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Did you know that during the 1765 Sino-Burmese War the Qing army built a stockade "as big as a city" at Shwenyaungbin?
Did you know that rapper Scribe is the only artist to have had two year-end number-one singles in New Zealand?
Did you know that the 1912 revolt in Himarë, Albania, led by Greek officer Spyros Spyromilios, overthrew the Ottoman forces from the region?
Did you know that the Cornish delicacy Stargazy pie, which includes pilchards protruding through the crust, was designed to be fun and amusing to children?
Did you know that the name of the Town of Macamic, in Quebec, Canada, comes from the Algonquin word Makamik meaning "limping beaver"?
Did you know that Polad Bülbüloğlu, an Azerbaijani singer, actor, politician and diplomat, won the Russian Order of Friendship and numerous other national awards in post-Soviet states?
Did you know that William D. Cochran, former Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, was known as "Pink Cheeks" as a Michigan Wolverines football player?
Did you know that a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed five minutes after taking off from Lamidanda Airport, Nepal, last month?
Did you know that although its main expedition was focused on Bulgaria, the Savoyard crusade nevertheless included the first Christian success against the Ottomans?
Did you know that during their campaign to sabotage the French-controlled Vietnamese railway network, Viet Minh guerrillas built their own 300 km railway out of tracks stolen from the main line?
Did you know that even though the Canadian wine region of the Okanagan is on the same degree of latitude as Champagne and Rheingau, they grow warm climate varieties, such as Zinfandel, Malbec and Barbera?
Did you know that in a 1979 fundraiser at the Jersey City Armory, the Mayor of Jersey City challenged Muhammad Ali, then World Heavyweight Champion, to an exhibition bout before a crowd of 8,000?
Did you know that the 1991 illustrated children's book of the year, The Mousehole Cat, is based on the legend of the stargazy pie?
Did you know that the American Thoroughbred Gen. Duke was named for General Duke, the racehorse that won the Belmont Stakes in 1868, as well as for Confederate General Basil Duke?
Did you know that the Conclave of 1740 elected Benedict XIV after he advised them "If you wish to elect a saint, choose Gotti; a statesman, Aldrovandi; an honest man, me"?
Did you know that the extinct Jamaican Flightless Ibis developed unique club-like wings that could be used as a flail?
Did you know that the first president of the Ford Motor Company was not Henry Ford, but candy maker John S. Gray?
Did you know that the mushroom Xeromphalina setulipes is known only from Ciudad Real Province, Spain?
Did you know that the stabilizing fins of the MQR-16 Gunrunner rocket were made from plywood?
Did you know that there are hundreds of monotowns in Russia—towns whose economy is dominated by a single industry or company?
Did you know that when St. John's Cathedral was built in St. John's, Antigua, it was criticized by ecclesiastical architects for being like "a pagan temple with two dumpy pepper pot towers"?
Did you know that 20 years after scoring a goal in Luxembourg's first-ever football victory over France, Zénon Bernard became the first communist elected to the Luxembourgian parliament?
Did you know that Eugene K. Garfield used a personal Pullman car when he rode the Auto-Train service he started to carry people and their vehicles between Virginia and Florida?
Did you know that Michigan football player and author Lewis Reimann wrote in 1916 that post-game celebrations by students "filled with 'spirit'" were damaging the university's reputation?
Did you know that Paul Pyant designed lighting for the production of George Frideric Handel’s Xerxes at the Houston Grand Opera in 2010?
Did you know that St Nicholas' Church, Feltwell, Norfolk is unusual in being broader than it is long?
Did you know that United States Navy, British Royal Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy warships bombarded several Japanese cities (bombardment of Kamaishi pictured) during the last weeks of World War II?
Did you know that a tropical depression in 1970 was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in Puerto Rico?
Did you know that an 1848–49 crime thriller set in the world of horseracing, written by journalist Angus Reach, was later described as a "template for the pulp tradition"?
Did you know that during William Fones' tenure as a Tennessee Supreme Court judge, the court upheld a law banning snake-handling in religious services?
Did you know that following a referendum in 1984, Liechtenstein became the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote?
Did you know that in the 1920s revue Casanova, the dancer La Jana was carried on-stage semi-naked on a silver platter?
Did you know that long jumper Dawn Burrell set a lifetime best to win at the 2001 World Indoor Championships, but suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury the following month and never again competed internationally?
Did you know that not only can sodium tungsten bronze conduct electricity like a semiconductor or a metal, but it can also superconduct?
Did you know that proper design of a sampling frame can be crucial in statistical research?
Did you know that pyridine is a part of the Cornforth reagent and Crabtree's catalyst?
Did you know that record producer Cachorro López co-wrote "Color Esperanza", a song performed in Argentina back to back with the national anthem?
Did you know that the Bengal Slow Loris is found in numerous protected areas, yet is still threatened by poaching and illegal logging?
Did you know that the Forest of Compiègne was the site of armistice agreements in both the First and the Second World Wars?
Did you know that the Fuller Rock Light in Providence, Rhode Island, was destroyed in an explosion?
Did you know that the Swiss Fort du Scex and the Fort de Cindey are connected by a natural cave, the Grotte aux Fées?
Did you know that the explosion to move Antoinette, wrecked on Doom Bar, blew in all the windows in the port town of Padstow?
Did you know that the original wooden bell tower of the First Presbyterian Church in Batavia, New York, blew down within a year of its construction and was replaced by the stone one originally intended?
Did you know that the song "For a Friend" from The Communards' album Red was written in memory of Mark Aston, a friend of the band members, who died from AIDS?
Did you know that 17 Polish songs by Frédéric Chopin were published after the composer's death as his Op.74?
Did you know that Baths' debut album, Cerulean, though recorded in his bedroom in two months, was acknowledged by "album of the year" lists?
Did you know that Jacksonville's Atlantic Boulevard, which is considered to have been the beginning of Florida's highway system, was just 18 ft (5.5 m) wide when first built?
Did you know that James Cecil was impeached by the House of Commons for high treason?
Did you know that Julio Ibarra became Governor of Cardenal Caro Province, in Chile just after two major earthquakes in the country?
Did you know that Peter Grippe was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the category of fine arts in 1964?
Did you know that Polly Bergen closed each episode of her 1957–58 NBC variety program, The Polly Bergen Show, with the 1956 song "The Party's Over"?
Did you know that RAAF flying ace Peter Turnbull was fired on by his own anti-aircraft gunners as he brought his Kittyhawk fighters in to land at Port Moresby, New Guinea, in March 1942?
Did you know that Roberto Córdova became the mayor of Pichilemu, Chile, after Marcelo Cabrera Martínez was removed permanently as mayor of the city on August 19, 2009?
Did you know that above the chancel arch of St Barbara's Church, Haceby, Lincolnshire, are the Royal arms of Queen Anne on top of a medieval Doom painting?
Did you know that after her Baby Tooth Survey showed kids took in strontium-90 from nuclear fallout, Dr. Louise Reiss's son picked up the phone and heard the caller say "This is John Kennedy, can I talk to your mom?"
Did you know that angel's bonnets smell strongly of iodoform?
Did you know that at the end of the 19th century, E. C. Stearns & Company was one of the most extensive hardware manufacturers in the US?
Did you know that iron smelting furnaces over 2500 years old have been found in Taruga, Nigeria?
Did you know that the 55-point margin of victory by Alabama in the 1953 Orange Bowl was the largest for a college football bowl game until surpassed by Tulsa 55 years later in the 2008 GMAC Bowl?
Did you know that the Greek city Phoenice became the center of the federal government of the Epirote League after the assassination of the last Aeacid dynasty ruler, Deidamia II of Epirus?
Did you know that the Inclined Plane Bridge spans Stonycreek River, connecting the Johnstown Inclined Plane to the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Louisiana politician Albert Estopinal, Jr., was involved in hurricane relief efforts in his native storm-prone St. Bernard Parish?
Did you know that the Prudence Crandall School for Negro Girls operated in a Canterbury, Connecticut, mansion until mob violence led to its closure?
Did you know that the Vale of Avoca bridge in Toronto was opened in 1924, replacing an iron bridge from 1888 (both pictured)?
Did you know that two of the illustrations in the Leofric Missal, a 10th and 11th century illuminated book from England, depict a method of divination derived from Coptic Egypt?
Did you know that variables and attributes are some of the most basic concepts in science?
Did you know that Euprenolepis procera is the first ant discovered that harvests and feeds on mushrooms?
Did you know that Malibu Lake has been featured in over 100 films and television programs, including the 1931 version of Frankenstein?
Did you know that Operation Tarnegol, in which an Israeli Meteor NF.13 shot down an Egyptian Ilyushin Il-14 transport, was only made public 32 years after the event?
Did you know that Oregon judge Jack Landau attended two different Benjamin Franklin High Schools?
Did you know that Robin Oswald hijacked TWA Flight 541 in an effort to free Garrett Brock Trapnell, who was in jail for hijacking a jetliner, after a failed attempt to hijack a helicopter by her mother?
Did you know that a kindergarten student began a campaign which made the Alaskan Malamute Alaska's state dog breed?
Did you know that actor William Caskey Swaim was drafted into the Army in 1968 and served as a medic during his tour on the island of Okinawa?
Did you know that although in 1697 Zhuluo County covered more than half the landmass of Taiwan, a visiting Qing official wrote that the county contained "no residents, only savages"?
Did you know that before Mary of Teck married Prince George, Duke of York, she had been engaged to his brother Prince Albert Victor?
Did you know that in November 2010, pest controller Chris Swan bowled the third-best figures for a first class match in the history of the Queensland cricket team?
Did you know that it took more than half a century to complete the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the collected works of Johann Sebastian Bach?
Did you know that one day before the 1996–97 NBA season began, Golden State Warriors player Marcus Mann quit the team to become a Christian minister?
Did you know that the Gimlet rocket may have been given its name because it was a small rocket for use against MiGs?
Did you know that the Sky Scorcher air-to-air missile would have carried a two-megaton nuclear warhead?
Did you know that the Zoharei Chama (Sunrise) Synagogue in Jerusalem, Israel, features a huge sundial built to help worshippers determine the exact moment of sunrise and sunset?
Did you know that the mushroom Marasmius sasicola, known from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, grows on the fallen leaves of Sasa bamboo?
Did you know that the rail line at the Swiss Fort Heldsberg incorporated a turnout to derail enemy armored trains?
Did you know that Casey Close was Baseball America's National Player of the Year, married former Miss America Gretchen Carlson and negotiated more than $350 million in contracts for Derek Jeter and Ryan Howard?
Did you know that Clearwater Fine Foods, a company owned by multi-millionaire John Risley, owns all fishing rights to offshore lobster in Canadian Atlantic waters?
Did you know that Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlašić was named after Casablanca, a city where her father Joško Vlašić won the decathlon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games?
Did you know that Essad Pasha Toptani, supported by the Kingdom of Serbia, established the Republic of Central Albania on October 16, 1913?
Did you know that Kenny Francis began his racing career at the age of eight by racing go-karts?
Did you know that Manzanar internee Tak Shindo went on to become a "Giant of Jazz" for exotica albums like Mganga! and Brass and Bamboo?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian officials detained a vulture (example pictured) and accused it of spying for Israel?
Did you know that a human relations award honoring those who promote diversity in employment is named for Roy Bass, who served as mayor of Lubbock, Texas, from 1974 to 1978?
Did you know that after 53 years, Indiana's last remaining manual bridge toll booth on the Wabash Memorial Bridge, was replaced with an automated toll collection system?
Did you know that attorney Tom Tureen pioneered Nonintercourse Act litigation, negotiating an $81.5 million settlement of the Passamaquoddy case and the creation of the largest casino in the world?
Did you know that despite releasing three EPs in less than a year, most of the material on dubstep producer James Blake's self-titled debut album is brand new?
Did you know that in a 1946 incident, three ammunition magazines exploded at the Swiss Fort de Dailly?
Did you know that in the case of budget bills and urgent matters, a bill must be passed in the same session of Parliament in Bhutan?
Did you know that the Farman F.281 only logged four hours of flight time between January 1933 and the spring of 1935, despite being in service with Air France?
Did you know that the GTR-18 rocket (launch pictured), used extensively by the U.S. military, is made using phenolic paper and styrofoam?
Did you know that the National Hockey League and its players' association founded the Hockey Fights Cancer charity in 1998 after former player John Cullen attempted to come back from Non-Hodgkin lymphoma?
Did you know that the Navajo Times was the first daily newspaper published by an American Indian Nation?
Did you know that the People's Republic of China is the world's top producer of sex toys?
Did you know that the chemical structure of PEPPSI was published in 2006?
Did you know that the house in Tekirdağ, Turkey, where Hungarian national hero Francis II Rákóczi spent his last years, is a museum now and is regarded as a cultural bridge between the two countries?
Did you know that the life of a nun, Agnes of Jesus, inspired Henri Cormier to join the Dominicans, and they were beatified together on November 20, 1994?
Did you know that the pantropical jumping spider Plexippus paykulli is highly agile, and can cover many times its own body length in a single jump?
Did you know that with its round tower, semicircular apse, and thatched roofs, St Margaret's Church, Hales, Norfolk is described as "an almost perfect Norman church"?
Did you know that Albanian rebels managed to capture Skopje, center of Ottoman Kosovo Vilayet, during the Albanian Revolt of 1912?
Did you know that Clint Eastwood named his film company Malpaso Productions after Malpaso Creek which is located on his property in Monterey County, California?
Did you know that Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets and Jerry Posin of Steppenwolf teamed up to perform music while both were imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix, Arizona?
Did you know that Douglas Coupland's Player One: What Is To Become Of Us is the first entry in the Massey Lectures series to be a work of fiction?
Did you know that Ernest P. Goodrich was the third head coach of the Michigan State Normal football team and the first president of the Institute of Traffic Engineers, both of which have since changed their names?
Did you know that Hendrik Samuel Witbooi and Hosea Kutako could not present their 1947 UN petition for independence from South African occupation because they were not allowed to leave South-West Africa?
Did you know that Hurricane Able (track pictured) was the only hurricane to make landfall in the United States during the 1952 hurricane season?
Did you know that Rhode Island Claims Settlement Act extinguished all aboriginal title in Rhode Island?
Did you know that during a political rally on October 29, 1918, in Ljubljana, Mihajlo Rostohar shouted: "We soldiers renounce Austria and swear obedience to the state of our nation, to Yugoslavia!"?
Did you know that former Miami University and Oberlin College head football coach  C. K. Fauver  played professional baseball with the Cleveland Lake Shores?
Did you know that in the North Leicestershire by-election in February 1857, Charles Frewen campaigned on a slogan of "No Popery"?
Did you know that soil and ash from six Holocaust extermination camps are buried at the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that the Decatur County Courthouse in Greensburg, Indiana, has a tree growing on it?
Did you know that the Javan Slow Loris is threatened by the exotic pet trade and was included in the 2008–2010 list of "The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates"?
Did you know that the Malagasy rodent Voalavo antsahabensis, which was only described as a species in 2005, is endangered because of slash-and-burn agriculture?
Did you know that the album A Time for Love recorded by Arturo Sandoval was inspired by trumpeter Bobby Hackett and the album Clifford Brown with Strings?
Did you know that the oil painting Interior has been called "the most puzzling of Degas's major works"?
Did you know that the planned Giurgiu–Ruse natural gas pipeline includes a 4.14 kilometres (3 mi) section to be built under the Danube river?
Did you know that the short story "Conscience in Art" has been described as "a pleasant reminder of the inventiveness and cleverness" of author O. Henry?
Did you know that "Stop", the Spice Girls' seventh single, peaked at number two in the United Kingdom, ending their streak of six consecutive number-ones?
Did you know that Cayuga Indian Nation of N.Y. v. Pataki reversed a US$247.9 million jury award to the Cayuga Nation of New York based on the state's alienation of their land in violation of the Nonintercourse Act?
Did you know that Doris, a large racing yacht built in 1905, led the 1932 Bermuda Race until light winds undercut its advantages?
Did you know that Duke Ellington's 1940 live recording At Fargo was an amateur bootleg not officially released until 1978?
Did you know that General Claude-Étienne Guyot fought at the Battle of Waterloo as commander of Napoleon's Guard heavy cavalry division?
Did you know that Kepler-10b is the first definitively confirmed rocky exoplanet?
Did you know that Soviet tank commander Aleksandra Samusenko was buried near the monument to German Emperor William I in Łobez?
Did you know that William Grigsby McCormick's son Chauncey and nephew Robert bought the Hickory Hill estate more than 100 years after their great-grandfather built it?
Did you know that art critic and novelist B. H. Friedman wrote about his experiences using psychedelic drugs with Dr. Timothy Leary in his 2006 memoir Tripping?
Did you know that by the time St Peter's Church, Offord D'Arcy, Cambridgeshire, was declared redundant, people had to take umbrellas to the church and the heating no longer worked?
Did you know that despite being designated as an X-plane by NASA, the Gulfstream X-54 project does not otherwise involve the space agency?
Did you know that despite wartime rationing during World War II, volunteers at the North Platte Canteen were able to hand out food to up to 8,000 servicemen and women a day for four and a half years?
Did you know that engraver Wenceslaus Hollar was an eyewitness to the action of December 1669 off Cadiz, where HMS Mary Rose, under the command of Rear-Admiral John Kempthorne, fought off seven Algerine men-of-war?
Did you know that stray animals, which include dogs, bulls and cows, are common on the runways of Indian airports and pose a major threat to air safety?
Did you know that the 1938 German musical The Stars Shine was a Busby Berkeley-style film intended to promote The Third Reich?
Did you know that the B&F Fk9 lightplane can be equipped with either a tricycle or conventional undercarriage?
Did you know that the Canadian winery Burrowing Owl Estate is named after the endangered Northern Burrowing Owl with money collected from tasting fees going to the conservation of the owls?
Did you know that the Mount Pleasant Road extension (pictured under construction in 1948) is considered Toronto's first expressway?
Did you know that the Swiss Fort de Chillon is being converted into a wine cellar?
Did you know that the construction of the German dreadnought battleship Oldenburg sparked a major escalation in the international naval arms race before World War I?
Did you know that unlike other stereospondyl amphibians, the Triassic Lydekkerina (restoration pictured) lived entirely on land?
Did you know that "Start It Up", the series debut of Shake It Up, is the most-watched premiere for a Disney Channel series after the 2006 premiere of Hannah Montana, according to the Nielsen ratings?
Did you know that Bach used an obbligato bassoon in a duet of his cantata Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange? BWV 155, first performed in Weimar on 19 January 1716?
Did you know that Central America's highest volcano is located in the department of San Marcos in Guatemala?
Did you know that English actor and opera singer John Fryatt co-wrote a Gilbert and Sullivan pantomime adaptation entitled The Sleeping Beauty of the Savoy?
Did you know that Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Celina, Ohio, was built just 43 years after the first Catholic moved into the city?
Did you know that Smaart software was used to tune the sound reinforcement system during U2's PopMart Tour 1997–1998?
Did you know that development of the VisionAire Vantage very light jet was terminated by a U.S. federal judge's order that the company be liquidated?
Did you know that early dyers combined natural dyes with salt, vinegar, natural alum or stale urine?
Did you know that hyperlocal media company Main Street Connect is based around a franchising model that has been compared to that of McDonald's?
Did you know that the 1925 harvest strike in Uppland is portrayed in novels by Swedish authors Ivar Lo-Johansson and Jan Fridegård?
Did you know that the B&F Fk12 biplane can be purchased as either a complete aircraft or as a kitplane?
Did you know that the Bombardment Aircraft Rocket carried a 20 kiloton nuclear warhead, was unguided, and was launched using an "idiot loop" manoeuvre?
Did you know that the Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS versions of the video game Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts! are all different genres?
Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Thüringen destroyed the British armored cruiser HMS Black Prince at the Battle of Jutland?
Did you know that the Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky reaction, now used in a total synthesis of chemotherapeutic drug taxol, was developed after an attempted Wittig-like olefin synthesis yielded an epoxide instead?
Did you know that the Lucidarius, the first German language summa, written around 1190, was reprinted at least 25 times in two decades three hundred years later, between 1479 and 1499?
Did you know that the Romanian company Grup Servicii Petroliere owns five jackup independent leg cantilever drilling rigs: Atlas, Jupiter, Orizont, Prometeu and Saturn?
Did you know that the Steele Dunning Historic District in Bloomington, Indiana, includes two different Sears Modern Homes and a shotgun house?
Did you know that the U.S. Coast Guard's HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft have been used for search and rescue, oil spill monitoring, and sea-turtle transport?