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Did you know that historian Lon Tinkle demanded that he not be credited as historical advisor of John Wayne's 1960 film The Alamo because he felt the film misrepresented the Battle of the Alamo?
Did you know that in 1898, the Egyptian government appointed Maurice Fitzmaurice as their chief resident engineer for the construction of the Aswan Dam?
Did you know that the 850-foot (260 m) Commerzbank Tower is the tallest building in the European Union?
Did you know that the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh, New York is home to the only known Type 82 Lozier in existence?
Did you know that the Confederate Monument in Danville, Kentucky was built on grave plots local citizens had given up to fallen soldiers?
Did you know that the Greasestock festival in New York showcases green technologies, such as vegetable-powered vehicles, solar vehicles, and organic farming exhibits?
Did you know that the Omaha Star building housed the DePorres Club after they were asked to leave Creighton University because of their activism in Omaha's civil rights movement?
Did you know that the Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters' main architectural feature is the use of sunscreens on the facade made of their principal product, Plexiglas?
Did you know that the age of a Green Sea Urchin is generally calculable based on its size since it grows 10 mm (0.4 in) every year?
Did you know that the city of Nairobi, Kenya, averages about ten vehicle hijackings per day?
Did you know that the discovery of a celt with Indus script in Tamil Nadu in 2006 was regarded by epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan as the "greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu"?
Did you know that the first live television broadcast viewed on a moving train was on October 7, 1948, when passengers on the B&O Railroad's Marylander saw the second game of the 1948 World Series?
Did you know that Calsoyasuchus valleyceps, an extinct  crocodile relative from the Early Jurassic, has a deep groove in its skull from which its species name, "valley head", derives?
Did you know that Jeb Bush became the first Republican Governor of Florida to be re-elected to a second term after winning the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election?
Did you know that Kaunas University Hospital, the largest medical institution in Lithuania, was designated a cultural monument in 2008?
Did you know that Nielluccio, Sciacarello and Vermentino are the three leading grape varieties for making Corsica wine?
Did you know that Paris-based Naye Prese was the sole Yiddish-language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period?
Did you know that QUIET, an astronomy experiment due to start observing in 2008 at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Chile, will make measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation?
Did you know that Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts?
Did you know that Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments building in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America?
Did you know that a cat named "Room 8" was the subject of a book, a documentary, a song by Leo Kottke, and obituaries that appeared in papers from the Los Angeles Times to the Hartford Courant?
Did you know that aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian–North American relations during World War II?
Did you know that before the release of the Japanese visual novel Sora o Tobu, Mittsu no Hōhō, there was a similarly based manga series by Kensha Shimotsuki?
Did you know that in 1847 Thomas Huling sold the town of Zavala, Texas for US$1,000 and 5,000 boxes of "Green Mountain Vegitable Ointment"?
Did you know that in 1968, The Detroit Wheels recorded "Linda Sue Dixon", a thinly-veiled paean to the illicit hallucinogenic drug LSD?
Did you know that in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh?
Did you know that mathematician Paul Erdős called the Hadwiger conjecture, a still-open generalization of the four-color problem, "one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory"?
Did you know that more than 5 million people died of starvation or disease in the Southern India famine of 1876–78?
Did you know that neo-Nazi politician and member of the Bundestag Fritz Rössler, who resembled Adolf Hitler, had a habit of attending parliament drunk?
Did you know that samite was a luxurious and heavy silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, and famously by Tennyson's Lady of the Lake?
Did you know that the 120-cell 4-dimensional puzzle is one of several n-dimensional sequential move puzzles that have been implemented as virtual puzzles but have never been solved?
Did you know that the Crown Point Light, constructed as a conventional lighthouse, was rebuilt in 1912 as a monument to Samuel de Champlain's explorations?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 Major League Baseball franchises to win the World Series?
Did you know that the Red Cross with Imperial Portraits Fabergé egg commemorates the work of women from the House of Romanov for the Red Cross during World War I?
Did you know that the Wawelberg Group was a Polish special-forces unit which began the 1921 Third Silesian Uprising by blowing up seven rail bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany?
Did you know that the original images of Lord Swaminarayan at the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Karachi, Pakistan were removed and taken to India during the turbulent times of its partition?
Did you know that the present Cape Rachado Lighthouse, erected in 1863 in Malacca, Malaysia, includes an additional concrete tower that was completed in 1990 to house a MEASAT radar?
Did you know that the suit of armour on the effigy of Sir Ralph Fitzherbert has been reproduced as a Second Life avatar?
Did you know that Étienne-Théodore Pâquet defeated a man twice his age to become one of the youngest ever members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec?
Did you know that Bishop Hannington Memorial Church in Hove, England, is dedicated to a missionary killed in Uganda on King Mwanga II's orders?
Did you know that Gerobatrachus is considered to be a missing link that supports the hypothesis offered by cladistics, that frogs and salamanders had a common ancestor?
Did you know that Hindus often worship Krishna as the small child Bala Krishna, crawling on his hands and knees with a lump of butter in his hands?
Did you know that Jack Christiansen and Bill Walsh are the only San Francisco 49ers head coaches in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Did you know that John Aspinall was the first recipient of the James Watt International Medal?
Did you know that Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to Australia saw him receive the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, one of the highest British imperial honours bestowed on a non-British subject?
Did you know that Robert Parker Parrott's last home, Plumbush, outside Cold Spring, New York, is now a bed and breakfast?
Did you know that Texas rancher Montie Ritchie was the photographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to the Baffin Islands in the Canadian Arctic?
Did you know that Walter Emden designed London theatres and music halls in the late 19th century, including the Palace Theatre, the Duke of York's, the Garrick and the Royal Court?
Did you know that boundary surveyor Joseph Smith Harris climbed a ship's mast to direct mortars during the Civil War Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip?
Did you know that in his book A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. proposed eight constitutional amendments?
Did you know that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II?
Did you know that the Academic Gymnasium Danzig, along with similar schools in Elbląg and Toruń, transformed Royal Prussia into a center of classical studies in the 16th century?
Did you know that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is proposing a regional free trade area that would account for almost half of world trade?
Did you know that the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is the only women's prison in Oregon?
Did you know that the Neoclassical Hollywood Masonic Temple has been used as a Masonic Lodge, opera house, and nightclub, and is now the home of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! television show?
Did you know that the Sperrgebiet, a diamond mining area closed to the public, makes up 3 percent of Namibia's surface area?
Did you know that 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World, after reading about conquistador atrocities?
Did you know that Cornelia Adair, during World War I, invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland?
Did you know that Dwight Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor and Mamie Eisenhower's whims?
Did you know that John Kempthorne defeated an attack by seven Algerine corsairs on his single ship, HMS Mary Rose?
Did you know that Philippine National Artist Amado V. Hernandez wrote his masterpieces while being imprisoned in the New Bilibid Prison?
Did you know that U.S. Route 127 in Michigan was tripled in length by extending the highway to replace its parent route, U.S. Route 27 in 2002?
Did you know that Zaha Hadid's architectural design won an international competition for the upcoming Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum?
Did you know that a free trade agreement made effective in 2000 strengthened Indo-Sri Lankan relations and quadrupled bilateral trade, which grew to US$2.6 billion by 2006?
Did you know that after serving three terms in the Norwegian Parliament for the Conservative Party, Georg Apenes took over as director of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate?
Did you know that although the Ishvara temple in Karnataka, India, seems modest in construction, it is in fact the most complicated Hoysala monument?
Did you know that despite being considered "much too far away" to affect weather in California, Hurricane Liza of 1968 caused US$5,000 in damage and the closure of a portion of Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach?
Did you know that in a major improvement in bilateral ties since it blocked Bangladesh's entry in the U.N. in 1972, China offered to help Bangladesh construct its first nuclear plant?
Did you know that mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn was on the first Putnam Competition-winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest?
Did you know that neurologist Derek Denny-Brown introduced British anti-Lewisite as a treatment for the copper overload disorder Wilson's disease?
Did you know that some pulvinones have shown anticoagulant activity in rats, whilst other pulvinone derivatives are patented antibiotics for use in animals?
Did you know that the Forest Kingfisher of Australian forest and Melaleuca swampland, burrows its nest in termite mounds in trees up to 12 metres (39 ft) above the ground?
Did you know that the Museum at Bethel Woods is devoted mostly to the Woodstock Festival, and located on its site?
Did you know that the U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program to South Vietnam after concluding that President Ngo Dinh Diem was using the funds to repress Buddhists rather than communists?
Did you know that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church?
Did you know that the presidential campaign of Bob Barr began following a successful draft effort on Facebook?
Did you know that the remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters built by shipwreck survivor Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island in 1629, are Australia's oldest known European structures?
Did you know that the stationmaster of the Kinokawa train station in Kinokawa, Japan is a cat named Tama?
Did you know that the yuja hwachae, Korean traditional fruit punch made with Korean pear and yuja, is often served with flower pancakes made of chrysanthemum?
Did you know that , although projects for restoration of the Everglades are the most comprehensive attempts at environmental repair in history, they are in danger of being eliminated?
Did you know that 1999 book Gone with the Wind in the Vatican narrated alleged scandals in Vatican City using pseudonyms from Gone with the Wind?
Did you know that Aythorpe Roding Windmill is the largest surviving post mill in Essex, England?
Did you know that Carlos Minc, the current Brazilian Minister of Environment, was one of the founding members of the Green Party?
Did you know that Fountains Fell, a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England, is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century?
Did you know that General Ziauddin Butt, former head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, was nominated to head the army in 1999?
Did you know that Georgian footballer Georgi Kiknadze won five consecutive league championships with Dinamo Tbilisi?
Did you know that Isfield railway station, now the terminus of a preserved railway line, was used during the First World War to take German prisoners of war to work in nearby woodland?
Did you know that Mark Goffeney, nicknamed "Big Toe", is a professional guitarist who plays with his feet because he was born without hands?
Did you know that Mary Augusta Dickerson found it inspirational to write her children's books inside a Pickle Barrel House?
Did you know that Maryland's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
Did you know that North 24th Street in Omaha, Nebraska, considered the heart of the city's African American community, has not fully recovered since several riots destroyed businesses along the strip in the 1960s?
Did you know that Poole Stadium, a former football ground now used for greyhound racing and speedway, was the venue for the 2004 Speedway World Cup final?
Did you know that by the time Fort Scott was completed, it was already obsolete?
Did you know that dried teasel pods were used to raise the nap on woolen fabrics?
Did you know that during the War of 1812, Laura Secord went to DeCou House to warn James FitzGibbon and his British troops about the surprise American attack now known as the Battle of Beaver Dams?
Did you know that in 1866, French chessplayer Napoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in the United States, which also discussed strategy for backgammon and dominoes?
Did you know that in 1880 the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan?
Did you know that in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, Cosette's wedding gown was made of Binche lace because Hugo remembered it from his youth as being a lace of beauty?
Did you know that inflatable and wooden dummy tanks were used in Operation Fortitude to confuse German intelligence?
Did you know that land agent Timothy Dwight Hobart from 1886 to 1924 supervised the stringing of hundreds of miles of barbed wire and the digging of hundreds of wells topped by windmills to settle the Texas Panhandle?
Did you know that the 1881 children's novel Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis was made into a 1960 Disney film?
Did you know that the Flammulated Flycatcher, a tyrant flycatcher endemic to Mexico, was eventually placed in the monotypic genus Deltarhynchus because of its broad bill?
Did you know that the Gazette Building in Little Rock, Arkansas served as headquarters for the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory?
Did you know that the emotional, agitated figures depicted in the 9th-century Ebbo Gospels bear a striking resemblance to illustrations in the Utrecht Psalter?
Did you know that Albert J. Hofstede was Minneapolis's first Catholic mayor?
Did you know that Barbette, a female impersonator aerialist, served as inspiration to such artists as Jean Cocteau, Man Ray and Alfred Hitchcock?
Did you know that Bill Flemming called over 600 events as a broadcaster for the ABC Sports' Wide World of Sports during his career?
Did you know that Circle of Chalk, a Yuan Dynasty play, is still being performed in European versions set in 14th-century China, Soviet Georgia and East Germany?
Did you know that Coirpre mac Néill is said to have been cursed by Saint Patrick so that none of his descendants would be High King of Ireland?
Did you know that Doge Andrea Vendramin of the Republic of Venice has what is generally agreed to be "the most lavish funerary monument of Renaissance Venice" in the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo?
Did you know that French writer Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin was the last book read by Sigmund Freud before he committed suicide?
Did you know that Hebrew publisher Hayyim Selig Slonimski was awarded the Demidov prize of 2,500 rubles in 1844 by the Russian Academy of Sciences for the invention of a calculating machine?
Did you know that India has developed close bilateral relations with Burma with the aim of countering China's growing influence and to elevate itself as a regional power?
Did you know that Kari Blackburn, daughter of Irish educationist Robert Blackburn, taught in a primary school in Tanzania before joining the BBC?
Did you know that Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of  Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking?
Did you know that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club?
Did you know that Mevlüde Genç, a Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family members to Neo-Nazi violence in the Solingen arson attack of 1993, went on to advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans?
Did you know that Murray Jarvik and Jed Rose, who invented the nicotine patch, could not get approval to conduct their research on human subjects and performed the initial tests of the patch on themselves?
Did you know that Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona?
Did you know that Penelope Boothby was painted by Henry Fuseli and sculpted by Thomas Banks, as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her father Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt?
Did you know that The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences?
Did you know that at least 37 people have died in the ongoing caste violence in Rajasthan, India?
Did you know that the 1994 French–Romanian film An Unforgettable Summer depicts the persecution of Bulgarians by Romanian Army personnel, in a metaphor of the Yugoslav wars?
Did you know that the Nankin bantam breed of chicken is classified as critically endangered by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy?
Did you know that the architects of the Florida Tropical House, located in Beverly Shores, Indiana designed the house with Florida residents in mind?
Did you know that the canine teeth of male baboons—which can be up to four times as long as those of females—are an example of a sexual dimorphism?
Did you know that the conical step pyramids (reconstruction pictured) and circular public architecture of ancient Mexico's Teuchitlan tradition were unique in Mesoamerica?
Did you know that the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would allow security officials at some international borders to randomly search travelers' MP3 players, laptops, and cell phones for copyright-infringing music files?
Did you know that twin brothers David and Peter Jackson played together for seven clubs in English football?
Did you know that Albrecht Dürer's pupil Hans Springinklee is best known for his woodcuts (example pictured)?
Did you know that British TV presenter Dermot O'Leary once played as a punt returner for the Colchester Gladiators?
Did you know that Lady Elsie Mackay, socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928 with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe, attempting to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?
Did you know that Leurospondylus ultimus was so named as it was originally thought to be the last occurrence of a plesiosaur?
Did you know that Miriam Ben-Porat was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel and the first woman to serve as Israel's State Comptroller?
Did you know that Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey engines", and antique saw mill machinery?
Did you know that Shih Chih-wei was the first player of the La New Bears to receive a monthly Most Valuable Player award in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan?
Did you know that Tunisia's tourist industry is said to benefit from its Mediterranean location and its "tradition of low cost package holidays from Western Europe"?
Did you know that W. Jasper Blackburn, a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana, was acquitted by a one-vote margin—and thus spared execution—of having printed  counterfeit Confederate currency?
Did you know that Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On Horseback"—better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars?
Did you know that a movie set built for the 1961 Rat Pack film Sergeants 3 is often mistaken for the ghost town of Paria, Utah?
Did you know that anaesthetic pioneer Joseph Thomas Clover anaesthetised Florence Nightingale, Napoleon III and the future king Edward VII during his career?
Did you know that author Laura Vernon Hamner, informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?
Did you know that cholesterol embolism may result from common medical procedures such as coronary catheterization, and can cause kidney damage?
Did you know that in Korean cuisine, dishes made by steaming vegetables stuffed with seasoned fillings are called Seon?
Did you know that in its last completed season in 1943–44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga Pommern, five belonged to the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), one to the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and one to the Heer (Army)?
Did you know that on December 12, 1996, India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters?
Did you know that one theory why the virginal was so called is that the keyboard instrument was thought to sound like the voice of a young girl?
Did you know that over fifty surrendered U-boats were gathered at HMS Ferret awaiting disposal in Operation Deadlight?
Did you know that the 1974 film Lost in the Stars, set in apartheid-era South Africa, was actually shot in Oregon?
Did you know that the Minden Press-Herald, a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana, was not established until 1966 though an earlier Minden Herald dates to 1849?
Did you know that the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600?
Did you know that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock?
Did you know that the Portland Armory in Portland, Oregon was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification?
Did you know that the SC Johnson & Son-produced film To Be Alive! was the first non-theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle?
Did you know that the binomial name of the White-throated Treecreeper translates as "brown and white trunk traveller"?
Did you know that the church tower for the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is the "high-tech command center" for NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Did you know that Australian James Blair introduced laws to protect children by establishing a children's court, and by preventing unjust disinheritance in parents' wills, before he became chief justice of Queensland?