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Did you know that Hakim Habibur Rahman, a Unani physician, collected all the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala?
Did you know that Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique?
Did you know that Seaport Centre, a large biotechnology research complex, was developed over old salt evaporation ponds?
Did you know that Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House (detail pictured) on fire during the burning of Columbia in 1865?
Did you know that an infinite geometric series with a common ratio of 1/4 was used by Archimedes in 250-200 BC to find the area enclosed by a parabola?
Did you know that author Dean Koontz reportedly was so unsatisfied with the film version of his novel Hideaway that he attempted to have his name removed from the credits?
Did you know that because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada, the Riverside Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers?
Did you know that for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, but later proven to be split from water molecules instead?
Did you know that lobbying by the International Seamen's Union led to the abolition of the practice of imprisoning seamen who deserted their ship in the United States in 1915?
Did you know that reopening of the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów in 2005 marked a major improvement of Polish-Ukrainian relations?
Did you know that the Russian Communist Varvara Yakovleva was a member of the board of the Secret Police and led food inspections that requisitioned food as a punitive measure?
Did you know that the dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization is characterized as the most adjudicative mechanism in the world?
Did you know that the extinct species of Edaphodon, a type of rabbitfish related to the shark, grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now?
Did you know that Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen?
Did you know that Crveni Krst, a neigborhood of Belgrade, Serbia, was built around the alleged burial site of Saint Sava?
Did you know that Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli was once thought to have been composed to convince the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music from the Catholic Church?
Did you know that Icelandic tenor Garðar Thór Cortes was voted sexiest man in Iceland twice in one year in separate polls?
Did you know that New Black Panther activist Quanell X is featured in some of Scarface's early rap videos?
Did you know that Oscar Kiss Maerth asserted in his 1971 book The Beginning Was the End that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes?
Did you know that after the Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese, he was outraged by the triviality of his fine?
Did you know that it was recently discovered that about 10,000 Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri Cemetery, Ankara, Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam?
Did you know that the 3rd Earl of Radnor, wanting the borough of Downton to be free from his own influence, successfully pushed for its complete disenfranchisement?
Did you know that the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California, was home to the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps?
Did you know that the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Fiske was torpedoed and sunk in 1944 by the German submarine she was hunting?
Did you know that the Hilary Duff song "Haters" is rumored to be directed at actress Lindsay Lohan?
Did you know that the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the Church of St. Paul, Brighton, England, commissioned stained glass windows of his mother, father and aunt for the church?
Did you know that the Romney Expedition, led by Stonewall Jackson, cleared Union forces from the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges during the early part of the American Civil War?
Did you know that the records of English herald Thomas Hawley contain the first preserved account of a heraldic visitation?
Did you know that the term Rashtrapati, the native word in India to refer the nation's President, was first suggested by the Kannada poet, scholar T.N. Srikantaiah?
Did you know that the world's tallest statue of Hindu God Lord Shiva is located in Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India?
Did you know that "O Meu Coração Não Tem Cor" was the most successful Portuguese Eurovision entry to date, but was ironically followed by the country's worst result since the Carnation Revolution?
Did you know that Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the UK's Royal Air Force, and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II?
Did you know that Cesar Picton, who was enslaved aged six in Senegal, died in England as a wealthy coal-merchant?
Did you know that Eremitage Palace originally had a hoisting apparatus able to lift the dinner table from the basement to the dining room, allowing Christian VI of Denmark to dine without any waiters present?
Did you know that Francis Barber was born a slave in Jamaica and was the manservant for over 30 years, and finally the heir, of Dr. Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame?
Did you know that G. S. Shivarudrappa is only the third person to be named "poet of the nation" by the Government of Karnataka?
Did you know that Javad Malik-Yeganov was exiled to Karelia following the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on suspicion of being a member of Musavat?
Did you know that Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India?
Did you know that Lil' Pimp was the first feature-length film to be created entirely with Macromedia Flash animation?
Did you know that Mao Anqing, the last known surviving son of Mao Zedong, suffered from a mental illness often attributed to a severe beating received from a policeman while living on the streets in Shanghai in the 1930s?
Did you know that Polish general Józef Zając held  military decorations from Poland, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the short-lived state of Central Lithuania?
Did you know that Sir David Robertson initially agreed to mind the constituency of another British parliamentarian who was interned during the Second World War?
Did you know that a 1968 court challenge to the right of Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, born "Elizabeth", to inherit his family baronetcy rested on the question of his gender?
Did you know that competitions for the design of José Martí Memorial in Havana, Cuba started in 1939, but the design that was finally constructed in 1953 was a variation on a design that had come in third in the fourth competition?
Did you know that during the Battle of Jarosław in 1939 the Polish Army defended the town for two days before retreating in good order?
Did you know that in 2005 the then 28-year-old Murat Yusuf became the youngest ever Mufti of Romania?
Did you know that in the 1850s Arnold Guyot measured the elevation of Old Black in the Great Smoky Mountains to within 3 feet (1 m) of the modern value?
Did you know that on March 21, 1943, Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff tried to kill Adolf Hitler in a suicide attack in Berlin, but failed because Hitler left earlier than expected?
Did you know that rhymed prose has been popular in various cultures, ranging from medieval Arabic maqamat to modern rap?
Did you know that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?
Did you know that the British colonial Administrator Sir Robert Codrington was influential in establishing British colonial government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and making them different in character from white-settler-led Southern Rhodesia?
Did you know that the Goulburn Valley region of Australia is home to the oldest and largest plantings of the little used Marsanne grape variety?
Did you know that the Piner Creek watershed is home to a historic round barn, one of the early architectural features of Sonoma County, California?
Did you know that the passing of the Great Comet of 1577 caused almost century-long debate, during which Galileo argued that comets were merely optical illusions?
Did you know that there are significant breeding populations of 35 mammalian species in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, out of which 15 are threatened mammals according to the IUCN Red List?
Did you know that three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1, killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more?
Did you know that Aristotle's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy, arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air?
Did you know that Hersey Kyota has represented Palau at the United Nations Millennium Summit, even though he is not Palau's ambassador to the U.N.?
Did you know that Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark?
Did you know that Sir John Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Essex for 20 years, was the first Pro-Chancellor of Essex University?
Did you know that a power struggle between Thomas Benolt and Thomas Wriothesley in 1530 almost brought an end to the College of Arms?
Did you know that by tradition, military leaders participating in military simulations will often do so anonymously?
Did you know that in 2002, 72% of Swiss voters voted in favour of making abortion in Switzerland legal on demand in the first trimester of a pregnancy?
Did you know that on April 29, 1899, trade unionists in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho killed two men by steering an explosives-laden train to the site of a mill, in order to protest the firing of fellow union members?
Did you know that the British Member of Parliament Dr Donald Johnson was interested by the connotations of the Macmillan government's 69-vote win over the Profumo sex scandal?
Did you know that the Coenocorypha snipes (pictured alongside a Godwit) once ranged from New Caledonia and Fiji to New Zealand but are now restricted to New Zealand's outlying islands?
Did you know that the French Military Mission to Japan played a key role in the establishment of the nascent Imperial Japanese Army?
Did you know that the Royal Fort in Bristol was built with façades in Baroque, Palladian and Rococo styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects?
Did you know that the gang-rape and murder of Sarathambal in 1999 became an internationally known incident of the Sri Lankan civil war?
Did you know that the status of the Northern Group of Forces, the Soviet Army unit stationed in Poland from 1945 to 1993, was formally regulated by Soviet-Polish treaty only in 1956?
Did you know that Ananthabhadram, a film by Indian director Santhosh Sivan, was inspired by classical Kathakali dancing and paintings of Raja Ravi Varma?
Did you know that German settlement in Bulgaria dates back to the 13th–14th century?
Did you know that Mahmoud el-Meliguy, an Egyptian actor famed for his villain film roles, was nicknamed "Marlon Brando of the East"?
Did you know that the Alameda Works Shipyard in Alameda, California, was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States?
Did you know that the California Condor, Mauritius Kestrel and Kakapo were all saved from extinction using modern bird conservation techniques?
Did you know that Burning Bright by John Steinbeck was an attempt at a new form of literature, the "play-novelette"— but both the play and novel were savaged by the critics and Steinbeck never wrote for the theatre again?
Did you know that Desmarest's Hutia has the most complex stomach of any rodent?
Did you know that Flocabulary is an educational New York City-based project that uses hip hop music to teach SAT-level vocabulary?
Did you know that German physicist Max von Laue wrote an article for Acta Crystallographica, which dealt with the absorption of x-rays under interference conditions, while in French military incarceration in 1945?
Did you know that Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona was set at Rancho Camulos in Piru, California?
Did you know that Joseph Monier was one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete?
Did you know that Koreans in Vietnam form that country's second-largest group of expatriates after the Taiwanese?
Did you know that Kosambi, a city in ancient India which was a frequent site of sermons by the Buddha, was one of the places considered suitable for his Parinibbāna?
Did you know that Lor Tok, a Thai comedian and actor, had roles in more than 1,000 films from the 1930s to the 1980s?
Did you know that Richard de Southchurch, Sheriff of Essex, planned to attack London with burning cocks?
Did you know that Rush Limbaugh was a U.S. ambassador to India?
Did you know that Serge Voronoff's surgical technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue onto human males has some modern supporters?
Did you know that South African mining magnate Sir Lionel Phillips survived being shot five times in an assassination attempt?
Did you know that William Ansah Sessarakoo, the "Prince of Annamaboe", became a celebrity in mid-18th century London after he was released from slavery, and was compared to Aphra Behn's fictional Oroonoko?
Did you know that although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the  batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?
Did you know that the 1860 Republican and 1864 Democratic national conventions were held at the Wigwam, a building built in just over a month?
Did you know that the Althing of Iceland confirmed Thorlac Thornalli as a saint over 700 years before the Catholic Church did?
Did you know that the BBC recorded live performances of Hancock's Half Hour, The Goon Show and Steptoe and Son at the Playhouse Theatre in London?
Did you know that the Tempest Prognosticator employs a jury of twelve leeches that use small hammers to ring a bell to indicate the approach of a storm?
Did you know that the Tyska kyrkan in Stockholm, is situated in the oldest German ecclesiastical parish outside Germany?
Did you know that the cappuccio, a type of headgear worn by men and women in 15th century Florence, was typically made by tailors instead of hatmakers?
Did you know that the complex flavor of hoja santa has been variously compared to eucalyptus, licorice, sassafras, anise, nutmeg, mint, tarragon and black pepper?
Did you know that when Archie Goodall scored the lone goal for Ireland in a 9–1 loss to Scotland in 1899, he became the oldest footballer to score in international football in the 19th century?
Did you know that while the center of gravity for a set of points is located at the spot from which the sum of the squares of distances to all the points is minimized, the geometric median is the spot from which the sum of distances is minimized?
Did you know that Alpamysh, an ancient Turkic epic or dastan, is one of the foremost examples of the Turkic oral literature of Central Asia?
Did you know that Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then-Federal Republic of Central America?
Did you know that Battery Chamberlin contains one of the last disappearing guns on the West Coast of the United States?
Did you know that Conservatory Water in Central Park, New York City, shelters a seasonal population of the unusual freshwater medusa Craspedacusta sowerbyi?
Did you know that Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school?
Did you know that Jack Iverson developed his unique "bent finger" bowling action while experimenting during recreational cricket while serving in Papua New Guinea during World War II?
Did you know that Jan du Plessis, Chairman of British American Tobacco's board of directors, was named the tenth most powerful person in British business by The Times in 2006?
Did you know that Monisha, a South Indian cinema actress, was only 15 years old when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her debut performance in Nakhashathangal?
Did you know that Ranji Hordern took 34 out of 51 wickets (66 percent) in three matches for the Philadelphians in their 1909 tour of Jamaica?
Did you know that Stoic philosophy contrasts kathekonta, actions in accordance with nature, with "perfect actions" (katorthomata) derived from pure reason?
Did you know that the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction, the first criminal court in Australia under British rule, operated more like a court-martial than a court of law?
Did you know that the Red Forest, near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, gets its name from the ginger brown colour of its dead pine trees after the Chernobyl accident?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy tank landing ship USS Orange County was decommissioned in August 1946, less than 18 months after entering service, but recommissioned four years later for the Korean War?
Did you know that the daisy-like Sydney flannel flower is actually a member of the carrot family?
Did you know that the de Bruijn notation and the de Bruijn index are mathematical notations invented by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn for use in λ calculus?
Did you know that the relics of Sariputra and Mahamoggallana, Gautama Buddha's two chief disciples, were the subject of more than two million Sri Lankan pilgrimage visits after their discovery by Sir Alexander Cunningham?
Did you know that the site of Spains Hall, an Elizabethan house near Finchingfield in Essex, has been owned by only three families since the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086?
Did you know that Clare Winger Harris was the first woman to publish short stories under her own name in science fiction magazines?
Did you know that Clarenceux King of Arms Stephen Leake appointed his thirteen year old son Chester Herald in 1752?
Did you know that Dyrehaven, a forest park outside Copenhagen, Denmark, has 15 entrances, all with characteristic red gates?
Did you know that French pirate Jacques de Sores, who captured Havana in 1555, went by the nickname of "The Exterminating Angel"?
Did you know that German textile artist Gunta Stölzl was the only female "master" of the Bauhaus?
Did you know that Greek composer Phivos has written songs for artists including Keti Garbi, Angela Dimitriou, Manto, Thanos Kalliris, and, most successfully, Despina Vandi?
Did you know that John Aloysius Ward, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff from 1983, took early retirement in 2001, after the later years of his ministry were overshadowed by cases of sexual misconduct by priests in his archdiocese?
Did you know that Kupa Synagogue in Kraków features paintings of people standing by the rivers of Babylon, a rare depiction of human figures in Jewish religious art?
Did you know that Liu Heita was a Xia general during China's transition between the Sui and Tan dynasties in the 7th century?
Did you know that Ngo Dinh Can, brother and confidant of South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem, was believed to have organised black market smuggling into North Vietnam?
Did you know that Patacara, who became a Buddhist while disconsolately wandering naked through the Indian city of Savatthi, rose to become the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in her mastery of the Vinaya?
Did you know that Phoebe Hessel, who masqueraded as a man for 17 years to fight in the British Army alongside her husband, is buried in the churchyard at St. Nicholas Church, Brighton, England?
Did you know that Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow, Russia, in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion (Lev) ornament or sculpture?
Did you know that after his 1967 film Branded to Kill, contract director Seijun Suzuki was fired by the Nikkatsu Company for making films "that make no sense"?
Did you know that giant diffuse galaxies, located in the centre of galaxy clusters, often possess a halo of devoured star matter extending as far out as 3 million light years?
Did you know that retired LAPD homicide detective "Jigsaw John" St. John was posthumously reinstated to active duty in 1995 so that he could be buried as a detective?
Did you know that the 16th-century Castillo de la Real Fuerza in Havana is the oldest stone fortress in the Americas?
Did you know that the 800,000-member Global Pastors Network continues the legacy of Bill Bright by attempting to, in their own words, "win 1 billion people to Christ"?
Did you know that the Chronicle of Huru, a 19th century forgery advancing Moldavia's independence, claimed that a Moldavian federal republic emerged from the Roman province of Dacia in 274?
Did you know that the SS in Nazi Germany were above civilian law, answering only to the SS-run Hauptamt SS Gericht?
Did you know that the fruits of Matico (Piper aduncum) are used as a condiment, for flavoring cocoa, and its leaves are used as an antiseptic, to stop hemorrhage, and to treat infections?
Did you know that the graphic novel The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers combines Kolkata's Babu culture and the legend of The Wandering Jew?
Did you know that the priest Leopold Moczygemba was responsible for the founding of Panna Maria, Texas, the first Polish community in the United States?
Did you know that the synagogue at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, Austria was devastated during Kristallnacht in 1938 and converted into a transformer station after the war?
Did you know that the taekwondo form Ko-Dang was named after Korean nationalist Cho Man-sik, imprisoned and executed for his opposition to Kim Il-sung's communists?
Did you know that the television series ER aired an episode based on the 2003 Chicago balcony collapse?
Did you know that when Indrajit Gupta, a Communist, became India's Union Minister for Home Affairs in 1996, he became head of a ministry "which once policed the Commies"?
Did you know that Ajit Wadekar was the first Indian to represent the country as Test Cricket player, captain, coach/manager and Chairman of Selectors?
Did you know that Alexander of Bergamo is thought to have survived the decimation of the Theban Legion for their conversion to Christianity only to be individually beheaded later for the same reason?
Did you know that American Chabad Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin has been convicted of fraud twice?
Did you know that Bishop Barbatus of Benevento is thought to have helped the city's resistance to Byzantine Emperor Constans II by destroying a Temple of Isis in the city, reusing the materials in building the city wall?
Did you know that British barrister Sir Tony Hetherington was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service after it was founded in 1986?
Did you know that Dumitru Dămăceanu was a Romanian Army officer prominent in the royal coup of 1944, and later was a signatory to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947?
Did you know that Squirrel Systems introduced the first touch screen point of sale terminal in 1984?
Did you know that The Best Bet, a film by former Singaporean gambling addict Jack Neo, was intended to warn people of the perils of gambling?
Did you know that a boycott of Juanes' song "La Camisa Negra" was organized after it was used by neo-fascists?
Did you know that an entire army had to retreat during the Cádiz Expedition of 1625 because almost all had become drunk on wine taken from a village they were raiding?
Did you know that as part of a successful flattery campaign to persuade Ngo Dinh Diem's loyalist general Ton That Dinh to defect, his colleagues bribed his soothsayer to predict his elevation to political authority?
Did you know that during his tenure as India's cricket coach, Kapil Dev, broke down in a BBC interview about alleged match-fixing?