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Did you know that during Expo 67's first week (pavilion pictured) it set the still standing single-day attendance record for a World's Fair?
Did you know that nearly every known example of the New Zealand-designed Charlton Automatic Rifle was destroyed in a fire at the storage depot shortly after World War II?
Did you know that researchers believe the monotypic New Zealand genus Oreostylidium represents an extreme example of floral paedomorphosis and should be transferred back to the related Australian genus Stylidium?
Did you know that the Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids?
Did you know that the artistic creations of Tommaso Francini marked a distinct stage in the importation of Italian features in the French formal garden?
Did you know that the late Sir William Northam was the oldest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal?
Did you know that the main building for the MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota was designed so it could be easily converted into a retail/office space should the school fail?
Did you know that the play Four Nights in Knaresborough, which tells the story of the aftermath of Thomas Becket's murder using modern language and idiom, is to be re-made as an action movie in the style of Young Guns?
Did you know that the red column of the Kruty Heroes Memorial recalls the colonnade of the famously red-colored main building of the Kiev University where many of the Ukrainian cadets slain at the 1918 Battle of Kruty had studied?
Did you know that the snakeskin gourami is one of Thailand's five most important aquacultured freshwater species?
Did you know that Batasio sharavatiensis, a species of bagrid catfish discovered near Jog Falls in India, is named after the Sharavathi river in which it was found?
Did you know that Joseph-François Lambert was a French adventurer who tried to overthrow the "Mad Queen" Ranavalona I of Madagascar?
Did you know that Maharaja Suraj Mal took over Bharatpur, India, and established it as the capital of Mewat state?
Did you know that New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart uses an obsolete camera and a type of photographic paper that is no longer manufactured?
Did you know that Sungai Tujoh is the westernmost point of Brunei and is one of the four land crossing points into the Malaysian state of Sarawak from Brunei?
Did you know that a slogan of the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire is "Prolétaires de tous les pays, caressez-vous" (Workers of the world, caress yourselves!)?
Did you know that in Ancient Roman entertainment, a desultor was a performer who led several horses in full gallop—as many as six or eight at once—and leaped from one to another?
Did you know that over 100 million people in Indonesia lack access to safe water and more than 70 percent of the country’s 220 million population relies on water obtained from potentially contaminated sources?
Did you know that the DC comic book Batman: The Last Arkham drew on the influences of psychology and biology books such as "Superstition in the Common Pigeon"?
Did you know that the mosque of Kalenderhane in Istanbul contained the most ancient cycle of frescoes portraying Saint Francis of Assisi still extant?
Did you know that when noted American poet Lucretia Maria Davidson died at age 16, she had written over 278 poems of varying lengths?
Did you know that Ernie Toshack debuted for the Australian cricket team a year after World War II ended, during which he had been rejected by the army on health grounds?
Did you know that Kona lows bring severe weather to Hawaii two to three times each year between October and April?
Did you know that New South Wales Chief Justice Sir Leslie Herron was Australian Father of the year?
Did you know that Saalumarada Thimmakka  was awarded the National Citizen's award for planting and nurturing 284 banyan trees along an Indian highway?
Did you know that Scottish-Russian photographer William Carrick pioneered Russian ethnographic photography (example pictured)?
Did you know that World War II naval aviator William O. Gallery was one of three brothers who became US Navy rear admirals?
Did you know that beneath Vienna's Judenplatz is an excavation that displays the remains of a medieval synagogue?
Did you know that despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers?
Did you know that during his research into women's olfactory selection of potential mates, Swiss biologist Claus Wedekind conducted what has become known as the "Sweaty T-shirt Study"?
Did you know that emigration of physicians and nurses poses a major problem for Nigeria's health care system, as there were 21,000 Nigerian doctors practising in the U.S. alone?
Did you know that in 1925 Saskatchewan produced over half of the wheat in the Dominion of Canada?
Did you know that the Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the Muslim Ottoman Empire by  Christian Hungary and the Muslim Karamanids, which did not occur?
Did you know that the Polish air force combated in the victory of Lublin-Brest Offensive, which cleared the path for the Red Army to recapture Warsaw?
Did you know that the Roman general Barbatio was beheaded for treason after his wife's indiscreet letter was intercepted by Emperor Constantius II?
Did you know that the St. Philomena's Church in the city of Mysore in India was built in Neo-Gothic style drawing inspiration from the Cologne Cathedral in Germany?
Did you know that the earliest European term for "cannon" was the Medieval Latin word "bombardum", and that "cannon" itself came from the Latin word canna, meaning a tube?
Did you know that the earliest cannon projectiles were round shot and grapeshot?
Did you know that the events in the novel The Dig take place during the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, England?
Did you know that the external decorations of the Perugia Cathedral were never completed?
Did you know that the mammals found in Senegal include the critically endangered Dama Gazelle?
Did you know that while leader of the short-lived secessionist state of South Kasai, Albert Kalonji gave himself the title of Supreme Chief of the Muluba People and Protector of the Associated Tribes?
Did you know that Anthelm of Belley left his post as bishop of Belley in protest at the lifting of the excommunication of a count who had held one priest captive and murdered a second?
Did you know that Anthony of Kiev left his Monastery of the Caves when it gained 12 members because he felt it was crowded?
Did you know that Dr. Benjamin Bates gave up his practice to accompany Sir Francis Dashwood around Europe, but Dashwood died and Bates never received the huge payment he had been promised?
Did you know that England has won six of the seven Women's European Cricket Championships to date?
Did you know that Friar Camilo Henríquez, a founding father of Chile and editor of Chile's first newspaper, was interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition for possessing banned Enlightenment philosophy, including books by Rousseau and Mercier?
Did you know that Gay Talese's seminal 1965 magazine feature "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was written without Talese ever being allowed to interview Frank Sinatra?
Did you know that James Madison's Report of 1800 was used to support the doctrine of nullification, despite his objection to that doctrine?
Did you know that Lt. General Charles Roadman II, the son of U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and command pilot Major General Charles Roadman, was the Air Force's 16th Surgeon General?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Cass Michaels was given the last rites after being hit in the head by a career-ending pitch?
Did you know that Pascal Taskin altered a harpsichord by Joannes Goermans to make it look like Jan Couchet's work so he could earn more from its sale?
Did you know that Pham Ngoc Thao, one of the key figures in South Vietnam's Strategic Hamlet Program, was a communist agent who deliberately mismanaged it to stimulate popular dissent?
Did you know that Sajjida Shah debuted for Pakistan's women's cricket team aged just twelve?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdul Aziz was Governor of the provinces of Tabuk, Medina and then Mecca, between 1980 and his death in 2007?
Did you know that Sir Anthony Eden was considered the least effective British Prime Minister of the 20th century in three separate polls?
Did you know that Wollongong Head Lighthouse is the only place in eastern Australia to have two lighthouses within close proximity?
Did you know that an Anglo-Australian trade boycott was threatened in 1932-33 after Australian cricket captain Bill Woodfull was struck over the heart by a ball bowled by Harold Larwood according to England's Bodyline tactics?
Did you know that before 1954, public transport in Belfast included electric trams?
Did you know that during the 1990 New York Giants season, the NFL American football team set a league record for fewest turnovers in a season?
Did you know that during the Napoleonic Wars, a Prussian Regiment, formed from prisoners-of-war, served in the French Army?
Did you know that in 1992 about 10-15% of the Nicaraguan population emigrated to the U.S.?
Did you know that some species of waterfowl lose all their flight feathers at once while moulting, rendering them incapable of flight?
Did you know that tajchy, a network of 60 water reservoirs and more than 100 km of channels, was built in the 1700s to drain flooded silver mines in Banská Štiavnica?
Did you know that the 16th-place of "Vjerujem u ljubav" in the semi-final of Eurovision 2007 marked the first time that Croatia had not reached the final since its independence?
Did you know that the 240 mm M1 howitzer, popularly nicknamed the "Black Dragon", was the most powerful weapon deployed by US field artillery units during World War II?
Did you know that the Discovery Institute conducts public relations campaigns to promote intelligent design and discredit evolution?
Did you know that the German 502nd heavy tank battalion was the first unit to be issued the famous Tiger I heavy tank?
Did you know that the Great Western Railway operated road motor (bus) services in England and Wales from 1903 until 1933 as it was cheaper than building new railways?
Did you know that the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster involved 30 tons of liquid steel at 1,500°C, engulfing a room full of workers?
Did you know that the Unami Lodge was the founding chapter of the Boy Scouts of America's Order of the Arrow?
Did you know that the distinct resemblance of a certain silver mixture, known as Diana's Tree, to a forest of trees led alchemists to theorize the existence of life in the realm of minerals?
Did you know that vinkenzetting (Dutch) is a 400-year-old sport in which the male Chaffinch that makes the most bird calls wins?
Did you know that Alfred Winslow Jones, father of the hedge fund industry, was a sociologist?
Did you know that Aluminaut, the world's first aluminum submarine, helped recover a lost atomic bomb?
Did you know that Gour Govinda Ray, Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism, attempted to compare Krishna with Christ?
Did you know that Judge Learned Hand showed his disrespect for U.S. District Judge Robert A. Inch by frequently referring to him in internal documents as "the Inchworm" or "Judge Millimeter"?
Did you know that L.J. Cooke, the first coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team, created the tradition of the Little Brown Jug?
Did you know that Slovak Paradise National Park is home to more than 2,100 species of butterfly, resulting in the highest concentration in Slovakia?
Did you know that Vagish Shastri, Sanskrit grammarian, linguist and yogi taught the pop singer Madonna Sanskrit pronunciation?
Did you know that William R. Ellis served as mayor of two Iowa cities before being elected to represent Oregon in the United States Congress?
Did you know that not only have Isobel Joyce and her twin sister Cecelia played for the Ireland women's cricket team, three of their brothers have played for the men's team?
Did you know that the Indian mobster turned Congress politician Pappu Kalani won two elections while in jail?
Did you know that the OSA Group was the first association of architects to bridge Constructivism from art to architecture?
Did you know that the Society for the Reformation of Manners, founded in England in 1691, included a network of "moral guardians" in London to gather information about moral infractions?
Did you know that the United States Marine Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the US?
Did you know that the catfish genus Steindachneridion was named after its discoverer, the Austrian zoologist Franz Steindachner?
Did you know that the company Leadership Dynamics was cited by psychologists as the first form of Large Group Awareness Training?
Did you know that the earliest Syrian immigrants in the United States arrived in the 1880s?
Did you know that the fictional Tyranids Hive Fleets of the Warhammer 40,000 game contain special ships for an alien invasion?
Did you know that the first experimental reforestation station established in California was Henninger Flats in 1903?
Did you know that the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after "shiftas", the local word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda initiative?
Did you know that the medieval Greek mystic Gregory Palamas successfully defended his doctrine of Tabor Light through three synods of the Orthodox Church?
Did you know that the sack of Constantinople by Latin crusaders in 1204 destroyed the Byzantine economy, with the Latin emperors melting down statues for coin, and the Venetians exporting architecture spoils to decorate their churches?
Did you know that the shooting of followers of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Tri Quang by the Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem led to months of protests which culminated in a coup in November 1963?
Did you know that the words said by the Virgin Mary in Jan van Eyck's Washington Annunciation are painted upside down so God can read them?
Did you know that Alse Young is believed to have been the first person to be executed as a witch in the American colonies?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Bill Johnston, the fastest bowler to reach 100 Test wickets, took career-best figures shortly after a near-fatal car crash?
Did you know that British music publisher Boosey & Hawkes owns copyrights to much major 20th century music, including works by Bartók, Bernstein, Britten, Elliott Carter, Rachmaninoff, Steve Reich and Stravinsky?
Did you know that British politician David Renton, Baron Renton served for over 60 years in Parliament, representing two parties and then as a life peer, and was the oldest member of the House of Lords when he died?
Did you know that Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from the Red Mountain AVA were used to create the first US wine outside of California to receive consecutive perfect scores from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate?
Did you know that Lucy Brewer claimed to have served in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812, but was probably invented by an American writer?
Did you know that Supraśl Lavra is one of six Eastern Orthodox monasteries for men in Poland?
Did you know that Suyab, the 7th-century capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate, had Buddhist temples, Nestorian monasteries, Zoroastrian ossuaries, and Turkic bal-bals?
Did you know that Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, resigned after confessing to torture and forgery?
Did you know that Thoroughbred horse trainer Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr. is a United States' Racing Hall of Fame inductee?
Did you know that William Penn Patrick, founder of companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics, ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California?
Did you know that Yuri Izrael, Russian vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, believes the Kyoto Protocol is scientifically unsupported?
Did you know that after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?
Did you know that little is known about the career of American architect John S. Van Bergen because a fire in 1964 destroyed most of his architectural drawings and records?
Did you know that the Arthur Heurtley House in Oak Park, Illinois is considered the first fully mature example of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie style?
Did you know that the Commonwealth of Kentucky had a Confederate shadow government during the U.S. Civil War, although it never officially seceded from the Union?
Did you know that the Villa Medicea di Pratolino, visited by Michel de Montaigne in 1581, was later owned by the Demidov princely family of Russia and by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia?
Did you know that the beach volleyball events at the 2007 Games of the Small States of Europe will take place on the Larvotto, Monaco's most famous beach?
Did you know that the cabriole leg is a furniture style occurring in ancient China and Greece that re-emerged in Europe around 1700?
Did you know that Alexander Everett used techniques from the Unity Church and Jose Silva's Silva Mind Control, in his company Mind Dynamics?
Did you know that Charles B. DeBellevue, who had the most MiG kills during the Vietnam War, was the last American ace on active duty?
Did you know that Dave Brubeck's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War?
Did you know that Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia once owned the largest and finest collection of Russian coins?
Did you know that Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency?
Did you know that St. Patrick's Church was the first Catholic parish established in New Orleans outside the French Quarter, so that Irish immigrants would have a parish that was not dominated by French-speaking Creoles?
Did you know that baseball player Rollie Hemsley was the first member of Alcoholics Anonymous to break their anonymity on a national level?
Did you know that footballer David Weir scored Manchester City's first ever FA Cup goal?
Did you know that some of the sick and the wounded left behind by the Volunteer Army during the Ice March (recruitment poster pictured) of 1919 shot themselves rather than be captured by the Bolsheviks?
Did you know that the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House is considered a forerunner to the famous Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals was a leading Islamic political group, founded in 1990 by senior politician and later president of Indonesia, B. J. Habibie?
Did you know that the founding father of physical education in Poland, Dr. Henryk Jordan, started a school for midwives during his stay in New York City in the late 19th century?
Did you know that Dov Yosef, Israel's second Minister of Justice, immigrated to Israel as a soldier in the Canadian Jewish Legion?
Did you know that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote concertos for 1, 2, 3, and even 4 harpsichords?
Did you know that Luxembourg City's Place Guillaume II is colloquially known as the 'Knuedler', after the knot in the belt worn by Franciscan friars, one of whose monasteries once stood there?
Did you know that Matysiakowie is both the most popular radio drama in Poland and one of the longest running in the world, with over 2600 episodes broadcast since 1956?
Did you know that Morlon Wiley was part of the NBA's only trade on the day of the trading deadline in 1995, being traded for Scott Brooks?
Did you know that biologists Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling would intentionally avoid peer review when publishing their most provocative works on molecular evolution?
Did you know that the $7m (£4.2m) estate of Gregory Hemingway, the youngest son of Ernest Hemingway, could not be left to his wife because of the same-sex marriage laws in Florida?
Did you know that the Dunedin, the first commercially successful refrigerated ship, ushered in a meat and dairy boom in Australasia and South America with its first shipment in 1882?
Did you know that the Eastern Whipbird of the Australian wet forests is so named for its loud call which resembles the cracking of a whip?
Did you know that the first large influx of Russians in Korea came after the fall of Vladivostok to communist forces in 1922?
Did you know that the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass was an attempt to communicate across vast distances using a telepathic link between snails?
Did you know that ASNOVA was a group of architects that linked psychology and architecture by building laboratories and expounding psychological theories?
Did you know that Allen Steere, a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University, is credited with discovering Lyme disease?
Did you know that Trivikrama Mahadeva has organized the funerals of over 42,000 people?
Did you know that debt-relief activist Ann Pettifor staged a 70,000 person protest which formed a human chain and encircled the 1998 G8 summit?
Did you know that during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Palestine Police Force (fort pictured) was augmented by the Jewish Settlement Police, Jewish Supernumerary Police and the Special Night Squads?
Did you know that the Cumberland Valley Railroad ran its first trains in 1837 on oak stringers in place of iron rails, and that in 1839 it ran the first sleeping cars in America?
Did you know that the Gotha Go 145 bi-plane started service as a trainer in the Luftwaffe in 1935, and was still in service as a night bomber at the end of the war in Europe?
Did you know that the Pleasant Home, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, derives its name from its location, the intersection of Pleasant Street and Home Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois?
Did you know that the first wine region established as an American Viticultural Area was the Augusta AVA in Augusta, Missouri being selected eight months before Napa Valley, California?
Did you know that the island of Tanjong Pelumpong in Brunei was created when a ten meter deep channel was cut through the spit to provide access to Muara Port?
Did you know that the lyre arm design has endured from prehistory and Ancient Greece through the American Federal Period?
Did you know that the nudie cutie The Adventures of Lucky Pierre was the first sexploitation movie to be filmed in color?
Did you know that wind gradient causes sounds to appear to carry farther downwind, not the wind itself?
Did you know that 35 Jewish Zionists were executed in the Pinsk massacre because they were suspected of being Bolsheviks?
Did you know that Chief Yellow Horse was the first full-blooded Native American to play Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Dateline: Toronto, a collection of Ernest Hemingway's newspaper writings for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s, contained themes and ideas later used in The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises?
Did you know that Don Tallon, regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever wicketkeepers, was once dropped from his state team because he was ruled to be too young to travel interstate?
Did you know that Franklin Steele built the first sawmill at St. Anthony Falls and the first permanent bridge (bridge pictured) to cross the Mississippi River?
Did you know that Irish cricketer Leslie Kidd played his first  first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and played his last against them?
Did you know that John J. Bernet was known for bringing railroad companies back from bankruptcy to solvency, earning him the nickname "Doctor of Sick Railroads"?
Did you know that Peter Herdic, a 19th-century Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn herdic, an early form of taxicab?
Did you know that Tong Yabghu, khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate, campaigned with the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in the Caucasus Mountains?