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Did you know that the Jnanpith Award for modern literature in India has been awarded to more writers of Kannada literature, than those of any other Indian language?
Did you know that the Satellite Transit System at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is the second oldest airport people mover system in the U.S.?
Did you know that the Saxon Garden was opened in 1727 as the first publicly accessible park in Warsaw?
Did you know that the economy of Ohio includes the world's largest plants for processing yogurt, soup, ketchup and frozen pizza?
Did you know that the people of Uniontown, Alabama were surprised that Phillip Henry Pitts built such a large house in 1853, so it is now known as "Pitts' Folly"?
Did you know that the white kunzea was among the first Australian plants introduced to cultivation in England?
Did you know that till the 17th century, the Bordeaux wine region of the Haut-Médoc was a vast expanse of salt marshes?
Did you know that Dr. Charles A. Stafford, a flight surgeon, was awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart, and the U.S. Army had a hospital ship re-named after him during World War II?
Did you know that Ellyse Perry played both cricket and soccer for Australia at the age of sixteen?
Did you know that Francie Kraker Goodridge, who set a world indoor record in the 600-yard run, did not receive a varsity letter or sports scholarship and had to work as a waitress to put herself through college?
Did you know that Gordon Parks High School, an alternative school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is named after the famous photographer?
Did you know that Hartford, Connecticut's Webster Theater, opened in 1937 as a movie theater, is now a music venue where Incubus and No Doubt performed when they were barely known?
Did you know that Iceland was the first country to recognize Lithuania's re-established independence in 1991?
Did you know that Italian painter Perugino had probably finished his altarpiece The Virgin appearing to St. Bernard by the time Raphael became his apprentice?
Did you know that Laurence C. Jones, the founder of the Piney Woods Country Life School near Jackson, Mississippi, once convinced a white mob not to lynch him by telling them about his educational mission?
Did you know that M-209 was the shortest state highway in Michigan at a half-mile until 1996, serving as a connection to a former Coast Guard station?
Did you know that Polish poet and political activist Apollo Korzeniowski was the father of novelist Joseph Conrad?
Did you know that Sir James Lithgow played a prominent role in restructuring the British shipbuilding industry in the 1930s?
Did you know that The Casuarina Tree short stories set in the 1920's Malaya by W. Somerset Maugham came out of travels he paid for by working as a British spy?
Did you know that a rumour that Kylie Minogue had written a song for Hot Chip's recent album, Made in the Dark, was started by the band itself?
Did you know that at the time of construction Interstate 70 in Colorado featured the world's highest road tunnel?
Did you know that despite not being present at the Battle of Trafalgar, Richard Strachan was among those rewarded for the victory?
Did you know that listed building St Leonard's Church in Brighton and Hove was on Church Road, but is now on New Church Road after another church was built?
Did you know that orchidologist Henry Frederick Conrad Sander's magnum opus depicted life-sized orchids in volumes over 20 inches (63 cm) tall?
Did you know that prehistoric frog Beelzebufo may have grown to over 40 cm or 16 in (size comparison pictured), larger than any living frogs, and is called "the Frog from Hell" by the media?
Did you know that the Arthur Middleton class attack transport USS George Clymer  saw service in four major wars and earned a total of fifteen battle stars?
Did you know that the Central Park Mall leading to the Bethesda Terrace provides the only purely formal feature in the naturalistic original plan of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for Central Park, New York?
Did you know that the Chevron House in Singapore houses the international headquarters of Caltex, a petroleum brand name?
Did you know that the Indonesian occupation of East Timor claimed over 100,000 lives and was characterized by torture, forced disappearance, and starvation?
Did you know that the Olive python, Australia's second largest snake, can eat prey as large as a wallaby?
Did you know that the Premier League's proposal to play some matches outside England has been condemned by the Football Supporters' Federation as "outrageous desecration of the national game"?
Did you know that the US military's adoption of Eagle Cash stands to save them millions of dollars, and eliminate thousands of wasted man-hours, during the War in Iraq?
Did you know that the Valley View Ferry, Kentucky's oldest business, is seven years older than the state itself?
Did you know that the Western State Normal Railroad is the only known railroad built by a university and the only funicular operated in Michigan?
Did you know that the coal strike of 1981 was the first against Cape Breton Development Corporation since their nationalization in 1967?
Did you know that the ocean liner SS Shalom accidentally rammed and bisected the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali, sinking the bow of the tanker but not the stern?
Did you know that the second walls of Brussels, after proving ineffective during the French bombardment of Brussels and War of the Austrian Succession, were replaced by a series of roads to facilitate commerce?
Did you know that two years after masterminding the murders of backpackers, Sam Bith was made a general in the Cambodian Army?
Did you know that when Galway Councillor Fintan Coogan was re-elected in 1999, the Irish Times reported his victory under the headline "City's Lazarus claims resurrection status as he defeats provider of fish"?
Did you know that African-American Lemuel A. Penn, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on suspicion of being a civil rights activist, was actually a career soldier and Bronze Star recipient?
Did you know that Dutch Catechism, a bestseller with translations sold globally, was issued by bishops of the Netherlands to make the message of Jesus "sound as new as it is"?
Did you know that Hiram Wesley Evans, the second Imperial Wizard of the "second" Ku Klux Klan, boasted of having helped re-elect Calvin Coolidge as U.S. President?
Did you know that Hurricane Darby's remnants caused the Space Shuttle Columbia's landing at the end of STS-50 to be postponed for a day?
Did you know that Labworth Café, built in 1932, is the only example of the architectural design of Ove Arup and was made a Listed building in 1996?
Did you know that Wetsens station on the North Friesland Railway, which served a sparsely populated part of Friesland, Netherlands, closed in 1902, less than eight months after opening?
Did you know that alleged paranormal activity at the Andrew Bayne Memorial Library in Bellevue, Pennsylvania reportedly peaked in 1998, when a 400-year-old elm tree on the property was dying of Dutch elm disease?
Did you know that although Gather Together in My Name, the second book in Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, was not as critically acclaimed as the first one, it continues the same themes of racism and sexism?
Did you know that fluoride varnish can be applied to tooth surfaces to prevent tooth decay, but is currently underutilized for the purpose?
Did you know that geology professor Lawrence Wager was an Arctic explorer and mountaineer who in 1933 reached the highest point yet climbed on Mount Everest?
Did you know that many of the 250,000 foreign laborers in Dubai live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as being "less than human"?
Did you know that only about fourteen of the Tramcars in the National Tramway Museum are operational?
Did you know that systematic recycling of broken glass was a common practice in the Roman glass industry (example pictured)?
Did you know that the Chalk Tunnels under Chełm, Poland are thought to total up to 15 km (9.3 mi) in length?
Did you know that the MacCrimmons,  one of Scotland's most famous bagpiping families, have been thought to have roots in Cremona, Italy?
Did you know that the Ngoc Lu is regarded as the most important drum of the Dong Son culture of the Bronze Age, whose artefacts have been found at Co Loa Citadel, Chau Can, Lang Ca, Lang Vac, Xuan La and Viet Khe?
Did you know that the President of Latvia said the result of the 2003 Latvian European Union membership referendum wiped out the divisions of Europe created by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939?
Did you know that the first person in England to become a Bahá'í was Mary Thornburgh-Cropper in 1898, the year now regarded as the founding of the British Bahá'í community?
Did you know that the great earthquake in 365 CE destroyed nearly all towns in Crete?
Did you know that the wreck of the scallop dredger Solway Harvester was discovered by the Royal Navy's minehunter HMS Sandown?
Did you know that Clark State Forest was Indiana's largest Civilian Conservation Corps cantonment?
Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald was furious when he read his wife Zelda's first novel, Save Me the Waltz, because she had used material which he was planning to use in Tender Is the Night?
Did you know that Jeff Robinson, who played nine seasons in Major League Baseball, was the thirteenth pitcher in the National League to strike out three batters on nine pitches?
Did you know that Lee Embree took the first air-to-air photographs of the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor from an unarmed B-17 Flying Fortress, which arrived in Hawaii 30 minutes after the beginning of the attack?
Did you know that Mysore Palace, a tourist attraction in the city of Mysore, is one of the most visited monuments in India, even more than the Taj Mahal?
Did you know that Pope Clement IX received a vote in the final ballot from every cardinal present at his election to the papacy in 1667, except himself and Neri Corsini?
Did you know that a dispatcher training simulator is a computer-based training system which simulates the behaviour of an electrical power grid?
Did you know that a study of 930 patients with fatigue-like symptoms showed 62% testing MELISA-positive to metal allergy?
Did you know that before his 40th birthday Gus Stager swam for an NCAA championship team and coached three high school championship teams, four NCAA championship teams, and the 1960 U.S. Olympic team?
Did you know that forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union was dubbed malenkij robot (corrupted Russian for "a little work") in Hungary?
Did you know that future Canadian Senator John Gilbert Higgins hung black crêpe paper on his door in mourning the day that Newfoundland joined Canada?
Did you know that future four-star admiral Frank H. Brumby was accused of technical incompetence by the Naval Court of Inquiry  investigating the accidental sinking of the submarine S-4?
Did you know that in 1907, the Inlet of Vårby in Lake Mälaren became one of the first maritime environments in Sweden to suffer the crayfish plague?
Did you know that in 2006, Tsering Chungtak became the first Tibetan ever to participate in a major international beauty pageant?
Did you know that in More Demi Moore, Demi Moore appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair eight-months pregnant and wearing only a diamond ring?
Did you know that in the forthcoming Bollywood film Krazzy 4, actor Hrithik Roshan performed an "item number" for the first time?
Did you know that the Dendera zodiac, an ancient relief on display at the Louvre, was originally a planisphere on the ceiling of a temple in Egypt?
Did you know that the East Timor political party Association for the Integration of Timor into Indonesia quickly changed its name to Timorese Popular Democratic Association to improve public relations?
Did you know that the Fabyan Windmill located in Geneva, Illinois is one of the authentic Dutch windmills in the U.S.?
Did you know that the Scottish investment company Alliance Trust was formed in 1888 from companies providing loans to immigrant farmers in Oregon?
Did you know that the award-winning Turkish restaurant Changa in Istanbul is being supervised by the Kiwi chef Peter Gordon?
Did you know that the centerfire revolver cartridge .44 Russian, despite its name, was developed by an American handgun manufacturer, Smith & Wesson?
Did you know that the current series of banknotes in Singapore feature the portrait of Yusof bin Ishak, the first President of Singapore?
Did you know that the first book on Buddhism in Dutch was written in 1879?
Did you know that the ghost town of Melmont, Washington was only populated for twenty years?
Did you know that the work of make-up artist and body painter Joanne Gair, whose works include the 1992 Vanity Fair cover of Demi Moore, has been featured in ten consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues?
Did you know that the year 2008 is the 90th Anniversary  of the Republic of Estonia?
Did you know that while Nicholas Fitzherbert was abroad, two priests were arrested in his father's house and hanged, drawn, and quartered?
Did you know that American novel After This by Alice McDermott was included in the New York Times' 100 Most Notable Books of the Year?
Did you know that Bhushan Steel, the largest manufacturer of auto-grade steel in India, is expanding its capacity to 12 million tonnes annually?
Did you know that Greater Manchester has nine castles (one pictured), of which five are Scheduled Ancient Monuments?
Did you know that HMS Calliope was the only ship in Apia harbour to escape being wrecked in the great tropical cyclone which struck Samoa in 1889?
Did you know that Hiram Straight was the foreman of the jury in Oregon City, Oregon, that sentenced five Native Americans to hang for the Whitman Massacre?
Did you know that Hurricane Hernan was the second of three Category 5 Pacific hurricanes in the 2002 hurricane season?
Did you know that Italian-American aerospace engineer Enea Bossi, Sr. designed a pioneering human-powered aircraft and the first aircraft used by the NYPD?
Did you know that Mitch Daniels became the first Republican Governor in 16 years in the 2004 Indiana gubernatorial election?
Did you know that Paul Feyerabend's autobiography Killing Time contains descriptions of his careers as an officer in the Wehrmacht, an operatic tenor, and a philosopher of science?
Did you know that Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru?
Did you know that Summerlin Parkway, a freeway in Las Vegas, was initially constructed by the Summerlin homeowners' association?
Did you know that The Star of Poland, the biggest balloon in the world, burned in 1938 during an attempt to beat the high-altitude world record?
Did you know that Thomas Tilling, whose company grew into a major bus operator in Britain by the first half of the 20th century, entered the transport business with a horse and carriage in 1846?
Did you know that after a year as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt, James H. Douglas, Jr. left the government and founded a committee opposing Roosevelt's monetary policies?
Did you know that during the Korean War the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment received a Presidential Unit Citation from Dwight D. Eisenhower for their heroism in the Battle of Kapyong?
Did you know that in 1916, footballer Bob Benson volunteered to replace an absent Arsenal team-mate just before a game, only to collapse and die during the match?
Did you know that in 1922, Erich von Stroheim's silent film Foolish Wives was the most expensive ever produced?
Did you know that proteins are often broken down into smaller fragments by in-gel digestion before they are analysed by mass spectrometry?
Did you know that scholarly journal Anarchist Studies was attacked by Stewart Home as a "sad and reactionary 'academic' journal" incapable of engaging in critical debate?
Did you know that speed limits on Guam Highway 1 may differ depending on which side of the road you are on?
Did you know that tennis pro Martina Navratilova lived with vaudeville actress Frances Dewey Wormser and her husband when she arrived in the United States in the 1970s?
Did you know that the Cottonmouth jack is so named because of its pure white tongue and mouth?
Did you know that the Israel Prize was set up in 1953 at the initiative of Israeli Minister of Education Ben-Zion Dinur, who then went on to win the prize in 1958, and again in 1973?
Did you know that the Urnes style (example pictured) was the last phase of Scandinavian animal art?
Did you know that the biggest tax investigation in modern Germany currently targets hundreds of individuals for possible tax evasion by moving assets to Liechtenstein?
Did you know that the production of visual art in Cambodia nearly ceased during the Khmer Rouge period?
Did you know that when 74-year old Irish politician Pól Ó Foighil was told he was too old to be an election candidate, he challenged the younger man to twenty press ups?
Did you know that 32 is a desirable score in darts because it is divisible by 2 many times?
Did you know that Bradford City Football Club blamed their FA Cup exit in the 1919–20 season on a pre-game trip to Fry's chocolate works?
Did you know that Château Pape Clément, first planted in 1300 by the future Pope Clement V, is the oldest wine estate in Bordeaux?
Did you know that Desiderius Erasmus nicknamed his academic opponent Jacobus Latomus "Hephestion," a reference to Latomus's distinct limp?
Did you know that James Redfern's statues for Bristol Cathedral are now on a Yorkshire church because they were too "papist"?
Did you know that Libris Mortis, a comprehensive overview of undead within the Dungeons & Dragons universe, details the use of mummies and vampire spawn as player characters?
Did you know that Sir Yuet-Keung Kan is Hong Kong's longest serving Justice of Peace?
Did you know that William Henry Emerson was the first dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology?
Did you know that Willis Adcock, a Canadian-American chemist, helped create the first atomic bomb, the silicon transistor, and the integrated circuit?
Did you know that according to Christianity Today, the Born Again Movement and its spinoff new religious groups have nearly twice the size of the government-sanctioned Christian church in China?
Did you know that after sinking the British ocean liner SS Dwinsk in June 1918, the German submarine U-151 remained in the area and used the survivors in seven lifeboats as a lure in order to try to sink additional Allied ships?
Did you know that after suing to gain Marc Hall permission to take his boyfriend to a Catholic high school's prom, David Corbett was appointed Canadian Superior Justice?
Did you know that four Indiana counties gave land to create Whitewater Memorial State Park as a memorial to fallen American soldiers of World War II?
Did you know that four-star admiral Maurice E. Curts was replaced as commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific Fleet after only two weeks?
Did you know that in 1908, the Kinzie Street railroad bridge in Chicago was the longest and heaviest bascule bridge in the world?
Did you know that opera singer Rosemary Kuhlmann was an assistant to the international vice-president of PepsiCo for 16 years from the age of 56, despite intending to stay for only four months?
Did you know that replacing firewood with coal as the main fuel in early modern England led to many problems for the local glass industry?
Did you know that six-year-old Antonietta Meo could soon become the youngest saint not a martyr canonized by the Roman Catholic Church?
Did you know that swimmer Ann Colloton, the University of Michigan's Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s, was inducted into the school's Hall of Honor in February 2008?
Did you know that the Battle of Pogue's Run was done to prevent Democrats from rising against the American Civil War in Indiana?
Did you know that the Israeli documentary Paper Dolls followed the lives of five health care providers from the Philippines who perform as drag queens?
Did you know that the United Breweries' chairman Vijay Mallya, named his Bangalore Royal Challengers, an Indian Premier League cricket team, after his liquor brand?
Did you know that the black locust trees planted in 1767 when Cornelius Wynkoop's house was built along Main Street in Stone Ridge, New York, are part of its historic character?
Did you know that the ghost town of Ajax, Utah was centered on an 11,000 square foot (1,000 m²) department store lying entirely underground?
Did you know that the sundial in the Wilanów Palace in Warsaw, designed by astronomer Johannes Hevelius, has the figure of Chronos?
Did you know that wine writer Alexis Lichine developed a separate ranking of Bordeaux wine estates, including both Left and Right Banks, while advocating a revision of the original 1855 classification?
Did you know that Ben Chapman, the actor who portrayed the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon, was a veteran of the Korean War?
Did you know that British MP Peter Thomas was the first Conservative politician to serve as Secretary of State for Wales and the first Welshman to become party chairman?
Did you know that Douglas Barton Osborne Savile showed that the coevolution of rust fungi and their host plants could be used as an aid to plant taxonomy?
Did you know that Douglas Henshall and Daniel Craig were originally considered for the roles of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair in 2003 film The Deal?
Did you know that Frederick Law Olmsted planned for The Dorchesterway to extend his Emerald Necklace park system all the way to Boston Harbor?
Did you know that French geography professor Henri Enjalbert theorized that Albania, the Ionian islands and southern Dalmatia were the only European regions with grapevines following the last Ice Age?
Did you know that John Story, the first Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford, was elected to parliament, gaoled, exiled, re-elected, kidnapped, put in the Tower, tortured, hanged, drawn and quartered, and finally beatified?
Did you know that Kinkri Devi waged a war on illegal mining and quarrying in her native Indian state of Himachal Pradesh despite her illiteracy?
Did you know that Kochi in Kerala, India is the only place where Chinese fishing nets are used outside of China?
Did you know that Master Juba  was the first top billing black man in a blackface minstrel show?
Did you know that Morarji Desai is India's only Finance Minister to have tabled the Union budget twice on his birthday?
Did you know that Nina Bang was one of the world's first female government ministers?
Did you know that Princess Helena of the United Kingdom was the first of Queen Victoria's relations to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary?
Did you know that at 1,328 feet (405 m) above sea level, Brockway Mountain Drive in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is the most elevated road between the Rockies and Alleghenies?
Did you know that disappointment is one of two primary emotions involved in decision-making?
Did you know that in 1909, New Zealand gifted a new battlecruiser to Britain?
Did you know that listed structures in the parish of Acton in Cheshire include an aqueduct, sundial, icehouse, clock tower, telephone box and a statue of a dog upsetting a food bowl?
Did you know that of Bao Quoc, Dieu De and Tu Dam, the three "national pagodas" in Huế under the Nguyen Dynasty, the latter two were vandalised by the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, while Thien Mu was regarded as the unofficial city symbol?
Did you know that psychoanalytic literary critics blame Volumnia, a character in Shakespeare's play Coriolanus, for her son Coriolanus' aggressive behavior?
Did you know that springs are the main source of water supply in rural Rwanda?
Did you know that synchronized swimmer Ruth Pickett Thompson received the AIAW's 1979 and 1980 Broderick Awards?
Did you know that the Ferry County Carousel in Republic, Washington has 24 jumping horses with colors ranging from Appaloosa to Red Sorrel?
Did you know that the First Presbyterian Church of Chester, New York, has worshipped in three different buildings, all in different locations, in its history?