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Did you know that the Russian ironclad Pervenets was launched in the 1860s by the Imperial Russian Navy but was not scrapped by the Soviet Union until a century later during the 1960s?
Did you know that Shotwick Hall in Cheshire , England, was built in 1662, replacing an earlier manor house on a nearby moated site?
Did you know that Adrian van Kaam brought food to Jews and others in hiding during Holland 's " hunger winter " of 1944?
Did you know that 1964 CDC 6600 is considered as the first supercomputer in the world ?
Did you know that the Congregation of the Sons of the Holy Family was founded by the son of a peasant farmer?
Did you know that World Bicycle Relief has distributed more than 70,000 bicycles , mostly in Africa, and nearly 70 percent of them went to women and girls?
Did you know that the Fokker FG-2 made the world's first passenger flight with a glider in 1922?
Did you know that the breed club of the Treeing Tennessee Brindle was founded in Illinois ?
Did you know that Ramsdell Hall in Cheshire , England, has been described by architectural writers as a "curious" and "appealingly quirky" house?
Did you know that a door at Otterburn Tower still contains the initials of Jacobite rebel Mad Jack Hall , while nearby Otterburn Hall 's land was recompense to the descendant of Lord Douglas who died at the Battle of Otterburn ?
Did you know that Philip Hench and Edward Kendall are the only two Nobel Prize winners affiliated with Mayo Clinic at the time of their award?
Did you know that the Soviet Union 's Yakovlev AIR-3 aircraft was designed by a student?
Did you know that the 1994 Offshore Sanriku earthquake is considered an "ultra-slow" earthquake, as slip continued for more than a year afterwards?
Did you know that environmental activist Pete Gray once threw his shoes at former Australian Prime Minister John Howard ?
Did you know that Operation Slapstick , part of the Allied invasion of Italy , was only planned after the Italians had offered to let them land unopposed?
Did you know that, while the first official suggestion of a nationwide association football league in Germany, the Reichsliga , was made in 1932, such a league was not introduced until 1963?
Did you know that the reverse of the Common Security and Defence Policy Service Medal contains the Latin phrase Pro Pace Unum , meaning "United for Peace"?
Did you know that Antiguan politician Molwyn Joseph , dismissed from the government after allegations of impropriety, was reappointed to the Cabinet after less than two years?
Did you know that the Pangani Longclaw is only 20 cm (7.9 in) long?
Did you know that the Spanish film Furtivos (Poachers) won best picture at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 1975?
Did you know that the novel My Sad Republic has a dash of "friar erotica" in it?
Did you know that Tuscan admiral Jacopo Inghirami was Governor of Leghorn ?
Did you know that Handel's oratorio Messiah is structured in three parts, with a libretto about the Christian Messiah drawn from Bible verses, mostly taken from the Old Testament ?
Did you know that Haigh Hall , which replaced the ancient manor house of Haigh , was built between 1827 and 1840 by James Lindsay, 7th Earl of Balcarres ?
Did you know that former policeman Ian Oliver is the father of Craig Oliver , a special adviser in David Cameron 's government?
Did you know that BICA , ICAG and ICAJ are ICAC members, but as of 2008 CISPA was not?
Did you know that the storehouse at Alpine Plantation in Alpine, Alabama , was torn down so its timber could be used to build a carport ?
Did you know that the Javanese eat cat rice ?
Did you know that from 1936 to 1977, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones was both president and head baseball coach of historically black Grambling State University in Louisiana?
Did you know that one person was killed by police during disturbances occasioned by the site selection of the Ganga Rail-Road Bridge in India?
Did you know that Theresa Two Bulls was the first American Indian woman elected to the South Dakota Legislature and the second woman elected as president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation ?
Did you know that the overall cost for the Hungarian King in winning the Siege of Hainburg was 200,000 florins?
Did you know that former professional wrestler Brick Bronsky was a leading man for Troma Studios in the early 1990s?
Did you know that aburatorigami was used by kabuki actors to keep their thick makeup on while absorbing excess oil and sweat?
Did you know that the campus of Mount Ida College is situated on land that once was the estate of Robert Gould Shaw II , a cousin of Robert Gould Shaw ?
Did you know that the Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767) ended the four-century-old Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1767 but the Burmese were forced to withdraw within the year of their victory by the Chinese invasions of Burma ?
Did you know that the Trigg Hound , bred for hunting in Kentucky, was called "best" for big game hunting in Africa?
Did you know that Matthew Jarvis became the third November Niner to earn a World Series of Poker bracelet in the following year?
Did you know that the author of An Embarrassment of Riches reimagined the Philippines as an island instead of an archipelago?
Did you know that after several odd incidents during the recording for Megadeth 's TH1RT3EN , guitarist-vocalist Dave Mustaine speculated about a connection with the unlucky number 13 ?
Did you know that the Living Willow Theatre , an open air theatre constructed of living willow trees, is located near the village of Llanwrthwl and occasionally holds outdoor performances of Shakespeare ?
Did you know that Joe Ebanks has on multiple occasions won two large multitable online poker tournaments in the same day?
Did you know that the HMCS Eyebright was a Flower-class corvette named after the genus Euphrasia of medicinal flowering plants?
Did you know that the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City has been ranked as having the highest standard of living in Mexico ?
Did you know that football club ASK Voitsberg changed both its name and team colours during the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany ?
Did you know that the name of Metro, Lampung , derives from the Javanese word for "friend"?
Did you know that SS - Oberscharführer Peter Voss was the first commander of the Auschwitz crematoria and gas chambers , buildings used to kill 900,000 people?
Did you know that the Palace of Versailles Research Centre is the first research centre established in a French palace?
Did you know that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal was the first honour created specifically for Canada?
Did you know that chemist Joan Berkowitz made important discoveries in the fields of spacecraft construction and pollution control?
Did you know that Mureybet was a village in modern-day Syria believed to have been occupied between 10,200 and 8,000 BC?
Did you know that Bostonian Anna Eliot Ticknor is the "mother" of correspondence schools in the United States?
Did you know that the Maupin Carbon Dragon has a 44 ft (13 m) wingspan but weighs only 145 lb (66 kg)?
Did you know that John Michael Kudrick , the current bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma , holds master's degrees in mathematics and computer and information science ?
Did you know that Theodore Dalrymple 's book Our Culture, What's Left of It describes British culture as a "moral swamp"?
Did you know that in the Macedonian Siege of Pelium , Alexander the Great managed to secure his line of retreat without a single reported death?
Did you know that military historian Didrik Thomas Johannes Schnitler was named a knight by Norway, by Prussia, and twice by Sweden?
Did you know that Pierrepont School, Frensham , occupied a listed English country house designed by Richard Norman Shaw ?
Did you know that Georg Ræder played a central role in the planning and construction of the first public railway line in Norway?
Did you know that Tuttuki Bako players insert their finger 60 mm (2.4 in) into an electronic device to render images of that finger on an LCD screen?
Did you know that Air Vice-Marshal Frank Inglis was head of RAF Intelligence in 1942 and persuaded President Roosevelt to direct the main American war effort against Germany rather than Japan?
Did you know that American painter Robert Beauchamp originally attended Cranbrook Academy of Art to make money by learning pottery ... and for the love of a girl?
Did you know that the Long-tailed Tit uses moss and the silk of spider egg cocoons as a natural form of Velcro for holding its nest together?
Did you know that Nickelodeon Fit is a video game for the Nintendo Wii designed by its publishers to make children more physically active?
Did you know that the independently produced 2006 US film The Teddy Bear Master was the subject of two separate lawsuits?
Did you know that a No Walls show was described as "a brilliant collision of sinewy punk attack, angular-jazz maneuvers and catchy art-pop songwriting"?
Did you know that during the Hesperian , Mars changed from a wet, warm world to today's dry, cold, and dusty planet?
Did you know that John Donne 's poem " The Good-Morrow " references seven sleeping children , cordiform maps and Paul the Apostle ?
Did you know that Lee Felsenstein designed the Pennywhistle modem to replace a commercial design used on Community Memory , the first bulletin board system ?
Did you know that the novel Voyeurs & Savages features Peeping Toms from the Philippines and the United States?
Did you know that automatic AK-47 rifles were used in 42% of killings in Ikotos County , South Sudan , in 2009?
Did you know that even after Muhammad ordered the demolition of the pagan idol, Dhul Khalasa , it was resurrected and worshipped until 1815, when members of the Wahabbi movement demolished it with gunfire?
Did you know that Lee Corner in Alexandria, Virginia , includes the homes of U.S. Revolutionary War Officer Light Horse Harry Lee , U.S. Attorney General Charles Lee , and Confederate General Robert E. Lee ?
Did you know that the hasty marriage of Thomas Thynne of Longleat may have helped to inspire Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet ?
Did you know that the writer of Harry Potter , J. K. Rowling , lived as a child at Church Cottage, Tutshill , a Grade II listed building constructed in about 1852 in the Victorian Gothic style?
Did you know that Badi Uzzaman was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom after acting in a film hostile to the government of Pakistani General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq ?
Did you know that fish ponds at the Great Budbridge Manor on the Isle of Wight appear to be medieval ?
Did you know that females of the jumping spider Portia labiata use silk draglines as territory marks, and use these to avoid females of higher fighting ability and spend more time around less powerful fighters?
Did you know that Frederik Wilhelm Stabell 's merits at the Battle of Trangen and other battles of the Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 earned him the Order of Dannebrog ?
Did you know that despite overseeing the construction of the crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz , what specifically shocked SS - Obersturmführer Robert Mulka at the camp was his colleagues' dress sense?
Did you know that, according to tradition, Stephen Collins Foster was inspired to write the ballad My Old Kentucky Home after a visit to Federal Hill , the mansion of Kentucky Senator John Rowan ?
Did you know that HMCS Galt , a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy, escorted trade convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic ?
Did you know that a small fetus is preserved in the holotype fossil of the extinct stingray Asterotrygon ?
Did you know that enrollment at the University of Louisiana at Monroe grew nearly fivefold between 1958 and 1976 during the tenure of its president, George T. Walker ?
Did you know that some ant species on Sebuku island may be descended from survivors of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa ?
Did you know that on 20 June 2011, the hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec announced they were joining forces for Operation Anti-Security ?
Did you know that despite the customary practice of Catholic bishops tendering their resignations when they turn 75, Andrew Pataki 's retirement was not accepted by the Pope until after he turned 80?
Did you know that the Oregon white truffle is a major component of the diet of Northern flying squirrels ?
Did you know that in 2007 politician Mary Deros of Montreal helped prevent an historic city avenue from being renamed after Robert Bourassa , a former Quebec premier ?
Did you know that bass voice and trombone carry the cantus firmus of a famous chorale melody in the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135 ?
Did you know that tennis player Scott Lipsky , winner of the 2011 French Open Mixed Doubles Championship , was ranked #1 in the U.S. Juniors in both singles and doubles in 1995?
Did you know that many people still plant Jove's beard on the roofs of houses, as Charlemagne recommended?
Did you know that Picasso said he discovered "what painting was all about" after seeing African art in the Paris Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro ?
Did you know that detailed drawings by French explorer Louis Delaporte guided the reconstruction of Pha That Luang , a major Buddhist temple in Laos?
Did you know that the world has been divided into 11 constituencies for French residents overseas to vote in the 2012 legislative election ?
Did you know that Sam Stein won his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2011 World Series of Poker but his largest single-event prize was a $1 million result at the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure ?
Did you know that the vocals in the music of Nier are sung in versions of French, English, and Japanese after 1000 years of language drift ?
Did you know that conversation in a Paris café inspired the Surrealist sculpture Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) , consisting of a fur-covered teacup, saucer and spoon?
Did you know that Elizabeth Báthory , known as the "Blood Countess" because of her reign of terror, torturing and murdering hundreds of women, once resided at the Burg Lockenhaus ?
Did you know that the Japanese government once put a bounty on the head of photojournalist H. S. Wong ?
Did you know that Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior , grandson of Quincy Adams Shaw and a member of an influential Boston Brahmin family, was co-inventor of the iron lung ?
Did you know that all five of Owais Ahmed 's in the money finishes at the 2011 World Series of Poker were in Mixed poker games ?
Did you know that Martin Luther 's chorale Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (From deep affliction I cry out to you) was sung at his own funeral?
Did you know that the 1987 baseball film Long Gone , starring William Petersen , has been described as "three parts Bull Durham , two parts Slap Shot , add a dose of Bingo Long and a pinch of The Longest Yard "?
Did you know that triple Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna cited Terry Fullerton , his teammate in their karting days , as the driver he felt most satisfied racing against throughout his career?
Did you know that costume designer Sandy Powell earned her third Academy Award for the 2009 film The Young Victoria ?
Did you know that the figure of Józef Tusk , grandfather of current Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk , was in the center of the "Wehrmacht affair" of the 2005 Polish presidential election ?
Did you know that capnomancy was still practiced in New England as late as 2003?
Did you know that during the Swedish campaign against Norway in 1814 commander Andreas Samuel Krebs successfully led his troops to victory both in the Battle of Lier and in the Battle of Matrand ?
Did you know that the 2001 BMW F650CS motorcycle's offbeat, " iMac -inspired" styling was meant to attract non-motorcyclists of the extreme sports generation?
Did you know that of Chris Moorman 's twelve World Series of Poker in the money finishes, three have been in $10,000 Championship events and five in six-handed events?
Did you know that the mining settlement of Bwana Mkubwa received thousands of Polish refugees who arrived in Northern Rhodesia during World War II ?
Did you know that George Rowe , the High Bailiff of the Manor of Cheltenham , left England to become an Australian gold prospector, but instead found success creating watercolour paintings ?
Did you know that in 1953, the Jacksonville Braves became one of the first two racially integrated baseball teams in the South Atlantic League by fielding players including Hank Aaron and Félix Mantilla ?
Did you know that in 1929 Thomas Ford Chipp found Bidens chippii in the Imatong Mountains ?
Did you know that Confederate officer William L. Brandon had an ankle-joint shattered in battle but initially refused whiskey as a painkiller because he only liked it with sugar added?
Did you know that the 2011 royal tour of Canada featured the first Canadian citizenship ceremony to include a member of Canada's royal family ?
Did you know that Goman was an ex-slave leader who led a peasant revolt in Southern Grand'Anse , Haiti between 1807 and 1820?
Did you know that the colonial city of Batavia (today Jakarta ) was founded after the previous city, governed by the Sultanate of Banten , was completely eradicated by the Dutch colonists?
Did you know that Reinhold and Ruth Benesch discovered the key role played by 2,3-bisphosphoglyceric acid in the transport of oxygen by hemoglobin?
Did you know that Brad Pitt 's Plan B Entertainment beat Leonardo DiCaprio 's production company in a bidding war for the rights to produce World War Z , an upcoming post-apocalyptic horror film?
Did you know that Taiwanese singer Suming merges indigenous lyrics and electronic dance music to evoke specific qualities of attractive young men in his matrilineal Amis tribe, such as fishing and cooking skills?
Did you know that the fungus Tremella encephala was officially described in 1801, but it was not known until 1961 that its central core is actually the remains of its host Stereum sanguinolentum ?
Did you know that during Sotir Kolea 's term as director of the National Library of Albania the number of books there was tripled?
Did you know that after the Siege of Retz , the Kingdom of Hungary occupied the city, leading to the growth of its wine industry?
Did you know that the Austrian Church of St. Nikolaus in Lockenhaus includes an organ with 2400 pipes , as well as an unusual black Madonna on the altar of the crypt ?
Did you know that the man behind the courteous baritone " Mind the gap " announcements in the Delhi Metro is Shammi Narang ?
Did you know that the Livingstone Museum , opened in 1934, is the oldest and largest museum in Zambia ?
Did you know that Fay Ajzenberg-Selove had to fight a discrimination case against the University of Pennsylvania to be hired as a tenured professor of physics?
Did you know that the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act freed slaves in Washington, D.C. almost nine months before the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation ?
Did you know that one sickly lion, two Swedish kings, and 128 cannons were involved in the history of the orangery of Uppsala 's Botanical Garden ?
Did you know that Air Commodore Peter Raw had joined the Royal Australian Air Force after being rejected by the Royal Australian Navy ?
Did you know that Mona Vale in Christchurch , New Zealand , was turned into a public park, following the threat of subdivision of the property and demolition of the homestead in the 1960s?
Did you know that Arkansas State Representative Robert W. Glover of Sheridan introduced the resolution in 1909 which led to the establishment of the future Arkansas State University in Jonesboro ?
Did you know that today you only really need to remember four names (North, East, South, West) to get around, but ancient Greeks and Romans had to memorize 12 different wind names to orient themselves?
Did you know that unlike most hotels from the same period, the Eagle Hotel , built in 1826 in Waterford, Pennsylvania , has quoining ?
Did you know that producer Katrina Dunn of Vancouver was awarded the Golden Bra in 2010?
Did you know that Collins H. Johnston , halfback on the first Michigan football team in 1879, later published papers on eclampsia, tuberculosis, cardiac murmurs, and pulmonary abscess?
Did you know that the only loss of life recorded in the 70-year history of the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia was as a result of the sinking of the steamship Cheslakee ?
Did you know that Carl Legien organized a massive general strike in Germany to counter the right-wing Kapp-Putsch of March 1920 ?
Did you know that according to violinist Gidon Kremer , the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria philosophically resembles the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont , US?
Did you know that when Jeff Mellinger , the last active-duty draftee in the U.S. Army from the Vietnam War era, received his draft papers, he thought that they were written to him by then-President Richard Nixon ?
Did you know that Holby City character Oliver Valentine has been described as "a doctor with the blue eyes of Fonda and the medical competence of fondue"?
Did you know that the earliest evidence for domesticated wheat and barley comes from Iraq ed-Dubb in Jordan and dates to the mid-10th millennium BC?
Did you know that the Redstone Test Stand was built in Alabama by Wernher von Braun 's rocketry team for just $25,000 out of concrete and salvaged materials?
Did you know that Simon Cowell conceived the idea for Red or Black? , the most expensive game show ever made?
Did you know that the pabasa is a chanting marathon practised during Holy Week in the Philippines ?
Did you know that the Talent , a multiple unit passenger train in the rail system of Germany, Austria and Norway, was developed by Waggonfabrik Talbot in Aachen ?
Did you know that Tsar Alexander II of Russia had a special crystal bottle of Roederer champagne made for the Three Emperors Dinner in 1867 so he could admire the bubbles?
Did you know that observers of the 2007 French presidential election could tell which major candidate had earned each rating in a majority judgment poll, even though the winner under this voting system was not the official one?
Did you know that the fee-for-service model encourages overutilization , which is a major factor behind the high cost of U.S. health care ?
Did you know that The Ride to Conquer Cancer raised more money than any other cycling fundraiser in Canadian history?
Did you know that Clemenstone , a hamlet in south Wales near Wick , was the seat of several high sheriffs of Glamorganshire ?
Did you know that the U.S. commanders at the Battle of La Flor and Battle of Las Cruces were each awarded the Navy Cross for their actions against the Sandinistas in the Banana Wars ?
Did you know that Anino ng Kahapon is one of the few pro-American novels written while the Philippines was still a territory of the United States ?
Did you know that years after long-time actress Kathleen Cody retired to Florida, she was cast in the Peter Bogdanovich film Illegally Yours when it was filming in her town?
Did you know that Sir William Young, 1st Baronet , in his will gave four Caribbean estates to his son , but the father's 1788 death left behind £110,000 in debt, a figure equal to at least £11 million today?
Did you know that a de Cock decorated the ceiling at Breda Palace ?
Did you know that in the 1950s, Wardang Island was the site of a pioneering experiment to develop a biological solution for controlling the plague of introduced rabbits in Australia?
Did you know that before he began shaping sculptures of the American West , Grant Speed of Utah had been a ranch-hand, horse breaker, and rodeo performer?
Did you know that the penis of the Lesser Water Boatman Micronecta scholtzi creates mating calls of 99.2 decibels , making it the loudest animal on earth, scaled for its size?
Did you know that yak butter stays edible for up to a year and finds a new use after it gets old and rancid?
Did you know that Dorice Reid died less than a month before she was supposed to become High Commissioner of the Cook Islands to New Zealand?
Did you know that the Aparados da Serra is one of the first national parks of Brazil and was created to protect the Itaimbezinho canyon?
Did you know that Martin Wines was the first state representative from Greene County, Indiana ?