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Did you know that early Western Australian settler George Layman Sr. was speared to death by a Wardandi elder at Wonnerup House in 1841?
Did you know that in 2010, Washington Nationals pitcher Collin Balester hit two batters in the head in a span of nine days?
Did you know that the Emissions Control Technology Association (ECTA) claims that more than $20 in healthcare savings is generated for every dollar spent on the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times calls Love, Loss, and What I Wore a The Vagina Monologues-What Not to Wear mix, and The New York Times calls it a "show about matters of the heart and matters of the closet"?
Did you know that the M2 gas mask protected the wearer for at least five hours against the common World War I chemical weapon phosgene?
Did you know that the Sunmobile, world's first solar-powered automobile, was demonstrated in a 1955 General Motors car show?
Did you know that the church of Llangadfan, near Dyfnant Forest, was visited by Saint Cadfan who founded a church there before moving to Bardsey Island in 516?
Did you know that the name of Fisheating Creek is derived from the Seminole name for the stream, Thlothlopopka-Hatchee, or "the river where fish are eaten"?
Did you know that the past captains of the Indian cricket team were honoured during the 1997 Pepsi Independence Cup, which was organised to celebrate India's 50th anniversary of independence?
Did you know that the upscale boutiques and exclusive nightclub that Aspen, Colorado, developer Harley Baldwin put in the Brand Building and Collins Block earned them the nickname "Glitter Gulch"?
Did you know that while playing cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club, E. W. Bastard once dismissed Australian cricket captain Billy Murdoch?
Did you know that "What's Your Name", a 2008 electro single by Usher and will.i.am, was noted by some critics as one of the best tracks on Here I Stand, while others described it as "downright awful"?
Did you know that American sailor Ed Baird has won the America's Cup with syndicates from New Zealand and Switzerland, but failed at two attempts to win it with teams from his native country?
Did you know that Brian Bowman performed the first euphonium recital at Carnegie Hall?
Did you know that Clement W. Payton won a British Distinguished Flying Cross and a Belgian Croix de guerre?
Did you know that Cézanne may have painted Pyramid of Skulls because he was drawn to the forms, exclaiming, "How beautiful a skull is to paint!"?
Did you know that Italian runner Silvana Cruciata ran over 18 km (11.2 miles) in one hour—a world record which went unbeaten for 17 years?
Did you know that Jay Houghton, a member of the Missouri House of Representatives, had an uncle, two great-uncles, and a great-great-grandfather who also served as representatives?
Did you know that Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games is the result of continued commercial success of Olympic video games starring Nintendo's and Sega's once-rival mascots, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog?
Did you know that Morića Han is the only surviving han in Sarajevo?
Did you know that among the all-time list of AAU Men's Basketball All-Americans, 33 have competed in the Olympic Games while nine have been enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that apartheid in South Africa and the Mozambican Civil War caused an increase in the number of tourists visiting Swaziland?
Did you know that dressmakers working on Kate Middleton's wedding gown changed needles every three hours, and washed their hands every half hour?
Did you know that in Luoji Township in Yunnan, there are laws against the picking of young matsutake mushrooms smaller than 6 cm (2.4 in) in diameter?
Did you know that on Mt. Murchison in New Zealand's Braeburn Range, a small population of large carnivorous snails, Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes", is only found above the bush line?
Did you know that the UK House of Commons Treasury Committee challenged the Payments Council's plan to abolish cheques by 2018?
Did you know that the concept for the Euthanasia Coaster, a roller coaster designed to kill its riders, caused concern among anti-euthanasia groups when it went on display?
Did you know that the design competition for Our City caused much controversy, as the winning architect was young, inexperienced and proposed an architectural style that New Zealanders were unfamiliar with?
Did you know that the film Ronald Reagan called "the worst picture I ever made" inspired Jerry Parr to join the Secret Service, and that Parr saved President Reagan's life during the 1981 assassination attempt?
Did you know that the maiden voyage of Empire Cowdray was delayed because most of her crew were drunk?
Did you know that the skinny triangle is used by snipers to estimate target range?
Did you know that the widest path problem forms the algorithmic basis of the Schulze method used by Wikimedia to decide the winners of multiway elections?
Did you know that Alfred E. Goodey collected and commissioned paintings to record the history of Derby?
Did you know that Burmese democracy activist Aye Aung is serving a 59-year prison sentence for distributing leaflets and organizing protests in Yangon?
Did you know that Dragan Velić is the current President of the Union of Serbian Districts and District Units of Kosovo and Metohija of North Kosovo?
Did you know that Homeland Security is recruiting every local jail in the U.S. to become a deportation office through a new program called Secure Communities?
Did you know that Milton Olander, who led the Western Michigan football team to an unbeaten and unscored upon record in 1922, was later offered a position as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor?
Did you know that Mochtar Lubis's novel Salah Asuhan had to avoid themes of rebellion and portray the European characters in a positive light in order to be published?
Did you know that Ron Hextall was the first ice hockey goaltender to shoot and score a goal in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that Salilyn's Condor and Salilyn 'N Erin's Shameless are the only father and daughter to have both won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
Did you know that at the 2008 Games, Helene Raynsford became the Paralympic's first ever rowing gold medallist?
Did you know that despite his racing career cut short by two wars, Finnhorse trotter Eri-Aaroni sold in 1946 for the equivalent of 680,000 euros, the all-time highest price for a horse in Finland?
Did you know that during Operation Rhodes of January 1970, Israeli paratroops held the Egyptian island of Shadwan for over a day before leaving with 62 prisoners of war?
Did you know that liquid crystal lasers can emit several wavelengths from a single device?
Did you know that richness of the wildlife of the Central African Republic (gorilla pictured) is reflected in its about 3,600 species of plants and more than 1,000 species of birds, mammals and reptiles?
Did you know that the Engine Company 2 Fire Station in Hartford, Connecticut, was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival architectural style, not commonly used for firehouses?
Did you know that the OS Museum in Post, Texas, contains a hybrid of exhibits on both the American West and Asia, which are changed three times per year?
Did you know that the Red Faced Lovebird is found in both the Central African Republic's Bamingui-Bangoran National Park and in Nigeria's Gashaka Gumti National Park?
Did you know that the Rhine Terrace restaurant in Berlin's Haus Vaterland featured hourly fake thunderstorms?
Did you know that the characters of "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" are only allowed to experience one day a week?
Did you know that the main target of the 1945 attack on Yokosuka was the battleship Nagato, the flagship of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941?
Did you know that the original Shaare Zedek Synagogue was the oldest synagogue in Winnipeg?
Did you know that there is a tri-state water dispute between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin?
Did you know that when Nikita Khrushchev gave the go-ahead to build the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Pervukhin was the first to know?
Did you know that workers at the Bata shoe factory in East Tilbury, England, lived in "Bata-ville", a company town complete with houses, schools, shops, sports facilities, a theatre, a post office, and its own newspaper?
Did you know that Eddie Wilcoxen, morning show host on radio station KWHW, is the current Poet Laureate for the state of Oklahoma?
Did you know that Footes Lane is the main sporting venue in Guernsey?
Did you know that G. L. Pridgen, a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, supports a bill requiring a referendum on English being his state’s official language?
Did you know that St Lawrence's Church in Broughton, Buckinghamshire, is listed Grade I because of its "remarkable series" of medieval wall paintings?
Did you know that Sudanese human rights activist Mudawi Ibrahim Adam has been imprisoned four times for his work in Darfur?
Did you know that Twicket, the first ever village cricket match to be live-streamed around the world, was played in Wray, Lancashire, on Easter Monday 2011?
Did you know that although Earth, Wind & Fire's song "Reasons" has never charted, it is included on several dozen albums including most of the group's greatest hits compilation albums?
Did you know that bandleader Ivy Benson and her all-female band were the first entertainers invited to perform at the VE Day celebrations in Berlin at the request of Field Marshal Montgomery?
Did you know that before they owned large ranches in Texas, John Wesley Snyder and his brother operated an apple orchard and horse-trading business in Williamson County near Austin?
Did you know that during a 1762 British siege of the Fortress of the Immaculate Conception in El Castillo village within El Castillo municipality, Nicaragua, Rafaela Herrera inspired the outnumbered Spanish defenders to victory?
Did you know that in 1852  Franz Johann Joseph Bock  founded the first large exhibition of ancient masterpieces of Christian art?
Did you know that in Coffee: A Dark History, Antony Wild claims that coffee helped cause the Age of Enlightenment?
Did you know that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, are the graves of the notable military figures Henry "Hangman" Hawley and Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke?
Did you know that members of the Brisbane-based Women's National Emergency Legion served as drivers for United States military units in Australia during World War II?
Did you know that next-generation DDR4 computer memory, developed since 2005, is the first of its family to discard multi-channel architecture, and the first to include 3D silicon stacking in its specification?
Did you know that shea trees, most heavily concentrated in Burkina Faso, are referred to as "women's gold" (woman processing shea nuts pictured) by the locals for their properties?
Did you know that the Civic, a Category II heritage building damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, is to be demolished?
Did you know that the Jacksonville Aviation Authority owns and operates four airports on a budget of US$63.8 million in Jacksonville, Florida, but costs taxpayers nothing?
Did you know that the Loire is the longest river in France?
Did you know that the ancient custom of ringing the curfew bell each evening from St Peter's Church in Sandwich, Kent, still continues?
Did you know that the buildings in Jižní Město, the Czech Republic's largest housing estate, were color-coded to facilitate orientation?
Did you know that women in Burma wore a skirtcloth known as the htamein during the Konbaung Dynasty?
Did you know that Debedeavon, the Laughing King of the Accawmacke Virginia Indian tribe, and an Englishman whom he adopted named Thomas Savage, warned the settlers at Jamestown of the impending 1622 Massacre?
Did you know that Dinochelus ausubeli, a deepwater lobster discovered during the Census of Marine Life expedition, was named in honour of its sponsor, Jesse H. Ausubel?
Did you know that Esad Mekuli is considered the father of modern Albanian poetry in Yugoslavia?
Did you know that GeoCenter Møns Klint on the island of Møn in Denmark was designed by PLH Architects, the winners of an international design competition?
Did you know that Gustav Elfving invented the optimal design of experiments, and so minimized the cost of a cartographic survey, while trapped in his tent in storm-ridden Greenland?
Did you know that Keith Thiele, whose daring motorcycle escape during WWII has been compared to Steve McQueen's in The Great Escape, is one of only four New Zealanders to be awarded the DFC and two bars?
Did you know that Nellie McClung, the Canadian novelist, prohibitionist, and activist, lectured at the Cornish Library in Winnipeg?
Did you know that Russell and Sigurd Varian, who played childhood pranks on family guests by giving them minor electric shocks, went on to invent the klystron and become pioneers of microwave technology?
Did you know that Tekalif-i orfiye, Resm-i çift, Rav akçesi, Nüzül, İspençe, Avariz, Adet-i ağnam, Resm-i arusane, Tuz resmi, Resm-i bennâk, Bedl-i askeri, Gümrük resmi, Sursat, Müskirat resmi, Temettu, Adet-i deştbani, Damga resmi, Resm-i mücerred, Öşür, Ihtisab, Resm-i donum and Tapu resmi were Ottoman taxes, whilst Muafiyet were exemptions, and Emins were tax collectors?
Did you know that Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum has won Paralympic medals for Israel in athletics, swimming and table tennis?
Did you know that an extremophile bacterium, Paracoccus denitrificans, has been found to grow even under 400,000 times Earth's gravity, a fact having implications on the feasibility of panspermia?
Did you know that host country West Germany won the most gold medals at the 1972 Summer Paralympics, but the United States won the most total medals?
Did you know that in 2011 the annual festival Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, founded in 1896 after the model of the Bayreuth Festival, opened at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden with the first performance in German of Rodion Shchedrin's opera Lolita?
Did you know that in the men's decathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics, British athlete Daniel Awde set a personal best in the pole vault and had the fastest time of anyone in the 400 metres, but finished 21st?
Did you know that it was Jerry Shipp who led the United States men's national basketball team in scoring at the 1964 Summer Olympics, even though its roster included two future Hall of Famers?
Did you know that more than 120 archaeological sites have been found in the Econfina Creek watershed?
Did you know that solar panels provide part of the power for electric vehicle charging stations at Hillsboro, Oregon's Intermodal Transit Facility?
Did you know that the British Colonial Hilton Nassau is located on the site of the Old Fort of Nassau?
Did you know that the Pfaffenstein, a low table mountain and one of the most important climbing areas in Saxon Switzerland, was visited by Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony, in 1915?
Did you know that the iridescent metallic hues of some jewel bugs (Scutelleridae) (example pictured) are caused by structural colors instead of pigmentation?
Did you know that timber from the Ruislip Woods was used in the construction of the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, the Palace of Westminster, and the manor of the Black Prince in Kennington?
Did you know that Captain Cedric Holland was sent with the British terms for the surrender of the French fleet prior to the attack on Mers-el-Kébir?
Did you know that George Jessel and Arlene Francis hosted a 1953–54 ABC reality show, The Comeback Story, in which guests discuss how they overcame great adversity in their lives?
Did you know that Italian athlete Roberto Marson was proclaimed the outstanding athlete of the Games after winning 10 gold medals at the 1968 Paralympics?
Did you know that Kate Middleton's wedding dress for her marriage to Prince William was designed by Sarah Burton?
Did you know that Mongolia's top Olympic marathon runner Ser-Od Bat-Ochir trains with Morpeth Harriers in Gateshead, England?
Did you know that Nude Nuns with Big Guns is a nunsploitation thriller film that is the subject of a copyright lawsuit against torrent users involving 5,865 IP addresses?
Did you know that Radhakrishnan's Dhammapada was recommended reading for victims of the "annihilation-extinction" theory of nirvana?
Did you know that Sufjan Stevens has released four versions of "Chicago", including the "Multiple Personality Disorder Version"?
Did you know that Vincent van Gogh called his 1888 painting Langlois Bridge at Arles "something funny ... I will not create every day"?
Did you know that Virginia rabbi Jack Moline helped write President Bill Clinton's famous 1995 "Shalom, Haver" eulogy for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin?
Did you know that a fungal pathogen Beauveria bassiana has been released along with a parasitic wasp Tetrastichus planipennisi in the US as a biological control agent of the emerald ash borer?
Did you know that basketball player Othyus Jeffers and his two older brothers, Gerome Allen and Edmund Allen, were all shot during three separate shooting incidents in their hometown, but only Jeffers survived?
Did you know that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad by singing the Jewish prayer for the dead?
Did you know that the English theologian Daniel Whitby in 1710 defended Textus Receptus's finding of 30,000 textual variants in John Mill's edition of the New Testament?
Did you know that the earliest history of Alishang in Afghanistan is traced to the Mughal Emperor Babur, when in the 1520s he hunted wildlife in the mountains there before returning to India?
Did you know that the first time Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers starred together in a film was in Lewis Milestone's 1940 comedy romance drama Lucky Partners?
Did you know that the house at 36 Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut, was built by an insurance company to satisfy a mortgage payment the neighborhood's developers could not make?
Did you know that the precursors to the White House Press Secretary and White House press corps both formed during the presidency of Grover Cleveland?
Did you know that the seed of the Australian plant Banksia canei requires stratification (keeping at 5 °C for 60 days) before germination?
Did you know that the tomb of Robert Ingylton in St Michael and All Angels' Church in Thornton, Buckinghamshire, was re-assembled from a grotto?
Did you know that within six months of opening The Kitchin restaurant in Edinburgh, chef Tom Kitchin became the youngest-ever recipient of a Michelin star?
Did you know that Bach set the theme of the Good Shepherd in his cantata for the second Sunday after Easter, Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104, as a pastorale, a trio of oboes playing triplets to pedal points?
Did you know that Captain Władysław Raginis is known as a modern Leonidas for facing Nazi German forces which outnumbered the Poles 40:1 at the Battle of Wizna?
Did you know that Cath Kidston started her shopping chain after surviving breast cancer?
Did you know that Dr. Richard Spademan invented the Spademan binding after seeing 150 fractures in a single long weekend at Squaw Valley?
Did you know that Ed Schieffelin prospected for ore near hostile Chiricahua Apache Indians, and when he found a large silver deposit, he named the claim Tombstone because everyone said that's all he'd find?
Did you know that English shipwright James Beeching invented a self-righting lifeboat in 1851, which became the standard model for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's new fleet?
Did you know that Phaeacius, a very lazy jumping spider, waits motionless until prey walks almost into its jaws?
Did you know that Samuel Paull Andrews was the first working class man to be elected to the New Zealand Parliament?
Did you know that The King retired after a girl curtsied to him?
Did you know that after soprano Gianna Galli's opera career ended at the age of 40 due to problems with her vocal cords, she had a second successful career as a talent manager of singers in Italy?
Did you know that at its peak in the early 20th century, the Matador Ranch had 90,000 head of cattle on nearly 900,000 acres in parts of four West Texas counties?
Did you know that baritone Richard Torigi created the role of Silvio de Narni in the world premiere of Alberto Ginastera's Bomarzo in 1967?
Did you know that males of jumping spider Maevia inclemens were once considered different species, but the females knew better?
Did you know that the 2008 California Statewide Truck and Bus Rule is expected to save 9,400 lives and over US$48 billion in health-care costs?
Did you know that the Rabboni was the first regular tugboat to work the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River?
Did you know that the former St John the Evangelist's Church in Chichester was designed according to such extreme Low Church principles that the altar resembles "a kind of kitchen table"?
Did you know that the government of Skopje passed a law to preserve the Ristiḱ Palace as a "Cultural Heritage" when it was threatened with destruction for illegal infringement?
Did you know that the only surviving example of subdivision gates in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, built by property owners instead of a real estate developer are located at Armstrong’s Point?
Did you know that the small Land Yeo river in Somerset, England, has powered at least ten watermills in the last 1,000 years?
Did you know that the title Baron Carrickfergus was given to Prince William as a gift from Queen Elizabeth II for his wedding?
Did you know that "Jerry's Painting", an episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, features a painting with a topless centaur Greek goddess that resembles the lead character, played by Amy Poehler?
Did you know that GJ 3634 b, a recently discovered Super-Earth in orbit around a red dwarf star, is estimated to be over eight times more massive than Earth?
Did you know that Henry Norlande Ruttan, an Empire Loyalist, was the project engineer for a Winnipeg pumping station considered in 1906 to be the most modern such institution in the world?
Did you know that Pierre Koffmann served a signature dish of pig's trotter with chicken mousseline, sweetbreads and morels at his three Michelin star restaurant La Tante Claire?
Did you know that Plaza Resort Bonaire is the largest diving resort in the southern Caribbean island of Bonaire?
Did you know that Richard Phipson's Victorian church spire at Great Finborough in Suffolk has been nicknamed "Thunderbird One" after the Supermarionation space rescue vehicle?
Did you know that a frog battery can decompose potassium iodide?
Did you know that a luxury hotel and resort on the islet of Sveti Stefan, Montenegro has been described as a "'70s Adriatic playground on a hilly peninsula that's barely connected to the mainland"?
Did you know that abstract expressionist painter Jay Meuser painted two portraits for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur?
Did you know that after the Battle of Arnhem, the British 156th Parachute Battalion was reduced to only 68 men?
Did you know that conductor Herbert Grossman collaborated with his wife on a popular English language translation of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi?
Did you know that deforestation in the surrounding rainforest has led to howler monkeys being seen on the streets of modern Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico?
Did you know that during the terms of Governor Jeb Bush, the Republican-dominated Florida Council of 100 began taking an activist role, funding studies and proposing solutions to critical issues?
Did you know that former Croatian Member of Parliament Ruža Tomašić appeared in television series The X-Files and Millennium as a stuntwoman?
Did you know that in Rocky Mountain Bank v. Google Inc., if a Gmail user had viewed a particular email, Google was ordered to disclose to a bank the user's real name?
Did you know that opera singer Maria di Gerlando created the role of Carmela in the 1954 world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street?