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Did you know that the Malta Summit was the first face-to-face meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev?
Did you know that the Young Bengal leader Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee was largely ostracized for marrying the widow of Maharaja Tejendra?
Did you know that the chaperon was a hat from the Middle Ages that could be worn in at least six different ways?
Did you know that women in some societies may be subject to honor killing for violation of namus?
Did you know that Beard Liberation Front efforts led to the inclusion of beardism in the Oxford English Dictionary?
Did you know that Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh has been active in the party since age 13?
Did you know that Ichikawa Danjūrō I was killed onstage by a fellow Kabuki actor?
Did you know that Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate, a Kannada poem, was declared the official anthem of the Indian state of Karnataka in 2004?
Did you know that Plagiostomum vittatum, the "Candy Cane Worm", is a flatworm with red stripes?
Did you know that an editor for Kangura magazine was convicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for inciting the Rwandan Genocide?
Did you know that in 1936, 11-term U.S. Congressman Frederick R. Lehlbach closely lost his re-election bid to a political newcomer, Frank W. Towey, Jr.?
Did you know that in 1945, Frederick C. Branch became the first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer?
Did you know that jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell, while in Germany for the U.S. Army, studied under the first clarinetist of the Heidelberg Symphony?
Did you know that some four-leaf clovers are actually ferns in the family Marsileaceae?
Did you know that the Australian punk rock single "(I’m) Stranded" pre-dated the Sex Pistols' debut release?
Did you know that the Normal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into the University of the District of Columbia?
Did you know that the Swedish forces at the Siege of Jasna Góra were actually German mercenaries and Polish supporters of Charles X Gustav?
Did you know that the first radiosonde was made by Soviet meteorologist Pavel Molchanov?
Did you know that 2006 was the 650th anniversary of the 1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history?
Did you know that Georgie White was the first woman to run a commercial Grand Canyon river guiding service?
Did you know that Hillsborough County, Florida Commissioner Ronda Storms was the author of an ultimately successful proposal that banned the county from acknowledging "gay pride"?
Did you know that Nepalese politician Radha Krishna Mainali, once a communist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports by King Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005?
Did you know that Powelliphanta Sp.Augustus is found only on a five hectare area northeast of Westport, New Zealand?
Did you know that The Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro, Arkansas was the only enclosed mall to open in the United States in 2006?
Did you know that Tigranakert was a center of Armenian culture until the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds?
Did you know that children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes has written more than fifty stories, and illustrated over two hundred?
Did you know that in Johnson Tan Han Seng v. Public Prosecutor, the Malaysian Federal Court held that a Proclamation of Emergency remains in force after the circumstances it was meant for have expired?
Did you know that the 2006 Alamo Bowl (pictured: the Alamodome) set a record for the most people to view a sporting event live in San Antonio, Texas, as well as the most television viewers ever to watch a bowl game on ESPN?
Did you know that the 2006 Insight Bowl featured the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A football bowl history?
Did you know that those crossing the Fallasburg Bridge, a Brown truss covered bridge in Vergennes Township, Michigan at a speed faster than a walk may be subject to a $5 fine?
Did you know that British MP Anthony Courtney was blackmailed by the KGB using photographs of him with a tour guide?
Did you know that Japanese poet Kitahara Hakushu was jailed for adultery in 1912?
Did you know that John Litchfield trod on the foot of one Prime Minister, sat on the lap of another, and was the first person to toast the health of Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that Major Megan McClung, the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat in Iraq, organized and competed in the first satellite running of the Marine Corps Marathon in Iraq?
Did you know that Nikki Haley of South Carolina is the first Republican Indian-American state legislator in the USA?
Did you know that Nobel Prize-winning author Kawabata Yasunari was a houseguest of fellow author Kambara Ariake for almost two years after the end of World War II?
Did you know that Sandra Feldman, former president of the American Federation of Teachers, was mentored by civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and arrested twice during the Freedom Rides?
Did you know that a pentimento is an alteration to a painting that can often only be seen in an X-ray or an infra-red photograph?
Did you know that among the earliest accounts of the use of a man-lifting kite is in the story of Ishikawa Goemon's robbery from Nagoya Castle?
Did you know that approximately one-third of nearby galaxies contain low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions?
Did you know that for seven centuries Runamo was famous in Scandinavia as a runic inscription until scientists determined it to be natural cracks in the rock?
Did you know that former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970?
Did you know that sixteen people were killed during a general strike in Nepal in 1992, an incident that contributed to the breakout of a civil war four years later?
Did you know that the Edmonson sisters were African-American slaves who tried to escape to freedom and became  celebrity abolitionists?
Did you know that the Hearthstone House became the first residence in the world to be lit by a centrally located hydroelectric station using the Edison system?
Did you know that the McCarthy-style interrogations of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee caused the firing or expulsion of scores of professors and students from Florida universities between 1956 and 1966?
Did you know that the Union of Salvation, a Russian secret society of revolutionary Decembrists, was organized according to a complex Masonic style system of rituals and vows?
Did you know that the future mother-in-law of Kunikida Doppo urged her daughter to commit suicide rather than marry the Japanese author?
Did you know that the mentally ill Egyptian policeman who perpetrated the Ras Burqa massacre, killing seven Israeli tourists, including four children, was hailed in the Egyptian opposition press as a national hero?
Did you know that Ani, a medieval city once rivaling Constantinople, was ransacked by Mongols and now stands in ruin?
Did you know that Byron N. Scott was a public school teacher in Long Beach, California prior to being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1934?
Did you know that USS Stewart, now a museum in Texas, is the only surviving example of an Edsall class destroyer escort?
Did you know that William Henry Holbert, a catcher for the 19th century New York Metropolitans baseball team, still holds the records for the most career at-bats without a home run?
Did you know that Xanten Cathedral (interior pictured), declared a basilica minor by Pope Pius XI, may be the biggest cathedral between Cologne and the North Sea?
Did you know that after former House representative John H. Burke was not a candidate for renomination in 1934, he went back to his home in Long Beach, California and became a real estate broker?
Did you know that curb feelers are especially popular for hotrods with whitewall tires?
Did you know that famed Japanese literary critic Kobayashi Hideo toured China as a guest of the Imperial Japanese Army, with future Nobel-prize winner Kawabata Yasunari?
Did you know that former California representative Bertrand W. Gearhart ran unopposed and captured nearly 100 percent of the vote in his biennial re-election bids from 1936 to 1944?
Did you know that mathematician Đuro Kurepa lectured at almost every university in Yugoslavia?
Did you know that the 1978 musical film The Wiz re-tells L. Frank Baum's popular story The Wizard of Oz in an urban setting and with an entirely African-American cast?
Did you know that the Belgian military leader Herman Baltia exhibited his watercolour paintings on the Yser Front while he was serving as a commander in World War I?
Did you know that the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers' strike in American history in 1968?
Did you know that the Landmarks Foundation helps conserve sacred sites such as the stone spheres of Costa Rica and the moai of Easter Island?
Did you know that the Mecelle, the Ottoman civil code of 1877, was the first attempt to codify part of the laws of an Islamic state?
Did you know that the Russian composer Vladimir Shainsky created music and songs for popular cartoons such as Cheburashka and his best friend Crocodile Gena?
Did you know that the carom billiards game, cushion caroms, was enjoyed on occasion by Mark Twain?
Did you know that Acallam na Senórach, a tale of ancient heroes surviving to recount their deeds to St. Patrick, is the longest original text in medieval Irish literature?
Did you know that Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's?
Did you know that Sir Francis Mitchell was the last British knight of the realm to be publicly degraded?
Did you know that about half of the collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Baden-Württemberg was destroyed in a fire following an air raid on Stuttgart during World War II?
Did you know that before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the United Teachers of New Orleans was the largest trade union in the city?
Did you know that the German fresco painter Johannes Zick (pictured: self-portrait) started his career as a blacksmith in his father's workshop?
Did you know that the Romanian anti-communist resistance movement, operating between 1948 and 1960, was one of the most enduring armed resistance movement in the former Soviet bloc?
Did you know that the Swedish sculptor Willy Gordon received some attention with a sculpture showing a naked male figure carrying a piece of meat on his shoulders before a reclining female figure?
Did you know that the Vietnam War veteran Wesley Autrey jumped onto a New York City Subway track in front of an oncoming train to save another man?
Did you know that the removal of President Rolandas Paksas from office by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania was the first successful case of impeachment of a head of state in the history of Europe?
Did you know that the song "Shambala" by Three Dog Night has a gospel music sound and Tibetan Buddhist subject matter?
Did you know that 199 of the 210 soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army's 8th Infantry Division froze to death as a result of a winter training accident in January 1902?
Did you know that Alejandro Maclean, Spanish television producer and Red Bull Air Race World Series pilot, is nicknamed "The Flying Matador"?
Did you know that David Robinson, who tried to hijack Qantas Flight 1737 in 2003, wanted to crash the plane into a Tasmanian national park to release the Devil and bring about Armageddon?
Did you know that Delaware Canal State Park in Pennsylvania contains the only intact 19th century towpath canal in the United States?
Did you know that Ian Harvey, a Conservative junior minister in the United Kingdom, resigned his seat in 1958 after a sex scandal?
Did you know that Rosersberg Palace, one of the Swedish Royal palaces, was used as a school of musketry for 101 years?
Did you know that Smokey was selected as mascot by the University of Tennessee students after a bluetick coonhound howled during a halftime contest?
Did you know that U.S. Congressman Cecil R. King of California, deeply involved in the issue of Medicare, ran unopposed for his first 10 years in office?
Did you know that features of The Jurist in the painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo are composed of fish and poultry?
Did you know that kabuki actor Matsunosuke Onoe became the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appearing in over 1,000 films during the course of his 17-year career, including over 80 per year at his peak?
Did you know that the 1939 planned encyclical of Pope Pius XI, Humani Generis Unitas, which condemned racism and persecution of Jews, became known as "The Hidden Encyclical" or "The Lost Encyclical," because it was never promulgated?
Did you know that the 1968 Florida teachers' strike was the first statewide strike by teachers in United States history?
Did you know that the 1985 Oregon State vs. Washington football game resulted in the biggest overcome point spread in college football history when the Beavers beat the Huskies, 21-20?
Did you know that the 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone, which left over 500,000 homeless, was the first tropical cyclone of hurricane intensity to hit Sri Lanka since 1978?
Did you know that the Raven banner, a standard used by various Viking leaders including Sigurd the Stout and Harald III of Norway, was a totem believed to have the power to grant victory to its holder?
Did you know that the University of Cambridge denied Edward A. Irving a PhD when he submitted evidence supporting continental drift?
Did you know that the cornerstone for the first museum of space exploration, the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga, Russia, was laid by Yuri Gagarin?
Did you know that the twelfth sultan of Aceh, Iskandar Muda, had his own son killed and named as his successor the son of the sultan of Pahang, whom he had brought to Aceh twenty years earlier?
Did you know that Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia was urged by her mother-in-law to testify in the case of Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia?
Did you know that John Pasco advised Nelson to change the wording of "England expects that every man will do his duty", his famous signal at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Did you know that Kenny Leon directed the Broadway premiere of the August Wilson play Gem of the Ocean?
Did you know that Major Alan Shapley, survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, had been relieved of duty on the Arizona the previous day, but had stayed aboard overnight before reporting to his next duty station?
Did you know that the 17th century Puritan physician Alexander Leighton incurred the wrath of King Charles I for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by his Star Chamber to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off?
Did you know that the 1927 American silent film The Cat and the Canary was directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni?
Did you know that the Free Association of German Trade Unions was the only trade union in Germany to reject the Burgfrieden, a civil truce between the socialist movement and the German state during World War I?
Did you know that the face of Chicago native Hazel Lavery adorned the banknotes of Ireland for seventy years?
Did you know that the inhabitants of Fjuckby, Sweden want to change the name of their village because of its unfortunate associations?
Did you know that the world's only memorial to war correspondents is located in Maryland's Gathland State Park?
Did you know that there are four UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Scotland and four more sites currently undergoing a process of evaluation including the iconic Forth Bridge?
Did you know that St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late 20th century?
Did you know that Zhang Zhenshi created a widely reproduced image of Mao Zedong which is known as China's Mona Lisa?
Did you know that an aircraft's pitot-static system allows a pilot to know its airspeed, Mach number, altitude, and altitude trend?
Did you know that award-winning Japanese novelist Tachihara Masaaki was a Zainichi Korean, whose works were strongly influenced by Zeami's traditional Japanese Noh dramas?
Did you know that during the 1933 Simele massacre nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 63 Assyrian villages were destroyed?
Did you know that most of the numerous Jarlabanke Runestones were made by a Viking chieftain in an attempt to immortalize his power and greatness?
Did you know that the Aston Martin DBR1 sports car won the 1000km Nürburgring round of the World Sportscar Championship in all three years it entered?
Did you know that the Ingvar Runestones commemorate Vikings who died in the raid led by Ingvar the Far-Travelled which pillaged the coasts of Persia?
Did you know that the Land Coastal Defence that defended the Polish coast during the German invasion of Poland was subordinate to the Polish Navy, not the Army?
Did you know that the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?
Did you know that the nipples of the Ancient Greek statue Victorious Youth were cast in copper to contrast with the bronze of the torso?
Did you know that two Viking women named Gerlög and Inga documented their tragic and dramatic family saga on a series of runestones during the civil wars of 11th century Sweden?
Did you know that Baghdad Street in Istanbul was named by Murad IV to commemorate his conquest of Mesopotamia?
Did you know that Chroogomphus is an edible mushroom that grows as a parasite on other fungi in pine forests?
Did you know that Iya Abubakar, a Nigerian mathematician, served as his country's Minister of Defence?
Did you know that John Casor was the first known slave in the Thirteen Colonies?
Did you know that Louisiana politician Arthur C. Watson lost the use of his legs in infancy?
Did you know that Ovidiu Pecican co-wrote a textbook of Romanian history that caused a national scandal?
Did you know that Rolf Dudley-Williams helped set up the company that manufactured the world's first working jet engine?
Did you know that Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe, a Munro in Scotland, is one of the "Five Sisters of Kintail"?
Did you know that a protoplanetary nebula is a short-lived phase of stellar evolution?
Did you know that hippocamps are mythological sea-horses that frolic in the Trevi Fountain?
Did you know that pastor and linguist Christoph Mrongovius was honored by having a town named after him?
Did you know that the Egyptian Theater in DeKalb, Illinois is purportedly haunted by ghosts?
Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Army 14th Division made Chinese dumplings a specialty of Utsunomiya upon returning from Manchuria?
Did you know that the Terrace Mutiny of 1944 was the most serious disciplinary breach in  Canadian military history?
Did you know that the mythical Canadian water monster Ogopogo inspired the British film Mee-Shee: The Water Giant?
Did you know that toso is a medicinal sake drunk during Japanese New Year celebrations?
Did you know that Cecilia Muñoz-Palma was the Philippines' first female prosecutor, district judge, and Supreme Court justice?
Did you know that Constantine the Great ordered the construction of Abu Mena after his daughter was cured by the body of Saint Mina?
Did you know that David Colville Anderson, whose career was ended by a scandal involving teenage girls, blamed it on the KGB?
Did you know that Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars?
Did you know that Pope Pius XII tried to prevent the bombing of Rome in World War II?
Did you know that Robert Keyes was related to five of the other Gunpowder Plot conspirators?
Did you know that at the 1974 Coalition of Labor Union Women convention, Myra Wolfgang declared "...there are 3,000 women in Chicago and they didn't come here to swap recipes!"?
Did you know that of Kraków's eight original medieval city gates, only the Gothic Florian Gate remains?
Did you know that runestones have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct the family saga of the powerful Viking woman Estrid?
Did you know that the Alliance for Retired Americans was instrumental in enacting Medicare?
Did you know that the Sajama Lines in Bolivia took 3,000 years to make and might be considered the largest artwork in the world?
Did you know that the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by  Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?
Did you know that three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have died as a result of gun violence in New Orleans?
Did you know that American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non-legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965?
Did you know that Beaumont House was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral?
Did you know that Scottish international rugby player Tremayne Rodd was banned from playing amateur rugby union in 1966 after accompanying the British and Irish Lions?
Did you know that Têtes à Claques was originally intended to be stop motion animation, but instead superimposed faces on the figurines to save time?
Did you know that during the 1793 Siege of Mainz, Goethe was a military observer and later wrote a book about the bombardment of the city?
Did you know that members of the music trio Queen of Japan use aliases that sound like Japanese names and are known for synthpop covers of artists such as John Lennon and Bob Dylan?
Did you know that renowned brothel-keeper Elizabeth Needham, depicted in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress, was pelted so severely in the pillory that she died 3 days later?
Did you know that the BBC journalist Barbara Plett's admission of having cried at the sight of the terminally ill Yasser Arafat led to a controversy?
Did you know that the Karnataka politician Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy is the world record holder for number of elections contested?
Did you know that the Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides its member schools into separate enrollment classes in only three of the 13 sports in which it conducts state championships?
Did you know that the first three Ministers of the Privy Treasury of the Ottoman Empire were Armenian, the first being Hagop Kazazian Pasha?
Did you know that the title of Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland became unused and replaced with that of Governor-General of Warsaw without any formal decree after the death of the last namestnik?
Did you know that "On the very first of May", a work composed by singer and organist William Savage, was set to nonsense verses by his wife?
Did you know that Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges was awarded two DSOs and a Bar to his DFC for flying secret missions for SOE in Europe and the Far East in the Second World War?
Did you know that American papermaking authority Dard Hunter published a volume created entirely by himself—including its paper, type design, typesetting, and printing?
Did you know that Arthur McIntyre became England's oldest living Test cricketer after the death of Ken Cranston?
Did you know that Darwin Falls is the tallest waterfall in Death Valley National Park and features a rare example of riparian greenery in the driest place in North America?
Did you know that German poet and playwright Klabund was charged with treason for calling for the abdication of William II in an open letter?
Did you know that Hall of Fame football player Ed Molinski was also a Golden Gloves state boxing champion and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II?
Did you know that Indonesian freedom fighter Ernest Douwes Dekker is related to the Dutch writer,  Eduard Douwes Dekker and volunteered on the Boers' side during the Second Boer War in South Africa as a youth?