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Did you know that when appointed, Sir Rigby Swift was the youngest judge in the High Court of Justice?
Did you know that "Mr. Tambourine Man" was the first song written by Bob Dylan to reach #1 on a pop music chart?
Did you know that Albert Midlane wrote over 700 hymns, his best known being "There's a Friend for Little Children"?
Did you know that Charles Lock, British consul in Naples, hated the British ambassador's wife Emma Hamilton, and wrote widely read scabrous letters back home denouncing her and her lover Lord Nelson?
Did you know that East Dereham Windmill was sold to Breckland District Council in 1978 for £1?
Did you know that Guido di Tella was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999?
Did you know that Hebrew National's kosher hot dogs, three-quarters of which are bought by non-Jews, have been advertised for decades under the slogan We answer to a higher authority?
Did you know that Jeff Swanagan, the Georgia Aquarium's first employee, oversaw the importation of live whale sharks from Taiwan to Atlanta for exhibition?
Did you know that Richard Morningstar is the Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy?
Did you know that Thomas E. Trowbridge, who served in the Wyoming House and Senate, was originally a dairy farmer and rancher committed to rural development?
Did you know that after surviving almost two years in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Lise Børsum wrote a book about her experiences in the camp?
Did you know that during the first recording session of Sanctus Real's album The Face of Love, the studio was 90° F and "nobody wanted to be there"?
Did you know that nude weddings have become a $440 million dollar industry?
Did you know that photographer Fred Hartsook went from driving a mule-drawn mobile darkroom around California to taking pictures of Hollywood stars like Mary Pickford?
Did you know that professional wrestler Black Warrior was forced to unmask after losing a match to Místico?
Did you know that shark bite victims have met with U.S. Senators to express their support for the Shark Conservation Act, which is pending approval by the Senate?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Craig Bickhardt, formerly of Schuyler, Knobloch & Bickhardt, has written Number One hits for The Judds and Ty Herndon?
Did you know that the Bobrof Volcano is an uninhabited island in the Andreanof Islands, part of Alaska's Aleutian archipelago?
Did you know that the Colorado-class battleships (USS Maryland pictured) did not undergo a significant modernization prior to the Second World War despite various proposals that had been circulating since 1933?
Did you know that the Vajpayee government called a joint session of the Indian Parliament in 2002 to pass the Prevention of Terrorism Act?
Did you know that the election in 1181 of Pope Lucius III was the first papal election held in accordance with the decree that the pope is to be elected with a two-thirds majority by the cardinals?
Did you know that the fall of a meteorite was first documented in 1766 by Domenico Troili?
Did you know that the lake in Adams Lake State Park was built as a water source for West Union, Ohio, and became the focus of the new park in 1950, when a new water source was developed?
Did you know that Bagel Bakers Local 338 controlled bagel making in New York City for decades, with a 1951 strike creating a "bagel famine" that resulted in sales of lox dropping up to 50% in area delis?
Did you know that Giovanni Caselli made the world's first practical operating fax machine 11 years before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone?
Did you know that Iuliu Ilyés, the current mayor of Satu Mare, Romania, has twice been elected to the office with close to double the vote of his opponent?
Did you know that Jamie M. Morin was 34 years old when President Barack Obama appointed him to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, responsible for managing the $160 billion U.S. Air Force annual budget?
Did you know that Josef Pleskot designed the administrative building of the ČSOB Bank, the first European building awarded the gold certificate of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design?
Did you know that SMU All-American Truman "Big Dog" Spain, known for his "rumba king" good looks, was described as "hard as ship's steel and as torrid as a foundry furnace"?
Did you know that Sabil Abu Nabbut was a public fountain built by Ottoman governor Muhammad Abu Nabbut in 1812 to facilitate the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem?
Did you know that actor Knut Wigert was a driving force behind the establishment of a Henrik Ibsen museum in Oslo?
Did you know that amateur footballer Jürgen Wilhelm scored Germany's 1983 Goal of the Year while playing for BFV Hassia Bingen in the third division Oberliga Südwest?
Did you know that as a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Elton Trowbridge worked with a bipartisan group to bring public television to his state?
Did you know that for about a millennium, the Hindu kings of Bishnupur were supreme in the Bankura area, even after Muslims conquered Bengal?
Did you know that four-time U.S. table tennis champion Lou Pagliaro hated when the sport was called "ping-pong", a name that he said "sounds sissy" in a 1942 article in The New Yorker?
Did you know that if a supermassive black hole is ejected from a galaxy, it can carry a dense cluster of stars called a hypercompact stellar system?
Did you know that in the wake of the Sino-Soviet split, Albanian, Chinese and Korean editions of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism (commemorating stamp pictured) were cancelled during 1962–1963?
Did you know that legend tells of how 15th-century Chief Justice of the King's Bench Sir William Hankeford committed an early form of suicide by cop?
Did you know that the Big Apple dance was popular at the Big Apple Club, an African-American night club at the former House of Peace Synagogue?
Did you know that the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra participated in recording of the Vendetta album by the Finnish power metal band Celesty?
Did you know that the Victorian-style White-Pool House, built in 1887, is the oldest standing structure in Odessa, Texas?
Did you know that the closest transportation to Davidof Volcano is 199 miles (320 km) away in Adak, Alaska?
Did you know that the loss of television reception—caused by the Canary Wharf Tower—for several hundred households was held not to be a nuisance in Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd?
Did you know that the mineral erionite is a carcinogen, and chronic exposure to this mineral has been linked to excess mortality from mesothelioma in a number of villages in Turkey?
Did you know that the tallest building in Mobile, Alabama, is the 745-foot (227 m) RSA Battle House Tower?
Did you know that the unsolved murder of Miss Garnett-Orme at Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie, India in 1911, inspired Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916)?
Did you know that wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz, at the age of 49?
Did you know that 1975's Tropical Storm Hallie existed as three types of cyclones: subtropical, tropical, and extratropical?
Did you know that Andrew Carroll went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops, hospital waiting rooms and train stations?
Did you know that Canadian House of Commons member Philéas Côté introduced a private member's bill in 1946 seeking to rename Dominion Day to Canada Day?
Did you know that Dutch writer Louis Ferron, born of a German soldier and a Dutch mother during the German occupation in World War II, wrote a series of novels later called The Teutonic Trilogy?
Did you know that Jake Gyllenhaal has a brief part as the son of a widower played by Robin Williams in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Bop Gun"?
Did you know that Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell and Evander Holyfield were all election monitors at the 1997 Jamaican general election?
Did you know that Lorraine Sneed, partner for 15 years of blade server inventor Christopher Hipp, said she had "got him" on their first date after asking "if he wanted to come see my SGI"?
Did you know that New Zealand moved 30 centimetres (12 in) closer to Australia during a recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake?
Did you know that Sid Wagner led Michigan State to their first consecutive football wins over the Michigan Wolverines and was the first player selected by the Detroit Lions in the first NFL Draft?
Did you know that Sri Lankan Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was forced to abandon an agreement aimed at solving that country's ethnic problems amidst protests by radical Buddhist monks?
Did you know that Swedish film director Tomas Alfredson stated that he had grown tired of the Swedish film industry after finishing Let the Right One In?
Did you know that Swiss mechatronics company Stäubli was originally founded in 1892 as a workshop for producing dobby looms?
Did you know that Tom Paton, a member of the Montreal hockey club, was the first goaltender to win the Stanley Cup in 1893?
Did you know that USAAF Lieutenant General Harold L. George, the unofficial leader of the "Bomber Mafia", became mayor of Beverly Hills, California, after World War II?
Did you know that during the mutiny at the Nore, Captain William Hotham and Admiral Adam Duncan had to imitate an entire British fleet with just two ships?
Did you know that in 1988, a West German court appointed an ex-notary to represent the interests of the German Reich concerning the Upper Mundat Forest against the Federal Republic of Germany?
Did you know that the Banaue Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras  are part of a World Heritage site, which was recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in 1995?
Did you know that the Gateway Protection Programme provides the opportunity for an annual quota of 750 especially vulnerable refugees selected by the UNHCR to be resettled in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Hutchinson County Historical Museum, which opened in 1977, is housed in a two-story building constructed in 1927?
Did you know that the band "Goodtime Washboard Three", with Peter R. Arnott on banjo, played on April Fools' Day in 1967 for Bing Crosby as he hosted the television show The Hollywood Palace?
Did you know that the ringlegged earwig gets its common name from the noticeable dark bands around the middle of its six legs?
Did you know that troilite, a form of pyrrhotite, is extremely rare on Earth but is abundant on Mars?
Did you know that with a total weight of over 100 tonnes (example of fragment pictured), Campo del Cielo is the heaviest meteorite ever found on Earth?
Did you know that Annette Nelson's performance as The Mountain Sylph in Washington, D.C. in 1837 was highly appreciated by a group of Native American chiefs?
Did you know that Chinese-Australian businessman Stern Hu, accused by Chinese officials of espionage, is said to have "caused huge loss to China's economic interest and security" by the Chinese Foreign Ministry?
Did you know that Gaynell Tinsley, a two-time All-American end at LSU, set an NFL record with 675 receiving yards as a rookie in 1937?
Did you know that India's Narcotics Control Bureau was created in 1986 to enforce the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act?
Did you know that Moss Force, a waterfall in the English Lake District, was described by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as "an awful Image and Shadow of God and the World"?
Did you know that Republican State Senator Vernie McGaha of Russell County, Kentucky, considers his highest priority helping constituents "stuck in the red tape of government"?
Did you know that Western marksman Joe Bowman learned as a boy how to shoot flies off a garbage can with his BB gun?
Did you know that an uncommon sentry tower at Banashankari temple is a mélange of Vijayanagara Hindu and Islamic architectural styles?
Did you know that before marching to the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, the warlord Cao Cao fooled his enemy into thinking he had retreated by simply erecting a sign saying so?
Did you know that biochemists Ralph F. Hirschmann and Robert Bruce Merrifield both led teams that synthesized the enzyme ribonuclease and while Merrifield won the  Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Hirschmann did not?
Did you know that in 1957, West Germany's Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Joachim von Merkatz was the focus of an East German propaganda campaign, which portrayed him as a "fascist" and "leading Nazi functionary"?
Did you know that in English law, legal relations created in a social context are not considered binding?
Did you know that in the Broadway comedy Two Blind Mice, two government workers keep their office running after its abolition by Congress by renting out rooms and hiring out the front lawn as a parking lot?
Did you know that more than 130 people died in July 2009 after consuming adulterated bootleg liquor in Gujarat, India, where alcohol consumption is prohibited?
Did you know that professional wrestler Mr. Niebla once wrestled as "Batman"?
Did you know that professional wrestler Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. wrestled for a year before his father, Rayo de Jalisco, Sr., found out?
Did you know that the HMS Cockchafer played host to the regent of Iraq Amir Abdul Illah who had been deposed and was fleeing an assassination plot in Baghdad?
Did you know that the Indian Defence Intelligence Agency was established because of intelligence lapses during the Kargil War?
Did you know that the Mansion District was once known as the "Garlic Core" of Albany, New York, due to its large Italian American population?
Did you know that the first pulsar was discovered as a result of an experiment designed to study interplanetary scintillation?
Did you know that the largest known ovules produced by any non-flowering seed-plant came from the Medullosales (fossilized leaves pictured), an order of extinct seed ferns?
Did you know that there are many diverse types of fish, including sea dragons camouflaged to look like floating seaweed?
Did you know that when the horse in her first maquette of The Scout was criticized for looking too "eastern", Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney shipped a horse from Buffalo Bill's ranch to her studio in New York?
Did you know that while playing baseball at Shibe Park, outfielder Herschel Bennett crashed into a wall, causing him to fall into a 36-hour coma and helping to end his major league career?
Did you know that 24 people died digging Bramhope Tunnel, known for its eccentric Neo-Gothic portal?
Did you know that F. Springer's novel Bougainville features a character who slept with Mata Hari on the boat taking them to the Dutch East Indies?
Did you know that German cigar maker Josef Feinhals wrote a compendium on scatology and smoking, under the pseudonym Collofino?
Did you know that Jane H. Smith is not only the first woman state legislator from Bossier Parish in Louisiana, but she is the first woman to have been a high-school principal and school superintendent there as well?
Did you know that Patsy's Pizzeria first served up its coal oven pizza pies in 1933 and vies with Rao's to be the "best bite" in New York's Spanish Harlem?
Did you know that SS Archimedes, built in 1839 by Henry Wimshurst, was the world's first propeller-driven steamship?
Did you know that a comet over Africa saw the birth of a small country (map pictured) on July 26, 1882?
Did you know that a year after the American Civil War ended, discharged soldiers had conflicts with local policemen in Memphis, which escalated into one of the worst race riots in U.S. history?
Did you know that an East German defector hijacked a Polish plane in 1978 to escape to West Germany?
Did you know that at the Battle of Cape Finisterre, HMS Malta forced the surrender of one Spanish ship, and sent her boats to take possession of another?
Did you know that founders of the National Fibromyalgia Association first met through the internet?
Did you know that most Hindus in the Netherlands are immigrants from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America?
Did you know that no services have been held in Mt. Zion Methodist, the oldest church in Somers, New York, for almost 80 years?
Did you know that on 18 February 1942, Brigadier "Punch" Cowan personally went to Rangoon to ask permission to retreat at the Battle of Bilin River?
Did you know that sprint athlete and British 200 metres champion Toby Sandeman did a photoshoot for Vogue with Naomi Campbell?
Did you know that surgeon Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane signed his handiwork by tattooing the letter K in Morse code on his patients in India ink?
Did you know that the Gurgaon Metro will be India's first privately owned and operated metro?
Did you know that the Indian Economic Intelligence Council is chaired by the Finance Minister?
Did you know that the Spadena House, a storybook house also known as The Witch's House, was originally built as offices and dressing rooms for a movie studio?
Did you know that the Superior multimineral shale oil extraction process was developed to combine the production of shale oil with that of sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, and aluminum?
Did you know that the longest horn ever recorded on a Marco Polo sheep (mounted head pictured) measured 1.9 m (6.2 ft) and weighed 60 lb (27 kg)?
Did you know that the players selected for the 1935 College Football All-America Teams included SMU's "Iron Man" Wetsel, Stanford's "Vow Boy" Bobby Grayson, military historian Jac Weller, aspiring G-Man Paul Tangora,  Charles Wasicek of the "unbeaten, untied and uninvited" Colgate team, Minnesota's "battering ram fullback" Sheldon Beise and tackles Ed Widseth and Dick Smith, Cal end Larry Lutz, Ohio State end Merle Wendt, Princeton second-generation All-American Gilbert Lea and Walter Winika, the first Rutgers varsity athlete killed in World War II?
Did you know that the possibility of scrapie resistance in sheep was tested by experimentation with a selection of Swaledales, a breed of domesticated sheep native to the Yorkshire Dales and the fells of Cumbria?
Did you know that when Khirbat al-Minya, an Umayyad-built palace near the Sea of Galilee, was first excavated in 1932, it was mistaken by archaeologists for a Roman fort?
Did you know that when confronted by a rebellion and an invasion, King Valagamba promised the rebel leader the throne and sent him against the invading army?
Did you know that 23% of the world's uranium reserves are held in Australia?
Did you know that Arnon Grunberg's award-winning 2003 novel The Asylum Seeker features a ménage à trois involving a former john, a terminally ill former prostitute, and an Algerian asylum seeker?
Did you know that Denis Potvin has played the most games with the New York Islanders while holding the title of team captain?
Did you know that Horace Barker was awarded the National Medal of Science for discovering the coenzyme of vitamin B12, which Barker had isolated from mud taken from San Francisco Bay?
Did you know that Nick Cave requested all television cameras be switched off during his performance of the song "Into My Arms" at the funeral of INXS singer Michael Hutchence?
Did you know that Nói Síríus is Iceland's largest candy manufacturer and now owns English chocolate company Elizabeth Shaw?
Did you know that St Julian's Church in Kingston Buci, West Sussex, has the well-preserved remains of an anchorite's cell (hagioscope pictured), in which a hermit would have been walled up for life?
Did you know that Statutes of Casimir the Great from the 14th century were the first codification and the basis of modern Polish law?
Did you know that U.S. Army major William Stewart Walker was credited with leading 380 of his fellow soldiers to safety in Belgium from behind German lines during World War II?
Did you know that Under Your Spell, director Otto Preminger's first English language film, was a remake of the Spanish language release Las fronteras del amor?
Did you know that airline pilots in the 1930s and 1940s flew with their ears when visibility was poor?
Did you know that as of 2008, there is no treaty covering the border between Botswana and Namibia, which remains as defined in a treaty signed between the British and German Empires in 1890?
Did you know that in World War II, the British Indian Army was driven out of Burma at the Battle of Sittang Bridge?
Did you know that in one of his Posen speeches, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler said that the decision had to be made to make the Jews "disappear from the Earth"?
Did you know that quarterback Lindy Berry played in a game one week after suffering a broken jaw, and since it was the era before football helmet facemasks, he wore a hockey mask instead?
Did you know that the Manggahan Floodway in the Philippines was built to reduce flooding along the Pasig River but in turn contributed to flooding along the shores of Laguna de Bay?
Did you know that the O'Kane Building in Bend, Oregon, was built for Hugh O’Kane who, as a boy, came to the United States illegally from Ireland by stowing away on a New York bound ship?
Did you know that the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel in Washington, D.C. has been described as a miniature Gothic gem?
Did you know that the White-bellied Sea Eagle and the Grey-headed Fish Eagle are the notable raptors of Gal Oya National Park?
Did you know that the domesticated animal breeds originating from Scotland include the Scottish Fold cat, the Rough Collie of "Lassie" fame, and the Grice, a somewhat aggressive pig?
Did you know that the first expedition of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa ended disastrously, when the bishop and several others died of malaria?
Did you know that the rough skin of the nursehound was once used as an abrasive called "rubskin", which cost a hundred times more than sandpaper?
Did you know that the third officer of the MV Horizon-1,  a cargo ship recently hijacked by Somali pirates, is a 24-year old Turkish woman?
Did you know that All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one of the largest Unitarian Universalist congregations in the world?
Did you know that Bridgecorp Holdings, a former Australian real estate development group, collapsed in 2007 owing 14,500 investors a total of A$467 million?
Did you know that Czech composer Jan Rychlík played the drums in the jazz orchestra of Karel Vlach?
Did you know that Felix Salten's novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria in 1923, is considered the first environmental fiction novel to be published?
Did you know that French singer Georges Guétary, who played the "older man" in a romantic triangle with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris, was nearly three years younger than Kelly?
Did you know that Homer Paine was one of several college football players that Oklahoma Sooners head coach Jim Tatum lured away from the school's rivals after World War II?
Did you know that Jack Hennemier, head coach of the Calgary Stampeders, was sued by the Washington Redskins for attempting to sign two of their players?
Did you know that Killiniq, an abandoned settlement on the Hudson Strait, was formerly a part of Labrador, and then the Northwest Territories, but is now on the Nunavut side of Killiniq Island?
Did you know that Kwakwaka'wakw art includes a wide variety of wooden masks (example pictured), some of which can transform into different figures?
Did you know that Nazi German regulation of Polish forced laborers intentionally created and supported discrimination on the basis of ethnicity?
Did you know that Poh Ling Yeow, the runner-up of MasterChef Australia, has appeared in four films?
Did you know that Robert V. Decareau was known as "Mr. Microwave" for his research on microwaves in food that led to the development of the microwave oven?
Did you know that William Blake's poem "The Mental Traveller" went unpublished during Blake's lifetime but was translated multiple times after his death?
Did you know that Xavier Petulengro, known as "The King of the Gypsies", led traditional Romany weddings in Yorkshire where he mingled the blood of the couple and bound their wrists with a silk cord?