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Did you know that Rafflesia keithii, a parasitic plant endemic to Sabah, is named in honour of forester and plant collector Harry Keith?
Did you know that Robert Redford made one of his last guest-starring appearances in a television series in a 1963 episode of the ABC psychiatric drama Breaking Point?
Did you know that Samuel Pepys and Ferdinand Columbus each owned works by the anonymous engraver Master I. A. M. of Zwolle (example engraving pictured)?
Did you know that after Pope Alexander III absolved Gilbert Foliot's excommunication, Thomas Becket exclaimed that "Satan is unloosed for the destruction of the Church"?
Did you know that at great risk, Squadron Leader Phil Lamason of the RNZAF negotiated the transfer of 166 allied airmen from Buchenwald concentration camp, a week before their scheduled execution?
Did you know that concerns were raised in 2001 that anthrax research done by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency as part of Project Jefferson violated the Biological Weapons Convention?
Did you know that handballer Tonje Larsen was a part of the All-Star Team at the 2008 European Championship, sixteen years after debuting on the Norwegian national team?
Did you know that in 1820, the missionary William Jowett bought the 9,539-page manuscript of Abu Rumi's first-ever translation of the Bible into Amharic "on terms which appeared... equitable to all parties"?
Did you know that in 1889, Frank Atwood Huntington patented a self-propelled gasoline engine vehicle (patent image pictured), four years before the Duryea Brothers built their first car?
Did you know that in Blood of the Irish, presenter Diarmuid Gavin examined the claim that 20% of men in the north-west of Ireland are descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, an ancient High King of Ireland?
Did you know that the 2005 Operation Iron Hammer, aimed to clear Al-Qaeda in Iraq from the Hai Al Becker region in western Iraq, resulted in no reported casualties and no use of deadly force?
Did you know that the first 8-real banknotes were printed in Puerto Rico in 1766?
Did you know that the lyrics "suicide, it's a suicide", first used by rapper KRS-One in 1987, have since been re-used by artists such as Ice-T, Redman and Jay-Z?
Did you know that the studio band of radio station WRAG (now WREN) in Carrollton, Alabama, is credited with popularizing bluegrass music in central Alabama and eastern Mississippi?
Did you know that , due to a government-imposed curfew, professional wrestler Mario Milano had to wrestle under a mask at the beginning of his career because he was underage and not allowed out after 9 o'clock?
Did you know that 1944 was proclaimed the "Year of naturalization and the Hebrew name" by the Zionist leadership?
Did you know that Anatoly Koryagin was imprisoned for conducting psychiatric interviews with Soviet dissidents confined to mental institutions and smuggling a paper about his findings to the Lancet?
Did you know that Joseph Losey directed both the first U.S. theatrical version of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo in 1947 and the 1975 film version?
Did you know that Karim el-Mejjati was implicated in the bombing of targets in Casablanca, the American barracks in Riyadh, the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 London bombings?
Did you know that Mohammad Usman was the first Indian to act as the Governor of Madras Presidency in British India?
Did you know that Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have visited the St. Peter's Church in Jaffa during his campaign in Egypt and Syria in 1799?
Did you know that Okinawan folk singer Rinshō Kadekaru was gravely wounded during World War II, and reported dead, only to survive and enjoy a lengthy career, living until 1999?
Did you know that Relative Values, a satire of postwar snobbery, marked the return of Noël Coward to playwriting after World War II?
Did you know that Tangton Gyelpo, a 15th-century Nyingma yogi, physician, treasure finder, and founder of Tibetan opera, is known for building numerous iron chain suspension bridges in Tibet?
Did you know that Teiji Honma became one of the first goaltenders in ice hockey to wear a mask when he used one that resembled a baseball catcher's mask at the 1936 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that VIP and TV Now magazines give their names to the VIP Style Awards (venue pictured) and TV Now Awards respectively, the latter of which regularly features Lorraine Keane?
Did you know that We Were Dancing, The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers, Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play, Ways and Means and Star Chamber were presented in rotation, in groups of threes, as part of Noël Coward's 1935 play cycle Tonight at 8:30?
Did you know that after acquiring Movado in 1983, Gedalio Grinberg heavily promoted the modernistic "Museum Watch", based on a design by Nathan George Horwitt included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art?
Did you know that despite her illiteracy, Catherine Ferguson founded the first Sunday school in New York City which later became known as Murray Street Sabbath School?
Did you know that during a blowout, fans often chant to request that players who only play in garbage time be put in the game?
Did you know that in 1914, railway official Lucius Seymour Storrs became president of the Connecticut Company?
Did you know that many soldiers in the Wehrmacht forces deployed for the Ardennes Offensive could not speak German?
Did you know that more than 3,000 containers of the chemical agent lewisite were dumped off the Florida coast during Operation Geranium?
Did you know that pitchers Bill Wilkinson and Jim Bluejacket are the only great-grandfather and great-grandson pair to both play in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that ships built by the Grangemouth Dockyard Company during World War II included the SS Empire Arthur and the SS Empire Clansman?
Did you know that the Edmund Barton Building, named after the first Prime Minister of Australia, is the largest example of the late 20th-century International Style of Australian architecture in Canberra?
Did you know that the Seashell Trust is the oldest charity for deaf children in North West England?
Did you know that the cruise ship MS Rhapsody was designed in part by Hugh Hefner, who envisioned the ship as a "floating Playboy Club"?
Did you know that the genus Platax, composed of five species of marine batfishes (orbicular batfish pictured), used to include the freshwater angelfish?
Did you know that 1966 European Rally Champion Günter Klass was given no spare parts as Porsches "simply don't break"?
Did you know that Cialis, the erectile dysfunction drug developed by Icos, was originally researched in the hopes of a treatment for cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and angina?
Did you know that Kanhopatra is venerated as a saint in the Varkari sect of Hinduism, despite spending most of her life as a courtesan?
Did you know that Khmer numerals were the first material evidence of the figure zero as a numerical figure?
Did you know that Lucy Kennedy has described The Lucy Kennedy Show as "Livin' with Lucy in a studio" and "a bit like The Charlotte Church Show gone wrong"?
Did you know that Mount Hamiguitan in the Philippines has a protected area with a 2,000-hectare (4,900-acre) pygmy forest of century-old trees growing in ultramafic soil?
Did you know that The Softwire is PJ Haarsma's young adult science fiction series about a thirteen-year-old Johnny T, and his struggles with "the Knudniks, the Nagools, and his indentured slavery"?
Did you know that before starring in This is Nightlive, John Ryan was co-creator with Derek O'Connor of blogorrah.com, and a former co-owner of the unsuccessful New York Dog and Stars on Sunday publications in partnership with Kiss and Stellar founder Michael O'Doherty?
Did you know that goalkeeper Jack Wheeler and his five defenders set a Football League record in the 1952–53 season by all playing in every league game for Huddersfield Town?
Did you know that historic Glencairn in Greensboro, Alabama, was built in 1835 by Alabama legislator John Erwin?
Did you know that in 2006, a prisoner escaped from HM Prison Ranby, England, by hiding in a rubbish lorry?
Did you know that in addition to his academic works, Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden is known as a conveyer of popular science and a former board member of Greenpeace?
Did you know that in his later years, Union Army general Thomas Alfred Davies published a number of books supporting the divine inspiration of the Bible, and refuting the materialistic philosophy?
Did you know that pathologist Kenneth Walton conducted a 1973 study into the causes of heart disease in which he got participants to eat greasy fry-ups?
Did you know that professional wrestler Dan Kroffat created the ladder match during a feud with Tor Kamata in Stampede Wrestling?
Did you know that shale oil was used to light the streets of Modena, Italy, at the turn of the 17th century?
Did you know that the Phnom Penh Commercial Bank was Cambodia's 23rd bank and the first Japanese-financed bank in the country?
Did you know that the Spanish–American War-era Fort Terry on Plum Island was used as a U.S. biological weapons research facility from 1952 to 1969?
Did you know that the development of the linotype machine (matrix pictured) was initiated by James O. Clephane, a court reporter who sought a quick way to transcribe legal briefs?
Did you know that unlike most historical homes, the Paul Dresser Birthplace in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, reflects the furnishings of a working class family, not the well-to-do?
Did you know that when Norwegian alpine skier Ole Kristian Furuseth won a silver medal in slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympics, he had not placed this high in a major race since March 1995?
Did you know that "I'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name", from Claude Jeter's 1961 song "Mary Don't You Weep", was the inspiration for Paul Simon's 1970 song "Bridge over Troubled Water"?
Did you know that , despite competing for over 20 years, Alberto Madril now reportedly refuses to acknowledge that he was once a professional wrestler?
Did you know that 19th-century politician Søren Jaabæk is the longest-serving member of parliament in the history of Norway?
Did you know that Arthur Dodd, a British prisoner of war during World War II, was an eye-witness to the horrors of Auschwitz?
Did you know that John Clarke Hawkshaw was a member of the Royal Commission set up by King Edward VII to decide the British representation at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair?
Did you know that Lucien Heath, the first Oregon Secretary of State, later served in the California State Assembly?
Did you know that Michigan's first athletic director Charles Baird built the largest college athletic ground in the United States and negotiated the school's appearance in the first Rose Bowl game?
Did you know that Philip Leget Edwards, the first teacher in what became the U.S. state of Oregon, later served in the legislatures of Missouri and California?
Did you know that Prairieville, Alabama's Italianate Browder Place was inspired by an 1852 Samuel Sloan publication?
Did you know that Sahu Mewalal scored the only goal in the final of the first Asian Games football competition held at Delhi, India, in 1951?
Did you know that Sin Chang-won, a South Korean fugitive criminal famous for his close escapes, was first arrested at the age of 15 after being turned in by his father for stealing a watermelon?
Did you know that TT racer Harold Daniell tested the new Norton motorcycle frame in 1950 and declared that it was like "riding on a featherbed" – and it has been called the "Featherbed frame" ever since?
Did you know that U.S. Route 20 in Massachusetts used to be part of the Boston Post Road, one of the earliest roads established in the United States?
Did you know that William Thomas Pecora, who headed the United States Geological Survey from 1965 to 1971, was a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin?
Did you know that a helicopter once crashed on Interstate 84 in New York, stopping traffic and causing a power outage?
Did you know that archivist Margaret Storrs Grierson was founder and first director of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College?
Did you know that from 1936 to 1998, the Germany national football team had just five managers, each of whom won a major trophy, with Helmut Schön (1964–1978) winning two?
Did you know that immature specimens of the lantern stinkhorn fungus, with an odor of dog feces, sewage, or rotting flesh when mature, are considered an edible and medicinal delicacy in China?
Did you know that in 1636, Phineas Hodson, Chancellor of York Minster, lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?
Did you know that on 22 October 2008, 15,000 members of the "grey army" descended on Ireland's government buildings to protest the proposed abolition of their previously guaranteed free health treatment?
Did you know that prior to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif, all American military flights into Afghanistan had to be launched from Uzbekistan or aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea?
Did you know that the Alternanthera mosaic virus, a type of Potexvirus, has been misdiagnosed as the closely-related Papaya mosaic virus?
Did you know that the character of Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future films was named after studio executive Ned Tanen, who had reacted aggressively towards writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis at a meeting?
Did you know that the historic McGehee-Stringfellow House in Greensboro, Alabama, collapsed in the 1980s when the MacMillan Bloedel company tried to move it?
Did you know that the proposed Suchindram Theroor Birds Sanctuary would be the southernmost protected area on the Central Asian Flyway, a bird migration route covering 30 countries and used by 279 migratory waterbird populations?
Did you know that under the command of Georg Ritter von Trapp, the World War I Austro-Hungarian Navy U-boat SM U-14 sank the Italian steamship Milazzo, reported as the largest cargo ship in the world?
Did you know that winemakers in the Carmignano region of Tuscany have been blending Cabernet Sauvignon with Sangiovese since the 18th century, long before the emergence of "Super Tuscans"?
Did you know that , due to racial segregation, African American wrestlers like Tiger Conway, Sr. competed on the "chitterling circuit", named after pig innards that were fed to slaves?
Did you know that Hamilton Clarke, a prolific composer of the Victorian era, is remembered today chiefly for his compilation of the overture to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado?
Did you know that Harry Kinnard was the inspiration for General Anthony McAuliffe's one-word reply "Nuts!" in response to a German demand for surrender at the Siege of Bastogne?
Did you know that Harvey, Barnes, Brown, Johnson, Loxton and Hassett were members of Bradman's Invincibles who won the First, Second and Fourth Ashes series Test matches of 1948 and drew the Third?
Did you know that Leon Keyserling was the head of the Council of Economic Advisers advising U.S. President Truman, yet never finished his own graduate dissertation in economics?
Did you know that Leon Kruczkowski, a major figure in post-WWII Polish theater, was also involved in introducing the socrealism doctrine in Poland?
Did you know that Liverpool-based singer-songwriter Eugene McGuinness once performed for Sir Paul McCartney?
Did you know that Swedish painter and pop artist Sven Inge changed his name twice?
Did you know that Théodore Vienne, who founded the Paris-Roubaix cycle race, was described by the New York Times as "the leading fight promoter of France"?
Did you know that a Chardonnay from the Robert Young Vineyard in the Alexander Valley AVA was one of the first premium vineyard designated wines in California history?
Did you know that a November 2008 appearance by a dance troupe called Satanic Sluts, featuring the granddaughter of actor Andrew Sachs, on The Late Late Show led to a significant number of complaints?
Did you know that after Captain Hugh Pigot was killed in a mutiny, Captain Edward Hamilton led the force that recaptured his ship HMS Hermione?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Nick Carter was the Philadelphia Athletics' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1908, his only season on the Major Leagues?
Did you know that because of difficulties customers had using square milk jugs, a Sam's Club offered lessons in how to pour them without spilling?
Did you know that church music composer Geoffrey Shaw was the father of Sebastian Shaw, who played Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi?
Did you know that during her husband's presidential campaign, Michelle Obama met with Mormon officials in their Church Administration Building?
Did you know that from 1904 to 1927, passengers travelling by rail from Stavanger to Oslo, Norway, needed to change to steam ship at Flekkefjord Station?
Did you know that in 1966, Donald Gleason developed the Gleason score, still used as the standard to measure the aggressiveness of prostate cancer despite millions spent in attempts to displace it?
Did you know that the "monstrous" five-masted steel barque Potosi was named after the highest city in the world?
Did you know that the 4,400-acre (1,800 ha) McLean Game Refuge was privately created by George P. McLean, a Senator and Governor of Connecticut?
Did you know that the Bernard Daly Educational Fund, established in 1922, has provided over 2,000 college scholarships to students from communities in Lake County, Oregon?
Did you know that the filming of Dexter was forced to move from Miami to Los Angeles, beginning with the episode "It's Alive!", because of the overlap between the show's production window and Miami's hurricane season?
Did you know that the post office in Coxs Creek, Kentucky, had to be moved because it created many accidents along U.S. 31E?
Did you know that the shooting of a sparrow, during the preparations for the Domino Day World record attempt, was investigated by the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals in 2005?
Did you know that though the Vigo Ordnance Plant never produced any biological agents it did produce 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of the anthrax simulant Bacillus globigii?
Did you know that while Captain Horatio Nelson was initially enthusiastic about his new command HMS Albemarle, his more experienced uncle, Maurice Suckling, expressed doubts?
Did you know that Appollo received the Dickin Medal on behalf of all search and rescue dogs who participated in rescue operations after the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that B.Day, Bakery Music's tenth-anniversary and parting concert, was performed at Rajamangala Stadium to an audience of 50,000 and was the largest concert ever held in Thailand at the time?
Did you know that Bhausaheb Kolte was the first to edit Leela Charitra, the first written biography in the Marathi language?
Did you know that Evelyn Lauder, who co-created and popularized the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness, helped create Estée Lauder's Pink Ribbon lipstick and blusher as a breast cancer fundraiser?
Did you know that Father Émile Petitot was the first European to reach the Tuktut Nogait National Park area in northern Canada?
Did you know that George Miller Bligh was present at Nelson's death at Trafalgar, and was subsequently incorporated into Arthur William Devis's painting of the event?
Did you know that Harry Endo had been filmed in a commercial for the bank in Hawaii where he worked when he was asked to play the role of "Che Fong", an original cast member of the television series Hawaii Five-O?
Did you know that Istanbul Hezarfen Airfield hosts around 30,000 music fans every September for the annual Rock'n Coke open air music festival?
Did you know that J. K. Gill started a bookstore in Portland, Oregon, in 1870 that grew to a chain of 63 stores before the company folded in 1999?
Did you know that Kentucky's Cherokee State Park, now part of Kenlake State Resort Park, was the first blacks-only state park in the Southern United States?
Did you know that Michael Jackson was only 10 years old when he recorded "Big Boy", the first single by The Jackson 5?
Did you know that all 17 etchings by Juste de Juste show only naked men, in five cases forming human pyramids (example pictured)?
Did you know that college football coach Jim Tatum secured a national championship without a single losing season in his nine years at Maryland, but was called a "parasitic monster" by one student newspaper?
Did you know that during the 1927 Nagpur riots in India, in which 22 people were killed, the house of Hindu nationalist leader K. B. Hedgewar was stoned?
Did you know that rabbits that were introduced as food for arctic foxes still populate Anangula Island in the Aleutian Islands, although the foxes were removed in the 1940s?
Did you know that radio station WMSP in Montgomery, Alabama, broadcasts the college football games of both the Alabama Crimson Tide and arch-rival Auburn Tigers?
Did you know that the 1895 deaths of Richard Corney Grain and Alfred German Reed ended the German Reed Entertainments, which had been presented since 1855?
Did you know that the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts is the first of three major theaters in New Orleans, USA, to reopen since Hurricane Katrina struck the city in August 2005?
Did you know that the book Outliers, written by Malcolm Gladwell, claims that the key to success in any field is practicing a specific task for 10,000 hours?
Did you know that the largest surface action during World War I in the Mediterranean was the Battle of the Strait of Otranto (ships pictured)?
Did you know that venture capitalists committed US$25,000 to the Next Big Sound after a group of Northwestern University students presented it as their entrepreneur class assignment?
Did you know that when a young Mozart toured Italy, Pope Clement XIV awarded the composer a knighthood, but Empress Maria Theresa dismissed Mozart and his father as "useless people"?
Did you know that with hundreds of birds found in the state (Western Meadowlark pictured), Oregon ranks fifth in the United States in terms of avian species diversity?
Did you know that "pig's ears", fungal species Gomphus clavatus, are the only Gomphus species in North America?
Did you know that Anthony, Charles, Cecilia, Isabella, Sr., Isabella, Jr., Esther, Elizabeth, and Polly Young were part of an English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Did you know that Bob Francis is the only Phoenix Coyotes head coach to have won the Jack Adams Award, having won it in the 2001–02 NHL season?
Did you know that Chōji Suitengu, a character from the anime Speed Grapher, rolls his cigarettes with 10,000 yen bills?
Did you know that Nigel Hamilton's biography of the young John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth, was turned into a television miniseries of the same name starring Patrick Dempsey as JFK?
Did you know that Noella Marcellino, a Benedictine nun and modern connoisseur of cheese, was named the official cheesemaker of Connecticut's Abbey of Regina Laudis?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Jostein Grindhaug scored the first league goal for the club FK Haugesund?
Did you know that Norwegian historian Tore Linné Eriksen has published several books about Namibia, including one on what was described as the first genocide in the twentieth century?
Did you know that Poli's Stellate Barnacle is hermaphroditic and has a penis significantly longer than its body?
Did you know that a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada?
Did you know that as a junior officer Rear Admiral Teddy Gueritz served as beachmaster on Sword Beach from D-Day until he was severely wounded 19 days later, and was awarded a bar to his Distinguished Service Cross?
Did you know that composer Michael Arne's obsession for alchemy and the search for the philosopher's stone led him into serious financial problems resulting in his arrest and confinement in a Dublin sponging-house?
Did you know that due to the Arab League boycott of Israel, McDonald's did not open in Israel until 1993 when they opened their first branch in Ramat Gan?