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Did you know that because Arabic author Zaynab Fawwaz wore the niqāb, her husband acted as a messenger between her and the men attending her literary salon?
Did you know that brewing beer from glacial water is only one of the many unique features of Greenlandic cuisine?
Did you know that evidence of a Roman settlement has been discovered at Double Arches Pit, a disused sand quarry that is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest?
Did you know that in 1844, USS General Taylor conveyed abolitionist Jonathan Walker to Pensacola, where he was infamously branded "S.S." for "Slave Stealer"?
Did you know that in response to the banning of the niqāb in Egypt, students protested by wearing protective face masks?
Did you know that in the 100 metres at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Natasha Mayers initially won the bronze, was moved up to silver, then was upgraded to the gold medal due to disqualifications?
Did you know that in the 1984 film Who Dies on His Feet, Albanian actor Llazi Sërbo rode a descendant of Naklon, a horse that Stalin had donated to Albania?
Did you know that one of the world's largest botanical gardens in the 19th century was located on Bogor in present-day Indonesia?
Did you know that the Imperial Wireless Chain was a wireless telegraphy communications network, built in the 1920s to link the countries of the British Empire?
Did you know that the Manastır Mosque in Istanbul is one of the few surviving Byzantine religious buildings of Constantinople whose dedication remains uncertain?
Did you know that the Melbourne Cricket Ground was a venue of the 1956 Summer Olympics and also the 2000 Summer Olympics, even though cricket was not played in either Olympics?
Did you know that the volunteer Royal National Lifeboat Institution crews at Falmouth Lifeboat Station share their building with Her Majesty's Coastguard?
Did you know that unique to the Indonesian islands of Buru and Ambelau are the Ambelau, Buru, Kayeli and Lisela people; the eponymous Ambelau, Buru, Kayeli and Lisela languages; as well as the Rufous-throated White-eye, Buru Lorikeet, Black-lored Parrot and a hairy variety of the babirusa pig?
Did you know that when A. Skjegstad was hired by Aftenposten, he became one of the few journalists in Norway to go from a labour newspaper to a high-profile conservative newspaper?
Did you know that when Harry Oliver joined Watford Football Club, Benskins Brewery paid the transfer fee on the club's behalf?
Did you know that 11-year-old Shannon Tavarez, who played Nala in Broadway's The Lion King, died of leukemia despite efforts by Alicia Keys, Rihanna and 50 Cent to recruit bone marrow donors from among their fans?
Did you know that American football safety Jordan Kovacs went from being a walk-on to being the second leading tackler in the Big Ten Conference?
Did you know that Australian political journalist Alan Reid's exposé about B. A. Santamaria led to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955?
Did you know that Butchers Wheel, a cutlery and tool factory in Sheffield, could only be accessed through a single, guarded door?
Did you know that Charles Chauncey Burr was an abolitionist before the American Civil War but then became a Copperhead?
Did you know that DaXiongBao Hall of Fengguo Temple, first built in 1020, is one of the earliest examples in Chinese architecture where bracket sets are used in between columns instead of simple struts?
Did you know that Dubrovnik's historic main street Stradun was the site of a tennis match played in July 2010 by Goran Ivanišević and John McEnroe?
Did you know that Jews are prohibited from praying at the alleged tomb of Nahmanides, a foremost medieval rabbinic scholar and kabbalist?
Did you know that Linx (train pictured) cited competition from low-cost airlines for terminating their Oslo−Stockholm train service?
Did you know that Memphis and country blues guitarist and songwriter Dan Sane recorded with Frank Stokes, billed as the Beale Street Sheiks?
Did you know that Richard Nixon unilaterally created the United States Environmental Protection Agency with Reorganization Plan No. 3?
Did you know that U2's latest live EP was created as part of a program to draw customers to independent record shops during the 2010 holiday shopping season?
Did you know that William Hancock was one of seven Hancock brothers to play rugby union for Somerset?
Did you know that a Pointer named Judy was the only dog to be registered as a World War II prisoner of war?
Did you know that brothers Amos Jr. and Paul Stagg both played quarterback for their father Amos Alonzo Stagg at the University of Chicago, and later led teams against each other as college coaches themselves?
Did you know that despite its high praise by critics, the Community episode "Epidemiology" was the least-watched non-reality component of NBC's Comedy Night Done Right lineup?
Did you know that in 1889 the English judge Samuel Boteler Bristowe was shot in the back by a German maker of false teeth?
Did you know that in the 1870s Russian liberals like Guerrier and Chicherin accused Karl Marx of being narrowly concerned with the proletariat and indifferent to the entrepreneur's "psychic labour"?
Did you know that on November 2, 2010, the oil painting Nude Sitting on a Divan sold for $68.9 million, a record for an artwork by Amadeo Modigliani?
Did you know that remarks by Hall Thompson that "we don't discriminate in every other area except blacks" before the 1990 PGA Championship led golf's governing bodies to ban holding tournaments at all-white clubs?
Did you know that spitballer Jimmy Dygert, who won 21 games in 1907, weighed about 115 pounds, which may make him the lightest pitcher in Major League Baseball history?
Did you know that studios release films in the fall, during Oscar season, to have a better chance at winning the Academy Awards?
Did you know that the "revolutionary" car chase sequence in the 1968 film Bullitt was edited by Oscar-winner Frank P. Keller?
Did you know that the Legion of Ratu Adil was a pro-Dutch militia and private army established during the Indonesian National Revolution?
Did you know that the National Democratic Party was formed in 1978 as the last step in Anwar El Sadat's four-phase program to introduce a multi-party system to Egypt?
Did you know that the Pawan River and the Lamandau River both flow in the Indonesian part of Borneo?
Did you know that the alumni of the Moscow State Pedagogical University include Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Raisa?
Did you know that two unexplained stepped tunnels near King Herod's Hyrcania fortress in the Judean desert have attracted treasure hunters looking for riches described in the Copper Scroll of Qumran?
Did you know that American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Cash McCall has evolved in musical styles from gospel to soul to the blues?
Did you know that Congregation Or Chadash, Chicago's oldest LGBT synagogue, may have been targeted in the 2010 cargo plane bomb plot?
Did you know that Indiana's Gas Boom of the 1880s played a pivotal role in the development of the Hartford City Courthouse Square Historic District?
Did you know that Louisiana industrialist and political kingmaker Louis J. Roussel, Jr. began his career in the 1930s as a New Orleans bus driver?
Did you know that Major General Andrew Cumming CBE, who commanded British troops in the NATO-led Kosovo Force in 1992, became controller of the charity SSAFA Forces Help after leaving the Army in 2004?
Did you know that Raymond Kimutai Bett set a new race record to win the 2010 Athens Classic Marathon, which celebrated the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon?
Did you know that Sharad Anantrao Joshi was the sole Member of Parliament to vote against the bill providing 33% reservation for women in the upper house of the Indian Parliament and the state assemblies?
Did you know that after the Maliseet Gabriel Acquin gave the Prince of Wales a ride in his canoe, he was invited to London, where he set up a wigwam in South Kensington?
Did you know that by 1978, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe banned their writers from working as official scorers for Major League Baseball due to a conflict of interest?
Did you know that floods in Malaysia in November 2010 affected the homes of a State Chief Minister and a Federal Minister?
Did you know that in 1977 the body of St Mary's Church, Brentingby, Leicestershire, was partly demolished and converted into a house, leaving the tower standing?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the 1907 Kingston earthquake, the Governor of Jamaica refused an offer of eight surgeons from three United States warships?
Did you know that in the children's book Mission: Earth, astronaut Thomas D. Jones describes using specialized radar technology to measure carbon monoxide pollution on the Earth?
Did you know that one of Sammy Davis, Jr.'s performances in Nevada was a gig at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center?
Did you know that philosophers differ in opinion as to whether potential future persons have value or not?
Did you know that teenager Barbara-Ann Scott was the first Canadian to win a gold medal in Olympic figure skating with her performance at the 1948 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that the Cloud Break mine project, worth A$2 billion, was in danger of not being approved after the discovery of the incredibly rare Night Parrot in the area?
Did you know that the George W. Bush presidential campaign used John Cougar Mellencamp's "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." at a campaign rally, despite Mellencamp's opposition to Bush's political positions?
Did you know that the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers, a forerunner of the Royal British Legion, was founded in opposition to the re-conscription of men injured during World War I?
Did you know that the altar of the church of the Patriarchal Monastery of the Holy Trinity near Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, was once used for pagan sacrifices?
Did you know that the birth of Gabi (pictured with mother), the first elephant conceived in Israel through artificial insemination, was viewed live by over 350,000 people in 108 countries?
Did you know that the body of amateur cricketer Henry Arkwright, who was killed by an avalanche in 1866, was found 31 years later missing its head and both feet?
Did you know that the catsharks of the genus Galeus—G. antillensis, G. arae, G. atlanticus, G. cadenati, G. eastmani, G. gracilis, G. longirostris, G. melastomus, G. mincaronei, G. murinus, G. nipponensis, G. piperatus, G. polli, G. priapus, G. sauteri, G. schultzi, and G. springeri—have "saws" on their tails?
Did you know that the large ritual E-Group complex northeast of the ancient acropolis in the Maya city of El Chal (altar pictured) in Guatemala was once the city centre?
Did you know that the seeds of Ipomoea violacea contain several indole alkaloids having LSD-like hallucinogenic properties, and therefore were used in Aztec rituals?
Did you know that the Ådalen Line of Sweden will be upgraded to become part of a high-speed railway corridor between Stockholm and Umeå?
Did you know that while Peter Tshirumbu Tsheehama was chief of the Namibian intelligence agency, the agency was informally known as "Tshirumbu's people"?
Did you know that , because of a lifelong medical condition that may be Proteus syndrome, Mandy Sellars' legs and feet weigh about 210 lb (95 kg), while her upper body only weighs about 84 lb (38 kg)?
Did you know that , referring to Che Guevara T-shirts and other clothing (jacket pictured), Aleida Guevara said that Che "probably would have been delighted to see his face on the breasts of so many beautiful women"?
Did you know that Abingdon Boys School, a band that shares a name with a school formerly attended by members of Radiohead, has contributed music to anime such as Darker than Black and Soul Eater?
Did you know that Los Angeles attorney Norman Sterry represented the New York Yankees in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an exemption from the antitrust laws for Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Meyer Foshaug held one of the first four seats won by the Labour Party in the Parliament of Norway?
Did you know that Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen's only Billboard Top 40 hit as a solo artist was "I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)", a song inspired by the International Geophysical Year of July 1957 – December 1958?
Did you know that The Decemberists' single off of their new album has been compared to R.E.M., Neil Young, Steely Dan and Bruce Springsteen?
Did you know that a cave near Otapi is named for and linked to a legend involving the Abkhazian hero Abrskil?
Did you know that after AIDS activist Rand Schrader died in 1993, his partner David Bohnett founded the GeoCities website using the benefits from Schrader's life insurance?
Did you know that after the 2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team gave up six turnovers against Navy, EMU head coach Jeff Woodruff said, "You can't beat a high school team giving up five turnovers"?
Did you know that although Nancy Greene won the women's alpine skiing giant slalom race at the 1968 Winter Olympics, the stop clock malfunctioned and said otherwise, leaving her with a headache for two days?
Did you know that an early example of the Berliner Helicopter was thought to have potential as a "flying torpedo" to be used to hold cities for ransom?
Did you know that despite the mental demands of his profession, Edward William Archibald, considered Canada's first neurosurgeon, was described as a "distressingly absent-minded character"?
Did you know that in 1939, three Icelandic Nazi-sympathizers approached Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe with the hope of making him king of Iceland?
Did you know that in 2009 the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, a public walkway in upstate New York, nearly doubled in length?
Did you know that in the 2009 M-1 Challenge Season in the sport of mixed martial arts, Team Benelux's Danny van Bergen was one of only two team members to finish with a positive record?
Did you know that in the late 1940s, American blues shouter and jazz singer Duke Henderson renounced his past and began broadcasting as Brother Henderson, a minister and gospel DJ?
Did you know that orange ironstone, white ashlar stone, brick, red sandstone, granite and timber were all used to build the All Saints Church, Beeby?
Did you know that the 19th-century Kaplaneios School in Ioannina, Greece, evolved into the most significant intellectual center of the city through the work of Athanasios Psalidas?
Did you know that the troubadour Peire Rogier addressed a poem to Aimerico Manrique de Lara, Duke of Narbonne (c. 1152–1177), encouraging him to live up to his illustrious Spanish lineage?
Did you know that American novelist Harold "Hal" King earned the title "the crown prince of suspense" with the publication of his 1979 anti-Nazi thriller Closing Ceremonies?
Did you know that Arne Wam, as director of the Norwegian State Railways, ended the practice of turning all the seats in whatever direction a train was facing?
Did you know that British engineer Bert Perrigo, who helped develop the BSA Blue Star motorcycles in the 1930s, was paid one-half-penny royalty for every motorcycle sold?
Did you know that Cefn Golau, a disused cholera cemetery near Tredegar in Wales, has many graves dating from August and September 1849?
Did you know that Elizabeth Bisland lost a celebrated race around the world to Nellie Bly in 1889–90?
Did you know that Hangar No. 1, once used by Charles Lindbergh, was built at Los Angeles International Airport when it consisted of a dirt landing strip in the middle of bean and barley fields?
Did you know that James Gunn's 1972 science fiction novel The Listeners was proposed as an unrecognized classic in the field by New Scientist magazine in November 2010?
Did you know that Menara Kudus Mosque is the only mosque in Java known to have a Majapahit-style Hindu drum tower?
Did you know that Sex, Slander, and Salvation was published just before David Berg's death and the Love Charter's reorganization of the Family International?
Did you know that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev once proposed a major dam on the Bzyb River, but dropped the idea when he learned it would affect the beach at his favorite resort of Pitsunda?
Did you know that William Donald Albright homesteaded in Alberta's Peace River region in 1913 and conducted studies there that led to his farm becoming Canada's northernmost agricultural experiment station?
Did you know that a classic hypothetical example of the Wednesbury unreasonableness doctrine in administrative law, which applies in Singapore, is a public authority dismissing a teacher because of her red hair?
Did you know that according to the FBI, purported mobster Joseph Miranda once owed his life to family boss Sam DeCavalcante?
Did you know that athletes from the Tønsberg FIK Norwegian track and field club have won national championships in distance running, throwing and sprints?
Did you know that female R&B group Faya was discovered singing at a youth centre in Slough, and went on to sign a six-album deal with Def Jam Recordings?
Did you know that in 2011, the Swedish Transport Administration will upgrade a 57-kilometre (35 mi) section of the Coast-to-Coast Line electric railway to shave seven minutes off the travel time?
Did you know that in Bach's St John Passion in the Philharmonie Luxembourg, Christoph Prégardien was the Evangelist and Andreas Pruys sang the words of Christ?
Did you know that in the 1777 Battle of Machias, a British amphibious assault seized stores of flour, rice, corn, shoes, and ammunition, but was driven off by United States forces assisted by Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Indians?
Did you know that in the 1949 municipal election in the Free Territory of Trieste, the communist-led Slavic-Italian Anti-Fascist Union won 97% of the votes in Monrupino?
Did you know that mis-transcribed versions of the Pratt-Yorke opinion of 1757 were circulated in British North America by opponents of the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
Did you know that most leading Norwegian communists hit by the Nazi Operation Almenrausch in 1944 – including Peder Furubotn, Ørnulf Egge and Roald Halvorsen – survived?
Did you know that the "secretive character" of the Beggar Looking Through His Hat, attributed to 17th-century artist Jacques Bellange, may have appealed to its former owner, American KGB spy Michael Straight?
Did you know that the Canfield-Wright House was built for an oil tycoon who developed Beverly Hills and Del Mar, California?
Did you know that the chancel arch in St Michael's Church, Stretton en le Field, Leicestershire, appears to be made of stone, but is actually wood covered with stucco, giving the appearance of stone?
Did you know that the extended play Hits by The Beach Boys spent 34 weeks at number-one in the EP chart?
Did you know that the lyrics of Yes's last top-ten rock hit "The Calling" were inspired by singer Jon Anderson's concept of "local history"?
Did you know that the manga character Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu was inspired by the lovelorn wanderer Tora-san?
Did you know that the vocal quartet of Monika Frimmer, Christa Bonhoff, Dantes Diwiak, and Peter Kooy recorded the Augsburger Tafel-Confect ("Augsburg Table Confectionary") of Valentin Rathgeber and Johann Caspar Seyfert?
Did you know that Abraham Curry and his business partners purchased a large portion of Eagle Valley for a US$300 down payment and set aside 10 acres (4 ha) to build the Nevada State Capitol?
Did you know that American burglar Johnny Hope, the son of another burglar, may have been part of his father's gang that robbed the Manhattan Bank in 1878, netting nearly $3 million in cash and securities?
Did you know that Appianoporites, Margaretbarromyces, and Quatsinoporites are all fossil fungi from Vancouver Island, British Columbia?
Did you know that Bach composed four dialogues for his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, three between Fear and Hope, and one between Fear and the Voice of Christ?
Did you know that Cockfield Football Club, from the tiny "two-street pit village" of Cockfield, County Durham, was dubbed the "Village Wonder Team" after reaching the semi-finals of the FA Amateur Cup in 1923?
Did you know that Nick Fazekas, the number one overall selection in the 2010 NBA Development League Draft, was a D-League All-Star before he was even picked?
Did you know that Rio Tinto's Pilbara operations, consisting of the Brockman 2, Channar, Eastern Range, Hope Downs, Marandoo, Mesa A, Mesa J, Mount Tom Price, Nammuldi, Paraburdoo, West Angelas and Yandicoogina mines, produced 202 million tonnes of iron ore in 2009, accounting for almost 13% of the world production?
Did you know that St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield, Shropshire, is built on the site of the Battle of Shrewsbury that took place in 1403?
Did you know that State Representative Jim Landtroop was also a winning varsity basketball coach in Plainview, Texas?
Did you know that after Ell Persons, an African American man, was lynched and decapitated in 1917, his head was thrown at a group of African Americans?
Did you know that after hanging for nineteen years in a staff cafeteria and eleven in a living room, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's painting Warlugulong sold at auction in 2007 for a record-breaking A$2.4 million?
Did you know that an upcoming soundtrack album will feature actress Gwyneth Paltrow performing a censored version of Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You!" for an episode of Glee?
Did you know that because the Polavaram Project would submerge 276 villages in India, it was opposed by human rights and environmental activists, political parties, and neighboring governments?
Did you know that some believe the Lucan portrait is a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci?
Did you know that the 1907 Woodward Mausoleum at Machpelah Cemetery in Le Roy, New York, was built for the man who made a fortune developing Jell-O into a bestselling dessert?
Did you know that the Americanization School in Oceanside, California, was built as part of historic assimilation programs aimed at Spanish-speaking immigrants?
Did you know that the Ducoudray Holstein Expedition planned to invade Puerto Rico?
Did you know that the Mignot Memorial Hospital in Alderney is not covered by the National Health Service?
Did you know that the SimplySiti cosmetic line was founded by and named after Malaysian singer Siti Nurhaliza, and some of its products are named after her recordings?
Did you know that the Slovenian-Italian brotherhood was one of the platforms of the United Trade Unions of the Free Territory of Trieste?
Did you know that the last engraving by William Blake was a visiting card for his friend George Cumberland, which Blake decorated with children hoop rolling and flying kites?
Did you know that the world's first glass summit cross was erected on the Schartwand in Salzburg's Tennengebirge mountains?
Did you know that two major rivers of Borneo originate in the same area, flow in different directions, but have the same name?
Did you know that when Dutch officials took control of the BredoLab botnet, they were able to use it against itself?
Did you know that Botetourt, one of the best known mineral springs in Virginia and one of the chief sulphuric thermals in America, was visited by General Lafayette in 1824?
Did you know that Carl Scheibler's method of extracting sugar from sugar beet molasses with strontium hydroxide was widely used before World War I?
Did you know that Great Migrations, the largest programming event of the National Geographic Channel, is part of the largest cross-platform initiative since the founding of the National Geographic Society in 1888?
Did you know that Jaipur's Jantar Mantar, a collection of architectural astronomical instruments, was recognized by UNESCO in 2010 as the 28th World Heritage Site in India?
Did you know that Jule Sugarman helped design and administer the Head Start Program, which has served 27 million American children from low-income families since its inception in 1965?
Did you know that Michelin-starred chef Masa Takayama would deliver food only to Marlon Brando?
Did you know that Saint Sava likely had a hand in the murder of 13th-century Bulgarian noble Strez, a largely independent ruler in Macedonia?