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Did you know that sailors and shipowners would refuse to sail when Moll Pitcher, an eighteenth-century fortune-teller famous throughout New England, predicted disaster?
Did you know that sandwich board-wearing human billboards gave rise to the term "sandwich man"?
Did you know that the Calvinist philosopher and New Testament scholar Vern Poythress argues that mathematics is the rhyme of the universe?
Did you know that the Jagiellonian Library of Kraków, dating back to the 14th century, is the largest Polish collection of pre-19th century texts?
Did you know that the Rule 184 cellular automaton (examples pictured) can simultaneously model the behavior of cars moving in traffic, the accumulation of particles on a surface, and particle-antiparticle annihilation reactions?
Did you know that the grey colored Achelous-class landing craft repair ship USS Askari was painted green during the Vietnam War, reflecting her assignment to the brown-water navy?
Did you know that the non-fiction book Gifts of Deceit described Koreagate, and the United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church?
Did you know that the regional newspaper of Wagga Wagga, The Daily Advertiser, was first published in 1868, making it one of the oldest in Australia?
Did you know that the travel narrative The Malay Archipelago, by biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, was used by Joseph Conrad as a reference for his novel Lord Jim?
Did you know that the valleys of the Minnesota and Upper Mississippi Rivers were carved by Glacial River Warren, an enormous river which drained Glacial Lake Agassiz in central North America?
Did you know that the world's third largest statue under cover, The Statue of the Republic, is housed in El Capitolio, in Havana?
Did you know that American diplomat and attorney Adrian S. Fisher was a leading negotiator of the earliest international nuclear test ban and non-proliferation treaties?
Did you know that Australian Broadcasting Corporation cult film reviewer and war correspondent John Hinde bequeathed AU$1 million to start a new Australian literary prize?
Did you know that Boans, a department store in Perth, Australia, was once the largest private employer in Western Australia?
Did you know that Elias Zoghby, a Melkite Catholic archbishop, attempted to re-establish communion between the Melkite Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church while maintaining communion with the Roman Catholic Church?
Did you know that although Duraiappa stadium mass grave was unearthed in the northern city of Jaffna, Sri Lanka in April 1999, the 24 victims have not been identified yet?
Did you know that among people on stamps of Azerbaijan, featured in 1995 are eight female astronauts?
Did you know that baseball player Jack Clements (baseball card pictured) was the first person to catch 1,000 games in Major League Baseball and the last regular catcher to throw left-handed?
Did you know that most of the dogs seen in the 2007 Thai film, Ma-Mha, were strays rescued from shelters and trained specifically for the film?
Did you know that plastic surgeons use body shaping to remove large amounts of hanging skin from the bodies of men and women who have lost as much as 45 to 136 kg (100 to 300 pounds)?
Did you know that the Chief Justice of Chester presided over a court independent of the rest of the English judiciary until 1830?
Did you know that the Duquesne Spy Ring consisted of 33 Nazi spies (one pictured) arrested by the FBI in 1941 and sentenced to serve a total of over 300 years in prison in what is the largest spy ring conviction in the history of the United States?
Did you know that the catfish genus Hemiancistrus currently includes species of two other undescribed genera?
Did you know that the early 1980s recession was the most serious recession in the United States since the Great Depression?
Did you know that the phage group was an informal network of biologists centered around Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to the origins of molecular biology?
Did you know that the precise status of the Florida Maple (Acer barbatum) as an independent species, or a subspecies of Sugar Maple (A. saccharum) is not clear?
Did you know that Beatus of Lungern, a first century Christian missionary to Switzerland, is often depicted as a monk fighting a dragon?
Did you know that Edward F. Boyd pioneered the concept of niche marketing in the United States by avoiding ethnic stereotypes in advertising for Pepsi?
Did you know that Edward Lipiński was one of the most prominent Polish economists of the 20th century?
Did you know that Francis Bacon described antiquities as "remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time"?
Did you know that Jean Balukas began her record-setting streak of seven consecutive U.S. Open straight pool championships when only 13 years old?
Did you know that Lewis Sperry Chafer was a budding musician at Oberlin College but became a leader in the dispensationalist movement and founded Dallas Theological Seminary?
Did you know that Mongolian barbecue is neither Mongolian nor barbecue but is a restaurant style of stir-frying based on teppanyaki that originated in Taiwan?
Did you know that Richard Polwhele's polemic poem The Unsex'd Females deplored the female pastime of amateur botany due to the impropriety of learning about the reproduction of plants?
Did you know that Triptych, May-June 1973 is the second of Francis Bacon's three "Black Triptychs" painted in commemoration of the suicide of his lover George Dyer?
Did you know that Vulcana was a Welsh strongwoman who traveled the world with her partner, performing as The Atlas and Vulcana Group of Society Athletes?
Did you know that William Campbell was the first acknowledged discoverer of gold in the Australian state of Victoria in 1850, but kept his discovery secret for fear a gold rush would disrupt his pastoral interests?
Did you know that baseball player Jimmy Brown led all St. Louis Cardinals hitters in batting average with .300 en route to their 1942 World Series victory?
Did you know that despite his lack of surgical training, Gerónimo Lluberas once successfully removed a foreign object embedded in the cornea of an eight-year-old boy's eye?
Did you know that during the Hardin County onion pickers strike in 1934, anti-union vigilantes seized control of the town of McGuffey, Ohio, for a day?
Did you know that flora and fauna of the Indian state of Karnataka include a species of ant newly discovered on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science?
Did you know that the 32nd Indiana Monument, currently at Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, is the oldest surviving American Civil War memorial?
Did you know that the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute has trained over 10,000 trade union organizers since its 1989 founding?
Did you know that the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in Vienna commemorates the 65,000 Austrian Jews who were victims of the Holocaust?
Did you know that the Oriental Seminary, established in 1829, was the earliest privately run modern school in Kolkata?
Did you know that the United Kingdom's most reported UFO incident was observed at RAF West Freugh?
Did you know that the first feature film of director Paul Verhoeven is Business Is Business, a 1971 comedy film about two prostitutes in Amsterdam?
Did you know that the first windowed envelope was designed in 1901 by Americus Callahan?
Did you know that the well-known Parthenon building in Athens replaced an Older Parthenon on the same site?
Did you know that though no fossil grasses have been discovered, the earliest-known grassland ecosystem, the 30+ million-year-old Tinguiririca fauna of Chile, can be detected through the grazers' teeth?
Did you know that Dougherty Valley High School will be, upon its opening, the first real-estate developer-built high school in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District?
Did you know that Georgia was the home of prehistoric humans more than one and a half million years ago?
Did you know that Jan Stanisławski, a Polish modernist painter, had his portrait painted by another icon of Polish Modernism, Stanisław Wyspiański?
Did you know that Monomohun Ghose became the first Indian practicing barrister in 1867?
Did you know that Sir Sassoon Eskell is regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament?
Did you know that as a young man, Fang Xuanling correctly predicted the downfall of the Sui Dynasty after the death of Emperor Wen of Sui?
Did you know that during World War II, Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier asked that religious orders take Jewish children into hiding to avoid Nazi death camps?
Did you know that former Boston Red Sox player Matt Young was only the second pitcher to throw a complete game no-hitter and lose, accomplishing the feat against the Cleveland Indians in 1992?
Did you know that housetruckers in New Zealand live in old trucks and school buses that have been converted into mobile homes?
Did you know that in one type of Anglo-Saxon trial, the accused tried to prove innocence by swallowing a piece of bread and cheese, called "corsned", without choking?
Did you know that not only did Jim Harrison play for the Ireland cricket team, but so did his three brothers, his brother-in-law, and his nephew?
Did you know that potato tubers grow at the end of stolons?
Did you know that some irregular troops in the Khyber Pass region during World War II were issued Khyber Pass Copy rifles because of concerns they would steal higher-quality ones and desert with them?
Did you know that the Kent Music Report was a weekly table of Australian music singles and albums which was the primary record chart in that market from 1974 to 1988?
Did you know that the Stairs Expedition to Katanga (William Stairs pictured) was the winner in a race between two Victorian-era imperial powers to seize a vast mineral-rich territory in central Africa, which it achieved by assassinating the African king Msiri?
Did you know that the current constitution of Nicaragua, the ninth in the country's history, was the final step in the institutionalization of the Sandinista regime?
Did you know that the speed of sound and temperature in the atmosphere can be remotely sensed by bouncing a radar signal off of sound waves in a RASS system?
Did you know that two of the four known species of the worm-eating shrewlike rats from Luzon Island, Philippines were first described in April, 2007?
Did you know that British Labour politician Margaret Hodge defeated five challengers in the Parliamentary Barking by-election in 1994, including Conservative Theresa May and UKIP's Gerard Batten?
Did you know that Edward Manning Bigelow is known as the "father of Pittsburgh's parks"?
Did you know that Leo Arnaud is the composer of the well-known Olympic theme "Bugler's Dream?"
Did you know that Margaret Singer was mandated to attend a PSI Seminars course by a United States federal court order?
Did you know that Moldavia's Prince Grigore Alexandru Ghica ordered the abolition of slavery after being shocked by the suicide of a Roma cook?
Did you know that Mussolini's Quota 90 fixed the lira exchange rate against the pound sterling at the prevailing rate from five years earlier, when he assumed power?
Did you know that Nazi officer Reiner Stahel commanded the garrison of Warsaw during the uprising of 1944?
Did you know that Oliver Granger was a licensed Methodist preacher before becoming an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement?
Did you know that Reginald Hugh Hickling drafted Malaysia's Internal Security Act, but did not expect it to be used against political opponents?
Did you know that Russian television implied that Filipp Kirkorov won the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with "Kolibelnaya Dlya Vulkana" when he in fact only came 17th?
Did you know that Thurman Tucker did not commit a single error during the Cleveland Indians' 1948 World Series-winning season, finishing with a perfect fielding percentage?
Did you know that a Hocktide initiation ceremony in Hungerford, England involves a blacksmith driving a nail into the initiate's shoe?
Did you know that at the 2005 Games of the Small States of Europe in Andorra, Iceland won 34 medals in swimming alone?
Did you know that former Manitoba MLA John Moore Robinson established the soft fruit industry in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in the late 1800s, along with the region's first corporate water management system to irrigate it?
Did you know that out of 60 four-star generals in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps, 17 were promoted upon retirement in recognition of combat citations, and one was promoted posthumously?
Did you know that the main threat to Pisonia brunoniana in New Zealand is cutting by people trying to prevent small songbirds from getting trapped by its very sticky seeds?
Did you know that the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution explains why the rates of molecular clocks are generally independent of population size?
Did you know that the oldest ornamental water tower in the world is the Louisville Water Tower, which is even older than the famed Chicago Water Tower?
Did you know that Australian chef Tobie Puttock is the godfather of Daisy Boo Oliver, the youngest daughter of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver?
Did you know that Brazilian director Humberto Mauro first became interested in film after buying a Kodak camera in 1923, and won the Brazilian film of the year award only 4 years later?
Did you know that George Hennet built and operated depots on behalf of the South Devon Railway after it was short of money?
Did you know that John Paterson was the last Archbishop of Glasgow of the Church of Scotland?
Did you know that Leung Kar Yan, one of the best-known kung fu film stars in Hong Kong action cinema, actually knew no martial arts, and simply copied moves shown to him?
Did you know that Pakistani Sufi singer Sain Zahoor cut his first record in 2006, was nominated for the BBC World Music awards by word of mouth, and was the winner for the Asia/Pacific region that year?
Did you know that after his move to Philadelphia in 1879, English-born cricketer Arthur Wood had to satisfy a five year residency requirement before he was allowed to play with the Philadelphian cricket team?
Did you know that almost 12,000 years ago, the 2,700 feet- (820 m) wide River Warren Falls fell 175 feet (53 m) in the area that is now downtown St. Paul, Minnesota?
Did you know that due to the reputation of its founder, Jan Groenveld, the Cult Awareness and Information Centre of Australia became used as a resource in publications on cults soon after its founding?
Did you know that members of the Lingbao School of Taoism believed their spirits would be refined in heaven after death and then reincarnated on Earth?
Did you know that the "100,000 year problem" is among the biggest mysteries facing those attempting to reconstruct past climates today?
Did you know that the Battle of Durbe was by far the largest defeat suffered by the Teutonic Knights and Livonian Order in the 13th century?
Did you know that the Hungarian Gold Train was a 1944 Nazi operated freight train that carried stolen  Hungarian valuables to Berlin, but never reached its destination?
Did you know that Kendal mint cake was carried by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the first successful ascent of Everest?
Did you know that Manitoba Provincial Route 394 is the farthest north in the province?
Did you know that Saskatchewan Highway 39 is one of Canada's busiest highways, facilitating transport for $6 billion in trade goods via approximately 100,000 trucks per year?
Did you know that The Haunted Manor is the most famous and popular of Polish operas?
Did you know that Tomorrow's Pioneers is a television program for children produced by Hamas?
Did you know that William Hone played cricket both for and against the MCC inside four days in June 1868?
Did you know that the Atari 8-bit computer game Dandy was originally written as its developer's MIT thesis?
Did you know that the GTP category of the IMSA GT Championship (car pictured) was credited with innovations including antilock brakes, traction control and active suspension?
Did you know that the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 was one of two entirely victorious uprisings in the history of Poland?
Did you know that the Ludlow wall boxes (sample pictured), unlike traditional British cast-iron pillar boxes, are made largely of wood?
Did you know that the Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group is developing a standardized interface for NAND flash, the memory used in flash drives, digital cameras, and MP3 players?
Did you know that the body of Grand Duke Dimitri Konstantinovich of Russia was rescued from a mass grave and secretly buried in the garden of a house in St. Petersburg?
Did you know that the concept of a communist crime was introduced in Polish law to facilitate studying and prosecution of crimes committed by people in authority against Polish citizens or the nation?
Did you know that the floor of the Church of St. Wojciech in Old Town, Kraków is up to 2.6 m below the level of the Main Market Square, repeatedly overlaid with new pavement in the course of eight centuries?
Did you know that the lyrics of one of the most popular French folk songs, Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, which has the same melody as the English song For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, were written on a false rumour?
Did you know that the non-fiction book From Slogans to Mantras was cited in Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title that should be owned by every library?
Did you know that the novel The Program draws on influences from Lifespring, Werner Erhard, and Large Group Awareness Training?
Did you know that 47 people were killed in a gun turret explosion onboard USS Iowa on April 19, 1989?
Did you know that Estonian nationalist Aili Jõgi, aged 14,  blew up the wooden memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn in 1946?
Did you know that Frederick Bligh Bond enlisted the help of a number of spiritualist mediums to guide his excavations at Glastonbury Abbey?
Did you know that Iowa Stars centre Aaron Gagnon twice lost out on a Western Hockey League award to the Medicine Hat Tigers' Kris Russell before finally winning an award of his own?
Did you know that Marie de France's poem "Chevrefoil", one of the 12 Lais of Marie de France, recounts an episode from the legend of Tristan and Iseult?
Did you know that NFL hall of famer Bud Grant and MLB hall of famer Dave Winfield both played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team?
Did you know that heavyweight boxer Joe Baksi recorded nine victories in his first year as a professional, including one over future actor Jack Palance?
Did you know that in Greek mythology, Heracles chased off the man-eating birds of Lake Stymphalia by playing castanet-like clappers called "crotala"?
Did you know that in the 1984 Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New Jersey gaming law requiring union leaders to be of good moral character?
Did you know that the British Percival P.74 helicopter project was canceled in 1956 because the aircraft was unable to fly?
Did you know that the House of the Faun, one of the grandest private residences discovered in Pompeii, is named after the statue of a dancing faun (replica pictured), in its central impluvium?
Did you know that the Six Feet Under episode The Plan has been described as a parody of Werner Erhard's est and The Forum personal development programs?
Did you know that the World of Final Fantasy VIII is the second in the Final Fantasy series of console role-playing games to include pre-rendered backgrounds?
Did you know that the land of Haydarpaşa Cemetery, a burial ground in Istanbul, Turkey for British Commonwealth soldiers from three wars, belonged to Suleiman the Magnificent?
Did you know that the linenfold style of relief carving, popular in Northern Europe from the 14th to 16th centuries, could be made with little carpentry skill and was mass produced in workshops from the later 15th century?
Did you know that the once-buried remains of a power canal and flour mills in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota have been unearthed and are now open as Mill Ruins Park to provide historical interpretation in the area?
Did you know that Australian author Ion Idriess wrote an average of one book every ten months for 42 years?
Did you know that Clemente Micara was the Vatican’s first envoy to Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that Polish composer Roman Palester's involvement with Radio Free Europe in the early 1950s led to communist officials expunging his name from official publications and prohibiting performances of his work?
Did you know that Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad are attempting to circle the globe multiple times in a 1,000-day, non-stop voyage in a gaff-rigged schooner designed and built by Stowe?
Did you know that racist coon songs (sheet music book pictured) paved the way for popular acceptance of ragtime music?
Did you know that the Christianization of Lithuania was completed in 1413 when Samogitia, the last pagan nation in Europe, was converted?
Did you know that the Haberbusch i Schiele company provided food for the entire city of Warsaw during the Uprising of 1944?
Did you know that the Marcab Confederacy was said by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to be one of the most powerful galactic civilizations?
Did you know that the non-fiction book Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is cited in the definition of Cults, by the American Psychological Association's Encyclopedia of Psychology?
Did you know that the spring of the Hell-Bourg village spa on Réunion started to fail around 1920, but an attempt to reopen it with dynamite caused the partial destruction of the spa, while the spring was later buried by a landslide?
Did you know that with the publication of Deepnirban in 1876, Swarnakumari Devi became the first woman novelist amongst the Bengali people?
Did you know that "Anytime You Need" was the first Eurovision Song Contest entry to feature lyrics in Armenian?
Did you know that , while the first model of the Atar Volant series was a simple turbojet engine, the third model was a proper coleopter, an aircraft with an annular wing that is able to land and take-off vertically without need of a runway?
Did you know that 18th century Franco-Portuguese industrialist Jácome Ratton left a vivid account of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake in his memoirs and was exiled to the Azores during the Napoleonic Wars?
Did you know that Alessandro Striggio's influential Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno will be performed in June 2007 after being lost for more than 400 years?
Did you know that American evolutionary biologist Jack Lester King co-authored a provocative 1969 paper, "Non-Darwinian Evolution", on the neutral theory of molecular evolution?
Did you know that Cameroon's Western High Plateau has a rainy season that lasts nine months?
Did you know that Christopher Buckley's novel Florence of Arabia was an homage to Fern Holland, one of the first U.S. civilians to be killed in the Iraq War?
Did you know that Himalayan Hemlock (Tsuga dumosa) was first brought into the United Kingdom in 1838?
Did you know that Irish cricketer Scott Huey was the last bowler to dismiss Sir Len Hutton in first-class cricket?
Did you know that John Martin Scripps was the first Briton in Singapore to be sentenced to death by hanging?
Did you know that Joseph Schröter, a 19th century Prussian military doctor, was a noted mycologist who discovered and described many previously unknown species of flora and fungi?
Did you know that Robert Harrill, ironically known as the "Fort Fisher Hermit," received thousands of visitors per year and was once the second most popular tourist attraction in North Carolina?
Did you know that Rotylenchulus reniformis, a roundworm found in tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, is a major parasite of crop plants?
Did you know that a tiger-haunted jungle was cleared to make way for the wide grassy stretch of the Maidan park of Kolkata?
Did you know that an average of 90,000 people a month walk, jog, cycle or skate along Florida's Pinellas Trail?
Did you know that at the age of 21, Roman Emperor Nero instituted the games of Juvenalia in recognition of the first shaving of his beard?