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Did you know that descendants of Betsy Mix Cowles's brother Edwin founded Cowles Publishing Company, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, and the Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company?
Did you know that in 2002, Devon and Cornwall set up a scheme where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting pubs along the route?
Did you know that near the end of World War II, American soldiers conducted a raid behind Soviet lines to rescue the bay stallion Witez II from a Czechoslovakian stud farm at the behest of captured German officers?
Did you know that only three of the largest islands of the United States – the Big Island of Hawaii, Kodiak Island, and Puerto Rico – are greater than 3,000 square miles (8,000 km²) in size?
Did you know that poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo wrote haikus while she and her family were detained in Japanese American internment camps during World War II?
Did you know that scientific jury selection is used by some U.S. attorneys in high-stakes cases?
Did you know that the 1999 Sydney hailstorm is the costliest natural disaster in Australian history, causing over A$1.7 billion in insured damages?
Did you know that the African pompano, a tropical marine game fish, is not a pompano, but belongs to the genus Alectis?
Did you know that the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Spain is reputed to be the first church dedicated to Mary through history?
Did you know that the Heller House marked a turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright's shift to Prairie School architecture?
Did you know that the Rose Quarter sports and entertainment complex in Portland, Oregon was constructed in the parking lot of the Memorial Coliseum?
Did you know that the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia uses  puppetry, street theatre and pageantry to promote social and political change?
Did you know that the Utah Scenic Byways program includes the highest paved road in the state with a summit at 10,715 ft (3266 m)?
Did you know that the Winchester Model 1895 is one of the few lever-action rifles equipped with a charger guide, allowing it to be reloaded by charger clips?
Did you know that the book This Is Not The Life I Ordered, co-authored by former California State Senator Jackie Speier, has twice reached the San Francisco Chronicle best seller list?
Did you know that the chief suspect in the 1919 Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy the bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless acquitted?
Did you know that the hydroid Hydractinia bayeri was named by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in honor of a fellow marine biologist, Frederick Bayer?
Did you know that the rent control program in New York State is America's  longest-running?
Did you know that the unusual Mexican ball game of pelota mixteca is thought to be a development of real tennis?
Did you know that visual evidence of the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was found in reconnaissance photographs by CIA analysts led by Arthur C. Lundahl?
Did you know that Ann Northrop gave up a successful career at CBS to eventually become an AIDS educator for the Hetrick-Martin Institute and co-host of TV news program Gay USA?
Did you know that Bob Odom,  Louisiana's Commissoner of Agriculture and Forestry, is, with 28 years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official?
Did you know that Captain Clack Stone led the intense defense of Apple River Fort against 150-200 Sauk and Fox warriors, which resulted in only one death at the fort?
Did you know that Frederick Garling was the second solicitor admitted to practice in the Australian state of New South Wales?
Did you know that PlumpJack Winery was the first winery in the Napa Valley to use screwcaps as a wine closures on Cabernet Sauvignon wines sold for over USD$100 per bottle?
Did you know that U.S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst had a cameo as a U.S. Senator in Otto Preminger's film Advice and Consent?
Did you know that after being suspended for life from the Ontario Hockey League, Marc Laforge still played professionally for two National Hockey League teams?
Did you know that archaeological evidence has shown that the Indian threadfish (Alectis indicus) has long been a resource for humans, with prehistoric and more modern sites in the United Arab Emirates preserving its remains?
Did you know that before U.S. short track speed skater Cathy Turner won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics, she had left the sport for eight years to pursue a singing career under the stage name "Nikki Newland"?
Did you know that before competing in luge, Bonny Warner competed for Stanford University on a field hockey scholarship?
Did you know that due to backlash from the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., under US law an expert witness can no longer testify on legal issues such as the insanity defense?
Did you know that even though nothing definite can be said about the existence of Sebaldus,  the patron saint of Nuremberg, his veneration continued even after the Protestant Revolution?
Did you know that in "Thou Art the Man", one of Edgar Allan Poe's lesser-known detective stories, ventriloquism is used to expose a murderer?
Did you know that in Tennard v. Dretke, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it a cruel and unusual punishment to ignore the defendant's mental retardation in sentencing the death penalty?
Did you know that the Crown Colony-class cruiser HMS Jamaica was nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast" because the North Koreans claimed that she had been sunk on three occasions?
Did you know that the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area in Ontario will be the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world?
Did you know that the Little Treaty of Versailles was the first of several Minority Treaties, and Poland's renouncing of it was the deathblow to the League of Nations' ethnic minority-protection regime?
Did you know that the Whitman-Walker Clinic adopted oral testing for HIV in 1993, before most major AIDS clinics in the US?
Did you know that the award for European Parliament's newly established cinema prize, Lux, consists of subtitling the winning film in the 23 official EU languages and an original language adaptation for the deaf and hard of hearing?
Did you know that the founding of the Church in Malta  is described in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible?
Did you know that the medical papyri show that ancient Egyptian physicians of the 19th century BC knew about migraines?
Did you know that when Richard Fort won a seat in the 1950 general election, he became the third person with the same name to represent Clitheroe in the British House of Commons?
Did you know that 27 years passed between the discovery of Ravenel's stinkhorn and the publication of its scientific description?
Did you know that Belinda Dann, a member of Australia's Stolen Generation, died just months after being reunited with her family, who had been searching for her for over a century?
Did you know that Ellen Hammer is regarded as one of the first Americans to study the history of Vietnam?
Did you know that Gavin Kaysen was undone at the Bocuse d'Or cooking competition because a dishwasher ate part of his entry?
Did you know that HMAS Stalwart was the largest Australian designed and constructed naval vessel?
Did you know that Ian Smith's 24 international tries, scored for Scotland in rugby union between 1924 and 1933, was an international record until 1987?
Did you know that Jehovah's Witnesses have had an impact on civil liberties in the United States, winning 47 cases involving religious beliefs brought by them before the U.S. Supreme Court?
Did you know that Joe Robertson, Dean of Oregon Health and Science University, lives on a houseboat?
Did you know that John L. Fugh was the first Chinese American to be Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army?
Did you know that Le Naturaliste Canadien is the oldest French-language academic journal in North America?
Did you know that Nanda, the half-sister of Gautama Buddha, went on to be the foremost nun in the practice of jhana?
Did you know that Richard Rougier, son of novelist Georgette Heyer, became a British High Court judge?
Did you know that Russian cellist Anatoliy Brandukov entered the Moscow Conservatory aged eight?
Did you know that The Legendary Buster Smith was the only solo album by Charlie Parker's mentor Buster Smith?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget was also an MP for Carnarvon despite his active navy career?
Did you know that Victor-Alphonse Huard styled himself the "disciple" of Léon Abel Provancher?
Did you know that criteria of truth are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims?
Did you know that it was Frances Seymour, the Duchess of Somerset who interceded with Queen Caroline to obtain a pardon for the poet and murderer  Richard Savage?
Did you know that most trains stop before reaching the platform at Coombe railway station in Cornwall, UK, and then reverse away?
Did you know that one of the television advertisements from the Good things come to those who wait Guinness advertising campaign was voted the "Best ad of all time" by the British public?
Did you know that royal fish, such as whales and sturgeons, are property of the Queen when found on the shores of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the "negro of Banyoles" was a human piece of taxidermy which prompted debate by the United Nations?
Did you know that the Hearst Medical Papyrus, considered to be an authentic ancient Egyptian document for more than a century, may be an almost perfect fake?
Did you know that the Iroise Sea on the Atlantic Ocean is France's first marine park?
Did you know that the Minority Treaties of 1919-1921, designed to protect ethnic minorities, were not implemented on the victorious allies of World War I?
Did you know that the Ukrainian pogroms in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917 were falsely attributed by the communists to Symon Petlura, despite his efforts to save Jews?
Did you know that the case of Rice v. Collins concerned a juror who may have  "rolled her eyes" under questioning?
Did you know that the construction of Tellico Dam on Little Tennessee River in 1979 put several 18th century Overhill Cherokee towns underwater?
Did you know that the first temple to be built in soapstone was constructed in Western Chalukya architecture, in Karnataka, India?
Did you know that the standard version of Sojourner Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" was recorded by Frances Dana Barker Gage?
Did you know that two male lovers of German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder committed suicide?
Did you know that Admiral Robert Holmes (statue pictured) of the Royal Navy destroyed 130 ships and burned the town of Terschelling for the loss of three men in the action Holmes's Bonfire?
Did you know that Bhadda Kundalakesa attained arahantship faster than any other Buddhist nun?
Did you know that Clímaco Calderón was President of Colombia for only one day?
Did you know that Credonia Mwerinde founded the doomsday cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, with Joseph Kibweteere?
Did you know that Peter Birkhäuser was so moved by a moth trapped by a window that he painted its picture, and later analysed his thoughts and corresponded with Carl Jung?
Did you know that according to a Dakota Indian legend, the Great Spirit divided Barn Bluff between two rival villages of Minnesota, with the remaining portion moving to Winona and became Sugar Loaf?
Did you know that bugged conversations with surgeon-crime boss Giuseppe Guttadauro revealed how the Mafia funded the 2001 election campaign of Sicilian President Salvatore Cuffaro?
Did you know that in 1921, future four-star admiral Louis M. Nulton tried to save the battlecruiser USS Constitution from being scrapped by illegally transferring funds from the construction and repair of other warships?
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Did you know that in the United Kingdom, speed limits imposed by variable-message signs are advisories only, and there are no legal sanctions for drivers who exceed them?
Did you know that popularity of German Minority, a party of the German minority in Poland, has been steadily declining since its establishment?
Did you know that razor manufacturer Thiers Issard produces a singing razor whose blade produces a resonant tone when plucked?
Did you know that the 1994 Guinness television advertisement Anticipation used jump cutting techniques to make an actor appear to be performing a physically impossible dance?
Did you know that the Comoedienhaus theater, built in 1782, the first theater of performing arts in Frankfurt, Germany, played host to concerts by Mozart, Schiller and Goethe, among others?
Did you know that the Lockheed NF-104A, equipped with a reaction control system as well as a rocket engine to supplement a jet engine, was a low-cost training vehicle for American astronauts in the 1960s?
Did you know that the United Church of Christ in Blooming Grove, New York was a Presbyterian congregation until its pastor was tried for heresy?
Did you know that the opening session of the Estonian Constituent Assembly on April 23 1919 is considered the birth of the Estonian Parliament?
Did you know that A. Roswell Thompson, a taxi operator and a figure in the Ku Klux Klan, ran for governor of Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before  David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991?
Did you know that Alex Niño quit medical school at the University of Manila in 1959 to pursue his childhood goal of becoming a comic book artist?
Did you know that Buryat Mongolian Buddhist Agvan Dorzhiev was a tutor and debating partner of the teenage Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama?
Did you know that Gladstone's Land is a restored six-storey-high tenement building, built in 1550, and situated on Edinburgh's Royal Mile?
Did you know that Hare Field was the first all-weather high school football field in Oregon?
Did you know that Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada were persecuted in the early to mid-20th century, and that their religion was banned during World War II under the War Measures Act as a result of their refusal to serve in the military?
Did you know that John Fowler won the 1858 prize of the Royal Agricultural Society for mechanical cultivation using winches and a steam engine?
Did you know that Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and champion of emancipation and women's suffrage, was also a founder of the Women's Rest Tour Association of Boston?
Did you know that Michael Jordan's Restaurant in Chicago received as many as 7,000 telephone calls per day during its first few months of operation?
Did you know that Sagittarius B2 is a giant molecular cloud near the Galactic Center where half of all known interstellar molecules were first discovered?
Did you know that Sardarji jokes are the most popular ethnic jokes in India?
Did you know that Stanislavski and Craig's symbolist production of Hamlet in 1911 put the Moscow Art Theatre on the cultural map of Europe?
Did you know that Teimuraz I, a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was also an accomplished poet whose literary works includes original Georgian poems as well as translations and adaptations from Persian literature?
Did you know that founder Beulah Burke organized and was the first regional director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated's Midwestern region?
Did you know that only after five years since its founding in 1991, Reel Affirmations became the fourth-largest LGBT film festival in the United States?
Did you know that the annual Global Peace and Unity conference held at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London is the largest Muslim event in Europe?
Did you know that there are seven dialectal groups of the Polish language, each primarily associated with a certain geographical region?
Did you know that Bartolomé Calvo became President of the Granadine Confederation after his predecessor's term ended and no new president had been elected?
Did you know that Edward Abbott was the first judge to sit in a permanent civil court in the Australian State of Tasmania?
Did you know that John Phillips was one of the first judges appointed to the Victorian Court of Appeal and that his nickname was "Equity Jack"?
Did you know that Joshua Jebb designed equipment for siege warfare and famous prisons like Pentonville, Mountjoy and Broadmoor?
Did you know that Luzerne County Commissioner, former professional athlete and University of Michigan Wolverine offensive lineman, Greg Skrepenak, was inducted into the Pennsylvania State Sports Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Olegarius, Archbishop of Tarragona, became a canon priest when he was only ten years old?
Did you know that Powderfinger's "Living Type" was about Charles Manson's cult victims, not about love or menstruation as had been speculated by some lyrical analysts?
Did you know that a church was built in memory of Parkin Jeffcock who led a rescue during the Oaks colliery explosions which killed over 350?
Did you know that an aircraft which misses the arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier and needs to accelerate away is referred to as a bolter?
Did you know that during the Italian War of 1542–1546, the population of Toulon, France was expelled to make room for an Ottoman naval base?
Did you know that in the year 2004, both the Tamil and Telugu language versions of the Kannada novel Parva won the Sahitya Akademi of India's translation award?
Did you know that the 74181 chip greatly simplified the development and manufacture of computers during the late 1960s and 1970s?
Did you know that the exploits of the 6th century Roman general John Troglita are the subject of one of the last epic poems of Antiquity, the Iohannis by Flavius Cresconius Corippus?
Did you know that the paddle-wheel cyclogyro aircraft design refuses to die after almost a century of failed attempts to build one?
Did you know that the programmable metallization cell is one of many contenders aiming to become a Flash RAM replacement?
Did you know that Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb was jailed for his failure to submit to a U.S. Special Registration program from which he was supposed to be exempt?
Did you know that BBC cameraman Charles de Jaeger got the idea for the Panorama April Fools report on the Swiss spaghetti harvest from a phrase used by one of his school teachers in Vienna?
Did you know that Chef Morou Ouattara opened his own restaurant after he lost his job as Signatures Restaurant's executive chef in the fallout of the Jack Abramoff scandals?
Did you know that Node Magazine, a hypertext version of William Gibson's Spook Country, is a fictional magazine named after a fictional magazine in the novel?
Did you know that Prema Karanth is the first woman to direct a Kannada film?
Did you know that RAOC officer George Styles was awarded the George Cross in 1972 for defusing booby-trapped bombs planted by terrorists in Northern Ireland, including two bombs left at the Europa Hotel in Belfast within a matter of days?
Did you know that Shaukat Usmani was a candidate for the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1929 UK general election while imprisoned in India?
Did you know that Shoyna, on a peninsula of Russia's Nenets Autonomous Okrug, is more than half buried by sand dunes caused by permafrost and trawling?
Did you know that Sir John Port, patron of Oxford University, was involved in the trials of two saints and a Queen?
Did you know that Song Hye-rang is a North Korean defector who looked after Kim Jong-nam, the child of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il?
Did you know that William Couper is considered one of the first prominent entomologists in Canada?
Did you know that a T-54 tank of the Polish Army killed seven children watching on the sidewalk during a military parade in Szczecin in 1962?
Did you know that an explanation for the derivation of Aughanduff, a townland in Armagh, is that it means ford of the ox or Áth an Daimh in Irish?
Did you know that during the Lithuanian press ban from 1864 to 1904, it was illegal in Lithuania to print, import, distribute, or possess any publications that were written in the Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet?
Did you know that fossil Thelodont fish (depiction pictured) surprised scientists by showing that stomachs evolved before jaws?
Did you know that the Australian lamington cake is believed to have been named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, the then-Governor of Queensland?
Did you know that the First International Syndicalist Congress in 1913 was compared to "Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark" because the world's largest syndicalist organization was absent?
Did you know that the Treaty of Reichenbach signaled both Prussia's first retreat from the policies of Frederick the Great, as well as the beginning of its decline?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks that it is not unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons?
Did you know that the astronomical observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica is named after physicist Martin A. Pomerantz?
Did you know that the foundation of the largest dam in Iraq is subject to so much erosion that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has warned about the risk of a collapse that would kill up to 500,000 people?
Did you know that the monastery of Nea Moni on the island of Chios, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains some of the finest surviving mosaics (example pictured) from the Macedonian Renaissance?
Did you know that though it started as a block party in 1975, Capital Pride in Washington, D.C., is now the fourth-largest gay pride parade and festival in the United States?
Did you know that Andrew Michael Dasburg's three "daringly experimental" Cubist pieces at the 1913 Armory Show introduced many Americans to modern art?
Did you know that BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II?
Did you know that Batesian and Müllerian mimicry provided early evidence for the theory of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace?
Did you know that California's 2007 Santiago Fire was started deliberately?
Did you know that David Letterman parodied Werner Erhard in the 1978 Mork & Mindy episode Mork Goes Erk?
Did you know that French poet Ronsard correctly predicted that Tuileries Palace, one of the many building projects of Catherine de' Medici, would be deserted within a hundred years?
Did you know that Howard Greer designed costumes  for the Katharine Hepburn films Christopher Strong and Bringing Up Baby?
Did you know that Juan Bautista Villalpando proposed that the classical orders were derived originally from Solomon's Temple, not from ancient Greek architecture as Vitruvius had written?
Did you know that Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?
Did you know that Khoo Kheng-Hor, a Malaysian author, was appointed as honorary Assistant Superintendent of Police in Singapore, in recognition for his contemporary application of Sun Tzu's Art of War?
Did you know that Lavinia Fisher is widely recognised as the first female serial killer in the United States of America?
Did you know that Praejectus, Bishop of Clermont, was assassinated for his supposed involvement in the earlier death of a lord of Marseilles?
Did you know that businessman Peter Bynoe oversaw the development of New Comiskey Park, which was instrumental in keeping the Chicago White Sox from leaving the city?
Did you know that during the Peninsular War, French forces in Extremadura led by Marshal Édouard Mortier took barely an hour to kill 1,000 Spanish soldiers and take 4,000 prisoners in winning the Battle of the Gebora?
Did you know that granular cheese is produced by repeatedly stirring and draining a mixture of curds and whey?