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Did you know that the success of the Lifeline Express in providing medical services to remote places in India has seen similar projects being initiated in other countries including China, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh?
Did you know that throughout the Western world until the 19th or 20th century, young boys wore dresses (example pictured) until they were breeched at an age varying between two and eight?
Did you know that Augie Hiebert not only built Alaska's first television station, KTVA, but also founded the state's first FM radio station, KNIK-FM?
Did you know that Eastern Orthodox icon expert Father Egon Sendler is highly respected by  many Eastern Orthodox scholars, despite being a Roman Catholic?
Did you know that Karl Emil Nygard was the first Communist mayor in the United States?
Did you know that Mark Knight, a political cartoonist for the Herald Sun, created Leuk the Duck, a mascot for charity named after leukemia?
Did you know that Yugoslavian boxing champion Marijan Beneš played the violin in his youth, and published a book of poems after the end of his career?
Did you know that a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces during the Battle of Kranji allowed the Japanese forces to gain strategic footholds which led to the fall of Singapore in 1942?
Did you know that after the November Uprising in partitioned Poland, the government of the Russian Empire offered a bounty for one of the Polish leaders, Jan Czyński?
Did you know that architect Andreyan Zakharov rebuilt the Admiralty in Saint Petersburg, with symmetrical wings to its central tower, making it a symbol of the city?
Did you know that in Chinua Achebe's novel Arrow of God, an African chief's refusal to allow his villagers to harvest yams causes them to convert to Christianity?
Did you know that research has shown the 80-plus miles of trails in Omaha, Nebraska increase homeowners' perceptions of the value of their houses?
Did you know that the Baroque-style palace Dilkusha Kothi was once a summer retreat for the nawabs of Oudh but was heavily shelled during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and is today in ruins?
Did you know that the Norwegian roller coaster Speed Monster features a unique loop around an escalator?
Did you know that the city of Puerto Suárez in eastern Bolivia is supplied by the Brazilian power grid, not the Bolivian?
Did you know that the name of Polish anti-Nazi and anti-communist activist Łukasz Ciepliński was banned from all books by the Communist government?
Did you know that Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams is known as the "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force?
Did you know that John Joseph Briggs, the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish?
Did you know that Major Sir Hamish Forbes, 7th Baronet was awarded the MBE (Military Division) for his many escape attempts while a prisoner-of-war in Germany from 1940 to 1945, and was later patron of the Lonach Highlanders?
Did you know that Matthew Ricketts was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and be elected to the Nebraska Legislature?
Did you know that Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, a Swiss painter, toured England for twenty years leaving 2,662 sketches in the British Library -- including the only known image of the coronation of Edward VI?
Did you know that The Most Reverend Whakahuihui Vercoe was the first Bishop of Aotearoa to be elected by its Maori congregation, the first Maori to become Archbishop of New Zealand, and the first Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit?
Did you know that William Gore Ouseley, a diplomat noted for representing British interests in Nicaragua and Honduras, found one of the earliest sources for the pantomime story of Dick Whittington's cat?
Did you know that although in present-day India the former princely states and their princes have lost that status, the Raja of Rajnagar still wears his ancestors' tattered royal attire twice a year?
Did you know that by leading by one more lap in the final NASCAR race of the 1992 season, Alan Kulwicki won the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship over Bill Elliott?
Did you know that lime was diluted in separated milk instead of water  for Vileišis Palace construction?
Did you know that the 1897 Pattern British Infantry Officer's Sword was carried into battle by a young Bernard Montgomery, was used in service against the Dervishes in Sudan, and is still the ceremonial sidearm for many British regiments?
Did you know that the Annie Larsen affair led in 1917 to one of the longest and most expensive trials in America at the time?
Did you know that the Chick House is the only 19th century hotel building still standing in the city of Rockford, Illinois?
Did you know that the Danae class cruiser HMS Durban  ended her wartime career supporting the Battle of Normandy as a blockship off the Normandy coast in 1944?
Did you know that the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, an outdoor bandshell and great lawn, uses an innovative sound system that recreates an indoor concert hall sound experience?
Did you know that the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester?
Did you know that the Kallawaya healers travel around South America, often on foot and on ancient Inca trails, in search of traditional herbs?
Did you know that the Stiefelgeiss, a breed of goat, became nearly extinct in the 1980s but is making a comeback?
Did you know that the Suevic king Hermeric abdicated his throne due to a prolonged seven-year illness?
Did you know that the Yue Hwa Building used to house a popular boutique hotel, and was the tallest building in Singapore's Chinatown when it was completed in 1936?
Did you know that the leaders of the failed coup in Poland in 1919 were arrested by their intended troops?
Did you know that the photographer duo of Krupakar-Senani were kidnapped by the bandit Veerappan, while filming the movie Wild Dog Diaries in India?
Did you know that Baduanjin qigong is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise?
Did you know that Bykivnia, a former village, now part of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, was the burial site of thousands of enemies of the Soviet power?
Did you know that China's leadership for the next five years will be unveiled at the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which will open on October 15 in the Great Hall of the People?
Did you know that Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the Friends of Friendless Churches?
Did you know that Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka wore a costume made of lit lightbulbs—her 1956 work Electric Dress—to exhibitions?
Did you know that Juan de Arphe y Villafañe was a renowned engraver, goldsmith, artist, anatomist and author?
Did you know that Luník IX, a borough in Košice, Slovakia, although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest Roma community in Central Europe?
Did you know that Wurzbach Parkway, an unnumbered freeway in San Antonio, Texas, does not connect directly to the city's other freeways?
Did you know that a graffiti artist from the Bronx named PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the New York City Subway system in the early 1970s?
Did you know that a total of 4156 films were submitted to the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and 349 of those, from 55 countries, were selected?
Did you know that after Robert William Hughes shot and wounded future Virginia Governor William E. Cameron, he was appointed a federal judge by Ulysses S. Grant?
Did you know that after the defeat of his British Band in the 1832 Black Hawk War, Chief Black Hawk was taken captive and exhibited to large crowds throughout  the United States?
Did you know that an edition of Alpin, a supplement of the Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo, was banned by the caretaker government for publishing a controversial cartoon in relation to the Islamic prophet Muhammad?
Did you know that autobiographer Lois Mark Stalvey's 1960s anti-racist activism in Omaha, Nebraska was responsible for her husband's job transfer to Philadelphia?
Did you know that by using automatic number plate recognition, a CCTV network known as ANPR, police in the United Kingdom are able to track the movement of  cars in  real time and store vehicle movement information  for five years?
Did you know that during the siege of Constantinople in 626 AD, 12,000 Byzantine cavalry successfully fought off 80,000 Avars?
Did you know that four-time Moscow chess champion Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study composing tourney in 1935?
Did you know that long-time University of Oregon track coach Bill Hayward also played lacrosse for the world champion Ottawa Capitals?
Did you know that more than 75% of kraft pulp is bleached without chlorine?
Did you know that the Defense (Emergency) Regulations first enacted in British Mandate Palestine in 1945 were incorporated into Israel's domestic legislation in 1948 and remain in force to this day?
Did you know that the Grant Park Music Festival, a Chicago tradition since its 1931 introduction by Anton Cermak, is America's only remaining free, outdoor concert series featuring classical music?
Did you know that the Ukrainian Marines were from May 1996 until 1998 part of the Ukrainian National Guard, but were transferred to the Navy  in 1998?
Did you know that the first session of the Legislative Council of Mysore State in India was held in the Jaganmohan Palace in July 1907?
Did you know that tōgyū is a bullfighting sport practiced in Okinawa, Japan, in which two bulls wrestle in a ring in a manner compared to sumo?
Did you know that Charles Willson Peale's 1822 self-portrait The Artist in His Museum summarizes his career as a painter, taxidermist, and naturalist?
Did you know that Henri II's Edict of Châteaubriant (1551) assigned the regulation of the French press to the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris?
Did you know that Hugo Award-winning science fiction fan and editor Earl Kemp served a year in prison for publishing an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography?
Did you know that Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries?
Did you know that a scathing obituary of British author Lord Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?
Did you know that although Ronald Bird was on the staff of Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1934, his first-class debut came twelve years later for their rivals Worcestershire?
Did you know that during his tenure as curator at Université Laval, François-Xavier Bélanger built a thousand-specimen strong collection of Canadian birds from the ground up?
Did you know that even though the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly was held in the house of statesman Carsten Anker, he was not present himself?
Did you know that nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska to their local roadway after the highway was rerouted there in 1930?
Did you know that plant physiology is the subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants?
Did you know that the 22,200 meter Shimizu Tunnel was the world's longest tunnel when it was completed in 1982?
Did you know that the Trinitarian Church in Bratislava was built on the place of an older settlement which was demolished in 1529 due to the Ottoman wars?
Did you know that the earliest bones of the rare Golden Guernsey goat, dating from 2000 BC, were found in dolmens in  Guernsey on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy?
Did you know that the last surrender of the American Civil War took place aboard the British HMS Donegal after the CSS Shenandoah completed a 9,000 mile voyage specifically to do so?
Did you know that the sale of the Libyan Arabian Cement Co. was the country's first initial public offering of shares and the biggest sale of a Libyan state-owned business?
Did you know that the winnings from the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup were paid out in the form of over a hundred sacks of IR£1 notes?
Did you know that Jan Roskam wrote his book on airplane war stories, based on his own experiences, to remind aircraft engineers of the consequences of their mistakes?
Did you know that Mikołaj Hussowczyk's  book The Song about Bison is considered to be the first large fiction work about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?
Did you know that Prof. Fuller Albright (1900-1969) made numerous discoveries in endocrinology (hormonal medicine), including the link between menopause and osteoporosis?
Did you know that Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in  1797, and raised cattle, sheep and wheat, and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart?
Did you know that Samuel Pegge, a Derbyshire antiquarian, published a book compiled by Richard II's cooks called Forme of Cury?
Did you know that Tom Wolfe's 1989 criticism of contemporary American literature, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast", began a feud with authors John Updike and John Irving that has continued ever since?
Did you know that because of its karez well system, an ancient water system using gravity, Turfan became a prosperous Silk Road oasis city located in the second deepest depression in the world?
Did you know that bird nests range in size from the tiny one inch high cup of some hummingbirds to the massive five meter high mounds of some Dusky Scrubfowl?
Did you know that despite being organised on St. Andrew's Day, the first official international football match did not result in a home win?
Did you know that hackers and rogue administrators often seek to eliminate evidence of their unauthorized activities by manipulating the Microsoft Windows Security Log?
Did you know that huge numbers of otakus made pilgrimages to Washinomiya Shrine after it was featured in the popular anime and manga series Lucky ☆ Star?
Did you know that it is not possible to configure two mutually inscribed quadrilaterals in the Euclidean plane, but the Möbius–Kantor graph describes a solution in the complex projective plane?
Did you know that its central location as a transportation hub for the United States led to the branding of Omaha, Nebraska as  the "Gateway City of the West"?
Did you know that the Beasts of Satan were a heavy metal band and suspected satanic cult in Italy that committed three notorious ritual murders before being arrested?
Did you know that the Chicago City Council revoked the McCarthy Building's Chicago Landmark status to make way for the controversial redevelopment of Chicago's Block 37 in the Chicago Loop?
Did you know that the German children's series Bibi Blocksberg has been criticised because it can give a negative view of politics to children?
Did you know that the Jacobin revolutionary André Antoine Bernard changed his given name to Pioche-fer ("Pickaxe") after his name day within the Revolutionary Calendar?
Did you know that the Sun Ning Railway Company, South China's first significant railway, was dismantled in December 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War to deny its use by the Japanese military?
Did you know that the first public toilets in England were invented by George Jennings for the Great Exhibition of 1851?
Did you know that the planned South Beach complex in Singapore will incorporate four conservation buildings, where the first National Service enlistment was held in 1967?
Did you know that when Nebraska completed construction of its stretch of Interstate 80 in 1974, it became the first state in the U.S. to complete its mainline interstate system?
Did you know that Alexander Hamilton's son William S. Hamilton helped recruit Native Americans to join the U.S. against Sauk Chief Black Hawk during the 1832 Black Hawk War?
Did you know that James Vaupel has set up an international database to study supercentenarians?
Did you know that Max Ernst's 1921 painting The Elephant Celebes combined Surrealism with the collage effects of Dada?
Did you know that New Jersey's Museum of Early Trades and Crafts houses a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land over a 50-year span?
Did you know that Nikolaus Riehl researched the production of uranium in Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union, and the civil use of nuclear power in West Germany?
Did you know that a 200 m section of wall by St. Martin's Cathedral from Bratislava's fortifications (gate pictured) was reconstructed, after the area was demolished due to construction of the Nový Most bridge?
Did you know that in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal more than 100 women get trafficked to red-light areas in Mumbai and Pune each year?
Did you know that in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of Argentina's thermal power plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?
Did you know that neotectonics is the study of geologically recent tectonics, but a clear consensus does not always exist over how far back in time "geologically recent" is?
Did you know that popular 1950s game show Down You Go is one of the only U.S. television series to air on all four networks of television's Golden Age: ABC, NBC, CBS and DuMont?
Did you know that the 1881 Warsaw pogrom was caused by panic after pickpockets raised a false fire warning, resulting in 29 deaths by stampede?
Did you know that the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy is responsible for America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
Did you know that the Aston Martin DBR4 Formula One car failed to score even a single World Championship point, even though Aston Martin sports cars won many races?
Did you know that the City & South London Railway, opened in 1890, was the world's first major deep tube and electric railway and ran under the Thames from the City of London to Southwark?
Did you know that the England national football team is to train on the football pitch of the Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, as it is the only one identical to one in Russia on which they are due to play in October 2007?
Did you know that the Norman church in Pawlett, Somerset has a stained glass window showing Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat?
Did you know that the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association is a Christian sect founded by Ruben Ecleo in 1965 on the Philippine island of Dinagat, that is notorious for a 2002 gun  battle with police that left 17 dead?
Did you know that the Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?
Did you know that the Spanish shepherd Diego Marín Aguilera attempted flight in a manned glider on May 15, 1793 after jumping from a castle at Coruña del Conde?
Did you know that the Ten Great Buildings were constructed in ten months, for the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that the founders of the Kingdom of Mysore may have been descendents of the Hoysala Dynasty or fugitives from the Vijayanagara Empire court?
Did you know that the kidnapping of Edward Cudahy, Jr. caused a national uproar in 1903 because Cudahy's father, a meatpacking magnate in Omaha, Nebraska, paid the ransom request?
Did you know that the small, torpedo-shaped marine cleaner fish of the genus Elacatinus are known as neon gobies due to their iridescent stripes?
Did you know that the upcoming British film Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron, which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz, was in development hell for nearly ten years?
Did you know that the wall mural on Marine Parade Community Building is Singapore's largest piece of installation art?
Did you know that you stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Did you know that 17-year-old Emily Benn, granddaughter of veteran politician Tony Benn, is the youngest ever Labour Party parliamentary candidate, and would, if elected, become the youngest British MP since the Reform Act 1832?
Did you know that Harry Newbould was the first-ever manager of Derby County F.C.?
Did you know that Omaha gained an important place in the history of the First Transcontinental Railroad against the will of President Abraham Lincoln?
Did you know that Perna viridis, a fast-growing bivalve mussel native to the Asia-Pacific, is an invasive species that harbors deadly toxins and biofouls submerged structures?
Did you know that Polish bishop of Płock Antoni Julian Nowowiejski, murdered by German Nazis in Soldau concentration camp, became one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II?
Did you know that Polish partisan Adam Lazarowicz, organizer of an assassination attempt on Nazi official Hans Frank, refused the Order of the Red Star and joined the anti-Soviet resistance?
Did you know that St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Seattle was designed by Paul Thiry, one of the principal architects of the Century 21 Exposition (1962 World's Fair), shortly after part of the land for the Exposition was purchased from that same parish?
Did you know that Stanley Evans was sacked after six weeks as a junior minister of food when he said "no other nation feather-beds its agriculture like Britain"?
Did you know that betalains are deep red pigments responsible for the color of beets, bougainvillea, amaranth, and many cacti?
Did you know that the Irish artist Gerald Davis dressed as Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom and led Bloomsday parades?
Did you know that the long-defunct firm of E. C. Hazard and Company has been credited with pioneering the U.S. manufacture and distribution of processed canned, jarred and bottled food products?
Did you know that the ongoing Belgian political crisis has led to popular demands for the partition of Belgium?
Did you know that Oregon pioneer Levi Scott is the namesake for a town, a valley, and a mountain, as well as the highest peak in Crater Lake National Park?
Did you know that Silma Ihram decided to found Al-Noori Muslim Primary School in Greenacre, New South Wales after Presbyterian Ladies' College would not allow her daughters to wear hijabs in school?
Did you know that The Victim, a 2006 Thai horror-thriller film, was shot on locations of actual crime scenes?
Did you know that Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Nancy Montanez Johner has suggested changing the name of the Food Stamp Program?
Did you know that Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is in six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day?
Did you know that in 1921 the United States Department of State mailed out invitations for the Second International Eugenics Conference around the world?
Did you know that in the late 17th century, the staveless runes (rune stone pictured) of Scandinavia were purported to be the origin of stenography?
Did you know that mountains are sometimes bombed to trigger small avalanches and thus prevent larger, more dangerous ones?
Did you know that musical theatre star Phyllis Dare published her autobiography in 1907, but continued to perform in Edwardian musical comedy and on stage until 1951?
Did you know that the 1476 edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium by Flemish printer Colard Mansion was the first printed book with engraved illustrations?
Did you know that the 2001 GMAC Bowl set a record as the highest-scoring bowl game in college football history even before it went into overtime?
Did you know that the Tibetan Empire reached its greatest extent under Ralpacan's rule from 815 to 838 CE?