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Did you know that in the Greek mythology tale of Iole, Deianira inadvertently killed her husband Heracles with a love charm because of jealousy?
Did you know that labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan called the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court Marquette Bank decision "the most important of our lifetimes" since it opened the door to increased use of credit cards?
Did you know that more than 95 percent of the electricity generated in Paraguay is produced by two hydroelectric plants in Itaipu and Yacyretá, most of which is exported to Brazil and Argentina?
Did you know that people with kidney ailments used to crawl on all fours three times round the sarcophagus of Saint Nonnosus in Freising Cathedral?
Did you know that some cypress trees in Louisiana's Lake Bruin State Park predate Hernando de Soto's explorations of the area?
Did you know that the 1864 Banning House reportedly hosted "the first yachting party on the West Coast" and has been called "one of the best examples of Greek Revival architecture in the west"?
Did you know that the American Musical Theatre of San Jose's debut at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts was delayed for three years when the ceiling collapsed?
Did you know that the Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia has an observatory on school grounds?
Did you know that the Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, New Jersey contains artwork by Francis David Millet, Kenyon Cox, Edwin Blashfield and Howard Pyle?
Did you know that the Mulberry Harbour built at Arromanches in 1944 by John Holmes Jellett landed two million men and four million tons of supplies for the Liberation of Europe?
Did you know that the ferry Nobska of Nantucket Sound was America's last coastal steamer?
Did you know that the footage filmed for the documentary film The Boys from Baghdad High had to be smuggled out of Iraq by journalists of many different news agencies?
Did you know that the position of the President of the Republic is the only undisputed one in the Polish order of precedence?
Did you know that the young Bing Crosby once tried out to sing at Seattle's elegant Butler Hotel, but was told he needed more experience?
Did you know that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?
Did you know that American cargo ship SS Panaman once delivered 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg) of canned hominy to Los Angeles?
Did you know that Australian politician Rick Colless’s great-great-grandfather Richard Hargrave and great-great-uncle John Hargrave all served in the New South Wales Legislative Council?
Did you know that Caroline Reboux was known as the Queen of the Milliners?
Did you know that Drum Barracks were built in 1862 and 1863 at a cost of US$1 million to quell pro-Confederacy sentiments in Los Angeles?
Did you know that McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon, was founded due to occasional flooding that cut off access to the only area hospital?
Did you know that Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Papeete for 26 years, was succeeded in 1999 by his brother?
Did you know that Mike Cather earned his first major-league win in an 11-inning Atlanta Braves’ win, the same night the Braves earned the National League Eastern Division title?
Did you know that Misty Copeland is the first African-American ballerina to appear as a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre?
Did you know that Oman has a low crime rate compared to industrialized countries?
Did you know that Scottish and British Lions rugby captain David Bedell-Sivright is said to have rugby tackled a cart horse in Edinburgh's Princes Street?
Did you know that Taisto Mäki, one of the so-called Flying Finns, was the first man to run 10,000 metres in under half an hour?
Did you know that Tiny Thompson was the first professional ice hockey goaltender to make a save by catching the puck?
Did you know that Walter G. Alexander was the first African American to serve in the New Jersey General Assembly?
Did you know that Yalo, a Palestinian Arab village depopulated during the 1967 war, was identified by Edward Robinson as the site of the Canaanite-era city of Aijalon?
Did you know that after suffering a heart attack, John G. McCullough moved to California and was elected as its Attorney General in 1863?
Did you know that an Estonian feature film set the absolute box office record in the history of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that eight-term member of the Norwegian Parliament Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was the grandfather of the oceanographer of the same name?
Did you know that film director and griot Dani Kouyaté is the son of one of the first Burkinabé actors, Sotigui Kouyaté?
Did you know that in 1865, the Sons of Vulcan won the first union contract in the iron and steelmaking industry and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States?
Did you know that in 1951, Martha Wright took over the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on Broadway, playing the role for 1,047 performances until it closed in 1954?
Did you know that in Hindu mythology, the demoness Putana (pictured, centre) tried to kill the infant-god Krishna by breastfeeding him poisoned milk?
Did you know that in addition to composing orchestral and chamber music, Joseph R. Wood arranged the Chiquita Banana song for Xavier Cugat?
Did you know that the  sloop-of-war Victoria became the first Australian warship to be deployed overseas by fighting in the First Taranaki War?
Did you know that the 13th Earl of Derby established a private menagerie in the 19th century in the grounds of Knowsley Hall in Merseyside, where the 18th Earl opened a public safari park in the 20th century?
Did you know that the 1995 Burkina Faso film Keïta! l'Héritage du griot is a retelling of the first third of Sundjata Keita's 13th-century epic, Sundjata?
Did you know that the 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak started a political debate regarding privatization of food inspection?
Did you know that the Battle of Kokenhausen saw one of the most successful uses of the Polish hussars?
Did you know that the Chinese character referring to the mythological sea monster Shen is used in Chinese, Korean and Japanese terms for "mirage"?
Did you know that the Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road, in Junius, New York was built with walls of field cobbles and limestone quoins in the Greek Revival style?
Did you know that the Israeli kibbutz Gvat was established in commemoration of the 35 Pinsk Jews shot by Polish soldiers during the Pinsk massacre?
Did you know that the disputed authenticity of the Getty kouros has led the J. Paul Getty Museum to label the sculpture "6th century Greek or modern forgery"?
Did you know that while in service as a troop transport after World War I, SS Ohioan carried two American recipients of the French Croix de Guerre, one of which was a homing pigeon?
Did you know that American cargo ship SS Iowan rammed and sank two ships, one on each coast of the United States?
Did you know that American lexicographer Robert L. Chapman added ecosystem and yuppie to Roget's Thesaurus?
Did you know that California Gold Rush-era bandit and highwayman Jack Powers, after being run out of several cities by vigilantes, was murdered in Mexico and his body fed to hogs?
Did you know that Cooleemee, a plantation house in North Carolina, was built from approximately 300,000 bricks made on site?
Did you know that Dick Jones, a Wyoming Republican state legislator and gubernatorial nominee, also operated a trucking company which at its peak served thirty-eight states?
Did you know that Georg Prahl Harbitz, a priest by education, served as President of the Norwegian Parliament for ten terms?
Did you know that Harold Lloyd's Estate, called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a golf course and a 900-foot canoe stream?
Did you know that Jōmon Sugi, located on the island of Yakushima, is the oldest specimen of Cryptomeria japonica and the largest conifer in Japan?
Did you know that Ludwig I of Bavaria was inspired to commission the Court Church of All Saints in the Munich Residence after attending Christmas mass at the Palatine Chapel in Palermo?
Did you know that Matsukata Kojiro, president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
Did you know that Sir Ian Freeland was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland when the British Army was drawn into the beginning of the Troubles?
Did you know that according to People v. Beardsley, it is not against the U.S. law for a man to not help his drinking partner, a woman who is not his wife, when she is dying of an overdose?
Did you know that although some believe that there is no cure for stuttering, others say that it can be eliminated with stuttering therapy at early age?
Did you know that biochemist Harvey Itano, who worked with Linus Pauling to determine the molecular basis of sickle cell disease, was the first Japanese American admitted to the National Academy of Sciences?
Did you know that former Mayor of Auckland Colin Kay was also twice the New Zealand triple jump champion?
Did you know that in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali in northern Pakistan, the Bakhshali manuscript, the oldest surviving example of Indian mathematics, was discovered written on birch bark?
Did you know that major crimes in the United Arab Emirates include trafficking of young boys who are used as camel jockeys?
Did you know that members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance faced surveillance, interrogation, and harassment by the FBI?
Did you know that soprano Adele Addison stepped into the role of Bess in the 1969 film version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess as a last-minute replacement of a singer who sounded too shrill?
Did you know that the "K. Bridge" mentioned in the opening scene of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment is the Kokushkin Bridge in Saint Petersburg?
Did you know that the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site contained over 55,000 artifacts from a Makah village inundated by a mudslide?
Did you know that the Sunset Tower in West Hollywood, California was home to gangster Bugsy Siegel, who was asked to leave after being charged with running a bookmaking operation there?
Did you know that the architect of Communal House of the Textile Institute in Moscow, a student dormitory completed in 1931, proposed centralized sedation of students at night?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Russula xerampelina has a taste and smell reminiscent of shellfish or crab?
Did you know that the first passenger elevator in an American hotel was installed in the Fifth Avenue Hotel facing Madison Square, New York City in 1859?
Did you know that the first woman to be executed in Western Australia murdered John Hurford?
Did you know that the largest sheet of mica (example pictured) ever mined in the world came from Denholm, Quebec, Canada?
Did you know that thousands of Flat Daddies, life-size photo cutouts of American soldiers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, have been created to help families cope with their deployment?
Did you know that until his appointment as Demonstrator in Practical Anatomy at Queen's College, Birmingham, Balthazar Foster had given up hopes of a medical career, and had even applied for a naval commission?
Did you know that Andrew Carnegie founded the Simplified Spelling Board in 1906, with the aim of making English the world language by addressing its difficult spelling?
Did you know that Charles Ndaxu Namoloh, now a member of the National Assembly of Namibia, used the nom de guerre of "Ho Chi Minh" during the Namibian War of Independence?
Did you know that Charles Pearson was Mentioned in Despatches 10 times for actions during the Anglo-Zulu War?
Did you know that Czesława Kwoka, a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation?
Did you know that Florida's City College paid US$11.2 million to acquire its current Fort Lauderdale campus?
Did you know that Malcolm Fraser, a severe stutterer from an early age, founded the Stuttering Foundation of America and gave it most of its US$10 million endowment?
Did you know that Rob Johnson was one of four of The Star-Ledger's top 10 prep soccer players of the 1990s to play pro for the hometown MetroStars / Red Bulls?
Did you know that Selmo Cikotić was recently appointed Defence Minister for Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Did you know that The17, a choir founded by former pop star Bill Drummond, never records its music, or performs for audiences?
Did you know that Yang Jia, a Chinese man sentenced to death for murdering six policemen, is being hailed as a hero on Chinese internet forums?
Did you know that after six terms in the Norwegian Parliament, Olav Akselsen will take over as director of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate from October 2009?
Did you know that although fortuneteller Madam Marie was "finally busted" in Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", she was never arrested in real life?
Did you know that blacklisted U.S. film director John Berry worked without screen credit on the 1951 Laurel and Hardy film Atoll K?
Did you know that coach builder Jim Frecklington had to mortgage his house to pay for the estimated £620,000 building costs of the State Coach Britannia?
Did you know that in 1908, swimmer Henry Taylor became the only Briton to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games until Chris Hoy equalled his mark in 2008?
Did you know that newspaper publisher Katherine Graham's difficulties with her company's ownership of the Trenton Times led her to call it her "Vietnam"?
Did you know that of the ninety historic Synagogues of Kraków, Poland active before World War II, only  the Remuh Synagogue  still serves as a Jewish house of prayer?
Did you know that the Focometer was created in order to provide rural or economically disadvantaged populations the ability to measure spherical refractive errors?
Did you know that the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Temptation near Jericho was built around a cave said to be where Jesus spent forty days and nights fasting and meditating while being tempted by Satan?
Did you know that the Mangrove monitor  possesses salt-excreting nasal glands, which enabled them to reach new islands and aided in its dispersal across thousands of miles throughout the South Pacific?
Did you know that the Rose Museum's collection includes the trowel that was used to lay the cornerstone of Carnegie Hall?
Did you know that the village of Strezimirovci has been bisected by the Serbian–Bulgarian border since 1919?
Did you know that two future kings stood sponsor at the christening of the daughter of Admiral Lord Keith and "Queeney" Thrale, herself a child prodigy and friend of Dr Johnson?
Did you know that when 15-year-old Jordon Mutch was first selected to play for Birmingham City F.C., he had to be withdrawn only hours before the match because of child protection regulations?
Did you know that 16th-century noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque was marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence by her relative, the privateer de Roberval, as punishment for an affair?
Did you know that 19th-century American actor and playwright Steele MacKaye invented a variety of theatrical devices, including folding theatre seats?
Did you know that Charles Van Riper, a severe stutterer, was a pioneer in the development of speech pathology?
Did you know that Geoffroy's Spider Monkey has a prehensile tail that can support its entire body weight?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Frank Barnes scored three runs despite only having one hit in ten career at bats and having no walks, no hit by pitches and one caught stealing?
Did you know that Mandume Ya Ndemufayo was the last king of the Kwanyama people of Angola and Namibia?
Did you know that Mexican soprano Ángela Peralta once sang Donizetti's opera Maria di Rohan in a theatre improvised from a disused sand pit in La Paz, Baja California?
Did you know that Paulo Zucula headed the National Disasters Management Institute before he replaced Antonio Munguambe as Mozambique's Minister of Transport and Communication in March 2008?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies prospect Andrew Carpenter pitched a perfect game against the Fort Myers Miracle in 2007?
Did you know that architect Ivan Rerberg despised the title of architect, and preferred to sign his work "Engineer Rerberg"?
Did you know that despite the Vickers V-1000 jet airliner's being canceled, it was so admired that the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were re-designed to compare with its six-abreast seating?
Did you know that the 1770 burletta The Recruiting Serjeant has a sergeant cheerily describing the sight of "heads, and limbs, and bullets flying" during battle (song, right) to a potential army recruit?
Did you know that the Abergil Crime Family is facing charges of money laundering, murder and drug trafficking, both in Israel and the United States?
Did you know that the cancellation of the Skybolt missile in 1962 led to a major crisis in US-UK relations, which was solved by personal meetings and the signing of what is today known as the Nassau agreement?
Did you know that the conspirators for the 1810 Argentine Independence movement's May Revolution had their secret gatherings at Hipólito Vieytes′s soap factory in Buenos Aires?
Did you know that the only surviving salut d'amor by a woman (Azalais d'Altier) was addressed to a woman, probably Clara d'Anduza?
Did you know that the periodical Owl and Weasel played a key role in the development of the roleplaying and wargaming hobby industries in the UK?
Did you know that , besides books, in 1950 the Seattle Public Library had over 27,000 pictures and 3,500 phonograph records in its circulating collection?
Did you know that , in a video released by the Millennium Wrestling Federation, the Iron Sheik challenged Seinfeld character Kramer to a match?
Did you know that Alaska's First Gentleman Todd Palin won the world's longest snowmobile race four times?
Did you know that Fitchburg State College researchers in Lancaster, Massachusetts used artificial lights to mimic the bioluminescence of fireflies on Dexter Drumlin?
Did you know that Franciscan friar Matfre Ermengau (d. 1322) was also a troubadour, encyclopaedist, and master of laws?
Did you know that Fred L. Schiele, who managed Edwin Edwards' Concordia Parish gubernatorial campaign in 1971–1972, was appointed by Edwards in 1973 as the parish sheriff to succeed the scandal-plagued Noah W. Cross?
Did you know that French ethnographer Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts?
Did you know that Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Oregon, is the only hospital in the county seat of Yamhill County?
Did you know that a 20-day study reported by BirdLife International discovered 265 species of birds in Nki National Park?
Did you know that a riot erupted at the opening night of Adelia, an opera by Gaetano Donizetti,  because an unscrupulous promoter sold too many tickets?
Did you know that about 70 Jewish fighters held off an assault by an entire Syrian infantry brigade and several armored battalions as part of the Battles of the Kinarot Valley (see map) on May 20, 1948?
Did you know that after winning a 2004 Olympic bronze medal, Cuban hammer thrower Yunaika Crawford was not in the top ten at the 2005 World Championships?
Did you know that despite being the fifth fastest European of all time in the 100 metres, Ronald Pognon failed to reach the semifinals in his event at the 2008 Olympic Games?
Did you know that despite jointly murdering at least 1,000 inmates at Auschwitz, former SS-Unterscharführer Oswald Kaduk earned the nickname "Papa Kaduk" among patients at the hospital he worked at after the war?
Did you know that historian Willard Hughes Rollings published a study of the Osage Nation entitled Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion?
Did you know that in the U.S. State of Florida, Hurricane Noel caused 4 million dollars' worth of beach erosion (example pictured), including washing away most of a 20 feet (6 m) sand dune?
Did you know that it is accepted that Samuel Johnson had Tourette syndrome, after a 1967 diagnosis, a condition unknown during Johnson's lifetime?
Did you know that tennis player Julie Coin, ranked 188th, defeated the #1 woman player Ana Ivanović in the second round of the 2008 US Open?
Did you know that the 33-room San Dimas Hotel built in 1887 never had a paying guest due to a land boom that never occurred?
Did you know that the Aegean pottery known as Minyan ware was also referred to as "Orchomenos Ware" by contemporaries of Heinrich Schliemann?
Did you know that the Drummond Nature Reserve named after botanist James Drummond has 439 species of vascular plants?
Did you know that the Mount Rennie rape case in the 1880s in Sydney, Australia was likened by one newspaper to the British oppression of the Irish?
Did you know that the Palomares Adobe, Casa Alvarado and Casa Primera, built between 1837 and 1855, provided a stagecoach stop, chapel, school and early homes for the 22,000-acre Rancho San Jose in Los Angeles County?
Did you know that the first tour of the touring company of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater Company included a four-week run at the Apollo Theater?
Did you know that the only salut à refrains composed by a named trouvère was by Philippe de Rémi (died 1265)?
Did you know that while chartered to the United States Army during World War I, SS Kentuckian's Naval Armed Guard gun crew destroyed a running German torpedo headed for another ship?
Did you know that Clarence Saunders developed the first  self-service grocery store concept into the first fully-automated grocery store concept?
Did you know that Cyril Tenison White, who authored a 42-part series on weeds, was awarded the Mueller Medal for his important contributions to Australian botanical science?
Did you know that Frederick Mann was the first Australian-born Chief Justice of Victoria?
Did you know that General Sir Harry Tuzo ordered Operation Motorman to take back control of Irish Republican controlled areas of Northern Ireland?
Did you know that Jerry Shea was the first player to achieve all four rugby scoring methods—try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal—in a single international match?
Did you know that Production I.G staff was responsible for creating the PlayStation 2 game Surveillance Kanshisha, despite being developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment?
Did you know that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?
Did you know that Stanmer Churchyard contains a rare vertical donkey-wheel, an ancient mechanism for drawing water from the ground?
Did you know that William A. Eddy, president of Hobart College and William Smith College (1936–42), was a recipient of the Navy Cross in World War I and instrumental in the creation of the CIA in the late 1940s?
Did you know that both Christians and Muslims ritually sacrifice lambs during the Feast of Saint George in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem?
Did you know that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University?
Did you know that in Tatton Hall, Cheshire, are ten full-length portraits of the Cheshire gentlemen who met in 1715 and decided to support King George I rather than James Stuart in the first Jacobite rebellion?
Did you know that in the 1996 case Smiley v. Citibank, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a regulation of the Comptroller of Currency declaring that late fees and other credit card penalties are interest payments?
Did you know that opera singer Nell Rankin used her pet jaguar, King Tut, as a negotiating tool at the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that the 2008 Hindi comedy film C Kkompany marks the directorial debut of scriptwriter Sachin Yardi?
Did you know that the Achenseebahn in Austria is the oldest steam-operated rack railway in Europe?
Did you know that the Angle, Pembrokeshire lifeboat received silver medals in 1878 rescuing the crew of the whisky laden Loch Shiel sinking off Thorn Island?