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Did you know that a majority of German-Swedish forces in the Battle of Czarne mutinied, capitulated and then joined the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Army ?
Did you know that Max Kepler-Rozycki received the largest signing bonus given to a European player by a Major League Baseball team?
Did you know that almost a third of the films from the Dutch East Indies date from 1941?
Did you know that Genevieve LaCaze made it onto the 2012 Olympic squad only after the Australian Olympic Committee intervened in the Athletics Australia selection process?
Did you know that numerous piles of trash were set ablaze when Baltimore's garbage collectors and police officers conducted overlapping strikes in July 1974 ?
Did you know that Mulugeta Buli created a private security cabinet for Emperor Haile Selassie ?
Did you know that in 1905 Cherry Lass won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes and the Epsom Oaks , but finished third in the St. Leger Stakes and missed the Fillies Triple Crown in British horse-racing?
Did you know that CNN International has been accused of suppressing the documentary iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring to appease the Bahraini government?
Did you know that Gilla Gerzon , the Director of the Haifa USO, had 241 trees planted in Israel in memory of the 241 Americans killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing ?
Did you know that the ASA ruled that the New Labour, New Danger adverts portrayed Tony Blair as "dishonest and sinister"?
Did you know that Purshottam Solanki , the Fisheries Minister of Gujarat , allegedly caused a loss of ₹ 400 crore ( US$ 72.4 million) to the state government when granting contracts for fishing in reservoirs?
Did you know that while pancreatic injury is less common than other abdominal injuries , its diagnosis can be very difficult due to the location of the pancreas in the body ?
Did you know that during his address to the 12th Arizona Territorial Legislature , Governor Trittle expressed concern about the cowboys in the southwestern parts of the territory?
Did you know that tennis player and Australian Open winner Algernon Kingscote was the son of novelist Lucas Cleeve ?
Did you know that the propaganda film Berdjoang was the Japanese overlords ' only feature-length film in the Dutch East Indies ?
Did you know that Terry Francois was the first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors ?
Did you know that during the Philippine–American War , the Capture of Malolos cost only eight American lives?
Did you know that Wikimedia UK was initially denied charitable status by the British government on the basis that providing free access to information on its own was not a charitable purpose?
Did you know that an asteroid that Swiss physics teacher Michel Ory thought he had discovered in 2008 turned out to be a periodic comet , and the discovery earned him an Edgar Wilson Award ?
Did you know that the East German police comedy Hands Up or I'll Shoot , produced in 1965, was banned by censors and only released in 2009?
Did you know that Julius Achon was the first Ugandan athlete to win a gold medal at the World Junior Championships?
Did you know that the European Commission -funded news portal Presseurop translates and publishes news articles from over two hundred sources into ten European languages?
Did you know that one-term state legislator John Gurley Flook wrote the bill in 1868 to establish a land-grant agricultural college, which grew and became today's Oregon State University ?
Did you know that according to local Muslim tradition, the prophet Muhammad leaned against a stone in the southern Syrian town of Mahajjah ?
Did you know that Mary Buckland , a scientific illustrator , took a year-long geological tour as a honeymoon with her husband William Buckland ?
Did you know that Sergei Bondarchuk , the director of the Academy Award -winning Soviet film War and Peace , first offered the role of Pierre Bezukhov to Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov ?
Did you know that in 1995, the Egyptian left-wing leader Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament by Hosni Mubarak ?
Did you know that 35 days after the December 1988 Spitak earthquake , six people were rescued alive from a collapsed building?
Did you know that the racemare Busybody improved the race record by three seconds when she won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes in 1884?
Did you know that the BBC documentary, The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea , explores the legend claiming that the pharaoh Hatshepsut built ships that were capable of sailing to the Land of Punt ?
Did you know that Eustachy Trepka , Stanisław Murzynowski , and Hieronim Malecki were early Polish Lutherans who translated the Gospels , works of Martin Luther , and other religious texts while working in Królewiec (Königsberg) in the 16th century?
Did you know that the most popular species for Christmas trees in Denmark and most of Europe is the Nordmann fir ?
Did you know that according to Buddhist cosmology , in the beginning of the world, Maha Sammata was elected by the people of Jambudvipa , the only habitable continent on earth, to be their first monarch ?
Did you know that in the 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash , an aircraft exploded in a fireball but when rescuers arrived they found one of the passengers walking around the wreckage?
Did you know that Nico Ladenis was the first self-taught chef to win three Michelin stars ?
Did you know that none of the fillies Moonshell , Shahtoush , Love Divine , Imagine , Eswarah , Light Shift , and Look Here ever won another race after winning the British Classic Race Epsom Oaks ?
Did you know that the East Asian banded red snake can harbour tapeworms and eating its raw meat may lead to parasitic infections ?
Did you know that a petroleum geologist named William Warren Orcutt began collecting fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits in 1901, bringing the site to the attention of the scientific community?
Did you know that Dardanella featured a Chinese man dubbed the " Douglas Fairbanks of Java"?
Did you know that the collection of the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas of Madrid has some 40,000 items, from Ming and Qing dynasty porcelains to Granadian silk, Moroccan embroidery, and Turkish inkpots?
Did you know that tourism in the Republic of Ireland accounts for around 4% of the Irish GNP ?
Did you know that there are approximately thirty shrines and Roman temples on the slopes of Mount Hermon ?
Did you know that the migratory Caspian lamprey is more threatened than the freshwater Carpathian brook lamprey ?
Did you know that footballer Ergys Kace was born in Albania , but moved to Greece at the age of three?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Dam was built on the Santa Ynez River to impound 14,500 acre-feet (17,900 dam 3 ) of water, but about half of the reservoir's capacity has been lost due to siltation ?
Did you know that a female literary critic and a Jewish senator were among the noted promoters of Romania 's fascist movements?
Did you know that the 360 kilometres (220 mi) North-South Carrier is the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Botswana?
Did you know that the Polish-Latin dictionary written by the Polish Arian Jan Mączyński in 1564 included translations of jargon, and was a subject of a satirical poem by Jan Kochanowski ?
Did you know that in 2013, the Czech Republic plans to directly elect its president for the first time in its history?
Did you know that the inaugural King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1951, with the then-largest prize ever in British horse racing, was won by Supreme Court ?
Did you know that Ibn Ra'iq ordered the destruction of the Nahrawan Canal to stop a mutinous army from advancing on Baghdad , even though it was the main irrigation network for the fields that fed the city?
Did you know that U.S. President Harry Truman won an upset victory in 1948 after trailing in the polls by a significant margin throughout nearly all of 1948?
Did you know that although he appeared in eight films with his wife , Kartolo was never cast as her lover?
Did you know that while serving as the Akwamu Chief, Agyen Kokobo ruled the state with his mother as the queen mother?
Did you know that the 18th-century Burmese chronicle Maha Yazawin of Toungoo Dynasty has formed the basis for all subsequent histories of the country ?
Did you know that when Dr. Joseph Brittan caused a scandal in England, he responded by emigrating to Christchurch , New Zealand, following his brother Guise Brittan ?
Did you know that " Kill the DJ " by Green Day was released on 14 August 2012, but it was also played at a secret show by the band eight days earlier?
Did you know that Magnus Sylling Olsen 's first goal in Tippeligaen was named the best goal of the round?
Did you know that the white waratah , mountain and Mueller's geebungs are three members of the protea family found only in Tasmania ?
Did you know that in response to " Heil Hitler ", Karl Schneider said he regretfully could not cure Adolf Hitler , as he was an ophthalmologist, not a neurologist?
Did you know that officialese can be traced to the exercise of authority going back as far as the oldest human civilizations ?
Did you know that Liverpool journalist John A. Willox , the winner of the 1892 Everton by-election , had become a newspaper editor at the age of 21?
Did you know that the Point Gammon Light was turned into an observation tower for bird-watching ?
Did you know that former Syrian chief-of-staff, Anwar Bannud , was the only Syrian officer to reach a rank of colonel under the French mandate ?
Did you know that no other racehorse has started with longer odds and won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes than Montaval in 1957?
Did you know that although John Tarchaneiotes was the nephew of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos , he became one of the leaders of the Arsenites , who denounced Michael's legitimacy?
Did you know that serving shrubs has recently become a trend in bars across the United States, Canada, and London?
Did you know that near the former Auschwitz concentration camp , the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim now fosters dialogue and reconciliation between Germans and Poles, Christians and Jews?
Did you know that the entire Arostropsis weevil genus is known from only one specimen, which is 45 million years old?
Did you know that Josh Falkingham scored a goal during his first match in the Scottish Football League First Division ?
Did you know that according to Hazel Robinson of California Literary Review , the title of Chris Brown 's song " Bassline " is a metaphor for "penis"?
Did you know that in 1955, Vimy became the first foreign horse to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes , and captured the largest prize in British horse-racing that year?
Did you know that Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels gave a violin to Nejiko Suwa that might have been a stolen Stradivarius ?
Did you know that Harry Steinfeldt performed in a minstrel show before becoming a professional baseball player?
Did you know that the Tasmanian mushroom Entoloma mathinnae is named after a 19th-century indigenous Australian girl?
Did you know that Veer Hamirji - Somnath ni Sakhate is the first ever Gujarati film to be shortlisted for an Oscar nomination ?
Did you know that bridges carrying 12 Mile Road and 23 Mile Road both cross the Kalamazoo River in Calhoun County, Michigan , and were added to the National Register of Historic Places the same day?
Did you know that Cancrocaeca xenomorpha , the world's most highly cave-adapted crab , lives only in the Maros karst of Sulawesi ?
Did you know that the Bristol Pound , launched on September 19, 2012, is the largest alternative currency in the UK to the official pound sterling ?
Did you know that every time William F. Fitzgerald was appointed to the bench it was to replace another judge who had died?
Did you know that in 1971, Alex Johnson said he would prefer "playing in hell" than remaining with the California Angels ?
Did you know that Hyderabad auditorium Ravindra Bharathi was inaugurated by former President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1961?
Did you know that Henry Herx , a film critic for Catholics , was upset that Siskel and Ebert walked out on a film, as "his job was to sit there and watch it and give an honest review" no matter how bad?
Did you know that the Altes Stadthaus in Bonn was built for French occupation forces after World War I ?
Did you know that the official video for One Direction 's " Live While We're Young " was premiered four days early following a leak of it online?
Did you know that in the early 1900s the Illecillewaet Glacier in British Columbia, Canada, was described as the "most visited glacier in the Americas"?
Did you know that Caine's Arcade , a short documentary on nine-year-old Caine's cardboard arcade, has raised over $200,000 towards his college fund and the creation of a non-profit organization?
Did you know that former Syrian prime minister Nasuhi al-Bukhari resigned after only three months in office when talks to ratify the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence broke down?
Did you know that the Theatre Royal is the oldest surviving theatre building in Manchester ?
Did you know that Brooks Kieschnick is the first Major League Baseball player to hit a home run as a pitcher , designated hitter and pinch hitter in the same season?
Did you know that the Chashme Shahi , a Mughal garden in Srinagar , was built by Ali Mardan who was a governor of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan ?
Did you know that the school of surgery founded by Charles Illingworth , Glasgow's Regius Professor of Surgery from 1939, "came to dominate academic surgery in Britain for a generation or more"?
Did you know that the Australian tree Agathis atropurpurea is known as the black kauri or the blue kauri because of the colour of its bark ?
Did you know that French tennis player Christian Boussus was part of the victorious French Davis Cup squad who held the title between 1929 and 1932, as " the Fifth Musketeer ", although he never played a match?
Did you know that Ray Long was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine between 1919 and 1931, and left to become a book publisher?
Did you know that despite early concerns that the race course would be too long for Black Jester , the colt won the 1914 St. Leger Stakes by five lengths and set a new record time?
Did you know that Enamorada de Ti included previously recorded songs by American singer Selena , which were turned into duets with other artists?
Did you know that explorer Matthew Brisbane survived three Antarctic shipwrecks but was murdered in the Falkland Islands in 1833?
Did you know that fossilized seeds of the extinct tree Eucommia montana are found from British Columbia to Colorado ?
Did you know that Muhammad al-Khuli was removed as the Syrian Air Force Intelligence chief by Hafez al-Assad due to international pressure regarding Khuli's alleged involvement in the Hindawi affair ?
Did you know that Ernie Padgett turned an unassisted triple play in the second game of his major league career?
Did you know that the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum is the only parish church in England to have a shrine containing the relics of a saint?
Did you know that the rough-scaled sea snake is highly venomous and every scale on its body is adorned with a spine?
Did you know that when it first appeared in the list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2010, Claude Bosi 's restaurant Hibiscus was one of only three UK-based restaurants in the list?
Did you know that Sazhen-S uses lasers to discern the slant ranges of space craft?
Did you know that Andreas Boltz is the cathedral music director at the Frankfurt Cathedral Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus?
Did you know that the proverbial phrase " when life gives you lemons, make lemonade " was first coined by Christian anarchist writer Elbert Hubbard in 1915?
Did you know that a set of running blades like Oscar Pistorius wears costs $30,000?
Did you know that the Hurtigruten steamer Nordnorge was sunk by Royal Navy warships, while employed by the Germans in a false flag operation?
Did you know that reproduction in the East African toads Nectophrynoides viviparus and Nectophrynoides laevis involves females giving birth to live young ?
Did you know that actress Ashleigh Cummings sat her Year Eleven exams early, so she could take part in the Australian film Tomorrow, When the War Began ?
Did you know that the Camberwell Collegiate School in London was designed by the architect of the city's Fishmongers' Hall ?
Did you know that civic activist and former toymaker Carl Berner is the oldest living man in New York City ?
Did you know that before entering The Clink restaurant, diners must hand over any mobile phones or sharp objects?
Did you know that the leaves of the Port Arthur plum smell like stale cabbage when crushed?
Did you know that journalist A.A. Hamidhan turned down a chance to be Kalimantan 's first governor?
Did you know that outreach services can target diverse populations, from sex workers to Wikipedia editors and readers?
Did you know that Loras College , Iowa's oldest post-secondary institution , was founded in 1839, seven years before Iowa became a U.S. state?
Did you know that Amanda Carter was the oldest member of the Gliders at the 2012 Summer Paralympics , and the only one who had participated in 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that the Syrian village of Hit contains a 4th-century Byzantine church dedicated to the martyrdom of Saint Sergius ?
Did you know that filmmaker and Eagle Scout David Lynch was declared medically unfit for conscription , was arrested for detonating a pipe bomb, and was present at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy ?
Did you know that the Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir is one of the oldest functioning temples in Karachi ?
Did you know that Robert Draper 's book Do Not Ask What Good We Do reveals that a meeting of Republicans in 2008 took place to "put the brakes" on Barack Obama 's presidency?
Did you know that Chamant 's win over Brown Prince and Silvio in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1877 was misreported as a victory by 2,000 men under "Chamat Croun" and "Prince Silvio" in the ongoing Russo-Turkish War ?
Did you know that of the 21 Grade I listed buildings in Coventry , 11 date back to the 14th century?
Did you know that Major League Baseball shortstop Neal Ball beat his close friend Babe Ruth in a bowling challenge in 1923?
Did you know that although the Fischerinsel in central Berlin was levelled in the 1960s to build tower blocks, a replica of the old inn Zum Nußbaum was constructed in the Nikolaiviertel in 1987?
Did you know that in his new book Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years , linguist Geoffrey Nunberg traces the origin of the insult " asshole " to the soldiers of World War II ?
Did you know that in a lost commentary on the Book of Genesis , Nerses IV the Gracious related the story of how some Armenian monks were allowed to see the Garden of Eden ?
Did you know that Autism Cymru worked with the Welsh Government to develop the first national autism online community ?
Did you know that Arizona Territorial Delegate Mark Smith was accused of receiving gold from the Wham Paymaster Robbery ?
Did you know that the author of Adab al-Tabib , called the "crowning achievement" in early Islamic medical ethics, may actually have been a Christian?
Did you know that Hans Thamm , who founded the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor in 1946 and conducted them for 31 years, recorded Bach's cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17 , in 1961?
Did you know that Siam's token participation in World War I paved the way for the country's full independence?
Did you know that Kelly Heath received his only Major League Baseball at-bat because of a case of hemorrhoids ?
Did you know that a Roman inscription at the Syrian town of Darkush on the Orontes River attests to the existence of a shipbuilding industry for river-going boats in the town?
Did you know that Kaapa Tjampitjinpa was the first Indigenous Australian artist to win a contemporary art award, and the first to have the export of his paintings refused under cultural heritage laws?
Did you know that a year after capturing Ahlat , Arjish and Van in Anatolia , the Ayyubid prince al-Awhad Ayyub faced revolts in each of those cities?
Did you know that the Indonesian album AkustiChrisye was inspired in part by Frank Sinatra 's rearrangements of his hits?
Did you know that the original Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Craiova , Romania , formed part of the unwalled city's defenses?
Did you know that demand for beer from Pittsburgh 's East End Brewing Company spiked after the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XLIII ?
Did you know that Shelley Chaplin was an All-American even though she was not American at all?
Did you know that al-Shaykh Saad in the Hauran region of Syria was mentioned by several Christian scholars and pilgrims, including Eusebius , Egeria and Jerome , as the town of St. Job ?
Did you know that the Thoroughbred Petrarch earned £11,700 in prize money from various races in 1876, the most in British horse-racing that year?
Did you know that Roekihati bucked a trend of intellectualising films in the Dutch East Indies ?
Did you know that the account of life in the Yertsevo labor camp , described in the book A World Apart by Herling-Grudziński , preceded Solzhenitsyn 's revelations about gulags by a decade?
Did you know that Norway international footballer Jarl André Storbæk captained Strømsgodset in his first match for the club?
Did you know that in the music video for " Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself) ", American singer Ne-Yo "channels" Michael Jackson in his dance moves?
Did you know that Meow , once the world's heaviest cat, gained international attention due to his weight loss plan?
Did you know that 15-year-old, 2012 British Paralympic swimmer Josef Craig set world records in both the heats and final of the 400 metre freestyle S7 event to win the gold medal?
Did you know that the town and refugee camp of Khan Dannun in Syria was originally a basalt caravanserai built by the Mamluk governor of Damascus in 1376?
Did you know that John J. Mullen was elected Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts , while he was suspended from his position on the Board of Aldermen?
Did you know that " Accrington Stanley, Who Are They? " was originally scripted to use Tottenham Hotspur instead of Accrington Stanley ?
Did you know that Memorial Hall was the first building shared by male and female students at the University of Delaware ?
Did you know that even though Panajotis Dimitriadis is a midfielder , his play as a centre back got him on TV2 's list as one of the five best players in the 2012 Norwegian First Division ?
Did you know that the majority of Chicago -based Calumet Photographic 's retail stores are in Europe?
Did you know that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir , BWV 131 , as a young organist at Mühlhausen 's Divi Blasii church?
Did you know that Romeo Acop is the incumbent representative of Antipolo City 's Second Legislative District ?
Did you know that the wattle Acacia riceana , native to Tasmania , was named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of its discovery?
Did you know that Joe Molloy , a school teacher, and Robert Nederlander , a theatre executive, served as managing partners of the New York Yankees when George Steinbrenner was banned from baseball?
Did you know that The Goat Puzzle in the 1996 adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is considered by many to be one of the hardest video game puzzles of all time?
Did you know that NASCAR driver Jeff Choquette ' s grandfather, Jack Choquette , won the 1954 NASCAR Modified Division championship?
Did you know that the daughter of Candice Cohen-Ahnine is a Jewish-Saudi princess whom French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to bring to France, but failed?
Did you know that although Charles Warren is best known for political leadership in environmental matters, he also crafted legislation that created the first U.S. statewide 9-1-1 emergency telephone service?
Did you know that a legend likens some of the earth pyramids near Stob in southwest Bulgaria to petrified wedding guests?