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Did you know that Chrystal Macmillan was the first female graduate with a degree in science from the University of Edinburgh, and the first woman to argue before the House of Lords?
Did you know that Emma Roberto Steiner, one of the first American women to make a living from conducting, took a ten year hiatus from her musical career to prospect for tin near Nome, Alaska?
Did you know that España y Filipinas (Spain and the Philippines) by Juan Luna is a painted depiction of two women on the stairway to progress?
Did you know that Evelina Haverfield, a British suffragette who was arrested after hitting a police officer in the mouth, threatened to "bring a revolver" next time?
Did you know that Florence Luscomb, one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from MIT, later left that field to become a full-time women's suffrage activist?
Did you know that Franjo Mihalić, winner of the 1958 Boston Marathon, set his first Yugoslav record over 5000 m just several months after taking up athletics?
Did you know that Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh invented Sugru, described as "the most exciting product since Sellotape or Blu-Tack"?
Did you know that Michele S. Jones was the first woman in the U.S. Army to attain the rank of command sergeant major before she retired to a military liaison position in the Obama Administration?
Did you know that Mildred "Micky" Axton, who was the first woman to fly a B-29, died on February 8, 2010, before she could receive the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10, 2010?
Did you know that Nick Joaquin’s historical novel, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, is about a hallucinating Filipina who believed she had two belly buttons?
Did you know that Sotir Peçi published the first Albanian-language newspaper in the United States?
Did you know that Wilma B. Liebman, the second woman ever to be Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, was named to the position by President Barack Obama on his first day in office?
Did you know that a recipe for Calf's Liver and Bacon is found in the White House Cookbook?
Did you know that fiction writer Cathy Kelly has sold over 1 million books in the UK, at one time displacing both Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling from the top of the country's bestseller list?
Did you know that funeral practices in the Philippines in the past include anthropomorphic jar burials and hanging coffins (example pictured)?
Did you know that the "restrained and dignified" Zion Chapel is the oldest Nonconformist church in East Grinstead—a West Sussex town with a long history of Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religion?
Did you know that the Cuban national baseball team won the gold or silver medal at every Summer Olympics where baseball was an official Olympic sport?
Did you know that the German socialist women's activist Lore Agnes was jailed in 1914 for having called on women to oppose the war during a March 8 rally?
Did you know that the German submarine U-1065 was sunk after only six days at sea by rockets from 10 de Havilland Mosquitos?
Did you know that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Sanajeh preyed on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs at nesting sites in India?
Did you know that the Old City Hall in Zagreb has a plaque which commemorates Nikola Tesla's proposal put forward to the city council in 1892 to build an alternating current power station?
Did you know that the book Commentarii de Bello Civili, written by Julius Caesar, is staple reading among students of Latin?
Did you know that the collector urchin is so named because of its tendency to collect debris on its dorsal side?
Did you know that the customers of Martha Matilda Harper's hair salons included Susan B. Anthony, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, and Jacqueline Kennedy?
Did you know that the mother of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) was the main sponsor of Tibetan Rakhadrak Hermitage?
Did you know that the video for OK Go's single "This Too Shall Pass" features a giant Rube Goldberg machine and took 60 takes to complete?
Did you know that the video game Gyromancer was originally "half-jokingly" proposed by PopCap Games co-founder Jason Kapalka to Square Enix with the name Final Fantasy Bejeweled?
Did you know that American Idol season 8 finalist Danny Gokey's best days are ahead of him?
Did you know that Anna Kozlova has competed in three Olympics, once for the Unified Team (former Soviet Union) and twice for the United States?
Did you know that Eastern Michigan University's McKenny Union, opened in 1931, was the first student union on the campus of a teachers' college?
Did you know that Francisco Goya's etching Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the Mayor of Torrejón records an event from 1801 when a Spanish politician was impaled and killed after a bull crashed through the barriers at a Madrid bullfight?
Did you know that George Matthew Snelson, the first Mayor of Palmerston North, New Zealand, is regarded as the father of his city?
Did you know that Matthew Stockford won three bronze medals for Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics?
Did you know that Minuscule 642, a manuscript of the New Testament, was brought from the Greek Archipelago to England by Joseph Carlyle, orientalist?
Did you know that Niall McCrudden became known as the "optician to the stars" after selling a pair of sunglasses to Jim Corr?
Did you know that Sir Simon Degge, a barrister in Derby, wrote about glebes and the crime of simony?
Did you know that Sri Lanka's first and so far only national referendum was held in 1982 to postpone parliamentary elections by six years?
Did you know that The Mars Project, written by Wernher von Braun in 1948, has been regarded as "the most influential book" on manned missions to Mars (artist's conception pictured)?
Did you know that Tickle Em Jock was the first Scottish Terrier to be best-in-show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
Did you know that Tofiri Kibuuka, one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games?
Did you know that during a tornado outbreak on June 18, 2001, police in Siren, Wisconsin, shouted warnings at local residents to take cover when the village's tornado siren malfunctioned?
Did you know that football champion Romualdas Marcinkus was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War?
Did you know that in Tell Balata, a tell in the West Bank, there are towers and buildings estimated to be 5,000 years old?
Did you know that in the Diepkloof Rock Shelter, a rock cave in South Africa, some of the earliest use of symbols by humans has been found upon water containers made out of ostrich eggshells?
Did you know that medical student Bob Kolesar was one of Michigan's renowned "Seven Oak Posts" in 1942?
Did you know that of the 802 individual Nobel Prize winners, at least 162 (20%) were of Jewish ethnicity?
Did you know that one common route up New York's Balsam Mountain follows the steepest section of trail in the Catskills?
Did you know that the French battleship Jean Bart was hit in the wine store near the forward magazine by a single torpedo, fired by the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-12 in the Adriatic in 1914?
Did you know that the Museo de la Estampa, along with the Museo Nacional de Arte, manages Mexico's largest collection of graphic arts including works by José Guadalupe Posada?
Did you know that the great Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, has 19 affiliated hermitages, including 4 nunneries: Chupzang, Garu, Negodong and Nenang Nunnery?
Did you know that the smallscale archerfish does not need brackish water like other members of genus Toxotes, and is thus sometimes sold as a "freshwater archerfish"?
Did you know that the state flag of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is used on state police boats?
Did you know that three Byzantine emperors in the 6th century served as commanders of the imperial guard, known as the Excubitors, prior to assuming the throne?
Did you know that Augustus the Strong lost the Polish crown in the Treaty of Altranstädt (1706), but regained it after the Treaty of Thorn (1709)?
Did you know that Bulgarian virtuoso violinist Vasco Abadjiev was one of the youngest violinists to make his international debut in the 20th century, at the age of 6, in June 1932 in Vienna?
Did you know that Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis resigned his offices in Ireland over King George III's failure to support Catholic emancipation?
Did you know that Hall of Fame quarterback Charley Barrett died of an illness contracted in an explosion on the USS Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor during World War I?
Did you know that Kesha Rogers, who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district, is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama?
Did you know that Louis Jordan was the first University of Texas All-American football player and the first Texas officer killed in action in World War I?
Did you know that Mahela Jayawardene holds several batting records in Test cricket for Sri Lanka, including the most centuries?
Did you know that Professor Ioannis Liritzis has invented two novel archaeological dating methods?
Did you know that Ragnhild was the only ship in convoy KMS 96G?
Did you know that Thomas Rutherford Bacon, a 19th century Congregational minister in New Haven, Connecticut, was called "the original mugwump of Connecticut"?
Did you know that according to legend, the 5th century Avukana statue, a large stone figure of the Buddha, is the result of a competition between a sculpting master and student?
Did you know that by the time of his death in 1947, the Spanish financier José Lázaro Galdiano has amassed a collection of about 12,000 art works, mainly by European Old Masters?
Did you know that downtown Napoleon, Ohio, is bracketed by the historical and vastly different First Presbyterian Church and St. Augustine's Catholic Church?
Did you know that in 1686 a thunderstorm damaged the Church of St Lawrence, Alton, blasting a hole in the tower and singeing the vicar's eyebrows?
Did you know that in 1989, Michel Hansenne was elected the first post-Cold War Director-General of the International Labour Organization?
Did you know that in the 840s, the emir of Malatya, Umar al-Aqta, gave refuge to the Paulicians who were being persecuted by the Byzantine Empire, and gave them territory where they founded their own state?
Did you know that the  Hot and Hot Fish Club  was a gentlemen's club dedicated to epicurean pursuits?
Did you know that the American industrialist Nathaniel Wheeler became a Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court in Vienna for sewing machines?
Did you know that the ancient Toluvila statue is one of the best-preserved images of the Buddha that has been found in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that the extinct sweat bee Augochlora leptoloba is known from a single specimen now in a private collection in Turin, Italy?
Did you know that the residence of former Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, James Arthur Flesher is now used as a community centre?
Did you know that the tree Trema orientalis is used to make paper, rope, charcoal and traditional medications against cough, sore throat, toothache, gonorrhea and yellow fever?
Did you know that when U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy heard Phil Ochs sing "Crucifixion", tears came to his eyes?
Did you know that "Indian Camp" (published in 1925) was the first Ernest Hemingway short story to feature the semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams?
Did you know that Bessie A. Buchanan, who was the first African-American woman to hold a seat in the New York State Legislature, previously danced in the chorus line at the Cotton Club?
Did you know that Gaius Iunius Bubulcus Brutus, a three-time Roman consul in the 4th century BCE, was the first plebeian to build a temple in the Roman Republic?
Did you know that George Fielding Eliot's military analysis was part of the ten-hour CBS TV news coverage of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, which was the first extended television coverage of a major breaking news event?
Did you know that Heath Calhoun and Andy Soule, both double-leg amputees due to wounds received in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, will represent the United States at the 2010 Winter Paralympics?
Did you know that Lord Palmerston threatened "immediate and frightful" war against the United States if they would not repatriate Alexander McLeod, a Canadian accused of killing an American sailor?
Did you know that St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein, Ohio, lies near the center of the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches?
Did you know that a Mexican Tree of Life sculpture (example pictured) appears on the cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album?
Did you know that after retiring from the National Football League, Po James survived being shot six times in a YMCA in Bridgeport, Connecticut?
Did you know that country music singer David Nail's single "Turning Home" was co-written by Kenny Chesney?
Did you know that despite having a Ph.D. and being a foremost North American authority on the difficult mushroom genera Lactarius and Russula, Gertrude S. Burlingham only ever taught high school biology?
Did you know that in Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee and the Liverpool Post and Echo Ltd, Lord Nicholls decided that the disputed test applied by the High Court judge was not necessarily wrong, but allowed the appeal anyway?
Did you know that southbound M-52 in downtown Adrian, Michigan, carries both directions of the US 223 business loop in town?
Did you know that the 1930s Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving was the grandson of the Victorian era actor Sir Henry Irving?
Did you know that the American Detroit blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Eddie "Guitar" Burns was originally known as a harmonica player?
Did you know that the Apastovsky Museum in Apastovo, Tatarstan, contains archaeological and paleontological finds such as ancient tools, bone needles, stone hammers, a skull of a rhinoceros and mammoth teeth?
Did you know that the Hindu widow goddess Dhumavati is offered liquor, meat, cigarettes and bhang, an intoxicating hashish drink?
Did you know that the J.W. Knapp Company Building, one of the finest intact examples of Streamline Moderne architecture in the Midwest, is faced with plates of enamel-covered concrete and prismatic glass-brick windows?
Did you know that the Majorca Sheepdogs were exported to Brazil and used to protect private property?
Did you know that the most comprehensive history of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages was composed by Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi, whose tomb lies at the base of the Mount of Olives?
Did you know that the royal dynasty at the Maya city of Copán (fragment pictured) in Honduras was founded by a warrior sent from the distant city of Tikal?
Did you know that the variant of the wedding cord known as God’s knot or cord-of-three-strands is used as a substitute for unity candles?
Did you know that American Texas and electric blues musician Mike Morgan's backing band, the Crawl, was named after a Lonnie Brooks song?
Did you know that Charleston architect Walter F. Martens modeled the West Virginia Governor's Mansion after the White House so it could accommodate up to 2,000 guests at one time?
Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame center Shorty Des Jardien played in the NFL for the Chicago Tigers and in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians?
Did you know that Director Park in Portland, Oregon, was designed by Laurie Olin, who also designed Bryant Park in New York City?
Did you know that Elżbieta  Sieniawska was one of the most powerful women in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the reign of Augustus II the Strong?
Did you know that Jan de Jong, the ice master at Thialf, manipulated the ice cleaning schedule in the 1981 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men so that Eric Heiden would lose?
Did you know that Jose Peralta was the first Latino elected to the New York State Assembly from Queens, New York?
Did you know that Justice Henry Barron, the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland, also granted Ireland's first divorce in the same year?
Did you know that Jürgen Wattenberg twice escaped from captivity, at first after the scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, and then after the sinking of U-162?
Did you know that Kallina House, designed by Vjekoslav Bastl for the Hönigsberg & Deutsch studio, is one of the finest examples of Secessionist-style street architecture in Zagreb?
Did you know that Lord Alfred Douglas—Oscar Wilde's lover "Bosie"—is buried in the grounds of the Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony in Crawley, West Sussex?
Did you know that Morning Funnies was a fruit-flavored breakfast cereal featuring comic strip characters including Dennis the Menace, Hägar the Horrible, and Funky Winkerbean on the box?
Did you know that after Eustathios Maleinos hosted Byzantine Emperor Basil II on his estate in 995, the Emperor, alarmed by Maleinos' wealth and power, placed him under house arrest in Constantinople?
Did you know that between 1725 and 1783, members of the prominent Damascene family al-Azm held power as walis in Damascus, Syria, for 47 years?
Did you know that in addition to his distinguished military career against the Ottoman Turks, Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha, was also an accomplished poet, harpsichordist, and composer?
Did you know that some of the architectural elements of the Skene Memorial Library in Fleischmanns, New York, suggest contemporary train stations in the Catskill region?
Did you know that the Blackhawk Hotel in Davenport, Iowa, has been host to high-profile people including Carl Sandburg, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Jack Dempsey, Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton?
Did you know that the Buffalo Bills' 2008 home game in their rivalry with the Miami Dolphins was the first  National Football League regular-season game played in Canada?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Doukas was proclaimed emperor in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, but was killed on the same day by supporters of the legitimate emperor, Constantine VII?
Did you know that the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company started in 1924, but went bankrupt after the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
Did you know that the animations of characters in 1988 video game Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax were based on 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge's motion captures of humans?
Did you know that two high school students used the automated telescope at Leuschner Observatory to record the earliest images of supernova SN 1994I?
Did you know that witches' butter is a jelly fungus that grows parasitically on a crust fungus?
Did you know that 'The Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand', with more than ninety knock-outs, was one of the greatest Welsh boxers?
Did you know that Frederick Josiah Bradlee was a Boston Brahmin, an All-American halfback and the father of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee?
Did you know that George Peek was the first Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the first President of the two banks that would become the Export-Import Bank of the United States?
Did you know that John Virginius Bennes's architectural work included the Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City, Oregon, and at least 35 buildings on the Oregon State University campus?
Did you know that Kennaquhair was an Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Sydney Cup and the AJC Metropolitan Handicap?
Did you know that Margaret Greville bequeathed Polesden Lacey in Surrey to the National Trust in 1942 in memory of her father, Scottish brewer William McEwan?
Did you know that Nebraska's first All-American Vic Halligan was called "The premier punter of the West, A master of the forward pass, A tackler equal to the best"?
Did you know that Rufus Wainwright's album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu contains three adaptations of Shakespeare's sonnets?
Did you know that U2's experience in Shinjuku, Tokyo at the conclusion of the Zoo TV Tour was the inspiration for the Passengers' song "Slug"?
Did you know that Wilfred Wong, BevMo!'s cellar master, tastes some 8,000 wines each year for the large retail chain?
Did you know that Wyandanch, the sachem of the Montaukett, in 1659, sued Jeremy Daily in the colonial court in one of the first trials in North America with an English defendant and a Native American plaintiff?
Did you know that an unknown burglar—exhibited in a coffin at the Red Lion Inn in Shoreham, West Sussex, in the 1850s after being shot dead—was identified by his dog?
Did you know that author Ola Bauer wrote a novel about his involvement with the Provisional IRA, to correct what he felt was a slanted view of The Troubles in the Norwegian press?
Did you know that in the Madrid version of Titian's series of Danaë paintings, the nursemaid by the side of the Greek legend Danaë is portrayed as a hag, while in the Vienna version, the dog by her side is absent?
Did you know that other than "incapable" beneficiaries, the British Variation of Trusts Act 1958 only allows the courts to alter trust documents for potential beneficiaries, not confirmed ones?
Did you know that rapid construction of an earlier building of Holy Family Catholic Church in Frenchtown, Ohio, won its builders two gallons of whisky?
Did you know that resentment of the sales tax called the alcabala triggered several revolts in Spain's colonies, even though rates there were lower than in Spain itself?
Did you know that the 2010 T in the Park music festival is to be headlined by Muse, Eminem, and Kasabian, marking Eminem's first performance at a festival in the United Kingdom since 2001?
Did you know that the Oak Hill Railroad Depot is the only surviving Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia?
Did you know that the Roman theatre of Bosra, built in the 2nd century AD in Bosra, Syria, is the largest, most complete and best preserved of all the Roman theatres in the Middle East?
Did you know that the South Park Blocks have been called the "extended family room" of Portland, as Pioneer Courthouse Square is known as the city's "living room"?
Did you know that the building in Mexico City currently housing the Museo de Charrería, a museum for Mexican rodeo, was originally a 16th-century monastery dedicated to the Virgin of Montserrat?
Did you know that the captain of the cargo liner SS Beaverburn was given a gold-headed cane for commanding the first ship in 1947 to reach the port of Montreal?
Did you know that the final resting place of John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, who died in 1435, was not definitely established until the discovery of a one-legged skeleton in 1857?
Did you know that upon arrival at Fort Conger in 1899, several of Robert Peary's toes broke off due to frostbite?
Did you know that British painter Alessandro Raho, commissioned to portray Judi Dench for the National Portrait Gallery in London, imagined her as a wealthy housewife?
Did you know that Congregation B'nai Israel Synagogue in Fleischmanns, New York, is unique among Catskill synagogues in having an exposed truss ceiling in its sanctuary?
Did you know that Dashiell Hammett helped Lillian Hellman write the 1951 Broadway play The Autumn Garden?
Did you know that Dr. Ronald Levy became the first Jew to be awarded with the King Faisal International Prize, which is popularly called the "Arab Nobel Prize"?
Did you know that Frederic de Hoffmann helped develop the hydrogen bomb and later organized a project to propel a spaceship with nuclear bombs?
Did you know that Hall of Fame tackle Harold Ballin was "the hardest-hitting player" ever faced by fellow Hall of Famer Charles Brickley and the last Princeton player to play without a helmet?
Did you know that Hanging Rocks at Wappocomo, West Virginia, on the South Branch Potomac River was the site of both a battle between Delaware and Catawba Native American tribes and an American Civil War skirmish?
Did you know that Jesuit Donald Merrifield, the first president of Loyola Marymount University after its creation, worked as a consultant for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory?
Did you know that Nick Joaquin's short story The Summer Solstice is about the fertility ritual known as the Tatarin?