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Did you know that when a crowd removed their hats before hearing George Washington speak at the Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House in East Fishkill, New York, he told them to put them back on since he was just an ordinary man?
Did you know that "Big John" Macklin coached the Michigan State Spartans football program to its first wins over Ohio State and Michigan and also coached the school's basketball, baseball and track teams?
Did you know that Darrell Floyd's day job paid more than the NBA basketball team the Saint Louis Hawks were offering?
Did you know that Halfdan Bryn was one of the first to take interest in the physical anthropology of Sami people?
Did you know that Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones, the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives, in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010?
Did you know that Manimahesh Lake, situated close to the Manimahesh Kailash Peak in the Himalayas, has religious significance next to that of Lake Manasarovar in Tibet?
Did you know that Tlacolula de Matamoros is home to one of the oldest, largest and busiest weekly outdoor markets in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico?
Did you know that Walter Woon, former Attorney-General of Singapore, was the first Member of Parliament since Singapore's independence to have a private member's bill become a public law?
Did you know that distant objects that are observed from the same place may appear to look elevated, lowered, stretched, or shortened depending on atmospheric refraction?
Did you know that in 1901, The Juridical Review reported that the female inmates in Irish prisons most favored the books of Scottish writer Annie Shepherd Swan?
Did you know that in 1931, 15 Broad Street in New York City was one of the 20 largest office buildings in the world?
Did you know that in some areas of Brandenburg-Prussia, only 10% of the population survived the Thirty Years' War?
Did you know that naturalist John Burroughs began the nature fakers controversy in 1903 after publishing an essay titled "Real and Sham Natural History" which lambasted popular nature writers of the day?
Did you know that the British Inspiration Awards are aiming to boost recognition for the creative industries of the United Kingdom, a sector generating an estimated £100 billion a year for the British economy?
Did you know that the British No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando unit included soldiers from different countries including Germany?
Did you know that the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1939, six weeks after the dedication of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the Islamist group Revolution Muslim posted a warning about possible consequences on their website against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for their portrayal of Muhammad in the episode "200"?
Did you know that the Texas State Senator Grady Hazlewood authored his state's farm-to-market road program, which paved rural dirt roads in asphalt?
Did you know that the fungus family Tremellaceae includes both commercially cultivated edible species as well as yeast-like human pathogens?
Did you know that two teenagers built booby traps inspired by Rambo at a park in the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District in Oregon?
Did you know that British filmmaker Tim Sullivan began his career in television after chauffeuring Anthony Andrews to the set of Brideshead Revisited?
Did you know that Edvard Munch lived at both Olaf Ryes plass and Schous plass, two neighboring squares in Oslo, during the 1880s?
Did you know that Fig Trees, an operatic documentary about AIDS activism, is narrated by a singing albino squirrel?
Did you know that George Will acquired 11 press passes that offered special locker-room privileges in Major League Baseball stadiums while doing research for his book, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball?
Did you know that J. Denis Summers-Smith became an expert on sparrows by travelling as an expert in tribology?
Did you know that Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio?
Did you know that RAAF fighter pilot Brian Eaton was shot down three times in ten days in 1943, but went on to become his squadron's commanding officer and eventually retire as an Air Vice Marshal?
Did you know that St Martin's Church, Brampton, was the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb?
Did you know that in 2007 California Assemblyman Joel Anderson authored legislation requiring state pension funds to divest from investing in companies that do business with Iran?
Did you know that most of the recent volcanism in New Zealand has been along the line of the Taupo Volcanic Zone and the Kermadec island arc (southern arc pictured)?
Did you know that start-up conservative cable TV network RightNetwork features Frasier star Kelsey Grammer and new-media star Andrew Breitbart, and is being funded by Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider?
Did you know that the Early Permian microsaur Rhynchonkos shares many similarities with Eocaecilia, and may be an ancestor of caecilians?
Did you know that the Iceberg Theory refers to Ernest Hemingway's distinctive writing style?
Did you know that the Soviets organised a campaign against the pro-Allied sympathies of the Baltic governments before their annexation in 1940?
Did you know that the Star and Garter Hotel in Richmond was the venue for a dinner hosted by Charles Dickens in 1850 to celebrate the publication of his novel David Copperfield?
Did you know that the city of Clearwater, Florida, painted two white lines across Watterson Avenue to block Lisa McPherson Trust protesters from disrupting the operations of the Church of Scientology?
Did you know that when the Ålgård Line opened in 1924, it was the last state-owned railway in Norway to be built with narrow gauge?
Did you know that Army All-American Henry Torney, who later became a millionaire, was arrested at a 1910 Shirtwaist Strikers protest that led the New York Mayor to rebuke the "police dictators"?
Did you know that Burgess Hill, Hadlow Down, Hastings, Newick, Pell Green, Rye, Shover's Green and Southover in Sussex each have a Grade II-listed former Baptist chapel which has been converted to residential use?
Did you know that Cameronia was the first British ship to arrive at New York after the start of the Second World War?
Did you know that Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat warned actor Matt Smith not to visit fan forums such as Gallifrey Base?
Did you know that Empire Cloud was torpedoed on both her maiden and final voyages?
Did you know that Hangleton Manor, the oldest secular building in Hove, England, has a cursed dovecote reputedly haunted by ghost pigeons?
Did you know that Inger Alver Gløersen, born in 1892, made her literary début in 1954?
Did you know that Nexhip Draga, a former Ottoman kaymakam, played an important role in the Albanian uprising of 1912?
Did you know that Sarah Andrews is Australia's ninth-leading wicket-taker in Women's One Day International cricket?
Did you know that Silly Bandz, popular silicone bracelets that spring into a shape when taken off, have been banned in classrooms for being too distracting?
Did you know that Stevie Brown led the 2007 Michigan Wolverines football team's special teams with 11 tackles?
Did you know that Tara Bethan, finalist in the BBC One TV show I'd Do Anything, was the daughter of "El Bandito"?
Did you know that cricketer Rene Farrell made her debut for Australia after only five matches for her state?
Did you know that following the establishment of the Bhutan Olympic Committee in 1983, Bhutan participated for the first time in the 1984 Summer Olympics but only with six archers?
Did you know that from his studies of the ionosphere during World War II, Walter Dieminger forecasted optimal shortwave communication for the military and police?
Did you know that in 1908, German apothecary Julius Neubronner received a patent for his pigeon photographer method of aerial photography?
Did you know that over half the population of the rare wildflower Banksia scabrella are found on road verges?
Did you know that the Archimedes screw in De Groene Molen, Joure, is now driven by a 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) Lister diesel engine?
Did you know that the Ravi River was known as Paruṣṇī or Irāvatī to Indians in the Vedic period and as Hydraotes to the Ancient Greeks?
Did you know that the only non-industrial private railways of Norway never to be nationalized were the Holmestrand–Vittingfoss, Lier, Lillesand–Flaksvand, Nesttun–Os and Tønsberg–Eidsfoss lines?
Did you know that the satirical video Gap Yah, describing the experiences of fictional rah Orlando during his gap year, became a viral hit with around 50,000 unique views a day?
Did you know that the suicide weapon in J.D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" was an Ortgies 7.65 mm Semi-Automatic Pistol?
Did you know that Alex Blackwell captained the Australian women's cricket team to eight consecutive ODI wins over New Zealand?
Did you know that Connie Yori, the current Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball head coach, is the inaugural winner of the Kay Yow Award?
Did you know that Eastern Bank is the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England, and the largest community bank in Massachusetts?
Did you know that Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer founded an institute to explore solar energy, today known as the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics?
Did you know that Montage of a Dream Deferred was described by its author, Langston Hughes, as a cross between a jam session and a popular song?
Did you know that Rachael Haynes narrowly missed a century on her Test cricket debut for Australia, scoring only 98?
Did you know that South Beacon Mountain, the highest point in the Fishkill Creek drainage basin, is located just above its estuary?
Did you know that Verdi is said to have referred to the Salle Ventadour as his favorite opera house in Paris?
Did you know that Westcott railway station was a part of the London Underground, despite being more than 40 miles from central London?
Did you know that fashion designer Elspeth Gibson's clients have included Madonna, Cate Blanchett and Queen Rania of Jordan?
Did you know that in 1844, Carl Claus discovered ruthenium and named it after the olden Russia?
Did you know that quadricyclane was proposed as a substance to store solar energy?
Did you know that the Kii and Number 13 class battleships were to be part of Japan's eight-eight fleet?
Did you know that the album LifeTimes composed by the daughter of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard includes contributions from Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke?
Did you know that the semaphore crab is the most abundant crab species in mangroves on Australia's east coast?
Did you know that Yurii Lomonosov constructed the first operationally successful mainline diesel locomotive?
Did you know that a Native American mound in Newtown, Ohio, was spared destruction because of its location in a cemetery?
Did you know that cricketer Shelley Nitschke started her career for Australia as a specialist bowler but went on to score a One Day International century as an opener?
Did you know that despite being supported by tanks, Italian troops were completely routed during the Battle of Gjorm by Albanian Resistance units?
Did you know that during the construction of Lake Seminole in 1948, archaeologists discovered the site of San Carlos de los Chacatos, a Spanish mission that Colonel James Moore had sacked during Queen Anne's War?
Did you know that for the second season of Survive This, a Canadian reality TV show, participants were selected for the show based on their strong personalities and required to take a three-day survival course?
Did you know that former  State Senator O.H. "Ike" Harris was honored in 2009 by the horse racing industry for his work in legalizing parimutuel betting in Texas?
Did you know that in F. Sionil José's novel Sherds, the pottery clay used by the aesthete symbolizes the oppression of villagers?
Did you know that quarterback Walter Kennedy's amateur status became a national media story in 1898 after his mother said he was receiving $500 a year to play football at the University of Chicago?
Did you know that schools of copper sharks follow the sardine run off South Africa every winter?
Did you know that social reformer Isabella Ford was the first woman to speak at a conference of the Labour Representation Committee (which went on to form the British Labour Party)?
Did you know that the Armley asbestos disaster involved the contamination of about 1,000 houses in West Yorkshire, England, with asbestos dust?
Did you know that the Buffalo Braves first made the NBA playoffs during their 1973–74 season?
Did you know that the Church of the Acheiropoietos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Thessaloniki, was the first Christian church to be converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of the Greek city in 1430?
Did you know that the demon Kabandha, from the Hindu epic Ramayana, is described to be as big as a mountain, headless, and with arms eight miles long?
Did you know that the term mountain devil refers both to Lambertia formosa with its devil-head fruits, as well as the lizard Moloch horridus?
Did you know that Arizona SB1070, the state's new immigration enforcement law, has attracted national attention as the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades within the United States?
Did you know that Canada won the first Paralympic gold medal in wheelchair curling at the 2006 Games?
Did you know that Chris Cameron won the individual all-around title and led the Michigan Wolverines to the team title at the 2010 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship?
Did you know that Fily Dabo Sissoko, who was briefly the French Under Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, died in jail in Mali?
Did you know that Flying Officer Les Clisby, Australia's first fighter ace of World War II, once landed beside a German bomber he had forced down and captured the crew at gunpoint?
Did you know that Lectionary 216 was used by Swainson, English theologian, for his treatise on the Greek Liturgies?
Did you know that Macy's opened its first closeout store at Wheatfield, New York's Summit Park Mall in 1992?
Did you know that Master Joseph Thomas played a leadership role in two single ship actions, the first in 1803 in the hired cutter Princess Augusta and the second in 1810 in the hired cutter Queen Charlotte?
Did you know that Musa Demi was part of the group that opened the first Albanian-language school of Filiates?
Did you know that Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier ("Beast Strove Mightily with Beast") by Anton Schnack has been described as the best single collection produced by a German war poet of the First World War?
Did you know that Tom Killin, a Paralympic silver medalist in wheelchair fencing in 1980, also won a silver medal in wheelchair curling for Great Britain at the 2006 Winter Paralympics?
Did you know that a British soldier is commemorated in the West Haven Green Historic District for his actions during the British invasion of West Haven, Connecticut, in the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that earlier this season, Katey Stone of the Harvard Crimson became the winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division I women's ice hockey?
Did you know that in 2000–04, excavations in Uppåkra, Scania, revealed that a heathen hof was located there for several hundred years?
Did you know that in 2007 French actress and comedienne Mimie Mathy was selected the fifth most popular French celebrity by the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche?
Did you know that in Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc, Lord Goff suggested that Rylands v Fletcher was not an independent tort, but instead part of nuisance?
Did you know that intense heat from WWII bombing interfered with a ceramic dating assay?
Did you know that the Liberation of Saint Peter has been described as a recapitulation of the resurrection of Jesus?
Did you know that the Rustock botnet was capable of sending 30 billion spam messages every day, utilizing around 150,000 computers infected with a trojan horse?
Did you know that two of Karnataka's architectural monuments, Pattadakal and Hampi, are UNESCO World Heritage sites?
Did you know that 10,000 people protested against construction of a dam across the Subarnarekha River in India?
Did you know that Dan Boisture said of his move from the two-time defending national champion Michigan State Spartans football to the Eastern Michigan Hurons, "There weren't many jobs open ... It was a cute campus"?
Did you know that Edward Steichen asked Ansel Adams to be in charge of the darkroom of the U.S. Naval Aviation Photographic Unit during World War II?
Did you know that German nobleman Wilhelm, 2nd Duke of Urach, was elected King of Lithuania, but never visited that country?
Did you know that New York City-based hip hop poetic theater ensemble Universes were sponsored by the US State Department to tour six countries in Africa, Asia and Europe in 2008?
Did you know that Oregon State University's first standalone library (current library pictured) was not opened until 1918 even though the school was established in 1868?
Did you know that Rev. Griffith Hughes was the first to describe grapefruit, which he referred to as "The Forbidden Fruit"?
Did you know that Revocation's guitarist David Davidson was an alumnus of Berklee College of Music?
Did you know that Robert O. Peterson, who founded the Jack in the Box fast food chain in 1951, was married to the mayor of San Diego during the 1980s?
Did you know that Toolibin Lake supports 25 species of breeding waterbirds, which is the greatest number for any wetland in southwestern Australia?
Did you know that U-30 sank the first ship in World War II on 3 September 1939 when she torpedoed the British liner Athenia, just 10 hours after Britain declared war on Germany?
Did you know that as a college student, Philadelphia Phillies president David Montgomery attended Phillies games at Connie Mack Stadium with future governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell?
Did you know that in 1914, Paul Walden described the first room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate?
Did you know that in 1935, the Hardanger Line became the first new line of the Norwegian State Railways to open with electrification?
Did you know that in the fluke Notocotylus fosteri, the genital pore is located above the oral sucker?
Did you know that the Arab village of Sheikh Danun is made up of two old villages constructed around shrines dedicated to sheikhs?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian battleships Habsburg, Babenberg, Árpád, Prinz Eugen, Tegetthoff and Viribus Unitis participated in the bombardment of Ancona?
Did you know that the effect the berries of pine heath had on the Grey Currawong made one observer wonder if they were narcotic?
Did you know that Animal's drumming on The Muppet Show was performed by English drummer Ronnie Verrell?
Did you know that Ati Konanayakar was constructed as a successor to the Temple of Thousand Pillars that was destroyed by the Portuguese colonials in 1622?
Did you know that Brill railway station was owned and operated by Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos?
Did you know that Donovan Warren was initially projected to be selected in the first or second round of the 2010 NFL Draft, but was not drafted at all?
Did you know that Doris Parkes competed in ice hockey and speed skating at the 1931 Banff Winter carnival?
Did you know that Havergate Island is the only island in the county of Suffolk, England, and has the largest breeding population of pied avocets in the UK?
Did you know that Jewish pirates from Joppa raided traders between Rome and Alexandria, interrupting Rome's grain supply during the First Jewish–Roman War?
Did you know that Ronald Skirth wrote The Reluctant Tommy, a memoir of World War I, about his deliberate acts of sabotage to avoid killing enemies?
Did you know that St. Nicholas Kirche in New York City, founded in 1833 by the Austrian priest Johann Stephen Raffeiner, was the first German-speaking church in the city?
Did you know that Swedish athlete Lena Berntsson has competed at World Championship-level in both the 60-meter dash and weightlifting?
Did you know that Sylvan Lake is the deepest in Dutchess County, New York?
Did you know that former Bolivian presidential candidate Fernando Untoja has called for a political return to the system of ayllus?
Did you know that the "Song of Çelo Mezani", an Albanian folk song, was censored in 1973?
Did you know that the Edinburgh publisher, James Donaldson, bequeathed the funds for Donaldson's Hospital?
Did you know that the German Mediterranean Division consisted of two ships, Goeben and Breslau?
Did you know that the Hillsboro Symphony Orchestra of Hillsboro, Oregon, once used an owl from the Oregon Zoo in a concert?
Did you know that the Zion Hill Mission was the first free European settlement in what is now Queensland?
Did you know that the district Øvrevoll has Norway's only track for gallop horse racing?
Did you know that the painting David Garrick as Richard III by William Hogarth shows the actor David Garrick as Richard III on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Did you know that Indian Mound Cemetery, originally created by the Hopewell culture, was defended in battle by Confederate soldiers and is the last resting place of an owner of the Washington Redskins?
Did you know that Jess Cameron scored more than half of her team's runs when the Australian Under-21 cricket team played the senior team?
Did you know that John Ashley, American outlaw and occasional pirate, robbed banks and hijacked whiskey shipments from the Bahamas?
Did you know that Olympic marathon runner Lisa Weightman won the Award for Business Excellence from Australian broadsheet The Age?
Did you know that an antipathy between Paul ten Bruggencate and Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer while they worked at Göttingen Observatory resulted in the creation of the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics?
Did you know that construction of Interstate 140 outside Wilmington, North Carolina, was delayed in part to redesign an off-ramp to avoid a 450-year-old oak?
Did you know that during "Boobquake", thousands of women tested a hypothesis that they could start earthquakes by dressing immodestly?
Did you know that in coverage of a charity event for Darfur, the blog Gawker referred to attendee Micah Jesse, internet gossip blogger, as a "publicistgay"?
Did you know that the 2010 Canadian film GravyTrain is the first feature film appearance of Glass Tiger lead singer Alan Frew?
Did you know that the Becher Point Wetlands form one of the youngest wetland systems on the Swan Coastal Plain?
Did you know that the French seaplane carrier Commandant Teste was based at Oran from September 1937 to February 1938 to protect neutral shipping from commerce raiders during the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that the George Munger Award, given since 1989 to the college football coach of the year, is named for long-time Penn coach and decathlon champion George Munger?
Did you know that the Hermoniakos' Iliad is a 14th-century paraphrase of the Iliad, written in vernacular Greek?
Did you know that the capture of the strategic Klisura Pass by the Greek army, in January 1941, was considered a major success by the Allied forces?
Did you know that the genomes of Babesia bovis and Theileria parva, two protozoans that cause diseases in cattle, are remarkably similar?
Did you know that the island of Schwanenwerder in Berlin, Germany, houses a column from the former Tuileries Palace?
Did you know that the origins of the Carnival in Bern can be traced back to the 15th century?
Did you know that the two modern breeds of Cocker Spaniel, American and English, are thought to have been descended from only two dogs?
Did you know that Benjamin West's painting The Death of Nelson proved so popular that, within about a month, it was seen by 30,000 people in his studio?
Did you know that Christian Jouanin, a French ornithologist, has described three species of birds, including Jouanin's Petrel and the critically endangered Djibouti Francolin?
Did you know that German politician Willy Brandt was the first recipient of the International Rescue Committee's Freedom Award in 1957?