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Did you know that after Charles W. Morse started scandals that toppled a New York City mayor and sparked the Panic of 1907, he faked illness by eating prison soap to convince President Taft to commute his sentence?
Did you know that although William Hogarth painted his March of the Guards to Finchley as a gift for George II, the King took great offence at the artwork and refused to keep it?
Did you know that at one point, the powerful Tang Dynasty eunuch Yu Chao'en was believed to be responsible for instigating the grave robbing of the general Guo Ziyi's father?
Did you know that crime in Singapore includes mobile phone snatching which have in the past been the main target for robbers and snatch thieves?
Did you know that due to the important archaeological findings near the Bulgarian village of Durankulak, the area has been dubbed the "Bulgarian Troy"?
Did you know that free croquet equipment and music on a Sunday afternoon are provided at the Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire, England?
Did you know that prima ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya first performed at the Bolshoi Theater at the age of ten?
Did you know that starting in 2009, certain biotech corn hybrid seeds will be covered by the risk management program of the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation?
Did you know that the colorfully-painted common room of the Jazz Age Naniboujou Club Lodge has been called "a psychedelic marriage of Art Deco and traditional Cree Indian patterns"?
Did you know that the main tourist attraction in Namaqua National Park in South Africa is the abundant spring bloom of brightly coloured wildflowers?
Did you know that the three major peaks of the Tofane were first reached in 1863, 1864 and 1865 by Austrian mountaineer Paul Grohmann?
Did you know that Bellifortis is the first illustrated manual of military techology?
Did you know that Bridgeport Village, a shopping center in Washington County, Oregon, was built on the site of a former rock quarry?
Did you know that Charles Ancliffe's waltz Nights of Gladness became famous enough that BBC named a whole series of programmes after it?
Did you know that Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers is the first dated book printed in England?
Did you know that Irish broadcaster John Creedon is set to learn a musical instrument alongside Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons?
Did you know that Maxime de la Falaise, called "the only truly chic Englishwoman" by Cecil Beaton, said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry?
Did you know that New York State Route 30 is the longest of only five state highways in Hamilton County, New York?
Did you know that Richard Mohun was the only white survivor of a three-year expedition to lay a telegraph line from Lake Tanganyika to the River Nile?
Did you know that Rudy Robbins' since disbanded "The Spirit of Texas" was named in 1991 by the Texas State Senate as the "official Cowboy Band for Texas"?
Did you know that Sir Edgar Speyer funded the Promenade Concerts from 1902 to 1914, but he was accused of trading with the enemy during the First World War and lost his British citizenship?
Did you know that Songpa sandaenori is a type of Korean mask play originated in the neighborhoods of Songpa-dong of Seoul, Korea?
Did you know that St. Michael the Archangel Church in Kaunas, Lithuania was a military church, built for the Kaunas Fortress garrison?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general An Baoyu received permission to use the imperial surname Li because he did not want to share a surname with the rebel An Lushan?
Did you know that architect Elmer Grey recalled that "my health broke down completely" after he finished a major commission on a Christian Science church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
Did you know that dancheong (example pictured) refers to Korean traditional decorative coloring on wooden buildings and artifacts for style?
Did you know that despite printing only 1500 copies per issue, the journal Scrutiny helped F. R. Leavis become an influential literary critic?
Did you know that in 1975, his only full season, Stan Perzanowski's earned run average was the lowest on the Texas Rangers?
Did you know that screenwriter Gustin Nash was inspired to write the teen film Charlie Bartlett by a group of teenagers that he spent time with while working at a mall in Burbank, California?
Did you know that the 2008 Congo football riots were sparked by accusations of witchcraft?
Did you know that the Kress Drachenflieger of 1901 was the first heavier-than-air machine to use an internal combustion engine in an attempt to fly?
Did you know that the Valluvars are the hereditary priests of the Pallars and Paraiyars of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that the traditional dress of Hui'an maidens (statue pictured) has been jokingly referred to as "feudal heads, thrifty jackets, democratic bellies, and wasteful trousers"?
Did you know that when the King of Scotland told King Magnus of Norway he could have any land he could circumnavigate, Magnus had a longship (reconstruction pictured) dragged across an isthmus to East Loch Tarbert, Argyll and claimed Kintyre?
Did you know that Conrad Gessner's 1551 book Historiae animalium is the first use of fossil illustrations?
Did you know that Darryl Kile is the only Colorado Rockies starting pitcher to win twice on Opening Day?
Did you know that Kitigan Zibi, a First Nations Reserve in the Outaouais region of Quebec, is the largest Algonquin Nation in Canada, in both area and population?
Did you know that Lieutenant-General Robert Richardson commanded units of the British Army on three separate occasions during the Troubles?
Did you know that New Zealand telecommunications entrepreneur Annette Presley once claimed that she would work as the CEO of Telecom New Zealand for NZ$1?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Baozhen, in search of immortality, consumed over 20,000 pills made by an alchemist, which eventually killed him?
Did you know that Trawsgoed Crosswood Estate, owned by the Vaughn family since the year 1200, was home to the second largest lead mine in Britain?
Did you know that a Saturday Night Live sketch, featuring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin respectively, was dismissed by Palin's spokeswoman as "sexist"?
Did you know that a recent live performance of "The Robots" by Kraftwerk was disrupted by a curtain that refused to close?
Did you know that an ayam is a Korean traditional winter cap mostly worn by women in the Joseon period?
Did you know that at the time of its sinking in the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War, HHS Glasgow was the only ship in the navy of Zanzibar?
Did you know that heritage turkeys are the only domestic turkeys able to reproduce without artificial insemination?
Did you know that in 2005, Abdullah Wardak, a former Mujahideen commander from Afghanistan, received the "key to the city" of Evansville, Indiana?
Did you know that the 1994 film Walls of Sand was the first contemporary feature film to be webcast on the Internet?
Did you know that the 2001 film Sia, le rêve du python was inspired by a 7th-century myth of the Wagadu people of Western Africa?
Did you know that the British failure to break through Ottoman lines in the Battle of Wadi during WWI, led to Charles Townshend's disastrous surrender following the Siege of Kut?
Did you know that the Cambridgeshire Cats American football team were briefly known as the "Cambridge Crunchers" following a sponsorship deal with a Seattle-based apple export company?
Did you know that the Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center hosts a biennial competition for artists living or working in Connecticut?
Did you know that the Oregon Civic Justice Center at the Willamette Law School was dedicated exactly 96 years after the building was first opened as a Carnegie library?
Did you know that the origin of Chicano literature, the literature of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., has been traced back as far as 1542 and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca?
Did you know that when Kristin Kreuk was cast as Lana Lang in the television series Smallville, she had no idea who her character was in Superman lore?
Did you know that African-American mezzo-soprano Muriel Smith turned down a part in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, saying "it doesn't do the right thing for my people"?
Did you know that American cargo ship MS West Honaker was the first diesel-powered ship to circumnavigate the globe?
Did you know that Columbia Aircraft successfully converted the famed Lancair IV to a fixed-gear general aviation aircraft, but was purchased by Cessna in 2007 after stiff competition from the Cirrus SR22?
Did you know that Curtis Woodhouse was a professional boxer while still playing professional football for Rushden & Diamonds?
Did you know that Edith Atkins who broke numerous British cycling records died aged 79 pushing her bike across a zebra crossing?
Did you know that Irving Berlin composed the song "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" (cover pictured) more than 30 years before Judy Garland performed it for the 1948 film Easter Parade?
Did you know that Kamio Mitsuomi, an Imperial Japanese Army general, was in command of Allied ground forces at the Battle of Tsingtao in WWI?
Did you know that Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal Nouvelle correspondance mathématique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathématique et physique?
Did you know that Operation Mole Cricket 19 was the first time a Western air force successfully destroyed a Soviet-built SAM network?
Did you know that Philip Marc, King John's sheriff in Nottinghamshire, should have had his bailiwick removed under the terms of the Magna Carta?
Did you know that Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage, at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that St Andrew's Church, Brunswick Town, Hove, designed by Sir Charles Barry, was the first Italianate-style church in England?
Did you know that The Dave Clark Five sang London Bridge is Falling Down on Lucille Ball's 1966 TV special Lucy in London?
Did you know that U.S. bodybuilding champion Brandon Curry was first interested in weight training when he received a pair of Hulk Hogan-branded dumbbells for his sixth birthday?
Did you know that United Copper survived a lengthy battle with Standard Oil-controlled Amalgamated Copper, backed by the wealth of John D. Rockefeller, only to collapse in the Panic of 1907?
Did you know that a jokduri is a type of Korean traditional coronet worn by women for special occasions such as weddings?
Did you know that historian Maurice Isserman, known for books on the Communist Party USA and the New Left, has refocused on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas?
Did you know that in 1914, the Cumberland Market Group of neo-realism painters founded in London's Cumberland Market held only one exhibition, but was never formally dissolved?
Did you know that the 18th-century James "Squire" Patton House in New Windsor, New York, is now a training facility for the city of Newburgh police K-9 unit?
Did you know that the 1999 book A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award?
Did you know that the Corpus Clock, a large sculptural clock at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge featuring the world's largest grasshopper escapement, is entirely accurate only once every five minutes?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court's Prima Paint decision created the separability principle, requiring that most issues in contracts with arbitration clauses be decided by the arbitrator?
Did you know that the old and new One Fathom Bank Lighthouses in Malaysia are situated an estimated 500 metres (1,600 ft) apart from each other?
Did you know that , since 2002, the Community design has provided Europe-wide protection for designs more simply and cheaply than the previous country-by-country approach?
Did you know that 13th-century Armenian historian and scholar Vardan Areveltsi was a religious adviser to Doquz Khatun, the wife of Ilkhanate Mongol leader Hulagu Khan?
Did you know that A Victim of the Mormons (ad pictured) is a 1911 Danish silent film that initiated a decade of anti-Mormon films in the United States?
Did you know that Bibliotheca universalis was the first modern bibliography of importance done by the "father of bibliography", Conrad Gesner?
Did you know that Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke?
Did you know that Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch, responsible for identifying remains of 9/11 attack victims, was injured while setting up a temporary morgue when the North Tower collapsed?
Did you know that Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?
Did you know that Herbert Mayfield, one of the Mayfield Brothers, a bluegrass band, earned his living as a welder for cattle feedlots in West Texas?
Did you know that Louis Réard, who invented the bikini, chose nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model the first modern-day bikini in July 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris?
Did you know that despite a US$900,000 budget, finances on the 1993 film Amongst Friends were so tight that the contents of a bag of Doritos opened in the film were replaced by yellow cardboard triangles?
Did you know that in 1817, the previously banned coat of arms of Paris was restored to its traditional form?
Did you know that in the Florida Marlins' 16 seasons, they have had six different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day?
Did you know that rock band The Waxwings took their name from a poem in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire?
Did you know that survivors of the Loch Sloy disaster who made it ashore to Kangaroo Island, were eventually found with the remains of two dead penguins tied around their neck?
Did you know that the 1935 short subject Alibi Bye Bye was the last film appearance of the comedy team of Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough?
Did you know that the Porsche PFM 3200 was a version of the Porsche 911's air-cooled engine built for the general aviation market?
Did you know that the lattice phase equaliser was invented by Otto Zobel, better known for his work on constant-resistance networks to equalise amplitude?
Did you know that the spectators killed in Alex Fiorio's crash at the 1989 Monte Carlo Rally were fellow rally drivers Lars-Erik Torph and his co-driver?
Did you know that the via ferrata Ivano Dibona in the Cristallo in the Dolomites is a restored historical route which was used during World War I?
Did you know that whitewater kayaker Douglas C. Gordon died while attempting the first descent of the Tsangpo River in Tibet?
Did you know that American cargo ship MS West Grama, while in the service of the U.S. Navy in 1919, was the first American-flagged ship to enter Bulgarian waters?
Did you know that Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Rodriguez publishes much of her work in both English and Spanish, and that she herself is responsible for their translation?
Did you know that Erich Walter Sternberg was the first of a wave of professional musicians to flee Germany for Palestine prior to World War II?
Did you know that Half Japanese's Greatest Hits was included in Blender's top 100 indie rock albums?
Did you know that Jerzy and Eugenia Latoszyński have been named Righteous Among the Nations for harboring one of many Jewish children of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland?
Did you know that New York State Assembly member David Koon has pushed for full funding for E911, a system of automatically locating 9-1-1 callers, after his daughter was abducted and brutally murdered in 1993?
Did you know that Orson Welles' 1968 film The Immortal Story played in the U.S. as a double feature with Luis Buñuel's Simon of the Desert?
Did you know that Partenope was the first opera written by an American-born composer?
Did you know that Prussian noble Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein was kidnapped by the order of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and later tried and executed for treason?
Did you know that Udo Zimmermann's opera, Die weisse Rose tells the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister who were guillotined by the Nazis for leading a non-violent resistance group?
Did you know that as captain of the cruiser Pittsburgh, future four-star admiral John E. Gingrich managed to sail his ship 900 miles (1,400 km) to safety after a typhoon tore off its bow?
Did you know that four months after the one-time-only U.S. airing of the 1991 Disney television pilot Acting Sheriff, Disney sold bonds that promised to pay up to a 20 percent return if Acting Sheriff were syndicated?
Did you know that in 1998, Henry Kissinger introduced Lynn Forester to her future husband, Evelyn Robert de Rothschild?
Did you know that jökulhlaups, glacial bursts, from Oregon's White River Glacier on Mount Hood have washed out a highway six times since 1926?
Did you know that multiple book reviews have referred to Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People as the definitive book on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple?
Did you know that one of the short stories in Sandra Cisneros' collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories relates to the myth of La Llorona, who haunts the real Woman Hollering Creek in Texas?
Did you know that the Kamikaze class destroyer Shiratae was one of the few ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have been lost in combat during the Battle of Tsingtao?
Did you know that the first library catalog was the Pinakes developed by the first bibiliographer Callimachus of Cyrene at the Library of Alexandria?
Did you know that the parish church at Penterry stands isolated in a field near Chepstow in Wales, with a nearby plague pit thought to hold the remains of many villagers who perished in the Black Death?
Did you know that the thermal imaging camera has been called the best advance in firefighting equipment in the last 25 years, and the most expensive?
Did you know that there were several allegations of cheating during the 1994 Formula One season?
Did you know that to avoid worrying about sound quality for too long, producer Rob Swire of Pendulum drafted the demos for the album In Silico using Commodore 64 and Nintendo emulators?
Did you know that "All the Way" by Eddie Vedder is a song about the Chicago Cubs written at the request of Ernie Banks?
Did you know that "Go, Cubs, Go" was the most popular folk music digital download on iTunes in the first week of October 2007?
Did you know that Ageratina adenophora, a plant native to Mexico which has invaded Australia, India and the United States, causes respiratory  failure called "blowing disease" in horses?
Did you know that Arthur Raikes was a British army officer but received honours from Zanzibar, Austria and Portugal?
Did you know that Azúcar Moreno's song "Bandido" caused a stir at the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest when one of the backing tracks malfunctioned, causing the singers to storm off stage?
Did you know that British canoeist David Florence failed with an application to join the European Space Agency's astronaut training program before winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that British swimmer Matt Walker has won eight silver and bronze Paralympic medals in individual events, but all three of his gold medals have come in the 4×100 m freestyle relay?
Did you know that Huletts Landing, New York is one of three settlements near Lake George whose place names derive from members of General James Wadsworth's American Revolutionary War brigade?
Did you know that Hurricane Michelle, a storm which took place in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, caused numerous deaths and large-scale damage in Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua?
Did you know that Jack Hillman was responsible for the earliest recorded case of match fixing in football?
Did you know that Pandorea "Golden Showers" is a yellow-flowering variety of the Australian native plant the Wonga Wonga Vine?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Duan Xiushi died after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Zhu Ci, who was planning to dethrone Emperor Dezong of Tang?
Did you know that a simple kite defeated cannons, steamers, and rockets in the bid to lay a line for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge (ad pictured)?
Did you know that before her election to the New York State Senate, Carol Berman led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent the Concorde from landing at Kennedy Airport in New York City?
Did you know that in Norse mythology, Hjúki and Bil have been theorized as personifying the waxing and waning moon and, due to similarities, as connected to the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill"?
Did you know that in the fictional 1977 novel The Sword of Shannara, Shea Ohmsford is the only descendant of Jerle Shannara left in the Four Lands, and therefore the only one left who can use the Sword of Shannara?
Did you know that in the final game of the 1926–27 Boston Bruins season, Billy Coutu's attack on a referee caused him to be the first player banned from the National Hockey League for life?
Did you know that photojournalist Stanley Greene's image of a tutu-clad girl with a champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Did you know that small modelli of works of art were produced for patrons to approve?
Did you know that the ceiling of the burial chamber in the Pyramid of Merenre has an astrological theme?
Did you know that the largest surviving painting by 15th-century Gothic artist Master Francke is an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury?
Did you know that the six home runs hit in the 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game were all hit by future Hall of Famers, including a 520-foot (160 m) shot by Reggie Jackson?
Did you know that the venom of the Beaded Lizard has been found to contain several enzymes useful in the manufacturing of drugs to treat diabetes?
Did you know that the works of German artist Erich Buchholz were labeled "degenerate" by the Nazis, and only after the end of WWII his work became appreciated?
Did you know that when Haydn Tanner and Willie Davies orchestrated Swansea rugby club's defeat of the touring All Blacks they were both still schoolboys?
Did you know that Britain's Heather Fell, the 2008 Olympic silver medallist in modern pentathlon, had to work three part-time jobs in order to fund her training?
Did you know that Farhad Reza, along with 12 other Bangladeshi cricketers, was banned from playing for 10 years after joining the Dhaka Warriors team in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League?
Did you know that Helga Vlahović was picked, along with Oliver Mlakar, to host the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb following Yugoslavia's win at the 1989 contest?
Did you know that J. Clarence Karcher invented the reflection seismograph and founded Geophysical Service Incorporated, which became Texas Instruments?
Did you know that Jabba The Hutt puppeteer Toby Philpott began his career as a homeless juggler in the streets of London?
Did you know that Mario Lemieux became the only rookie in National Hockey League all-star history to win game MVP honours at the 1985 All-Star Game?
Did you know that Michael P.C. Carns, who was the Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1991–94, received numerous military awards and decorations such as the Silver Star?
Did you know that Myna Potts, an historical preservationist from West Texas, converted her father's former general store into a museum dedicated to rural people of the recent past?
Did you know that North University Park in Los Angeles contains many well-preserved Victorian houses and was the birthplace of U.S. Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson?
Did you know that Philip Goldberg, former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, was the eighth chief of mission in U.S. diplomatic history declared persona non grata and expelled from a country where he was serving?
Did you know that T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" parodies the lyrics of the Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder song "That Mysterious Rag" (song to the right)?