win for the Chicago White Sox?
Did you know that San Diego's El Cortez Hotel, site of the world's first outdoor glass elevator and moving sidewalk, became a school for evangelists in the 1970s?
Did you know that The Janus Man, a thriller concerning espionage and betrayal, is the fourth book in the "Tweed and Co." series, for which Colin Forbes published a book every year from 1982 to his death in 2006?
Did you know that a timber in Nutley Windmill, an open trestle post mill in Sussex, England, has been dated by dendrochronology to 1738–70, and the main post is even older, dating to 1533–70?
Did you know that although she was born in Argentina, Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career in theater, film and telenovelas in the neighboring country of Brazil?
Did you know that former University of Texas at Austin President William S. Livingston also chaired the committee that established the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs?
Did you know that one of the major differences between Mechlin and Valenciennes lace is the cordonnet, a loosely spun silk cord used to outline and define the pattern?
Did you know that railway transport in Nagpur started in 1867 when the Nagpur railway station was constructed using locally found pink sandstone?
Did you know that the $2 million Baltimore City Hall was designed in 1860 by architect George A. Frederick?
Did you know that the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece was among the leading painters in Cologne at the beginning of the sixteenth century?
Did you know that the Polish minority in Ireland is the country's largest minority group apart from British people?
Did you know that the Tamil film Nam Iruvar featured songs written by Indian nationalist Subramania Bharati?
Did you know that the Uppland runestone U 328 is an example of the Ringerike style?
Did you know that the first roadside park in the world was in 1919 at Iron River, Michigan?
Did you know that the khutbah is the sermon delivered before the Muslim congregational Friday prayers and after the congregational prayers on each of the two annual Muslim festivals?
Did you know that the second major land reform in Romania took place in 1921, following a promise made by King Ferdinand to the troops during World War I?
Did you know that the theory of camouflage led the Special Air Service to use pink as the primary color on the desert camouflaged  Land Rover Series IIA patrol vehicles, leading to the nickname The Pink Panthers?
Did you know that the track "Hell's Angels" from Roy Harper's 1970 album Flat Baroque and Berserk features an acoustic guitar played through a wah-wah pedal?
Did you know that while the New York Vauxhall Gardens drew in colonial New Yorkers with a wax museum and outdoor theater, a copycat competitor attracted them with ice cream?
Did you know that Brazilian actress Carmen Silva was diagnosed with the same illness, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, as actor Oswaldo Louzada, who played her husband on the Brazilian telenovela, Mulheres Apaixonadas?
Did you know that CMKC Group will construct and retain 30-year management rights over 1500 km of new and 512 km of renovated railway in the Republic of the Congo?
Did you know that French top-ten single "Nuit" by the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones was penned in just a few hours?
Did you know that Harold Clapp's "fiendish efficiency" in improving Victorian Railways' train reliability was credited with losing Melbourne commuters "another excuse for being late for work in the mornings"?
Did you know that Jordan's Municipality of Salt derives its name from the Latin saltus meaning valley of trees as there is much greenery in the area?
Did you know that Safi Faye's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman?
Did you know that Speaking in Strings is a 1999 documentary film about classical violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, whose emotional concert performances have alienated some critics?
Did you know that Union general Stephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the letters CSA from the Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument?
Did you know that before Homer Plessy challenged the Separate Car Act leading to Plessy v. Ferguson, Daniel Desdunes had challenged it but had his charges dropped?
Did you know that brothers and England football defenders Arthur Melmoth Walters and Percy Melmoth Walters were known as "Morning" and "Afternoon" in allusion to their initials?
Did you know that six governments have jurisdictional boundaries at Four Corners?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel Yotsunoha allows the player to navigate in a top-down perspective similar to a console role-playing game?
Did you know that the Nashville Predators actually increased their team payroll by 44.30% between the 2003–04 NHL season and 2005–06 season, despite a league-wide drop of −22.73% after a salary cap was implemented?
Did you know that the Orton Plantation near Wilmington, North Carolina, was attacked by Native Americans, used as a military hospital, and once owned by a Colonial governor?
Did you know that the first generation jet fighters include designs from WWII-era ME-262 to Korean War-era F-86?
Did you know that Are you a True Scotsman? is part of Scottish military ritual determining that a kilted soldier is not wearing undergarments?
Did you know that Ayesha Omar sparked controversy in Pakistan when she painted two semi-nude self-portraits?
Did you know that Erik Möller, Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, helped to develop both Wikinews and Wikimedia Commons?
Did you know that Georgia Moffett was selected for the eponymous role in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", but not because her father is Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor?
Did you know that HMNZS Te Mana (F111) was the first New Zealand warship to visit a Russian port?
Did you know that Hoi Khanh Temple in Thu Dau Mot was once used as a meeting place by Vietnamese independence activists, including Ho Chi Minh's father?
Did you know that Ichitaro Kanie grew Japan's first tomatoes in 1899, founding the ¥157 billion Kagome tomato empire?
Did you know that Operation Facelift unified the United Kingdom's co-operative retailers with a single logo in 1968, reinforcing The Co-operative brand?
Did you know that Pythagoras, a sculptor from Samos in the 5th century BCE, was credited with the innovation of sculpting athletes with visible veins?
Did you know that although the first Callawayasaurus fossil was discovered in 1962, it was not until 1999 that they were recognized as a separate genus?
Did you know that serial killer Nathaniel White claimed his first murder was inspired by a scene in RoboCop 2?
Did you know that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers?
Did you know that the 1999 Chamoli earthquake in India, in which 103 people died, was also felt in the Baitadi, Dadeldhura and Kanchanpur districts in Nepal?
Did you know that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War?
Did you know that the Harihareshwara temple in Karnataka, India, was consecrated in 1224 CE, in dedication to Harihara, a fusion of the Hindu gods Shiva and Vishnu?
Did you know that the St. Philip's Church Ruins include the graves of two North Carolina governors and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court?
Did you know that the term choral symphony was coined by French composer Hector Berlioz when describing his symphony, Roméo et Juliette?
Did you know that the town of La Balize, Louisiana, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, was rebuilt several times after 1699 because of hurricanes before it was destroyed and abandoned around 1860?
Did you know that the unsolved murder of Mary Rogers was fictionalized as "The Mystery of Marie Roget" by Edgar Allan Poe?
Did you know that when the Weekly Arizonian withdrew its endorsement for Richard C. McCormick's reelection, he repossessed the newspaper's printing press and began the  Arizona Citizen?
Did you know that Aaron Lopez, who was denied citizenship in Colonial Rhode Island because he was Jewish, later became Newport's wealthiest resident?
Did you know that British Major-General Eric Cole, who helped plan the invasion of Normandy, was born in Malta and once played cricket with the Egypt national cricket team?
Did you know that Brussels lace is made in pieces, with the design made separate from the ground, unlike Mechlin lace or Valenciennes lace, and is known for its delicacy and beauty?
Did you know that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
Did you know that Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
Did you know that Kuxa Kanema is a documentary about the Mozambique government’s first attempts to create a national cinema?
Did you know that Project Runway Australia will air on Arena, which was recently re-branded to the American Project Runway's first station, Bravo?
Did you know that Thomas Scott, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, organized the 95th Manitoba Grenadiers in thirteen days to put down the North-West Rebellion of 1885?
Did you know that Whitney Ellsworth became associated with Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's fledgling company National Allied Publications, later known as DC Comics?
Did you know that William Henry Leonard Poe wrote a short story about the failed relationship of his younger brother Edgar Allan Poe with Sarah Elmira Royster?
Did you know that a year after conducting rival nuclear tests, India and Pakistan issued the 1999 Lahore Declaration, committing to develop safeguards to prevent nuclear conflict?
Did you know that before 1 January 2008, milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that by 1901, £4m of shares in the Suez Canal bought by Benjamin Disraeli in 1875 during his premiership were rising in value by £2m per year and yielding an annual dividend of £880,000?
Did you know that during World War I, aerial warfare expert Philip Roosevelt, first cousin once removed of Theodore Roosevelt, helped the United States Army plan its first air-land battle?
Did you know that golfer Edith Cummings was the first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine and the inspiration for a character in The Great Gatsby?
Did you know that in the 1430s, the feudal lord Ashina Morihisa kept Aizu Matsudaira's Royal Garden as a villa believing it to be a sacred place?
Did you know that music printer Robert Birchall published the first English edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in 1810?
Did you know that the 12th century Doddabasappa Temple in Karnataka state, India, has a 24-pointed star-shaped plan?
Did you know that the Caprock Chief was a proposed passenger train which would have connected Fort Worth, Texas and Denver, Colorado via the Texas Panhandle?
Did you know that the Musselburgh and Fisherrow Co-operative Society created headlines when it began a process of demutualization after 140 years as a co-operative?