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Did you know that South African rebel tours was the name given to a series of cricket tours to South Africa during its isolation from international cricket in the 1980s due to apartheid?
Did you know that at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004?
Did you know that the arrest of fascist sympathizer and spy Anna Wolkoff was witnessed by a young boy named Len Deighton?
Did you know that the campaign for a "Malaysian Malaysia" has had its proponents denounced as traitors or irrational firebrands?
Did you know that the parents of Rachel Whitear allowed a photograph of her dead body to be used in a campaign against heroin?
Did you know that Badruddin Amiruldin is a Member of the Parliament of Malaysia who has told those who oppose Malaysia's status as an Islamic theocracy to leave the country?
Did you know that Samuel Andrews (1836–1904) was an English-born chemist and inventor whose request for investment capital to build an oil refinery in 1862 led to a partnership with John D. Rockefeller and the formation of the Standard Oil companies?
Did you know that Sandia Pueblo in central New Mexico was discovered by Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1539 while on an expedition to discover the seven Cities of Cibola?
Did you know that a condenser is used to condense steam from a steam turbine to obtain maximum efficiency?
Did you know that according to Breton folklore, not completing the 600 km long Tro Breizh in one's lifetime would condemn their soul to repeating a tour of equivalent length every seven years from within their coffin?
Did you know that the first Intercolonial cricket match in Australia was played in Launceston, Tasmania between players from Port Phillip and Van Diemen's Land in February 1851?
Did you know that Beau Sia, a perennial Nuyorican Poets Cafe favorite, first discovered slam poetry through MTV as a teenager?
Did you know that Jacob Bruce, a Russian nobleman of Scottish descent and one of the most educated people in Russia at the time, was famous among the 18th-century Muscovites as an alchemist and mage?
Did you know that Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and co-author of the definitive Language of Psycho-Analysis, is also an accomplished vintner?
Did you know that Typhoon Vamei formed only 92 nautical miles north of the equator, a record at the time?
Did you know that the 1972 case of  Yvonne Wanrow, a Colville Indian, charged with the  murder of a child molester, brought about changes in U.S. criminal law as it affects women and Native Americans?
Did you know that the Sanhedrin, which is part of the Mishnah,  a major Jewish religious text,  focuses on criminal law, and that  commentaries on the Sanhedrin by rabbis, as recorded in the Talmud,  are noteworthy as precursors to the development of common law principles?
Did you know that the Schmidt-Pechan prism is a type of roof prism used for image erection in binoculars?
Did you know that A Different Corner by George Michael became the first #1 in the UK singles chart to be written, sung, played, arranged and produced by the same person?
Did you know that Amos Urban Shirk was a prodigious reader of encyclopedias?
Did you know that Lake Nockamixon is the start of a whitewater kayaking course going through northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Nadezhda Durova was a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars, started as a private in 1807 and retired with the rank of stabs-rotmistr in 1816?
Did you know that Odoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878?
Did you know that Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay, New York was the historic 353-acre estate of Gilded Age millionaire William R. Coe?
Did you know that a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, directly elected by citizens of member countries, has been proposed by legislators in an effort to counter the influence of the World Trade Organization and other unelected international bodies?
Did you know that a sheriff officer is an officer of the Scottish Sheriff Court, responsible for serving documents and enforcing court orders within the area of their commission?
Did you know that as of 2005 James Neil Tucker was the last person executed in the United States using the electric chair?
Did you know that during the Indian Independence Movement, Tanguturi Prakasam bared his chest when the police threatened to shoot and that after the incident, he was respected with the epithet of Andhra Kesari (Lion of Andhra)?
Did you know that silicosis is a lung disease caused by inhalation of silica, the second most common mineral on earth's crust?
Did you know that the first person shooter computer game Requiem: Avenging Angel was influenced by the Bible and Christian Mythology?
Did you know that the genera Bergerocactus and Bergeranthus are named after Alwin Berger, a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants, particularly agaves and cacti?
Did you know that F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992?
Did you know that George W. Atherton served as president of the Pennsylvania State University for 24 years and is buried on the university's main campus?
Did you know that Lamb Chop is a fictional sheep that was created by comedienne and ventriloquist Shari Lewis and first appeared on the children's morning television show Captain Kangaroo in 1957?
Did you know that the Alfa Romeo Montreal was so named because it was first unveiled in prototype form at Montreal's Expo 67 world's fair?
Did you know that Chetan Sharma, a former Indian cricketer, was the first Indian ever to get a ten wicket haul overseas, taking 10/188 against England in a Test Series in 1986?
Did you know that over 50 parents contacted Gonzaga University's athletic department on the first day that a Sports Illustrated issue featuring a story on Gonzaga basketball player Adam Morrison and his life with Type 1 diabetes was available at retail outlets?
Did you know that the Baldock Beer Disaster occurred on March 14, 1904 when an unstable storage room floor collapsed at the Simpson Brewery, in what is now the Twitchell, in the North Hertfordshire town of Baldock?
Did you know that the Suramadu Bridge, connecting the islands of Java and Madura, will become the longest bridge in Indonesia when completed in 2008?
Did you know that Come Out by composer Steve Reich was made out of the recorded speech of a young man injured in a race riot who was wrongly arrested for murder?
Did you know that Françoise Gilot married the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and later in life was also wed to the famous doctor, Jonas Salk?
Did you know that a Grand Illumination is an outdoor ceremony involving the simultaneous activation of electric Christmas lights and is derived from an English tradition of placing lighted candles in the windows of homes and public buildings to celebrate a special event?
Did you know that invasion literature, such as The War of the Worlds, was a literary genre influential in foreign politics during the years leading up to World War I?
Did you know that the Coffin Handbills were created as a smear attack on Andrew Jackson during the 1828 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that the Combined Islands cricket team were dissolved the year after they won their first — and thus last — domestic trophy in West Indian cricket?
Did you know that the North Pacific Gyre was responsible for depositing hundreds of lost Nike sneakers on the western shores of North America in 1991?
Did you know that the characters in the name of Mamoru Takuma, who stabbed eight first and second-grade students to death in the Osaka school massacre, mean "protect the home"?
Did you know that Jaja, one of the most successful merchant kings in 19th-century Nigeria, began his life as a slave in Bonny?
Did you know that Raghib Ismail became the highest paid player in gridiron football history when he joined the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League?
Did you know that the Bowery Theatre in New York City was burnt down five times in 17 years?
Did you know that the decidua is the maternal contribution to the placenta?
Did you know that Bangor Cathedral in North Wales was completed without a tower or spire because of a cracking foundation?
Did you know that Kasturbhai Lalbhai represented the mill-owners when Mahatma Gandhi undertook his first ever fast for a political cause in support of the mill workers during the 1918 Ahmedabad strike,  but later became Gandhi's staunch follower?
Did you know that Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon Kim, the Angry Little Asian Girl after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation?
Did you know that Rabbi Judah ben Ilai was a  second century Talmudic scholar who said "Who teacheth his son no trade, guideth him to robbery"?
Did you know that Socks was one of Bill Clinton's two pets while President of the United States?
Did you know that St Martin Orgar, a church in the City of London most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons, was all but destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666?
Did you know that Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal predominantly with Belarus's history, including the January Uprising?
Did you know that a Hi-point 995 Carbine Rifle was used in the Columbine High School massacre?
Did you know that fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly?
Did you know that geographical renaming can take place to change the name of a city or country for many reasons, including as part of a sponsorship deal?
Did you know that the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?
Did you know that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"?
Did you know that Christine Witty is both a speed skater and a cyclist who has won three Olympic medals in speed skating and holds the 1000-metre world record?
Did you know that Hurricane Fico caused significant damage in Hawaii without making landfall?
Did you know that Jack Jouett, known as the "Paul Revere of the South", saved Thomas Jefferson and other Revolutionary leaders in Virginia by warning them of a British cavalry raid meant to capture them?
Did you know that footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?
Did you know that prostate cancer staging is the process by which physicians evaluate the spread of prostate cancer?
Did you know that sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal infection that commonly affects farmers?
Did you know that the Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers is a union that represents pizza-delivery drivers, and is one of the first unions in the United States to operate entirely over the Internet?
Did you know that the Battle of Gingindlovu showed for the first time that the British Army could defeat the Zulu tactics that had wiped them out at the famous Battle of Isandlwana?
Did you know that the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat is a manuscript of medieval music made in a Catalan monastery for pilgrims to sing?
Did you know that The Clash's single "Complete Control" was actually produced by famed dub and reggae musician Lee "Scratch" Perry?
Did you know that Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
Did you know that during World War II, the United States developed Who me?, a top secret stench weapon designed to humiliate German officers?
Did you know that the mattenklopper was used not only for cleaning rugs, but also for spanking naughty children on the buttocks, leaving behind a distinctive pattern?
Did you know that César Sampaio is a former Brazilian football player who played offensive midfielder for Palmeiras and the  Brazilian national team?
Did you know that Felipe Pinglo Alva is known as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla, and is best known for his often covered song "El Plebeyo"?
Did you know that Pastoral Care was a book written by Pope Gregory I around A.D. 590 to address the responsibilities of the clergy?
Did you know that Steve Steen was given a role in the movie version of Porridge, but his character did not say anything during the film?
Did you know that the island of Pseira, off the coast of Crete, has an archaeological history from the end of the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age, with Minoan ruins being the most studied?
Did you know that Hurricane Alma was a rare June major hurricane in the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the earliest Continental U.S. hurricane strike since 1825?
Did you know that Robert E. Brown  was the ethnomusicologist credited with coining the term "world music"?
Did you know that Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, founder of the United States Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team, chose the name based on a nightclub advertisement in The New Yorker magazine?
Did you know that basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000, he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis, who replaced him as IU coach?
Did you know that the Gleason score is a measure of how different prostate cancer cells are from normal cells?
Did you know that the Havengore is a ceremonial vessel that was used to carry the body of Winston Churchill during his state funeral on 30 January 1965?
Did you know that the first gang injunction to make headlines was obtained by Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn against the West Los Angeles-based street gang the Playboy Gangster Crips in 1987?
Did you know that the song "The Show Must Go On" by the British rock band Queen was written by guitarist Brian May, and is about lead singer Freddie Mercury's desire to continue making music even as his health was deteriorating?
Did you know that 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess?
Did you know that Baltimore, Maryland has a permanent Rumor Control Center?
Did you know that Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" Gail Halvorsen would wiggle the wings of his plane to identify himself to children below?
Did you know that Edith Cowan was the first woman elected to a government in Australia?
Did you know that Senegalese marabout Mahmadu Lamine was executed by French soldiers for leading an 1886 rebellion against the French colonial government?
Did you know that flutamide is a medicine used to treat prostate cancer?
Did you know that on Christmas Eve 1969, when California lawyer and noted political activist  Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School, he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?
Did you know that selective yellow is a colour for automotive lamps, defined by UNECE Regulations, and that it was designed to improve vision and reduce glare by removing blue wavelengths from the projected light?
Did you know that the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales of the Mexican-American War occurred after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was already signed?
Did you know that the New Testament's "camel passing through the eye of a needle" is an example of adynaton, an extreme form of hyperbole used to imply impossibility?
Did you know that the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. was an African Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years before being rededicated last year?
Did you know that the little borgo of Settignano, near Florence, Italy, was the birthplace of four sculptors of the Florentine Renaissance— Desiderio da Settignano, Bernardo Rossellino, Antonio Rossellino and Bartolomeo Ammanati?
Did you know that the little-known Xiaosaurus may be an evolutionary missing link between Lesothosaurus to Hypsilophodon?
Did you know that Agilisaurus was first discovered when construction workers were excavating a site for a new dinosaur museum in China?
Did you know that Guyana won the first senior regional cricket tournament of the 2005-06 West Indian cricket season?
Did you know that Junípero Serra and Juan María de Salvatierra have both been called "the apostle of California," for their work establishing Spanish missions in Alta and Baja California, respectively?
Did you know that Man of the World was a 1960s UK television series starring Craig Stevens as a world-renowned photographer that spun off the series The Sentimental Agent?
Did you know that Momotus is a genus of green and blue birds with raquet-shaped tails?
Did you know that The Clash's song "English Civil War," warning against the rise of far right groups in Britain, was adapted from a popular American Civil War song?
Did you know that in 1977, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration banned the use of electroslag welding for joining certain bridge structural members due to quality concerns?
Did you know that leaders of Workers Resistance, a Trotskyist group in Ukraine, set up a swathe of invented parties in order to defraud other left-wing organisations?
Did you know that of the hundreds of Sesame Street picture books illustrated, Ernie's Work of Art is one of the few with voice bubbles?
Did you know that the Girays of Crimea were regarded as the second family of the Ottoman Empire after the House of Ottoman?
Did you know that the Liverpool Scottish, a unit of the British Territorial Army, was raised in 1900 from Scotsmen living in Liverpool, England?
Did you know that the Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen, a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party, resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat?
Did you know that the submarine Nautile was used to probe the wrecks of the Titanic and Prestige?
Did you know that there have been many castaways both in fiction and on real desert islands?
Did you know that although actress Matilda Vining was always billed as Mrs. John Wood, her fame greatly eclipsed that of her husband?
Did you know that despite being a major hurricane at landfall, 1999's Hurricane Bret only did minor damage because it hit a sparsely-inhabited area?
Did you know that in 1880 Abraham Ulrikab and seven other native Inuit from Hebron, Labrador, Canada were put on display in European zoos and met untimely deaths from lack of medical attention?
Did you know that one of the surviving records of the life of Andrea da Firenze, a 14th-century composer, is a receipt for wine he consumed in the three days it took to tune a newly-built organ?
Did you know that Jonas of Bobbio based his Life of St. Columbanus on the recollections of Benedictine monks who had known the Irish saint personally?
Did you know that Thomas Vorster, an alleged white supremacist terrorist in South Africa, was accused of plotting to throw poisoned oranges into the streets of Soweto?
Did you know that after the first demonstration by members of Catolicos Por La Raza at St. Basil's Cathedral, in downtown Los Angeles, California, the archbishop  resigned?
Did you know that the Christmas carol Carol of the Bells was originally a Ukrainian New Year's carol called Shchedryk?
Did you know that the Larkin Administration Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was the first entirely air-conditioned modern office building on record?
Did you know that the Russian puppeteer Sergey Obraztsov owned one of the largest collections of puppets in the world?
Did you know that the Soviet pop singer Klavdiya Shulzhenko performed more than 500 concerts in besieged Leningrad in 1941 and 1942?
Did you know that the United States Air Force does not own the copyright to its official service song, "The U.S. Air Force"?
Did you know that Cuban boxer Kid Charol fought former world middleweight champion Dave Chade and held him to a twelve-round draw despite being in critical condition due to tuberculosis?
Did you know that Lake Monger is one of the few remaining wetland areas in suburban Perth, Western Australia as up to 80% of the naturally occurring lakes and swamps north of the city have been reclaimed since European settlement in 1829?
Did you know that Moctesuma Esparza is a Chicano filmmaker who produced the movie Selena?
Did you know that Rini Templeton created works of graphic art for the New Mexico Land-Grant movement before moving to Mexico to collaborate with the Labor movement there?
Did you know that according to Noongar culture, the Wagyl is a snake-like Dreamtime creature responsible for the creation of the Swan and Canning Rivers and other waterways around present-day Perth and the southwest of Western Australia?
Did you know that according to legend, the Teufelstritt (Devil's Footstep), in the Munich Frauenkirche in Munich, Germany, marks the spot where the devil stood when he thought that the builder had constructed a cathedral with no windows?
Did you know that in 1914, Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film?
Did you know that in the mid-fourth millennium BC, at the "Eye Temple" at Nagar in northeastern Syria, hundreds of "eye idol" figurines with large watchful eyes were added to the very mortar used to build the temple?
Did you know that the Scouting movement's "one good turn" was inaugurated on behalf of British newspaper magnate Cyril Arthur Pearson, who founded several newspapers before going blind with glaucoma and then devoted his life in support of the blind?
Did you know that the Soviet singer Lidiya Ruslanova financed the construction of two Katyusha batteries, which she presented to the Red Army in 1942?
Did you know that the University of Arkansas owns SEFOR, a highly contaminated experimental research nuclear reactor that was deactived in 1972?
Did you know that the trance producer Tatana Sterba is the only trance artist to have three consecutive album chart number ones in Switzerland?
Did you know that Christopher Columbus's journal is housed in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, in a building by Juan de Herrera that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Did you know that Frisian literature refers to written works produced in West Frisian, a language spoken primarily in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands?
Did you know that in an effort to generate listenership for his Top-40 radio station WHB, owner Todd Storz coordinated a treasure hunt that caused traffic tie-ups across the Kansas City metropolitan area?
Did you know that the Florentine Mannerist sculptor Niccolo Tribolo is often called "the father of the Italian garden" for his axial designs for Cosimo I de Medici at the Boboli Gardens and at Cosimo's villas?
Did you know that soul singer Bettye Lavette's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972, but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
Did you know that the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was launched to secure oil for Britain and provide a route for Lend-Lease supplies desperately needed by the Soviet Union during World War II?
Did you know that the Don Cossack rebel Stenka Razin was quartered alive at the Lobnoye Mesto in Moscow on June 6, 1671?
Did you know that the English garden designer Batty Langley attempted to "improve" Gothic architectural forms by giving them classical proportions, described in his book Gothic Architecture, improved by Rules and Proportions?
Did you know that Interrabang was an Italian television adventure series about a secret treasure hidden inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa?