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Did you know that Henrietta Johnston (work pictured) was the first recorded female artist and the first pastelist to work in the English colonies in America?
Did you know that Michael Jackson was unavailable for the filming of the music video for The Jacksons' song, "Torture", so a wax dummy was used in his place for the video?
Did you know that Michael Scott pretends to fire Pam Beesly as a prank in The Office episode "Casual Friday", which is a reference to a similar scene in the show's first episode?
Did you know that in 1917, engineer William Ruthven Smith drew a 6,000-foot (1,800 m)* anti-submarine net across the channel at Hampton Roads?
Did you know that in 2001, Dutch musician and artist Herman Brood committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel?
Did you know that no specialist ceramics museum has as large a collection as the 340,000 pieces in The Palace Museum, Beijing?
Did you know that one can list every positive rational number without repetition by breadth-first traversal of the Calkin–Wilf tree?
Did you know that radio evangelist "Fighting Bob" Shuler, known for his attacks on politicians and support of the Ku Klux Klan, received 25% of the votes in a 1932 US Senate election in California?
Did you know that the Royal Navy has tended to name its fireships (examples pictured) after subjects related to volcanoes or fire?
Did you know that the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré in 1627 resulted in the failure of the Duke of Buckingham to occupy the French island of Ile de Ré and support the Siege of La Rochelle?
Did you know that the Worthington–Simpson triple expansion steam engine at Brede Waterworks can pump 3,500,000 imperial gallons (16,000,000 L) of water per day to a height of 515 feet (157 m)?
Did you know that three of Nguyen Anh's generals, Do Thanh Nhon, Chau Van Tiep and Vo Tanh, were called "Gia Định Tam Hùng" (Three Heroes of Gia Dinh) in Vietnamese folk culture?
Did you know that 19th century wrestler John McMahon's career began with a 17-year undefeated streak?
Did you know that American Louis Littlepage had to receive a special permission from the US Congress to serve as a secretary to the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski?
Did you know that Golden Raspberry Awards founder John Wilson's marketing work has included publicity for the Academy Awards?
Did you know that Holland Road Baptist Church in Hove, England, was paid for by George Congreve, who made his fortune selling tuberculosis elixir?
Did you know that Ismail Shammout's painting Where to ...?, depicting the Lydda Death March of July 1948, is said to have attained iconic status in Palestinian culture?
Did you know that Karsten Solheim's invention of the modern lob wedge golf club may have come from experimentally gluing a potato chip to a straw?
Did you know that Mary Roberts was the first recorded female miniaturist in the American colonies?
Did you know that Polish merchant Jan Dekert was a vocal advocate for the enfranchisement of burghers during the Great Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
Did you know that Richard Upjohn's Gothic alterations to the Mandeville House, the oldest in Garrison, New York, were removed by a later owner?
Did you know that World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker's memoirs influenced 1930s "flying pulp" magazines such as Flying Aces?
Did you know that a network of companies including the Chester Rolling Mill, Chester Pipe and Tube Company, Standard Steel Casting Company and Combination Steel and Iron Company made shipbuilder John Roach & Sons one of America's first vertically integrated businesses?
Did you know that although Vic Gold  co-wrote the first President Bush's autobiography and wrote a novel with Dick Cheney's wife, in 2007 he wrote a book attacking the second President Bush and Cheney?
Did you know that because actor Alan Dale was unable to go to Hawaii to appear on ABC's Lost as Charles Widmore, the camera crew moved to London to include him on the show anyway?
Did you know that between 2000 and 2008, 39 new species of lemur (Ring-tailed Lemur pictured) were described in Madagascar, bringing the total number of recognized species and subspecies to 99?
Did you know that extracts from the elastic saddle fungus can dissolve fibrin blood clots?
Did you know that in June 1994 the NBA blocked the sale of the Minnesota Timberwolves to a group seeking to move the franchise to New Orleans, thus keeping the Timberwolves in Minneapolis?
Did you know that in the capture of Ormuz in 1622, an Anglo-Persian force combined to expel the Portuguese?
Did you know that opera singer Richard Suart, known for his roles in Gilbert and Sullivan, has also specialised in avant-garde modern opera?
Did you know that radio station KBCH chose its call sign to represent the "20 Miracle Miles" of beaches in Lincoln County, Oregon?
Did you know that still-extant English piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons once made instruments favoured by Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin?
Did you know that the Persian embassy to Europe in 1609–1615 was led by the enturbaned English adventurer Robert Shirley?
Did you know that the fungus Helvella corium has been found growing on caustic spoil mounds of a soda factory and on uranium tailings?
Did you know that when a Japanese honeybee hive is invaded by a giant hornet scout, the honeybees "bake" the hornet in a ball of about 500 bees?
Did you know that when the new Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia arrived in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including President Victorino de la Plaza, came out to see the ship?
Did you know that 26-year-old Vanessa Rousso is among the top five females in career earnings in poker history?
Did you know that Adam Davis was convicted of the murder of Vicki Robinson and is currently on Florida's death row?
Did you know that Carlton Skinner commanded the first racially integrated United States warships, and later served as Guam's first civilian governor?
Did you know that Dutch film pioneer Willy Mullens worked as a human cannonball before becoming a film director?
Did you know that James Edward Hanger, the first amputee of the American Civil War,  designed his own prosthesis and went on to found a prosthetic manufacturer still in business today?
Did you know that Jonathan Roberts, a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1821, built a school for poor children?
Did you know that Microsoft attempted to tap into the Chinese computing market in 1999 with a prototype computer known as Microsoft Venus?
Did you know that New York talent agent Sam Cohn, who Time magazine called "the first superagent of the modern age", liked to eat paper?
Did you know that The Hate That Hate Produced, a documentary critical of the Nation of Islam, caused the group's membership to double?
Did you know that Ukrainian sculptor Mikhaylo Parashchuk, who decorated many major buildings in Sofia, Bulgaria, was reportedly a student of Auguste Rodin?
Did you know that William Butler Yeats originally published the poem "On being asked for a War Poem" under the title "A Reason for Keeping Silent" in 1916?
Did you know that William Butler Yeats wrote the poem "A Prayer for My Daughter" in 1919 while staying in the tower at Thoor Ballylee during the Irish War of Independence?
Did you know that a 1947 earthquake in the U.S. state of Wisconsin was strong enough to break a seismograph at Marquette University?
Did you know that a possible extension of the Røa Line metro to Øverland was considered in the interwar period, but did not materialize?
Did you know that although Mahfouz al-Walid was reported killed in 2002, it was not until 2007 that the Office of Foreign Assets Control acknowledged that his name was not an alias for Mohamedou Slahi?
Did you know that during the summer the finetooth shark is found exclusively in water less than 10 m (30 ft) deep?
Did you know that in 2003 a ricin contaminated letter was sent to the White House?
Did you know that the Baptist folk high school at Strand, Akershus, Norway, was visited by Martin Luther King in 1964?
Did you know that the Osaka Maritime Museum is a geodesic dome that sits out in Osaka Bay and is accessed by an underwater tunnel?
Did you know that the SARK, the US Navy's Search and Rescue Knife, was designed and built within 24 hours by custom knifemaker Ernest Emerson?
Did you know that the heroic Greek marble Gaddi Torso in the Uffizi, Florence, was so admired in the Italian Renaissance that it was never "restored" by completing it?
Did you know that the song "Que No Se Rompa la Noche", first performed by Julio Iglesias, has been covered by Pandora, Vikki Carr and Ray Conniff?
Did you know that the thoroughbred horse Onion never won another stakes race after his upset defeat of Secretariat in the 1973 Whitney Handicap?
Did you know that when Riaz Mohammad Khan stepped down as Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, media speculated that he was sacked because he opposed the UN investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto?
Did you know that Bulgarian zoologist Ivan Buresh, dubbed "the patriarch of Bulgarian biology", was the son of a Czech zincographer?
Did you know that Carrington Moss was used to dispose of Manchester's night soil, and was a Starfish site in World War II?
Did you know that Christopher Grigson made important contributions to scanning electron microscopy, but switched careers and became a naval architect?
Did you know that Hauz Khas Complex in South Delhi encompasses a water tank, an Islamic seminary, a mosque, a tomb and pavilions built around a medieval village in the 13th-century Delhi Sultanate reign?
Did you know that Jane Edna Hunter, an African American social worker in Cleveland, Ohio, was born on the Woodburn Plantation in Pendleton, South Carolina?
Did you know that Juliano Verbard escaped from a French prison in a hijacked helicopter?
Did you know that KDMN (now KSKE) and its Radio Colorado sister stations became the target of prank calls in 2003 when the film Bruce Almighty displayed the station group's phone number as God's?
Did you know that Lester Belding was the first Iowa Hawkeyes football player to be named an All-American?
Did you know that Mibbit (logo pictured) will be used as the default IRC protocol handler in the upcoming release of Firefox 3.5?
Did you know that Mount Veniaminof in the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge contains the most extensive crater glacier in North America, at roughly 5.2 miles (8.4 km) in diameter?
Did you know that Rotten Sound's Murderworks album cover was censored in Europe by manufacturers in Germany who considered it too disturbing for consumers?
Did you know that The Ladies' Mercury was the first periodical publication designed just for women?
Did you know that The Office episode "Cafe Disco" includes cameos by series writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg at an office dance party?
Did you know that actor Kim Kang-woo had to overcome his fear of water to star in Marine Boy, and went on to film dangerous water sequences without using a stunt double?
Did you know that among Gerhard Knoop´s stage productions are Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Strindberg's Miss Julie,  Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Ionesco's The Chairs?
Did you know that cartographer Jan Martin Larsen was a pioneer in the development of the specialized orienteering map?
Did you know that enamel tufts, self-healing defects in tooth enamel at its junction with dentin, help enamel withstand bite forces as high as 1,000 N?
Did you know that from 1995 to 2003, an Arkansas radio station now called KZTD shared its "KBBL" call sign with the fictional radio station on The Simpsons?
Did you know that in the early history of Chianti (bottle pictured), the wine was white and not red?
Did you know that in the late 1980s, there was a surge of interest in using Colorino in Chianti blends for the added deep dark coloring and structure from phenolic compounds that it brought to the wine?
Did you know that the Jungle Shrew is a small mammal found only in Sri Lanka lowland rain forests?
Did you know that the Mexican town of Tlalmanalco has one of the few remaining intact open-air chapels built for native people who would not enter churches?
Did you know that the early 20th-century diaries of German ornithologist Bernhard Hantzsch influenced British Arctic explorer Pen Hadow?
Did you know that the larvae of the Appalachian Azure, a species of gossamer wings butterfly, can only feed on the flowers of the black cohosh?
Did you know that vibraphonist Karel Velebný is considered one of the founders of modern Czech jazz?
Did you know that Belgian firm Interbrew has a 34.4% share in the Ukrainian beer market?
Did you know that Canaiolo was included in the 19th-century Chianti recipe to add fruitiness and soften the tannins of Sangiovese, much like Merlot's role in Bordeaux wine blends?
Did you know that Danny Friend was the Chicago Colts' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1896, despite only having pitched five previous Major League Baseball games?
Did you know that Duane Purvis's right arm made him a world-class javelin thrower and "without peer" as a long passer in football?
Did you know that Earl Sprackling, who was selected as the best college football player of 1910, gained 456 total yards and kicked three field goals in one game?
Did you know that Friedrich Foertsch was the second chief of staff of the Bundeswehr and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II?
Did you know that Henry Jenkins of Bolton-on-Swale, Yorkshire is said to have lived to the age of 169?
Did you know that Indian businessman Ness Wadia, a co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kings XI Punjab, is the great-grandson of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah?
Did you know that Jens Wisløff, a Conservative Party of Norway politician, was called "the grand old man of asphalt"?
Did you know that Kim Kang-woo spent about ten days acquainting himself with a cow to prepare for scenes in the film Le Grand Chef, likening the experience to working with a sensitive actress?
Did you know that Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" made her the first non-North American act to reach number-one on the Canadian Hot 100 in 2008?
Did you know that Norwegian Minister of Agriculture and Member of Parliament Bernt Holtsmark had two first cousins, Wilhelm and Finn Blakstad, who were also Members of Parliament?
Did you know that Saucon Valley Country Club has hosted five USGA golf tournaments, and is the site of the 2009 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship?
Did you know that Tennyson Bardwell's second film The Skeptic was actually written in the 1980s, but did not start filming until 2005?
Did you know that Texas clergyman Harold Reeves was the first missionary dispatched to Thailand by the Southern Baptist Convention?
Did you know that Tsar Alexander III is said to have held the collapsed roof of the royal car on his shoulders while his family escaped the Borki train crash site uninjured?
Did you know that William Butler Yeats intended the poem "Politics" to be an envoi to "The Circus Animals' Desertion" and for it to be last in his final collection of poems?
Did you know that after Pacific States Lumber went bankrupt in 1939, the company town of Selleck, Washington, was sold for US$3,000?
Did you know that an alliance was formed in the 8th century between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Frankish Carolingian Empire against the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Umayyads of Spain?
Did you know that before starting her modeling career and appearing on America's Next Top Model, Celia Ammerman lived across from a chicken slaughterhouse in Brooklyn?
Did you know that during its one year of existence, the Tainan Air Group produced more aces than any other fighter unit in the Imperial Japanese Navy?
Did you know that elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, found mostly among young captive Asian elephants, can have a fatality rate of up to 90%?
Did you know that every December 11 in Acatlán de Juárez, Jalisco, Mexico, bonfires are lit along the streets to commemorate the vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego?
Did you know that for over 20 years after his posthumous execution in 1661, Oliver Cromwell's head stood on a spike outside Westminster Hall?
Did you know that funding to help J-D's Down Home Enterprises start producing bacon-flavored salt came from a three-year-old child's winnings on America's Funniest Home Videos?
Did you know that in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot, Hans Holbein the Younger's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb is said to have the power to make viewers lose their faith?
Did you know that in the United States, 88 percent of public employees are covered by a defined benefit pension plan?
Did you know that the 1987 roguelike computer game NetHack was named differently from its predecessor, Hack, because Hack creator Andries Brouwer "...may eventually release a new version of his own"?
Did you know that the Czech trumpeter and singer Jiří Jelínek was nicknamed "The Czech Satchmo"?
Did you know that the Dogger Bank itch is a skin condition  prevalent in fishermen who work in the North Sea?
Did you know that the Indiana-based Upland Brewing Company provided beer bottles and props to lend Indiana authenticity to the "Boys' Club" episode of Parks and Recreation?
Did you know that the San Juan Bautista Parish of Tenango del Aire in Mexico was initially run by the Franciscans?
Did you know that the lead character in the Mozart opera Don Giovanni calls out for a glass of Marzemino in the final banquet scene before he is carried down to hell?
Did you know that the male common seahorse (pregnant male pictured) carries and delivers its young?
Did you know that the only surviving structure from the Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad is a train station that is now the town hall of Coudersport, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the winning candidate in the 2002 Hartlepool Council election, known as H'Angus the Monkey before taking office, pledged to give free bananas to school children in Hartlepool?
Did you know that "Thrilla in the Villa", the first season finale of Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, was seen by 858,000 households, about half the viewership of the season premiere one month earlier?
Did you know that 16 people were killed in the 1999 Tashkent bombings when six car bombs were detonated, an attack most likely perpetrated by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan?
Did you know that Czech jazz double-bassist Luděk Hulan co-founded Studio 5, one of the most important modern jazz ensembles in Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that Eunice Taylor, a catcher for the Kenosha Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, was the model for Rosie O'Donnell's character in the film A League of Their Own?
Did you know that Hector Hyppolite was a Haitian Vodou priest who was classified as a surrealist painter by the surrealist theorist André Breton?
Did you know that Nobel Laureate George Smoot, whose work cemented the Big Bang theory, made a cameo appearance on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in the episode "The Terminator Decoupling"?
Did you know that Philip Glass composed a soundtrack in 1998, recorded by the Kronos Quartet, for the 1931 Dracula film starring Béla Lugosi?
Did you know that Raquel Forner was one of the earliest fine artists to portray scenes of outer space?
Did you know that Shamar Sands, the Bahamian 110 metre hurdles national record holder, has a degree in accountancy?
Did you know that Spratt's supplied army dogs with 1,256,976,708 dog biscuits during World War I?
Did you know that Stanton windmill has a wooden windshaft?
Did you know that Toniná in Mexico (pyramid pictured) was one of the last of the Classic Period Maya cities to fall into ruin?
Did you know that at the Battle of Pulo Aura, a fleet of East Indiamen under Commodore Nathaniel Dance fought off an entire French squadron?
Did you know that custom allocators may greatly improve the performance of a computer program written in C++?
Did you know that in 1767, Union Street first connected Poughkeepsie, New York, to the Hudson River?
Did you know that in an annual festival in Koovagam, India, eunuchs and transvestites ritually marry the Hindu god Aravan (statue pictured)?
Did you know that radio station KLBS broadcasts a Portuguese-language world music format to California's San Joaquin Valley?
Did you know that the 1895 Chicago Times-Herald race, won by Charles Duryea's Motorized Wagon, was the first auto race in the United States?
Did you know that the 1931 Vickers Type 161 may have been the first aircraft to be fitted with in-flight adjustable elevator trims?
Did you know that the Jablonkow Incident has been named the first commando operation of the Second World War?
Did you know that the shell of marine snails in the family Juliidae is composed of two parts, like a clam?
Did you know that the subscription service BoardEx provides information on the world's business directors and senior managers, including their salaries, bonuses, and incentive pay?
Did you know that the summit of Mount Scott is the highest point in Crater Lake National Park?
Did you know that two trunk roads from London to the Sussex coast, the A22 and the A23, use parts of the London to Brighton Way?
Did you know that Air Vice Marshal Frank Bladin was nicknamed "Dad" for the concern he showed for the welfare of his personnel?
Did you know that Allison Bradshaw's mother, tennis player Valerie Ziegenfuss, was one of the Original 9 who established the basis for the WTA Tour?
Did you know that Asbjørn Kjønstad has been referred to as the "father of the smoking ban" in Norway?
Did you know that Charles Carroll the Settler's attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote?
Did you know that Charles Guth offered to sell Pepsi Co. to Coca-Cola, but they did not even make a bid?
Did you know that Horatio Nelson called Skeffington Lutwidge, his commander on two separate occasions, 'that good old man'?
Did you know that John B. Watson and Harvey A. Carr conducted a study called the kerplunk experiment, so named because of the sound the rat made when hitting the end of a maze?
Did you know that Lizzie Lloyd King, the alleged murderess of Charles Goodrich, consumed flakes of the victim's desiccated blood during a police interrogation?
Did you know that Sol Rosenberg, a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, established an international steel company in his adopted city of Monroe, Louisiana?
Did you know that Tom Bunn served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly at the same time as his older brothers Stan and Jim?
Did you know that according to the former mayor of the commune of Adjohoun, Gerard Adounsiba, the 2008 Benin floods were the "largest humanitarian crisis to date" to affect the region?
Did you know that after subduing most of the Hejaz, Qatada ibn Idris went on to become the Sharif of Mecca establishing a tradition of sharifs descended from him to rule the city until 1925?
Did you know that all postal voting was used in the 2003 Gateshead Council election and saw the third highest turnout in the 2003 United Kingdom local elections?
Did you know that during World War I, Britons could be fined for feeding the pigeons?
Did you know that during the Civil War years, the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles experienced floods, droughts, a smallpox epidemic, and even a plague of locusts?
Did you know that former United States President George H.W. Bush is a member of the invitation-only Alibi Club in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that in  2002, the submersible Pisces V and her sister vessel discovered a Japanese midget submarine in Pearl Harbor,  the first vessel to be sunk during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that in a review of David Jordan's debut album, Set the Mood, it was suggested that the singer could have been cloned from the DNA of Lenny Kravitz, Prince and Michael Jackson?
Did you know that official turnout in the 2005 Algerian national reconciliation referendum was 99.95% in Khenchela but only just over 11% in Tizi Ouzou Province?
Did you know that the Oslo square Eidsvolls plass has been referred to as "the National Mall of Norway"?