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Did you know that a plaque on Phoenix Tower in Chester states that King Charles I stood on the tower in 1645 as he watched his soldiers being defeated at Rowton Moor?
Did you know that after energy and climate "czar" Carol Browner left the Obama administration, Heather Zichal took over those responsibilities but not the informal title?
Did you know that archaeologists believe they have uncovered the Monastery of the Virgins described in a 6th-century account of Byzantine Jerusalem?
Did you know that author Andrew Morton's biography, Madonna, sold only half of its initial print run of 500,000 copies?
Did you know that four-time Winter Paralympic bronze medalist Matthew Stockford became the manager of Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott?
Did you know that in Ghanian women's health, breast cancer is the leading malignancy, accounting for over 15% of all malignancies in Ghana?
Did you know that more than 100 people died in the CTV Building (ruins pictured) in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
Did you know that music writer Piero Scaruffi called the 1980s American experimental rock group the Orthotonics, "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"?
Did you know that nordic skier Peter Young won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 1994 Winter Paralympics, ten years after winning his first Paralympic medal at the 1984 Games?
Did you know that the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, has the largest collection of Atlantic organisms in Canada?
Did you know that the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District was formed in 1904 following concerns over the expansion of the Metropolitan Railway and the growth in population of Northwood?
Did you know that the community-initiated Nata Bird Sanctuary in Botswana opened in 1993 and the same year received the "Tourism for Tomorrow" award for the Southern Hemisphere?
Did you know that the extinct trapdoor spiders Baltocteniza and Electrocteniza were both identified from specimens in Baltic amber?
Did you know that the first woman to write a book on childbirth was Louise Bourgeois Boursier?
Did you know that the longest-running number one of the UK Dance Chart in 2005 was "Hung Up" by Madonna, which spent four weeks at the top of the chart?
Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata for the Second Day of Easter, Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, has been termed "one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works"?
Did you know that the winner of the 1912 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Kenmare Sorceress, was purchased from a brick-layer in Wales?
Did you know that while playing for Barrow, footballer Fred Laycock left the pitch to sign for Nelson before completing the match, and was then fined for representing Barrow while contracted to another club?
Did you know that "Heartaches," featuring Elmo Tanner's whistling, became a number 1 hit fourteen years after it was recorded?
Did you know that Alexander, the eldest son of Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman, converted to Islam to avoid execution and died as governor of Ottoman Smyrna?
Did you know that Celts (helmet pictured) once inhabited Transylvania?
Did you know that Christiane Ziegler excavated the Tomb of Akhethetep from 1991 to 1999?
Did you know that Edward II of England made Andrew Harclay Earl of Carlisle in 1322, only to have him hanged, drawn and quartered less than a year later?
Did you know that George B. Jackson, a businessman in San Angelo, Texas, who had been born into slavery in Virginia, was termed "the wealthiest colored man in Texas" in the late 19th century?
Did you know that Lagmann mac Gofraid, a late 11th-century King of Mann and the Isles, has been labelled as the only known Scot who took part in the First Crusade?
Did you know that Rhett Akins was inspired to write Blake Shelton's song "Honey Bee" after reading an article on Mike Huckabee?
Did you know that Steven Hallard and Richard Priestman were part of a team that won Great Britain's first Olympic archery medal in 80 years?
Did you know that a two-mass-skate bicycle has demonstrated self-stability even though it has minimal gyroscopic effects and does not have positive trail, two features most commonly associated with bike stability?
Did you know that after eight years singing in Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Thomas Lawlor went on to perform more than 60 roles for other opera companies?
Did you know that as principal bassoonist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Julie Price celebrated her predecessor William Waterhouse in the recent concert The Proud Bassoon at Wigmore Hall?
Did you know that catcher Dave Liddell faced only one pitch in his Major League career, and got a hit?
Did you know that despite the previous session permanently fixing the territorial capital in Tucson, the 9th Arizona Territorial Legislature's first act was to move it to Prescott?
Did you know that even though ...And the Native Hipsters's first single, "There Goes Concorde Again" was initially a 500-copy private release, it went on to reach number five on the UK Indie Charts?
Did you know that in 1991, Vladimir Velichko became the first First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that most of the victims of 2011 Cirebon bombing were police officers attending Friday prayer?
Did you know that poet Jacqueline Berger compares the writing process to dreaming?
Did you know that rugby league club Warrington paid £20 to sign Riki Papakura from New Zealand in 1911?
Did you know that sportswriter Neil Stevens was presented with the Hockey Hall of Fame's Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2008?
Did you know that the 1929 drama film Betrayal was the last silent film directed by Lewis Milestone and the last silent film performed by Gary Cooper?
Did you know that the Falkland Islands have on average only 2–3 hours of direct sunlight per day in winter and only 6 hours in summer?
Did you know that the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike, which is now part of Maryland Route 194, was the last private toll road in Maryland when it was purchased by the state in 1921?
Did you know that the genus Comesperma contains such plants as the Broom Milkwort, pink matchheads and love creeper?
Did you know that the ocean liner SS Ranpura ran aground near Gibraltar on 15 April 1936 while carrying $50 million (1936 dollars) of rare Chinese art?
Did you know that the upcoming 2012 film, Jack the Giant Killer (directed by Bryan Singer), is expected to take an adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend?
Did you know that when Bach derived his third cantata for Easter of 1724, Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134, from his secular cantata for New Year's Day, he just wrote new text under old text?
Did you know that Byzantine historian Timothy E. Gregory served as director of the Ohio State University excavations at Isthmia?
Did you know that Christopher Isherwood named the character Sally Bowles after Paul Bowles, because he found Bowles attractive?
Did you know that Gendang beleq, a music and dance performance popular in Lombok, Indonesia, is so named because it uses two big drums?
Did you know that Havana's National Schools of Art (school of ballet pictured), conceived by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, are considered to be outstanding architectural achievements of the Cuban Revolution?
Did you know that James Parfitt's best bowling in first-class cricket came in his second match, when he claimed seven wickets in the first innings, all bowled?
Did you know that Kenyan Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai ran a course record to win the 2011 London Marathon and become the fourth fastest man ever in the marathon?
Did you know that Liberty Cinema in Mumbai got its name as it was built in 1947, the year of Indian Independence?
Did you know that Will Ferrell produced and stars in the upcoming Spanish-language comedy film Casa de Mi Padre, which has been described as in the style of "an overly dramatic telenovela"?
Did you know that after her role in the 1972 horror film Frogs, actress Lynn Borden began collecting frog figurines as a hobby?
Did you know that after plans for the Douglas 2229 SST left no room for fuel other than in the fuselage, a designer sketched a cartoon with diving suit-clad passengers immersed in fuel, under "No Smoking" signs?
Did you know that after the Rwandan Genocide, social worker and survivor Godeliève Mukasarasi founded a group to help widows and orphans further their socio-economic rights?
Did you know that around 252 glider infantry of the 1st Airlanding Brigade were drowned during the Allied invasion of Sicily?
Did you know that artificial deformation of a skull enabled archaeologists to identify the Adena as the builders of the Hodgen's Cemetery Mound in Tiltonsville, Ohio?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Andy Hansen earned his first major league victory against the Philadelphia Phillies, the only other major league team for which he would ever play?
Did you know that despite being banned by Spanish colonial authorities in Mexico, the making of amate, or bark paper, never disappeared?
Did you know that former presidential son Mikey Arroyo currently sits as a sectoral representative of tricycle drivers and security guards in the House of Representatives of the Philippines?
Did you know that in the Finnish card game Ristikontra, a player wins a trick by playing another card of the same rank as the first card in the trick?
Did you know that pro-Palestinian activist Vittorio Arrigoni was kidnapped by suspected members of a Islamic militant group operating in Gaza and later found hanged?
Did you know that the 1934 United States Trust Company theft was the work of an international gang that stole more than $2,000,000 in multiple robberies?
Did you know that the British destroyers HMS Diamond and HMS Wryneck were sunk by German aircraft on 27 April 1941, about four hours after they rescued over 500 troops from a sinking Dutch troopship?
Did you know that the release from prison of Iosif Begun, a leader of the campaign to free the Jews of the USSR, was announced in 1987 by Soviet politician Georgy Arbatov on Face the Nation?
Did you know that "Semper Fidelis" by John Philip Sousa is regarded as the official march of the United States Marine Corps?
Did you know that African American artist Herman "Kofi" Bailey was the one-time artist-in-residence for Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana?
Did you know that Avenue Habib Bourguiba is the principal thoroughfare of Tunis?
Did you know that Charles Elliott Perkins was appointed assistant treasurer of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad at the age of 20?
Did you know that Hal Stalmaster landed his role in Disney's 1957 film about the American Revolution, Johnny Tremain, without the help of his brother, casting director Lynn Stalmaster?
Did you know that Jaigarh Fort in Rajasthan, which was a center of artillery production, has the world's largest cannon on wheels, the Jaivana?
Did you know that NBC accidentally ran a promo about a secret wedding from the Parks and Recreation episode "Andy and April's Fancy Party" two months before the episode aired?
Did you know that Perry Como's musical conductor, Mitchell Ayres, was offered his long-time job with the singer during a golf game?
Did you know that US actor Martin Sheen has advocated on behalf of imprisoned Kyrgyzstani activist and journalist Azimzhan Askarov?
Did you know that Walraversijde, the site of a reconstructed medieval fishing village, is the most studied archaeological site of its type in Europe?
Did you know that a riot after the 1980 Scottish Cup Final between Celtic F.C. and Rangers F.C. resulted in a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages at sporting events in Scotland?
Did you know that despite having won all its round-robin matches, South Africa lost to India in the final of the Titan Cup?
Did you know that during the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party, Raúl Castro proposed term limits for the country's leaders?
Did you know that in 1889, the Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company agreed to build a smelter in Great Falls, Montana, if a local power company built a dam to supply it with power?
Did you know that on his debut album, The Experiment, Dane Rumble found it difficult to write his former band's usual hip hop music, so he turned to pop rock?
Did you know that the Australian creeping plant Commelina cyanea is known as scurvy weed as early settlers ate it to ward off scurvy?
Did you know that the Janet Smith case, the unsolved 1924 murder of a Scottish nursemaid in Vancouver, led to an attempt to make it illegal to employ Orientals and white women in the same household?
Did you know that the extinct planthopper Tainosia quisqueyae was named for the Taíno people and Hispaniola?
Did you know that the plant Fumaria painteri has only been found twice in Britain, and both times by the Rev. W. H. Painter?
Did you know that the umbrella mouth gulper lives in deep sea marine habitats where it swallows fish much larger than itself?
Did you know that Anthony Sadowski, after escaping captivity in the Great Northern War in 1704, came to America and helped Daniel Boone's father found Amity Township, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that Berry Hinton had only three losing seasons in his twenty-three years as head baseball coach from 1943 to 1967 at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston?
Did you know that Filep Karma is serving a 15-year jail sentence for raising the flag of West Papua in Jayapura, Indonesia?
Did you know that General Franco denied the fact that the British merchant ship British Corporal had been attacked by his forces during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that HMS Prince William was named for the future King William, who was present at the engagement she was captured in?
Did you know that Jeremy Kerley was recruited by Texas and Stanford to play baseball and by Oklahoma to play college football, but he ultimately decided to play football for Texas Christian University?
Did you know that Kipling's Rewards and Fairies includes "If—" which has been voted Britain's most popular poem?
Did you know that Lewis Milestone's 1926 sports drama comedy silent film The New Klondike was the first film assignment of writer Ben Hecht?
Did you know that Lower Swell is located on the banks of the River Dikler?
Did you know that Meadow Lake revelers took a ferry to hurdy gurdy houses?
Did you know that Wilson Onsare made the fastest ever marathon debut at the 2003 Paris Marathon, but never improved upon his debut time?
Did you know that although audio spill is often undesirable in the recording of popular music, it can be heard on records by The Beatles and Christina Aguilera?
Did you know that controversy over Pedro Almodóvar's 1990 film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! led to the creation of the NC-17 rating?
Did you know that for much of the Middle Ages, church altars were hidden from view at points in services by curtains hung from a ciborium (example pictured)?
Did you know that in 1919, the Pacific Coast Parks Association named Portland, Oregon's Laurelhurst Park the "most beautiful park" on the West Coast?
Did you know that in his Major League Baseball debut, Marcos Mateo came into the game in the 11th inning, loaded the bases, then gave up a sacrifice fly to lose the game?
Did you know that the Gilgamesh restaurant in Camden, London, is said to be "an ostentatious replica of a Babylonian palace"?
Did you know that the churchyard of St James' Church in Cooling, Kent, is said to have provided the inspiration for the opening chapter of Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations?
Did you know that the festival of Ridván, the "King of Festivals" of the Bahá'í Faith, celebrates events that took place in a garden in Baghdad almost 150 years ago?
Did you know that the only known specimen of the extinct spider Palaeoperenethis is in the Royal Ontario Museum?
Did you know that the use of herbicide on the natural habitat of the Lesser Prairie Chicken may have created a perceptual trap?
Did you know that Albert Bierstadt's 1863 painting The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is sometimes likened to Frederic Edwin Church's The Heart of the Andes?
Did you know that Barranquilla is the fourth most populous city of Colombia?
Did you know that Brigadier Philip Hicks, the commander of an airborne brigade, had to swim ashore during the Allied invasion of Sicily?
Did you know that Civic Commons is an organization reducing government IT costs with open source technology?
Did you know that John Haldeman, a journalist covering the Louisville Grays baseball team, was asked to play second base for the team for one game during the 1877 season?
Did you know that Mormon bigamist Warren Jeffs spent a year in a prison called Purgatory?
Did you know that Ryan Bourque, son of Hockey Hall of Famer Ray Bourque, has won four medals, including two gold medals, with Team USA in International Ice Hockey Federation tournaments?
Did you know that Sir Winston Churchill's American grandfather paid $125,000 for a new luxury steam yacht, Clara Clarita, that could only manage a speed of ½ mph (0.8 km/h)?
Did you know that Wilhelmine Reichard, the first German woman balloonist, fell unconscious at 7,800 metres (25,600 ft) during her third flight in 1811 and crash-landed in a forest?
Did you know that as many as 6,400 human and animal illustrations, including Bir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions, have been recorded in Saudi Arabia's southwest Najran area?
Did you know that clips of VHS tapes from the website Everything is Terrible! include how to massage a cat, an anti-pedophilia yellow dinosaur, and a direct-to-video crime drama featuring Jay Leno?
Did you know that despite losing an 1896 eminent domain case in the US Supreme Court, the battlefield tourist trolley between Gettysburg and Round Top operated over the Gettysburg National Military Park for 20 more years?
Did you know that despite questions about the suitability of his batting temperament, three of Andrew Strauss's centuries are among the five highest scores by England batsmen in ODI cricket?
Did you know that on April 15, 2011, United States v. Scheinberg resulted in the end of online poker play for United States residents on the three online poker sites that account for approximately 95% of the market?
Did you know that recently retired Fr. Daniel Coughlin was the first Catholic priest to serve as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives?
Did you know that the "Irish of Vincennes", three Irish nationals arrested in Paris on terrorism charges in 1982, were framed by members of a Presidential secret police unit?
Did you know that the French Government issued a postage stamp bringing attention to the theft of Cézanne's The Card Players in 1961?
Did you know that the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan is a 17-mile greenway system designed to encourage economic development and multi-modal transportation along the French Broad River?
Did you know that the inscription on Leoš Janáček's gravestone was inspired by his choral composition The Wandering Madman?
Did you know that the offices of Air India were attacked as part of the violent reaction to the Babri mosque demolition in Pakistan and Bangladesh?
Did you know that visually impaired skier Richard Burt won four Winter Paralympic medals for Great Britain?
Did you know that Adrian Lombard, who had no formal training in aerodynamics, became one of the world's foremost designers of jet engines?
Did you know that Bach's cantata for the St. Thomas Sunday of 1725, Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42, is the only one in his second annual cycle beginning with a Sinfonia?
Did you know that Beyoncé Knowles hired 200 native African dancers to appear in her music video for "Run the World (Girls)"?
Did you know that Buddhist monk U Gambira was sentenced to sixty-three years in prison for his leadership role in Burma's Saffron Revolution?
Did you know that Ghada Amer created the Encyclopedia of Pleasure sculpture in 2001 to illustrate parts of the eponymous Islamic Golden Age encyclopedia that discusses female sexual pleasure?
Did you know that Italian leftist politician Emanuele Fiano was a Jewish youth leader in the Hashomer Hatzair Socialist–Zionist youth movement in Milan?
Did you know that Miami Vice producer Michael Mann originally conceived the character of Ricardo Tubbs as "nobody's Tonto"?
Did you know that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's state funeral took place twice, once immediately after his death in 1938 and then again in 1953?
Did you know that Polish Countess Eveline Hańska was once ordered by a doctor to stick her feet into a small pig in order to treat her gout?
Did you know that Salusbury Pryce Humphreys commanded HMS Leopard during the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair in 1807?
Did you know that Sophie Christiansen, the youngest athlete for Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, won a bronze medal in dressage?
Did you know that at the 2010 Games, skier Kelly Gallagher became the first-ever Winter Paralympian from Northern Ireland?
Did you know that born-again Christian political activist David Lane, who works to support right-wing politics in the US, was called the "stealth weapon for the right"?
Did you know that despite intending to cast a 40–50 year old Japanese actor in the upcoming Fringe episode "The Day We Died", American actor Brad Dourif was chosen instead?
Did you know that faced with what they thought to be a suicide mission, the crews of several battleships of the German High Seas Fleet (squadron pictured) mutinied in 1918?
Did you know that it is widely believed that Elsie Stevens, wife of poet Wallace Stevens, was the model for the Mercury dime?
Did you know that journalist Iryna Khalip is under incommunicado house arrest following a protest of the 2010 Belarusian presidential election, in which her husband was also a candidate?
Did you know that mad prophet William Hacket was executed in London in 1591, after denouncing Queen Elizabeth I and defacing her image with a bodkin?
Did you know that on the north wall of St Nicholas' Church in Freefolk, Hampshire, are three layers of wall paintings?
Did you know that professional wrestling events have been held to honor Sherri Martel, Shinya Hashimoto (also known as Hustle King), and Fred Ward?
Did you know that the FCC's attempts to modify media ownership laws in 2003 was stayed until 2010 by Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC until the FCC explained and justified each change?
Did you know that the Kosovo Liberation Army destroyed Zočište Monastery in 1999?
Did you know that the Plain of Torvioll saw the first battle of Skanderbeg's war against the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that the former station house at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot in Galesburg, Illinois, had two waiting rooms, one for men and one for women?
Did you know that Admiral Samuel Goodall fought in three wars, seeing action at Ushant, the Saintes, Genoa and the Hyères Islands?
Did you know that Albanian leader Skanderbeg ambushed his would-be ambusher at the Battle of Meçad?
Did you know that Arroyo Seco, Querétaro, Mexico, is home to the Sótano del Barro, a pit cave which is one of the largest cavities of the world by volume?
Did you know that Bertrand Teyou is serving two years in jail for attempting to read publicly from his book about Chantal Biya, the first lady of Cameroon?
Did you know that Heart Peaks in northern British Columbia, Canada, is the third largest volcano in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province?
Did you know that South Africa's winning of the 1997 Wills Golden Jubilee Tournament marked its first cricket tournament victory in the Indian subcontinent and in their seventh attempt?
Did you know that a proposal by Republican Charles Austin Tweed allowing California to hire women at the same rate of pay offered to men was defeated by the California State Senate?
Did you know that democracy activist Htay Kywe was described as Burma's "most-wanted man" following his leadership role in the 2007 anti-government protests?
Did you know that during World War II, men of the American 818th Tank Destroyer Battalion were awarded nine Silver Stars and seventy-two Bronze Stars?
Did you know that during the 2010–11 NBA Development League season, 20 players were called-up to the NBA, while 39 NBA players were assigned to the D-League?