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Did you know that ex-Springbok and current Ireland rugby forward coach Gert Smal taught his pack some Afrikaans so they could read the South African line out calls in their match in the 2009 Autumn Internationals?
Did you know that possible traces of interdigital webbing have been preserved in fossils of pakicetids, the ancestors of whales?
Did you know that sociologist Bogdan Denitch of Queens College, City University of New York organized and chaired the Socialist Scholars Conference from 1983 to 2004 in New York City?
Did you know that the Battle of Gang Toi on 8 November 1965 was one of the first engagements between Australian forces and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the Falls Trail along the 24 named waterfalls (Ganoga Falls pictured) in Ricketts Glen State Park has been called "the most magnificent hike" in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Famous Smoke Shop, one of the largest mail order and internet cigar businesses in the United States, was initially a retail shop on  Broadway founded in 1939?
Did you know that the Mather Inn in Ishpeming, Michigan, served as housing for the cast of the classic 1959 movie, Anatomy of a Murder, and the location where Duke Ellington composed the movie's score?
Did you know that the animated sitcom Home Movies switched to Flash animation for its second season?
Did you know that the marriage of Archduchess Isabella of Austria and Prince Georg of Bavaria was annulled on the grounds of non-consummation?
Did you know that then-Louisiana Tech University President F. Jay Taylor in 1974 named Sonja Hogg to develop what became national championship teams in women's basketball?
Did you know that while searching for French zoologist Claude Riche, lost in Western Australia, botanist Jacques Labillardière collected the first specimens of Banksia repens?
Did you know that with his 60 tonne 25.25 m long Denby Eco-Link super lorry, Dick Denby of Denby Transport, Lincoln, hopes to challenge the government prohibition of most types of Longer Heavier Vehicles from the roads of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Amar Ouzegane, first secretary of the Algerian Communist Party until 1947, later renounced communism, arguing for a fusion of Islam and socialism?
Did you know that Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma's Proctor District, opened by John Hamrick in 1923, is now the oldest continuously operating theater in the U.S. state of Washington?
Did you know that Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster persuaded architect John Douglas to add half-timbering to his stone and brick design for 2–18 St Werburgh Street, Chester?
Did you know that SS President became the first transatlantic steamship to founder when she disappeared in 1841 en route from New York to Liverpool with 136 people on board?
Did you know that between 5% and 45% of the words made by two year olds are speech repetitions, and that higher skill in infant speech repetition predicts more rapid expansion of spoken vocabulary?
Did you know that even though the French wines of Collioure have very little residual sugar, some wine drinkers perceive them as "sweet" because of how ripe the grapes get in the warm climate?
Did you know that former Texas State Senator Marshall Formby proposed that Texas Technological College, his alma mater, be renamed Texas Tech University?
Did you know that in 1983, Yıldırım Aktuna, a neuropsychiatrist and later a politician, founded Turkey’s first alcohol and drug rehabilitation center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in Istanbul?
Did you know that in 2005, the Bruce High Quality Foundation pulled a floating island of parkland, complete with living trees, around New York Harbor, turning a drawing by Robert Smithson into reality?
Did you know that in 2007, A. J. Wallace broke the Penn State Nittany Lions football record for kickoff return yardage in a season with 581, which broke Kenny Watson's 1999 record of 522?
Did you know that in October 2009, the Pittsburgh Penguins launched Pittsburgh Penguins Radio, the first exclusive HD radio station in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that over 100 former footballers called on President Paul Biya to stand in the 2004 Cameroonian presidential election?
Did you know that the Ballaine House was one of six built in 1905 in Seward, Alaska, known as "Millionaire's Row", not for their owners' wealth, but because they believed Alaska would soon have one million residents?
Did you know that the Blue-winged Kookaburra of northern Australia is also known as the Howling Jackass?
Did you know that the Justice Party survived the no-confidence motion brought against it after the 1923 election in Madras Presidency?
Did you know that the U2 song "Winter" was written for the war film Brothers after the band viewed a rough cut of the film?
Did you know that Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy, later became New York's Chinese Inspector?
Did you know that Nepal's capital Kathmandu only had one restaurant in 1955?
Did you know that Norwegian politician Beint Bentsen was a member of four different municipal councils?
Did you know that Sir Denys Roberts was the first and only Colonial Secretary and Chief Secretary who was appointed Chief Justice in Hong Kong?
Did you know that after taking the 1899 Michigan football team to an 8–2 season, coach Gustave Ferbert resigned to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush and became a millionaire?
Did you know that although the original text of the Đại Việt sử ký was lost during the fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam, its contents were still preserved in other books such as the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư?
Did you know that in 1989, a block of flats in Worthing, England, was named in commemoration of the Capella, wrecked off the coast in 1891, but the name was accidentally misspelt?
Did you know that microchromosomes are very tiny gene-rich chromosomes which are a typical genetic component in birds, and some groups of non-mammalian animals?
Did you know that newly named New York City Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano has been cited five times for meritorious acts in a 40-year FDNY career?
Did you know that stand-up comedian Louis C.K. is writing, directing, editing, producing, and starring in his upcoming FX comedy series, Louie?
Did you know that the 13th-century Chinese mathematician Li Zhi solved polynomial equations and advised Kublai Khan?
Did you know that the 1692 Jamaica earthquake, which destroyed Port Royal, occurred at 11:43 a.m., according to a stopped pocket watch found in the harbour?
Did you know that the French resistance activist Michel Zunino was the sole former socialist Popular Front parliamentarian who was later re-elected as a communist?
Did you know that the Lyceum in Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, was built as a school and it is planned to develop part of it as a museum?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode "At the Movies" introduced the character of Reptar, who became a heavily recurring character throughout the series and the basis of countless merchandising tie-ins?
Did you know that the San Diego neighborhood of Old Town was the site of the first European settlement in present-day California?
Did you know that twice in the Dakar Rally, a Mercedes-Benz support truck for the Citroën team got caught up in armed conflicts resulting in the driver's death?
Did you know that Anna Mendelssohn, who spent five years in jail over Angry Brigade bombings, later became a published poet?
Did you know that Benigno Fitial, the current governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, once sued the Marianas Variety News & Views newspaper for defamation?
Did you know that Dane Erik Holtved was the first university-trained ethnologist to study Greenland's Inughuit?
Did you know that Hereford, Texas, broadcaster Clint Formby's daily commentary is the longest-running program by a single host in radio history?
Did you know that Johan Kling, a Swedish filmmaker whose career started with making TV shows and McDonald's commercials, won the award for best Swedish film for his debut movie, Darling?
Did you know that Margaret Formby, the daughter of Texas ranchers, was the founder of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth?
Did you know that Sagittaria lancifolia is also known as "duck potato" because of the large potato-like corms that form underground?
Did you know that Spanish singer-songwriter Bebe received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album for her second studio album titled Y.?
Did you know that Swedish history painter Johan Fredrik Höckert died of natural causes at the age of 40, only two years after becoming professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts?
Did you know that after running aground at Sharpness, SS Stancliffe was cut into two separate sections and then sailed to Cardiff, Wales, in 1947?
Did you know that as a consequence of Earl Rivers' reversion to Roman Catholicism in 1697, the name of the Lyon's Paw Hotel in Frodsham, Cheshire, England, was changed to the Bear's Paw?
Did you know that between the years 2000 and 2009 in North Carolina, the deadliest tropical cyclone was Tropical Storm Allison?
Did you know that chef Aaron McCargo Jr. became host of the Food Network series Big Daddy's House as the grand prize for winning the fourth season of the reality series, The Next Food Network Star?
Did you know that during its operational history 1874–1926 the Argentine Corvette Uruguay was a gunboat, school ship, expedition support ship, and Antarctic rescue vessel, and is now a museum ship in Buenos Aires?
Did you know that on December 26, 2009, Sarah Thomas became the first woman to officiate a Football Bowl Subdivision bowl game, when she served as line judge for the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl?
Did you know that the 1895 Michigan football team (player pictured) outscored its opponents 266 to 14 and clinched a claim to the Western championship of American football?
Did you know that the 1896 Michigan football team appeared in the first college football game played indoors and under electric lights?
Did you know that the Little Zigzag River begins on Zigzag Glacier, flows down Little Zigzag Canyon, over Little Zigzag Falls, and enters the Zigzag River upstream of Zigzag, Oregon?
Did you know that the Swaraj Party refused to form a government despite winning the 1926 election in Madras Presidency?
Did you know that the actress cast as Amy Pond, a companion character to the Eleventh Doctor on Doctor Who, had previously portrayed a soothsayer on an episode involving the Tenth Doctor?
Did you know that the flamboyant Louisiana Sheriff F.O. "Potch" Didier once spent seven days in his own jail upon conviction, after a sensational trial, of malfeasance in office?
Did you know that the second Fred Quilt inquiry into the Tsilhqot'in's death at the hands of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police found that injury was caused by a blunt force applied by an unknown object?
Did you know that the view atop Mount Kaputar in Mount Kaputar National Park, Australia, encompasses about 1/10th of New South Wales?
Did you know that there are different theories about the parentage of Piast princess Constance, who ruled over Wodzisław Śląski until her death in 1351?
Did you know that while recording swordfights for Barbarian, the video game's designer Steve Brown nearly took his eye out with the Web of Death, a move copied from the film Conan the Destroyer?
Did you know that Alice Greenough Orr became a rodeo star after she found her preferred job of forest ranger largely unavailable to women during the era after World War I?
Did you know that American professional wrestler Jigsaw was trained by Chris Hero and Mike Quackenbush?
Did you know that Cheryl Cole debuted her song "Parachute" whilst performing a Latin dance with Derek Hough on the television special Cheryl Cole's Night In?
Did you know that Farnham Maxwell-Lyte developed the "honey process" in photographic processing?
Did you know that Howard Yerges began his football career with the Ohio State Buckeyes and finished it as the quarterback of Michigan's 1947 "Mad Magicians" national championship team?
Did you know that INFORM, a British charity providing impartial information on new religious movements, was established with the support of the Home Office and Britain's mainstream churches?
Did you know that Mamajuda Island in the Detroit River, which once contained a lighthouse, has since been eroded away to nothing more than a few boulders seen only during times of low water levels?
Did you know that Mutzig's Château des Rohan belonged to several families of noblemen and bishops of Strasbourg before being turned into a rifle factory after the French Revolution?
Did you know that North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day employed both African-American slaves as well as white apprentices in his Caswell County workshop, though he was himself a free person of color?
Did you know that P. Munuswamy Naidu became the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency after the 1930 election?
Did you know that Ragnar Kalheim was one of the main architects behind the formation of the Socialist Electoral League in Norway?
Did you know that Roanoke, Virginia, television station WROV-TV was the first UHF station in the United States to shut down?
Did you know that between 19,500 and 50,000 Japanese military personnel are estimated to have surrendered during World War II, despite being prohibited from doing so?
Did you know that current Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos is a professional magician who has performed in both Las Vegas and Hollywood?
Did you know that despite being a clone of the Apple II, the Soviet Agat computer cost as much as twenty times the average monthly Soviet salary?
Did you know that hundreds of millions of Chinese Soft-shelled Turtles are raised every year in Asia's turtle farms?
Did you know that in 1997, Steve Carell played chef Yorgo Galfanikos in the ABC sitcom Over the Top?
Did you know that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater was said to have overseen the "cleanest mayor's election in modern times" in New Orleans?
Did you know that one local architectural historian disparaged the combination of two older houses into the current Van Rensselaer Lower Manor House in Claverack, New York, as a "growth"?
Did you know that the 1931 film Alice in Wonderland was the first talking picture to be based on Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Did you know that the Argentinian Labour Party, which played a major role in ensuring Juan Perón's 1946 election victory, was modelled after the British Labour Party?
Did you know that the Genoese have contributed significantly to Gibraltar's architectural and culinary heritage?
Did you know that the Société Ramond gave the observatory on the Pic du Midi de Bigorre to the French state because it could not afford the cost of its construction?
Did you know that the eastern Yorkshire peninsula Holderness is thought to have taken its name from Thurbrand the Hold, killer of Uhtred the Bold?
Did you know that the first religious leader of Temple Israel in Columbus, Ohio, was Simon Lazarus, a clothing merchant who founded what would become Lazarus department stores?
Did you know that the mechanism of the Winchester Model 1911, an autoloading shotgun made from 1911 to 1925, is so tricky that in 2005 four people shot themselves accidentally while clearing the weapon?
Did you know that the song "La Cima del Cielo" recorded by Ricardo Montaner became his first number-one single in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart?
Did you know that the triskelion in MacLeod heraldry originates from a mistaken belief that the clan's founder, Leod, was a son of a king of Mann?
Did you know that with their extensive vineyard holdings in the Douro and many Port wine brands, the Symington Family Estates are considered a "Port empire"?
Did you know that "Canonsburgh Comet" Leo Koceski, halfback for Michigan's 1948 national championship and 1950 Rose Bowl championship teams, was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame?
Did you know that "Kashi", the name of an all natural, seven whole grain food company based in La Jolla, California, means "happy" in Chinese and "energy" in Japanese?
Did you know that 58 ships (one pictured) of the 16th-century navy of Henry VIII of England were illustrated in the Anthony Roll?
Did you know that Blumea balsamifera is a flowering plant which belongs to the Asteraceae family and is used in the Philippines as a diuretic and treatment for the common cold?
Did you know that Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei made three secretive trips to Paris to prepare for his design of the Louvre Pyramid?
Did you know that Friedrich Nietzsche suggested the crest on the frontispiece of Richard Wagner's autobiography, Mein Leben, be composed of a vulture and the constellation The Plough?
Did you know that Giovanni Battista Calvi was an Italian military engineer who worked on many important Spanish defensive projects in the 1500s, to include those in the now British overseas territory of Gibraltar?
Did you know that Jesse G. James' company West Coast Choppers earns 60% of its revenue from sales of T-shirts and other tie-in merchandise?
Did you know that Peter P. Dubrovsky, Russian diplomat, collected valuable manuscripts from destroyed libraries during the time of the French Revolution?
Did you know that Reynier van Vlissingen, the Dutch Governor of Negapatam in India, surrendered to British forces in the 1781 Siege of Negapatam because the garrison had only one day of gunpowder remaining?
Did you know that Riverside Theater in Jacksonville was the first theater in Florida, and the third in the United States, equipped to show sound film?
Did you know that The Irish Filmography is a reference source for nearly 2,000 films made from 1896 to 1996 in Ireland, about either Ireland or the Irish?
Did you know that The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, the 22nd album by Sparks and their first pop musical, was commissioned by Swedish national radio?
Did you know that Wally Teninga played football for Michigan's undefeated 1947 and 1948 championship teams and later became vice chairman and chief financial officer of Kmart Corporation?
Did you know that as a Squadron Leader in 1936, future diplomat Charles Eaton was arrested and held for three days in Koepang, Dutch Timor, while undertaking a clandestine mission for the RAAF?
Did you know that as a result of 1962 U.S. Supreme Court decision Glidden Co. v. Zdanok, the Court of Claims did not accept new Congressional reference cases until 1966?
Did you know that at age 36, Populist Party Chairman Marion Butler of North Carolina obtained his law degree from the University of North Carolina while serving in the U.S. Senate?
Did you know that at the 2008 Great Brook Run, English politician David Cameron ran through a muddy stream faster than a man dressed as Spider-Man?
Did you know that because of its aquatic origin and resemblance to the vulva, the shankha (carved examples pictured) is linked with female fertility and is an integral part of Tantric rites?
Did you know that fossilized remains of giant sea turtles have been found at an elevation of 7,696 feet (2,346 m) within Vega State Park in Colorado?
Did you know that in Cross v. United States, the United States Supreme Court established the principle that the Court of Claims could rehear Congressional reference cases?
Did you know that only one of the thirty-nine DART Light Rail stations in Greater Dallas, Texas, is located underground?
Did you know that the Democratic Association of Victoria, the first Australian socialist organisation founded in 1872, lasted only ten months?
Did you know that the Montserrat national football team has only won two matches in their history, both victories coming against Anguilla?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov served as the stand-in for the Potemkin during the filming of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin?
Did you know that the South American rice rat Oryzomys gorgasi is threatened by competition with the Black Rat?
Did you know that the neo-romantic Chłopomania movement based in Young Poland's fascination with folk culture inspired Polish playwright Stanisław Wyspiański to marry a peasant wife in 1900?
Did you know that Joseph K. Yamagiwa was a Research Bombing Analyst for the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey which took place in Washington D.C. and Tokyo?
Did you know that Pro Bowl guard Jahri Evans attended Bloomsburg University not on an athletic scholarship, but rather an academic scholarship?
Did you know that Quality Bicycle Products is the largest distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in the bicycle industry, with revenues of $150 million in 2008?
Did you know that according to a BBC Radio 2 poll, The Gruffalo, which was adapted into a film in 2009, is the UK's favourite bedtime story?
Did you know that anti-nuclear activist Ole Kopreitan is known for spreading leaflets and selling campaign buttons from a cart in Norway's main street, Karl Johans gate?
Did you know that because of his race, U.S. President Barack Obama has been the subject of multiple assassination threats and alleged plots?
Did you know that besides mechanical failures, fuel leaks and collisions, the passenger liner SS Iberia also suffered multiple fires and blackouts, and twice grounded in the Suez Canal, before she was finally decommissioned in 1972?
Did you know that during the Italian occupation Tefik Mborja was, as General Secretary of the Albanian Fascist Party, included in the Albanian cabinet as an ex-officio member?
Did you know that in A Letter to Lord Ellenborough, Percy Bysshe Shelley made an argument for tolerance of all published opinion, even when false?
Did you know that in the 1946 French legislative election the incumbent parliamentarian from French India, Deiva Zivarattinam, received only 18 votes?
Did you know that one way that winemakers determine physiological ripeness of some grape varieties is by watching the change in the stems from flexible and green to hard and brown?
Did you know that the High Court of Singapore (Supreme Court Building pictured) is the sole court in Singapore exercising original criminal jurisdiction that may impose the death penalty?
Did you know that the Jewel Box in St. Louis, Missouri, is a greenhouse but doesn't have a glass roof because of frequent hailstorms?
Did you know that the Mary Rose was a Tudor period warship that sank during the Battle of the Solent in 1545 and was salvaged by maritime archaeologists 437 years later?
Did you know that the Ottonian jewelled Cross of Lothair of about 1000 AD has at its centre an ancient Roman cameo of the Emperor Augustus?
Did you know that the Persian cat breed has won the CFA International Cat Show's  "Best of Show" a record ten times as of 2009?
Did you know that the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW800 has begun core testing even though its only application, the Cessna Citation Columbus, has been canceled?
Did you know that the first child of European descent born along the Hudson River was born on Beeren Island near Albany, New York?
Did you know that the important Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Montana, in Guatemala, was a colony founded by the distant metropolis of Teotihuacan, in Mexico?
Did you know that the music of the Russian band Lesopoval is inspired by the six years its co-founder Mikhail Tanich spent in a Soviet labor camp?
Did you know that the video game Down in Flames is a simulation of dogfights between World War II fighters and feature such planes as P-47 Thunderbolt, PZL.23 Karaś and five variants of Messerschmitt Bf 109?
Did you know that the winemaking technique of ripasso involves adding the pomace of leftover grape skins from the fermentation of Amarone to Valpolicella to give the wine more body, color and flavor?
Did you know that while voicing the character of Doctor Octopus in the The Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Reaction", Peter MacNicol chose to base it on late actor Laird Cregar?
Did you know that Blanche Cave, in Australia's Naracoorte Caves National Park, used to exhibit an indigenous man's mummified remains, which were stolen in 1861 and never returned?
Did you know that Bryan Adams sang backing vocals on Glass Tiger's 1986 hit single "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)"?