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Did you know that Xi, a console-based alternate reality game, involved the users in searching for clues in the real world?
Did you know that although it was mocked by Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) as the "Congress for Defectors", Jagjivan Ram's Congress for Democracy helped the opposition Janata Party win the 1977 election?
Did you know that as Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Wayne L. Horvitz played a major role in negotiating labor disputes ranging from coal strikes to musicians at the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that astronomer Rolf Brahde provided commentary for the 1969 moon landing on Norwegian television?
Did you know that defunct Christian radio station KPBA was owned by former National Football League tight end Jackie Harris?
Did you know that lutetium tantalate (LuTaO4) (crystal structure pictured) is the densest known stable white material and is therefore an ideal material for X-ray phosphors?
Did you know that members of a thief network, named "Pink Panthers" by Interpol, have stolen millions of dollars worth of jewels by driving limousines through a window, escaping on a speedboat and cross-dressing?
Did you know that the "Wizard of Oz" and "Iron Man" are just two of the four members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who have won Gold Glove Awards at shortstop?
Did you know that the 1953 Asian Socialist Conference held in Rangoon, was an important precursor to the 1955 Bandung Conference?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway" was inspired by an episode of the HBO documentary series Taxicab Confessions where a detective talked about a man who became pinned between a subway train and the platform?
Did you know that typical subjects for late medieval Andachtsbilder include the Pietà, Pensive Christ, Man of Sorrows and Arma Christi, and the Veil of Veronica?
Did you know that Benito Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland in 1902, only to be deported after becoming involved in the socialist movement?
Did you know that Canadian football cornerback Stanford Samuels recorded the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' only blocked punt of 2006?
Did you know that Edmonton Eskimos head coach Richie Hall is the first African-American head coach in Eskimos history?
Did you know that Ham Hill, a nature reserve managed by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, is one of only two confirmed sites in the county where Musk Orchid grows?
Did you know that Johannes Klingenberg Sejersted, who created a military defence plan for Norway somewhat before its 1814 independence declaration, drew experience from an 1808 campaign by Christian August of Augustenborg?
Did you know that Markus Howell, broke the 1,500 career yard mark in both kickoff and punt returns in 2008?
Did you know that Papuan King Parrots often go unnoticed because they feed quietly in dense forest?
Did you know that Samuel Sutton joined HMS Monarch as an able seaman in 1777, and twenty-one years later was commanding her as a flag captain?
Did you know that according to Edmonton Eskimos general manager Danny Maciocia, Canadian linebacker Mark Restelli "plays as if his hair is on fire"?
Did you know that actor Paul Scofield came out of retirement in 1998 in order to play the part of Hermes in the BBC radio play Troy?
Did you know that after recording two sacks against Winnipeg during the 2008 CFL season, Jonathan Brown passed Harold Hallman for most sacks in Toronto Argonauts team history?
Did you know that as GM of the Wenatchee Chiefs, Frank Dasso ran a 1953 promotion where fans could pay whatever they wanted for admission, with game profits exceeding those of any three games so far that season?
Did you know that gambling on papal elections has been documented since the 16th century, despite being punishable by excommunication?
Did you know that in 1992, the Naval Reserve of Canada created a reenactment group of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine, a colonial military force of New France?
Did you know that in the shuffle ensuing from the 1983 resignation of Yves Bérubé and two other Quebec ministers, four unelected people became ministers, the highest number since 1936?
Did you know that non-payment of papal income tax was punishable by excommunication?
Did you know that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of Kilauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
Did you know that since 2006, The World Hypertension League has assigned 17 May as World Hypertension Day?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Rhodocollybia have spores that are dextrinoid?
Did you know that the Artocarpeae, one of the five subdivisions of the mulberry family, is best known as the tribe that includes the breadfruit and the jackfruit, two widespread tropical crops?
Did you know that the loss of nine military crew members and passengers when Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria in 1974, remains the largest single-incident loss of life in Canadian peacekeeping history?
Did you know that the reredos installed in 1864 in the chapel of Jesus College, Oxford has been described variously as "handsome", "somewhat tawdry" and looking like "corned beef"?
Did you know that while robbing the countryside east of Toronto, members of the Markham Gang found a way to sell the same stolen horses over and over?
Did you know that Bob Dylan was heckled by fans while playing "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" during his controversial electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival?
Did you know that Canadian professional wrestler Billy Red Lyons won a tag team championship with his real-life brother-in-law, Dick Beyer?
Did you know that Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh had nearly no involvement in the video game based on their television series Phineas and Ferb?
Did you know that Frank J. Low, an infrared astronomy pioneer, used data from an infrared telescope flown on a Learjet to show that planets Jupiter and Saturn generate and emit internal energy into space?
Did you know that George McTurnan Kahin was expelled by Dutch authorities while conducting research in Indonesia for his dissertation on the country's struggle for independence?
Did you know that Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei's Dialogo from Italian into Latin?
Did you know that Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763–1920) was the first newspaper in Norway?
Did you know that Spanish poet and librettist Federico Romero was originally a mining engineer?
Did you know that architect Wilfrid Lacroix, designer of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, later became a member of the Canadian House of Commons?
Did you know that even after Germany lost its colonies during WWI, colonial postage stamps continued to be sold by the German post office?
Did you know that in 1739, the chiefs of Clan Macdonald of Sleat and Clan Macleod were involved in a scheme to kidnap their own clansfolk, transport them to the American Colonies, and sell them into slavery?
Did you know that in 2006, current Hamilton Tiger-Cats head coach Marcel Bellefeuille helped the Montreal Alouettes have the CFL's only two receivers with 1,000 receiving yards?
Did you know that medical doctor A.C. Steckle gained fame coaching the University of Nevada, a school with only 80 students, to a victory over the University of California football team?
Did you know that several popes of the Byzantine Papacy were forced to wait months for the approval of the Byzantine emperor before consecration?
Did you know that some 9,000 weddings a year are held in Queens Borough Hall in New York City, with Friday as the most popular day?
Did you know that the 11th century medieval tractate De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi is the first surviving detailed account of an English state-trial?
Did you know that the Edmonton Eskimos were reportedly looking to draft either Dimitri Tsoumpas, Samuel Giguère or Keith Shologan with the second pick in the 2008 CFL Draft, but after Shologan and Giguère signed with the NFL, the team traded the pick?
Did you know that the Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act names programs after Representatives Joe Moakley, who died of myelodysplastic syndrome, and Geraldine Ferraro, who has multiple myeloma?
Did you know that the extreme metal band Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky took their name from the 1989 text "Apocalypse" by William S. Burroughs?
Did you know that the false earthstar in the fungal family Astraeaceae can open and close its rays in response to changes in humidity?
Did you know that the flag of the Canadian territory of Nunavut features an inukshuk, a traditional Inuit monument that guides travelers and marks sacred sites?
Did you know that the house where Edvard Grieg grew up, located in the street Strandgaten, was destroyed when the steam trawler Voorbode exploded in 1944?
Did you know that the killers of Aladi Aruna, former Law Minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, were sentenced to death?
Did you know that while with the Edmonton Eskimos, Canadian football linebacker Tumbo Abanikanda was called "T. A." because his head coach couldn't pronounce his name?
Did you know that Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery in the Netherlands is the final resting place of three Victoria Cross recipients?
Did you know that Bob Dylan has stated that the Queen Jane, the subject of his 1965 song "Queen Jane Approximately", is a man?
Did you know that Bob Dylan's song "From a Buick 6" borrowed some lyrics from the 1930 Sleepy John Estes song "Milk Cow Blues"?
Did you know that Gay Bowel Syndrome, currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome?
Did you know that Jesse Lee Kercheval got the idea of Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris?
Did you know that ballerina Virginia Zucchi once performed an entire solo en pointe?
Did you know that conversation poems of Samuel Coleridge were inspired by many events: adulterous love, marriage sex, a French invasion, a bad childhood, depressed birds, a fever, burning his foot, and a better poet?
Did you know that following the Supreme Court's ruling on Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Coeur d'Alene Mines share prices increased by over five percent?
Did you know that former Gloucestershire cricket captain Sir Derrick Bailey founded an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father?
Did you know that in January 2009, Theodore Hoskins became the only Democratic chairman of a committee in the Missouri House of Representatives?
Did you know that it was speculated that J.K. Rowling based the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore on the "splendidly bearded" T.P. Wiseman, her classics professor at Exeter University?
Did you know that the Gold Stealing Detection Unit is the oldest specialist police service in Western Australia?
Did you know that the Late Classic Maya archaeological site of La Muerta, in northern Guatemala, is distinguished by its unusual subterranean labyrinth?
Did you know that the concept of headroom in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting?
Did you know that the core of the tribe Moreae (part of the mulberry family) are thought to have originated 59–79 million years ago in Laurasia, the northern supercontinent?
Did you know that the poet R. S. Thomas was rector of St Michael's Church, Manafon, in Powys, Wales, between 1942 and 1954?
Did you know that the velvet belly lantern shark has proteins in its liver that can detoxify heavy metals such as cadmium, copper, mercury, and zinc?
Did you know that while training to become a mountain guide, former Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby was killed in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc?
Did you know that Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin was the grandson of another admiral of the fleet, William Rowley?
Did you know that Irv Hall's 1,904 at bats without a home run from 1943 to 1946 places him second among batters since 1900 who never hit a home run during their Major League Baseball career?
Did you know that Red Dog, California, now a ghost town with only a cemetery remaining, was named by a 15 year old California gold rush prospector?
Did you know that Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu is a seventh-generation jurist?
Did you know that an East German, upon finding a deer shredded by the SM-70 antipersonnel mine, reported that the area "appeared as if it had been worked over by a rake"?
Did you know that both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were signed with pens dipped in the Syng inkstand?
Did you know that despite a large leak since its commissioning in 1992, the Samanalawewa Dam hydroelectric power station in Sri Lanka continues to function normally?
Did you know that during the Soviet era the only country that fashion designer Slava Zaitsev was able to travel to was Czechoslovakia, and it was not until 1986 that he was able to travel to a capitalist country?
Did you know that in the late 1960s, Philadelphia residents held Annual Reminder protests claiming that LGBT Americans did not enjoy the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
Did you know that radio broadcaster Frank Ford adopted his name while hosting a show sponsored by Frankford Unity Grocery Store, and later wondered what his name would have been if the sponsor had been Piggly Wiggly?
Did you know that the American victory in the Battle of Johnstown during the American Revolutionary War effectively ended fighting in the Mohawk Valley?
Did you know that the Elisha Williams House is different from other Federal style houses in Hudson, New York, because Williams came to Hudson from Connecticut instead of Massachusetts?
Did you know that the executive director of Homicide: Life on the Street said Richard Belzer was a "lousy actor" when he first auditioned for the role of John Munch in the pilot episode "Gone for Goode"?
Did you know that the last autofictional texts by Romanian novelist Mircea Nedelciu, written during his losing battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, compare his own biography with deep-sea diving?
Did you know that Currambena School student David Heilpern went on to become one of New South Wales' youngest magistrates and Southern Cross University's Alumnus of the Decade?
Did you know that Fancy Nancy parties are held throughout the United States?
Did you know that Jan van Riebeeck established the first vineyards in South Africa to help Dutch East India Company sailors ward off scurvy while traveling the spice route?
Did you know that Stanley R. Jaffe, who resigned as president of Paramount Television in 1971, returned to become president of Paramount Communications in 1991 and president of Paramount Pictures in 1992?
Did you know that White Dome Geyser erupts from one of the largest geyserite cones in Yellowstone National Park?
Did you know that William E. Simkin, longest-serving head of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, first got involved in arbitration when a professor asked him to assist with a hosiery industry dispute?
Did you know that William Michael Rooke's opera Amilie, or the Love Test enabled New Yorkers of 1838 to appreciate "a broad new repertoire"?
Did you know that in 1864, René Dagron produced a stanhope which enabled the viewing of a microphotograph that included the portraits of 450 people in an area of 1 mm2?
Did you know that in the 1774 speech "On American Taxation", British member of Parliament Edmund Burke argued that Britain should reconcile with the thirteen colonies?
Did you know that interbreeding with dingoes can even occur with dogs that were acquired by their owners to specifically kill dingoes?
Did you know that luminescence of holmium oxide is so bright that the material changes its color from yellow to orange-red under fluorescent light?
Did you know that on appointment in 1486, Robert Morton became the last English Bishop of Worcester until the English Reformation?
Did you know that since its release in 1978, Space Invaders and its many sequels have been remade for numerous video game platforms?
Did you know that the 1890 College Football All-America Team was composed entirely of players from Harvard, Yale and Princeton, including Ralph Warren, John Cranston, Billy Rhodes, Frank Hallowell and Jesse Riggs?
Did you know that the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany is only the second delisted UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Did you know that the Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby was the basis for the character Harvey Birch in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Spy?
Did you know that the bus for Australian jazz band leader, pianist and composer, Graeme Bell, had groupies posing as band member's wives?
Did you know that the earliest example of humans having the skill to manufacture artifacts with a compound glue was found in Sibudu Cave, South Africa?
Did you know that the electric drill was invented in 1889 by Arthur James Arnot?
Did you know that the first Spanish film shot in English is La residencia, a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school?
Did you know that the ruined Craigie Castle (keep pictured) contained one of Scotland's best vaulted halls?
Did you know that under UNESCO's new biosphere reserve concept, Brighton and Hove is bidding to become the first urban biosphere reserve?
Did you know that Alec Gallup, co-chairman of The Gallup Organization and the son of founder George Gallup, was described as someone who could "smell out a bad question or an unreasonable interpretation of data"?
Did you know that Charles Wesley Shilling, a physician in the United States Navy, was the first person to transfer from a submarine to the surface in a rescue diving bell?
Did you know that Cooks syndrome is a hereditary disorder characterized by the absence of toenails?
Did you know that Indian musician Ram Narayan's album Rāg Lalit was recorded in a single unedited take of over 73 minutes?
Did you know that John G.F. Francis, who co-devised the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, had no idea of the impact his work had made until contacted almost 50 years later?
Did you know that Sir George Coldstream, the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office, was described as "one of the 10 men who run Britain"?
Did you know that Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's X Division, which uses a fast-paced style of wrestling, has been praised by Kevin Nash?
Did you know that Ukrainian runner Yuliya Krevsun ended her track career in 2005 to start a family, but later made a comeback and reached the 800 metres final at the Beijing Olympics?
Did you know that William Lewis Moody, Jr. once took over all of Conrad Hilton's hotels?
Did you know that a reed is a comb-like tool used in weaving that determines how fine the cloth is?
Did you know that eleven of the Twelve Heavenly Generals at Shin-Yakushi-ji temple (hon-dō pictured) in Nara, Japan, are made of clay and date to the 8th century while the wooden statue of Haira was made in 1931?
Did you know that medieval historian Dorothy Whitelock called the Liber Eliensis "unique among post-Conquest monastic histories"?
Did you know that more than 18 million viewers saw the series finale of Will & Grace, making it the most watched episode of the final two seasons of the show?
Did you know that producer Anna Turner, co-host of Hearts of Space as "Annamystic", reportedly communicated with a spirit named Lazaris?
Did you know that the 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team's Western Conference championship inspired a student to write the fight song "The Victors"?
Did you know that the MasterCard International Global Headquarters building was designed by modernist architect I. M. Pei?
Did you know that the Samarkand clan's main rival in Uzbekistan is the Tashkent clan?
Did you know that the Sassoon Mausoleum is now a hip supper club?
Did you know that the album Here We Go Then, You And I was said to confirm Morten Abel's status as Norway's "king of pop"?
Did you know that the catchphrase "To Infinity and Beyond" from Toy Story helped to save an autistic child lost at sea in Daytona Beach, Florida?
Did you know that the pro-communist 1950 May Day speech given by the Trade Union Congress president Thakin Lwin revealed a major split in the Burma Socialist Party?
Did you know that the setting of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem Snow-Bound, a house in which a family is trapped for three days by a snowstorm, is still standing?
Did you know that the traditional account of the papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician?
Did you know that untreated persistent hypertension can lead to serious complications, such as dementia, strokes, renal failure and heart disease (left ventricular hypertrophy pictured)?
Did you know that Augustus Dickens, the brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, abandoned his blind wife in London and ran away to America with another woman?
Did you know that British politicians Sir Peter Fry and William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon served as consultants to political research company Parliamentary Monitoring Services?
Did you know that Charles Dickens used his father John Dickens as his inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in his novel David Copperfield?
Did you know that Frithjof Sælen was known for the book Snorri the Seal, banned during the German occupation of Norway for being a subtle satire on Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Kenny Tate, one of college football's top wide receiver recruits in 2008, was ultimately switched to the position of strong safety?
Did you know that Maiden Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, is so-called because it is thought never to have been taken in battle?
Did you know that Nils Kjær had success on Scandinavian stages with his comedy Det lykkelige valg?
Did you know that The Rookie (1959) was the first film to give starring roles to the comedy act of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall?
Did you know that Union Mills, Burnham Overy is a combined windmill and watermill, and that each mill could drive the other's machinery?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Sydney Fremantle was assigned to guard the German High Seas Fleet, but had taken his ships out on exercises when the German fleet was scuttled in Scapa Flow?
Did you know that a modern hippodrama, featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009?
Did you know that although a row of six houses was built in 1870 at 37-47 North Fifth Street in Hudson, New York, ten years later the census recorded only two?
Did you know that during World War II, Norwegians Erik Welle-Strand, Egil Reksten, Sverre Midtskau, Einar Johansen, Haakon Sørbye and Bjørn Rørholt operated illegal radio transmitters codenamed "Skylark" for the Secret Intelligence Service?
Did you know that federal authorities in New York may have gambled that there would be no legal challenges to their unexpected seizure of $34 million from 27,000 bank accounts in the United States?
Did you know that film and television producer Alan Mruvka, founder of E! Entertainment, is now a real estate developer in Southern California?
Did you know that in the penalty shootout during the London Senior Cup final 2009, Serge Makofo was the only player to score for Croydon Athletic?
Did you know that oil extracted from the common prickly-ash Zanthoxylum americanum has been used to treat "chronic rheumatism, typhoid and skin diseases and impurity of the blood"?
Did you know that passengers mourned the closure of the Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line so much that they poured a bucket of water over a double dressed as Richard Beeching, associated with closure of British railway lines in the 1960s?
Did you know that the Eyelash Cup normally grows on rotten wood, but can sometimes be found on bracket fungi?
Did you know that the Janata Morcha had defeated Indira Gandhi's Congress (R) in the elections in Gujarat, 15 days before the start of the Indian Emergency on June 26, 1975?
Did you know that the Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon, has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon?
Did you know that the Sibyllenbuch fragment may be the earliest surviving remnant of any book printed by movable type, before the Gutenberg Bible?