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Did you know that Hubert Whittell, a career soldier in the Indian Army, studied Urdu, Pashto and Persian, before moving to Western Australia to become a farmer and ornithologist?
Did you know that Joseph Zack Kornfeder, a founding member of the Communist Party of America in 1919, became a vigorous anti-Communist after his wife was arrested by the NKVD during the Great Purge of 1937–38?
Did you know that Kobaïan is a lyrical language created by French drummer and composer Christian Vander for his progressive rock band Magma?
Did you know that Saint Giles's leper hospital at Fugglestone was founded by Queen Adelicia?
Did you know that Tadeusz Kościuszko initially did not want to support the Greater Poland Uprising of 1794 in order to avoid a two-front war against both Russia and Prussia?
Did you know that U.S. Civil Rights Movement leader Marie Foster walked fifty miles in a march, despite receiving injuries two weeks earlier on Bloody Sunday?
Did you know that a CD by hazzan Samuel Benaroya of Seattle, Washington's Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation is one of the few recordings of Ottoman Hebrew sacred music?
Did you know that after being reported as the site of the alleged murders by "Dr. X" Mario Jascalevich, Riverdell Hospital closed in 1981 due to declining numbers of patients?
Did you know that after defending American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell, attorney David I. Shapiro was told by Rockwell to "listen up, Jewboy ... I'll watch as you and all the other Jews go to the gas chamber"?
Did you know that all three former head coaches of the BC Lions already inducted to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, Annis Stukus, Eagle Keys and Cal Murphy, had losing records coaching this Canadian football club?
Did you know that before the 2004 Russia–Belarus gas dispute, Gazprom sold natural gas to Belarus at Russian domestic prices?
Did you know that former U.S. Ambassador to Laos G. McMurtrie Godley testified in 1992 to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs that no POWs remained behind after the end of the Vietnam War?
Did you know that in William Blake's poems, Imagination fights Reason in his version of Genesis, Eden, and Exodus while his son later starts revolutions in America, Europe, Africa and Asia?
Did you know that reviews for the pilot episode of Modern Family compared it to Arrested Development and Married...With Children?
Did you know that the 1896 Meiji-Sanriku earthquake caused the most devastating tsunami in Japanese history, destroying about 9,000 homes and killing more than 22,000 people?
Did you know that the Ahklun Mountains, located in the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, support the only existing glaciers in western Alaska?
Did you know that the Bavarian ministry of education once ordered 75,000 copies of a song book for school children to be destroyed because it contained Biermösl Blosn's Gott mit dir, du Land der BayWa?
Did you know that the Lulworthiaceae are a family of marine fungi that typically grow on submerged wood or seaweed?
Did you know that the New Haven, which operated most of the steam railroad mileage in the U.S. state of Connecticut, also controlled a vast system of trolley lines through the Connecticut Company?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode "A Rugrats Passover" fell under controversy from the Anti-Defamation League over the designs of two characters featured in it?
Did you know that the U2 song "Stand Up Comedy" was recreated so many times during the No Line on the Horizon sessions that six different songs were written as a result?
Did you know that the first winner of the contest to design the Parliament of Norway Building was rejected because it looked too much like a church (design pictured)?
Did you know that the windmill Nooitgedacht in Veenoord, Drenthe, has been moved three times since it was built in 1732?
Did you know that Canadian singer Térez Montcalm's debut album, Risque, saw her nominated for five Félix Awards in 1995?
Did you know that Jamaica's Dry River isn't?
Did you know that Judge Morris Pashman upheld a ban on the sale of the John Cleland book Fanny Hill in New Jersey, calling it "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment"?
Did you know that Lookingglass, Oregon, became nationally famous in the 1970s when a parking meter for horses was installed in front of the general store?
Did you know that Narcyz Wiatr, a Polish activist in the agrarian movement and member of the anti-Nazi resistance group Peasant Battalions, was murdered by the communist secret police in Kraków’s Planty Park?
Did you know that Robert Brown's 1818 botanical article Congo was deemed by one reviewer to be remarkable for its frequent use of the word "remarkable"?
Did you know that Sara Szweber, one of a few women who held leadership positions in the Jewish socialist movement, after the invasion of Poland was threatened with arrest by the NKVD and fled to the United States?
Did you know that Sri Lankan cricketers hold the world record for the highest team total of 260 for 6 in Twenty20 Internationals?
Did you know that Swedish painter Richard Bergh was established as a portrait painter, although his landscape paintings played an important role in the development of Swedish romantic nationalism?
Did you know that Tanco Mine in Manitoba, Canada, is the world's largest producer of caesium?
Did you know that although the Galidiinae resemble mongooses, they are more closely related to other Malagasy carnivorans such as the fossa?
Did you know that as Bergen County, New Jersey prosecutor, Guy W. Calissi obtained murder convictions and death sentences for Edgar Smith and Thomas Trantino, though neither would ever go to the electric chair?
Did you know that astronomer Rodger Doxsey was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for "exceptional accomplishments and contributions to the Hubble Space Telescope"?
Did you know that during the Second World War, SS Hispania was detained by the French, seized by the Vichy French, declared a war prize, passed to the Kriegsmarine and eventually sold back to her original owners?
Did you know that former New York City Medical Examiner Michael Baden credited Dr. Valentino Mazzia with creating the field of forensic anesthesiology?
Did you know that in an Air Madagascar DC-4 crash in 1967 at Antananarivo Airport, among those killed was the Malagasy foreign minister Albert Sylla?
Did you know that in the Siege of Tripoli (1551) the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Tripoli in modern-day Libya from the Knights of Malta?
Did you know that legends say Blackwell Island Light was built by an inmate from an insane asylum?
Did you know that the 2009 science fiction television series Twin Spica was produced in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency?
Did you know that the Parnall Pixie won both the fuel consumption test and the speed prize at the 1924 Lympne Light Aircraft Trials, with the aid of interchangeable wings?
Did you know that the Schluchsee, at 930 metres above sea level, is the highest reservoir in Germany and also the largest lake in the Black Forest?
Did you know that the electricity generating capacity of Ethiopia is projected to double when the Gibe III dam and the associated hydropower plant, currently under construction on the Omo River, are completed?
Did you know that the first golf course in North America was a three-hole course built in 1868 in the village of Sainte-Pétronille near Quebec City, Canada?
Did you know that the mayor of Rongelap, James Matayoshi, led the Marshallese who suffered from radiation sickness due to nuclear testing in seeking monetary compensation?
Did you know that the national park Sumapaz Paramo in Colombia, is the largest Paramo ecosystem in the world?
Did you know that the proceedings of the British Summary Court were in both English and German?
Did you know that there are five main types of metal casting defects: gas porosity, shrinkage defects, mold material defects, pouring metal defects, and metallurgical defects?
Did you know that 26 nations have ratified the Treaty of Lisbon since 2007, and only one country, the Czech Republic, has yet to complete the process?
Did you know that Arthur Schütz managed to get the Neue Freie Presse to print a letter in which he complained about the use of fireproof coal and oval wheels by the Federal Railway of Austria?
Did you know that Bottisham Village College was the second of the Village Colleges established by Henry Morris in his vision for a better education for country people in Cambridgeshire?
Did you know that Clara Dow was one of the last principal sopranos personally trained by W. S. Gilbert at the Savoy Theatre?
Did you know that Finland band Nightwish was nominated for 27 awards including  2 Echo Awards and 13 Emma-gaala Awards?
Did you know that Louisiana in 2008 became the fiftieth state to ban cockfighting, nearly two decades after former State Representative Garey Forster led the initial effort to halt the practice?
Did you know that Nephila komaci is the largest web-spinning spider known to date?
Did you know that William Waterhouse considered the rapport between violist Cecil Aronowitz and cellist Terence Weil the special distinction of the Melos Ensemble?
Did you know that actress Michelle Wild, whose real name is Katalin Vad, changed her name to accommodate to the international distribution of Hungarian pornography?
Did you know that although SS Empire Beatrice was scrapped in 1966, a 50-foot (15 m) long section of her can still be found off Dungeness, Kent?
Did you know that although the torpedo scad is of major importance to Indian fisheries and extensively studied in that country, worldwide catch statistics for the species do not include India?
Did you know that by identifying watermarks in the paper of the incunabulum Missale Speciale, a book alleged to pre-date the Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455),  Allan H. Stevenson proved it was printed nearly 20 years later?
Did you know that globs are millimeter sized modules in the V4 complex part of the brain where humans and other primates first perceive color hue?
Did you know that in 2003, Judge Sybil Moses ordered the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to release transcripts of employee radio transmissions in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that the Byzantine theme of Lykandos, which played an important role in the Byzantine–Arab wars of the early 10th century, was founded by Melias, an Armenian prince, and settled by Armenians?
Did you know that the Charomskiy ACh-30B aircraft diesel engine was tested as a motorjet where the jet engine's compressor was driven by the piston engine's turbochargers?
Did you know that the Satyashodhak Communist Party was founded in Maharastra, India, in 1978, seeking to combine the philosophies of Karl Marx, B.R. Ambedkar and Jyotirao Phule?
Did you know that the U.S. State Department tried to pressure International Astronomical Union delegate Leo Goldberg into demanding membership for the Republic of China, despite the country's lack of professional astronomers?
Did you know that the asymmetrical facade of the Granville, New York, post office is unusual for a five-bay Depression-era post office in the state?
Did you know that the defeat of the US 8th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of Unsan has been called "one of the most devastating US losses of the Korean War."?
Did you know that the exact location of the city of Cialis, where Bento de Góis became convinced in 1605 that Cathay is China, has been a subject of debate among later historians?
Did you know that when the musical Kelly closed after one night on Broadway, a reviewer noted "Ella Logan was written out of Kelly before it reached the Broadhurst Theater Saturday night. Congratulations, Miss Logan"?
Did you know that with a TEAM one can see not only atoms, but also chemical bonds between them (see picture)?
Did you know that Emilia Malessa, a Polish soldier in the anti-communist resistance, committed suicide after she had trusted the security chief Różański and revealed her fellow soldiers which led to their arrest?
Did you know that Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior Werner Maihofer resigned after Der Spiegel uncovered an illegal wiretapping of physicist Klaus Traube?
Did you know that Hong Kong property developer Henderson Land Development claims to have sold the most expensive apartment in the world at 39 Conduit Road?
Did you know that Joseph G. Aulisi was the costume designer for Die Hard with a Vengeance and Bicentennial Man?
Did you know that Kwame "The Snow Leopard" Nkrumah-Acheampong is the first Ghanaian to qualify for the Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Overlook Hospital, founded in 1906 by a 26-year-old entrepreneur, established the first hematology oncology children's clinic in New Jersey, in 1977?
Did you know that Sir Maurice Amos was the third member of his family to become a legal professor at University College London, after his father and grandfather?
Did you know that a minute of silence was held in memory of murdered rugby player Shane Geoghegan at Ireland's 2008 international match against New Zealand?
Did you know that as a Seattle School Board member during World War I, German-born Nathan Eckstein bowed to pressure to drop German language classes in Seattle Public Schools?
Did you know that despite the escalating human-elephant conflict, the number of elephants in the dry zone of Sri Lanka has increased, and 211 individuals were counted in Kaudulla National Park?
Did you know that local lore in Salem, New York, has it that one of the first people buried in the Revolutionary War Cemetery was an unknown local Indian who wandered into town and died?
Did you know that the Diu Fort in India was voted one of seven wonders of Portuguese colonialism in an opinion poll in Portugal?
Did you know that the Olympic Runners were widely assumed to be an American funk band until their identities were revealed to be British session musicians including Mike Vernon and Pete Wingfield?
Did you know that the Portland, Oregon, landmark Made in Oregon sign originally advertised a brand of sugar?
Did you know that the Salem, New York, historic district was the site of one of the earliest churches built in New York north of Albany?
Did you know that the annual Emsley Carr Mile was created to encourage athletes to break the four-minute mile, but by the second race in 1954, Roger Bannister had already broken it?
Did you know that the constitutions of Greece, Ireland, Switzerland and several U.S. states are enacted in the name of God?
Did you know that the earthquake of 226 BC in Rhodes destroyed the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world?
Did you know that American band Cartel took one year to record their third full-length album, Cycles, after spending less than a month in the studio for each of their previous two albums?
Did you know that Angammedilla National Park is designated primarily to protect the drainage basin of Parakrama Samudra?
Did you know that Fort Anjediva built on Anjadip Island, under the jurisdiction of Goa, India, formerly under Portuguese rule, is in the vicinity of the Church of Our Lady of Springs built in 1505 AD?
Did you know that Kentucky judge Benjamin Mills' opinion regarding the rights of slaves brought to the Northwest Territory was cited as a precedent in U.S. courts until the U.S. abolished slavery following the American Civil War?
Did you know that Les Cocker, a coach with the victorious England team at the 1966 World Cup, received a winner's medal in June 2009, nearly 30 years after his death, following a campaign launched by his family?
Did you know that Stephen Barnett was a leading critic of the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, arguing that it led to newspaper monopolies and the demise of smaller papers in cities in the United States?
Did you know that ceftaroline is a novel antibiotic against MRSA and other resistant bacterial strains and is under clinical trial as a treatment for infectious diseases such as community-acquired pneumonia?
Did you know that church services may be held in Serbia under the crown of a zapis, a large oak with a cross inscribed into its bark, sacred for the village at which it is situated?
Did you know that contraception expert Dr. Sheldon Segal led the team that developed the implantable device Norplant, described as "the first significant advance in birth control since the pill"?
Did you know that despite making his national team debut in 1924, footballer James Mitchell remains the only player to represent England while wearing spectacles?
Did you know that during the American Civil Rights Movement, Carraway Methodist Medical Center  in Birmingham, Alabama, turned away a wounded Freedom rider,  but treated the man who blew up the  16th Street Baptist Church?
Did you know that during the Seven Years' War, Kolberg was besieged three times?
Did you know that it took the U.S. government seven years to design, then two additional years to build, the Hoosick Falls, New York, post office after it acquired the land?
Did you know that many congenital malformations in babies share the common life-threatening complication of pulmonary hypoplasia?
Did you know that noblemen in the Byzantine Empire were often mutilated to make them ineligible to be Emperor?
Did you know that streets in the Cambridge, New York, historic district (Hubbard Hall, pictured) intersect at odd angles because the village was created from the combination of three crossroads hamlets?
Did you know that the 1919 novel Lad: A Dog is a fictionalized account of the life of author Albert Payson Terhune's real life rough collie Lad?
Did you know that the Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Warsaw was inspired by a comment made by Napoleon, and was nearly melted down by Nazi Germany after the Warsaw Uprising?
Did you know that the Parks and Recreation episode "Beauty Pageant" was directed by Jason Woliner, who directed Parks star Aziz Ansari in the MTV sketch comedy show, Human Giant?
Did you know that the U2 song "Fez – Being Born", created by joining the two in-progress songs "Fez" and "Being Born" together, was originally called "Chromium Chords"?
Did you know that the dachshund-terrier, Otto, is the oldest dog in the world at one hundred and forty-five dog years?
Did you know that the head of Polish communist secret police Stanisław Radkiewicz ordered his agents to "liquidate" members of the Polish Peasant Party, and make it look like the work of the anti-communist underground?
Did you know that the lyrics in the U2 song "No Line on the Horizon" were inspired by an image of a place "where the sea meets the sky and you can't tell the difference between the two"?
Did you know that when asked if she wanted to focus on drawing, painting, or sculpting in art school, Ruth Duckworth said she wanted to study all of them just as Michaelangelo had?
Did you know that while tortillerias are a long-time fixture in Latin America, they now are becoming common in some areas of the United States?
Did you know that "pumpkin sauce," or mashed pumpkin, was served at inns in New England as early as 1704?
Did you know that Big Max pumpkins are not really pumpkins?
Did you know that Mary Bell resigned from the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1941 after being passed over as its director in favour of Clare Stevenson, only to rejoin the following year?
Did you know that Terrestrial Physics is a sculpture made out of a 1 million volt (low energy) particle accelerator?
Did you know that The Haunted House written by Charles Dickens in 1859 is the inspiration for an attraction which can be seen at Chatham in Kent?
Did you know that according to the Testament of Solomon, the one-winged demon Abezethibou is trapped underneath the Red Sea?
Did you know that as special counsel for compliance in the United States Department of Energy, Paul Bloom recovered $6 billion from American oil companies that had overcharged refiners for their "old oil"?
Did you know that bodies (example pictured) buried in Chauchilla Cemetery still retain skins and hair?
Did you know that far right British National Party leader Nick Griffin feared for his safety over his first ever appearance on the BBC's Question Time panel?
Did you know that footballer James Constable worked in an undergarment lining factory while playing as a semi-professional?
Did you know that hairy black cups use toxic chemicals to kill living things?
Did you know that half-Egyptian Bazil Ashmawy spent a night with ghostbusters in a haunted shopping centre and was hypnotised by witches to meet his ancestors for his TV show Baz's Culture Clash?
Did you know that in the 30 Rock episode "Into the Crevasse", Jack Donaghy redesigns a microwave oven, turning it into the Pontiac Aztek?
Did you know that in the children's book I Like Pumpkins, the narrator sees Frankenstein and his pet alligator buying pumpkins?
Did you know that one thousand human sacrifices are required to retrieve a treasure hidden in the Bopath Ella Falls?
Did you know that people paid to see a skeleton strike a thigh bone against a human skull every sixty minutes?
Did you know that so many witnesses saw the spectre of Stephen Decatur appear at a window at Decatur House, one of the haunted locations in Washington, D.C., that the window was walled up?
Did you know that the Alliance political party claimed in 1998 that the Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Charles Upham was "doing a passable imitation between a lemon and a white elephant"?
Did you know that the Seinfeld episode "The Phone Message" was written to replace a script in which one of the main characters bought a handgun, which was considered too provocative?
Did you know that the Wells and Mendip Museum has a skeleton believed to be that of the Witch of Wookey Hole?
Did you know that the demon Maha Sohona, whose head has been replaced with that of a bear, haunts graveyards and feasts on human flesh?
Did you know that the fictional Caribbean island of "San Sebastian" appears in RKO's The Ghost Ship, I Walked With a Zombie, and Zombies on Broadway?
Did you know that the first Canadian musical staged at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival really sucked?
Did you know that the painted suillus is not, in fact, the feeding appendages of an underground monster that wants to eat your face?
Did you know that Anthony Amoroso, who attended culinary school at Hudson County Community College, defeated Masaharu Morimoto on Iron Chef America?
Did you know that Hell Gate, a ghost town in western Montana, was the scene of several notorious lynchings in 1864?
Did you know that Jeanne Clemson is credited with both preserving the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from demolition, and for restoring live theater to the building?
Did you know that Peter Sanders began his career as a professional association football player, switched to playing rugby union, and has subsequently spent forty years running a baseball club?
Did you know that Peyton Manning has the unusual ability to eat six saltines in one minute?
Did you know that Princess Antonia of Württemberg was an accomplished Hebrew scholar, and devotee of Kabbalah?
Did you know that Reeri Yakseya, who is believed to be the most cruel and powerful demon in Sinhalese folklore, can assume 18 different apparitions?
Did you know that St. Paul’s Church, Diu is considered to be one of the best examples of baroque architecture in India?
Did you know that Steven van Herwijck created portrait medals of both Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Elizabeth I of England?
Did you know that Thomas Stanley was an officer of the Royal Mint at the Tower of London under four monarchs—Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I?
Did you know that USAT McClellan took part in the occupation of Veracruz in 1914?
Did you know that Zac Efron turned down the lead in Footloose to star in the romantic ghost story The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud?
Did you know that a 1767 gravestone at St Mary's Church, Walberton shows the victim crushed under a tree, as a laughing skeleton and scythe-wielding Father Time look on?
Did you know that a cult in Mexico venerates "Santa Muerte", who is condemned by the local Catholic Church?