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Did you know that Mount Jobe in Canada was renamed in honor of Mary Jobe Akeley to acknowledge her exploration efforts in the Rocky Mountains?
Did you know that St Caffo's Church, Llangaffo, Wales, commemorates St Caffo who was martyred in the area in the 6th century?
Did you know that Tu Holloway, while playing for the 2010–11 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team, recorded the first triple-double by a Xavier player since 2001?
Did you know that heavy fog meant that helicopters were unable to participate in rescue operations after a recent train wreck in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany?
Did you know that space policy concerns not only a country's civilian space program, but also its policy on both military use and commercial use of outer space?
Did you know that the AGR-14 ZAP rocket would have used flechettes to destroy anti-aircraft guns?
Did you know that the New Ulm Oil Company Service Station was supposed to be flanked by decorative windmills?
Did you know that the Pratt-Read LBE glider bomb was intended to be guided by television signals and radio control?
Did you know that the Tietê Bus Terminal in São Paulo, Brazil, is the largest bus terminal in Latin America and the second largest in the world?
Did you know that the beetle Caryobruchus gleditsiae is named after the legume Gleditsia triacanthos, although it lives exclusively on palms?
Did you know that the first church built on the site of St Deiniol's Church, Llanddaniel Fab, Wales, is said to have been established by St Deiniol Fab himself in 616?
Did you know that the parasitic flatworm Hymenolepis microstoma has stem cells in its neck region that generate new body segments in a process called strobilation?
Did you know that the radio station WGRQ began broadcasting in May 1986 but did not receive its broadcast license until November 1987?
Did you know that three decades before he served in the State Senate, W. Scott Heywood drilled the first oil well in the state of Louisiana?
Did you know that Ballard Bunder Gatehouse in Mumbai was obscured from view for more than 50 years until it was restored by the Indian Navy and made a maritime museum?
Did you know that British organometallic chemist Peter Maitlis coined the term metallomesogens for "metal complexes of organic ligands which exhibit liquid crystalline (mesomorphic) character"?
Did you know that Henry Fonda took singing lessons to prepare to be the male lead in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, but said that even so, he "couldn't sing for shit"?
Did you know that Jerry Nemer was the first Jew to captain a major athletic team at the University of Southern California?
Did you know that John H. Eastman, the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1910 to 1914, made his living as a tinsmith?
Did you know that Petra, a sculpture of a urinating policewoman, received a German art award in 2011?
Did you know that St Michael the Archangel's Church, located near Booton in Norfolk, is often known as the "Cathedral of the Fields"?
Did you know that Sussex cricket captain Herbert Whitfield also played international football for England?
Did you know that Way Kambas National Park in Indonesia hosts a breeding centre for the critically endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros?
Did you know that according to Roman law, counterfeiters were to be thrown to wild beasts?
Did you know that block cellular automata, invented by Norman Margolus, can be used to simulate lattice gases, sand piles, and billiard-ball computers?
Did you know that during World War II, the Legaliteti sought the return of King Zog to the throne of Albania?
Did you know that father and son producers Thomas and David Frost have both been presented Grammy Awards for  Classical Producer of the Year?
Did you know that in 1887, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume outsold Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet worldwide?
Did you know that in Australia, the only initiative to introduce community forestry, within the internationally understood context, is in the Wombat State Forest?
Did you know that merchant Lester S. Willson and his wife entertained members of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition in their home on the evening before the expedition left to explore Yellowstone?
Did you know that nearly half a century after the assassination of Huey Long, the Louisiana physician Edgar Hull disputed a longstanding claim that Long had received inferior medical treatment following the fatal shooting?
Did you know that the 15th-century church of St Twrog, Bodwrog, Wales, has some bull's head decorations, showing its link with a prominent local family of that time?
Did you know that the Allenton hippopotamus was discovered in England in 1895 and is now in Derby Museum?
Did you know that the Friends of Five Creeks helps restore creeks in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay including daylighting Marin Creek?
Did you know that the Hubble Bubble was a mysterious Local Void sphere, centered on Earth, predicted from redshift velocities of Type Ia Supernovae (pictured at lower left of NGC 4526)?
Did you know that the spring-loving centaury and other rare plants at the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge are declining because of groundwater pumping?
Did you know that Bohuslav Martinů's Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra was first performed in the United Kingdom by oboist Evelyn Rothwell at The Proms?
Did you know that British manufacturers refused to enter the first Grand Prix (winner Ferenc Szisz pictured) because they suspected the French organisers were using it as propaganda for their automobile industry?
Did you know that Christine Weidinger returned to the Metropolitan Opera after 16 years to appear as Semiramis, the title role of Rossini's Semiramide?
Did you know that Cuban songwriter Emilio Estefan earned the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year the same year he was named Person of the Year by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences?
Did you know that Elizabeth W. Champney, author of the "Three Vassar Girls" series, married her former drawing instructor when he happened to pass through her hometown?
Did you know that England international footballer and twice FA Cup winner Harry Goodhart became Professor of Humanities at the University of Edinburgh?
Did you know that Gary Fanelli, who represented American Samoa in the marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics, has competed in various costumes including Elwood Blues, a Ghostbusters ghost, and Michael Jackson?
Did you know that LifeSpring Hospitals, an Indian hospital chain that provides care to low income patients in Hyderabad, was the first health care company to join the UN's Business Call to Action?
Did you know that U Dhammaloka was an Irish hobo who became one of the first known western Buddhist monks and was twice tried for sedition?
Did you know that Zamfir Arbore went from being a figure in Russian anarchism and a close associate of Mikhail Bakunin to serving two terms in the Senate of Romania?
Did you know that a photograph of Private John Hines with the German money and equipment he had looted during the Battle of Polygon Wood in 1917 is one of the best known Australian images of World War I?
Did you know that after suffering the loss of the use of an arm, Augustus Wade Dwight returned to lead his regiment, only to die in the Battle of Fort Stedman?
Did you know that although Arley Hall, Cheshire, was in Jacobean style, its owner decided that its chapel should be in Gothic style?
Did you know that children's writer Will Scott, author of The Cherrys series, wrote 2,000 short stories for adults?
Did you know that humanist minuscule handwriting, invented in the fifteenth century in Italy, was based on Carolingian minuscule, which Renaissance humanists took to be ancient Roman?
Did you know that in 1967 Arkansas Republican chairman Odell Pollard reported that his state ranked second highest nationally in the percent of African Americans serving on draft boards?
Did you know that sea butterflies Limacina helicina and Limacina antarctica are keystone species of polar open seas?
Did you know that the Cameroon line of volcanoes is 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long, and includes Mount Oku, the second highest mountain in Cameroon?
Did you know that the Fringe episode title "Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?" refers to a novel that was later adapted into the film Blade Runner?
Did you know that the Government of Hong Kong invoked the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance for the fourth time in history to protect Ho Tung Gardens?
Did you know that the Rich Representation Language includes commands for displaying a wide range of emotions in the faces of animated characters?
Did you know that the United States Air Force enlisted Tarzon to destroy North Korean bridges?
Did you know that the city of Huejotzingo, Mexico, celebrates Carnival with four battalions of residents firing wooden muskets at each other?
Did you know that the monster costume in the Roger Corman-produced horror film Night of the Blood Beast is the same one used in the film Teenage Cave Man?
Did you know that the sacred wild-olive Olea oleaster of Olympia, not the cultivated olive, was used for the olive wreaths that crowned ancient Olympic winners?
Did you know that unlike most other churches in the Welsh county of Anglesey, St Ffinan's Church was built in Romanesque revival style?
Did you know that with the use of the captured merchant vessels MV Izumi and MV York as motherships, Somali pirates introduced a new strategy that has been said to be "game-changing"?
Did you know that Algernon Sidney Badger, a public official in New Orleans during and after Reconstruction, was named a Union Army colonel for "meritorious service" at the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay?
Did you know that Anatolius, a 6th-century Byzantine official accused of being a crypto-pagan, was tortured, thrown to the "wild beasts" of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, and then crucified?
Did you know that Fringe's executive producers compared the episode "Marionette" to a Rip Van Winkle experience?
Did you know that George Frideric Handel wrote Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate for the celebration of the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, to English words?
Did you know that Google's Art Project features digital versions of 17 pieces of artwork (including Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, pictured) at a resolution of 7 gigapixels?
Did you know that Guatemalan Roberto González Goyri, who was awarded the Order of the Quetzal, illustrated a children's book in Cubist style?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez's 2011 comeback, "On the Floor", samples Kaoma's 1989 hit single "Lambada" but fellow latin artist Kat DeLuna felt it was similar to her own 2010 single "Party O'Clock"?
Did you know that Leonid Brezhnev's legacy was described by Mikhail Gorbachev as "an Era of Stagnation"?
Did you know that Lysgårdsbakken, the ski jumping hill for the 1994 Winter Olympics, has become the 11th-most visited tourist attraction in Norway?
Did you know that Marojejy National Park contains the last remaining mountain scrub in Madagascar to be unaltered by fire?
Did you know that New Georgia, Liberia, was established by Africans "recaptured" from a slave ship and held for seven years in Georgia waiting for courts to decide their fate?
Did you know that Pontyclun railway station, previously called Llantrisant, was originally two separate railway stations that were later merged into one?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón received a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album for her album Sobrevivir?
Did you know that both Interstate 81 and U.S. Route 11 in West Virginia roughly follow the Warrior Path, an old Indian trail through the Eastern Panhandle region?
Did you know that in addition to being named an All-American in both football and basketball at the University of Oklahoma, Tom Churchill finished fifth in the decathlon at the 1928 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that pioneer aviator Léon Lemartin set a world record when he carried seven passengers in a Blériot XIII Aerobus?
Did you know that the MXR Dyna Comp, a guitar effect, is favored especially by Nashville guitar players and other chicken pickers?
Did you know that the Reverend Richard Boys was responsible for the moral upkeep of Hudson Lowe and his men who guarded Napoleon I during the exile on Saint Helena?
Did you know that the Sewell Ministry, led by Henry Sewell, was the first responsible government of New Zealand?
Did you know that the Zliten mosaic (portion pictured) is an ancient Roman floor mosaic from about the 2nd century AD that depicts gladiators and scenes from ordinary life?
Did you know that the anonymous Greek author of Hellenic Nomarchy, written in 1806, dedicates his work to the activist Rigas Feraios?
Did you know that the song "Mr. Malcontent" on the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album Mainstream is based on the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette?
Did you know that while performing in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet, actress Joan McCracken got pregnant, lost her child to a miscarriage, and lost her husband, Bob Fosse, to another woman?
Did you know that Alpha Road in Dallas is named for the former freedmen's town of Alpha, Texas?
Did you know that Cherokees were recruited into Thomas' Legion to fight for the South in the American Civil War by William Holland Thomas, the only white chief of the Cherokees?
Did you know that Dublin's former Kildare Street Club is adorned by whimsical beasts, such as monkeys playing billiards?
Did you know that John F. Kennedy's early-morning speech from the balcony of the Elton Hotel in Waterbury, Connecticut, was credited with helping him win the state in 1960?
Did you know that MacHomer, a one-person play blending William Shakespeare's Macbeth with The Simpsons, was conceived by Rick Miller in 1994 while he was playing the minor role of Murderer No. 2 in a production of MacBeth?
Did you know that Olga Novikova of Kazakhstan won four gold medals, winning every women's event in ski orienteering, at the 2011 Asian Winter Games?
Did you know that Vetka, (church in town pictured) on the Sozh River, in Belarus, is located in an area which was highly radioactive due to the nuclear fallout of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986?
Did you know that Vikingskipet sports venue, built for the 1994 Winter Olympics, has hosted world championships in speed skating, bandy, speedway and track cycling?
Did you know that a dying parishioner paid for architect Robert North to travel so that his design for St. James' Episcopal Church in Batavia, New York, would reflect "the quiet spirit of the English countryside"?
Did you know that a mural outside Mama Ayesha's Restaurant, featuring 11 U.S. Presidents, was chosen by Washington City Paper as the second-best mural in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that an aborted family picnic was a major contributing factor that drove Harry Lonsdale to found his company, Bend Research, in Oregon instead of California?
Did you know that fish ladders are constructed so that salmon can navigate past hydroelectric dams on their way to spawn?
Did you know that in the tower of St Nicholas' Church, Buckenham, Norfolk, is a dovecote lined with brick nesting boxes?
Did you know that it has been estimated that 8.5 million Japanese civilians were displaced from their homes as a result of the air raids on Japan during World War II?
Did you know that since the discontinuation of commuter rail in Cleveland, Ohio, there have been at least three proposals for restoring service, but none have progressed beyond studies?
Did you know that the 2007 independent feature film Dreamscape was expanded from 63 minutes to 86 minutes based upon a suggestion from reviewer M. J. Simpson?
Did you know that the Irk Bitig (Book of Omens) is the only known complete manuscript text written in the Old Turkic script?
Did you know that the Museo Regional de Arqueología in La Democracia, Guatemala, was founded to house artefacts collected from the local cotton plantations?
Did you know that the St Albans by-election in 1904 was triggered by the sale to the Admiralty of two battleships which had been built for the Chilean Navy?
Did you know that the economy and art of Urartu (example pictured) flourished in the 8th century BC only to decline a century later?
Did you know that the extinct crocodile Rimasuchus often preyed on large mammals, including early humans?
Did you know that the grant allowing the Potomac Curling Club to open its home in 2002 became the subject of an attack ad in Maryland?
Did you know that there have been reports of ghosts, and of activity by satanists, in St Botolph's Church, Skidbrooke, Lincolnshire?
Did you know that until the late 1970s, the hybrid grape Baco Blanc was the primary grape behind the French brandy of Armagnac?
Did you know that A Teaspoon Every Four Hours, a play co-written by Jackie Mason, set a Broadway theatre record which may be broken next month by Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark?
Did you know that Charles Lever wrote of the demise of Daly's Club, Dublin: "nothing in history equals it – except, perhaps, the entrance of the French army into Moscow"?
Did you know that Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch, in his history of the church published in 1762–1785, claimed there is a place in the church for heretics?
Did you know that Clare Taylor represented England in the World Cup at both football and cricket?
Did you know that Louis Leithold, an AP calculus "legend", came out of retirement at age 72 to "relentlessly" drill high school students in calculus?
Did you know that Pornographic Apathetic by film director T. Arthur Cottam was featured at film festivals in South Korea and France, and at an art exhibit in Vienna?
Did you know that The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is the 2011 winner of the Mathematical Association of America's Euler Book Prize?
Did you know that William Wadé Harris baptized over 100,000 converts in an eighteen-month period in West Africa?
Did you know that because Leonid Brezhnev had more than 200 decorations, it was decided to break the Soviet custom of featuring only one decoration on cushions during his funeral?
Did you know that despite telling a reporter in 1997 that he would "never" reunite with The Cars, singer Ric Ocasek relented in 2010 to record Move Like This, the band's first studio album in 23 years?
Did you know that funds for the Betty's Hope (wind mill pictured) restoration project were raised by organising a concert called "A Penny Concert"?
Did you know that in the Welsh folk tale of Y Ladi Wen, the "white lady" ghost purportedly guarded the treasure of Ogmore Castle?
Did you know that local opposition to Fred Wilson's public artwork E Pluribus Unum may cause sponsors to cancel its installation in Indianapolis?
Did you know that singer Cee Lo Green appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform "Bright Lights, Bigger City", the third single from his album The Lady Killer, backed by an all-female band?
Did you know that the British Army used sugar houses in New York City to hold prisoners during the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Dalassenos came twice close to ascending the throne and marrying the porphyrogenita Zoe, but was rejected in favour of less independent-minded candidates?
Did you know that the Hindu deity Ardhanarishvara is depicted with the right half as male, sometimes with an erect penis, and the left half as female with a well-developed breast?
Did you know that the JB-4 missile was guided via television?
Did you know that the PAD emotional state model uses three numerical dimensions to represent all emotions?
Did you know that the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resulted from the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act?
Did you know that the first Native American land claim lawsuit to be filed federally and the first one to be successful arose from aboriginal title in New York?
Did you know that when Amraal Lambert, Captain of the Kaiǀkhauan in South-West Africa, moved from Leonardville to ǂKoabes, he could not pronounce the Nama name of the settlement and changed it to Gobabis?
Did you know that when confused with Mathew Montagu, the taller Montague Mathew claimed "there was as great a difference between them as between a horse chesnut  [sic] and a chesnut horse"?
Did you know that Aslie Pitter, founder of Stonewall F.C., Britain's first and most successful gay football club, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work fighting homophobia in London?
Did you know that Bill Bowerman, a coach for the Oregon Ducks track and field team, created the first Nike prototype shoe by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron?
Did you know that British-born architect Patrick Horsbrugh was active in the British Army, Royal Air Force, and the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II?
Did you know that Ch. Obo II is considered to be the father of the modern American Cocker Spaniel?
Did you know that Dani Siciliano wanted her cover of Nirvana's "Come as You Are", from her album Likes..., to have the feel of a jazz standard?
Did you know that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts?
Did you know that Krishan Kumar's 2003 book, The Making of English National Identity, was described by Bernard Crick as "the deepest and best reflection so far by a fine sociologist and an intellectual historian"?
Did you know that Romy Rosemont, known for her portrayal of Carole Hudson in Glee, was due to appear alongside her husband, Stephen Root, in Red State, but had to withdraw due to scheduling difficulties?
Did you know that Winston Churchill, after being driven down the Niagara Parkway, described it as "the prettiest Sunday afternoon drive in the world"?
Did you know that crime writer Dick Francis was a notable figure in Welsh horse racing, becoming British Champion Jockey in 1954?
Did you know that despite being of Kurdish origins, Syrian writer Salim Barakat is considered one of the most innovative poets and novelists writing in the Arabic language?
Did you know that extinct diadectid reptiliomorphs (life restoration pictured) were the first large herbivorous land animals?
Did you know that in Michael Carr's successful by-election campaign, he issued a leaflet mentioning 26 times that he was local to the constituency?
Did you know that more than 100,000 spectators saw Norway lose the men's 4 x 10 km cross-country relay by 0.4 seconds to Italy at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium during the 1994 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that on the first ride of the first internal combustion motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen, the seat caught fire?
Did you know that the Bakossi people of the Mungo River in Cameroon have a legend that their ancestor Ngoe built an ark to save his family and many animals from a great flood?
Did you know that the Cursinu, a Corsican dog breed, is used for hunting boars, foxes and hares?
Did you know that the French socialist parliamentarian Ernest Lafont was expelled from Soviet Russia on the orders of Leon Trotsky?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "See No Evil" features a suspected police shooting, which was based on a real-life investigation from a book by David Simon?
Did you know that the canine actor Sykes starred in the award winning television advertisement "Every Home Needs a Harvey", viewed over a million times on YouTube?
Did you know that the result of the Congress of Gela, a peace conference in Sicily in 424 BC, has been compared to the Monroe Doctrine?
Did you know that the single horn of the mythical rhinoceros-like Karkadann was said to cure epilepsy and open the bowels, while its tears were claimed to solidify into prayer beads that are still used in Iraq?
Did you know that the three-story Grand Hotel of New Ulm, Minnesota still shows the signs of when it was a two-story building?
Did you know that British soap opera Hollyoaks introduced fictional killer Silas Blissett to raise awareness of Internet safety?
Did you know that Charles Blackader survived three years on the Western Front in the First World War, only to be invalided home after being licked by a rabid dog?
Did you know that French author Jeanne Galzy, largely forgotten today, wrote novels dealing with lesbian love and desire?