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Did you know that William F. Yardley, the first African American candidate for governor of Tennessee, is believed to have been the first African American attorney to argue before the state's supreme court?
Did you know that an unidentified suspect, dubbed the Long Island serial killer, is believed to have murdered as many as eight people and dumped their bodies along the Ocean Parkway in New York?
Did you know that artist Jeppe Hein created Bench Around the Lake to appear as if it tunnels in and out of the ground at the Indianapolis Museum of Art?
Did you know that during the 11½ day rescue of Bat 21 Bravo, the Americans flew an average of 90 sorties a day to protect their airman, hitting the NVA with over 800 air strikes in direct support of his rescue?
Did you know that historian Leslie Bethell became only the second English citizen elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters?
Did you know that in 1886, 200,000 salmon and salmon trout fry (young trout) were deposited in the Chamcook Lake in New Brunswick?
Did you know that playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz turned his controversial play Stallerhof into an opera libretto for Gerd Kühr, which premiered at the Munich Biennale?
Did you know that the 7th-century Law of Æthelberht (first folio pictured), a Kentish legal text, is the earliest extant document in the English language?
Did you know that the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut is the third oldest museum in the Near East?
Did you know that the Heroes' Monument of the Red Army in Vienna was built to commemorate 17,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Vienna Offensive of World War II?
Did you know that the World War II U-boat commander Heinz-Otto Schultze was the son of the World War I U-boat commander Otto Schultze?
Did you know that the artwork created for the MBTA's Red Line Northwest Extension cost  one half of one percent of the total construction costs of the rail line?
Did you know that the first life insurance company was founded in 1706?
Did you know that the redundant churches of St John and St Mary both stand near The Ridgeway long-distance path in Oxfordshire?
Did you know that the sculpture Confluence by Robert Stackhouse and Carol Merrit was inspired by Langston Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"?
Did you know that until 1959, the Finnhorse was the only horse breed allowed to be raced in Finland?
Did you know that Allah Made Me Funny is a documentary featuring three American Muslim comedians?
Did you know that Ash-sha'ab yurid isqat an-nizam (The people want the fall of the regime) was the most common slogan in graffiti during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution?
Did you know that Elizabeth J. Feinler, better known as "Jake", ran the Network Information Center of the Internet until 1989?
Did you know that Hollingworth Magniac had business relationships with William Jardine and James Matheson, whose Jardine Matheson and Company partnership became Asia's largest trading company?
Did you know that Nikolai Ryzhkov, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, was considered to be a conservative by radical reformers during the Gorbachev Era?
Did you know that Peñamiller, Querétaro, Mexico, is promoted as the gateway to the Sierra Gorda?
Did you know that Shoot to Kill (1990) had to be made as a drama documentary because many of its subjects had either been shot by the RUC, given new identities, or forbidden to talk by the Official Secrets Act?
Did you know that USAF General Vogt "shut down the war" and sent 119 aircraft to recover Major Roger Locher only 60 miles (97 km) from Hanoi—the deepest rescue inside North Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that a measuring rod is depicted on both the Code of Hammurabi and the Tablet of Shamash?
Did you know that a week after co-producing an Usher concert in the Philippines, Representative Ronald Singson was jailed in Hong Kong for alleged drug trafficking?
Did you know that after the California Court of Appeal treated a teenager's letter as a formal appeal, Presiding Justice Daniel J. Kremer wrote a unanimous opinion overturning the boy's speeding ticket fine?
Did you know that all that remains of the Old Church of St Mary the Virgin in Preston Candover, Hampshire, is the chancel?
Did you know that at the time of the 3rd Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ there were no stage coaches running in Arizona?
Did you know that in 2007 Lucy Aharish became the first Arab to present the news on mainstream Israeli television?
Did you know that in 2010, a white member of the Monticello Association was one of three Thomas Jefferson descendants given the "Search for Common Ground" award for working to heal the family's past and legacy of slavery?
Did you know that new Police Commissioner of New Zealand Peter Marshall held off an invasion of his home by 13 people in the Solomon Islands with a ceremonial sword?
Did you know that pamphleteer George Thomson criticized his fellow physicians for fleeing London during the Great Plague, just when the city needed them most?
Did you know that racist music is considered an effective recruiting tool for the modern neo-Nazi and white supremacy movements, and a breeding ground for domestic terrorism in the United States?
Did you know that the first Ottoman governor of Syria, Janbirdi al-Ghazali, revolted against Ottoman rule two years into his reign?
Did you know that the first painting exhibited at the Royal Academy by Henry Thomson was of Daedalus fastening wings on his son Icarus?
Did you know that the total amount spent on lobbying in the United States in 2010 was $3.49 billion?
Did you know that two people owed their survival of the Sture Murders to an ambiguous order issued by a mad king?
Did you know that "G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I've Got A)" by Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now! is a reply to Avril Lavigne's song, "Girlfriend"?
Did you know that Captain Charles Inglis helped frustrate a planned French invasion of Britain?
Did you know that Combretum glutinosum, found in The Gambia and the Sahel belt, is used to make yellow dye?
Did you know that Ernst Cadman Colwell, together with his students, elaborated a new method of textual criticism known as the Claremont Profile Method?
Did you know that Jean-François-Auguste Moulin was one of the last two holdouts in the French Directory to resist Napoleon Bonaparte's seizure of power?
Did you know that John VI Kantakouzenos concealed the purpose of the meeting that resulted in the 1327 Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of Chernomen by describing it as eight days of rejoicing and feasts?
Did you know that Landysh, a Russian vessel built with funding from Japan to decommission nuclear submarines, was requested by Japan to assist in the aftermath of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents?
Did you know that Lev Voronin, a First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, was acting Premier of the Soviet Union between Nikolai Ryzhkov's hospitalisation and Valentin Pavlov's election as Premier?
Did you know that White Ware or Vaiselle Blanche was a limestone based prototype of clay pottery developed somewhere in the Levant in the ninth millennium BC?
Did you know that after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison H. Eid clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas?
Did you know that among the many children of Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald were inventors, clergymen, civil servants, Members of Parliament, army officers and admirals?
Did you know that artist Maya Lin worked with the U.S. Geological Survey to create her Bluespring Caverns-inspired sculpture Above and Below?
Did you know that before he entered politics, Joseph Stalin's poetry was widely read and much admired in Georgia?
Did you know that former California State Assemblyman George W. Milias, a graduate of both San Jose State and Stanford, was President of the California Republican Assembly and state Republican Party Chairman?
Did you know that in one concert, bassoonist Lyndon Watts premiered Bernd Redmann's Migrant, played Jörg Duda's first Finnish Quartet, which he had commissioned, and the Bassoon Quintet of Graham Waterhouse, which he had premiered?
Did you know that in the U.S. Supreme Court case Stoner v. California, Potter Stewart wrote that the police could not depend on their bud, a hotel clerk, to help smoke out a suspected robber?
Did you know that the 2011 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, held in France in April 2011, marks the first time that all of the Six Nations will participate in the competition?
Did you know that the British minelayer HMS Plover laid over 15,000 mines during World War II, including two that sank the German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann off the Belgian coast in January 1942?
Did you know that the Ethiopian eunuch has been described as the "first baptized gay Christian"?
Did you know that the John Hancock Tower, in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Twenty-five Year Award thirty-five years after it was completed?
Did you know that the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe, Cheshire, was opened in 1887, destroyed by fire in 1910, and rebuilt on the same site in 1911?
Did you know that the album Gloria by Mexican singer Gloria Trevi features a song dedicated to The Rolling Stones?
Did you know that the concept of self-propelled particles can explain why flocking birds suddenly change direction for no apparent reason, or abruptly switch from a flying state to a landing state?
Did you know that "You Debt Your Life" was the second American Dad! episode to feature the story of how Roger the Alien saved Stan Smith at Area 51, the first episode having been "Roger Codger"?
Did you know that Air India One is the call sign of any aircraft carrying either the Prime Minister of India or the President of India?
Did you know that Ancient Greek girl Myrtis was made a friend of the Millennium Development Goals by the United Nations Regional Information Centre?
Did you know that Breton writer Jacques Cambry (1749–1807) published important works on Celtic history and monuments, and in 1805 founded the Celtic Academy?
Did you know that Fort Center may be the earliest archaeological site in Florida where maize was cultivated?
Did you know that Jurassic Park's discussion of chaos theory was inspired by Ivar Ekeland?
Did you know that Ox Baker, a former tag team partner of Walter "Killer" Kowalski, was among the wrestling legends who spoke at the Killer Kowalski Memorial Show in 2008?
Did you know that Piper's Opera House was used by boxing champion Gentleman Jim Corbett as a training facility in preparation for his title bout with Bob Fitzsimmons?
Did you know that Radix natalensis is a widespread freshwater snail in Africa?
Did you know that addition of sulfur increases the refractive index of polymers?
Did you know that after Rick Wakeman left Yes without a full-time keyboardist in 1997, the band borrowed Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro for their final rock radio hit "Open Your Eyes"?
Did you know that depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art (example pictured) date back to early Christianity and can be seen in the Catacombs of Rome?
Did you know that five thousand types of communion tokens have been issued by Presbyterian churches?
Did you know that on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Leslie Whetter was accused of incompetence, "chiefly through lack of determination in character and failing to do his level best"?
Did you know that one-quarter of the plant diversity of Mexico occurs in Landa de Matamoros municipality in Querétaro?
Did you know that several members of the 4th Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ were accused of accepting bribes after the session created the territory's first "permanent" capital?
Did you know that the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck sought the imprisonment of Admiral Reinhold Werner, who nearly precipitated a war between Spanish rebels and Germany in 1873?
Did you know that the Hai Van Pass has been the scene of at least two of Vietnam's most serious railway accidents?
Did you know that the Late Eocene marine Hoko River Formation is noted for producing crab, gastropod, cephalopod, and wood fossils?
Did you know that the ancient British custom of rushbearing was opposed by the Puritans, probably for encouraging intemperance, but deemed acceptable by King James I in his Declaration of Sports?
Did you know that the historian Josephus wrote that the Jordan River had its source in Aaiha, because of an underground stream feeding the Hasbani River?
Did you know that the monument to Sir Henry Furnese in All Saints Church, Waldershare, Kent, fills a chapel, and has been described as "outstanding"?
Did you know that 17 years after Bruiser Brody's 1988 murder, the stadium where he was killed was one of the venues of the Bruiser Brody Memorial Cup Tour, which featured his assailant, Invader I, on the card?
Did you know that African-American writer Felicia D. Henderson has worked on projects as varied as the television series Soul Food, Gossip Girl, and Fringe, and the comic series Teen Titans?
Did you know that Courtney Vandersloot was the first NCAA Division I basketball player, male or female, with 2,000 points and 1,000 assists in a career?
Did you know that Felix Schlag won the prize for designing the Jefferson nickel, but was required to submit an entirely new "tails" or reverse side?
Did you know that Jesus at Herod's Court is mentioned in only one canonical gospel, the Gospel of Luke?
Did you know that Judge C. C. Bridgewater's tenure on the Washington Court of Appeals ended when he missed the deadline to file for re-election—because he was in a medically induced coma after a heart attack?
Did you know that Louisa Hubbard founded the Women's Emigration Society in 1880 to help young women from London find employment outside of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that The King of Rome's skin is preserved in Derby Museum because he survived where other pigeons died?
Did you know that after The Redmond Spokesman won University of Oregon's Hal E. Hoss trophy for the best weekly newspaper in Oregon three times in five years, the award was retired and given to The Spokesman's publisher?
Did you know that at age 18, Australian country music singer Samantha McClymont was crowned Grafton Jacaranda Queen, named Trans-Tasman Entertainer of the Year, and was a Top 118 finalist for Australian Idol?
Did you know that during the trial that led to the U.S. Supreme Court case Mancusi v. DeForte, which established a reasonable expectation of privacy at work, the jury deliberated for 28 hours without sleep?
Did you know that every Good Friday since 1922, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging (The Netherlands Bach Society) has performed Bach's St Matthew Passion in Naarden?
Did you know that footballers Denis Law, Robert Smyth McColl and Hughie Gallacher have each scored three hat-tricks for Scotland?
Did you know that in 1864 the Church of St John the Baptist, Upper Eldon, in Hampshire was being used as a cowshed, and in 1973 its only occupant was "a beautiful white owl"?
Did you know that in the 1820s, chemist Antoine Labarraque won a prize of 1,500 francs for discovering a way to remove the appalling smell from Paris's gut-processing factories?
Did you know that jazz guitarist Julian Lage recorded his Grammy-nominated debut album Sounding Point when he was only 20 years old?
Did you know that the Carlton Hotel sold New Zealand's first beer on tap?
Did you know that the Foresight Institute's Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology includes both annual prizes and a US$250,000 Grand Prize modeled after historical technological prizes such as the Longitude prize?
Did you know that the Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were large, 17 metres (56 ft) long, fixed flamethrowers used in the Mametz sector of the Battle of the Somme, and that the remains of one have recently been rediscovered?
Did you know that the Loire Valley chansonniers are 15th century illustrated songbooks that are smaller than a modern paperback?
Did you know that the first recorded ascent of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze on 27 August 1820, was led by a Bavarian Army officer, Josef Naus?
Did you know that the possibly extinct wall crab spider species Garcorops jadis was named for C.S. Lewis' Jadis, the White Witch?
Did you know that the queen ant of the Acropyga acutiventris carries a mealybug Xenococcus annandalei in her jaws on her nuptial flight?
Did you know that when the ABB Group and CMS Energy invested US$1.5 billion into projects at the Moroccan port of Jorf Lasfar, it was the largest foreign investment ever in that country?
Did you know that Alaungpaya was a village headman who founded the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma, and unified the country for the third time in its history?
Did you know that Alimuddin Zumla was the first Zambian doctor to be shortlisted for the BMJ Group's Lifetime Achievement Award?
Did you know that Barend Joseph Stokvis, a Dutch professor of medicine, was the first to describe the rare disease acute porphyria in a 1889 study?
Did you know that Bright Angel, composed by Graham Waterhouse for three bassoons and contrabassoon, relates to the Bright Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon which the composer hiked with his father at the age of nine?
Did you know that Dickshooter was named for Dick Shooter?
Did you know that Edward J. Burke coached the Drexel Dragons men's basketball team to their first NCAA Tournament?
Did you know that Gandrung traditional dance, popular in Java, Bali and Lombok, was originally dedicated to the rice goddess, Dewi Sri?
Did you know that Montana Supreme Court Justice Brian Morris, who clerked for U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was the starting fullback in the 1986 Gator Bowl for the Stanford Cardinal football team?
Did you know that Pedro Virgili, from Vilallonga del Camp, was one of the most prominent royal surgeons of Spain in the 18th century?
Did you know that Supernatural, a 1998 album by British singer Des'ree, sold 50,000 copies in the United States, although her 1994 album I Ain't Movin' sold over a million copies?
Did you know that Tamil devotional poetry describes how clothes of married women slipped off at the sight of the Hindu god Shiva appearing in the form of a naked beggar?
Did you know that a portion of Black Eagle Dam was dynamited on April 14, 1908, so that floodwaters from the collapsed Hauser Dam could pass through?
Did you know that according to Kawasaki's theorem, an origami crease pattern with one vertex may be folded flat if and only if the sum of every other angle between consecutive creases is 180º?
Did you know that artist Charles Alston's bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was the first image of an African American displayed at the White House?
Did you know that organocerium compounds can serve as an "environmentally friendly alternative" to other organometallic reagents?
Did you know that the 6th Arizona Territorial Legislature was delayed from 1869 until 1871 because no Territorial Governor was available to call for elections?
Did you know that the Spring Creek Site in western Michigan is a type site for Ottawa pottery?
Did you know that the extinct trilobite Bumastus (artist's rendition pictured) was named after its resemblance to large grapes?
Did you know that the flash of light accompanying an earthquake in 1896 was attributed by some residents of North Piddle, Worcestershire, to a large meteor?
Did you know that up to 200 people played a game of football on land near Brothertoft, Lincolnshire, in the 1760s as a protest against enclosure?
Did you know that when the first cents coined by the U.S. Mint were ridiculed for their crudeness, Mint worker Adam Eckfeldt replaced the chain design with a wreath and put a trefoil under Liberty's head?
Did you know that Angry Birds was named App of the Year at the British Appy Awards?
Did you know that Aziz Ahmad is considered one of the best Buzkashi players in Afghanistan?
Did you know that Bach was only in his twenties when he composed the cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, for Easter, using in seven movements the words and tune of Martin Luther's Easter chorale?
Did you know that Geoff Emerick, who co-created the send tape echo echo delay audio effect at Abbey Road Studios, once said that "God only knows" how it worked?
Did you know that Henry Conybeare, a civil engineer who planned a water-supply scheme for Mumbai which is still in use today, also designed St Mary's Church in Itchen Stoke, Hampshire?
Did you know that James C. Nelson, appointed as a Montana Supreme Court Justice by George W. Bush's campaign chair, wrote that blocking same-sex marriage was a "societal cancer grounded in bigotry and hate"?
Did you know that Juice Newton played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club?
Did you know that Nelson F.C. lost only one home match in the Football League Third Division North during the 1924–25 season?
Did you know that artist Edward Hopper's wife served as the model for both women in his painting Hotel Lobby?
Did you know that boxer Adrian Dodson competed for Guyana at the 1988 Summer Olympics and for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that child actor Darryl Richard made his last TV appearance on the series finale of ABC's The Donna Reed Show, March 19, 1966, a day after his 20th birthday?
Did you know that in the 2010 documentary film 180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless, Jeff Johnson emulates the 1968 journey made by Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins?
Did you know that in the Fourth Test of the 1965–66 Ashes series the Australian cricket captain Bobby Simpson and his batting partner Bill Lawry made 244 runs in 255 minutes, the highest opening stand against England in Australia?
Did you know that in the burrowing wolf spider Allocosa brasiliensis, males often eat older, less fecund females that they lured into their burrow using pheromones, while preferredly mating with virgins?
Did you know that it is said that Thomas à Becket preached either in the church dedicated to him, in Capel, Kent, or in its churchyard?
Did you know that police used cryptic messages placed in a newspaper and disguised as Mensa puzzles to communicate with the perpetrator of a letter bomb campaign?
Did you know that the only known specimen of the extinct planthopper Glisachaemus jonasdamzeni is preserved with a parasitic mite?
Did you know that the snail Theodoxus fluviatilis (shells pictured) can reach population density up to 6412 snails per m2?
Did you know that the star cluster Messier 103 can be observed with the use of binoculars?
Did you know that Center Point, Camp County, Texas, was settled in 1865 by freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is the birthplace of mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad?
Did you know that Democratic and Republican plans for the 2012 United States federal budget both focus on deficit reduction, but differ in their changes to taxation, entitlement programs, and research funding?
Did you know that Franz Liszt dedicated his Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H (the BACH motif) to the organist Alexander Winterberger who premiered it at the Merseburg Cathedral?
Did you know that Jovan Skerlić's role in literature and general cultural and political development has resulted in the suggestion that the 1900–1914 period in Serbian history should be named after him?
Did you know that La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin is the only public museum in Europe that combines collections of magic with a site for performing arts?
Did you know that Metropolitan Police officer Chris Allison was the Gold Commander for police operations in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings?
Did you know that Representative J. D. Rumberg of the 10th Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ tried to ban all horse racing in the territory but was only able to have it outlawed on his own ranch?
Did you know that The Motherfucker With the Hat was the Broadway debut for actor Chris Rock?
Did you know that Wharton Reef Light, now on display at the Townsville Maritime Museum, Queensland, is the only survivor of a series of 20 automatic lighthouses installed from 1913 to the early 1920s?
Did you know that a live album released in 2009 includes a duet by Fito Páez and Joaquín Sabina, who had not spoken for more than 10 years?