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Did you know that John Ives was elected a fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society by the age of 21?
Did you know that Kannada poet and Indian political activist Kayyara Kinyanna Rai published his first journal, Susheela, at the age of 12?
Did you know that Michigan State University Libraries has the largest catalogued collection of comic books in the world, with over 150,000 items?
Did you know that Pankaj Gupta was one of the earliest Indian sports administrators involved in football, hockey and cricket?
Did you know that President Ngo Dinh Diem survived the 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing after a 500 lb (225 kg) bomb landed in his room and failed to detonate?
Did you know that Rasau Field, one of the two onshore oil fields of Brunei, was discovered in 1979 but oil production only started in 1983?
Did you know that St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford was closely associated with the early Oxford Movement?
Did you know that the Royal Air Force ordered 1,291 De Havilland DH.10s for use in World War I, but they were only used in a single bombing mission before the armistice ended the fighting?
Did you know that the South Seas Evangelical Church, the third-largest religious affiliation in the Solomon Islands, traces its history to a mission for Kanakas in Queensland, Australia?
Did you know that the West Pharmaceutical Services explosion in 2003 occurred just 170 miles from the site of another industrial disaster, America's second-worst?
Did you know that the brief Dodecanese Campaign in 1943 resulted in one of the last major German victories in World War II?
Did you know that the mushroom Lactarius rubrilacteus is also known as the "Bleeding milkcap" because it releases a dark-red milky substance when sliced or cut?
Did you know that when the Sudanese Boeing 737 Air West Flight 612 was hijacked, the hijacker originally wanted to fly to Rome or London but was forced to settle for Chad due to a lack of fuel?
Did you know that Australian Olympic swimming gold medalist Neil Brooks retired after being suspended for drinking 46 cans of beer on a flight from Britain back to Australia?
Did you know that Eduard Bloch was a Jewish doctor whose life was saved out of "everlasting gratitude" by Adolf Hitler?
Did you know that Irish cricketer and artist Robert Gregory was the subject of four poems by W. B. Yeats?
Did you know that Jewelers' Row in Philadelphia was the first speculative housing development in the United States, featuring that country's first row houses?
Did you know that Julian Salomons was the only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office?
Did you know that Lyndon Johnson declined to respond to the Vietcong's Christmas Eve 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing, fearing that fighting during the holiday season would damage morale?
Did you know that Royal Governor of Chile José de Garro planned to defeat the Mapuches by taking their chiefs hostage in a ruse, but the plan was rejected by King Charles II of Spain as too deceitful?
Did you know that as British Colonial Secretary, Arthur Creech Jones oversaw dominion status in 1948 for Ceylon?
Did you know that book peddlers played an important cultural role in various countries, for which they sometimes suffered state persecution and sometimes enjoyed state protection?
Did you know that in 1961 the Portland Buckaroos hockey team beat the Seattle Totems in the Western Hockey League championship to win the Lester Patrick Cup in its first season of existence?
Did you know that in the Big Runaway during the American Revolution in Pennsylvania in 1778, Rachel Silverthorn rode to warn settlers on Muncy Creek of impending attack when no man would?
Did you know that on May 3, 2002 a military MiG-21bis aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight?
Did you know that piano player and pupil of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Maryla Jonas, debuted at the age of 9?
Did you know that the 1928 legislative election is considered the last free election in Poland before the fall of communism six decades later?
Did you know that the Royal Brunei Navy formed as the Boat Section of the Brunei Malay Regiment?
Did you know that the far right political writer Armin Mohler was refused entry to the SS and forced to return to his native Switzerland, where he was arrested for desertion from the Swiss Army?
Did you know that the non-fiction book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled is cited in academic journals as an extreme example of encounter groups?
Did you know that the oligopoly formed in Minneapolis by Pillsbury,  Northwestern Consolidated and General Mills before the Great Depression was the world's largest flour miller?
Did you know that tourism is Nicaragua's second largest industry, having grown 394% in the past 12 years?
Did you know that Annette Akroyd, an orientalist, is remembered primarily for her early efforts at women’s education in India?
Did you know that Australian Test cricketer Ray Lindwall played in two rugby league grand finals for the St. George Dragons?
Did you know that Charles Menzies established Newcastle, New South Wales as a settlement, when he was only 21 years of age?
Did you know that Dan Jones heard founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Joseph Smith, Jr.'s "final prophecy" the day before Smith was killed?
Did you know that Donald Stephens, recently deceased mayor of Rosemont, Illinois for 51 years, is believed to have been the longest-serving mayor in the United States?
Did you know that French mycologist and naturalist Lucien Quélet claimed in his book, Mycologic Flora of France, that the human race as a whole was becoming more and more primitive?
Did you know that Gurdwara Sahib Klang, a Sikh Gurdwara in Malaysia, was constructed with donations collected by Sikh Sangats all over Malaysia, including a large sum from the Prime Minister's Department?
Did you know that Jacqui Oatley is the first female football commentator in the history of BBC football programme Match of the Day?
Did you know that James T. Brand of the Oregon Supreme Court was the presiding judge for most of the Judges' Trial, in which 10 German lawyers and judges were convicted of war crimes after World War II?
Did you know that Kerry Lynch is the only nordic combined skier to ever be disqualified for doping and stripped of his medal at the Winter Olympics or Nordic skiing World Championships?
Did you know that Ladipo Solanke, long the Secretary-General of the West African Students' Union, was the first person to broadcast on the radio in the Yoruba language?
Did you know that a British Gurkha Battalion has been maintained in Brunei at the request of the Sultan of Brunei since the 1962 Brunei Revolt?
Did you know that a German-American was aboard the German submarine, U-94, when she was sunk by  United States Navy and Canadian Navy forces?
Did you know that even though Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, it reached an even wider audience in its theatrical adaptations (advertising poster pictured)?
Did you know that in 2000, Willamette Industries, Inc. was fined a then-record $11.2 million by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for violations of the Clean Air Act?
Did you know that in economics, the kinked demand curve theory was the first attempt at explaining sticky prices?
Did you know that in negative base systems, positive and negative numbers can be represented without the use of a minus sign?
Did you know that the Avinguda Diagonal, a street in Barcelona, Spain, is so named because it cuts the central district Eixample in two diagonally?
Did you know that the LWD Szpak was the first Polish-designed post-World War II airplane?
Did you know that the Lykaia in Arcadia was a primitive rite of passage centered upon a threat of cannibalism and the possibility of a werewolf transformation?
Did you know that the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Paraná, Brazil was reinaugurated to honor its famous architect Oscar Niemeyer, who completed his design for the museum's annex at the age of 95?
Did you know that the Portland Power’s Natalie Williams was the leading scorer in the ABL during the 1997 to 1998 season?
Did you know that the Romanian artist Ion Valentin Anestin was censored and ultimately arrested by the Communist regime for publishing caricatures of Joseph Stalin during World War II?
Did you know that the Vietminh named the grenades they made and used against the French after Phan Dinh Phung, who led a rebel army in the initial colonisation of Vietnam?
Did you know that the students of Jagiellonian University tore the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I to pieces at the Collegium Novum while rallying for independence from the Austrian Empire?
Did you know that 25 of the 368 Cuban bird species are endemic?
Did you know that Alexandru Ghika, the founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis, was the great-great-grandson of Grigore IV Ghica, Prince of Wallachia?
Did you know that Amsterdam's Prostitution Information Center provides the city's visitors with information and advice about prostitution?
Did you know that Andrew N. Meltzoff's research revealed that infants of only a few weeks of age can imitate facial expressions and hand gestures?
Did you know that County Route 708 in Camden County, New Jersey is only one of four routes in that county that has multiple routes of the same number?
Did you know that Jiang Rong was inspired to write his 2004 novel Wolf Totem during China's Cultural Revolution after a failed attempt to domesticate a wolf?
Did you know that Marthe Richard was a former prostitute and spy who worked to make brothels illegal in France?
Did you know that Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club was the site of Tiger Woods’ record third consecutive amateur championship?
Did you know that Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in California was initially built and run in the 1970s by the Newhall Land and Farming Company?
Did you know that Terry Major-Ball, elder brother of the former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, wrote an "exquisitely funny" autobiography detailing his mishaps running the family's garden ornament business in the 1950s?
Did you know that Very Light Jet entrepreneur Jim McCotter founded a religious movement?
Did you know that Winter Quarters Bay is the southern-most port in the Southern Ocean?
Did you know that according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt?
Did you know that despite a requirement for scientists to share data, over a quarter of geneticists could not access data required to validate research?
Did you know that it is said that the name for Gilbertstone in Birmingham derives from a man named Gilbert lifting an erratic to extend his land?
Did you know that the 1934 film Sati Sulochana was the first ever talkie produced in the Kannada language?
Did you know that the 1983 film Circle of Power won a Dramatic Films award at the 1982 Sundance Film Festival?
Did you know that the 2,000 American soldiers who fought in the Battle of Short Hills against 17,000 British men suffered only minor casualties and were able to inflict considerable damage on the enemy?
Did you know that the David Bowie song "Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)" was inspired by Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies, which was also the basis for the film Bright Young Things?
Did you know that the Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation is the first attempt at recording the complete history of Russian and Soviet animation?
Did you know that the Lieutenant Governor's Court was the first real civil court in Tasmania and that a judge-advocate presided in the court rather than the lieutenant governor?
Did you know that the Ruben M. Benjamin House was built by John Long Routt, the first governor of Colorado?
Did you know that the father of Nguyen Van Cu, the Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot who led the 1962 Presidential Palace bombing, was a dissident jailed by Ngo Dinh Diem?
Did you know that the land holdings of Henry Newhall formed the basis of what is now Santa Clarita, California?
Did you know that the villagers of Kotor referred to Dominican visionary and anchoress Osanna of Cattaro as "the trumpet of the Holy Spirit" and the "teacher of mysticism"?
Did you know that there are two radio stations in Brunei that broadcast partially in Gurkhali for the Nepalese speakers of the First Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles stationed in Brunei?
Did you know that Alex Stevenson is the only footballer to play for both the Republic of Ireland and Rangers F.C.?
Did you know that Anne Hyde Choate was the second president of the Girl Scouts of the USA and also an international Scouting leader in WAGGGS for fifty years?
Did you know that Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women’s College) was the first women’s liberal arts college in India?
Did you know that Japanese painter Tomioka Tessai (work pictured) was encouraged by his mentor, Buddhist nun and poet Otagaki Rengetsu, to synthesize Buddhist and Shinto elements in his works?
Did you know that John Bower was the first non-European to ever win in any events at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1968?
Did you know that Marbrianus de Orto was one of the first composers to write a completely canonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass?
Did you know that Tejashwini Sreeramesh, an Indian Member of Parliament from the Kanakapura constituency of Karnataka, was previously an anchor of a talk show on Udaya TV?
Did you know that Yalchik Lake is the biggest lake in Mari El, Russia?
Did you know that during the Toronto Raptors 2006-07 season (team pictured), the National Basketball Association team won their first division title in franchise history?
Did you know that former Ghana MP Eric Amoateng was arrested in the United States and has pled guilty to drug trafficking-related charges?
Did you know that microfinance organization FINCA International is known as the "World Bank for the poor"?
Did you know that one of the liturgies of the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, a part of  Western Rite Orthodoxy, is a modified form of the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer?
Did you know that the International One Design for yachts was developed so that races would be decided by the crew's skills?
Did you know that the eight surviving medieval Bulgarian royal charters are among the few available secular documents from the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire?
Did you know that the non-fiction book Est Playing the Game was almost blocked from publication because it described techniques used in Erhard Seminars Training?
Did you know that the performance of "Let Me Try" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 featured performers banging on what appeared to be drums of industrial waste?
Did you know that the town of Channapatna in India is known as the "toy-town of Karnataka" due to the popularity of the wooden toys manufactured there?
Did you know that there are 254 Hewitts and Nuttalls in England?
Did you know that Kveldulf Bjalfasson, a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandfather of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson, was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf?
Did you know that Nabisco Brands, Inc. sold the US Shredded Wheat operations to General Foods, and the international Shredded Wheat operations to General Mills?
Did you know that Whistling Kites in Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in New Guinea are principally scavengers?
Did you know that a cyclic cellular automaton is a system of simple mathematical rules that can generate complex patterns mixing random chaos, blocks of color, and spirals?
Did you know that between her marriage to Marcus Garvey and her relationship with President of Liberia William Tubman, Pan-Africanist activist Amy Ashwood Garvey ran a club on London's Carnaby Street?
Did you know that ceramics expert Otto Natzler perfected over 2,000 colours and styles of glazes?
Did you know that gay pornographic film director Scott Masters directed more than 100 loops before founding his own company, Nova Studios?
Did you know that more than one million Koreans moved to Arab countries and Iran between 1975 and 1985?
Did you know that nearly 3 million rupees worth of property was stolen from the house of Kannada cinema actor Srinath on the day of his daughter's marriage in 2001?
Did you know that reification is a logical fallacy that occurs when qualities of a living being are attributed to an abstract concept?
Did you know that the 1914 comic strip Abie the Agent, the first American comic with a Jewish protagonist, has been called the first adult comic?
Did you know that the Japanese diplomat Tatsuo Kawai was sacked as an official spokesman at the Foreign Ministry after leading a strike there in 1940?
Did you know that the Oxtotitlan grottoes feature some of the few existing examples of Olmec culture paintings?
Did you know that the Poplar Tree Elementary School building was damaged by boulders from blasting works during its construction, and it initially had no playground?
Did you know that the enrollment rate of girls in schools in Yemen is the lowest out of all Middle Eastern countries?
Did you know that the women courtiers in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom were expected to be adept in 64 arts, with Kasuti embroidery being one of them?
Did you know that 18% of all deaths occurring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures?
Did you know that American comic book artist Art Saaf also made storyboards for The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated Highlights for Children?
Did you know that Benedict Arnold learned about the capture of his fellow-conspirator John André while living on Sugarloaf Hill, from which he then fled?
Did you know that Dr. Andrew Rochford, a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You, got his break after he won the popular show The Block?
Did you know that Edward R.  Bradley was the preeminent owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses in the Southern United States during the early 20th century?
Did you know that Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?
Did you know that Japanese painter Shimomura Kanzan came from a family of Noh actors, and that themes from Noh drama frequently appeared in his works?
Did you know that Jim Hutchinson, who died in 2000, was the longest-lived first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days?
Did you know that Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
Did you know that according to Ronald Enroth's book Churches That Abuse, "spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible-preaching, fundamentalist, conservative Christianity"?
Did you know that participants in the Sterling Institute of Relationship dance naked in a ritual while being videotaped?
Did you know that the Ibirapuera Auditorium in São Paulo, Brazil, features a reversible stage that can play concerts to audiences inside and out?
Did you know that the Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish research institute on modern Polish history, has been in a center of recent Polish politics?
Did you know that the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israeli history up until that time?
Did you know that the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?
Did you know that the attack transport USS Bayfield served as headquarters for planning the D-Day landings on "Utah Beach" in 1944?
Did you know that the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism"?
Did you know that the pedestal of the The Bronze Horseman is believed to be the largest stone ever moved by humans?
Did you know that the port of Kuala Belait, one of the two ports in Brunei, is located in Kampong Sungai Duhon?
Did you know that there are 618 species of birds in Belize?
Did you know that when Reprise Records signed 17-year-old Chris Cummings to a record contract in 1992, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed?
Did you know that Chitrakala Parishat, an art institution and a cultural organization in Bangalore, was the brainchild of famous Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city?
Did you know that Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township, Pennsylvania, survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War, despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
Did you know that MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
Did you know that Mormon leader Charles Shreeve Peterson was the first  settler of Utah's Morgan Valley?
Did you know that Peter of Tarentaise started the charitable tradition of giving food to poor farmers in the spring called pain de Mai (May-bread), which continued for over 600 years?
Did you know that Philip Whistler Street was a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia -- as were his son Kenneth and his grandson Laurence?
Did you know that William Firmatus, a Norman hermit, is said to have led a wild boar by the ear from a farmer's plot and instructed it to fast for the night in a solitary cell?
Did you know that none of the more than 1000 windows in the Waldspirale residential complex in Darmstadt, Germany are identical?
Did you know that the Arab Socialist Action Party, the main secular opposition group in Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
Did you know that the Common Skullcap, a perennial plant found throughout Eurasia, is traditionally used as a mild sedative?
Did you know that the Lutheran Church of China was created from the union of no less than 25 separate Lutheran missionary agencies?
Did you know that the Potawatomi, a tribe of Native Americans, were evicted from land near Indiana’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
Did you know that the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 established the first peacetime draft in the United States?
Did you know that the people of the Bronze Age Elp culture in the present-day Netherlands lived in longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today?
Did you know that the teponaztli is an Aztec wooden slit drum?
Did you know that Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimatwehr, a fascist organization in Switzerland, because he advocated an annexation by Italy?
Did you know that Company style paintings (example pictured) were made by Indian artists for patrons from the British East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries?
Did you know that Copadichromis borleyi is a type of mouthbrooding fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa?
Did you know that Japanese painter Takeuchi Seihō (work pictured) was one of the first to receive Japan's Order of Culture when it was established in 1937?
Did you know that Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern architecture?
Did you know that St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's oldest churches and a prime example of the 'Polish Cathedral' style?
Did you know that United States Senator Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by Representative Preston Brooks in the Old Senate Chamber of the United States Capitol?
Did you know that a British submarine flotilla dominated the Baltic Sea for a major part of WWI, but the loss of the Socialists in the Finnish Civil War forced the crews to scuttle the fleet outside Helsinki?
Did you know that a special kind of soil from Bidar fort is an essential ingredient in making Bidriware, a metal handicraft of Karnataka, India?
Did you know that maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods?
Did you know that nomadic eagle falconers maintain that "as the man trains the eagle, so does the eagle train his man"?
Did you know that orographic rainfall, one of the three types of rainfall, is caused when cool air is forced upward by mountains to form clouds which then produce rain?