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Did you know that George Gershwin selected tap dance innovator John W. Bubbles to play a major role in his opera Porgy and Bess, even though he did not read music?
Did you know that after actor Philip Loeb committed suicide, an article in the New York Times noting his passing commented that "He died of a sickness commonly called 'the blacklist'."?
Did you know that panel painting was the primary painting medium used in the West, from about the 13th to the 16th century, before canvas and oil paint became the norm?
Did you know that the only effective way to manage the bacterial plant disease citrus canker is to destroy all infected citrus trees?
Did you know that Carolingian art permitted the drawing of human figures during the Iconoclasm controversy of the 9th century?
Did you know that Constable Stephen Tibble had been in the Metropolitan Police Force of Greater London for six months before he was killed by an IRA gunman?
Did you know that five teams in cricket's 2005 ICC Trophy will be granted official one-day international status for the next four years?
Did you know that in the 1850s, El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea, Senegal, and Mali?
Did you know that Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne was the only British artillerist to command an army in World War I?
Did you know that soap opera actor Cameron Mathison suffered from Perthes disease as a child, requiring him to wear leg braces for nearly four years?
Did you know that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency supported the Chushi Gangdruk guerilla fighters in their attempts to overthrow the Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s?
Did you know that the main work of the Swedish painter Ernst Josephson, Strömkarlen (the Nix), was refused by the Swedish Nationalmuseum in 1884, and later bought by Prince Eugén, the youngest son of king Oscar II?
Did you know that Cyrus K. Holliday was a founder of the city of Topeka, Kansas, as well as the first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad?
Did you know that Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeated Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina in 1240, securing the future of the Mali Empire?
Did you know that according to Scientology doctrine, the inhabitants of the alien Marcab Confederacy liked to race high-speed automobiles on tracks booby-trapped with atom bombs?
Did you know that shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics through their wastewater?
Did you know that the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight contains the world's oldest airworthy survivor of the Battle of Britain, alongside ten other historic aircraft - two of which fought over Normandy on D-Day?
Did you know that the Indian Meteorological Department was set up as a result of a tropical cyclone that hit Calcutta in 1864, and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to failing monsoons?
Did you know that the Olympic Javelin is a high-speed rail service announced as part of the public transport regeneration of London in readiness for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the Plan of Saint Gall is the only surviving architectual drawing from the 700-year period between the fall of Rome and the 13th century, and is a national treasure of Switzerland?
Did you know that Watson's Hotel is India's oldest cast iron building and is among the "100 Most Endangered Sites"?
Did you know that many of the scenes Louisa May Alcott depicts in her book Little Women took place when her family was living in The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts?
Did you know that measuring the levels of certain enzymes called transaminases can help to diagnose some liver diseases?
Did you know that the French battleship France sank after hitting an uncharted rock during a patrol of Quiberon Bay on August 26, 1922?
Did you know that Barbara Cassani founded the budget airline Go Fly before becoming the initial leader of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Ferrellgas, the largest propane retail distributor in the United States, started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas?
Did you know that William Dudley Chipley first brought rail lines to Pensacola, Florida, connecting the Atlantic coast of Florida with other Gulf Coast states for the first time?
Did you know that the genetically modified plum C5 is the only Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease plum pox?
Did you know that Huchoun was one of the earliest Scottish poets and wrote a number of important alliterative verse romances in the early 14th century?
Did you know that London Pride is a garden flower symbolic of ordinary Londoners' resilience under attack?
Did you know that Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I?
Did you know that Malian fashion designer Chris Seydou pioneered the use of bògòlanfini, a traditional Bamana mudcloth, in international fashion?
Did you know that the Indian Railways Fan Club is the Internet's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent?
Did you know that the Tarot of Marseilles is the source of most contemporary designs of tarot cards?
Did you know that the bite of the hematophagous assassin bug, which causes the rare South American parasitic infection known as Chagas disease, could have been the reason behind Charles Darwin's illness?
Did you know that Chingay Parade in Singapore, a display of floats, music and dances, is a major festival in Asia attended by more than 200,000 people and watched by millions on TV across Asia?
Did you know that Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
Did you know that Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss, Georgetown University economics professor, coined the term "petrodollars" to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973?
Did you know that Ronald Bass, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Rain Man, taught himself to read by the age of three?
Did you know that foxtail millet has the longest history of cultivation among the millets, having been grown in China since between three and four thousand years ago?
Did you know that like many desert rodents, kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get water from their food?
Did you know that research on U.S. compulsory sterilization legislation by American eugenicist E.S. Gosney was cited by officials in Nazi Germany as the basis of their own forced sterilization policy?
Did you know that tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of marketing, along with alcohol, and is banned in many countries?
Did you know that Argentine painter Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol (right), was adopted at the age of 6 from an orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on March 21, 1890?
Did you know that the Gwenn ha du organisation made a bomb out of a condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in Rennes?
Did you know that the composer Johannes Brahms premiered his Academic Festival Overture, a musical fantasy based on several student drinking songs, at the University of Breslau's convocation to thank the institution for granting him an honorary doctorate?
Did you know that "Jive Talkin'" is considered to be the "comeback" song for the Bee Gees, after an absence of three years from the Top 40 charts?
Did you know that King Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and Sharif of Mecca in 1924, only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the House of Saud?
Did you know that the Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the International Cricket Council until 1993, despite having played first-class cricket matches since 1902, including games against Scotland, Australia and New Zealand?
Did you know that First Monday was a U.S. television program about a moderate U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed to a court evenly divided between conservatives and liberals?
Did you know that legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?
Did you know that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?
Did you know that khash is a traditional Armenian dish from the Shirak region which has cow's feet as its main ingredient?
Did you know that the Swedish Bikini Team, an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women?
Did you know that the first known classical fiction in Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in Chinese characters?
Did you know that The Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?
Did you know that Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time due to a legal fiction in English law?
Did you know that businessman Ginery Twichell started in stage lines before transitioning to railroads and three terms in the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that the Wallkill River is one of the few rivers that drains into a creek, because it is impounded just before the confluence?
Did you know that California Certified Organic Farmers was one of the first U.S. based organizations to certify organic farmers?
Did you know that Yogi Rock is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head?
Did you know that the St'at'imcets language, an endangered language of British Columbia, is similar to Semitic languages in that it also has pharyngeal consonants?
Did you know that Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with shipping, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
Did you know that NASA, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the "virtual globe"?
Did you know that the Super Buddies, a team of DC Comics superheroes, were a comedic Justice League offshoot who first appeared in the Eisner Award-winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League?
Did you know that the poems of Richard Dehmel were set to music by composers like Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Arnold Schönberg and Kurt Weill, or inspired them to write music?
Did you know that Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to board the Underground shortly before the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
Did you know that adjustable gastric banding is a form of weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the digestive system?
Did you know that the Peul preacher and social reformer Seku Amadu led a jihad against the Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century West Africa to found his own theocratic Massina Empire?
Did you know that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN?
Did you know that the soleus muscle is a leg muscle important for standing, walking, and running?
Did you know that Bitòn Coulibaly transformed a Ségou youth organisation into an army that he used to found the eighteenth-century Bambara Empire?
Did you know that Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910-1912?
Did you know that Internet entrepreneur Pete Ashdown is running against incumbent Orrin Hatch for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Utah?
Did you know that Johnny Rodgers was voted the University of Nebraska's college football "Player of the Century"  and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?
Did you know that children's book The Gruffalo was made into a play and was performed at the National Theater and on Broadway?
Did you know that the Russian musical group Terem Quartet performs classical works on folk instruments in a humorous, virtuosic style?
Did you know that the Teller-Ulam design is considered "the secret of the hydrogen bomb"?
Did you know that the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s?
Did you know that the powerful ancient Egyptian courtier Yuya is thought by some scholars to have been the historical Joseph of Genesis?
Did you know that Country-comedian and Hee Haw star Archie Campbell's childhood home has been preserved as a "tourism complex and museum" in Bulls Gap, Tennessee?
Did you know that 1980's Rescue at Rigel by Epyx was one of the first science fiction computer role-playing games?
Did you know that Andy Ducat suffered a heart attack and died whilst playing in a wartime cricket match and is the only person to have died during a cricket match on the Lord's Cricket Ground?
Did you know that California's current State Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman ran for State Attorney General in 2002?
Did you know that Department S was an ITC Entertainment production which not only led to a successful spin-off, Jason King, but was also a large source of inspiration for Austin Powers?
Did you know that Frank Ryan earned a Ph.D. in mathematics while playing quarterback for the Cleveland Browns?
Did you know that patients with acrocyanosis have dark or bluish hands and feet but are otherwise normal?
Did you know that the BBC1 sitcom Grace & Favour was the sequel series to the long-running programme Are You Being Served?
Did you know that the Carte Orange is a pass for the public transportation system in Paris and the surrounding region?
Did you know that the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College is a rabbinical seminary established by Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist Judaism movement?
Did you know that the Tatara Bridge in Japan has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge in the world?
Did you know that California State Senator Abel Maldonado ran for election to the Santa Maria City Council in 1994 after being involved in a building dispute?
Did you know that misdirected letters are a common plot twist in the 19th century genre of theatre called the Well-Made Play?
Did you know that the Dakar-Niger Railway was the site of a 1947 strike celebrated by author Ousmane Sembène as a turning point in West Africa's anti-colonial struggle?
Did you know that the Mokola virus is a relative of the rabies virus and was first isolated in tree shrews?
Did you know that there have only been two tied Tests in the 128 years of Test cricket, both involving the Australian cricket team?
Did you know that Alexander Selkirk was travelling on the British galleon Cinque Ports when he was abandoned on the uninhabited Pacific island of Juan Fernández in 1704 and that his tale inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe?
Did you know that Augustiner Bräu is Munich's only German-owned brewery?
Did you know that John Dryden created the genre of heroic drama as a way of reconciling plays with epic poetry?
Did you know that Marn Grook is the name of ball game played by Australian Aborginals which is thought to be the basis for the modern game of Australian Rules Football?
Did you know that Suudu is a culture-specific syndrome of painful urination and pelvic "heat" familiar in south India, especially in the Tamil culture?
Did you know that Toktogul Satilganov was the most famous of the Kyrgyz Akyn storytellers?
Did you know that despite apparently predicting that future naval warfare would rely on boarding actions, Kipling's satirical poem The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", was taken seriously when published in 1892?
Did you know that superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse and can lead to twins with different fathers?
Did you know that the Ampelmännchen (German: little men on the traffic signal) of East Germany had a confident stride, thought to evoke enthusiasm in moving toward an ideal socialist future?
Did you know that there are at least 60 different human and alien technologies in the fictional Stargate universe?
Did you know that Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit?
Did you know that alcohol advertising is heavily restricted in some countries to avoid associating the drinking of alcoholic beverages with sexual success and physical attractiveness?
Did you know that all of the publishing royalties the Bee Gees' song "Too Much Heaven" earned went to UNICEF?
Did you know that during a flood in 1937, Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby?
Did you know that the German prisoners of war built part of the Stade de Gerland stadium in Lyon, France, after the First World War?
Did you know that the Houston Ballet has one of the largest endowments of any dance company in the U.S.?
Did you know that the opera King Arthur is unusual because the principal characters do not sing, rather they recite dialogue accompanied by music?
Did you know that the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas?
Did you know that American Wimbledon champion Alice Marble was shot in the back while working as a spy in Switzerland during  World War II?
Did you know that Hertfordshire puddingstone is a conglomerate rock named after its resemblance to Christmas pudding?
Did you know that Johnson composed music for some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, including Perumthachan and movies directed by Padmarajan?
Did you know that Nashville radio station WWTN launched the career of the nationally-syndicated financial advisor Dave Ramsey?
Did you know that Republican California State Assemblyman Van Tran is the first Vietnamese-American to serve in a state legislature in U.S. history?
Did you know that Wayne McLaren, an American model who portrayed the Marlboro Man in the famous cigarette advertising campaign, died of lung cancer?
Did you know that the American's Creed was written in 1917 as an entry into a patriotic contest, and was adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives the next year?
Did you know that the Australian Giant burrowing frog does not croak, but rather hoots like an owl?
Did you know that Maurine Brown Neuberger was the third woman elected to the U.S. Senate and that as a U.S. Senator she sponsored one of the first bills to require warning labels on cigarette packaging?
Did you know that Republican California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore wrote a book that was banned in the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that Ronald E. Neumann the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan is the first ambassador since John Q. Adams in 1817 to be appointed to the same country where his father was also ambassador?
Did you know that comic-book writer Stan Lee, novelist/historian Winston Groom, and district attorney Jim Garrison have all been victims of Hollywood accounting?
Did you know that the "Victory Tests" were a series of cricket matches between a team of  Australian servicemen and an English national side played just two weeks after World War II ended?
Did you know that the 1985 comedy film Head Office has established stars such as Danny DeVito starring in roles that are little more than bit parts?
Did you know that the Revolt of the Comuneros, an uprising against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is considered by some to be the first modern revolution?
Did you know that the height of clouds is measured using a ceiling balloon?
Did you know that Saint Anthony's nut, popular with pigs as well as humans, is named for Anthony of Padua, patron saint of swineherds?
Did you know that at the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532 the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Pizarro's conquistadors and that the battle was a decisive victory in the Spanish conquest of Peru?
Did you know that famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine?
Did you know that in response to the 1852 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, writers in the Southern United States produced a body of anti-Tom literature which attempted to show that slavery was not evil?
Did you know that Mantle Hood was an ethnomusicologist known for the idea that students should learn to play the music from the cultures they study?
Did you know that attempts have been made to produce rubber from Common Milkweed latex?
Did you know that chuño is a freeze-dried potato product made since before the time of the Inca empire by a five-day process of alternately freezing, sun-drying, and trampling under foot?
Did you know that the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 was seen as formally demonstrating Australia's independence to the world?
Did you know that Vote-OK, a pro-fox hunting group, claimed to have helped defeat 29 Members of Parliament at the 2005 British general election?
Did you know that an industrial process for making instant mashed potatoes was patented in 1912?
Did you know that the Liga Indonesia is the top football league in Indonesia ?
Did you know that the Thunderdome, the home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the University of California, Santa Barbara, is famous for a tortilla-throwing incident in a men's basketball game televised on ESPN?
Did you know that the United States Army managed Yellowstone National Park for 32 years from Fort Yellowstone?
Did you know that 1999's Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom was the first commercial Scooby-Doo computer game for the Windows platform?
Did you know that Iowa's Black Hawk Purchase is named for the Sac chief Black Hawk, despite that fact that he was in prison when the land-transfer treaty was signed?
Did you know that Margaret Roper, daughter of Thomas More, purchased his head after his execution and preserved it in spices until her own death?
Did you know that Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is estimated to have lost tens of millions of U.S. dollars gambling in casinos?
Did you know that oakmoss is a type of lichen used extensively in modern perfumery?
Did you know that the Capitoline Museums are housed in a complex of palazzi surrounding a piazza in Rome, designed by Michelangelo in 1536 but not fully completed until Mussolini ordered it in 1940?
Did you know that the Saskatchewan town of Macklin erected a 32-foot-high statue of a horse's anklebone to commemorate the sport of Bunnock?
Did you know that the recent massive flooding in Mumbai could have been avoided if the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had upgraded the city's drainage system by building the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal System?
Did you know that John Brown's Fort in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was built there in 1848, moved to Chicago in 1891, and then returned to its original site in 1968?
Did you know that Peter de Noronha was the first Indian to become an envoy of the Legion of Mary and was later knighted by Pope Paul VI?
Did you know that Silvio O. Conte was a U.S. Congressman who once donned a pig mask in order to protest pork barrel spending?
Did you know that the Kittlitz's Murrelet nests in isolated locations on inland mountaintops, unlike most other seabirds, which nest in seashore colonies?
Did you know that Andrew Ellicott taught Meriwether Lewis the art of surveying?
Did you know that Juan Esteban Pedernera was interim President of Argentina in 1861, following the death of Santiago Derqui?
Did you know that Plumpy'nut is a peanut-based food supplement that is being used to combat malnutrition in Niger?
Did you know that the Baltusrol Golf Club, the golf course that is the site of this week's PGA Championship, is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for its managing of its lands with concern to the environment?
Did you know that DC Comics sued Fawcett Comics in 1941 over Fawcett's Captain Marvel being a Superman rip-off, and the resulting National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications lawsuit took thirteen years to settle?
Did you know that Liberia is the only nation in the history of West Africa never to have been colonised?