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Did you know that after a successful theatrical career spanning three decades, U.S. actress Tittell Brune joined the Order of St Francis, remaining a sister until her death, aged 99?
Did you know that after resigning from the Australian Liberal Party, politician Steven Pringle used his parliamentary privilege to launch a scathing attack on the far right faction of the party for their alleged branch stacking tactics?
Did you know that during the Ottoman occupation of Hungary no fewer than 75 Turkish baths were built in the Hungarian eyalets?
Did you know that even though John Clough Holmes helped found Michigan State University in 1855, it was not until 1965 that a building was named in his honor?
Did you know that former Queensland Health Minister Leisha Harvey served five months in prison for misappropriation of public funds during her tenure?
Did you know that in 2003, German authorities foiled a plot by a neo-Nazi group to set off a bomb at the Ohel Jakob synagogue cornerstone ceremony?
Did you know that the Battle of Schöngrabern features in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace?
Did you know that the Claregalway Friary, one of the first Franciscan monasteries in Ireland, housed only two friars when it was finally forced to close in 1847?
Did you know that the load bearing efficiency of the Roman-developed groin vault has been validated by 20th century structural engineering modeling?
Did you know that the sound of the revving motorcycle in the Meat Loaf rock anthem "Bat out of Hell" is actually a recording of an electric guitar solo by producer Todd Rundgren?
Did you know that American soldier Lucian Adams was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly destroying several enemy machine gun emplacements in World War II?
Did you know that Jimmy Fratianno was the highest-ranking member of the Mafia to become an informant for the U.S. government until Sammy Gravano in 1991?
Did you know that Wee Siew Kim, a Singaporean MP, had to apologise after scandal broke out involving an elitist blog entry made by his daughter?
Did you know that in addition to practising as a lawyer in Cairo, Albanian nationalist Andon Zako Çajupi wrote a comedy attacking the tradition of arranged marriages?
Did you know that the Russian victory in the Battle of Rakovor in 1268 put an end to the attacks of the Teutonic Knights on Russia for thirty years?
Did you know that the San Mateo woolly sunflower is an endangered species that makes its home on serpentine outcrops that are chemically inhospitable for most plant species?
Did you know that the Sandugo or Blood Compact, where two people drink a small amount of each other's blood, was a traditional way to formalize treaties of friendship in the Philippines?
Did you know that the Scouting song Ging Gang Goolie was deliberately written in gibberish so that Scouts from different countries could easily learn it without struggling with a language barrier?
Did you know that the University of British Columbia Library holds the largest collection of Asian-language materials in North America?
Did you know that the first identifiable European print portrait was one of the artist Israhel van Meckenem and his wife Ida?
Did you know that the habitat of the endangered Whiteray pygmy daisy (illustrated) has been reduced to a narrow strip only six miles long, due to urban development, off-road vehicles and destruction by road maintenance crew?
Did you know that Agustin Ramos Calero was the second-most-decorated soldier in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II?
Did you know that Cirsium fontinale is a species of California thistle that actually represents three taxa, two of which are endangered species with narrow endemic ranges?
Did you know that Count Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov ended his love affair with the 60-year-old Empress Catherine II in order to marry her 16-year-old lady-in-waiting?
Did you know that Crab Creek is one of the few perennial streams of the Columbia Basin?
Did you know that Isaac Newton Van Nuys of New York founded Van Nuys, California, United States in 1911?
Did you know that Maria Fyodorovna was the tallest Russian tsarina ever,  and experienced difficulties while dancing with her husband, Emperor Paul, as a result?
Did you know that Richard Ferguson joined a gang of highwaymen after recognising the man robbing his stagecoach near London as a former acquaintance?
Did you know that Shelley's poem On the Medusa by Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery is based on the painting which was not in fact authored by Leonardo?
Did you know that Theo Osterkamp was the first German reconnaissance pilot to fly a land-based aircraft to England during World War I?
Did you know that for organizing a revolt on an Ottoman slave galley and freeing Christian slaves, Hetman Ivan Sulyma received a medal from Pope Paul V?
Did you know that in 1992, a single marbled eel was sold in mainland China for $1,000?
Did you know that the breeding rights for the Thoroughbred racehorse Graustark sold for a record $2,400,000?
Did you know that the first print portrait produced in Europe of a living, identifiable person was of artist Israhel van Meckenem and his wife Ida?
Did you know that with over 3,000 participants, the 1884 Chichibu Incident was one of the largest peasant revolts of Japan's Meiji period?
Did you know that Chicago politician Giuseppe Esposito was shot and killed in front of his family during the 1928 Republican Pineapple Primary?
Did you know that the Agung, a Philippine set of gongs, was repeatedly hit during earthquakes for it was believed its supernatural powers would halt the earth's reverberations?
Did you know that the Late November 2006 Nor'easter caused winds up to 80 mph in the Outer Banks, the only occurrence of thundersnow on record in Charleston, and the earliest recorded snowfall in Charleston and Savannah?
Did you know that under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement, the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War?
Did you know that American novelist Tracy Quan once served as spokeswoman to the sex worker advocacy group Prostitutes of New York?
Did you know that Clontarf Aboriginal College in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage, a convent, an RAAF training facility, a boarding school and a day school?
Did you know that Satveer Chaudhary was the first Asian American to hold elected office in Minnesota?
Did you know that Standard Oil of Kentucky (or Kyso) was formed from the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 and was awarded oil rights over the Southeastern U.S.?
Did you know that Taras Fedorovych, a 17th century Cossack leader, led a Cossack and peasant uprising over the issue of the Cossack register?
Did you know that Thoroughbred racehorse Gallant Man lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby by a nose after his jockey stood up to celebrate?
Did you know that although scholars have studied revolutions (depiction) for over a century, there are still many competing theories explaining those key events in human history?
Did you know that human sacrifices were once offered in Chitpur, now home to Kolkata’s latest railway passenger terminal?
Did you know that in 1057, Saint Anthony of Pechersk singled-handedly dug out the Near Caves in Kiev, Ukraine which is part of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra?
Did you know that in 1850, the Harvard Musical Association, a charitable organization in Boston, raised over $100,000 for the construction of the Boston Music Hall in under 60 days?
Did you know that in the United Kingdom alone, over £60 million is spent annually on dealing with the effects of leaves on railroad tracks?
Did you know that numerous specimens of dinosaurs have been excavated from the Dashanpu Formation, first discovered by a natural gas company that found the formation's first dinosaur, Gasosaurus?
Did you know that the appearance of a dog named Cheeka in a Hutch ad campaign doubled sales of pugs in India in 2003?
Did you know that the prolific spawning of the Pacific herring can lead to egg densities of six million eggs/m2 on submerged vegetation?
Did you know that the vestry of Makaravank Monastery in Armenia served two adjacent churches?
Did you know that together with the Treaty of Mendota, the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux ceded nearly 24 million acres of Sioux land to the United States in exchange for cash and annuities?
Did you know that American Thoroughbred Kingston won eighty-nine races, the most by any horse?
Did you know that American World War II soldier David M. Gonzales was awarded the Medal of Honor for digging out three comrades buried alive whilst under enemy fire?
Did you know that Australian Cricket Academy leg spin coach Terry Jenner was previously jailed for embezzlement?
Did you know that Irving Crane pocketed 150 balls in a row in the final round of the 1966 World Crown straight pool championship; a feat that has never been equalled or eclipsed?
Did you know that Norse sagas record some Finnish campaigns against Sweden in the mid-8th century?
Did you know that Rajendrasinhji Jadeja was the first Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army?
Did you know that economist Walter Adams served as expert witness before 36 United States Congressional committees?
Did you know that in 1819, Hussein Shah, the seventeenth Sultan of Johor, allowed a British settlement in Singapore in order to wrest the throne from his brother with the help of the British, leading to the Malay Peninsula's colonisation?
Did you know that in 2005, Ghatam player Ghatam Udupa became the first Indian to perform at the Krakow International Percussion Festival?
Did you know that one of only two natural populations of the critically endangered Kanab ambersnail is threatened by discharges from the Glen Canyon Dam?
Did you know that studies on whether nice guys finish last have been hindered by the social desirability bias?
Did you know that the Korpela movement was a short-lived cult during the 1930s in Northern Sweden and Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers?
Did you know that the Samara flag, presented as a gift from Russia to the Bulgarian volunteers in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, is the only flag awarded a Bulgarian Medal for Bravery?
Did you know that the church of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome, along with the adjacent tower, is all that remains today of a Dominican convent dedicated to Catherine of Siena?
Did you know that the relics of Moscow's founder, Yuri Dolgoruki, were buried beneath the baptistery of the Church of the Saviour at Berestove?
Did you know that American World War II Army Captain Bobbie E. Brown was awarded the Medal of Honor for running 100 yards up a hill through machine-gun fire to place a bomb in a German pillbox in the Battle of Crucifix Hill?
Did you know that Annadel State Park is considered by some biologists to have some of the best preserved northern oak woodlands in western North America?
Did you know that Canyon live oak acorns were a Native American staple food?
Did you know that Malaysia's Sedition Act disregards criminal intent in passing judgement?
Did you know that Maratha Emperor Shivaji's mentor Dadoji Konddeo also built the "Lal Mahal" in Pune, the royal palace before the capital moved to Raigad?
Did you know that Pepe Marchena was a popular singer who created a new palo or flamenco musical form, called colombiana?
Did you know that Russian actor Yevgeny Samoylov, known for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold and Alexander Dovzhenko in the 1930s, celebrated his 90th birthday in 2002 acting on the stage of the Maly Theatre?
Did you know that Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin, key members of the  Kovalev Commission charged with investigating the Russian apartment bombings both died in apparent assassinations?
Did you know that after World War II, the Czech urban legend of Pérák changed from a shadowy surprise attacker to a heroic figure of resistance against the Nazi occupation of Prague?
Did you know that after an accident in his teens, Bulgarian poet Pencho Slaveykov could write and speak only with difficulty?
Did you know that construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide did not finish until 1996, 130 years after it began?
Did you know that during construction of the Fort Canning Tunnel, special care was taken to minimize environmental impact on the surrounding Fort Canning Park?
Did you know that parts of Karnataka gained independence after its Unification, a year later than most of India?
Did you know that social anthropologist Sir Raymond Firth's research career spanned 76 years after it began in Polynesia?
Did you know that the British politician Alfred Lane Beit was made an honorary Irish citizen after he donated 17 masterpieces to the National Gallery of Ireland?
Did you know that the Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 led to wind gusts in excess of 100 mph across New York, New Jersey, and New England?
Did you know that the Japanese Sōshi-kaimei policy forced Koreans previously banned from using Japanese surnames to do so?
Did you know that the Political Instability Task Force might have predicted over 85% of major state crises occurring in 1990–1997?
Did you know that the Ristorante Cooperativo in Zürich may be the only restaurant to have been patronised by Benito Mussolini, Vladimir Lenin and Gerhard Schröder?
Did you know that the commissioner of El Greco's The Disrobing of Christ tried to use the artist's inclusion of the three Marys to avoid paying the full fee?
Did you know that the trees alongside the Falls of Bruar were planted in response to an entreaty from Robert Burns, the Scottish poet?
Did you know that the village of Sharpham in Somerset, is the birthplace of Elizabethan poet Sir Edward Dyer, writer Henry Fielding and cleric William Gould?
Did you know that "La Coco-Dance" was the first Eurovision entry to feature Tahitian lyrics, representing Monaco in 2006?
Did you know that Canadian microbiologist John Dick was the first to isolate and identify a cancer stem cell?
Did you know that David Brody is credited with co-founding the field of "new labor history"?
Did you know that Frances Slocum State Park in Pennsylvania is named for a woman captured by the Lenape at age 5, who permanently lived with Native Americans despite reuniting with her family 59 years later?
Did you know that Heinie Reitz was the first Major League baseballer to die in a car accident?
Did you know that Kaundinya, the first arahant and bhikkhu of Gautama Buddha, was the only royal scholar to predict Siddhartha's Buddhahood?
Did you know that Romanian actor Ion Caramitru figures prominently in theories that the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was not truly a popular uprising but a cover-up for a coup d'état?
Did you know that Texas oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy gained the nickname "King of the wildcatters" after striking oil thirty-eight times in ten years?
Did you know that due to a "defect of birth", Thomas Livingston was forced to receive a papal dispensation to continue working in the church?
Did you know that furry convention attendees often wear ears, tails, badges, or fursuits as identification?
Did you know that plant perception (plant pictured) is a belief that plants feel emotion and can communicate with each other?
Did you know that the 43,000 Sakhalin Koreans were abandoned by Japan after World War II and kept stateless by the Soviet Union for 30 years?
Did you know that the French admiral Dupetit Thouars took possession of the Tahiti archipelago against his government's will?
Did you know that the Mount Kirkpatrick Formation is the only major dinosaur-bearing rock formation in Antarctica?
Did you know that the city of Thasos held out against an Athenian siege for over two years in the Thasian rebellion?
Did you know that "Bitaqat Khub" is the first and only Eurovision Song Contest to have been performed in Arabic, and also the first and only entry to have represented an African country?
Did you know that "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" was partially inspired by the arrest of actress Lila Leeds, who later starred in the film?
Did you know that American attorney Nicole Seligman represented both Lt. Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings and President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial?
Did you know that Empress Zhang Yao'er refused to hand over control of China's Chen Dynasty until threatened with violence, as she hoped her captive son would be freed to take the throne?
Did you know that Henry Burrell was the first person to successfully keep the Platypus in captivity, in a habitat of his own design that he called a platypusary?
Did you know that Josquin des Prez's Miserere, a motet of Psalm 51, was hugely influential not only as a psalm setting, but as an example of how to approach the text of Infelix ego?
Did you know that Marmoutier Abbey in France was destroyed four times between its construction in the 4th Century and the raising of a private school on its latest ruins?
Did you know that Megazostrodon is widely accepted as being one of the first mammals to have appeared on Earth?
Did you know that Nathaniel Butler introduced the first potato found by Europeans in North America to Jamestown, Virginia?
Did you know that Singapore's Museum Planning Area contains ten national monuments?
Did you know that Soviet sniper Roza Shanina's declaration "I shall return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?
Did you know that Uli is a traditional type of design long practiced by the Igbo people of Nigeria?
Did you know that according to legend, the masons who built Corcomroe Abbey in Ireland were killed to stop them from building another masterpiece elsewhere?
Did you know that many subatomic particles are constantly decaying into more stable lower-mass particles?
Did you know that the Brush Creek confluence with Santa Rosa Creek was the site of a Pomo village, the antecedent of modern Santa Rosa, California?
Did you know that the New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm simultaneously set new daily, weekly, and monthly snowfall records for Huntsville, Alabama?
Did you know that the crash of Crossair Flight LX498 was initially attributed to cell phone use, and led to bans of cell phones in airplanes in several countries?
Did you know that the science and technology magazine Food Technology was originally a scientific journal?
Did you know that the three universal Hindu icons are the Aum, the swastika, and the Sri Chakra Yantra?
Did you know that , in the early 1890s, the Berlin wine tavern Zum schwarzen Ferkel was the meeting place for a circle of mostly Scandinavian writers and artists that included August Strindberg and Edvard Munch?
Did you know that Abu Isa founded the first Jewish sect since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem?
Did you know that Alexander Kazhdan, the editor of the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, started his career as a provincial teacher in Ivanovo and Tula?
Did you know that Bulgarian physicist Stefan Marinov claimed to have created a perpetual motion machine using only two ballraces and a car battery?
Did you know that Randall Thompson's The Testament of Freedom was performed at a 1945 Carnegie Hall concert given in memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Did you know that Riley started as a bicycle manufacturer in Coventry in 1890, and produced its last motorcar in 1969?
Did you know that due to a lack of bilingual inscriptions, most knowledge of the Etruscan language has been derived using the combinatorial method?
Did you know that in his only armed clash with the police, bushranger James Alpin McPherson was unable to effectively return fire as his gun was loaded with blanks?
Did you know that the Buddhist scholar Jizang spent eleven years transcribing 2,000 copies of the Lotus Sutra by hand?
Did you know that the Upper South of the United States comprises the states which didn't secede from the Union until after the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Did you know that the Yulupa Creek watershed has been designated as critical habitat for two California endangered species?
Did you know that the endangered wildflower Lasthenia conjugens has successfully colonized new vernal pools with human assistance?
Did you know that the first military decoration to use a medal bar was the British Sutlej Medal?
Did you know that the southern side of Mount Elden in the state of Arizona was left almost entirely devoid of vegetation after a 4600-acre wildfire ran through the area in June 1977?
Did you know that "De Vogels Van Holland" was the first song ever performed at the Eurovision Song Contest?
Did you know that Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?
Did you know that English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century, but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?
Did you know that Frank McEwen fostered the development of stone sculpture among untrained Shona artists in Rhodesia?
Did you know that Winning Colors is one of only three fillies to have won the Kentucky Derby?
Did you know that after being captured by the Germans during World War II, Soviet soldier Baymirza Hayit joined the pro-Nazi Turkestan Legion and became a leading Turkestani nationalist?
Did you know that despite holding the graves of Rudolf Nureyev, Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan Bunin, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is not officially recognized as a landmark?
Did you know that despite the destruction of his fleet by Greek fire, Igor I of Kiev managed to end the Rus'-Byzantine War (941) by signing a favourable trade treaty?
Did you know that in the Frederica Naval Action of the American Revolutionary War, three galleys led by Georgian colonel Samuel Elbert defeated a much stronger British force?
Did you know that the Cessna 165 aircraft was instrumental in the recovery of the Cessna Aircraft Company in the years following the Great Depression?
Did you know that the burrows of Meriones gerbils can have a combined length of over 30 meters and over 18 entrances?
Did you know that Mary Jones walked 25 miles across the Welsh countryside to buy a copy of the Bible, unintentionally inspiring the creation of the British and Foreign Bible Society?
Did you know that Ming Dynasty general Gang Bing castrated himself and placed his severed organs under Emperor Yongle's saddle to avoid being accused of sexual improprieties?
Did you know that Native Hawaiians used Mamane wood for thatching poles, spades, spears, sled runners,  firewood, symbols of authority and to ward off evil?
Did you know that South African cricketer Geoff Griffin took a hat-trick in his second Test match, at Lord's in 1960, but was no-balled repeatedly for throwing in the same match and in the exhibition match that followed it, and never played Test cricket again?
Did you know that after the non-profit Internet service provider Public Netbase began supporting websites that opposed his political party, Austrian  politician Jörg Haider accused the organisation of sponsoring child pornography?
Did you know that at Masa, an elite New York City restaurant, no menus are available, because the chef, Masa Takayama, cooks whatever he wants?
Did you know that controversy has arisen over the interpretation of Robert Baden-Powell's opinions on religion in Scouting?
Did you know that during the Rus'-Byzantine War in 907 Oleg of Novgorod reportedly circumvented the chaining of the Bosporus by putting his ships on wheels and sailing them overland to Constantinople?
Did you know that former Congolese general Laurent Nkunda was a psychology student before helping Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko?
Did you know that in Homer's Iliad, the charioteer Meriones is described as being a "peer of murderous Mars"?
Did you know that in the Sso rite of the Beti of Cameroon, one initiate was designated the ritual butt of the other candidates' jokes?
Did you know that many countries afford journalists the right to protect their sources?
Did you know that the Police Act 1964 gave the British Home Secretary the power to enact compulsory amalgamation of police forces in England and Wales?