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Did you know that screenwriter Gustin Nash was inspired to write the teen film Charlie Bartlett by a group of teenagers that he spent time with while working at a mall in Burbank, California ?
Did you know that the 2008 Congo football riots were sparked by accusations of witchcraft ?
Did you know that Maxime de la Falaise , called "the only truly chic Englishwoman " by Cecil Beaton , said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry?
Did you know that Controlled Demolition, Inc. was recognized with world records for its 1998 demolitions of a 1,200-foot (370 m) radio tower, the tallest structure, and a 33-floor department store, the tallest building?
Did you know that Negro league baseball pitcher Dave Brown disappeared in 1925 after murdering a man in a bar fight, but was rumored to have secretly resumed pitching under the alias "Lefty Wilson"?
Did you know that the Valluvars are the hereditary priests of the Pallars and Paraiyars of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that Richard Mohun was the only white survivor of a three-year expedition to lay a telegraph line from Lake Tanganyika to the River Nile ?
Did you know that a Japanese sea spirit named shōjō with red hair and a fondness for sake is featured in Noh and Kabuki plays?
Did you know that the complete, power operated, low recoil force gun turret of the Stingray light tank is used on the LAV-600 light armoured vehicle?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general An Baoyu received permission to use the imperial surname Li because he did not want to share a surname with the rebel An Lushan ?
Did you know that audiences of the 1658 theatrical presentation The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru were entertained by acrobats and trained apes between the scenes?
Did you know that architect Elmer Grey recalled that "my health broke down completely" after he finished a major commission on a Christian Science church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ?
Did you know that Songpa sandaenori is a type of Korean mask play originated in the neighborhoods of Songpa-dong of Seoul , Korea ?
Did you know that Australian politician Mick Clough defeated a sitting member of parliament at three different elections?
Did you know that Bridgeport Village , a shopping center in Washington County, Oregon , was built on the site of a former rock quarry ?
Did you know that despite printing only 1500 copies per issue, the journal Scrutiny helped F. R. Leavis become an influential literary critic ?
Did you know that in 1975 , his only full season , Stan Perzanowski 's earned run average was the lowest on the Texas Rangers ?
Did you know that Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers is the first dated book printed in England ?
Did you know that Charles Ancliffe ' s waltz Nights of Gladness became famous enough that BBC named a whole series of programmes after it?
Did you know that Rudy Robbins ' since disbanded "The Spirit of Texas" was named in 1991 by the Texas State Senate as the "official Cowboy Band for Texas"?
Did you know that the town of Kalisz was almost completely destroyed during WWI by German forces pursuing the Schrecklichkeit policy?
Did you know that the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that Cameroonian investigative journalist Philip Njaru has faced repeated police brutality since 1997?
Did you know that Sir Edgar Speyer funded the Promenade Concerts from 1902 to 1914, but he was accused of trading with the enemy during the First World War and lost his British citizenship ?
Did you know that in February 1943, German General Hubert Lanz plotted to arrest Hitler during a visit to his headquarters?
Did you know that the yellowfin whiting is so popular for recreational fishing that recreational catches have represented nearly a third of the catch in its Southern Australian range?
Did you know that never having previously taken five wickets in a match, Nikita Miller managed the feat twice in the 2007–08 Carib Beer Cup final?
Did you know that the Kress Drachenflieger of 1901 was the first heavier-than-air machine to use an internal combustion engine in an attempt to fly ?
Did you know that Irish broadcaster John Creedon is set to learn a musical instrument alongside Oscar - winning actor Jeremy Irons ?
Did you know that New York State Route 30 is the longest of only five state highways in Hamilton County, New York ?
Did you know that Senegalese filmmaker Ben Diogaye Beye 's first feature film was critical of polygamy ?
Did you know that starting in 2009, certain biotech corn hybrid seeds will be covered by the risk management program of the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation ?
Did you know that although William Hogarth painted his March of the Guards to Finchley as a gift for George II , the King took great offence at the artwork and refused to keep it?
Did you know that the three major peaks of the Tofane were first reached in 1863, 1864 and 1865 by Austrian mountaineer Paul Grohmann ?
Did you know that Lydia Thompson and her troupe of "British Blondes" introduced burlesque to America in 1868?
Did you know that crime in Singapore includes mobile phone snatching which have in the past been the main target for robbers and snatch thieves ?
Did you know that the 1898 Carpenter Gothic Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church in California underwent extensive renovations after a portion of the ceiling fell on a parishioner during a 1982 service?
Did you know that French photographer Robert Demachy took hundreds of photographs and wrote more than a thousand articles on photography, but suddenly gave up the subject without any explanation?
Did you know that due to the important archaeological findings near the Bulgarian village of Durankulak , the area has been dubbed the "Bulgarian Troy "?
Did you know that Smokey Mayfield , a ranch supervisor in the Texas Panhandle , once played the fiddle as a warmup act for country performer Tennessee Ernie Ford ?
Did you know that Philip Zec enraged both Hitler and Churchill with his wartime cartoons and nearly had the Daily Mirror shut down?
Did you know that in 1935, the Supreme Muslim Council built the an-Nasr Mosque in the Palestinian city of Nablus after an earthquake in 1927 completely destroyed the previous structure on the site?
Did you know that the Vegas Vampire was a television horror host who stuck pins in voodoo dolls of famous politicians and celebrities?
Did you know that free croquet equipment and music on a Sunday afternoon are provided at the Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire , England ?
Did you know that the biography Vita Karoli Magni on the life of Charlemagne is the first of a medieval European king?
Did you know that British justice Thomas Reeve was knighted at the same time he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ?
Did you know that Johnny Anders , mayor of Stamford in West Texas , built from spare automobile parts a 22-foot dinosaur model displayed in Stamford's city park?
Did you know that English director and actor Steven Berkoff featured in a two-minute film inviting the viewer to Watch Your Own Heart Attack ?
Did you know that at one point, the powerful Tang Dynasty eunuch Yu Chao'en was believed to be responsible for instigating the grave robbing of the general Guo Ziyi 's father?
Did you know that It's About Time , singer Christina Milian 's second studio album, served as her debut album in the U.S. due to the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that AVIS , the association of Italian blood donors founded in 1927, was asked to include an F for fascist in its acronym by Mussolini ?
Did you know that after Charles W. Morse started scandals that toppled a New York City mayor and sparked the Panic of 1907 , he faked illness by eating prison soap to convince President Taft to commute his sentence?
Did you know that the main tourist attraction in Namaqua National Park in South Africa is the abundant spring bloom of brightly coloured wildflowers ?
Did you know that row houses built in the 1840s for workers at a textile mill on Olmstead Street in Cohoes, New York , are today used as federally subsidized affordable housing ?
Did you know that in Norse mythology , Sumarr and Vetr are the personified seasons of summer and winter ?
Did you know that former Louisiana GOP committeewoman Virginia deGravelles became in 1941 one of the first two whites to register Republican in Lafayette , now a Republican stronghold?
Did you know that Stephen's Tower in Baia Mare , Romania has had four fires in its history, three caused by lightning ?
Did you know that the science fiction novel The Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg , which featured a naked time traveler from the future, was a nominee for the 1969 Nebula Award ?
Did you know that Sir George Treby was rejected as a possible Speaker of the House of Commons of England because his eyesight was so bad he could not distinguish between different Members of Parliament ?
Did you know that the former General Foods Corporate Headquarters in Rye Brook, New York , have been described as an " Aztec Temple "?
Did you know that the Canadian-based fast food company Extreme Pita began to expand to include stores in the United States in 2003, beginning with Arizona ?
Did you know that Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Davidson used his civilian experience as a civil engineer to improve his battalion's trenches during the First World War ?
Did you know that the chart run for George Jones ' first chart single " Why Baby Why " was interrupted when Red Sovine and Webb Pierce released a duet cover of the same song?
Did you know that Polish mountaineer Tadeusz Piotrowski , one of the finest winter mountaineers of the 1970s and '80s, died during descent from K2 , after completing the first and only ascent by the "South Face"?
Did you know that a Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood Oil Field during World War II , the first direct attack by an enemy power on the mainland United States since the War of 1812 ?
Did you know that baseball player Randy Johnson has pitched six times on Opening Day for the Arizona Diamondbacks , three more times than any other pitcher in Diamondbacks' history?
Did you know that Charlotte Glennie became the first New Zealand journalist to officially film in North Korea ?
Did you know that the 50-foot (15 m)-tall neon sign of the First National Bank Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota can be seen from 75 miles (120 km) away on a clear night?
Did you know that the Osvald Group , led by Asbjørn Sunde , was the dominating sabotage organisation in Norway from 1941 to 1944?
Did you know that the Dresden Codex is the earliest known book written in the Americas ?
Did you know that U.S. Navy gunners aboard SS West Cheswald during World War II were awarded a battle star after the ship was deliberately sunk during the Invasion of Normandy ?
Did you know that China 's Sanlu Group refused to recall contaminated infant formula until Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand intervened?
Did you know that, in his only full Major League Baseball season , Eddie Yuhas led the National League in 1952 with a win-loss percentage of .857?
Did you know that Taiwan 's Guo Huaiyi Rebellion of 1652 was partially motivated by the falling price of venison ?
Did you know that the 2006 death of NYPD Detective James Zadroga was the first attributed to exposure to toxic dust at the World Trade Center site , though the circumstances of his death are disputed?
Did you know that at one time, Toronto 's Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion was the largest outdoor swimming pool in the world?
Did you know that in 2004, Expedition Global Eagle was the first attempt in history to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro ?
Did you know that Mohammad Usman Rana , a Norwegian Pakistani student, is one of the prolific Muslim debaters in the Norwegian public sphere?
Did you know that when a train derailed in Painesville, Ohio , the area was evacuated for fear a liquefied petroleum gas tank might explode?
Did you know that the resentment generated during the Drifts Crisis indirectly sparked the Second Boer War ?
Did you know that the Portland, Oregon theater company Portland Center Stage was started as a branch of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ?
Did you know that the 2000 PC game Crimson Skies is set in an alternate history of the 1930s in which the United States has fractured into a number of smaller, independent nation-states ?
Did you know that the 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) Canal Saint-Denis , finished in 1821, was built to provide a water route through Paris ,  other than the Seine ?
Did you know that the Oregon Nursery Company founded the town of Orenco, Oregon in 1908 to house its Hungarian immigrant workers?
Did you know that politicians have proposed replacing the red lion on the Flag of Tasmania with a thylacine or cape Barren Goose ?
Did you know that Historic Washington State Park near Hope includes the Block-Catts House, the oldest still-standing two-story residence in Arkansas ?
Did you know that after manual typewriter expert Martin Tytell accidentally inverted a key on a Burmese language typewriter he built, it became the standard even in Burma ?
Did you know that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School , one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?
Did you know that molecular farming is a type of genetic modification involving the use of plants , and potentially also animals , as the means to produce compounds of therapeutic value?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen , after his fall from power, entered the capital Chang'an disguised as a woman to plot his return to power?
Did you know that the French one-act opera Le trompeur trompé had its première given as 14 Thermidor an VIII, since the French Republican Calendar was still in use?
Did you know that Buddy Fletcher ′s first experience with risk-reward tradeoff came from developing a strategy to bet on dog racing ?
Did you know that Vrav , a village in the northwest of Bulgaria , is inhabited by "wet Vlachs "?
Did you know that despite having excruciating pain in her back and knees because of the disease achondroplasia , Miranda Uhl went on to win a gold medal in the individual medley at the 2008 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that Twin-T topology can be used as a substitute for bridge topology in many electronic circuits when grounding is an issue?
Did you know that HMS Vidal , the ship sent to annexe Rockall , was named after Alexander Vidal , the first man to properly survey the islet ?
Did you know that Alex Garcia , driver of No. 98 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series , is the first Venezuelan to race in NASCAR ?
Did you know that the 2008 Indian film Ru Ba Ru is the cinematic adaptation of the Hollywood film If Only ?
Did you know that a splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills ?
Did you know that Svetozar Delić was a mayor of Zagreb , Croatia for three days, but it took three more days to remove him from the city hall?
Did you know that singer Eva Tanguay was reportedly booed off the stage in her first appearance at Cohoes Music Hall in New York ?
Did you know that geophysicist Geoffrey Ballard , acknowledged as the father of the fuel cell industry, was named a "Hero for the Planet" by Time in 1999?
Did you know that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey , was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80 , located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Chenghong carried the title of emperor for 12 days after invading Tufan forces captured the capital Chang'an and declared him emperor?
Did you know that startup airline Miwok Airways has been described as competing not with other carriers but the roads of Southern California ?
Did you know that one of the characters from the Hindi film Summer 2007 was inspired by Muhammad Yunus , the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Did you know that cargo ship SS West Nohno was the first American merchant vessel to be armed for service in the Atlantic during World War II ?
Did you know that the expensive and ornate Royal Aquarium , which opened in London in 1876 to present art exhibits and classical music , soon turned to circus acts and music hall instead?
Did you know that American soap magnate Benjamin T. Babbitt held over 100 patents ?
Did you know that political opportunity theory explains the rise and decline of social movements by their dependence on outside, political factors?
Did you know that George Halpin 's Bull Wall and Bull Island , engineering works at the mouth of the River Liffey , enabled deep-draught ships to use the port of Dublin , Ireland for the first time?
Did you know that museum examples of sprang were misidentified as lace or knitting until archaeological discoveries brought public attention to the overlooked needlework technique?
Did you know that Paul "Bear" Bryant won his final game as a head coach in the 1982 Liberty Bowl , his 323rd victory?
Did you know that after the death of Consort Dugu , the favorite concubine of Emperor Daizong of Tang , the emperor was so saddened that he kept her casket in the palace and did not bury her until almost three years later?
Did you know that the Portland, Oregon magazine Portland Monthly was founded in 2003 and by 2006 was the seventh-largest city magazine in the United States ?
Did you know that from its creation in 1963 to its closure in about 2000, the Scottish Tartans Society recorded and documented about 2,700 different designs of tartan ?
Did you know that besides hosting the canoeing and rowing events for the 1964 Summer Olympics , Lake Sagami is also a popular recreational fishing area for black bass ?
Did you know that though the 2004 miniseries Category 6: Day of Destruction earned CBS the highest ratings of any show during the November sweeps week , it was generally panned by critics?
Did you know that Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon was attacked by neo-Nazi members of the Volksfront in 1994 and 2002?
Did you know that the winning players in cricket 's Stanford Super Series take home one million dollars each, while the losing players walk away with nothing?
Did you know that Slipknot has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won their first for Best Metal Performance with " Before I Forget " in 2006?
Did you know that George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick was baptized at St. Mary's , Warwick , with King George I standing as his sponsor?
Did you know that the seven-mile-long Ventura Mission Aqueduct , built between 1780 and 1815, has been called "an engineering marvel"?
Did you know that the phrase " lipstick on a pig " may have its origins in the 18th-century expression "A hog in armour is still but a hog"?
Did you know that the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt , completed in 1913, was equipped with a centralised vacuum cleaning system?
Did you know that Whitney Darrow, Jr. had over 1,500 of his cartoons published in The New Yorker during a career with the magazine that lasted almost 50 years?
Did you know that underwater visibility can reach 80 metres (260 ft) in the limestone sinkholes of Australia 's Ewens Ponds ?
Did you know that Sudanese journalist Mahjoub Mohamed Salih was awarded the 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom , despite being from "one of the most restrictive media environments on the African continent"?
Did you know that the 1756 Fleming Castle is the oldest house in Flemington, New Jersey , but longstanding traditions that it housed a tavern visited by George Washington have been disproven?
Did you know that Egan-Sud, Quebec , a community of 508 people, is home to the largest ice rink in its regional county municipality ?
Did you know that Sir John Stonor was one of only two Chief Justices of the Common Pleas to be appointed on three separate occasions?
Did you know that the earliest fault-tolerant computer was built by Antonín Svoboda in 1951?
Did you know that the 1828 Hunterdon County Courthouse was the site of the "Trial of the Century" of Bruno Hauptmann for his role in the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder?
Did you know that there were at least five attempts by imposters to pretend to be Empress Dowager Shen , who disappeared during the Anshi Rebellion ?
Did you know that the Religion Newswriters Association awards scholarships for full-time journalists who wish to take college courses on religion ?
Did you know that London 's Novelty Theatre , built in 1882, changed its name at least five times in its first dozen years of operation?
Did you know that American swimmer Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead received three gold medals and two silver medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships , when she was only 14 years old?
Did you know that 1944 was called the " year of ten victories " by the Soviet Union for ten battles the Red Army won during that year?
Did you know that the Indian horror film 1920 was filmed at a Yorkshire mansion that was rumored to be haunted by the spirit of a carpenter?
Did you know that a deductive fallacy is an argument that has true premises, but may still have a false conclusion ?
Did you know that Iyothee Thass was a Dalit Buddhist leader from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu after whom a hospital was named?
Did you know that McDynamo won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase in five consecutive years, with the fifth win coming as a 10-year-old, the oldest horse running that day?
Did you know that in 2001, the French government announced the appointment of Henri Loyrette as the new director of the Louvre Museum ?
Did you know that the island of Hsiao Liuchiu off Taiwan was the scene of a massacre of 300 native inhabitants by Dutch soldiers and allied Formosan warriors in 1636?
Did you know that Claude Kirkpatrick , Louisiana public works director in the 1960s, joined with state officials in Texas to establish Toledo Bend Reservoir on the common Sabine River border?
Did you know that in the Germanic pagan Merseburg Incantation , Sinthgunt and the personified sun , Sunna , are sisters using charms to heal a wounded horse?
Did you know that screenwriter Dorothy Ann Purser was nominated for seven awards and won two, including a Daytime Emmy ?
Did you know that crime in the Maldives includes drug trafficking , which according to the UNODC is a side effect of the nation's increased exposure to the outside world?
Did you know that placekicker Kevin Kelly is the all-time leading scorer for the Penn State Nittany Lions ?
Did you know that the World War I diaries Tommy's War only came to be published after an appearance on the TV programme Antiques Roadshow ?
Did you know that following a 17-year campaign, Vijayabahu I successfully reunited Sri Lanka in 1070, for the first time in more than a century?
Did you know that the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northern British Columbia , Canada was a source of obsidian for Tahltan people and its lava plateau has been an important cultural resource?
Did you know that the Fall Creek Massacre led to the first white man receiving capital punishment for the killing of a Native American ?
Did you know that the hair salon chain First Choice Haircutters helped launch the career of soap opera star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood ?
Did you know that Patrol Squadron Eight (VP-8) became the first operational P-3 Orion squadron in the United States Navy during October 1962?
Did you know that medieval donor portraits often showed the donor of a religious image at a completely different scale to the main figures?
Did you know that English-born architect John C. Austin designed several landmark buildings in Southern California , including the Griffith Observatory ?
Did you know that according to Interpol data, the rate of rape in Qatar decreased by 67.1% between 1995 and 1999, while the rate of robbery increased by 100%?
Did you know that Isis Tsunami is the first transwoman to be amongst the 14 finalists on the fashion model reality series America's Next Top Model ?
Did you know that the Kłodzko Fortress in present-day southwestern Poland took the Austrians and the Prussians 200 years to build?
Did you know that only three out of 32 football matches in the Third Round of the FA Cup 1962-63 were played on their scheduled day because of the Big Freeze of 1963 ?
Did you know  that Liberian Supreme Court Chief Justice Johnnie Lewis was rescued from an angry mob after a car he was in hit and killed a pedestrian?