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Did you know that one of the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic was the Italian Savoia-Marchetti S.55 flying boat, which went on to serve in the Luftwaffe in WWII?
Did you know that Tunde Baiyewu, the singer from Lighthouse Family, is the step-son of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo?
Did you know that after the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg existed for some time in an area that Allied forces neglected to occupy?
Did you know that damask, a fabric with a rich pattern formed by weaving, got its name from ornamental silk fabrics from Damascus, Syria?
Did you know that the term apicophilicity was first proposed in 1963 for the structural analysis of pentacoordinate phosphorus fluorides by 19F NMR?
Did you know that Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouthi is a distant cousin of Marwan Barghouti, another presidential candidate?
Did you know that The Book of Sports was a 1617 declaration of James I of England listing archery and dancing as permissible on Sundays and that Puritans in Parliament had it publicly burned in 1643?
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson offered James Monroe many design suggestions for the Oak Hill plantation?
Did you know that soccer player Paul Reaney was briefly a car mechanic before signing with Leeds United?
Did you know that the climate in Tasmania was so similar to that of pre-industrial England that it was referred to by some English colonists as "a Southern England"?
Did you know that Zentropa is the name of both Lars von Trier's production company and his third theatrical feature film, released in 1991?
Did you know that a rod sagging under the weight of clothes on coat hangers is an example of a beam experiencing bending?
Did you know that the geography of Tasmania results in a climate so similar to that of pre-industrial England that it was once referred to as a Southern England?
Did you know that up to 70 percent of the small intestine can be surgically removed as a treatment for Crohn's disease before short bowel syndrome becomes a factor?
Did you know that the rock group Foghat had five gold records in the 1970s and believes that the movie This Is Spinal Tap was based on their career?
Did you know that "Teewurst" is a German sausage made from two parts of raw pork (and sometimes beef) and one part bacon?
Did you know that Cornwall's South West Coast Path came into being as a working path used by Revenue Officers to patrol the coast near Polperro in search of smugglers?
Did you know that Wordsworth thought that the purpose of poetic diction is to flatter the reader's self-love?
Did you know that the Christian flag was the idea of a superintendent of a U.S. Sunday school who gave a speech asking students what a flag representing Christianity would look like?
Did you know that the documentary film Aliens of the Deep by Academy Award winner James Cameron and Steven Quale was made using footage of at least 40 deep sea dives in both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that Daskalogiannis was an 18th-century Cretan rebel skinned alive by Ottoman rulers?
Did you know that Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" is credited as achieving the highest combined sales, airplay and downloads in the world, since Cher's single "Believe" in 1998?
Did you know that cadigans are a class of placeholder names of unnamed or unknown objects such as gadgets, thingamajigs, or widgets?
Did you know that Monty Norman is the film composer who wrote the "James Bond theme", even though John Barry usually gets credited for it?
Did you know that Thomas Usk's 1387 The Testament of Love, once attributed to Chaucer, was written while in prison to drum up sympathy?
Did you know that the Japanese Paleolithic includes the earliest known examples of polished stone tools in the world, dated around 30,000 BCE?
Did you know that the fairy in nVidia's Dawn technology demo was designed by Steven Giesler, who also created many characters for the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Final Flight of the Osiris films by Square?
Did you know that The Happy Mutant Handbook might be the only book to chronicle a large number of underground subcultures of the 1980s and 1990s?
Did you know that Yamada Nagamasa was a Japanese adventurer who played a key military role in 17th century Thailand?
Did you know that in Greek and Roman mythology, the Palladium was an ancient statue of Pallas Athene which kept the city of Troy safe, until it was stolen by Odysseus?
Did you know that the 1643 Westminster Assembly was appointed by Parliament to restructure the Church of England and produced the Westminster Confession, which is the foundation of the Presbyterian Church?
Did you know that Bill Barker's alien-infested Schwa artwork became such a hit in the 1990s that he eventually teamed with AOL to make an online game based on it?
Did you know that playboating is a discipline of kayaking or canoeing where the paddler performs various technical moves in one place, as opposed to whitewater kayaking or canoeing where the objective is to travel the length of a section of river?
Did you know that the largest African crocodile, the Nile crocodile, is both hated and revered, especially in Ancient Egypt where crocodiles were mummified, and worshipped as gods?
Did you know that the painter Jan Matejko always depicted Stańczyk, Poland's most famous court jester, with a concerned and reflective look on his face?
Did you know that in gold mining, cyanide may be used to extract gold in areas where gold-bearing rocks are found at the surface?
Did you know that in the Catalan region of Spain, a Caganer is often tucked away in some corner of a Christmas Nativity scene where he is not easily noticed, because he is defecating?
Did you know that television presenter Lynda Lopez is a sister of Jennifer Lopez?
Did you know that the Kri-kri is a type of wild goat once common around the Mediterranean but now restricted to a few parts of the island of Crete in Greece?
Did you know that Cold Sunday was a specific meteorological event which took place on January 17, 1982, when unprecedentedly cold air swept down from Canada, sending temperatures in the United States far below existing all-time record lows?
Did you know that Julius Schreck ended his SS career as Adolf Hitler's chauffeur, and that Hitler read the eulogy at his state funeral in 1936?
Did you know that Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand is known colloquially as "The Cake-tin"?
Did you know that actor Leslie Banks used facial injuries he received in World War I to good effect during his acting career when playing villains?
Did you know that Bill Boaks, a retired Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander, won only 5 votes (a record low in a British Parliamentary election) in a 1982 by-election?
Did you know that Major Mykola Mel'nychenko, who started the Cassette Scandal by accusing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma of ordering a journalist's assassination, continues to release disputed audio excerpts from political asylum in the USA?
Did you know that Mildred Dunnock played the role of Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman in three mediums — on Broadway, and for both film and television?
Did you know that Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka learned to read at the age of four and was able to read nine languages in addition to her native Ukrainian?
Did you know that J002E3 was at first thought to be a new moon of the Earth when discovered in 2002 but later found to be the third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V?
Did you know that Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski was a policy analyst at the Pentagon for four and a half years before retiring and becoming a vocal critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq?
Did you know that the Humboldt Museum in Berlin is home to the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, a Brachiosaurus; and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, the Archaeopteryx?
Did you know that the eruption of Pu'u 'O'o added 544 acres (2.2 km²) of land to the island of Hawaii?
Did you know that Endochondral ossification is one of two types of bone formation and is the process responsible for much of the bone growth in vertebrate skeletons?
Did you know that Les Horribles Cernettes, a humorous rock band based in the CERN, supplied the first image on the web, posted in 1992 by Silvano de Gennaro and Tim Berners-Lee?
Did you know that Rumaisa Rahman, born prematurely in Chicago on September 19, 2004, was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g) at birth?
Did you know that there are so many species of Murinae (Old World rats and mice) that it is said they are in the process of taking over the world, and humans just came along in the middle of it?
Did you know that a statue of Joan of Arc in Meridian Hill Park is the only female equestrian statue in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that Agathokleia was an Indo-Greek queen who ruled parts of Northern India from 135 to 125 BC?
Did you know that Bridgett Riley lost her contact lenses in the fifth round of a boxing match against Theresa Arnold on September 19, 1996, leading to her first ever defeat?
Did you know that endochondral ossification is one of two types of bone formation and is the process responsible for much of the bone growth in vertebrate skeletons?
Did you know that the charity Heifer International allows you to give a family a gift of livestock in the spirit of sustainability?
Did you know that Albert Calmette developed "Calmette's Serum", the first antivenom developed for snake venom?
Did you know that Je Tsongkhapa founded the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism, emphasizing monastic discipline and scholarly pursuits?
Did you know that the book Hollywood Babylon was condemned for including photographs of the dead bodies of actresses Carole Landis and Thelma Todd?
Did you know that crème fraîche is made by inoculating pasteurized light cream with lactobacillus cultures?
Did you know that the 2001 UBK protest campaign in Kiev's Independence Square anticipated the current Orange Revolution in Ukraine?
Did you know that the actress Viviane Romance rejected the offer of a Hollywood contract in the 1930s preferring to work in French cinema?
Did you know that dew ponds are man-made ponds placed on the top of hills, built for watering livestock?
Did you know that Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm survived a brain tumor in 1997 and completed a tour with his new band in 2004?
Did you know that Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that orbit Earth at the distance of the Moon?
Did you know that the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism was famous for developing the shakuhachi flute as a means of meditation?
Did you know that 18th century actress Anne Bracegirdle most frequently played vivacious, breeches-wearing, guardian-tricking young women of great initiative?
Did you know that Warton in Lancashire is a historic village famous for its contribution to the UK aerospace industry?
Did you know that a major milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India came in 1193 when the great university at Nalanda was destroyed by Turkish Muslim raiders?
Did you know that Semmering is a mountain pass in the Northern Limestone Alps connecting  Lower Austria and Styria?
Did you know that the Zippe-type centrifuge, named after Gernot Zippe, is a device designed to collect uranium-235?
Did you know that the neoclassical Mistley towers were part of the now demolished church of "St. Mary the Virgin" at Mistley in Essex?
Did you know that The Vampyre was a short novel first published on April 1, 1819 in parts in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron"?
Did you know that in October 1950, the U.S. National Guard bombed the small town of Jayuya, Puerto Rico, where Blanca Canales led a revolt?
Did you know that the first Wabash was a steam screw frigate in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Telford Taylor, the U.S. Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, was also an opponent of McCarthyism and an outspoken critic of the U.S. conduct in the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Wai-Wai is a popular noodle-like snack in Nepal, Sikkim and in northern parts of West Bengal?
Did you know that businessman John King was Chairman of British Airways from 1981 and was successfully sued by Richard Branson for libel as a result of BA's dirty tricks against Virgin Atlantic?
Did you know that the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's plan to expand into Wyoming's Powder River Basin would be the largest new railroad construction in the United States since the American Civil War?
Did you know that the East and West Memorial Buildings in Ottawa, Canada were originally built in 1949 to house the rapidly growing Department of Veterans Affairs?
Did you know that the Great Black Hawk is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, hawks and Old World vultures?
Did you know that the Comal River is the shortest river in Texas (USA), running entirely within the city limits of New Braunfels?
Did you know that Quebec-born singer Alys Robi was subjected to a lobotomy in 1952, following a mental breakdown?
Did you know that Thomas Lord started Lord's Cricket Ground (right), the Home of Cricket in 1814?
Did you know that a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was used in the 2004 movie The Flight of the Phoenix?
Did you know that with his roles in Malcolm in the Middle and Unhappily Ever After, Justin Berfield is the youngest person to appear in over 100 episodes of two different television shows?
Did you know that Bewitched actress Elizabeth Montgomery made her acting debut as a regular on her father's popular series Robert Montgomery Presents in 1952?
Did you know that Justice Leila Seth was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become Chief Justice in India?
Did you know that before building his first railroad steam locomotive, in 1832, Matthias W. Baldwin was apprenticed as a jeweler and devised and patented a method for applying gold plating?
Did you know that metal can grow whiskers?
Did you know that the U.S. federal government sold the disputed Erie Triangle region to Pennsylvania in 1792 so that state would have a freshwater port?
Did you know that the highlight event of the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal is a 2-match ODI series between a World XI and an Asian XI?
Did you know that DVD audio commentaries were introduced as laserdisc features to appeal to hardcore movie fans?
Did you know that Zentatsu Richard Baker was an influential American Zen priest who played a leading role in founding Tassajara, the first Buddhist training monastery outside of Asia?
Did you know that gear pumps use the meshing of gears to pump fluid by displacement?
Did you know that the Pushkar Fair is the world's largest camel/cattle fair?
Did you know that Jeopardy!'s impact on culture has earned it references or parodies in no less than 64 feature films, and appearances on more than 10 television show episodes?
Did you know that Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, a major division of Lockheed Martin, is manufacturer of some of the world's most advanced military aircraft?
Did you know that the term United Nations Medal refers to over two dozen international military awards which have been issued since 1950?
Did you know that modern baby monitors use digital cameras similar to web cams to watch the baby as well as listen to it?
Did you know that the racy George Michael song I Want Your Sex touted monogamy instead of promiscuity?
Did you know that BBC television series Watchdog helped uncover the Hoover Company "free flights" scam?
Did you know that Untersturmführer was the first commissioned officer rank of the German SS?
Did you know that melasma is a skin hyperpigmentation commonly affecting pregnant women that is caused by the overproduction of melanin?
Did you know that one of international cricket's earliest riots occurred in Sydney in 1879?
Did you know that the Chicken's Neck is a narrow strip of land 24 km in width connecting India to its north-eastern states?
Did you know that the men's adventure genre of pulp magazine often featured damsels in distress menaced by Nazis?
Did you know that Repenomamus may have been the largest mammal in the Cretaceous period and is the only mammal known to have eaten non-avian dinosaurs?
Did you know that polymer banknotes (right) are made from the polymer biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP), and that they incorporate many security features not available to paper banknotes making counterfeiting more difficult?
Did you know that the  Sydney Riot of 1879 was one of international cricket's earliest riots?
Did you know that L'Origine du monde, Gustave Courbet's most provocative painting, remained in the privacy of its successive owners for almost 130 years before entering the musée d'Orsay?
Did you know that Mexican pilot Alberto Braniff was the first pilot to fly a plane over Mexico City?
Did you know that a Bok globule is a dark cloud of dense dust and gas, first observed by astronomer Bart Bok in the 1940s, in which star formation is taking place within the H II region?
Did you know that the British ice hockey team The Blackburn Hawks are often referred to as the Blackhawks, and were briefly called the Lancashire Hawks?
Did you know that Labour Member of Parliament Ellen Wilkinson organised the 1936 Jarrow March of 200 unemployed men and women from Tyneside to London to demand jobs?
Did you know that Salt is an ancient agricultural town in west-central Jordan, famous for the quality of its grape harvest, and therefore speculated to be the root for the English word sultana?
Did you know that Washingtonia is a genus of palm and produces a fruit, eaten by Native American people as a minor food source and by birds?
Did you know that folk singer/guitarist Nic Jones suffered multiple broken bones and brain damage after a serious car accident in February 1982?
Did you know that 19th century photographer Napoleon Sarony reportedly paid stage actress Sarah Bernhardt 1500 USD to pose for his camera, which would be equivalent to more than 20,000 USD today?
Did you know that Labour's Alfred Dobbs was the shortest-serving post-war British Member of Parliament – just one day, before his death in 1945?
Did you know that Russian singer and actress Alla Pugacheva has had a career lasting over 40 years, remaining one of the most popular musical artists to this day?
Did you know that the Blue Eagles are one of only two professional helicopter aerobatics teams in the world?
Did you know that the Saddle-billed Stork is a large wading bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae?
Did you know that Aer Arann is the only scheduled airline that uses Waterford Airport, which lies close to Tramore Bay in the Republic of Ireland?
Did you know that Australian author Duncan Ball worked as an industrial chemist and as an editor before he became a full-time author?
Did you know that Szare Szeregi (Polish for "Grey Ranks") was a codename for the underground Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego (Polish Scouting Association) during World War II?
Did you know that Takashi Sakai, a General of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, was sentenced to death on August 27, 1946 for atrocities committed against civilians and surrendered soldiers in Hong Kong?
Did you know that hose clamps are sometimes used as a more permanent version of duct tape, and can be found mounting signs and holding together emergency home repairs?
Did you know that in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, Ness' son Conchobar mac Nessa was brought up as the son of the druid Cathbad, although the true father may have been her lover, Fachtna Fáthach, the High King of Ireland?
Did you know that the Des Moines Register, "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon," ended its tradition of printing the sports sections on peach-colored paper in 1999?
Did you know that the rex Nemorensis was a Roman priest of Diana who got his position by killing the previous incumbent?
Did you know that Austrian entrepreneur Richard Lugner has been nicknamed Mörtel ("Mortar", as in masonry) by the media?
Did you know that Father José María Arizmendiarrieta escaped a death sentence after the Spanish Civil War and went on to found the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation, the world's largest co-operative?
Did you know that Lighthouse Hill on Staten Island got its name from the Staten Island Lighthouse, built in 1912, which towers 141 feet (43 meters) above the Lower New York Bay and can be seen as far as 18 miles (29 km) away?
Did you know that Taum Sauk Mountain and its neighbors in the St. Francois range are believed to be one of the few spots in the central US that may never have been submerged under ancient seas?
Did you know that the epidermis of the mantle, an organ in mollusks, secretes the calcium carbonate that creates their shell?
Did you know that the graves of 13 Britons and a Jamaican trained at Royal Canadian Air Force Station Mount Hope during World War II, are still maintained in a local churchyard in Glanbrook, Ontario?
Did you know that the hunchbacked marionette Karagiozis uses mischievous and crude ways to find money and feed his family in the traditional Greek theatre of shadows?
Did you know that Buddhism in Austria is a legally recognized religion and has 10,402 followers according to the 2001 census?
Did you know that although it was a hoax gone awry, scientists originally believed Drake's Plate of Brass to be genuine, based on initial metallurgical studies?
Did you know that the NTSB recommended installing event recorders on grade crossing signals after the 1999 Bourbonnais train accident?
Did you know that the Skyscraper Museum in New York City, USA was forced to close temporarily as its space was commandeered as an emergency information center after the September 11, 2001 attacks?
Did you know that the South African Mokopa missile uses a powerful, tandem shaped charge HEAT warhead?
Did you know that British teacher and MP Leah Manning organised the evacuation of almost 4,000 Basque children to Britain during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that Manuc's Inn, the oldest operating hotel building in Bucharest, Romania, was the site of the preliminary talks for the peace treaty that put an end to the 1806–1812 Russo-Turkish war?
Did you know that political illustrator Steve Brodner has caricatured American Presidents going back to Richard Nixon?
Did you know that the common mullein plant was burnt in France during celebrations on the second Sunday of Lent to protect against evil spirits and demons?
Did you know that Fastnet Rock, a small clay-slate island with quartz veins, is the southernmost point of Ireland?
Did you know that Nica de Koenigswarter of the Rothschild family was known as the "bebop baroness" for her patronage of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker?
Did you know that in the court case Trop v. Dulles, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it was unconstitutional for the government to cancel the citizenship of a U.S. citizen as a punishment?
Did you know that the English outsider artist Madge Gill claimed to be guided by a spirit she called Myrninerest (my inner rest), and often signed her works with this name?
Did you know that DONKEY.BAS was a computer game cowritten by Bill Gates and included with early versions of the PC-DOS operating system for the original IBM PC, in which the player must avoid hitting donkeys?
Did you know that the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered contains the only known film footage of the young diarist?
Did you know that the Beatles' song "Polythene Pam" was partly inspired by a Liverpool fan who ate polyethylene?
Did you know that the Fairy Queen is the longest-operating steam locomotive in the world?
Did you know that Catsear is sometimes mistaken for dandelions, and has similar culinary uses?
Did you know that Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16?
Did you know that Senator William A. Blakley of the U.S. state of Texas worked as ranch hand as a young man?
Did you know that in 1944, Gwethalyn Graham was the first Canadian writer to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list, with a novel depicting an interfaith romance between a Protestant woman and a Jewish man?