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Did you know that the 19th-century swindler Bertha Heyman, known as "The Confidence Queen," conned men by pretending to be a wealthy woman who was unable to access her fortune?
Did you know that the 644-kilometre (400 mi) European route E59 links three European capitals – Prague, Vienna and Zagreb?
Did you know that the Ridgeway Site is the type site for the Glacial Kame Culture?
Did you know that the extinct moth Epiborkhausenites is noted for having very similar color patterning to the living species Tubuliferola josephinae and Hofmannophila pseudospretella?
Did you know that the online game EteRNA, funded by the National Science Foundation, allows players to design RNA molecules that may be synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab?
Did you know that Billy Waters, known for his peculiar antics, appeared in Tom and Jerry?
Did you know that David Dunwoodie had two separate runs with the Ice Dogs?
Did you know that Hanna Zemer, who became the first female editor-in-chief of a major Israeli newspaper, had survived imprisonment in two Nazi concentration camps?
Did you know that Jana Sterbak created a dress made of meat 23 years before Lady Gaga wore one?
Did you know that Scottish naturalist Ramsay Heatley Traquair received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1907 for his work on fossil fish?
Did you know that Tischendorf's Editio Octava Critica Maior and Westcott and Hort's text were sufficient to make the Textus Receptus obsolete for the scholarly world?
Did you know that Whorlton Castle (gatehouse pictured) in North Yorkshire is an unusual example of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle that continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages?
Did you know that in the 1895 Kentucky gubernatorial election, the candidacy of Democrat-turned-Populist Thomas S. Pettit was a major factor in William O. Bradley's election?
Did you know that the 2005 science fiction and horror film spoof The Naked Monster took 21 years to make and was Kenneth Tobey's final film?
Did you know that the William Armson-designed Guthrey Centre fell victim to the Christchurch earthquake, but his Excelsior Hotel will be rebuilt?
Did you know that the divergence in the Sino-Tibetan language family between the Sinitic languages in China and other Sino-Tibetan languages likely occurred during Neolithic migrations into the Tibetan plateau from the Neolithic cultures of the Yellow River?
Did you know that the song "If I Had a Heart" by Fever Ray was featured in the Breaking Bad episode "Open House" because it matched the "full, heavy darkness" of its scene?
Did you know that Giuseppe Cassioli created a design for the Summer Olympic Games medals (1980 bronze medal pictured) that was used for 40 years?
Did you know that Marcus Aurelius wanted to create a new Roman province called Marcomannia in what is now Slovakia?
Did you know that San Francisco, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Syracuse all have Goethe–Schiller Monuments that are modeled on the "beloved" 1857 monument to the poets in Weimar, Germany?
Did you know that Seacology has preserved 957,852 acres (3,876 km2; 1,497 sq mi) of marine habitat and 852,651 acres (3,451 km2; 1,332 sq mi) of terrestrial habitat since it was founded in 1991?
Did you know that after largemouth bass were illegally placed into Davis Lake, it gained a reputation as one of the best bass lakes in Oregon?
Did you know that because he has brittle bone disease, motivational speaker Sean Stephenson is just three feet (91 cm) tall?
Did you know that coining new words such as "picture place" (for "art gallery") is a communication strategy used by people learning to speak a foreign tongue?
Did you know that drainage pits under London Underground tracks help reduce the number of suicides?
Did you know that only four great uncial codices have survived until the present day?
Did you know that the first year of Caribana in Toronto set records for Toronto Island attendance?
Did you know that the tallest rock-fill dam in Japan can be found at the Shin-Takasegawa Pumped Storage Station in Nagano Prefecture?
Did you know that two cousins, both called Benjamin Handley, were in a boat that capsized crossing the Tagus river during the Peninsular War—and one drowned while the other survived?
Did you know that when the serpent star is discarded with unwanted invertebrates from fishing nets, it rarely survives?
Did you know that Ismail Marzuki wrote his 1945 song "Gugur Bunga di Taman Bakti" to honor the Indonesian casualties of the Indonesian National Revolution?
Did you know that Iván Erőd composed a sinfonietta called Minnesota Sinfonietta, an opera titled Silk Worms, and a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, named Baby Tooth Songs?
Did you know that John Marburger, President George W. Bush's science advisor, publicly stated his belief that intelligent design is not a scientific theory?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas F. Darcy drew a political cartoon featuring an L-shaped coffin and the caption "Good news, we've turned the corner in Vietnam!"?
Did you know that according to music critic Greil Marcus, the track "Every Picture Tells a Story" represents Rod Stewart's greatest performance?
Did you know that actress Christine Baranski canceled a birthday trip to Paris to appear in the television film Who Is Simon Miller?
Did you know that baseball humorist Charles Dryden dubbed the 1906 White Sox the "Hitless Wonders" and said of the 1909 Senators: "Washington – first in war, first in peace and last in the American League"?
Did you know that before 1238, St Edward the Confessor parish church in Westcott Barton was dedicated to St Edmund rather than St Edward?
Did you know that during the Indonesian National Revolution the first Indonesian flag, Bendera Pusaka (first hoisting pictured), was cut in half to save it from the Dutch military forces?
Did you know that in St Botolph's Church, Botolphs, a series of arches on the wall indicate a long-demolished aisle?
Did you know that in the center of Bach's cantata Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist, BWV 45, the voice of Christ appears in a "highly virtuosic aria, half Vivaldian concerto, half operatic scena"?
Did you know that the music video of the song "Express Yourself" had a budget of $5 million, making it the most expensive music video at the time of its release?
Did you know that the oldest known member of the mayfly family Neoephemeridae is the Eocene species Neoephemera antiqua?
Did you know that when he was 20, shipping executive Lewis A. Lapham played a foursome with golf champions Bobby Jones and Francis Ouimet?
Did you know that Caxton Hall in Westminster, London, was the venue for the marriages of two Beatles, a future Prime Minister, and several movie stars?
Did you know that Central Saint Giles in London, designed by architect Renzo Piano, has been compared to "giant mutant chewy sweets" and Marmite?
Did you know that Henry Lamar, who coached all four Kennedy brothers, originally intended to help coach at Harvard University for a few weeks but remained there for four decades?
Did you know that Muslim Mosque, Inc., which was founded by Malcolm X, was awarded 35 scholarships to send students to Al-Azhar University and the Islamic University of Madinah?
Did you know that Reg, Doug and Max Bentley made history on January 1, 1943, when they became the National Hockey League's first all-brother forward line?
Did you know that after Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Earl Lawson had altercations with both Johnny Temple and Vada Pinson, he joked that Pinson was a harder puncher?
Did you know that footballer Hasan Ahmet Sari left Istanbul with his family after living through the 1999 İzmit earthquake?
Did you know that future US Marine Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig was arrested by Marines at age 10 for photographing the Washington Navy Yard?
Did you know that in 1959, President Sukarno declared himself to be also Prime Minister of Indonesia?
Did you know that in Liverpool Bay, the white furrow shell, the transparent razor shell and the trumpet worm live side by side beneath the sand?
Did you know that journalist Jay Bahadur lived with pirates in Somalia?
Did you know that over 650,000 people visited the Alexander McQueen exhibition Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and some queued for more than four hours?
Did you know that the low numbers of injuries in carnivorous dinosaurs indicate they may have been less aggressive with individuals of their own species than modern crocodilians?
Did you know that Bhutan House, an estate owned by the Dorji family in West Bengal, India, was once the conduit for communication between the government of Bhutan and the rest of the world?
Did you know that Happy Salma, wife of a prince, agreed to play a prostitute in 7 Hearts 7 Loves 7 Women, but only if no men could touch her on set?
Did you know that Riek Machar, first Vice-President of South Sudan in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) government, once fought against them, with government support?
Did you know that Sister Carmela Marie Cristiano was the first Catholic nun to run for political office in New Jersey?
Did you know that actress Amanda Tapping accepted the part of Helen Magnus, the protagonist of Sanctuary, after she was encouraged to move on from her eleven-year role as Samantha Carter in Stargate?
Did you know that after World War II, Polish resistance organizer and Warsaw Uprising fighter Jan Mazurkiewicz was brutally tortured by the authorities in communist Poland?
Did you know that after the fall of Suharto, the circulation of his party's newspaper, Suara Karya, dropped by a factor of a hundred?
Did you know that in 1912 Ivan Ivanić became the first governor of Durrës County in the Kingdom of Serbia?
Did you know that in 2004 there were two terrorist attacks in Sulawesi, one on a bus and one in a cafe?
Did you know that on two separate occasions in 2010, five One Piece releases simultaneously debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list for manga?
Did you know that sales of Montana artist Monte Dolack's poster, "Restoring the Wolf to Yellowstone," were banned in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks by the U.S. National Park Service in 1990?
Did you know that the British-supported Greek-Yugoslav confederation was signed during World War II, but never came to pass?
Did you know that the Cook Statue in Christchurch was a gift to the city from Matthew Barnett?
Did you know that the variable saw sedge is food for caterpillars of the moth genus Elachista?
Did you know that Arthur Matsu was the first Asian American student at The College of William & Mary, the first Asian American quarterback in the NFL and the first Japanese coach in American football?
Did you know that Gakhwangjeon Hall, a National Treasure of South Korea, was built to replace Jangnyukjeon Hall, which had been destroyed during the Imjin War?
Did you know that Hall of Fame sportswriter Frank Graham, once described as "psychopathically polite," loved the "shadowy figures and rogues that dwelt on the fringes of his favorite sports"?
Did you know that Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine, now held by MOMA, was designated a work of degenerate art by the Nazi German government and sold for $120 in 1939?
Did you know that RHI Entertainment's miniseries based on Moby-Dick is the first to air on the U.S. pay-television network Encore?
Did you know that Robin Dunne was nominated for a Constellation Award for his portrayal of Will Zimmerman in the television series Sanctuary, but narrowly lost to Doctor Who actor David Tennant?
Did you know that a "terrible Mouse" weighing 500 kg (1,100 lb) has killed three people in Spain in the last five years?
Did you know that a cell bank stores cell lines in a mixture of liquid nitrogen that freezes them to a temperature lower than −70° Celsius?
Did you know that although English actor Andrew Gower won the Spotlight Prize in 2010, his new Being Human character is accustomed to the dark?
Did you know that in 1912, during the First Balkan War, the Kingdom of Serbia established Durrës County on territory captured from the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that jingū-ji, Buddhist temples with a shrine dedicated to the worship of a local Shinto kami, were common in Japan until they were outlawed in 1868?
Did you know that the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London, attracted a clientele that included Christine Keeler, Mandy Rice-Davies, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, and Bob Marley?
Did you know that the Rosendale Theatre once banned popcorn because the "crackling paper bags disrupted quiet scenes"?
Did you know that the recent Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved the 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis, will not actually reduce the overall size of the U.S. public debt?
Did you know that "O Tú o Ninguna" performed by Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a nomination for Song of the Year at the 1st Latin Grammy Awards?
Did you know that Dorival Caymmi, one of the fathers of bossa nova, loved to skinny dip?
Did you know that Emma Thompson earned twelve accolades for Sense and Sensibility, including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay?
Did you know that a fossilized dragon has been found in Poland?
Did you know that according to his diary, the future Emperor Uda was "shuddering with fear" on his father's enthronement?
Did you know that after debunking Abner Doubleday as the inventor of baseball, Frank Menke was placed in "the class that would belittle Washington, Lincoln and other men who have played their part in American history"?
Did you know that the 1978 song Man Free by Linton Kwesi Johnson was about Darcus Howe, then editor of black political magazine Race Today?
Did you know that the Eastern Bettong eats native cranberries?
Did you know that the Riverside Inn is a former mineral springs resort turned hotel and dinner theater in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Twoline eelpout feeds primarily on bottom-dwelling organisms?
Did you know that the congregation of her church was outraged when E.R. Shipp criticized her pastor in print, but he led them in a standing ovation when she won the Pulitzer Prize?
Did you know that the extinct fern species Osmunda wehrii was named in honor of Northwest school painter and amateur paleobotanist Wesley C. Wehr?
Did you know that Jan Buijs' De Volharding Building was a famous example of architecture of the night?
Did you know that Polish Jacobin activist, officer of the Polish Legions, Kazimierz Konopka, gained notoriety for his involvements in the unrest and hangings during the Kościuszko Uprising?
Did you know that The X-Files star David Duchovny "detested" the episode "Born Again", despite appearing alongside his then-girlfriend Maggie Wheeler?
Did you know that US Presidents Clinton and Bush were awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service by their respective Secretaries of Defense?
Did you know that a masterpiece painting  (fragment pictured) by Jan Matejko shows more than a dozen figures involved in the passing of the Polish-Lithuanian Constitution of May 3, 1791?
Did you know that advanced plans were developed for a film version of the award-winning 2002 novel The Cutting Room involving actor Robert Carlyle and screenwriter Andrea Gibb?
Did you know that after the Battle of the Meander, a rumour spread amongst the crusaders that their successful counterattack had been led by an unknown white-clad knight?
Did you know that during the New England Patriots' 1985–86 playoff run, an opposing player hit general manager Patrick Sullivan with a football helmet?
Did you know that in 2010 Elinor Joseph became the first Arab woman to serve in a combat role in the Israel Defense Forces?
Did you know that in Bach's cantata Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort, BWV 168, virtuoso string writing underscores the "word of thunder"?
Did you know that the 2011–12 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team will be the first Michigan team to host ESPN's College GameDay college basketball television show?
Did you know that the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, contains more than 3,000 objects of folk art?
Did you know that the Matthew Callahan Log Cabin is one of the few such structures left in Aspen, Colorado?
Did you know that the fruit of the rainforest tree Dysoxylum pettigrewianum provides food for Metallic Starlings and cassowaries, and the leaves are eaten by Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo?
Did you know that 98 species of bug have been recovered from sally?
Did you know that Eden II, an art installation within the Indianapolis Museum of Art's 100 Acres, features a mock refugee ship to highlight the problem of climate change?
Did you know that Edward Leo Krumpelmann is one of the two Maryknoll priests who set up the Catholic parish of Kwun Tong, Hong Kong?
Did you know that Pierre-François Palloy began the demolition of the Bastille on the same day that it was attacked?
Did you know that Texas Governor Rick Perry compares the current Social Security system to a Ponzi scheme in his 2010 book Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington?
Did you know that a judge ruled that spectators were not entitled to any refund of their admission money when a match in Small Heath F.C.'s 1895–96 season was abandoned after only 37 minutes?
Did you know that early European settlers of Australia used woody pear (illustration pictured) to make gun stocks?
Did you know that sportswriter Bill Farnsworth teamed with Damon Runyon in promoting boxing bouts that raised more than $1 million for Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies?
Did you know that the Abrams Building, demolished in 1987 to make way for the Knickerbocker Arena, had one of the few remaining original storefronts in downtown Albany, New York?
Did you know that the Franciscan friar Manuel Antonio de Rivas, who was tried for heresy in 1775 in Mexico, wrote the first science-fiction text in the Americas?
Did you know that the Indian miners' union Sikasa was banned in 1992, accused of being a front organisation of the People's War Group?
Did you know that the Royal Commission on Opium, set up at the instigation of anti-opium campaigners, set back the anti-opium cause by 15 years?
Did you know that the first industrial robot, the Unimate, was installed in 1961 by General Motors at its Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey?
Did you know that November 1828 came in 1979?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Ronne Froman, the first woman to serve as the "Navy Mayor of San Diego", became the Chief Operating Officer of the city of San Diego after retiring from the Navy?
Did you know that Sanzo Nosaka trained Japanese prisoners of war to fight for Mao Zedong?
Did you know that Tufele Liamatua served as the first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa?
Did you know that Vikram is only the third actor to receive a National Film Award for Best Actor in the Tamil film industry?
Did you know that a Libyan hip hop artist using the pseudonym Ibn Thabit wrote "Benghazi" in support of the city of that name during the 2011 Libyan civil war?
Did you know that handball goalkeeper Andrea Farkas won Olympic bronze and silver medals with the Hungarian national team?
Did you know that the "Street Doctor", who delivers food to the poor of Newark, New Jersey in his van and seeks to end street violence, spent 10 years in solitary confinement?
Did you know that the Indian Head gold pieces (quarter eagle pictured) are the only circulating U.S. coins to have a recessed design?
Did you know that the Tosa Yamauchi Family Treasury and Archives contain the oldest extant manuscript of the Kokinshū, dating from the 11th century and designated a National Treasure of Japan?
Did you know that the Yellow-billed Spoonbill has a row of small knobs inside its bill which detect vibration?
Did you know that the expression "going round the bend" is said to come from operators stationed on Telegraph Island who were desperate to escape to India by sailing round the bend in the Strait of Hormuz?
Did you know that the five largest public library systems in the United States are in Boston, New York, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Detroit?
Did you know that tips of the stamens of the Pagosa skyrocket are covered with blue pollen that turns yellow as the flower ages?
Did you know that Digya National Park is the oldest protected area in Ghana?
Did you know that English novelist, poet and dramatist Laurence Alma-Tadema explained the meaning of happiness to Americans on her 1907–08 U.S. tour?
Did you know that Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare is said to be the world's only shrine to William Shakespeare?
Did you know that Michael Herrmann is founder-director of the Rheingau Musik Festival, which holds about 150 concerts every season in vineyards and historical buildings?
Did you know that after killing a man in a duel over dogs, Captain James Macnamara asked naval officers including Viscounts Hood and Nelson, Lord Hotham, Sir Hyde Parker and Sir Thomas Troubridge, to testify on his behalf?
Did you know that after the Toxteth riots of 1981, the Hargreaves Building in Liverpool was converted for the use of the Liverpool Racquet Club?
Did you know that despite being a two-star recruit in 2006, American football player Scott Lutrus was a 2007 Freshman All-American at Connecticut?
Did you know that disagreement about the expansion of the Namibian holiday settlement of Wlotzkasbaken went all the way to Supreme Court?
Did you know that future Chairman of the Federal Reserve William McChesney Martin and future Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford were tennis doubles partners in 1922 at Soldan High School in St. Louis, Missouri?
Did you know that it took over half a century to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1?
Did you know that many pages of Herculaneum papyri carbonized by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 were restored to legibility by multi-spectral imaging?
Did you know that the Vineyard Gazette, the only paid circulation newspaper on the island of Martha's Vineyard, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Bob in 1991?
Did you know that Željko Ivanek, who plays the title role in The X-Files episode "Roland," was the first person to audition for the part?
Did you know that Detroit sportswriter Paul Bruske drove a Flanders "20" roadster from Quebec to Mexico City in 1910 and later managed Eddie Rickenbacker's racing team?
Did you know that Leo Suryadinata has written more than 50 books, with a focus on Chinese Indonesians?
Did you know that Mi Gao Huang Chen was beaten to death in 2005 by a large group of youths outside the Chinese takeaway he owned in Scholes, Greater Manchester?
Did you know that Thomas Rigby of Liverpool, England, added medieval-style grotesques to Rigby's Buildings?
Did you know that after going undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft, current Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Todd Carter took a job at Tropical Smoothie Cafe?
Did you know that even when LED street lighting produces less light than conventional forms of lighting, it can still cause more ecological light pollution?
Did you know that hundreds of people daily practice Yogic flying in the Golden Domes in Fairfield, Iowa?
Did you know that the Cuban Friendship Urn monument originally stood in Havana, was moved to Washington, DC, in 1928, disappeared around 1959, and was found and re-erected in the 1990s?
Did you know that the Hetman Party of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth called upon Russia to help defend their Golden Liberties?
Did you know that the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado, was one of the first buildings west of the Mississippi to have full electric lighting?
Did you know that the complete works of Brunette Coleman were not published until seventeen years after the death of Philip Larkin?
Did you know that the effigy of Jan Suchorzewski, who once threatened to kill his son to prevent the signing of the Constitution of 3 May, was hanged during the Kościuszko Insurrection?
Did you know that Hugo Steinhaus "discovered" Stefan Banach and helped re-establish Polish mathematics at the University of Wrocław after World War II?
Did you know that Lisa Stublić's debut marathon was the fastest marathon run by any Croatian athlete in 2010, including men?
Did you know that Nano Riantiarno's works include the Cockroach, White Snake, and Constipation "operas"?