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Did you know that in 2005, during D1 Grand Prix's end of season US vs Japan event at Irwindale Speedway, U.S. drifting driver, Vaughn Gittin, Jr. became the first to break the all-Japanese stranglehold?
Did you know that several mountains, a chain of craters, a learned society and a botanical genus are named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières?
Did you know that the Polish historian and survivor of the Nazi German Operation Sonderaktion Krakau Stanisław Kutrzeba joined an underground university in defiance of Nazi edicts?
Did you know that the Singapore Government has introduced the "Punggol 21-plus" plan to re-vitalise Punggol New Town, after an unsuccessful attempt in the late 1990s?
Did you know that the first direct observational evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole was discovered at the David Dunlap Observatory outside Toronto?
Did you know that the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae?
Did you know that the medieval village of Babington in Somerset, England was destroyed around 1705 to make way for a new Manor House?
Did you know that Boston Legal actress Meredith Eaton-Gilden is also a practicing clinical psychologist?
Did you know that Charles de Talleyrand described his wife, Catherine Grand, as "an Indian, very beautiful, very lazy, the most idle woman he had ever known"?
Did you know that Isaac Homer Van Winkle served for 23 years as Oregon Attorney General, the longest of any attorney general in the state’s history?
Did you know that Singapore's DHL Balloon is the world's largest tethered helium balloon?
Did you know that a portion of the money used to purchase land for the publicly owned Noble Woods Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, came from private pledges?
Did you know that shortly after Appalachian State's 2007 college football upset of Michigan at Michigan, ecstatic Appalachian State students tore down a goalpost at their own stadium 600 miles (1000 km) away?
Did you know that stained glass in Marston Bigot church in Somerset, England is from the abbey of Altenberg in Germany and depicts a scene from the early life of St Bernard?
Did you know that the C-class light cruiser HMS Carlisle was damaged by German bombers during the Allied landings in Sicily and spent the rest of the war in Alexandria harbour?
Did you know that the French Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities took almost 50 years to complete from A to Z?
Did you know that the German Communist Martin Hoop, who was arrested and murdered by the Nazi regime in 1933, was an undercover agent for the Communists?
Did you know that the Shelly was an Israeli cargo vessel that sank after being accidentally rammed by a cruise liner, killing two crewmembers?
Did you know that the luxurious Kazanowski Palace in Warsaw, built in the 1620s, was destroyed in the 1650s and never rebuilt?
Did you know that the real objective of the 1732 Treaty of Three Black Eagles, where Prussia, Austria and Russia agreed to support the Portuguese Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém in elections to the Polish throne, was to create a rift between France and Prussia?
Did you know that there was a lighthouse on the roof of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, which could be seen by ships 29 kilometres away?
Did you know that water vapor is probably present in the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury, being brought to the planet by comets?
Did you know that westbound trains can arrive unexpectedly on the eastbound track at Bedminster railway station to ease congestion at nearby Bristol Temple Meads?
Did you know that while the Ukrainian Chortkiv offensive was eventually pushed back by the Polish army, the initial success of this desperate attack by the Ukrainian Galician Army is considered its finest hour in the Polish-Ukrainian War?
Did you know that zaojing, an elaborately ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?
Did you know that Ah Jook Ku, a journalist and writer based in Hawaii, was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin?
Did you know that Denton Hall, once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate?
Did you know that Ildephonsus of Toledo regarded the Nicene Creed as comprising "sufficient knowledge for salvation" and considered it to be a pact (foedus) between a believer and God?
Did you know that Jordan de Exeter, sheriff of Connacht, died fending off a Hebridean pirate raid in 1258?
Did you know that Mercedes Reaves, a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center?
Did you know that Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?
Did you know that Santanachelys gaffneyi is the earliest known sea turtle?
Did you know that in the early 1940s, HMS Ceres, a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, was involved in the evacuation and later recapturing of British Somaliland?
Did you know that the Australian war memorial at Mont St. Quentin was not replaced for over 30 years after its destruction by the German Army in 1940?
Did you know that the California aerial firefighting force is operated by the CDF Aviation Management Program?
Did you know that the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971, was the first scientific journal dedicated to this field?
Did you know that the calligraphic script of the Ford Motor Company logo is credited to Childe Harold Wills?
Did you know that the disastrous defeat of Yaroslav the Wise's sons at the Alta River led to a popular uprising in Kiev and dethronement of Grand Prince Iziaslav?
Did you know that the shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?
Did you know that unlike most plesiosaurs, Leptocleidus once lived in shallow lagoon environments and likely visited brackish and fresh water systems such as the mouths of rivers?
Did you know that Australian World War I general Sir Charles Rosenthal was the model for a character in one of D. H. Lawrence's novels?
Did you know that Eduardo Malapit, mayor of Kauai, Hawaii, from 1974 to 1982, was the first mayor of Filipino descent in the United States?
Did you know that French Canadian ornithologist Charles-Eusèbe Dionne became an elective fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union before he ever received a college degree?
Did you know that Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?
Did you know that Nayachar Island in the Hooghly River was chosen as the location for a major chemical hub based on experience in developing Jurong Island in Singapore?
Did you know that abrasion has destroyed the 14th century Church in Trzęsacz, Poland, near the Baltic Sea, except for part of its southern wall?
Did you know that bellboy Johnny Roventini was paid $1 to  page a hotel lobby for a "Call for Phillip Morris", unknowingly performing a screen test for a 40-year career as living trademark?
Did you know that during an emergency, U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo planes can be modified with the Modular Airborne FireFighting System and used to help fight forest fires?
Did you know that during the Western Schism Thomas de Rossy, Franciscan friar and Bishop of Galloway, challenged any bishop of England to fight in single combat?
Did you know that judge Otto Richard Skopil, Jr. was nominated to the federal district court by a Republican U.S. President and to the federal court of appeals by a Democratic President?
Did you know that retired General Volney F. Warner has publicly criticized the Iraq War; his granddaughter, First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, served in Afghanistan and was the first female graduate of West Point to die in combat?
Did you know that the 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash is the last time spectators were killed in an accident at a British air show?
Did you know that the Fique is a natural fiber obtained of furcraea plants, typical of Colombia, which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics, tapestry and handcrafts?
Did you know that the Valois Tapestries, recording festivities at the court of Charles IX of France, include portraits of many members of the House of Valois–but none of the King?
Did you know that the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is crossed by an 18th century aqueduct nicknamed Arcos da Lapa?
Did you know that the proposed BBC television special Planet Relief, created to raise awareness of climate change, was cancelled before it was made, for fear that it would be biased against climate sceptics?
Did you know that wind assistance has caused the non-ratification of many potential world records in athletics?
Did you know that Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre project created to oppose Belarusian government pressure and censorship?
Did you know that Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware has been public land since William Penn's designation in 1682, yet only became a state park in 1964?
Did you know that Deganga, in West Bengal, where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination, will have to wait till 2009 for a supply of piped arsenic-free water?
Did you know that English actor Ronald Magill played Amos Brearly, landlord of The Woolpack public house in ITV's soap opera Emmerdale, for 19 years?
Did you know that Epimachus of Athens, an ancient Athenian engineer, constructed the Helepolis, which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height?
Did you know that Fritz Bleyl was one of the four founders of Die Brücke art group in 1905, but left two years later and never exhibited again?
Did you know that Keremane Shivarama Heggade, the founder of folk-art troupe Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali was the first Yakshagana artist in India to receive the Rashtrapati Award?
Did you know that Mahakala, a small dromaeosaurid from Mongolia, is named after Mahakala, one of the eight protective deities (dharmapalas, "Protectors of the Law") in Tibetan Buddhism?
Did you know that Meng Xuenong was sacked as mayor of Beijing during the SARS crisis, but has now made  a comeback as governor of Shanxi province?
Did you know that Robert Desoille guided patients through waking dreams as a form of psychotherapy?
Did you know that Samuel Rivera, mayor of Passaic, New Jersey, was permitted to take office despite the fact that he had been convicted of a felony in his native Puerto Rico in the 1970s?
Did you know that Singapore's Early Founders Memorial Stone, a foundation stone for a proposed memorial, became the memorial itself?
Did you know that alphabet books were one of the earliest forms of American literature?
Did you know that although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914?
Did you know that poet Forceythe Willson  believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?
Did you know that swimmer Katherine Rawls, Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 1937, flew in the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron during World War II?
Did you know that the Battle of Nisibis in 217 AD, the last battle fought between the Roman Empire and the Parthians, lasted for three days and ended in a draw?
Did you know that the Canadian province of Ontario has had quality grades for cultivated Christmas trees (tree farm pictured) mandated by law since 1965?
Did you know that the Chilean biochemist Eugenio Berríos, involved in the Letelier case and in the Soria case, also produced black cocaine and sarin gas for Augusto Pinochet?
Did you know that the Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park in Scotland covers an area of 108 square miles of Inverclyde, North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, stretching from Greenock in the north, down the coast to Largs and West Kilbride and inland to Dalry and Lochwinnoch?
Did you know that the Dutch National Labor Secretariat once lost many members because each union received one vote but had to pay dues for each member, severely disadvantaging larger unions?
Did you know that the European Union directive about anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packs has led to a surge of sales of cigarette cases?
Did you know that the Independent Royalist Party of Estonia's election campaign costs for the 1992 elections of Riigikogu, the first post-Soviet occupation parliamentary elections in Estonia, were 25 Estonian cents per pair of seats?
Did you know that the merged Rainbow/PUSH is an outgrowth of Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential campaign and a factional split in Operation Breadbasket, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
Did you know that the wife of troubadour Raimon Jordan joined the sect of the Cathars, while the troubadour himself declared in a poem that he would give up eternity in Paradise for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?
Did you know that 18th-century artist John Hamilton Mortimer, while very prolific in his production of paintings (one pictured) and holding the presidency of the Society of Artists, was accused many times of being an imitator of Salvator Rosa's work?
Did you know that James Jurin used statistical studies to show the probability of death from smallpox vaccine was significantly less than from smallpox?
Did you know that Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon bestowed the honorary title of "Kentucky colonel" the most times in the state's history, including KFC founder "Colonel" Harland Sanders?
Did you know that William Frankena "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era" while chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan?
Did you know that an Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance aircraft searching for missing adventurer Steve Fossett helped find eight other unknown crash sites?
Did you know that former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney's Memoirs: 1939-1993 criticises another Canadian PM, Pierre Trudeau?
Did you know that in 1526, with the heirless death of Janusz III Mazowiecki, last of the Masovian Piasts, the Duchy of Masovia was reunited with Poland?
Did you know that in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War, American biologist Clement Markert stowed away aboard a freighter?
Did you know that many of the specific allergens of wheat causing gluten allergies have not yet been characterized?
Did you know that the Illinois Freedom Bell was submerged underwater in Geneva Lake for over 40 years before being surfaced and adopted as the official freedom bell of Illinois?
Did you know that the Storz, Krug, Willow Springs and Metz breweries were regarded as Omaha, Nebraska's "Big 4" breweries?
Did you know that the embankment dam at Backwater Reservoir was the first in Britain to employ chemical grouting in order to form a waterproof barrier beneath the embankment?
Did you know that the father of The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening was a founding director of the American Advertising Museum in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that the original scatological lyrics of Leck mich im Arsch, a canon composed by Mozart, were only rediscovered in 1991?
Did you know that the website HardwareZone initiated the first court case in Singapore over a domain name, which was settled after just four days?
Did you know that while performing the Viking ritual of Heitstrenging Harald Hairfair swore not to cut or comb his hair until he conquered all of Norway?
Did you know that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was indicted for the 1976 assassination of Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria?
Did you know that Croton Dam, on Michigan's Muskegon River, was the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power at 110,000 volts or more?
Did you know that Italian film director Marco Ferreri hired actor Michel Piccoli almost immediately after the two first met for his art house masterpiece Dillinger Is Dead?
Did you know that Mitică, a character in the works of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale, has become, especially in Transylvania, a stereotype of both Bucharesters and Wallachians?
Did you know that Nathaniel Ames, publisher of the first annual American almanac, avoided arrest by replacing his vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?
Did you know that University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Toby Moskowitz won the Fischer Black Prize as the top finance researcher under 40 after a 4 year hiatus with no worthy candidates?
Did you know that an Irish immigrant to America who settled on New Jersey's Pettys Island in 1851 was later proclaimed "king" of the island?
Did you know that anti-ganglioside antibodies may cause peripheral neuropathies and that their levels correlate with Guillain-Barré syndrome?
Did you know that because of low rainfall, poor soils, and the growth of the oil industry, Libya's domestic agriculture can only cover 25% of the country's food demand and accounts for just 5.6% of the GDP?
Did you know that it cost US$1.4 billion to restore the Verizon Building, an art deco building that was damaged in the September 11, 2001 attacks?
Did you know that the 17th century Jesuit Church in Warsaw was one of many buildings razed to the ground by the Germans after the Warsaw Uprising?
Did you know that the 1998 Puerto Rican general strike paralyzed the island for two days, when 500,000 people took to the streets to protest against privatizing the Puerto Rico Telephone Company?
Did you know that the Core Pacific City mall in Taipei, Taiwan, is the largest mall in Asia at 204,190 square meters of total floor space?
Did you know that the Italian sculptor Giovanni Duprè began his career carving fakes of Renaissance works of art?
Did you know that the Underfall Yard takes its name from a unique system of sluices designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to remove silt from Bristol Harbour?
Did you know that the appearance of several Nero impostors may have given rise to the passage of the Book of Revelation about the Beast, which is mortally wounded and then miraculously heals?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Catalonia is one of Europe's oldest, dating back to the 1150 seal used by Ramón Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona?
Did you know that the hills in the south of the English Lake District are known as the Southern Fells and they include England's highest peak?
Did you know that the neighbourhood of Bowbazar was the site of Calcutta's first horse drawn tram line (model pictured), opened in 1873?
Did you know that the second redaction of Lithuanian Chronicles started the myth of Lithuanian Roman origin?
Did you know that three different languages that used to be spoken in Nicaragua are now extinct?
Did you know that until the 1930s and 1940s people in the United States and Canada obtained their Christmas trees mostly from native forests?
Did you know that yellowtail trumpeter, a coastal marine fish tolerant to a very wide salinity range, because of its poor taste is considered a nuisance in Australia by many fishermen who target bream in estuaries?
Did you know that Edward Kerr Turner  was a delegate for Saskatchewan agriculture in both national and international affairs?
Did you know that Fort Delaware State Park, once a Civil War prisoner-of-war camp, is now home to one of the largest heronries north of Florida?
Did you know that German physicist Walter Gerlach helped prove the fact that electrons spin?
Did you know that Germany is the European leader in Christmas tree production?
Did you know that New York State Route 20SY is the only route in the state to have ever had the "SY" suffix?
Did you know that Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell resigned as a government whip to sue Auberon Waugh who claimed that his translation of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward was unauthorised, and helped lead to Solzhenitsyn's arrest?
Did you know that Nicholas Hilliard, portrait miniaturist to Elizabeth I and James I of England, was chronically short of funds and was briefly imprisoned for debt in Ludgate ?
Did you know that Omaha, Nebraska's Krug Park was the site of a 1930 roller coaster accident, the worst in U.S. history?
Did you know that Patience Strong was the pen name by which the English poet Winifred Emma May was best known?
Did you know that Peggy McKercher was the first woman to serve on the Corman Park Council?
Did you know that Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, became Princess of Albania in March 1914 (arrival pictured), but had to leave the country just six months later because of nationalist turmoil?
Did you know that Time predicted 1973 to be a "gilt-edged year" for the stock market, just three days before the stock market crash of 1973–4 began—wiping 45 percent off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
Did you know that after the retreat of the Wisconsin glaciation, postglacial Lake Michigan used to drain through Mackinac Falls, which are now completely submerged under Lake Huron?
Did you know that during Ted Snyder's six-year tenure as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the business school has relocated two of its four campuses?
Did you know that each year over 1000 research papers are submitted for academic publishing in the Journal of Finance (finance's most cited journal) of which only five are awarded Smith Breeden or Brattle Prizes?
Did you know that people of the Sonoran Desert in North America value the fruit of the Ferocactus wislizeni as emergency food and also as a basis for confectionery?
Did you know that prospector Reuben D'Aigle missed finding a huge gold deposit by only a few feet, and his boot print was found pressed into the vein when the Porcupine Gold Rush started in 1909?
Did you know that the Lyre River provides the only spawning grounds for the endemic Beardslee trout?
Did you know that the annual delivery of fur tribute to the Tsar was followed by a state-sponsored feast and distribution of royal gifts to the Siberian natives?
Did you know that the crest for the World Association of Ugly People features a reclining man smoking a pipe with the slogan: "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery"?
Did you know that the first public interest litigation case to be heard in the Karnataka High Court  in India was to prevent the demolition of the very building from which it was functioning?
Did you know that though Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Oregon governor, he was the first native Oregonian to serve in that office?
Did you know that Fischer Black Prize, first awarded in 2003, is the finance analogue to the Clark Medal in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics, introduced in 1947 and 1936, respectively?
Did you know that Kellom Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska is the alma mater of Fred Astaire, Gale Sayers and Bob Gibson, as well as home to youth programs once led by Whitney Young?
Did you know that Kumaran Pathmanadan, former chief procurer of arms for the Tamil Tigers rebel group, used over 200 passports and at least 23 pseudonyms to evade Interpol, CIA and MI-5?
Did you know that Norman Williams shot down eight German aircraft while serving as an air gunner in Halifax bombers in the Second World War, becoming the most highly decorated non-commissioned officer in the RAAF and its only "ace" who was not a fighter pilot?
Did you know that Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta?
Did you know that St. Anne's Church in Warsaw was the place of execution of Bishop Józef Kossakowski during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794?
Did you know that The Encyclopædia of Ball Juggling contains completely cross-referenced A to Z article indexing, complemented by Charlie Dancey’s light-hearted writing and cartoon illustration style?
Did you know that a Lesser Caymans iguana was the longest living Cyclura lizard ever at thirty-three years?