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Did you know that Mandy Mitchell-Innes was the last surviving English cricketer to have played Test cricket before the Second World War?
Did you know that Sir Colin Figures was the ninth Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, known informally as MI6?
Did you know that Stephen Maylad became Voivode of Transylvania with the help of Petru Rareş, who later doomed him to a wretched death in the Yedikule dungeons?
Did you know that Tombo Ati, a traditional Javanese song based on a popular hadith of the prophet Muhammad, is still popular five centuries after its composition?
Did you know that William Dronfield founded the United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, which inspired the creation of the Trades Union Congress?
Did you know that William E. "Bud" Davis, who had a successful career as president at four universities, originally wanted "to be the world's greatest football coach" before he went 2-8 in 1962 and never coached again?
Did you know that alchemist James Price committed suicide by drinking prussic acid after being challenged to prove he could turn mercury into gold?
Did you know that the Battle of Sangarará was a decisive victory for rebel forces under Túpac Amaru II against the Spanish in Peru?
Did you know that the Dash-and-dot goatfish bears a stripe and spot that is usually black, but which is red when the same species lives in deeper waters?
Did you know that the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, containing ores bearing uranium-238, is one of many products that have been recalled in the interests of  toy safety?
Did you know that two officers have quit their jobs over purported paranormal activity at George Stickney House, home to the Bull Valley, Illinois Police Department?
Did you know that American basketball player Fred Roberts was chosen by the Miami Heat in their expansion draft, but never played a game for them in the NBA?
Did you know that Ken Cranston began playing Test cricket for the English cricket team within 8 weeks after his debut in first-class cricket in 1947, but retired in 1948 to concentrate on his career as a dentist?
Did you know that Léonce Perret was a prominent movie director and actor, involved in more than four hundred films from 1909 to 1935?
Did you know that Mujahedeen KOMPAK has diverted charitable donations from Australia to produce recruitment videos for militant Islamic groups?
Did you know that Soviet surgeon Aleksandr Bakulev pioneered the first successful lung ablation with open ductus arteriosus?
Did you know that all Barrier Reef Anemonefish are born sexless and develop into males, and only become females if they rise to the top of the hierarchy?
Did you know that despite its name, East Kowloon Corridor is actually located in West Kowloon District in Hong Kong?
Did you know that in 1881 the Sharps Island Light was pushed five miles (8 km) down the Chesapeake Bay by an ice floe — with its keepers inside — and that its replacement has been leaning since 1977?
Did you know that sailplane winglets were first successfully implemented by American inventor Peter Masak?
Did you know that the 110th United States Congress freshman class contains members from diverse backgrounds, including a professional football player, a Navy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the first Buddhist and Muslim members?
Did you know that the Fokker Spin was the first aircraft built by Anthony Fokker, in which he taught himself to fly and earned his pilot license?
Did you know that the German physicist Otto Laporte discovered what is known in spectroscopy as the Laporte rule?
Did you know that the Mediterranean mantis is capable of virgin birth?
Did you know that the Soviet Union considered occupying its ally Lithuania soon after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920, but the Red Army's defeat at the Battle of Warsaw rendered such plans obsolete?
Did you know that the first plate of William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty features a boy supposed to be a young George III?
Did you know that the haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi edited the literary magazine Hototogisu?
Did you know that the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?
Did you know that "Push It To The Limit", a pop rap song backed by The Walt Disney Company, was recently the most downloaded song at the iTunes Store?
Did you know that An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump depicts the recreation of an experiment first carried out by Robert Boyle over a hundred years earlier?
Did you know that James MacLaine, the "Gentleman Highwayman", once robbed Horace Walpole?
Did you know that Sir Samuel Davenport, a South Australian parliamentarian, had an electoral district named after him?
Did you know that despite having won the Cricket World Cup only once (1983), Indian cricket team batsmen hold most Cricket World Cup batting records?
Did you know that future Maltese diplomat Arvid Pardo was successively detained by Fascist Italian, Nazi German, and Soviet authorities between 1940 and 1945?
Did you know that in the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine?
Did you know that many of the image stones of the Viking Age depict lost tales from Norse mythology?
Did you know that recently-departed Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge?
Did you know that the Brazilian labour movement was predominantly anarchist until the 1920s?
Did you know that the Nuyorican Poets Cafe began in the apartment living room of one of its founders?
Did you know that the Sao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon?
Did you know that the late Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge?
Did you know that the medieval pirate Cord Widderich occupied Eiderstedt and made the Pellworm church tower his base?
Did you know that Joseph E. Widener, a major figure in U.S.Thoroughbred horse racing, lost his elder brother and nephew in the Titanic disaster?
Did you know that Michael Beetham, World War II bomber pilot, is now senior Marshal of the Royal Air Force?
Did you know that One is a Japanese adult renai game (or visual novel), developed by Tactics?
Did you know that Russian billionaire, politician and philanthropist Alexander Lebedev started his career as a KGB agent working in London?
Did you know that Sheila Gallagher has been the City of London's last remaining lollipop lady since 1990?
Did you know that Singaporean Web Map Service Streetdirectory.com successfully sued several businesses for copyright infringment, but is now being sued on the same charge by the Singapore Land Authority?
Did you know that South Korean United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Tanzanian Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro previously worked together as foreign ministers?
Did you know that St. Clement's Church in Büsum, Germany is furnished with items looted from Pellworm by the pirate Cord Widderich?
Did you know that Tobias Lear probably destroyed six letters of conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?
Did you know that Trachodon, despite being a well-known and often-used duckbill name in the past, is based on teeth that include both duckbill and horned dinosaur specimens?
Did you know that Trondheim Tramway was reopened in 1990 after being permanently closed for two years, the process costing two mayors in Trondheim their jobs?
Did you know that Windows DreamScene displays videos in MPEG or WMV format as desktop wallpaper?
Did you know that male spiders, scorpions and mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism?
Did you know that only one of the 266 1076 Class steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?
Did you know that the Australian steamer TSS Kanowna was requisitioned twice during World War I, first as a troopship and then as a hospital ship?
Did you know that the Federal Corrupt Practices Act was the primary law regulating campaign finance in U.S. federal elections until the passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act in 1971?
Did you know that the National Security League formed the first known political action committee in the United States in 1918, and spent more than $100,000 to defeat congressmen who opposed its positions?
Did you know that the Nikolayevsk Incident, in which Japanese people were killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries, was pretext for the invasion of Sakhalin island?
Did you know that the prefabricated and portable White Castle restaurant Building No. 8 in Minneapolis, Minnesota has had three different locations?
Did you know that the schooner Rouse Simmons, known as "The Christmas Tree Ship", was transporting over 5,000 Christmas trees to Chicago when it sank in 1912?
Did you know that Öpir, the "shouter", was the most productive of the old Viking runemasters?
Did you know that "bohemian" Japanese symbolist poet Nakahara Chuya remained close friends with influential literary critic Kobayashi Hideo all of his life, despite the fact that his girlfriend left him for Kobayashi soon after they met?
Did you know that 11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as third in line for the throne of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland?
Did you know that Arthur William Hodge was the only white person in the history of the British West Indies to be executed for killing a black slave?
Did you know that Colonel Frederick Gough was the first person to receive the Royal Aero Club Parachutist Certificate?
Did you know that Creobroter is a praying mantis that uses ant mimicry as a juvenile and flower mimicry as an adult?
Did you know that Ern Westmore was the only member of the famed Westmore family to be given a special Academy Award for make-up, bestowed for his work on the film Cimarron?
Did you know that Ken Okuyama, a Japanese person, designed the Enzo Ferrari super car?
Did you know that Sharon Sayles Belton was the first female and first African-American mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota?
Did you know that although Lehigh Gorge State Park in Pennsylvania is now known for whitewater rafting on the Lehigh River, in the 19th century it was the site of a canal built to bypass those same rapids?
Did you know that at the Atlantic House on Cape Cod during World War I, Pulitzer Prize-winner Eugene O'Neill was arrested at gun point as a spy for the Kaiser?
Did you know that in 362 AD, the rhetorician Prohaeresius, a friend of the pagan Emperor, was allowed to keep his teaching post in spite of a ban on Christians but resigned in protest?
Did you know that more than 500 varieties of mango are showcased in the International Mango Festival held in Delhi?
Did you know that the American composer Paul Moravec won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2004 for his Shakespeare-inspired chamber piece Tempest Fantasy?
Did you know that the Short Sturgeon started life as a high-performance torpedo bomber, became a target tug, then a naval reconnaissance bomber, and finally an anti-submarine aircraft, before failing altogether?
Did you know that twenty-seven U.S. states have adopted constitutional amendments to prevent same-sex marriage or civil unions?
Did you know that Camp Cuddly Pines: Power Tool Massacre is the first adult film to be released in the HD DVD format?
Did you know that Hawayo Takata, a Nisei fluent in the language and culture of both Japan and the United States, introduced Reiki to the Western World?
Did you know that Japanese writer Naoki Sanjugo (literally "Naoki 35") changed his pen-name four times, once per year, to match his age?
Did you know that the Ajacan Mission, a failed attempt by Spanish Jesuit priests to bring Christianity to the Native Americans of the Virginia Peninsula, predated the establishment of Jamestown by about 36 years?
Did you know that the Knoxville Campaign ended with a Union Army victory even though the final battle of the campaign at Bean's Station had resulted in a Confederate victory?
Did you know that the Soviet pilot Sergey Gritsevets, twice awarded  the honorary title of Hero of Soviet Union, is credited with downing 42 enemy planes?
Did you know that Craignethan Castle was the last private fortress built in Scotland?
Did you know that Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, a shaman of the indigenous people of Brazil, received an award from the United Nations Environmental Program?
Did you know that Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley was one of the first women to become a member of the London Stock Exchange?
Did you know that Larin Paraske, a Finnish oral poet, could recite over 32,000 verses of poetry?
Did you know that after serving as a surgeon in the Army of the Republic of Texas, David Catchings Dickson was elected to the First Texas Legislature?
Did you know that during the Winter War, a Swedish fundraising drive paid for the purchase of a Fokker F.VIII airliner for the Finnish Air Force?
Did you know that in his satirical 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum, French physicist Jean-Baptiste Pérès argued that Napoleon never existed, but was just another expression of an ancient myth?
Did you know that in the deposition initiation ritual of Medieval and Early Modern universities, new students were dressed up with horns which were then removed with grindstones, axes, and pliers?
Did you know that matches were so prized during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition that Alfred Cheetham offered a bottle of champagne for one?
Did you know that model Rebecca Twigley became a household name in Australia after wearing a revealing dress to an event in 2004?
Did you know that sculptor Bernardo Cennini helped produce the Doors of Paradise for the Battistero di San Giovanni?
Did you know that the Black Fell comprised a chapter in the Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells because of its excellent view?
Did you know that the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France took 457 years to complete?
Did you know that the Gettlinge gravefield contains a stone ship, made of standing stones in the shape of the traditional Viking  sailing vessel?
Did you know that the Golden Resources Mall in Beijing, the second-largest shopping mall in the world, has attracted as few as 20 shoppers in an hour?
Did you know that the Heinkel He 46, designed for the Luftwaffe in 1931, was still being used to fight the Soviets in 1943?
Did you know that the Singapore Conference Hall was the first building to be built in the Shenton Way financial district?
Did you know that the Soviet spotter aircraft Sukhoi Su-12, though approved, was never produced due to lack of manufacturing capacity in the USSR?
Did you know that the Tokyo Big Sight convention center looks like four upside-down pyramids?
Did you know that the geology of London includes abundant fossilized animal remains?
Did you know that the king stropharia, a prized edible mushroom, develops spiny cells which kill nematodes?
Did you know that Arnold Zamora, a Filipino musician, is one of the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran?
Did you know that Edwin D. Hill was the first president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to be elected by secret ballot?
Did you know that Ernest "Boots" Thomas, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, was able to enlist in spite of being color blind by memorizing the results of another man's test?
Did you know that Junqueirópolis, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil, is nicknamed  "Acerola Capital" for its agriculture?
Did you know that La Salle Road in Hong Kong is named after French educator Jean-Baptiste de la Salle?
Did you know that Major General Keith L. Ware, who was awarded the Medal of Honor during  World War II, was the first U.S. Army general officer to be killed in action in the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Seb Clover, who sailed the English Channel solo at age 11, set a world record at age 15 when he raced against his father in an Atlantic Ocean crossing?
Did you know that Target for Tonight was a 1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by the Royal Air Force?
Did you know that a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt?
Did you know that an Egyptian army of 1,500 was defeated by 300 women and old men of Diro during the Egyptian Invasion of Mani in 1826?
Did you know that fewer than 100 of 500 colonists in the Virginia Colony survived the Starving Time during the winter of 1609-1610?
Did you know that in 2005, Adam Bruce became the first herald appointed to Clan Donald of Scotland in 510 years?
Did you know that the Blohm und Voss Bv 144 was an attempt by Nazi Germany to develop an advanced commercial airliner for post-war service?
Did you know that the Stingray Nebula, discovered in 1987, is the youngest known planetary nebula?
Did you know that the Suisun Shrew is a rare mammal species that survives only in a narrow marshland at the northern extremity of San Francisco Bay?
Did you know that the Witches of Belvoir supposedly believed a cat named Rutterkin helped them cast spells?
Did you know that Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the first republican state in Germany on March 18, 1793?
Did you know that Broken Glass, a 1994 play by Arthur Miller, was nominated for the 1994 Tony Award for Best Play, but lost out to Angels in America: Perestroika?
Did you know that Hortus deliciarum was a medieval illuminated encyclopedia created to teach about everything, including the torments of hell?
Did you know that Les Taylor only captained Watford in the 1984 FA Cup final because regular captain Wilf Rostron was suspended?
Did you know that Maurice K. Goddard helped create 45 Pennsylvania state parks?
Did you know that Peter Prendergast was recognised as the leading landscape painter in Wales after the death of Sir Kyffin Williams in September 2006?
Did you know that Randy Conrad became a local celebrity in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia after appearing in a McDonald's TV commercial?
Did you know that Richard E. Cavazos, recipient of two Distinguished Service Cross awards, was the United States Army's first Hispanic 4-star general?
Did you know that a copper mine on Brim Fell in England appears as in the novel The Plague Dogs?
Did you know that according to the book Civilization One, there are 366 degrees in a circle?
Did you know that akabeko, red cow toys from the Aizu region of Japan, are believed to ward off disease?
Did you know that although Abkhazia is not recognised by any nation, the Abkhazian Air Force had a reported roster of 250 men and seven aircraft in 2001?
Did you know that the Finnish Air Force selected the Saab 91 Safir as its primary trainer aircraft over the domestic Valmet Tuuli III?
Did you know that the Mayurakshi river in India wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?
Did you know that the first president of the World Association of Copepodologists was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II?
Did you know that the interaction of bees and toxic chemicals can make bees drunk or produce poisonous honey?
Did you know that 2003's Hurricane Ignacio was the latest-forming first hurricane of a Pacific hurricane season since reliable satellite observation began in 1966?
Did you know that 51 Birch Street, a low-budget documentary about the mystery of a suburban marriage, was named one of The New York Times top ten films of 2006?
Did you know that Harold G. Schrier led the patrol of U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag on Mount Suribachi?
Did you know that John Freke was the first ophthalmic surgeon?
Did you know that Lithuania's name was recorded in chronicles by its Latinized Slavic name form  Litua, for the first time in 1009?
Did you know that Murderers Among Us was the first German post-World War II film?
Did you know that Roger Bacon sent his Opus Majus, a treatise of natural science, to Pope Clement IV in 1267?
Did you know that Updown Court, a private residence in England, is valued at over US$120 million?
Did you know that cock throwing was a popular blood sport in England for centuries?
Did you know that poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, known as the Polish Sappho, discussed topics such as abortion, extra-marital affairs, and incest?
Did you know that the Carbonera Creek watershed in California has diverse plant communities including a rare assemblage known as Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests?
Did you know that the Gouin Reservoir in Quebec, Canada is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of lakes with highly irregular shapes?
Did you know that the Round Tower in Sandiway, Cheshire, was originally the gate lodge of the great house of Vale Royal Abbey?
Did you know that the Ryuho was the only major warship damaged in the Doolittle raid, and the last Japanese aircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside the Home Islands?
Did you know that the champion racehorse Corrida, a two-time winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, disappeared during the Battle of the Falaise Gap?
Did you know that the fauna of Scotland includes almost half of the EU’s breeding seabirds, but only one endemic vertebrate species, and that although a population of Wild Cats remains, many of the larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times?
Did you know that the female Smith's blue butterfly has only seven days to feed, court, mate, and lay eggs?
Did you know that the important medieval fresco cycle in  Castelseprio, Italy, was rediscovered only in 1944?
Did you know that James Palacio of the HBO series Oz was an empress of the Imperial Court System?
Did you know that Robert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists for advertising before Pear's Soap and Lever Brothers?
Did you know that Tom Chick is a prolific games journalist and Hollywood actor who has a degree in divinity from Harvard Divinity School?
Did you know that William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day shows a sign for a pie shop with a picture of the severed head of John the Baptist and the words "Good Eating"?
Did you know that the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815, considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government, leading to the November Uprising of 1830?
Did you know that the Department of Food Science at Purdue University was created during Bernard J. Liska's tenure as Dean of Agriculture in 1983?
Did you know that the first German U-boat sunk by the United States Navy in World War II was U-656, sunk on 1 March 1942?
Did you know that Alix, the wife of Viscount of Rochechouart Aymeric VI, was imprisoned in Château de Rochechouart castle with a lion, but the animal did not hurt her and laid down at her feet?
Did you know that Dralasites are an amoeboid extraterrestrial race depicted in science fiction role-playing games for the past 25 years?
Did you know that Eriogonum parvifolium is a California endemic dunes shrub that is host to several endangered butterflies?
Did you know that J-ska is contemporary Japanese music with origins in Jamaica?
Did you know that Japanese surrealist gothic horror author Yumeno Kyūsaku dropped dead due to a cerebral hemorrhage while at an autograph signing party hosted by his publisher?
Did you know that Oneirocritica, the first major work on dream interpretation, was written in the second century by Artemidorus?
Did you know that W. Harry Davis, who helped desegregate Minneapolis, overcame childhood polio to become a Golden Gloves coach and manager of U.S. Olympics boxing teams?
Did you know that Yakov Kreizer was the first Soviet general awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title during World War II?
Did you know that after an affirmative action dispute, Yale freshman Jian Li was the subject of a controversial parody in the annual joke issue of The Daily Princetonian?
Did you know that in Faridah Begum bte Abdullah v. Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah, it was held that non-Malaysian citizens cannot sue a Malay ruler?
Did you know that okiagari-koboshi dolls are considered symbols of perseverance in Japan because they never fall down?
Did you know that results of the 1946 Romanian general election, the first in Romania under universal suffrage, were manipulated by the Communist Party?