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Did you know that deputy minister Roman Romkowski, charged along with Director-general Anatol Fejgin and Col. Józef Różański of the Polish Ministry of Public Security, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1957?
Did you know that despite being enveloped by the urban sprawl of Mexico City, the borough of Coyoacán still has areas with the narrow winding roads of rural villages?
Did you know that fish have been sighted in Lake Burton, Antarctica?
Did you know that ice cream manufacturer William Wilson Talcott killed himself by jumping from an excursion steamer into Lake Michigan with rocks in his pockets after he was unable to extricate his wife from a "love cult" in 1922?
Did you know that in 1899 the Lynmouth Lifeboat was pulled over a 1,423-foot (434 m) hill by men and horses so that it could launch to the aid of a ship 15 miles (24 km) from Lynmouth?
Did you know that in addition to conducting minelaying operations in the South West Pacific, No. 76 Wing RAAF (PBY Catalina pictured) dropped over a million propaganda leaflets before the end of World War II?
Did you know that medieval Bulgarian anti-Bogomil writer Cosmas the Priest was regarded as a saint although there is no data that he was ever canonised?
Did you know that more than 9,000 women were sterilized during the Iron Fist Campaign?
Did you know that the First Battle of Yeonpyeong was a deadly clash between the navies of North and South Korea in 1999 off Yeonpyeong island, which North Korea subsequently attacked in November 2010?
Did you know that the Guinean journalist Siradiou Diallo was suspected of being a double agent for President Sékou Touré?
Did you know that the Russian ironclad Kniaz Pozharsky was the first Russian armored ship to leave European waters when she cruised the Pacific Ocean in 1873–75?
Did you know that the list of no-hitters by Baltimore Orioles pitchers includes a loss in the 1967 season, with runs given up in the ninth inning on walks, a wild pitch and an error?
Did you know that three composers, flutist Jens Josef, cellist Graham Waterhouse and pianist Rudi Spring, each set a Christmas carol for their trio concert at the Gasteig?
Did you know that Anika Moa has released platinum-certified albums under multiple record labels?
Did you know that Guinea was the only French colony to reject the 1958 constititution in a referendum, thereby opting for independence?
Did you know that Italian mountaineer Angelo Dibona (1879–1956) has a French mountain named for him, and was still making first ascents at age 65?
Did you know that Jacob B. Warlow was commended for his service as a police captain during the New York Draft Riots, which protested the American Civil War?
Did you know that Lt. Governor Frank G. Higgins was the first person born in Montana to become a member of the state's bar and of its legislature?
Did you know that Richard Herbert raised a foot regiment and a troop of horse for the king during the English Civil War?
Did you know that South African President Jacob Zuma has commented on the "special relationship" between his country and Ireland?
Did you know that Troy, an unincorporated area in the U.S. state of Virginia, is named after the president of the defunct Virginia Air Line Railway?
Did you know that Uspenski Gospels is the oldest dated Greek manuscript of the New Testament?
Did you know that Zimbabwe only played one One Day International cricket series in 2009–10, beating Kenya 4–1?
Did you know that although a recommendation to establish Booby Island Light was made in 1873, it was only constructed in 1890, and was the last major lighthouse to be constructed along the Queensland coast?
Did you know that in 2008–09, 64 percent of the 316 million tonnes of iron ore produced in Western Australia was exported to China?
Did you know that in the 2010 book Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62, the author estimates an overall mortality of 45 million for the Great Chinese Famine, including some 2 to 3 million beaten or tortured to death?
Did you know that online Facebook game Car Town features pace cars used in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 and the 2010 Brickyard 400?
Did you know that the Erkin Rakishev parody film My Brother, Borat is intended by the director to counter the negative perceptions of Kazakhstan generated by the 2006 film Borat?
Did you know that the archaeological sites of Tell Fray and Dibsi Faraj in Syria were flooded by the rising waters of Lake Assad?
Did you know that the legacy of the mercantile Röhss family in Gothenburg includes a museum for design and three professorial chairs at Gothenburg University?
Did you know that the opening of Seagram's Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1937 drew a crowd of 71,000 people during the week of the Kentucky Derby?
Did you know that the quarterbacks for the Michigan Wolverines football teams of the 19th century included a Brigadier General decorated for valor in World War I, the brother of a famous novelist, one of the founders of General Motors, the physician at a Kimberly-Clark mill, the son of the Governor of Wyoming, a steamboat builder, a Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and a sheep rancher from Walla Walla?
Did you know that the song "Una Canción Me Trajo Hasta Aquí" performed by Jorge Drexler received two nominations for the 11th Latin Grammy Awards even though it was not promoted to radio in the United States?
Did you know that the term "death panels," which Sarah Palin coined on her Facebook page, was named "Lie of the Year" by PolitiFact.com and the "Most Outrageous" word of 2009 by the American Dialect Society?
Did you know that ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (1957–1960) invited numerous African American singers to perform, including Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, and The Mills Brothers?
Did you know that Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor, a Baptist abolitionist from Massachusetts, made a significant contribution to the problem of squaring the circle?
Did you know that Daniel D. Badger, with James Bogardus, was one of the major forces in creating cast-iron architecture in the United States?
Did you know that Oleg Nikolaenko was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which believes him to be responsible for one-third of the world's electronic spam?
Did you know that Papyrus 6, manuscript of the New Testament, contains text of the apocryphal First Epistle of Clement in Coptic (Akhmimic dialect)?
Did you know that Peter Shivute, Chief Justice in the Supreme Court of Namibia, spends his office hours on a fault?
Did you know that RAAF Base Richmond, one of the largest military airfields in Australia, was established in 1925 on a piece of land known as Ham Common?
Did you know that Tainan mayor-elect William Lai was named Taiwan's "Best Legislator" for four consecutive years?
Did you know that a long-range artillery shell killed General Abel Douay on the first day of the first battle of the Franco-Prussian War?
Did you know that although the Rans S-12XL Airaile was scheduled to go out of production in 2006, customer demand has kept the kitplane in production?
Did you know that composer Rudi Spring accompanied Salome Kammer in songs and chansons at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Did you know that critic Christopher Gray said the U2 song "Yahweh" could be about Jesus or lead singer Bono's two children?
Did you know that from 1914 to 1922 the British Member of Parliament Arthur Fell led an all-party committee which campaigned for a Channel Tunnel?
Did you know that in 1926, Lise Meitner, a co-discoverer of protactinium, became Germany's first female full professor in physics?
Did you know that performance of Bach's cantata Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!, for the Second Sunday of Advent in Weimar, was not acceptable in Leipzig during Advent?
Did you know that samarium monosulfide changes color from black to golden when scratched?
Did you know that the Furuset and Grorud Lines of the Oslo Metro each serve one side of the Grorud Valley, and several proposals have been made to connect the two?
Did you know that the U.S. Army's Parachute Rigger Badge first appeared in action during Exercise Swarmer?
Did you know that the ancestral home of U.S. Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia, was built by Benjamin Harrison IV in 1726?
Did you know that the first no-hitter in the history of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball franchise was pitched on October 4, 1891, by Ted Breitenstein in his first major league start?
Did you know that the three prevailing causes of geriatric trauma are falls, traffic collisions and burns?
Did you know that when Tiberius was dethroned in 681, he and his brother and Byzantine co-emperor Heraclius were mutilated, but after Tiberius III was deposed in 705, he and his brother Heraclius were executed?
Did you know that when the Churches Conservation Trust took St Martin's Church, Waithe, Lincolnshire into its care, parts of it were close to collapse, it was overgrown, and it contained bat guano?
Did you know that "Down to Earth" is a ballad by Justin Bieber inspired by his parents' divorce?
Did you know that 18-year-old NASCAR driver Johanna Long became the second woman to win the Snowball Derby?
Did you know that Andrew Sinclair, second Colonial Secretary of New Zealand, has 16 New Zealand plants named for him?
Did you know that Bustard Head Light, an 1868 lighthouse near 1770, Queensland, Australia, was the first to be established in Queensland after Queensland's formation in 1859?
Did you know that Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola's book The Five Orders of Architecture from 1562 is considered to be "one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written" despite having almost no text?
Did you know that Guanajuato contains one of the older sites of Mesoamerica (artifact pictured)?
Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his poem "To H. F. Brown" to celebrate Horatio Brown's book Life on the Lagoons?
Did you know that William Albrecht of the University of Missouri made a significant contribution to soil ecology with his work on the Base Cation Saturation Ratio?
Did you know that a Billboard review called Justin Bieber's vocals on "Bigger" both "boyish" and "mature"?
Did you know that a part of the Croatian A7 motorway near Rijeka that passes only 40 metres (130 feet) away from residential buildings is fully enclosed by noise barriers covered by 1,155 solar panels?
Did you know that although "relatively little scholarly attention" was paid to William Blackstone's An Analysis of the Laws of England, its initial success necessitated the printing of four editions in four years?
Did you know that despite being a friend of Kim Il-sung, a Hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and a decorated general during the Korean War, Lee Kwon Mu was purged in 1959?
Did you know that director Andrei Konchalovsky stated that "ballet cannot work in cinema very well," and as such, did not include any in his 2010 film, The Nutcracker in 3D?
Did you know that fashion model Ann Ward, who was mocked as a child due to her height, was the only contestant of America's Next Top Model to be named best photo five times in a row?
Did you know that in 2010, Aaron Kelton became Williams College's first black varsity coach, and its first football coach to go undefeated in his debut season?
Did you know that in the spring of 1904, Ed Poole was arrested twice for playing a Major League Baseball game on Sunday?
Did you know that screenwriter Shauna Cross is adapting the pregnancy guide What to Expect When You're Expecting into a romantic comedy film?
Did you know that shells of Achatina vassei are held by only two museums worldwide?
Did you know that the British cricketer and politician Sir Arthur Priestley went pig-sticking in Patiala?
Did you know that the Photothèque in Luxembourg houses photographs of the city taken as early as 1855?
Did you know that the Venetian Sandolo can be distinguished from a Gondola as it lacks a high steel prow, or ferro?
Did you know that the black bean aphid is able to reproduce asexually, giving birth to live offspring through a process known as parthenogenesis?
Did you know that the death in June 1945 of the Labour Party candidate Walter Windsor caused Hull East to be the last constituency to declare a result in the 1945 general election in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the most recent no-hitter by Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers went into extra innings and concluded with a pinch-hit walk-off home run?
Did you know that "1000 Miles Apart" was written by a British army captain serving in Afghanistan and is a contender for the 2010 UK Christmas number-one single?
Did you know that Adam Houghton, a former Lord Chancellor, helped to negotiate the marriage of King Richard II and Anne of Bohemia?
Did you know that Al Jacks was the football coach for Williams College for just five days?
Did you know that Mike McCullough of the Saskatchewan Roughriders was named the inaugural winner of the Jake Gaudaur Veterans' Trophy at the 98th Grey Cup?
Did you know that Sandy Cape on Queensland's Fraser Island is a rookery for the endangered loggerhead and green turtles?
Did you know that Tart Noir, a type of crime fiction, was created by four writers who decided to make the genre while they were drunk at a writer's conference?
Did you know that Wolffia arrhiza is the smallest vascular plant on earth?
Did you know that ZALA Aero is the only company in Russia that produces unmanned helicopters?
Did you know that a 2010 study found eleven carcinogenic compounds in third-hand smoke?
Did you know that a 7-foot-8 Japanese basketball player, a future Baseball Hall of Famer and a former college football star were selected in the 1981 NBA Draft, but none of them ever played in the league?
Did you know that grateful Confederate prisoners commissioned the bust of camp commander Colonel Richard Owen in 1913?
Did you know that members of the Belize Evangelical Mennonite Church include Creoles, Garifuna, Maya, and Mestizos?
Did you know that the 2006 homebrew Medieval Mayhem and the 1984 Starpath Supercharger version of Frogger are the only two Atari 2600 games to receive an "A+" rating from The Video Game Critic?
Did you know that the composer Olof Åhlström, who had parallel careers in the Swedish war office and as an organist in two Stockholm churches, also founded the first larger-scale musical printing press in Sweden?
Did you know that the sixth generation descendants of Joseph Dodson, one of the early brewers of Nelson, New Zealand, are still in the brewing business?
Did you know that the stripes on tulips (examples pictured) that caused tulip mania were probably caused by a virus, but this was unknown to science at the time?
Did you know that the Şeyh Süleyman Mosque in Istanbul was almost certainly an annex of Constantinople's Monastery of Pantokrator in the Byzantine Age?
Did you know that while on location in Alaska shooting the 1933 film Eskimo, Oscar winner Clyde De Vinna was rescued from carbon monoxide poisoning because he was using his short wave radio?
Did you know that Brian Halligan, an executive and author, draws inspiration for marketing from the rock band the Grateful Dead?
Did you know that British politician Edward Jenkins was best known as the author of satirical political novels?
Did you know that Cullen Wines' chief wine maker, Vanya Cullen, trained and received a degree in zoology prior to joining the family winery?
Did you know that Daniel O'Brien, senior editor for Cracked.com, was confronted by the FBI and United States Secret Service after writing an article titled "How to Kidnap the President's Daughter?"
Did you know that Gustav Jebsen researched, and later oversaw as chief executive, the mid-1910s innovation in production of titanium white?
Did you know that Joseph Whittaker, who has 2,200 pressed plants in Derby Museum, sold 300 South Australian plants he collected in 1839–40 to Kew Gardens?
Did you know that Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika was said to be "keeping a watchful eye" over the investigation into the crash of South East Airlines Flight 372?
Did you know that The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Brighton-born conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton have all topped the bill at the Brighton Hippodrome?
Did you know that after Steven Posner filed suit against his financier father Victor Posner, the amount of the settlement was determined based on the result of a golden coin flipped in front of the judge?
Did you know that during training cruises near Pearl Harbor, Pisces IV and its sister Pisces V found the long lost Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine whose wreckage confirms that America fired the first shot in their war against Japan?
Did you know that in preparation for moving to HD broadcasting, the British soap opera EastEnders' set was lit on fire?
Did you know that initially described as devouring children on the sixth day after birth, today the Hindu goddess Shashthi is worshiped on this day as the protector of children?
Did you know that many of the venues of the 1988 Summer Olympics were tested when Seoul, South Korea, hosted the Asian Games two years earlier?
Did you know that the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, is the oldest continuously serving Presbyterian church in the United States?
Did you know that the National Assembly of Azerbaijan was the first secular republican parliament in the Muslim world?
Did you know that the Salvation Army chose the Zigzag Moderne-style for their Minnesota headquarters in order to demonstrate that it was a modern organization?
Did you know that the Trilokinath Temple at Tunde in Lahul, Himachal Pradesh, India, is sacred to both Tibetan Buddhists and Hindus?
Did you know that the extinct sandfly species Lutzomyia adiketis is host to the Paleoleishmania species P. neotropicum?
Did you know that the jazz history of 1924 included George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, widely regarded as one of the finest compositions of the 20th century?
Did you know that the most recent no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians, pitched by Len Barker in 1981, and that for the Cincinnati Reds, by Tom Browning in 1988, were both perfect games?
Did you know that when No. 72 Wing of the Royal Australian Air Force deployed in 1943, it was to what was described as "a desolate marshy little port" in Dutch New Guinea?
Did you know that with regards to black history and ice hockey, Grant Fuhr was the first black player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Australian actress and filmmaker Elsa Chauvel met her future husband Charles when he scouted her for the lead role in Greenhide?
Did you know that Bill Wiese claims to have spent 23 Minutes in Hell?
Did you know that Chase Aircraft lost the contract to produce its C-123 transport aircraft due to a scandal involving Henry J. Kaiser, that also resulted in Chase's CEO starting his own company?
Did you know that Eliseo Medina is the first Mexican American to serve on the executive board of the Service Employees International Union?
Did you know that Frantisek Janecek, founder of Jawa motorcycles, was originally famous as the inventor of the Janecek hand grenade?
Did you know that Gerard Hodgkinson – a Royal Flying Corps pilot, Swahili-speaking former Somerset cricketer and owner of Wookey Hole Caves – sued John Cowper Powys for libel and won, even though the story was fictionalized?
Did you know that Indian politician Harihar Narayan Prabhakar began his political career in the Communist Party of India, but later represented the Bharatiya Janata Party in the legislative assembly of Bihar?
Did you know that M-1 Global's welterweight (Shamil Zavurov vs. Abner Lloveras), middleweight (Magomed Sultanakhmedov vs. Rafał Moks), and light heavyweight (Tomasz Narkun vs. Vyacheslav Vasilevsky) mixed martial arts champions will be determined at M-1 Challenge XXII today?
Did you know that William Huskisson MP was killed at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by Stephenson's Rocket?
Did you know that actors Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston will reprise their Thor movie roles in the video game, Thor: God of Thunder?
Did you know that at the "Red Basilica" of Pergamon, worshippers of the Egyptian gods may have reenacted the flooding of the Nile?
Did you know that coffee production in India (coffee plantation pictured) started when Baba Budan, while on a pilgrimage, smuggled seven coffee beans from Yemen by concealing them around his waist, and planted them in Karnataka?
Did you know that despite having only one arm, Arthur Lea played international football for Wales?
Did you know that in certain organisms sperm stored by females allows for a process called sperm competition?
Did you know that samarium was the first chemical element named after a person, Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets?
Did you know that the Devil's Highway and the Mother Road are two of the U.S. Routes in the U.S. state of New Mexico?
Did you know that the Maya city of Ixkun in Guatemala erected one of the tallest stone stelae in the entire Petén Basin?
Did you know that the first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, the Jackson Mine, was established where iron ore was found in the roots of a fallen tree?
Did you know that the second CIA spyplane developed under Project Isinglass was designed to fly at Mach 22?
Did you know that when the foundations of an old Scottish castle in Angus were cleared in 1819, a floor slab in the castle's kitchen was found to be a Pictish stone, the Woodwrae Stone?
Did you know that Arnold Aronson, a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, helped inspire the career of his nephew, singer-songwriter and organizer Si Kahn?
Did you know that Creek Indians assisted by English traders defeated a larger force of Apalachee and Spanish fighters in the October 1702 Battle of Flint River?
Did you know that John McKechnie, recipient of a 1987 Coach of the Year award, was winless in college football?
Did you know that Joseph Levien became Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand, after the City Council had gone bankrupt?
Did you know that Kunitz domains, the active protein domains of certain protease inhibitors, are used for the development of new drugs?
Did you know that Louisiana educator and debate coach E. R. Minchew was himself the winner in 1929 of the state collegiate championship in oratory?
Did you know that New York City offered the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Kingsbridge Armory, in The Bronx, reputedly the largest in the world, to the UN General Assembly as a temporary meeting space?
Did you know that Walter T. Bailey was the first licensed African-American architect in Illinois?
Did you know that a woman's G-Spot can be easily reached in the spoons sex position?
Did you know that after he injured Indianapolis Colts linebacker O'Brien Alston, New York Jets running back Freeman McNeil was so distraught that he "committed a flagrant act of compassion"?
Did you know that although Persier was due to be scuttled as a blockship during Operation Overlord in June 1944, she was returned to service, only to be torpedoed and sunk in February 1945?
Did you know that despite being a builder of railroad rolling stock, US Railcar has no facilities with which to construct their products?
Did you know that in 1893 a sculpture of Indiana by Retta Matthews portrayed an "ideal figure of Indiana" at the Chicago World's Fair?
Did you know that in 1935, muralist Gilbert Brown Wilson was paid only US$28 in coins collected by schoolchildren for three years of work in Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Terre Haute, Indiana?
Did you know that in 2010 All Blacks captain Richie McCaw was named the IRB International Player of The Year, for a record third time?
Did you know that in the deepest underwater rescue in history, CURV-III, a US Navy ROV, saved two men stranded in a submersible at a depth of 1,575 ft (480 m) with just minutes of air remaining?
Did you know that many sturgeons of the Sungari River spent the last several months of their lives in Fate Town, Jilin?
Did you know that nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is used to kill slug pests?
Did you know that research on the acochlidians, a group with 30 species, resulted in the redefinition of the Heterobranchia, the largest clade of gastropods, and has led to the creation of the new clades Euopisthobranchia and Panpulmonata in 2010?