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Did you know that after being auctioned at Christie's for over £100,000, the 16th-century Sapieha beaker was presented as a gift to Lithuania by the Ortiz brothers?
Did you know that a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed shortly after take-off at Bakers Creek, Queensland in 1943, killing 40 of the 41 service personnel on board and making it Australia 's worst aviation disaster?
Did you know that Muhammad al-Shaybani , a jurist of the Hanafi school of thought , was the student of Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf ?
Did you know that the Franconian derby between 1. FC Nuremberg and SpVgg Greuther Fürth is the most played football match in Germany with over 250 games between the two sides?
Did you know that Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted from an injury while playing cricket was a reason he began to paint?
Did you know that Opoku Ware II , King of the Ashanti people from 1970 to 1999, worked as a building inspector , a surveyor , a lawyer , and an ambassador prior to his enthronement?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of al-Fasayil is the site of the ancient village of Phasaelis founded by Herod the Great in dedication to his brother Phasael ?
Did you know that the Indian politician Jamuna Nishad was dropped as cabinet minister after being named in the murder case of a police constable ?
Did you know that a memorial honoring U.S. soldiers who died in the deadliest air disaster in Australian history is located at the Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know that Pete Young declined to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected in the 1986 minor league baseball draft, but signed with the Montreal Expos three years later?
Did you know that the Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti promulgated the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997?
Did you know that the first major work published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea , was a book of prose sketches inspired by Washington Irving ?
Did you know that because it is frequently accompanied by serious injuries, sternal fracture is associated with a mortality rate of 25–45%?
Did you know that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped from Cherokees after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk ?
Did you know that the banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu , owned by Alpha Bank , is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display?
Did you know that Samuel Pepys 's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison income by publishing dubious Confessions of the condemned at Newgate Prison ?
Did you know that less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of the Zachary Taylor House , built by Richard Taylor ?
Did you know that the East Roman general Comentiolus was briefly imprisoned for being insolent towards the khagan of the Avars ?
Did you know that the Shrine of Hazrat Ali , said to be the burial place of Ali , also gave the city of Mazari Sharif its name?
Did you know that the total cultivable area of Seychelles is only about 400 hectares?
Did you know that HMS Ontario , an 80-foot sloop of war recently discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario , is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes ?
Did you know that before the 17th century , penetrating trauma was treated by pouring hot oil into wounds to cauterize damaged blood vessels ?
Did you know that the Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed , in Kandahar , has been described as the "heart of Afghanistan "?
Did you know that the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti launched an armed struggle to achieve autonomy for the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts ?
Did you know that Virginia City was the prototype for future urban/industrial boomtowns ?
Did you know that approximately 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed at Maumere , the hardest hit town of the 1992 Indonesia earthquake ?
Did you know that Australian fishermen often refer to the Western school whiting as "bastard whiting" because its presence in the catch reduces the presence of targeted species ?
Did you know that Ukranian president Viktor Yushchenko criticized the country's 2008 coal mine collapse as a failing of Ukraine's government policy?
Did you know that problem sets are a common form of assignment in most university science courses ?
Did you know  that a United States district court decision against the Omaha Horse Railway Company allowed cable car tracks to be installed in Omaha, Nebraska ?
Did you know that Alén Diviš painted illustrations for nineteenth-century Czech ballads after spending the Second World War in La Santé Prison and several internment camps?
Did you know that the 1960 – 1961 NBC Western series Klondike featured James Coburn as con man Jeff Durain in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway ?
Did you know that André Devigny , a member of the French Resistance , escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook?
Did you know that an exploding cigar was at the heart of an alleged plot by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate Fidel Castro ?
Did you know that Kirori Singh Bainsla leads a protest movement that recently attempted to bring Delhi to a standstill?
Did you know that actor George Takei 's autobiography To the Stars was featured on display for a month at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library ?
Did you know that after three years of absence, the juniors' team of the Mapúa Institute of Technology , which is the winningest basketball team in the Philippine NCAA , will return in the 2008–09 season ?
Did you know that the Union Pacific Railroad made the Herndon House its headquarters 12 years after celebrating the launch of construction on the First Transcontinental Railroad there?
Did you know that Fortified Area Silesia were Polish fortifications constructed along the interbellum border of Poland and Germany in the area of Upper Silesia ?
Did you know that Christian musician Francesca Battistelli said she knew she would spend her life performing after seeing the musical The Secret Garden on Broadway at the age of six?
Did you know that the town of Morris, Connecticut is named in honor of coeducation pioneer Major James Morris , who served in the Continental Army with George Washington ?
Did you know that there are seven known subspecies of Keeltail needlefish , each being found in a specific region?
Did you know that The Fourth Tower of Inverness is a radio drama that combines Americana and old-time radio with past life regression , Sufi wisdom , Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism ?
Did you know that with Cambodian-Vietnamese relations improving after the Cambodian-Vietnamese War , both nations set a target to increase bilateral trade to USD 2.3 billion by 2010?
Did you know that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery , except where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried?
Did you know that of the eleven Japanese films accepted as nominees for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since its inception, none have won it?
Did you know that Church of Scientology International official Leisa Goodman went on a six-month mission to investigate the treatment of Scientologists in Germany ?
Did you know that the tourist industry in Seychelles was born with the completion of the Seychelles International Airport in 1971?
Did you know that the first exhibition at the Boeing Galleries was a series of photographs taken from helicopters and hot air balloons ?
Did you know that Pope Benedict XVI received George W. Bush this month in a medieval tower where Pope John Paul II resided temporarily while his papal apartments were being remodeled?
Did you know that for helping endow a professorship of botany at the University of Oxford , James Sherard was granted a doctorate in medicine by the university in 1731?
Did you know that there were 18 lieutenant generals in the Confederate States Army ?
Did you know that the Prague pneumatic post system is the last remaining of its kind in the world?
Did you know that the presidential campaign of Chuck Baldwin began only two weeks before the 2008 Constitution Party Convention yet still edged the campaign of political veteran Alan Keyes in the delegate count?
Did you know that Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992?
Did you know that Christopher Smart 's The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was mocked for its dedication to a three-year-old child?
Did you know that Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography ?
Did you know that Y1 , a strain of tobacco containing twice as much nicotine , was developed by Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the nicotine content?
Did you know that most of the water in the 267 acre (1.08 km²) Lake Delton emptied out in two hours after heavy rains caused it to overflow its banks?
Did you know that after agreeing to a prisoner exchange following the 1799 Siege of Mantua , the Austrians reneged by arresting soldiers of the Polish Second Legion as " deserters "?
Did you know that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard composed the music for Space Jazz – a concept album companion to his science fiction novel Battlefield Earth ?
Did you know that while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms , much of it is generated from the fundamental vocabulary ?
Did you know that Eugene C. Barker ' s 1925 work The Life of Stephen F. Austin has been described as the best single piece of scholarship on a Texas topic?
Did you know that the Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych , intended to celebrate traditional Roman paganism , was incorporated into a Christian reliquary for almost 500 years?
Did you know that Indian Agent James Givins worked with Mississauga leader Peter Jones to establish the Credit Mission, which became an example for the Reserve System in Canada?
Did you know that Tarrytown 's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York ?
Did you know that Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast , believed to be the city's last surviving gothic building?
Did you know that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism , Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk ?
Did you know that Jørgen Aall , one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814, went out of business as a ship-owner only four years later?
Did you know that two members of the country music group One Flew South met while starring in a production of the Broadway musical The Civil War ?
Did you know that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $ 200 million of funding from the United States federal government ?
Did you know that British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two?
Did you know that writer Neil Gaiman invented the fiction that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie ?
Did you know that the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf courses in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the Free French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career?
Did you know that anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab?
Did you know that most historians believe stories about Dutch shipwreck survivors of the Concordia , settling at a desert oasis in Australia in 1708, were a hoax ?
Did you know that the fluted black elfin saddle is actually a mushroom that appears in woodlands and lawns in North America and Europe?
Did you know that GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to the State Duma , while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of Russian politician Anatoly Chubais ?
Did you know that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky ?
Did you know that when Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi repeatedly disobeyed imperial directives, subordinate generals began to disobey Li Guangbi?
Did you know that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton , Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba "?
Did you know that the Timexpo Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut includes a forty-foot high replica of an Easter Island statue?
Did you know that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of the General Belgrano , resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting ?
Did you know that as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations , 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for free eye treatment?
Did you know that Erik Fankhouser is the first West Virginia native to become a professional bodybuilder ?
Did you know that Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-century Ethiopia , which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless?
Did you know that Minnie Lou Bradley , a Texas Panhandle rancher , was the first woman ever to head the American Angus Association?
Did you know that the SS Carsbreck survived being torpedoed by Heinrich Liebe 's U-38 in 1940, but was sunk by Reinhard Suhren 's U-564 in 1941?
Did you know that Canadian supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri was the daughter of an Islamic cleric who opposed his daughter's career?
Did you know that the Vermont Square , Lincoln Heights , and Cahuenga Branches are the only surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that Bob Beck led the effort to capture and breed the remaining wild Guam Rails , Micronesian Kingfishers and other endangered Guamanian native birds in captivity ?
Did you know that Christopher Smart 's Hymns for the Amusement of Children were finished by the author while in debtors' prison and that he died before receiving notice that the work was a success?
Did you know that Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement Administration , a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners?
Did you know that the Czech castle of Hauenštejn is private property of a descendant of the so-called "Father of the Nation" František Palacký ?
Did you know that the Church of Daniel's Band , based in Michigan , chose its name from the title of a sermon delivered by Charles Spurgeon in London ?
Did you know that in 1926 Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk produced a firewood-powered snow melter?
Did you know that the Persian walled city of Ray was a military objective so frequently that, starting in the late 12th century , its inhabitants gradually moved out to an undefended village nearby called Tehran ?
Did you know that Joseph Hugh Allen was a member of the so-called reform "Dirty 30" of the Texas House of Representatives who pushed for ethics legislation in light of the Sharpstown banking scandal?
Did you know that one of the humanoid robots created by Japanese roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi was listed in Time ’s Coolest Inventions in 2004?
Did you know that the winners of the Twenty20 Champions League , a tournament between Twenty20 cricket champions from Australia , England , India and South Africa , will collect a prize estimated at £2.5 million?
Did you know that Marcus J. Ranum suggested that the U.S. government register whitehouse.com long before it was registered by an adult entertainment site?
Did you know that St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove , one of nine Coptic churches in the British Isles , has an iconostasis which is believed to be the tallest in the world?
Did you know that since its establishment in 1986, the North American Waterfowl Management Plan has spent $ 4.5 billion to protect wetlands used by migratory birds in North America ?
Did you know that Arthur Hartley developed the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation which is credited with safely landing 2,500 aircraft during World War Two ?
Did you know that McDonald's Cycle Center in Chicago, Illinois provides lockers, showers, a snack bar, bike repair, and bike rental to bicycle commuters ?
Did you know that after being shipwrecked on Malé Atoll in 1973, Tony Hussein Hinde pioneered surfing in the Maldives , which was previously unknown in the country?
Did you know that the North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age sixteen and sent to a penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground communist anti-colonial movement?
Did you know that Walter Brennan starred in the 1964–1965 ABC sitcom The Tycoon as an eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation?
Did you know that the Espada Cemetery was the first formally sanctioned burial ground in Havana, Cuba ?
Did you know that Hall of fame coach Al Arbour coached the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League three different times?
Did you know that Christopher Smart 's Hymns and Spiritual Songs were composed in a mental asylum where the author was held for "religious mania"?
Did you know that Madagascar 's unique wildlife, such as the Red-bellied Lemur , is one of the country's main tourist attractions ?
Did you know that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?
Did you know that the 7th District Police Station , on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois , was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of Hill Street Blues ?
Did you know that Romanian businessman Gheorghe Ştefănescu was executed for selling large quantities of adulterated wine ?
Did you know that in addition to its bus services, Louisville 's Transit Authority of River City operates diesel -powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and shopping districts?
Did you know that French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe designed the structure that initially housed the Hermitage Museum and the palace where Grigory Rasputin was murdered?
Did you know that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky 's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
Did you know that Eleanor King was a principal dancer and choreographer in the early days of American modern dance ?
Did you know that the Yūshūkan , a Japanese military and war museum owned and operated by Yasukuni Shrine , has been at the center of an international controversy ?
Did you know that Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay , Half Nelson ?
Did you know that the Hungarian Communist Party , despite losing badly in the 1945 election and doing just slightly better in 1947 , held absolute power by 1949 ?
Did you know that the statue of Daniel Webster that sits on top of the Daniel Webster Memorial in Washington, D.C. was a gift by the founder of the Washington Post ?
Did you know that instead of discarding runes in favour of the Latin alphabet , the Scandinavians developed the extended medieval runes ?
Did you know that Johan Santana led Major League Baseball in 2006 with an earned run average of 2.77?
Did you know that the Roman-Parthian War of 58–63 over Armenia ended with a compromise that saw the Arsacid dynasty established on the Armenian throne?
Did you know that Arthur Byron Coble 's classic 1929 monograph Algebraic geometry and theta functions was still being published by the American Mathematical Society as late as 1982?
Did you know that half of all Quebec 's program spending for the Eastern Habitat Joint Venture is devoted to the nationally significant wetlands in the biosphere reserve and region of Lac Saint-Pierre ?
Did you know that Edward Cawston made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex whilst he was still at school?
Did you know that the North Exelon Pavilions are the first structures in Chicago, Illinois to use building integrated photovoltaic cells?
Did you know that as a poet, Antoni Edward Odyniec was a mediocre imitator of his friend, the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz , but left colorful memoirs describing Mickiewicz's private life ?
Did you know that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned James Joyce 's Ulysses for containing "a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages?
Did you know that Platte Mound M , maintained by students from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville , is believed to be the largest letter "M" in the world?
Did you know that ship-owner and Norwegian Parliament member Hans Eleonardus Møller has been described as the "father of Norwegian marine insurance "?
Did you know that the Conscript Fathers were senators drafted for the ancient Roman Senate much like conscription is a military draft?
Did you know that in a toll dispute between residents of Bandar Mahkota Cheras and the Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire, a barrier blocking a shunpike was repeatedly torn down and rebuilt?
Did you know that Philip Cochran was the inspiration for the character "Flip Corkin" in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff ?
Did you know that Odell McBrayer , an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1974, proposed the televising of executions to deter violent crime?
Did you know that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives ' request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988?
Did you know that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson ?
Did you know that Indonesian journalist , S. K. Trimurti , who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities , later became the country's first minister of labor ?
Did you know that critical reception to Hogarth's Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo was so harsh the artist was forced to remove the painting from exhibition?
Did you know that the initials of John Hathorn and his wife carved into brick on their house in Warwick, New York show the influence of Germanic building traditions ?
Did you know that Marathi film Shwaas was India 's official entry to the 2004 Oscars but faced financial problems to showcase and promote the film?
Did you know that William Bragge donated his 1,500 volume Miguel de Cervantes collection to the Birmingham library in 1873, but many of the books were destroyed during a fire?
Did you know that the record for the most named tropical storms to form in a month in East Pacific history since reliable records began dates back to 1968?
Did you know that E.S. Richardson , a Louisiana educator for whom the E.S. Richardson Elementary School is named, ended his career as an administrator of the wartime Office of Price Administration ?
Did you know that the Bahá'í population in the United Arab Emirates is estimated to be the second-largest in the Middle East ?
Did you know that there are more than twenty runestones on the Isle of Man ?
Did you know that Hopkinsville, Kentucky 's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain ?
Did you know that Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madavan Nair declared at the Raman Science Centre , Nagpur that India would have astronauts in space by 2015?
Did you know that Desdamona won the Minnesota Music Award for Best Spoken Word Artist every year from 2000 to 2006, except 2001 and 2002, when nobody won?
Did you know that Mishmar David was the first kibbutz to be privatised ?
Did you know that No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons , a 2001 report by Human Rights Watch , blamed feigned ignorance by prison officials for the allegedly widespread prison rape in the United States?
Did you know that Mieszko Bolesławowic could have become a king of Poland , if he had not been poisoned?
Did you know that the Hillsboro Central light rail station had the only library located at a mass transit station in the western U.S. when it opened?