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Did you know that William W. Cooper, a pioneer of management science, dropped out of high school and worked as a professional boxer before becoming an academic?
Did you know that although José Rivera Indarte wrote the Blood tables against Juan Manuel de Rosas, he had previously been his supporter?
Did you know that in Goya's Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, the duchess is wearing her mourning clothes, as her husband died the year before?
Did you know that the 1898 torpedo boat Storm was the only Norwegian warship to fire a torpedo at the invading Germans during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign?
Did you know that the 1911 Tauzieher sculpture in Cologne depicts a worker tying a rope to a bollard as a "Herculean" nude?
Did you know that the graphic novel Building Stories by Chris Ware was published as a box that contained fourteen printed objects, including cloth-bound books, newspapers, broadsheets, and flip books?
Did you know that the lapis lazuli inlays used in the 25th-century BC Statue of Ebih-Il, discovered in ancient Mari in Syria, were imported from as far east as Afghanistan?
Did you know that the orange sun star can be found on the seabed in waters anywhere from 11 to 3,740 metres (36 to 12,270 ft) deep?
Did you know that the silky rosegill – once wrongly implicated in a case of fatal mushroom poisoning – was called the "ghost mushroom"?
Did you know that American sociologist Melvin Tumin challenged the Davis–Moore hypothesis and went on to write a widely used text book on social stratification?
Did you know that Colorado State Highway 82 (pictured, as Aspen's Main Street) intersects only one other state highway along its 85-mile (137 km) length?
Did you know that Karl-Friedrich Beringer conducted the Windsbacher Knabenchor, winner of the 2007 Rheingau Musikpreis, in Bach's St John Passion in Eberbach Abbey?
Did you know that Robert John Sholl, the only Resident Magistrate in north-west Western Australia between 1865 and 1883, had so much power that he was described as "virtually a Lieutenant Governor"?
Did you know that at least one species of the extinct termites Parastylotermes (fossil pictured) was found in the Calico Mountains?
Did you know that for the 1975 Bollywood classic film Sholay, M. S. Shinde edited 300,000 feet (91,000 m) of reel down to 18,000 feet (5,500 m)?
Did you know that the 2013 Manila mayoral election includes police officer Dirty Harry, gang leader Asiong Salonga, a fortune teller, a driver, and an engineer?
Did you know that the Bab al-Nairab neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, was originally a 13th-century gate planned by the Ayyubid ruler az-Zahir Ghazi, but built by his successor al-Aziz Muhammad?
Did you know that the Battle of Trafalgar is commemorated today in Gibraltar's Trafalgar Cemetery, where some of the casualties are buried?
Did you know that the Bombay night frog has been found living in a cave piled high with fruit bat droppings?
Did you know that the Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque in Homs contains the mausoleum of Khalid ibn al-Walid, an ornate dome with interiors which depict over 50 victorious battles that he commanded?
Did you know that the Russian monitor Bronenosets was converted into a coal barge in 1903 by the removal of her gun turret, side armor, and the division of her hull into three holds?
Did you know that the pharmocological products derived from the Spanish foxglove are up to three times more potent than those obtained from the common foxglove?
Did you know that the squat shrimp is normally found among the tentacles of a sea anemone?
Did you know that Angelo Masci grouped Illyrian, "Epirote", and Macedonian into one language family, which he considered to be the proto-language of Albanian?
Did you know that Chinese softshell turtles urinate using their mouths?
Did you know that Mehtab Bagh was the last of eleven Mughal-built gardens along the Yamuna River opposite the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort?
Did you know that Meryl Streep made her film début in The Deadliest Season, a 1977 film about sports violence?
Did you know that a Governor of Virginia is buried at St Mary's, Twickenham, encased in lead exactly fitted to the shape of his body?
Did you know that according to Swedish peasant folklore, the lichen Vulpicida, when consumed, kills foxes but not dogs or wolves?
Did you know that although the Ramped Cargo Lighter was used extensively in World War II, afterwards many were surplus to requirements and sunk by their own side?
Did you know that the BBC documentary programme Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters speculates that the Cyclopes, the one-eyed giants of Greek mythology, may have been inspired by elephant skulls?
Did you know that the Royal Palace (gate pictured) of ancient Ugarit in Syria had fortification walls whose base sloped outward 45 degrees?
Did you know that the Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957 makes it illegal to call another person a wizard in South Africa?
Did you know that the edible bear's head fungus once grew to a mass of about 100 lb (45 kg)?
Did you know that the eggs of the horned marsupial frog are the largest to be laid by any known amphibian?
Did you know that the endangered Mazumbai warty frog and the more common Krefft's warty frog are both found in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania?
Did you know that the recent changes to the copyright law of Panama, introduced as part of the Panama–United States Trade Promotion Agreement, have been criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation?
Did you know that to seek self-fulfillment is to seek the good life?
Did you know that Adele's theme for the James Bond film Skyfall went to number one in the UK's iTunes online store less than ten hours after it was released?
Did you know that Ann Bishop, an early female protozoologist, studied treatments for parasitic diseases including amoebic dysentery and malaria?
Did you know that Bach's cantata Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49, ends with a "religious-erotic" love duet between Jesus (bass) and the Soul (soprano)?
Did you know that Gordon Ramsay orchestrated the theft of the reservations book from his restaurant Aubergine so that he could blame it on Marco Pierre White?
Did you know that Mastotermes electromexicus was the first giant northern termite described from the New World?
Did you know that Mother Teresa's father Nikollë Bojaxhiu was the only Catholic member of the city council of Skopje and his company constructed the city's first theater?
Did you know that Namus is the first Armenian feature film?
Did you know that Prince Henry the Navigator handed over his brother Ferdinand the Holy Prince as a hostage, and preferred to let him die in captivity rather than fulfill the treaty he had signed?
Did you know that Thomas Rowley's homestead in Christchurch, New Zealand, is used as a school library?
Did you know that in Armenia, wrestling is one of the nation's oldest sports?
Did you know that several thousand people lived on Washington's National Mall for six weeks in 1968 as part of the Poor People's Campaign?
Did you know that the Church of Julianos in the village of Barad in northern Syria, was one of two three-aisled basilicas in the Dead Cities?
Did you know that the St Albans Hoard, one of the largest hoards of Roman gold coins ever found in Britain, was discovered by a man using his new metal detector for the first time?
Did you know that the bolete mushrooms B. illudens, B. carminiporus, B. miniato-olivaceus, B. projectellus, B. rubripes, B. subvelutipes, Boletinellus merulioides, Phylloporus leucomycelinus, P. rhodoxanthus, Pulveroboletus ravenelii, and Suillus cothurnatus can be used to make dyes?
Did you know that the nudibranch Tritonia hamnerorum feeds exclusively on the purple sea fan?
Did you know that the venom of the tarantula Psalmopoeus cambridgei contains vanillotoxins?
Did you know that 444 years ago, Poland's Royal Posts were entrusted to an Italian banker, Sebastiano Montelupi?
Did you know that Christchurch Steeple was originally part of a 13th-century friary, was mostly destroyed during World War II, and is now a bar and one of 24 Grade II* listed buildings in Coventry?
Did you know that Gamleborg (fortress ruins pictured) represents Bornholm's oldest defence works?
Did you know that John Lennon married Yoko Ono at The Rock Hotel?
Did you know that Swiss composer Hermann Suter's symphonic oratorio Le Laudi is a setting of St. Francis of Assisi's Italian Canticle of the Sun for choir, soloists, voci di ragazzi, organ and orchestra?
Did you know that Works Progress Administration employees were accused of campaigning for Kentucky Senator Alben W. Barkley during the 1938 Democratic primary, prompting passage of the Hatch Act of 1939?
Did you know that at the 2012 Berlin Biennale, one artist blocked Friedrichstraße with a wall, which was removed early after public protest?
Did you know that despite only playing one match for Bayer Leverkusen, the Norwegian footballer Terje Olsen does not regret moving to Germany at the age of 15?
Did you know that the 1955–56 Marathi radio programme Geet Ramayan describing the events from an Indian epic Ramayana (central characters pictured) has been translated to eight Indian languages, English, and also transliterated in Braille?
Did you know that the 82nd Airborne Division participated in two end-of-World War II victory parades, the Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 and the New York City Victory Parade of 1946?
Did you know that the bagel head is a type of extreme body modification?
Did you know that the desert rain frog leaves distinctive footprints on the dunes and a little pile of sand showing the location of its burrow?
Did you know that the extent of Lie Kim Hok's poem Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari in the Wong brothers' film Siti Akbari is uncertain?
Did you know that while researching In the Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland found that the oldest biography of Mohammed was written two hundred years after he had died?
Did you know that Keret House is the world's narrowest house?
Did you know that Millennium's second season finale "The Time Is Now" was inspired in part by a cattle disease in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Neil Young's new audio format takes its name from the Hawaiian word for righteousness?
Did you know that Richard Belzer insisted Law & Order: Special Victims Unit creator Dick Wolf cast Dean Winters as his partner, Brian Cassidy, before he would join the cast?
Did you know that every "deep desire" is a prayer, and God "answers every selfless prayer", according to Easwaran in Seeing with the Eyes of Love?
Did you know that prior to winning a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics, Ukrainian sport shooter Artur Ayvazyan was detained by his nation's customs agency for having an unregistered gun?
Did you know that the 18th-century BC fresco the Investiture of Zimrilim depicts the king of ancient Mari receiving the symbols of rule from the goddess Ishtar?
Did you know that the Classical story of Achilles on Skyros was the basis for a lost play by Euripides, a painting by Nicolas Poussin, and operas by Domenico Scarlatti and George Frideric Handel?
Did you know that the Duchess of Westminster was one of only two women to compete in sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the bird-voiced treefrog and the pine woods treefrog can be recognised by their distinctive calls?
Did you know that the camera used to create Google Street View images (example pictured) of the Great Barrier Reef is controlled by a Samsung Galaxy Tab?
Did you know that Chief Wilson set the Major League Baseball single-season record for triples in 1912, a record that still stands?
Did you know that Lady Lindsay of Birker, the first Chinese-born peeress, smuggled supplies and taught English to communist guerrillas fighting the Japanese occupation?
Did you know that Manolis Roubakis is one of the few footballers who have played for all three big clubs of Heraklion in Greece: OFI Crete, Ergotelis and Atsalenios?
Did you know that Rewa Prasad Dwivedi said that Rambhadracharya is an encyclopedia of learning whose literature is like numerous Narmada rivers flowing out simultaneously?
Did you know that Suhaimi Yusof, a Malay stand-up comedian, received the Best Comedy Performance award at the 2011 Asian Television Awards for his efforts in The Noose?
Did you know that Vignoles Bridge, one of the 10 Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Coventry, originally spanned the Oxford Canal before being moved to its current location over the River Sherbourne in 1969?
Did you know that as a member of the California Column, Andrew J. Doran was granted a brevet commission due to his experience with the Butterfield route?
Did you know that black-leg causes white rot?
Did you know that coral fungi can be red, yellow, beige, ashen, upright, green-staining, bitter, or blah?
Did you know that in the early 19th century, if you were out on the streets of Gibraltar after midnight without a permit you risked being sent to the Main Guard?
Did you know that streets in Tbilisi and Tirana are named after former US President George W. Bush?
Did you know that the State Farm Downtown Building in Bloomington, Illinois, features the intact 1951 office of company founder George J. Mecherle?
Did you know that the town of al-Dana in northern Syria is identified with "Adennu", the first Aramaean city to be captured by Assyrian emperor Shalmaneser III?
Did you know that 1930 Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles runner-up Daniel Prenn was of Jewish origin and thus got expelled from the Germany Davis Cup team and subsequently moved from Nazi Germany to England?
Did you know that Baynard Rush Hall was the first professor at Indiana University?
Did you know that Cnapan Hotel in Newport, Pembrokeshire, takes its name from the medieval Celtic sport of cnapan?
Did you know that Dr. Ben Goldacre argues in Bad Pharma that "medicine is broken," because the evidence on which it is based is systematically distorted by the pharmaceutical industry?
Did you know that Kamala Sohonie received the Rashtrapati Award for her work on supplementing tribal diets with the beverage neera?
Did you know that Karl Beth is considered one of the founding fathers of the psychology of religion?
Did you know that Poland and Spain had no diplomatic relations following the end of World War II, until two years after general Francisco Franco's death?
Did you know that Robert Burnell, founder of St Mary's Church, Acton Burnell, Shropshire, became Lord Chancellor of England, and then Bishop of Bath and Wells?
Did you know that consuming the cinnamon bracket fungus can cause symptoms of neurotoxicity, and violet urine?
Did you know that legislators in Arizona have banned bans on toys accompanying kids' meals?
Did you know that suffragist Margaret Cousins went on a hunger strike seeking to be classed as a political prisoner?
Did you know that the Washington Bee's masthead slogan was "Sting for Our Enemies – Honey for Our Friends"?
Did you know that the austro dripping bonnet probably had a Gondwanan origin?
Did you know that throughout U.S. history, different types of mail bags have been called mail pouch, mail sack, mail satchel, catcher pouch, mochila saddle mailbag, and portmanteau depending on form, function, place and time?
Did you know that Harold A. Lafount, a 1927–34 member of the Federal Radio Commission who was influential in early broadcasting regulation in the U.S., is the maternal grandfather of Mitt Romney?
Did you know that Leona Lewis and Ryan Tedder decided to write the up-tempo song "Glassheart" as Lewis was experiencing personal issues and thought a ballad would upset her further?
Did you know that Mary Pickford was the first woman appointed to a medical professorship at Edinburgh University?
Did you know that St Eata's Church, Atcham, in Shropshire, is uniquely dedicated to Eata of Hexham?
Did you know that Vladimir Nabokov's play The Tragedy of Mister Morn, written in 1923–24, was not published during his lifetime?
Did you know that after being coined by the British political satire The Thick of It, the word "omnishambles" was used in Parliament by real politicians?
Did you know that rubbish has been illegally dumped on Gibraltar Peak near Canberra?
Did you know that the Atlanta Braves negotiated exclusive rights with Warner Bros. Cartoons to use animated scenes of the Road Runner in honor of Ralph Garr?
Did you know that the Bocaina tree frog has green bones and muscles?
Did you know that the Lanczos tensor of general relativity exists only in four dimensions, suggesting our universe of four spacetime dimensions is special?
Did you know that the fleshy disk coral is small but aggressive and attacks neighbouring corals?
Did you know that the term Al Jazeera effect used to describe the revolutionary impact of Al Jazeera network on Arab world media has been generalized more globally to other forms of new media?
Did you know that Carolina false morels should not be eaten because they may contain a compound that, when digested, breaks down into a rocket fuel propellant?
Did you know that Younus Khan has scored 20 centuries in Test cricket, which is the fourth-best tally by a Pakistan batsman?
Did you know that in the first half of the 19th century, the Sejm of the Grand Duchy of Posen continued Polish parliamentary traditions in the territories of the Prussian partition?
Did you know that kissing the spotted cort mushroom may help in its identification?
Did you know that organic chemist Darshan Ranganathan did pioneering work in protein folding?
Did you know that popes awarded blessed swords and hats to defenders of Christendom, including at least 12 emperors, 10 kings of France, 7 kings of Poland, 6 kings of Spain, and the nation of Switzerland?
Did you know that star trail observations of Polaris (example pictured) have been used to measure the vibrations in telescope mounting systems?
Did you know that the Denton House in New Hyde Park, New York, was to be demolished for a McDonald's restaurant, before local authorities required the restaurant to restore the mansion?
Did you know that the anemone crab often lives in close association with the sea anemone Lebrunia danae?
Did you know that the area around the Spanish beach of Cala Arenas has been inhabited for thousands of years due to its strategic position facing the Strait of Gibraltar?
Did you know that the grass genus names Tuctoria and Orcuttia are anagrams?
Did you know that the historical figure Lady Godiva probably did not ride naked through the streets?
Did you know that wheelchair basketballer and para-alpine skier Shannon Dallas was afflicted with necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bug, that sidelined him for seven months?
Did you know that Cecil Vandepeer Clarke invented military equipment including a limpet mine, an underground tank, a spigot gun, an exploding trouser sausage, and a rocket propelled bridge?
Did you know that HMS Ambrose was a British cargo liner that was converted into an armed merchant cruiser and then into a submarine depot ship during World War I?
Did you know that Helen Porter helped to pioneer the use of radioactive tracers in botany?
Did you know that Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray made his last documentary in 1987 on his father, as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth?
Did you know that Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon both were given BunaBs?
Did you know that Michael Trevino won two Teen Choice Awards for his role of a vampire-werewolf hybrid in The Vampire Diaries?
Did you know that Xu Xusheng discovered the Erlitou culture?
Did you know that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi?
Did you know that the Central American frog Duellmanohyla soralia is critically endangered and its population decline is due, at least in part, to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis?
Did you know that the Early Neolithic settlement of Nea Nikomedeia is one of the earliest known sites in Macedonia, dated to 6250–6050 BC?
Did you know that the German war film U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien portrayed the combat career of the U-boat captain Günther Prien, commander of German submarine U-47?
Did you know that the Royal postmaster Roberto Bandinelli moved to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to escape lawsuits which threatened him with imprisonment in Florence?
Did you know that the Tombs of the Sanhedrin may have contained someone else?
Did you know that the variable bushy feather star is sometimes kept in a reef aquarium but usually dies because of starvation?
Did you know that Evan Gattis spent four years wandering in Texas, New Mexico, California, Colorado, and Wyoming before becoming a professional baseball player?
Did you know that John Eliot Gardiner performed Bach's cantatas for Reformation Day in the Schloßkirche, Wittenberg, including Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79?
Did you know that Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has expressed support for the Doubleday myth, which states that American Civil War officer Abner Doubleday invented baseball?
Did you know that Marjory Stephenson, along with Kathleen Lonsdale, was one of the first two women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society?
Did you know that Tan Tjoei Hock's 1941 film Tengkorak Hidoep has been credited as the first horror film made in Indonesia?
Did you know that Wojciech Stattler introduced live model studies as well as nude art models to the School of Fine Arts in Kraków?
Did you know that in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc., a United States district court is currently deciding whether or not it is legal to buy and sell pre-owned digital music?
Did you know that the "Ladies of Téviec" were murdered in the Stone Age, their bodies decorated with shell jewellery and buried in a midden under a roof of antlers?
Did you know that the Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion created the first vengeful spirit?
Did you know that the crew of the armoured cruiser HMS Shannon attempted to rescue survivors from HMS Natal after Natal's magazines exploded on 30 December 1915?
Did you know that the father of actress Jane Cameron worked as a set designer on Emmerdale, which Cameron later appeared in as Sophie Wright?
Did you know that the larva of the purple sunstar (adult pictured) attaches itself to the seabed with a sucker before changing into a juvenile starfish?
Did you know that the shortest fossil termite bug is Termitaradus avitinquilinus?
Did you know that Beatrice Hicks, the founding president of the Society of Women Engineers, created a device that made the moon landings possible?
Did you know that Colonel Roosevelt missed a trip through hell while on a trip to Africa?
Did you know that Ezra Pound believed that no man is equipped for modern thinking until he has understood the "Parable of the sunfish"?
Did you know that The Bullet Vanishes is the eighth highest grossing Chinese film of 2012?
Did you know that Yang Kyoungjong was a Korean soldier who was drafted into the Japanese, Soviet and German armies, and captured by US soldiers in Normandy on D-Day?
Did you know that Yaxha, the third largest Maya ruin in Guatemala, is one of very few Maya cities to have built a twin pyramid complex, an architectural arrangement characteristic of Tikal?
Did you know that an 1865 strike in Marquette, Michigan, was broken up by sailors operating an armored train?
Did you know that even though The ScareHouse's Creepo the Clown hates early Christmas decorations he wears a Santa hat?
Did you know that in 2009, when Fatima-Zahra Mansouri was elected mayor of Marrakech, she became only the second woman in Morocco's history to be elected mayor of a Moroccan city?
Did you know that over 100 sites in the San Francisco Bay Area (Winchester Mystery House pictured) are reported to be haunted?
Did you know that some conflicts may be beneficial?
Did you know that the Door to Hell has been blazing since 1971?
Did you know that the Nativity of St. John the Baptist Church in Piatra Neamț, Romania, built in 1497–98, was a court church of Stephen III of Moldavia?
Did you know that the ban on mailing Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit within the United States was repealed upon a request from the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt?
Did you know that the launch of Intelsat 23 was the first of a Proton-M rocket since the failed launch of Ekspress MD2 and Telkom-3?