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Did you know that the Dix of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, a steamboat which sank and drowned over 45 people after a collision off Duwamish Head, Washington in 1906, was twice refused a seaworthiness certificate?
Did you know that the Maltese European Union membership referendum saw the lowest support for joining, and highest turnout, of any of the states that held referendums on joining in 2003?
Did you know that the Rolls-Royce Conway, a turbofan engine,  was the first commercial aero engine to be awarded clearance to operate for periods up to 10,000 hours between major overhauls?
Did you know that the butterfly Heliconius heurippa may be a separate species from—but a hybrid of—the species Heliconius cydno and Heliconius melpomene, a possible example of hybrid speciation?
Did you know that upon his death, Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov told his son to destroy his final novel, The Original of Laura, but the manuscript remains in a Swiss Bank vault, its fate uncertain?
Did you know that when Chester Cathedral was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 19th century, its exterior was almost completely recased in Runcorn sandstone?
Did you know that wig wearing and addressing judges as "My Lord" or "Your Lordship" in Singapore courts was abolished by Chief Justice Yong Pung How in 1990?
Did you know that Adam Franz Lennig organized the first Katholikentag in Mainz in 1848?
Did you know that Admiral John Forbes refused to sign the death warrant imposed on fellow Admiral John Byng, convinced of his innocence?
Did you know that American rockabilly musician Bobby Lee Trammell nearly fell off a radio broadcast tower during a botched practical joke?
Did you know that Christopher Tin is the first Fulbright scholar for film scoring?
Did you know that Evagrius Scholasticus, John of Ephesus, Gregory of Tours and Paul the Deacon all accused Byzantine Emperor Justin II and his empress consort Aelia Sophia of greed?
Did you know that Frank Winder, one of the leading Irish rock-climbers of the 1950s and 60s, started climbing to search for rare plants and insects?
Did you know that Heinz Guderian and Adolf Hitler had heated arguments while planning for Operation Solstice, one of the major German offensive operations on the Eastern Front during WWII?
Did you know that Nihon Go Gakko, a Japanese language school in Tacoma, Washington, later became a gathering point for Japanese residents during World War II, being sent to internment camps?
Did you know that Sir Ralph Howell, farmer and Conservative MP for North Norfolk for 27 years, argued for the adoption of a "workfare" system of unemployment benefits in the UK?
Did you know that Stockport County physio Rodger Wylde formed a rock group with  player Tom Bennett whilst treating his broken leg?
Did you know that Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer made their sitcom debut with their 1992 Channel 4 pilot The Weekenders?
Did you know that artist Chryssa constructed The Gates to Times Square, a 10 ft (3 m) cube of neon, acrylic glass and stainless steel through which museum visitors may walk?
Did you know that former Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday footballer Brian Hornsby trekked to Machu Picchu with musician Tony Hadley in aid of Action Medical Research?
Did you know that free MMS were sent out to all 5.5 million mobile phone subscribers in Singapore to alert them of the prison break of ISA detainee Mas Selamat bin Kastari?
Did you know that in two decades Australian record producer, audio engineer and mixer Tim Whitten has worked with artists including Powderfinger, The Go-Betweens, and Hoodoo Gurus?
Did you know that the 2004 Montana gubernatorial election saw the first bipartisan ticket since the constitution required Governors and their Lieutenants to run as a team?
Did you know that the Folk Art Center located in Asheville, North Carolina is the most popular attraction on the Blue Ridge Parkway with 250,000 visitors per year?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Cui Shi was believed to have risen to power through affairs with Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping?
Did you know that the final streetcar to service Roanoke, Virginia went from Grandin Road Commercial Historic District to downtown on July 31, 1948?
Did you know that the hazaj meter was the most popular meter for Iranian romantic epics in the 11th century?
Did you know that the song "Vodka" will represent Malta at Eurovision Song Contest 2008?
Did you know that treated wastewater from Kern River Oil Field, the fifth-largest U.S. oil field, is used to irrigate crops in the San Joaquin Valley in California?
Did you know that writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were careful not to create a paradox in the plot of "The Constant", a fourth season episode of Lost that features time travel?
Did you know that Air Marshal John McCauley's university degree was an unusual qualification for a pilot in the pre-war RAAF, whose officers generally "valued little beyond flying ability"?
Did you know that British industrialist Sir Maurice Laing was the first president of the Confederation of British Industry?
Did you know that Chardin's painting Le Bénédicité ("The Grace") was given as a gift to King Louis XV?
Did you know that Flat Top Manor, built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina?
Did you know that Israeli agricultural output is now 16 times what it was at independence in 1948, which means that it has risen three times more than the population growth rate?
Did you know that Japanese American journalist Bill Hosokawa and his family were released from the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center in 1943 in order to take a job as a copy editor with The Des Moines Register?
Did you know that Robert Oxnam, who wrote a memoir describing his dissociative identity disorder, was president of the Asia Society for over a decade?
Did you know that Tanaz Eshaghian's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran, a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery?
Did you know that according to historian Rev. H B Kendall, five Camp Meetings which led to the establishment of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811 were held in Ramsor in Staffordshire?
Did you know that as he lay dying, the American Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen declared that there is no hope without the active obedience of Christ?
Did you know that despite much preparation by Prussia, Toruń Fortress, one of the largest defence complexes in Central and Eastern Europe, did not play a significant role in World War I?
Did you know that during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
Did you know that lawyer James A. MacAlister was the first president of Drexel University?
Did you know that many of the viaducts on the Chemin de Fer de Côtes du Nord were two-tiered structures, and that the Viaduc de Souzain had a railway junction on the viaduct itself?
Did you know that the 1940 Czortków Uprising was a failed attempt by anti-Soviet teenagers to free Polish soldiers?
Did you know that the Chelembra Bank Robbery, one of the biggest bank robberies in Kerala, was quickly solved by the Kerala Police and the stolen goods recovered?
Did you know that the author of the best-selling book Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor, admitted her memoir was a hoax?
Did you know that the conservative Thai Social Action Party was founded in 1974 by politician and former Prime Minister of Thailand Kukrit Pramoj?
Did you know that the original Roanoke Street Railway Company streetcar tracks were removed from the  Memorial Bridge during its 2002–03 restoration?
Did you know that while in charge of the MESAN political party, President for Life Jean-Bédel Bokassa appointed Elisabeth Domitien to serve as the prime minister of the Central African Republic, making her Africa's first female head of government?
Did you know that with over 370 officers and ratings, HMS President is one of the largest "stone frigates" of the Royal Naval Reserve?
Did you know that Baxter v. United States determined that since poker was a game of skill, poker winnings should be treated as earned income instead of unearned income?
Did you know that Hugh Ruttledge led the 1933 Mount Everest expedition on which Andrew Irvine's ice axe was discovered?
Did you know that Professor Lalit Goel of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore became an internet celebrity after footage of his lectures were uploaded to YouTube?
Did you know that Sultanahmet Jail in Istanbul, Turkey, which served mostly as a prison reserved for intellectual dissidents, is today a five-star hotel?
Did you know that Zouave Guards of Indianapolis volunteered to fight before the American Civil War broke out, but its leader Francis A. Shoup switched sides and joined the Confederates before the war began?
Did you know that although Peckforton Castle in Cheshire was built as a family home in 1850, it mimicked a Norman castle in design and position?
Did you know that antiepileptic drugs have been shown to prevent early post-traumatic seizures but not post-traumatic epilepsy?
Did you know that both William Wentworth, Earl of Strafford and his wife were painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds?
Did you know that hawkers in Kolkata, numbering 275,000, occupy pavements and generate annual business worth around 2 billion dollars?
Did you know that heddles have an integral role in weaving, and that a loom will use several hundred at once?
Did you know that in Toolson v. New York Yankees, the U.S. Supreme Court first considered a player's challenge to Major League Baseball's reserve clause?
Did you know that on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Åland archipelago, resulting in the death of six people?
Did you know that the Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in Chełm, Poland, now a Catholic church, was formerly an Orthodox one?
Did you know that the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was demoted in the Saint-Émilion classification amidst controversy, only to be later re-instated?
Did you know that the Marshall Field and Company Building has three separate atria?
Did you know that the Persian political-philosophical treatise, the Siyasatnama, provides evidence for the survival of pre-Islamic traditions within the Seljuq empire?
Did you know that the Söflingen Abbey in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg is the oldest nunnery of the Order of Poor Ladies in Germany?
Did you know that the briefly popular "I'm Backing Britain" campaign in 1968 suffered embarrassment when a number of t-shirts bearing the slogan were found to be made in Portugal?
Did you know that the earliest surviving ensenhamen (an Occitan didactic poem) was written by the troubadour Garin lo Brun around 1155?
Did you know that the first psychosurgery in the United Kingdom was performed in Bristol in December 1940?
Did you know that the original name of Euphemia, empress consort of Justin I of the Byzantine Empire, was 'Lupicina', which led historian Alexander Vasiliev to associate her with she-wolves and prostitution?
Did you know that while one naval historian praised Richard Lestock for his "zeal and attention", another declared he "ought to have been shot"?
Did you know that "Brave" Admiral Benbow, celebrated in song, was compensated by the British Treasury after a three month visit by Tsar Peter the Great left his house "entirely ruined"?
Did you know that Eastern Christians believe that the tomb on the Mount of Olives is the Tomb of Mary?
Did you know that Florence J. Harriman, an American socialite, suffragist, diplomat and author, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?
Did you know that Gamma, a gamma-ray telescope, was launched in 1990, 25 years after it was originally conceived?
Did you know that Malheur Reservation in Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876?
Did you know that Mosida, Utah was a failed planned community whose developers tried to irrigate the desert with water pumped from Utah Lake?
Did you know that Socialist Paulina Veloso, exiled during Pinochet's rule in Chile, has served in the governments of all four post-Pinochet presidents, including holding the cabinet-level presidential Chief of Staff position from 2006 to 2007?
Did you know that after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, the Loop Retail Historic District was Chicago's premier retailing district until it was replaced by commuter suburbs and the Magnificent Mile?
Did you know that botanist Henry Lyte's Niewe Herball of 1578 was an English translation of the 1564 Cruydeboeck of Rembert Dodoens printed in Antwerp with the woodcuts of the original edition?
Did you know that if all the video games traded at Goozex in 2007 were stacked on top of each other, the resulting pile would reach 2,132 feet (650 m), more than 450 feet (137 m) taller than Taipei 101?
Did you know that the Kapodistrias Museum in Corfu, Greece, donated by Maria Desylla-Kapodistria the first female Greek mayor, was dedicated to the memory of the first Greek governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias?
Did you know that the establishment of the quaestura exercitus by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I helped to economically secure the lower Danube region?
Did you know that the ten cannons of Fort Guijarros, built in 1797 as the first defensive fortifications for San Diego Bay, California, have been fired in action only twice since?
Did you know that 75 people in the Soviet Union were awarded the Order of the Red Banner, with their names published in Pravda, for the successful mass deportations out of the Baltic States in 1949?
Did you know that Canada's first urban Indian reserve was established in 1981 at Kylemore, Saskatchewan?
Did you know that Lieutenant Commander Willis Lent and his submarine the USS Triton fired the first United States Navy torpedo to be used against the Japanese during World War II?
Did you know that Pope Innocent XIII was not elected till the seventy-fifth ballot at the papal conclave in 1721?
Did you know that Robert DeBlieux, a former mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana, was the local advisor when the film Steel Magnolias was shot in the city?
Did you know that because of its dorsal fin, Carolus Linnaeus first described the Permit as Labrus falcatus, with the latter part  of the scientific name meaning "armed with scythes?"
Did you know that former football player and manager Alan Brown quit Huddersfield Town and became a policeman for two and a half years before rejoining the club?
Did you know that in 1955, black promoter Thurman Ruth booked the Selah Jubilee Singers,  to perform in a music venue, New York's Apollo Theater,  the first gospel group to play commercially?
Did you know that legend at Banagher says its church was founded by a saint, led there by a stag acting as a lectern and carrying a book on its antlers?
Did you know that nearly a decade before the official Bordeaux wine classification was released, the directory Cocks & Féret published their own ranking of Bordeaux wine estates?
Did you know that singer Irvan Perez was considered to be one of the last performers of the traditional Isleño décimas of Louisiana, since there are few members of that community who still know how to sing the songs?
Did you know that state representative Dianne Primavera,  a breast and cervical cancer survivor, sponsored legislation for the Colorado Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers Fund?
Did you know that the Best Bakery case is a legal case involving the killing of 14 people in Vadodara, India, during the 2002 Gujarat violence?
Did you know that the Willhire 24 Hour race became the first 24 hour endurance race to take place in the United Kingdom in 1980?
Did you know that the first Dutch satellite, the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, had the Main Belt asteroid 9996 ANS named after it?
Did you know that the painting Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten by Hans Gude was sold by the Kunsthalle Bremen art museum in part because its large size—4.76 m² (52 square feet)—made it difficult to store?
Did you know that writer and spinster Lady Louisa Stuart wrote a ballad about cannibal brothers and the fate of a woman who married for money?
Did you know that Banduan and Manbazar in West Bengal, India, are located in an area of violent political activities by Maoists?
Did you know that Bhanbhagta Gurung returned to his farm in Nepal in 1946, after receiving a Victoria Cross for his actions while serving with the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Burma?
Did you know that Cornelio Villareal and Jose Laurel, Jr. were the last two Speakers of the House of Representatives before the Philippine Congress was abolished by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972?
Did you know that Dr. Demento, a DJ specializing in novelty songs and parodies, got his start at KRRC (FM), the student-run radio station of Reed College?
Did you know that Giovanni Faber, doctor to the Pope, botanist and art collector, coined the name "microscope"?
Did you know that Larrys Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania has 42 named tributaries in its watershed, including one named "Little Dog Run"?
Did you know that Museum Wharf in Boston has a 40' (12 m) tall milk bottle that was built during the Great Depression and transported to the wharf by barge in the 1970s?
Did you know that Scottish footballer Kevin Bremner scored for five different teams in the Football League during the 1982–83 season?
Did you know that The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a controversial 1981 novella by George Steiner in which Hitler is found alive in the Amazon jungle and claims to be the Jews' benefactor?
Did you know that The Queen producer Andy Harries was fired as a newsreader for speaking too fast in a broadcast?
Did you know that Tibetan Buddhist monks attending a shedra university (example pictured) may be asked to completely memorize their school texts before they begin to study them?
Did you know that after being paralyzed in a car accident in 1964, Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996 for her services to disabled people?
Did you know that as New York's General Counsel, Michael C. Finnegan ended a century-old debate over New York City's water supply when he brokered the New York City Watershed Agreement?
Did you know that medieval cycles of the Life of the Virgin could have as many as 53 scenes before reaching the Annunciation of her pregnancy?
Did you know that the 1989 Spanish film If They Tell You I Fell was nominated for seven Goya Awards?
Did you know that the Elk Hills Oil Field in San Joaquin Valley is the largest natural gas-producing oil field in California, and has produced over 2 trillion cubic feet (60 billion m³) of gas since its discovery in 1911?
Did you know that the Hertford East Branch Line, a railway line in the United Kingdom, used to link to the Hertford Loop Line but was severed due to the Beeching Axe?
Did you know that the Julian Price Memorial Park, developed in Julian Price's honor, and the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park are the largest developed recreational areas on the Blue Ridge Parkway?
Did you know that the Town Hall in Słupsk, Poland, was built on land reclaimed from a lake?
Did you know that the discovery of gold by Custer's 1874 Expedition triggered the gold rush that precipitated the Black Hills War?
Did you know that the main opposition party Fidesz supported the 2003 Hungarian European Union membership referendum but warned that up to 100,000 jobs could be lost?
Did you know that the troop transport USS Wakefield, a former luxury liner, operated in World War II as a "lone wolf" by relying on her speed to avoid Nazi U-Boats?
Did you know that Karol Szajnocha, one of Poland's leading 19th century historians, was self-taught as he was expelled from university?
Did you know that Mamadou Diabaté, a Malian kora player, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005, but lost to his cousin Toumani Diabaté?
Did you know that Maturinus was the patron saint of jesters, comic actors, and clowns during the Middle Ages?
Did you know that Mrs Sherwood's evangelical story The History of Little Henry and his Bearer was in print for 70 years after its publication in 1814 and was translated into eight languages?
Did you know that Operation Himmler was a Nazi Germany false flag operation, intended to create an appearance that the German invasion of Poland was a defensive war provoked by a Polish attack on Germany?
Did you know that Scottish nurse and serial killer Colin Norris is thought to have killed his four geriatric victims because he had "a real dislike of elderly patients"?
Did you know that Swami Rama Tirtha was one of the first Hindu swamis to teach Vedanta in the West?
Did you know that a papillary fibroelastoma, typically involving one of the valves of the heart, is the third most common type of primary tumors of the heart?
Did you know that despite the lack of native vegetation, the endangered San Joaquin Kit Fox continues to use areas of the South Belridge Oil Field in California as habitat?
Did you know that most urban water service providers in Peru can be considered bankrupt as water bills are often not paid?
Did you know that retreating glaciers of the Himalayas produce vast and long-lived supraglacial lakes, many kilometres in diameter and scores of metres deep?
Did you know that television writer Josh Senter rarely watched television until he was fourteen because of his parents' fundamental Christian beliefs?
Did you know that the Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007 will allow social security information to be passed to the BBC?
Did you know that the Eve of Destruction, named after a protest song and on display at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum, is the only surviving example of a Vietnam era gun truck?
Did you know that the Kannada writer Kirtinath Kurtakoti died of cardiac arrest just hours after his wife's death?
Did you know that the Murat Centre is the only Shrine temple with a French name, and is the largest Shrine temple in North America?
Did you know that the Wärtsilä Turku shipyard in Finland built five state-of-the-art cruiseferries for the Black Sea Shipping Company, Soviet Union, in 1975–1976?
Did you know that the insect hormone bursicon hastens the tanning of the cuticle and hardens it?
Did you know that the proposed Doncaster railway line, Melbourne, first planned in 1890, would cost around ten times as much to build now as the A$41 million estimated in 1972 when the route was decided?
Did you know that the tragic ending of Shakespeare's King Lear was found to be so distasteful that it was replaced on stage for over 150 years by Nahum Tate's adaptation, with a happy ending and a love story?
Did you know that under the 2002 Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act the United States eliminated tariffs on 6,300 products from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru?
Did you know that whilst both Richard Kirkby and George Walton were present at the Action of August 1702, Walton went on to be an Admiral, whilst Kirkby was executed for cowardice?
Did you know that Alex, the Stroh's dog that would fetch and pour beer, died of cancer?
Did you know that Arthur Sullivan's Boer War Te Deum was written to celebrate the expected British victory in the Boer War, but because the war dragged on for almost two more years, both Sullivan and Queen Victoria had died before the piece premiered?
Did you know that Broad Clyst railway station attracted residential development in the immediate area and even today the area around the former station is known as "Broadclyst Station"?
Did you know that Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front?
Did you know that Eugenio Perez was the Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives when the Philippines became independent from the United States in 1946?