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Did you know that American yachtswoman J. J. Isler, who competed in both the Olympics and the America’s Cup races, was the first woman named to the Sailing World Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Brad Paisley released "This Is Country Music" as a single long before the album was to come out, even though it was "bad timing for his label"?
Did you know that Chris Brown's song "Sing Like Me" is a slow jam R&B and pop ballad, featuring 808 drum beats and Asian-influenced strings?
Did you know that Harz granite was used in memorials at the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen, as well as the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten?
Did you know that Johann Wilhelm Schwedler preferred other engineering solutions over his own invention, the Schwedler truss, on aesthetic grounds?
Did you know that Kristubhagavatam: A mahakavya in Sanskrit based on the life of Jesus Christ, a Sanskrit epic poem in 33 cantos and 1600 verses, won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 1980?
Did you know that Little Sea Hill Light was the first of a group of eight lighthouses in Queensland made of a hardwood frame clad with corrugated iron?
Did you know that Michigan fullback John Bloomingston, who became one of Chicago's best known trial lawyers, was disbarred from athletics in 1896 for playing professional baseball?
Did you know that Nerstrand City Hall was built at the center of a close-knit community of Norwegian American pioneers including the Osmundson, Bonde and Veblen families?
Did you know that Not Worse Than Thomon, edited by Sergei Olegovich Kuznetsov, was described by Vremya Novostei as one of the best Russian books in the field of art in 2007?
Did you know that Scottish engineer James Blyth built the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power in 1887?
Did you know that The Old Bell Hotel and Restaurant in the Cotswolds is reputed to be the oldest existing hotel in England, dated to 1220?
Did you know that Walter Keane, known for paintings of "big-eyed waifs," claimed a sore shoulder and declined a 1986 court-ordered paint-off with his ex-wife, resulting in a US$4 million judgment against him?
Did you know that an obituary for Hughie Hearne stated that he was a "well known baseball star" and "one of the game's best catchers," although he never played a full major league season?
Did you know that communist politician Salawati Daud was the first female mayor in Indonesia?
Did you know that screenwriter and film director Norman Thaddeus Vane referenced the 1931 movie Dracula in his work Shadow of the Hawk?
Did you know that the Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum in Mexico City was the world's first museum dedicated to watercolor painting?
Did you know that the Childress County Heritage Museum contains an exhibit on World War II bombardier training held near Childress, Texas?
Did you know that the former Holland Land Office in Batavia was the first National Historic Landmark designated in Western New York?
Did you know that the marine worm, Parborlasia corrugatus, fires an adhesive, barbed proboscis as a means of defense, and to capture prey?
Did you know that when it was built in 1795, Fort Carondelet was the farthest western outpost of the Chouteau fur trading operation in the Spanish Louisiana Territory?
Did you know that xiaochi, or Chinese and Taiwanese "small eats", can include such ingredients as stinky tofu, sheep head, grass jelly or pork intestines?
Did you know that "football nut" "Sturzy" Sturzenegger spent most of his career coaching college football at Michigan, USC and UCLA despite having attended Harvard Law School?
Did you know that Jonah Hex was named "Worst Picture" of 2010 by the Houston Film Critics Society at their 2010 awards ceremony?
Did you know that New Caloundra Light, an inactive lighthouse resembling an airport control tower, is the only surviving example of its design in Australia?
Did you know that Oregon entrepreneur Norm Winningstad helped found Floating Point Systems, Thrustmaster, and Lattice Semiconductor?
Did you know that San Andrés islanders practice obeah, a voodoo witchcraft of West Indies?
Did you know that St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Carson City is the oldest building still in use by the Episcopal Church in the state of Nevada?
Did you know that a 1907 stagecoach robbery organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin killed an estimated 40 people and netted approximately 250,000 rubles (over $3 million in current USD)?
Did you know that a 1977 book by the historian Martin V. Melosi examines the role of partisan politics in delaying public disclosure of events leading to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that a by-election in 1869 was held in the borough of Blackburn, Lancashire, England, after an election petition led to a previous election being overturned due to systematic intimidation?
Did you know that in 1934, the congregation of the St. John's Lutheran Church in New Finland, Saskatchewan, Canada, had their church cut into two halves so as to relocate it by five miles using a tractor?
Did you know that in May 2009, when proposing that Nominated Members of Parliament should be a permanent part of Singapore's Parliament, the Prime Minister said they had "outshone even the Opposition MPs"?
Did you know that the Admiral Lazarev class monitors had their main armament replaced during their career, allowing them to remain among the most powerful ships in the Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet?
Did you know that the Ashuapmushuan River in Quebec, Canada, is named for an Innu word meaning "place where one lies in wait for moose"?
Did you know that the Hilo Masonic Lodge Hall in Hawaii cost twice its original budget, partially due to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?
Did you know that the action role-playing game Infinity Blade is the fastest grossing application on Apple's iOS, selling 271,424 copies in merely four days?
Did you know that the eccentric Victorian sculptor Richard Cockle Lucas believed in fairies and drove around in a Roman chariot?
Did you know that the mite Aceria anthocoptes is a potential biological control agent of the invasive Canada thistle?
Did you know that Ellingham Hall, an 18th century country house near Bungay, Norfolk, is the temporary residence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his extradition hearings in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that English artist Chantal Joffe, who sometimes uses pornography for source material, created such large paintings that she required scaffolding to work on them?
Did you know that English-born footballer Ellis Remy made his international debut playing for the Montserrat national football team?
Did you know that James W. Rodgers requested a bulletproof vest before he was executed by firing squad?
Did you know that Mongol script was used in Western medieval art (example pictured) as a decoration from the late 13th century to early 14th century?
Did you know that Stanford and Detroit Lions running back Ernie Caddel, known as the "Blond Antelope," led the NFL in average yards gained per rushing carry for three consecutive years?
Did you know that The Fisherman's Cot in Devon overlooks the River Exe and a bridge which was wrongly thought for many years to be the inspiration for Paul Simon's song "Bridge Over Troubled Water"?
Did you know that a radar station which was active at Grassy Hill Light during World War II included an imitation lighthouse keeper's cottage for camouflage purposes?
Did you know that actress Julia Stiles had no idea whether her character was going to live or die in "The Big One", the fifth season finale of the Showtime series Dexter?
Did you know that adult males of the parasitic wasp, Encarsia perplexa, can only develop when a virgin female lays eggs in a fully developed larva of her own species?
Did you know that anywhere from 60 million to 1 billion monarch butterflies spend the winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico?
Did you know that artist Thomas Eakins suggested Anna Willess Williams pose for the depiction of Liberty on the Morgan dollar?
Did you know that before Dr. Andrea Crestadoro became Chief Librarian in Manchester, he patented improvements to the horse powered locomotive Impulsoria?
Did you know that chef Louis Diat, a recipient of the distinguished Chevalier du Mérite Agricole, learned to cook at the age of five?
Did you know that despite his role in the Counter-Reformation, the abbot of Göttweig Abbey David Gregor Corner reluctantly included Protestant hymns in his 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch?
Did you know that diners at beefsteak banquets "keep score" by piling up the bread slices that come with their beef tenderloin?
Did you know that during the wreck of the Algoma, the worst loss of life in Lake Superior history, victims were literally dashed to pieces?
Did you know that in 1863 the 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos was propelled underground from Holborn to Euston railway station in a parcel capsule to demonstrate the system built by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company?
Did you know that in 1878, the old-time cowboy author Frank H. Maynard sang one of his poems over the grave of Dodge City Marshal Ed Masterson, the victim of a gunfight?
Did you know that seven Croatian Army generals were forcibly retired in 2000 for signing an open letter to the Croatian public?
Did you know that six years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Louisiana NAACP president Emmitt Douglas was arrested for trying to desegregate a restaurant in Baton Rouge?
Did you know that the Albuquerque Thunderbirds were awarded the first overall selection in the 2009 NBA Development League Draft?
Did you know that the Glacier Blanc is the largest glacier in the Southern French Alps with an area of 5.34 km2 (2.06 sq mi) and a length of 5.9 kilometres (3.7 mi)?
Did you know that the final term of Vigor Brown as Mayor of Napier in New Zealand was extended due to the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake?
Did you know that the scams uncovered by Operation Broken Trust, the largest investment fraud sweep by the US Government, may have involved over 120,000 victims?
Did you know that when New Zealand-born pop artist Dinah Lee became 'Queen of the Mods' in 1964, her own mother could not recognise her?
Did you know that "The Virgin's Cradle Hymn", a lullaby collected by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Germany in 1799, was derived from a Flemish engraving by Hieronymus Wierix?
Did you know that Bach first performed his cantata for Advent, Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132, on 22 December 1715 in the Schlosskirche Weimar?
Did you know that Frederick S. Lyman's account of the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano and 1868 Hawaii earthquake was written from a nearby sheep and goat ranch?
Did you know that John Deering volunteered to have his heart monitored by an electrocardiogram while he was shot to death?
Did you know that Mark Miodownik is delivering the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures?
Did you know that Monica Nashandi was removed from the 2009 Namibian general election SWAPO electoral list because she had not registered to vote in the previous election?
Did you know that Sotra Facula, a prominent feature on Saturn's giant moon Titan, is thought to be an ice volcano that may have erupted water, methane, polyethylene, paraffin waxes or even asphalt?
Did you know that The Pretty Druidess (1869) was the last of W. S. Gilbert's early operatic burlesques, written before the Gilbert and Sullivan operas?
Did you know that Western Wood was preselected for the City of London seat in 1861 in preference to future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone?
Did you know that a large waterbag can bring water to California and, according to its inventor, peace to the Middle East?
Did you know that medieval Bulgarian noble Aldimir, the despot of Kran, changed sides to the Byzantines even though he had blinded a rival in order to gain the Bulgarian emperor's trust?
Did you know that of the great glaciers of the French Oisans, the Glacier Noir descends farthest because of favourable topography and moraines that screen it from the sun?
Did you know that the Cuernavaca Cathedral in Cuernavaca, Mexico, was originally one of the 16th century monasteries built near the Popocatepetl volcano that have been designated a World Heritage Site?
Did you know that the English landscape architect Edward Kemp was buried in Birkenhead, Merseyside, in the Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, which he had designed himself?
Did you know that the Louisiana sheriff Cat Doucet of St. Landry Parish apparently obtained his nickname from his practice of protecting illegal "cathouses," a slang term for brothels?
Did you know that the Pervenetz class ironclad was the first ironclad class of ships in the Russian Navy?
Did you know that the music of songwriter Lincoln Chase, who wrote "Such a Night", "Jim Dandy", and "The Clapping Song", has been described as "like a black Frank Zappa but groovier"?
Did you know that the seeds of Simarouba amara (sapling pictured) are more likely to germinate once they have been eaten by monkeys?
Did you know that though 2000 lay dead on the field of the Battle of Zappolino (November 1325), when forces of Modena routed Bologna, the status quo was re-established afterwards and historians generally ignore the event?
Did you know that 17 years after an aircraft crash killed most of the Zambia national football team, the Zambian government has yet to release a report on the crash?
Did you know that 40,000 people were involved in the construction of venues for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?
Did you know that Hiroshi Ishikawa won the New Montreal Film Festival's Best Director award for Su-ki-da, his second film?
Did you know that Karuizawa, Japan, where curling competitions were held during the 1998 Nagano Olympics, is the first town to have hosted both Summer and Winter Olympic events?
Did you know that Roald Hoffmann's development of the isolobal principle helped him earn the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
Did you know that Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (published 1765–1769) is still cited by the Supreme Court of the United States between 10 and 12 times a year?
Did you know that all species of the fruit fly genus Zaprionus (Z. indianus pictured) have the same characteristic white stripes over the head and thorax?
Did you know that before the 62nd Grey Cup, CFL defensive back Tony Proudfoot fired staples from a staple gun into his shoes to improve his traction on an icy football field?
Did you know that feathers from a dead swan, which crashed into scaffolding at All Saints Church in Roffey during construction, were incorporated into the church's antependium?
Did you know that in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Satyavati – who initially stank of fish – was blessed with the musk fragrance by a sage, with whom she had premarital sex?
Did you know that newly promoted Arkansas State head football coach Hugh Freeze was depicted in the movie The Blind Side about Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher?
Did you know that the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story was written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports reporter and narrated by Dustin Hoffman?
Did you know that the Atlanta Neighborhood Union, an all-women African-American association founded in 1908, was a model for other improvement associations?
Did you know that the CBC's senior correspondent Neil Macdonald is the brother of comedian Norm Macdonald?
Did you know that the Soviet ship MO-103 sank the German submarine U-250, capturing the commander and five crewmen in July 1944?
Did you know that the award-winning war photographer Yuri Kozyrev, who spent several years working for the American press in Baghdad, lived together with Iraqis in the city?
Did you know that the bell in the cupola of the Genesee County Courthouse in Batavia, New York, was originally acquired for use in a practical joke?
Did you know that the busiest Namibian border post is the Angolan one at Oshikango in the town of Helao Nafidi?
Did you know that the former Confederate officer Christopher Columbus Nash, as sheriff in Grant Parish, Louisiana, crushed the Colfax Riot in 1873 and formed the White League in 1874?
Did you know that the light novel series Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? was an honourable mention at Fujimi Shobo's 20th Fantasia Awards?
Did you know that the three species of the fungal genus Collybia—C. cookei, C. cirrhata, and C. tuberosa—all grow on the decomposing remains of other mushrooms?
Did you know that zombie apocalypse drama The Walking Dead was named as one of the top 10 television programs of 2010 by the American Film Institute?
Did you know that Air Vice Marshal Ian McLachlan's concerns regarding cost and delivery of the F-111 to the RAAF proved "painfully prescient" as the new bomber came six years late and way over budget?
Did you know that Albanian American Anthony Athanas, who rode a donkey en route to the United States, became a multi-millionaire restaurateur in Massachusetts?
Did you know that Dexter executive producer Daniel Cerone encouraged the mother of his son's friend not to let her son audition for "Seeing Red" because he would be filmed sitting in a pool of blood?
Did you know that Harvard Divinity School's Hollis Professor of Divinity has the right to graze a cow on the Harvard Yard?
Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Fred H. Mills, Jr., wrote legislation in 2010 to permit pharmacists, such as himself, to administer medication therapy management services?
Did you know that Sakis' Parafora (2010) received more bids than any other Greek album to be released as a covermount since the practice became common after the recent economic crisis, and all were refused?
Did you know that after Rosa Ponselle created the role of Carmelita in Joseph Breil's "Lyric Tragedy in One Act" The Legend (libretto pictured) at the Met, she burned her copy of the score?
Did you know that before his elections in 1944 and 1956 to both houses of the Louisiana Legislature, Frank Estes Cole had been an LSU Tigers football player and a high school coach in Rayville and Many, Louisiana?
Did you know that college football coach A. M. Miller was notified to testify during the Scopes Monkey Trials?
Did you know that four centuries after being aggrieved by Benedict Spinola in a property deal, Magdalene College, Cambridge, avenged itself by erecting a gargoyle of him?
Did you know that one of the largest aboriginal title claims in the United States was rejected based on an interpretation of the Articles of Confederation?
Did you know that the Blood Qur'an, formerly displayed in the Mother Of All Battles mosque in Baghdad, was written in over 20 litres of Saddam Hussein's blood?
Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Kaiserin was the first battleship to pass through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal in July 1914, days before the outbreak of World War I?
Did you know that the Rugby League Atlantic Cup, held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, is contested by emerging rugby league nations in North America?
Did you know that the Schnarcherklippen rocks in the German High Harz are mentioned in Goethe's dramas Faust I and Faust II?
Did you know that the communist-led federation SOBSI was the largest trade union movement in Indonesia prior to the Suharto era?
Did you know that Andrew McKinley, David Aiken, and Leon Lishner created the parts of the Three Kings in the world premiere of Menotti's Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors which was broadcast live by NBC to an audience of millions on Christmas Eve 1951?
Did you know that Brace Mountain, the highest peak in Dutchess County, New York, is a popular launch spot for hang gliding and paragliding due to the smooth geography of the area?
Did you know that Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's first released single was a blues rock cover of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy"?
Did you know that Claybrook Cottingham, the president of two colleges in Louisiana, began his academic career as an assistant principal at an academy in Virginia when he was 19?
Did you know that Dionte Christmas led the 2008–09 Temple Owls men's basketball team in points per game, three-pointers completed, and total steals?
Did you know that Dylan Thomas' short prose A Child's Christmas in Wales was first published under its own title two years after his death?
Did you know that Henry Ramsden Bramley's Christmas Carols, New and Old, compiled in collaboration with John Stainer, is credited with creating a Christmas carol revival in Victorian England?
Did you know that Jason Aldean's duet with Kelly Clarkson, "Don't You Wanna Stay", is the first duet of his career?
Did you know that Joe Marshall, also known as "Home Run Joe", did not hit any home runs in his Major League Baseball career?
Did you know that Michigan football captain James Van Inwagen operated the Tiffany Enameled Brick Co. and the company that made Tiffany Never-Wind Clocks?
Did you know that although Geographia Neoteriki, written by Grigorios Konstantas and Daniel Philippidis, was welcomed with enthusiasm by western intellectuals, it was largely neglected by Greek scholars?
Did you know that although first published in the 1582 songbook Piae Cantiones, the Christmas carol Unto Us is Born a Son may be derived from 12th and 13th century French organum repertories?
Did you know that in 1874, a 5720 pound copper nugget whose surface had been worked by prehistoric miners was discovered at the Minong Mine?
Did you know that the bigheaded ant, Pheidole megacephala, protects the source of its food supply, green scale insects, by removing predatory larvae that might eat them?
Did you know that the first cantata Bach composed for Christmas Day in Leipzig was in 1724 the chorale cantata Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91, based on Martin Luther's hymn for Christmas Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ?
Did you know that the freshman State Rep. Leopold Caspari in 1884 pushed successfully for the creation of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana?
Did you know that the official Chicago Christmas tree was constructed from multiple individual trees until 2009?
Did you know that American diplomat, orator, and Harvard professor Edward Everett bought two New Testament manuscripts, Lectionary 297 and Lectionary 298, during a visit to Greece in 1819?
Did you know that Dick Hoerner played in three consecutive NFL Championship Games, became the Los Angeles Rams' all-time leading rusher and was considered "a murderous line backer"?
Did you know that Gardiner considers Bach the "best writer of dramatic declamation ... since Monteverdi" for the dialogue in his cantata for the Second Day of Christmas, Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57?
Did you know that Harvey Wells founded the city of Wellston, Ohio, but he never owned his own house there?
Did you know that Jim Cockman is the oldest player to ever make his Major League Baseball debut with the New York Yankees?
Did you know that Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones was available to premiere at New York City's Metropolitan Opera because an opera by a Jew about a black was not wanted in Berlin in 1933?
Did you know that Monte Scheinblum, son of All-Star baseball player Richie Scheinblum, hit a golf ball over 329 yards (301 meters) into a 20 mph (32 kph) wind to win the 1992 U.S. National Long Driving Championship?
Did you know that Spanish songwriter Javier Limón earned the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year in 2004?
Did you know that Stephen Venard, a 19th century Nevada City, California lawman and renowned road agent killer, used a Henry rifle?
Did you know that Teresa Teng's "The Moon Represents My Heart" was one of the first love songs to become popular in mainland China under the Open Door Policy?
Did you know that after a tsutsugamushi epidemic occurred at Sausapor, research was conducted on the area's rats and mites, using C-rations as rat bait, to better understand the illness's epidemiology?
Did you know that diamond (example pictured) is superhard but not supertough?
Did you know that insertion reactions are integral to the Cativa process, a method used to produce millions of tons of acetic acid annually?
Did you know that the Jacksonville Rockets, an Eastern Hockey League franchise based in Jacksonville, were Florida's first professional ice hockey team?