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Did you know that although Gridley Bryant invented many of the basic railroad technologies in the early 1820s, including tracks and wheels, he never patented them?
Did you know that the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas' recently rediscovered last novel The Knight of Sainte-Hermine has a pivotal encounter with the British admiral Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar?
Did you know that Adult attention-deficit disorder (AADD) affects an estimated 30% of people who suffered from Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in their childhood?
Did you know that Bunchy Carter founded the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party?
Did you know that from 1926 to 1940, the Union Minière du Haut Katanga had a virtual monopoly of the world uranium market?
Did you know that on March 4 1839, William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail?
Did you know that Arthur Owens, codenamed SNOW, was a vital double agent who supplied information to German intelligence under the direction of British MI5 during the early years of World War II?
Did you know that Eli H. Janney whittled the prototypes for his railroad coupler design out of wood in 1873?
Did you know that Flying Dog Brewery employs the unusual artwork of Ralph Steadman on its labels, best known for his work as the illustrator of the works of Hunter S. Thompson?
Did you know that Ray Wilson, who was the eldest member of England's victorious 1966 World Cup team, became an undertaker after he retired from football?
Did you know that The Brady Bunch actress Maureen McCormick was one of the many people who voiced the 1960s toy Chatty Cathy?
Did you know that pilot Victor Chapman died after being attacked by German enemies while on flight to carry oranges to a wounded friend?
Did you know that the 1459 Fra Mauro map reports that "a junk from India" rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1420, around 70 years before the navigations of Vasco da Gama?
Did you know that the history of sushi shows that although sushi is famous for its use in the Japanese cuisine, it actually originated in China in the 3rd or 4th century BC, more than 900 years before its first known appearance in Japan?
Did you know that DJ Grand Mixer DXT is credited with inventing turntablism, the rhythmic scratching of a record on a turntable using different velocities to alter the pitch of the note or sound on the recording, making the turntable a fully performable and improvisational instrument?
Did you know that Robert Dick Wilson was a leading Bible scholar who was able to read the New Testament in nine different languages while still at Princeton University, and strongly defended the Bible's historical accuracy?
Did you know that Wilfredo Gomez and Wilfredo Benitez share not only their first name, but also their Puerto Rican nationality? They also won three world boxing titles each.
Did you know that "I Want You Back", the 1969 debut single by The Jackson 5, was originally intended for both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Diana Ross, and has been sampled by Blackstreet, Jay-Z, and Lil' Romeo?
Did you know that during the Elizabethan era in England, theatres were constructed of wood and were circular in form, open to the elements and with a large portion of the audience standing directly below the stage?
Did you know that the broadfish tapeworm is the longest tapeworm in humans, averaging ten metres long and that it can shed up to a million eggs a day?
Did you know that Reverend John Chilembwe is celebrated as the first Malawian nationalist, and was a martyr for his cause?
Did you know that a smokie is a West African delicacy made by blowtorching the carcass of a sheep or goat without removing its fleece?
Did you know that an American Silver Eagle coin contains a guaranteed minimum of one troy ounce of .999 pure silver?
Did you know that some stationery companies produce scented paper and envelopes specifically for love letters?
Did you know that "Gigantour," a six-week heavy metal music festival devised by Megadeth front-man Dave Mustaine, will travel North America in late-July?
Did you know that Cetartiodactyla is a hypothesis based on DNA that suggests whales and hippos are related?
Did you know that Ohio's College Township was given by Congress for the benefit of Miami University?
Did you know that video footage  can be worth up to $45,000 in U.S. dollars, such as in the case of the broadcasting corporation payment of amateur's footage of the September 11, 2001 attacks?
Did you know that Caesars Creek State Park has 7,900 acres centered around a 2,800 acre lake created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?
Did you know that Varina-Enon Bridge, which carries Interstate 295 across the James River in Virginia, hosts an award-winning VDOT project to provide nesting locations for peregrine falcons which are traceable on a website?
Did you know that although England centre forward Geoff Hurst had scored a hat-trick and was therefore entitled to keep the match ball, it was German striker Helmut Haller who took it home after the 1966 World Cup final?
Did you know that Dr. Hunter McGuire was a physician who amputated General Stonewall Jackson's arm during the American Civil War and later helped found several hospitals and a prominent medical school in Richmond, Virginia?
Did you know that Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis, Indiana is believed to have been the first automobile dealership in the United States?
Did you know that James A. Bland (1854-1911) an African American musician and song writer wrote over 700 songs, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" in 1878, which was later the official State Song of Virginia from 1940 to 1997?
Did you know that Mountain Lake, one of only two natural lakes in Virginia, was the filming location for the fictional Kellerman's Resort in New York's Catskill Mountains for the 1987 feature film Dirty Dancing?
Did you know that a physical paradox is thought to be either an artifact of error or incompleteness because reality is assumed to be completely consistent?
Did you know that the F-Zero series of video games is renowned for its sheer visceral impression of speed?
Did you know that the Lebanon Correctional Institution and the Warren Correctional Institution are on land once owned by the Shakers?
Did you know that Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States?
Did you know that Edgar Buchanan was a dentist before becoming an American actor with a long career in both movies and television, and is probably best remembered as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction and Green Acres television sitcoms of the 1960s?
Did you know that the Galápagos tortoise is the largest living tortoise in the world, only native to the Galápagos Islands, where about 15,000 of them live?
Did you know that Marie-Anne Gaboury was the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in the Canadian west?
Did you know that Terri Irwin, co-owner of the Australia Zoo and co-star of The Crocodile Hunter series on television, began caring for injured wildlife as a child and ran her own rehab facility for 5 years before she met Steve Irwin?
Did you know that the MCC beat Warwickshire in the first game of the 2005 English cricket season?
Did you know that Giovanni Bugatti was the longest-serving executioner in the Papal States?
Did you know that every British monarch since Queen Victoria has worshipped at Crathie Kirk, a small parish church near Balmoral Castle?
Did you know that the Bhutan Broadcasting Service had transmitted radio broadcasts for many years, but only commenced with television broadcasts in 1999?
Did you know that Boneless Fish is a Japanese frozen food made from fish, which is deboned by hand and then glued to its original shape using a food-grade enzyme?
Did you know that Queen's Gambit Accepted is a chess opening in which Black takes a White pawn after two moves, but is not a real gambit because Black cannot count on keeping his advantage?
Did you know that actor Philip Ahn was the first child of Korean ancestry to be born in the United States?
Did you know that Debswana, a joint venture between De Beers and the government of Botswana, is the largest producer of diamonds by value in the world?
Did you know that Will Harvey created his first commercial computer game when he was only 15 and still in high school?
Did you know that the complex communication patterns of Weaver ants used in nest building is studied and modeled in various disciplines of generative sciences?
Did you know that the internet casino GoldenPalace.com won a bid to name the recently discovered type of New World monkey: the GoldenPalace.com Monkey?
Did you know that Keying was a three-masted Chinese junk, which sailed from China to the United States and England between 1846 and 1848?
Did you know that the French footballer Lucien Laurent scored the first ever World Cup goal, against Mexico in 1930?
Did you know that the Nine Saints were a group of Christians from the Byzantine Empire who took part in converting areas of what is now Eritrea and Ethiopia in the late fifth century AD?
Did you know that The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor is a whodunit written in English by German-born sexologist Ernest Borneman when he was not yet 20 years of age?
Did you know that a Sub Inspector or S.I. is the rank of an Indian police officer who is in command of a police station?
Did you know that the Warren County Canal was a twenty-mile long canal in Ohio that linked Lebanon to the Miami and Erie Canal and which operated only eight unprofitable years?
Did you know that the biodiversity of New Zealand is dominated by bird families that flew in from Australia and insects, frogs and plants that were on the island when it broke off from Gondwana?
Did you know that Benedict Arnold was an early American politician, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1829 despite the fact the person he was named after was revealed to be a traitor two weeks before he was born?
Did you know that Pal, owned by animal trainers Frank and Rudd Weatherwax, was the name of the first dog to portray Lassie?
Did you know that a police officer in the United States may only briefly detain and frisk a person if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in a crime?
Did you know that the U.S. National Arboretum, the new D.C. Convention Center, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Corcoran Gallery of Art are all located on or near New York Avenue in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that the song "Delta Dawn" was first sung by Tanya Tucker and turned down by Barbra Streisand before gaining widespread pop success by Helen Reddy?
Did you know that Chrissy Snow from the American sitcom Three's Company was actually named "Christmas Snow"?
Did you know that Skyfox was one of the first games to popularize the cockpit view for flight action games?
Did you know that the child actor Tommy Rettig, who starred as Jeff Miller in the first four seasons of the Lassie television series, became a noted database software author as an adult?
Did you know that the town of Baird, Texas, is named after the second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Matthew Baird?
Did you know that George E. Studdy was a British artist best remembered for his creation of Bonzo the dog, a fictional character, in the early 1920s?
Did you know that musical montage (montage meaning "putting together") is a technique where musical compositions or sound objects are created from collage?
Did you know that Madonna of the Trail is a series of monuments dedicated to the spirit of the pioneer woman in the United States? Created by German immigrant sculptor August Leimbach, 12 were placed from Maryland to California in 1928 and 1929.
Did you know that the International Dance Day has been celebrated on April 29 since 1982? It commemorates the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre, the creator of modern ballet.
Did you know that the Laotian Rock Rat is a new species of rodent that is unique enough to lead researchers to create a new family of mammals?
Did you know that the growing of heirloom plants may help increase the genetic variety of crops?
Did you know that a kid hack was a horse-drawn vehicle used for transporting children to school in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States? This early form of school bus powered by both horses and mules, was usually loaded at the rear to avoid frightening the animals.
Did you know that a remand prisoner may be entitled to wear their own clothing, rather than a prison uniform?
Did you know that one-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of the United States, Canada and Australia until the early 20th century, and that they continue in some parts of Ireland today?
Did you know that thousands of toads in Hamburg, Germany recently became mysterious exploding toads?
Did you know that American actress Susan Oliver, after surviving a plane crash that almost ended her life, became the first woman to fly a single-engined aircraft solo from New York City across the Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that Perley A. Thomas was a Canadian millsmith who attended night courses, learned drafting and design skills, and became a renowned streetcar and bus manufacturer in High Point, North Carolina?
Did you know that the Windows Template Library is perhaps the only open source library by Microsoft?
Did you know that the two airplanes on the Bar Harbor Airlines fleet that had accidents were numbered N200WP and N300WP respectively?
Did you know that American golfer Tony Lema died when the plane he was travelling in crashed into a golf course?
Did you know that English explorer James Knight died on an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage in 1719?
Did you know that French painter Charles-André van Loo was the principal court painter to Louis XV of France?
Did you know that Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke, an Irish Count born in Estonia, became a Russian Lieutenant General, and was honoured with a statue in Belgrade for his victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1810?
Did you know that the Truro murders are among the earliest reported serial killings in Australia?
Did you know that Zara Yaqob was the first Emperor of Ethiopia (1434–1468) to send a diplomatic mission to Europe?
Did you know that in Hindu mythology, Meenakshi was born with three breasts, fish-eyes and a smell of fish?
Did you know that the Iceland hotspot is partly responsible for the frequent volcanic eruptions and geothermal activity experienced in Iceland?
Did you know that the composer Zbigniew Preisner wrote the title music for the monumental BBC documentary People's Century, which spans 26 parts?
Did you know that Hollywood producer William Goetz's racehorse "Your Host" won the 1950 Santa Anita Derby?
Did you know that Reverend Mother Superior Dolores Hart is the only nun to be an Academy Award-voting member of  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
Did you know that the National Socialist Motor Corps was a motorized paramilitary group of the Nazi Party, numbering almost 500,000 in membership?
Did you know that time discipline is the set of social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations about time and its measurement?
Did you know that 11 of the 13 members of the Hong Kong cricket team died when their steamship, SS Bokhara, was lost in a typhoon in 1892?
Did you know that French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was ordered to destroy her royal portraits after the French Revolution?
Did you know that Lover's Leap is a name given to a number of locations of great height where legends take place involving couples leaping to their mutual death?
Did you know that admiral Michiel de Ruyter saved the United Provinces from invasion in the two Battles of Schooneveld in June 1673?
Did you know that Fred Gipson was an American author best remembered for creating a fictional dog featured in a book and the classic 1957 movie Old Yeller?
Did you know that by passing as a man, Isobel Gunn became in 1806 the first woman of European descent employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land?
Did you know that the English politician Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun fought a duel with James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton in Hyde Park on November 15 1712 which resulted in the deaths of both men?
Did you know that the principles of bird flight are the same as used in aircraft, with lift being provided by an aerofoil?
Did you know that John Ritter made one of his first film appearances in the 1972 horror film The Other?
Did you know that the Paradesi Synagogue, built by the Malabar Yehudan people, is the oldest synagogue in the British Commonwealth of nations?
Did you know that the Slovenian folk instrument bird-scaring rattle is used to drive birds from vineyards?
Did you know that the astronomer Tycho Brahe calculated products quickly using Prosthaphaeresis, a 17th century algorithm exploiting trigonometric identities?
Did you know that NGC 3314 is a pair of almost perfectly overlapping spiral galaxies, giving astronomers a unique opportunity to observe the properties of interstellar dust?
Did you know that Project Aqua was a proposed hydroelectric scheme for the lower Waitaki River in New Zealand that would have diverted up to 77% of the river's flow into a separate canal?
Did you know that Sarah Brady became an advocate of gun control and led actions to reduce gun violence after her husband White House Press Secretary James Brady sustained a disabling head wound during the Reagan assassination attempt in 1981?
Did you know that Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery where members of a circus troupe were interred following the Hammond circus train wreck in 1918?
Did you know that citrus plantation owner Julia Tuttle owned the land upon which Miami, Florida was built, and that she gave half her land to Henry Flagler to entice him to build a station for the Florida East Coast Railroad there?
Did you know that different stages of the fish parasite Myxobolus cerebralis were originally thought to be three different organisms in two different classes?
Did you know that the Plague of Athens devastated ancient Athens in 430 BC, perhaps leading ultimately to the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War?
Did you know that Brooklyn Brewery hired Milton Glaser, best known as the creator of the logo for the I Love New York campaign, to create their company logo?
Did you know that Josiah Belden was a member of the first party to use the California Trail, and the first mayor of San Jose, California?
Did you know that Project Exile was a program of prosecuting illegal gun offenses in federal court, helping reduce gun violence in Richmond, Virginia?
Did you know that some original sources on medieval hunting contain detailed instructions on how to capture a unicorn?
Did you know that Dutch maritime painter Simon de Vlieger was influential in the move away from the monochrome grisaille to a more colourful style of sea painting?
Did you know that Elsie Tanner was a core character on the British soap opera Coronation Street for over twenty years?
Did you know that Malin Space Science Systems is a San Diego, California company that operates the camera on the Mars Global Surveyor?
Did you know that Video-Enhanced Grave Markers turn headstones into talking video displays for the deceased?
Did you know that cloud-busters claim to use energy from their brain's prefrontal lobe to dissipate clouds?
Did you know that in 1945, entrepreneur Leonard Shoen founded U-Haul, first American cargo trailer-rental company?
Did you know that the Dutch ship Brederode was the flagship of the United Provinces in the six largest battles of the First Anglo-Dutch War?
Did you know that the first witches persecuted by the Inquisition believed in Madonna Oriente, the Moon goddess?
Did you know that Buzzie Bavasi was the general manager of the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers for eighteen years, helping the team win their first four World Series championships?
Did you know that Marcus Loew, whose family's poverty forced him to give up on schooling and go to work at age nine, became the owner of the largest chain of movie theaters in the United States and the founder of MGM Studios?
Did you know that Scottish cyclist Robert Millar finished fourth in the 1984 Tour de France, the best ever finish by a British cyclist?
Did you know that Starry Night Over the Rhone, painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1888, shows the constellation Ursa Major over the Rhone at Arles?
Did you know that a freak decompression accident on board the oil rig Byford Dolphin in 1983 literally caused a man to explode?
Did you know that the male pink salmon develops a large hump on its back when it is time to spawn, leading to the species nickname "humpie"?
Did you know that the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea destroys enough rice to feed more than 60 million people annually, and that its spores were prepared as an anti-plant biological weapon during World War II?
Did you know that when Theodora Comnena married King Baldwin III of Jerusalem in 1158, her dowry was 100,000 hyperpyra?
Did you know that Götz von Berlichingen, a knight of the Holy Roman Empire, wore a prosthetic hand made of iron after losing his hand in the siege of Landshut in 1508?
Did you know that Pancho Barnes was a pioneer of women's aviation and owner of the Rancho Oro Verde Fly-Inn Dude Ranch?
Did you know that the Swabian War of 1499 was fought between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the emperor Maximilian I and his Swabian League?
Did you know that the European White Elm is distinguished from other European elms by its long flower stems?
Did you know that the Free French corvette Aconit was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for her service in World War II?
Did you know that the incorrect climatological theory that "rain follows the plow" was promoted in the 1870s to justify the settlement of the arid Great Plains of the American West?
Did you know that when Lady Frances Brandon failed to marry her daughter Lady Jane Grey to Edward VI of England, she plotted instead to raise Jane to the throne by means of a coup d'état in 1553?
Did you know that because Adelaide del Vasto was divorced by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1117, her son Roger II of Sicily refused to give assistance to the Crusader states during the Second Crusade?
Did you know that the Battle of Bun'ei in 1274 was Mongol emperor Kublai Khan's first attempt to invade Japan?
Did you know that the Eastern Newt changes its skin colour from bright red to olive green when it becomes an adult, and is known as the red eft before adulthood?
Did you know that the decoration of the 1877 Papal Tiara includes 540 pearls, 68 rubies, 37 emeralds, and many other precious stones?
Did you know that Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) was one of six waka poets named in the preface to the great Heian period poetry collection Kokin-wakashu?
Did you know that Dutch admiral Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer (1604–1655) kept Maarten Tromp's standard raised to maintain morale after the latter died in the Battle of Scheveningen in 1653?
Did you know that Infectious Salmon Anaemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada, Norway, and Scotland?
Did you know that Jean Kambanda, prime minister of Rwanda during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, is the first and only head of government to plead guilty to genocide?
Did you know that Ralph Samuelson invented water skiing in 1922?
Did you know that infectious salmon anemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada, Norway, and Scotland?
Did you know that only five people have been decorated Hero of Belarus, the highest title that can be bestowed on a citizen of Belarus?
Did you know that spatiotemporal gene expression refers to the patterns in which genes are expressed in different tissues as an organism develops?
Did you know that the History of Swansea includes an epidemic of yellow fever in 1865, the only outbreak of that disease on the British mainland?
Did you know that the Spinifex People are the last Aboriginal nomadic people in Australia, taking their name from the Spinifex grass that survives in the desert?