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Did you know that Scotland's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in 1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers?
Did you know that Sir John Hussey, Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII, was executed for treason?
Did you know that a swimmer escaped a crocodile attack in Nkhata Bay, Malawi by biting the crocodile on the nose?
Did you know that all eleven stories in Australian Patrick White's The Burnt Ones have a real or metaphorical reference to burning?
Did you know that an early record of the insult "I have forgotten more than you will ever know" attaches to Salathiel Lovell, a Recorder of London who became known as the "Obliviscor" (forgetter)?
Did you know that an estimated 73 percent of what and how much all children eat is determined by nutritional gatekeepers?
Did you know that growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation and diverse bilateral trade, which is expected to rise from USD 9–10 billion in 2006 to USD 50 billion by 2010?
Did you know that human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan?
Did you know that in Norse mythology, the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips?
Did you know that most of the deaths that result from abdominal trauma are preventable?
Did you know that the Minkébé National Park in Gabon is believed by the WWF to have one of the largest forest elephant populations in Africa?
Did you know that the Pythagorean theorem can be proven without words?
Did you know that the girls of St Mary's School, Calne, are divided into five Companies, each named after local bishops?
Did you know that the historic floodplains of Oregon's Willamette Valley ecoregion rarely function today, due to dams in the Upper Willamette Basin?
Did you know that the scaly hedgehog is actually a species of brown mushroom found in spruce forests and used to dye wool in Norway?
Did you know that though Captain Edward Mallory was wounded by shot, saber, and bayonet, he and his men forced the enemy to retreat at the Skirmish at Waters Creek?
Did you know that Ferrante Pallavicino was the anonymous author of Il Divortio celeste (1643), a satire wherein Jesus Christ asks God for a divorce from his eternal bride, the Roman Catholic Church?
Did you know that Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from rural Victoria, invented the Chiko Roll?
Did you know that Herman Farr, an African American clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana, single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement?
Did you know that In All Languages is the first and only compilation album released by industrial metal band Godflesh?
Did you know that India established its diplomatic representation in Nigeria in 1958, two years before Nigeria's independence from British rule?
Did you know that Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul McCartney in art class when they attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys?
Did you know that Ride the Lobster is an 800-kilometer long unicycle race around Nova Scotia?
Did you know that administering a strong solution of coffee through the rectum by means of a Murphy drip was alleged to have been a treatment for shock at the Battle of Midway?
Did you know that fans at the UEFA Euro 2008 reportedly prefer The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" to the official anthem, Enrique Iglesias' "Can You Hear Me"?
Did you know that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth in bilateral trade, rising from US$3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 billion in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010?
Did you know that in his book In Defense of Anarchism, anarchist Robert Paul Wolff argues that the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that all states are morally illegitimate?
Did you know that near the summit of Sir Lowry's Pass in South Africa, you can still see the ruts left by ox-wagons being dragged over the Hottentots-Holland mountains before the current pass was built?
Did you know that the Budweiser Clydesdales were first introduced to the public on April 7, 1933, to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition?
Did you know that the Engkanto, a Philippine mythical creature, might be based on early encounters with European friars?
Did you know that the Foguang Temple's East Hall is the third oldest wooden building in China, dating from 857 AD?
Did you know that the Pakistan-based Institute of Sindhology is a research institution working on the history, culture, and literature of Sindh?
Did you know that the Sir John Maynard who used Elize Hele's money to create The Maynard School for girls in 1658 is not the same Sir John Maynard—Henry Maynard's son—who attended Charles I's trial?
Did you know that the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, New York, is the only known work of architect Julius Munckowitz, despite his later career with New York City's parks?
Did you know that the edible mushroom swamp yellow brittlegill has a fruity smell?
Did you know that the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland is the forty-story Legg Mason Building, which rises 529 feet (161 m) in height?
Did you know that when Peter Perez Burdett went to Karlsruhe, leaving his wife and debts behind, he took his portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby?
Did you know that Albert Pujols received more votes than any other player in Major League Baseball's 2006 all-star fan ballot?
Did you know that Edward Sagarin was titled "father of the homophile movement"?
Did you know that Ernest O. Thompson, a Texas businessman, politician, and  petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for developing improved machine gun tactics?
Did you know that Monkey Bay on Lake Malawi is a tourist resort accessed through the road to Cape Maclear?
Did you know that Odo J. Struger is known as the "father of the programmable logic controller," an electronic device used in nearly every automated factory worldwide today?
Did you know that Pakistani pop band Strings is the first South Asian band to endorse Gibson Guitars?
Did you know that Samuel Gray was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on behalf of three different electoral districts?
Did you know that U.S. Routes within Washington state currently make up about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) of the Washington highway system?
Did you know that V.D. Savarkar wrote The Indian War of Independence, a nationalist history of the 1857 uprising, in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its suppression?
Did you know that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York, was once the site of a freshwater lake?
Did you know that businessperson and Norwegian Parliament member Peter Bøyesen has been described as a predecessor of the Liberal Party of Norway?
Did you know that cushion plants (example pictured), which grow extremely slowly, can live for up to 350 years?
Did you know that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering?
Did you know that in Puerto Rico, a Piragua is a frozen treat made of shaved ice, covered with fruit-flavored syrup?
Did you know that the 104th Company of Syndicalists was a military unit created by the Union of Polish Syndicalists, which participated in the Warsaw Uprising?
Did you know that the LSR Preserve in Grand Teton NP was a former dude ranch and Rockefeller family retreat, and the first LEED certified property in Wyoming?
Did you know that the book Goodnight Bush, a parody of Goodnight Moon satirizing the presidency of George W. Bush, was written by two former employees of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?
Did you know that the nationalist activities of India House in the early 1900s led Valentine Chirol to describe it as the "most dangerous organisation outside India"?
Did you know that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean, England, dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica instead when permission was refused?
Did you know that there was a monument to British philanthropist John Howard in a hall of Russia's Kresty Prison?
Did you know that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young ward named Jim Limber‎?
Did you know that Frank Leslie Walcott, the first Barbadian ambassador to the United Nations, was also an exceptional cricket umpire?
Did you know that Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù‎, founded in 1720, was the first modern opera theatre in Greece?
Did you know that Norsk Hydro Rjukan, an industrial facility in Tinn, Norway, produced 30 million tonnes of fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991?
Did you know that Percival Goodman, described as "the most prolific architect in Jewish history" by The Forward, was also an urban planning theorist who criticized Robert Moses' ideas for parkways in New York City?
Did you know that Ted Mack auditioned contestants for the Original Amateur Hour in the 400-seat theatre at Irvington, New York's village hall?
Did you know that Your Name is Justine, Luxembourg's submission for the 79th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was rejected due to insufficient creative contributions from Luxembourg in the film?
Did you know that during the Agra famine of 1837–38 in the North-Western Provinces of India, approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number of livestock perished?
Did you know that eight of the nine Priori of the Signoria were chosen from the guilds of Florence?
Did you know that in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-General of eleven US states?
Did you know that it took just over 20 years to finish developing the Lamona breed of chicken, but it was nearly extinct by the 1980s?
Did you know that most of the stamps of Mexico (example pictured) from 1856 to 1883 have district overprints, which were added as an anti-theft device?
Did you know that philanthropist and civic leader Marion Jorgensen died at St. John's Health Center, the very place where she volunteered her time for many years?
Did you know that the British franchisee of Domino's Pizza's almost decade-long sponsorship of The Simpsons ended with a 2007 Ofcom ban on advertising junk food to children?
Did you know that the New York-based mock metal / glam metal band Satanicide replaced their bassist when they became aware that he "secretly liked Billy Joel"?
Did you know that the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum is located in the world's first plant for mass production of heavy water?
Did you know that the largest herbarium in the world is housed by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris?
Did you know that the volcano Piton de la Fournaise, a tourist attraction in Réunion, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world?
Did you know that the winter flooding of the Elpeus river was used as a defensive military device by Perseus of Macedon (pictured on coin)?
Did you know that 820 Naval Air Squadron (aircraft pictured) was involved in attacks on the German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz during the Second World War?
Did you know that American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne's bones are buried at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, while the rest of him is buried hundreds of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that American children's literature author Howard Pease, who often set his stories on tramp freighters, himself shipped out when he needed new material?
Did you know that Christopher Columbus's letter recounting his first voyage, the  first written description of America, was so popular it went through nine printed editions?
Did you know that Franz Kafka started his Diaries 1914 with this entry: January 2. A lot of time well spent with Dr. Weiss?
Did you know that Indian scholar Śāntarakṣita is believed to have been instrumental in the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet?
Did you know that Nagpur Improvement Trust, a local civic government body of Nagpur, India established in 1936, is not an elected body and continues to work along side Nagpur Municipal Corporation?
Did you know that Noah W. Cross, sheriff of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, from 1944–1973, was forced to resign upon a perjury conviction in U.S. District Court in Alexandria?
Did you know that Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz" by smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding?
Did you know that Price Hill is one of the oldest outlying settlements of Cincinnati, Ohio?
Did you know that Williamsport Bills minor leaguer Dave Bresnahan was thrown off the team for substituting a potato for a baseball?
Did you know that a local writers' group won a preservation award for renovating the Philipse Manor train station in Sleepy Hollow, New York?
Did you know that in 1963, entertainment manager Bob Marcucci got a recording contract for John D'Andrea, leading D'Andrea to a regular spot on Shindig!?
Did you know that in 2001, American screenwriter William Monahan pseudonymously wrote a comic serial narrative at New York Press titled Dining Late with Claude La Badarian?
Did you know that television commercials for the furniture company Walter E. Smithe have included parodies of Star Wars and The Apprentice?
Did you know that the Erie Railroad bought the Dodge-Greenleaf House in Otisville, New York for US$5 and sold it two years later for US$1?
Did you know that the Jordan River Foundation was founded by Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan?
Did you know that the birth rates of the Southern Woolly Lemur are affected by the degradation level of their habitat?
Did you know that the sailing-ship Lwów was the first ship under Polish banner to cross the equator?
Did you know that the tartan of Nova Scotia was originally designed by Bessie Murray for an agricultural exhibition in 1953, but was so admired that it was later officially adopted by the province?
Did you know that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside of Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in Austria's premier football division?
Did you know that Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso's great Guernica"?
Did you know that Cardinal Uberto Crivelli was elected Pope Urban III in the papal election in 1185 within the few hours after the death of his predecessor Lucius III?
Did you know that Karl Wahl, the leader of the Nazi Gau Schwaben, was the only Bavarian Gauleiter without a university degree?
Did you know that Maurice Durand designed the lighthouses at the Île d'Yeu and the Pointe du Grouin du Cou in France to replace earlier structures that had been destroyed during World War II?
Did you know that Radio Londres, a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied France, read Paul Verlaine's poem Chanson d'automne as a code to inform the resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place?
Did you know that Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque had been an Eastern Orthodox monastery until it was converted after the Fall of Constantinople?
Did you know that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
Did you know that hwajeon is a sweet Korean pancake or rice cake made of edible flower petals, glutinous rice flour, and sugar?
Did you know that in On the Sphere and Cylinder, Archimedes expressed the volume contained in a sphere in terms of that of a cylinder?
Did you know that in the 2000–01 National Basketball Association playoffs, Allen Iverson played an average of 46.2 minutes a game, leading the Eastern Conference?
Did you know that lyric tenor Evan Gorga, who created the role of Rodolfo in the original production of Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème, reprised the role in several productions, then retired at the age of 34?
Did you know that pop singer Madonna adopted a 13-month-old boy from Mchinji, Malawi in October 2006, causing international controversy?
Did you know that the 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans?
Did you know that the Siamese method (example pictured) is a simple method for creating magic squares, which was brought to France in 1688 following Simon de la Loubère's embassy to Siam?
Did you know that the design of the first-generation Ford Taurus was so ahead of its time that it was chosen to be used in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop?
Did you know that the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity?
Did you know that tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome is a rare disease presenting as intractable diarrhea, facial abnormalities and woolly, brittle hair in infants with growth retardation in the womb?
Did you know that with an area of deep convection near the center, Hurricane Ivo reached peak intensity of 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) on September 20, 2007?
Did you know that 17th-century French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career and established a Jansenist group of ascetics known as Les Solitaires, the Hermits?
Did you know that Marie Studholme, one of the popular postcard beauties of Edwardian musical comedy, was wooed by her wealthy second husband under an assumed name?
Did you know that Norsk Transport has operated four railway ferries on Lake Tinnsjå in Norway?
Did you know that Rupprecht Gerngroß is considered the leader of the only successful putsch against Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that a Bird Flu pre-pandemic vaccine called Pandemrix is the first to be approved by the EU for the inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic?
Did you know that after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer, constructing more than 60 buildings?
Did you know that as part of Operation Noble Eagle (service badge pictured), Canada provided air defense protection for the Super Bowl XL?
Did you know that education in Sierra Leone had to recover from the destruction of 1,270 primary schools  during the Sierra Leone Civil War?
Did you know that minor league baseball pitcher Kyle Pearson’s 17 losses with the Hickory Crawdads tied him for the all-time team lead?
Did you know that most of the illuminated manuscripts created by William de Brailes in Oxford in the 13th century are about the size of a modern paperback?
Did you know that one critic describes Christopher Smart's The Hilliad as the "loudest broadside" of the Paper War of 1752-1753, a literary dispute involving Henry Fielding, John Hill, and many others?
Did you know that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) avenue of trees leading to Marchmont House in Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the planting of 10,000 Dutch elms?
Did you know that the Halegannada, literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of the Kannada language?
Did you know that the Vadigo, a species of carangid fish, is believed to be expanding its range in the Mediterranean Sea?
Did you know that the missionary and explorer David Livingstone named Cape Maclear, Malawi after his friend, astronomer Thomas Maclear?
Did you know that the musical group The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group?
Did you know that the town of Ollantaytambo, which dates back to the Inca Empire, has some of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America?
Did you know that "squash and stretch" (example pictured) is considered the most important of the 12 basic principles of animation?
Did you know that George Hargreaves, Christian Party candidate in the forthcoming UK Parliamentary by-election, has said that the dragon symbol on the Welsh flag is "nothing less than the sign of Satan"?
Did you know that Hexaware Technologies Limited is ranked as India’s 11th top IT service provider by NASSCOM since 2005?
Did you know that Leves were Roman soldiers armed with javelins?
Did you know that Pakistani actress Maria Wasti played a role depicting philanthropist and Lenin Peace Prize winner Bilquis Edhi?
Did you know that Scottish missionary Carstairs Douglas compiled the first comprehensive Amoy-English Dictionary in 1873, which, with revisions, is still in use today?
Did you know that Vin americanii! ("The Americans are coming!") was a slogan used by Romanians in the 1940s and '50s to express their hope that a US intervention would topple the Communist regime?
Did you know that a 3D model artist for The Matrix Reloaded went on to participate in the fangame project Chrono Resurrection?
Did you know that a Jueju, a type of Chinese poem, is a quatrain with either five or seven characters per line?
Did you know that all four stars of Starved, an FX sitcom about eating disorders, struggled with eating disorders themselves, a fact unknown to producers until after casting?
Did you know that anthropologist David Zolotarev’s 1930 study of the ethnic tribes of the northern Russian Lake Imandra region determined they did not understand Soviet-style "socialist construction"?
Did you know that in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada, built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River?
Did you know that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open pubs, taverns and alehouses were issued?
Did you know that the 2008 film Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins uses "meerkats actors" to depict the Whiskers and Lazuli groups rather than using actual footage of the real meerkats?
Did you know that the French Protestant Church in Brighton, one of only two in England, is expected to close this year?
Did you know that the Ralph J. Bunche House in South Los Angeles was the boyhood home of Ralph Bunche, the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
Did you know that the Stonerose fossil site contains the earliest known records of Rosaceae, the rose family?
Did you know that the design of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien in Épinay-sur-Seine, France was inspired by the architectural styles of five continents?
Did you know that the exact species for which the fish genus Carangoides (C. orthogrammus pictured) was originally created is unknown?
Did you know that the extinct sea turtle Psephophorus was once mistaken as an ancient armadillo due to the specimen's poor condition?
Did you know that the original building of Trondheim Central Station in Norway has been preserved as a cultural heritage?
Did you know that velology is the study of vehicle tax discs?
Did you know that Adam Raphael was named Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards of 1973 for a Guardian series on labour conditions in South Africa?
Did you know that Arthur Bingham was commander of HMS Little Belt, when the Little Belt Affair occurred in 1811?
Did you know that Bethany Black has been described as "Britain's only goth, lesbian, transsexual comedian"?
Did you know that Boston Celtics head coaches Red Auerbach and Bill Fitch were named to the list of the Top 10 Coaches in NBA history?
Did you know that Buddy West was chief legislative advocate for the  University of Texas of the Permian Basin at Odessa?
Did you know that Caeca et Obdurata, promulgated by Pope Clement VIII in 1593, ordered that Jews be expelled from the Papal States except Rome, Ancona, and the Comtat Venaissin, within three months?
Did you know that Detroit Tigers pitcher Eddie Bonine played for three different colleges in three different states before he turned professional?
Did you know that French cartographer Jacques Bertin was the first to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization?
Did you know that German politician Käte Strobel broke a taboo in 1967 by promoting sex education with a school book and the government-sponsored film Helga?