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Did you know that Rika's Landing Roadhouse in Big Delta, Alaska, was transferred from John Hajdukovich to Rika Wallen for "$10.00 and other considerations"?
Did you know that St. Thomas of Villanova Church, upon its completion in 1887, was likely the tallest man-made structure between the Delaware River and Lancaster, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that William Thompson Lusk was one of the first doctors to successfully perform multiple Caesarean sections?
Did you know that black Baptist minister and former slave R. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his denomination?
Did you know that contestants on the reality television series Face the Ace win US$1 million if they beat three poker professionals in one-on-one matches of Texas hold 'em?
Did you know that during World War I, U.S. YMCA worker and preacher William Howard Hoople sailed to France to serve on the front lines as an entertainer?
Did you know that in 1704 Simón Susarte, a Spanish Gibraltarian goatherd, revealed a concealed path to the Spanish Army which led to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar, so they could surprise the Anglo-Dutch troops based there?
Did you know that on his wife Nancy's birthday, Ronald Reagan would send flowers to his mother-in-law, Edith Luckett Davis, to thank her for giving birth to Nancy?
Did you know that professional wrestler Estrella Blanca holds the record for the most "bet match" wins?
Did you know that the Bald Man and the Red Emperor, the antagonists in Ion Creangă's Harap Alb story, have been interpreted as echoes of conflicts opposing Romanians to the Tatars and the Khazar "Red Jews"?
Did you know that the British Army Gold Cross awarded to field and general officers during the Peninsular War inspired the design of the Victoria Cross?
Did you know that the LRC tilting train provided core service with VIA Rail in Canada for several decades, and that Bombardier Transportation used its coach design on the Acela Express and British Rail Class 221?
Did you know that the Nano Ganesh mobile application allows farmers in India to control irrigation pumps in remote fields with mobile phones?
Did you know that the PlayStation 3 video game Rorona no Atelier: Aarando no Renkinjutsushi is the first in its series to feature 3D computer graphics?
Did you know that the concert selected for the Dave Matthews Band's newest live album, Live Trax Vol. 16, was chosen by the staff at a Dave Matthews Band fansite?
Did you know that the former United Nations commander in Bosnia, Colonel Bob Stewart, has been accepted as a prospective parliamentary candidate for the UK Conservative Party?
Did you know that Al-Majdal, Tiberias, a village depopulated in 1948, preserved the name of the ancient village reputed to be the birthplace of Mary Magdalene?
Did you know that Carvins Cove, Virginia, was abandoned and subsequently inundated to create Carvins Cove Reservoir in the 1940s?
Did you know that Madeleine Masson unknowingly met Krystyna Skarbek, whose biography she would write two decades later, days before Skarbek's murder in 1952?
Did you know that Royal Navy Admiral Lawrence Halsted was the son of a naval captain, married the daughter of an admiral, and was the father of a vice-admiral?
Did you know that Viennese-born architect Konstantin Jovanović provided the original designs for the National Assembly buildings of both Bulgaria and Serbia?
Did you know that according to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau the earthquakes of Douliu, Meishan, Nantou, Hsinchu-Taichung, Zhongpu, Xinhua, the East Rift Valley, Hengchun, Baihe, and Jiji were the ten deadliest quakes to strike the island in the 20th century?
Did you know that female yellow mites are produced from unfertilized eggs, a process called thelytoky?
Did you know that for his 2009 film Lucky Bastard, writer/director Everett Lewis drew upon his own relationship experience with a crystal meth addict?
Did you know that professional wrestler Super Muñeco teamed with Super Ráton (dressed like Mighty Mouse) and Super Pinocho (dressed like Pinocchio) to form Trio Fantasia?
Did you know that the 1695 Siege of Namur has been called the most important event in the Nine Years' War?
Did you know that the 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Great Britain organised by Albert Baskiville helped establish rugby league in Australia and New Zealand?
Did you know that the Charles Boyd Homestead is a group of three buildings that were once part of a pioneer ranch that supplied beef to logging crews in Central Oregon?
Did you know that the Kenny Chesney – Dave Matthews duet "I'm Alive" was previously recorded by Willie Nelson on an album that Chesney co-produced?
Did you know that the Kunjin virus, which can be transmitted by mosquitoes and may cause encephalitis in humans, is named for an Indigenous Australian clan living near where the virus was first isolated?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode "Reptar on Ice" was a satirical parody of over-commercialization of children's media in the form of merchandise tie-ins?
Did you know that the SMS Nassau was the first dreadnought ship built by the German Imperial Navy?
Did you know that the uncinate fasciculus connecting the temporal and frontal lobes is the last white matter tract in the human brain (diagrammed) to mature, with this continuing after age 30?
Did you know that the whitetip reef shark may have contributed to the Hawaiian myth of ʻaumākua, family guardian spirits, due to the "loyalty" of sharks that stay in the same area for years?
Did you know that Babette March, the first cover model of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, became a farmer in Canada and is now an artist, entrepreneur and chef in Halfway, Oregon?
Did you know that DJ George Taylor Morris created a 1997 media frenzy with the "Dark Side of the Rainbow" phenomenon, in which the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon is said to synch up with The Wizard of Oz?
Did you know that Hugh Murray was both the youngest Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, having been appointed at ages 25 and 27, respectively?
Did you know that John 3:7, once flung from a train window, made the news again in 2009 after going missing on a train?
Did you know that Martina Navratilova is credited as a corpse in Single-Handed, a drama series in which the main character has sexual intercourse with his own sister?
Did you know that Samuel Coleridge's Eminent Characters series includes: a lawyer, a speaker, a Unitarian, a general, a rebel, a betrayer, a poet, an actress, a philosopher, a friend, a playwright and a lord?
Did you know that a quarter wave impedance transformer can make an electrical open circuit look like a short circuit?
Did you know that country music singer Easton Corbin's debut single "A Little More Country Than That" was co-written by Rory Lee Feek of Joey + Rory?
Did you know that due to the John Wood Community College's "Common Market" approach, its first class of graduates in 1976 never set foot in a classroom of the college?
Did you know that during the 11th century, Christian kingdoms of medieval Spain gained considerable wealth by collecting parias from the taifas of al-Andalus?
Did you know that following the battle of Menin Road, Daniel Poole received a bar to his Distinguished Conduct Medal for what was described as "reckless leadership"?
Did you know that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election the Communist Party of India (M-L) Red Flag decided to support the Left Democratic Front, claiming that its opponents were pro-Israeli?
Did you know that rapper Lil Wayne is said to have brought the phrase "no homo" into the mainstream of hip hop?
Did you know that sidewalks in Ann Arbor, Michigan, were spray-painted with the words "AnnArbor.com is here"?
Did you know that spiderhunters (Spectacled Spiderhunter pictured) have tubular tongues able to form a pressure difference which is used to suck up nectar?
Did you know that the 1977 Pat Travers album Live! Go for What You Know, featuring Travers and Pat Thrall on guitar, is said to bridge the gap between 1970s and 1980s styles of metal guitar playing?
Did you know that the Gull River system of reservoirs in Ontario controls the water levels of the Trent-Severn Canal, although they were not originally created for this purpose?
Did you know that the ROV on NOAA's new exploratory vessel, Okeanos Explorer, can descend nearly 19,000 feet (5,800 m) and provides real-time viewing of the ocean floor?
Did you know that the common spangle gall on the leaves of pedunculate oak trees is produced by the gall wasp Neurotus quercus-baccarum?
Did you know that the early career of Mauritian-Norwegian footballer Caleb Francis was halted due to racist abuse?
Did you know that the name of Chindia Tower in Târgovişte, Romania may be related to the medieval curfew that began at sunset?
Did you know that the sandakada pahana design originally had carvings of a procession of elephants, lions, horses and bulls, but bulls were later removed due to influences of Hinduism?
Did you know that the social systems of some bee-eaters are the most complex of any bird, including four tiers: pair, family, clan and colony?
Did you know that the tuber of Drosera gigantea, one of the largest carnivorous sundew species, can be a metre below the ground?
Did you know that 120 earthquakes and tremors in total were felt in Edo, Japan during the Ansei Great Earthquakes of 1854–55?
Did you know that Arthur Adams, the singer of "You've Got the Floor", was a bandleader at B. B. King's blues club in Los Angeles?
Did you know that Indu Mitha is one of only two Bharatanatyam experts in Pakistan?
Did you know that Larvik Fotball was founded as a cooperation club in Larvik, Norway, but repeatedly failed to include the club Larvik Turn in the merger?
Did you know that Lunsford Lane was a slave from North Carolina who bought his freedom, but was tarred and feathered when he returned to his hometown of Raleigh?
Did you know that Possibility Playground, a $450,000 playground for special needs children, was built through donations and volunteer work from thousands of people?
Did you know that Ragnar Ulstein has written several documentary books on military intelligence in Norway during World War II?
Did you know that SS-Oberscharführer Ludwig Plagge, executed for his crimes at Auschwitz, was one of the first SS men to be deployed there?
Did you know that Shawnee Community College is one of only a few community colleges to offer on-campus housing?
Did you know that Sixteen, the 16th-floor restaurant at Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, features an eye-level view of the Wrigley Building clock tower?
Did you know that after Rokuzan Ogiwara viewed Auguste Rodin's just-completed masterpiece, The Thinker, he abandoned his career as a painter and became a sculptor instead?
Did you know that dramatic actor Alexander Ostuzhev, who completely lost his hearing in 1910, played leading roles at Maly Theatre for four more decades?
Did you know that during its construction, Voltaire complained that the massive Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons in Paris had only two faucets?
Did you know that ice hockey left winger Brent Peterson scored nine goals in his three seasons with the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning?
Did you know that in May 1945, Marian Bernaciak helped defeat a force of 680 soldiers supported by armored cars in the largest battle between the communist government of Poland and the anti-communist resistance?
Did you know that make-up artist Howard Smit led efforts to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup and require film studios to credit make-up artists in a film's screen credits?
Did you know that six years after leaving the governor's cabinet, Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Charles D. Baker, Jr. was elected to his small town's board of selectmen?
Did you know that the Oregon Bach Festival is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary under the direction of its founder, German conductor Helmuth Rilling?
Did you know that the ceremonial Dunvegan Cup was created in 1493 at the request of the wife of an Irish lord, and is today an heirloom of the chiefs of the Scottish Clan Macleod?
Did you know that the largest derrick in New York State at the time was used to build the Broadway Theatre in Kingston?
Did you know that the pterosaur genus Carniadactylus was originally classified under the species name Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi?
Did you know that when the Water Tower in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built in 1322–25 it stood in the River Dee, but it is now about 200 yards (183 m) inland due to silting of the river?
Did you know that Alan Taylor was chosen to direct the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Dog and Pony Show" after the show's producers were impressed by a short film Taylor made in a seminar taught by Martin Scorsese?
Did you know that Banksia 'Roller Coaster', the prostrate cultivar of Banksia integrifolia, is less than 50 centimetres high, while the normal form can be a 25 metre tree?
Did you know that Detective John Munch's pro-drug liberalization rants in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "And the Rockets' Dead Glare" were based on actor Richard Belzer's real-life past of drug abuse?
Did you know that Eddy Arnold was inspired to record The Casinos' "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" after hearing its writer, John D. Loudermilk, sing it?
Did you know that James Brady and his gang, the Yakey Yakes, forced their rivals, the Eastman Gang and the Five Points Gang, to "do their fighting north of Catherine Street" in New York City?
Did you know that Sean Munsanje became the first ever male presenter of Xposé upon winning the reality television show Total Xposure?
Did you know that St. Mary's, the first village planned in the Township of Bexley, was never built because the site lay above a bed of limestone?
Did you know that Stanley Palace in Chester, Cheshire, built as a town house in 1597, has since been apartments, a boys' school, and a museum, and is now used as an office and meeting rooms?
Did you know that a windmill has stood on the site in Aalden, Netherlands, now occupied by the Jantina Hellingmolen, since 1652?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, the five Pandava brothers followed a route to heaven alongside the Panch Prayag (Devprayag pictured) – five confluences which finally result in the holy Ganges river?
Did you know that fallow deer bones found in the Qesem Cave, Israel, show evidence that humans 400,000 to 200,000 years ago butchered animals to share and cook?
Did you know that in both 2006 and 2007, Louisiana Tech defensive tackle D'Anthony Smith had five tackles against Fresno State?
Did you know that outlaw motorcycle club the Gypsy Jokers has rallied the support of rival clubs to protest proposed Australian anti-"bikie" laws?
Did you know that professional wrestling promoter Emile Dupré has said that the Cormier wrestling family (Yvon, Jean-Louis, Leonce, and Romeo) "were to New Brunswick what the Hart family was to Calgary"?
Did you know that studies by Mark Rosenzweig showed that the brain develops anatomically into adulthood based on life experiences, overturning conventional wisdom that it reached full maturity in childhood?
Did you know that the American Florida-class battleships were the first U.S. battleships equipped with a steam turbine propulsion system?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Shot in the Dark" erroneously refers to Detective Pembleton's kids, even though he does not have children until later in the series?
Did you know that the USS Archer-Fish (SS-311), under the command of Joseph F. Enright, sank the largest ship ever destroyed by a submarine?
Did you know that the creation of napkin holders has been a project featured in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics?
Did you know that the leopard shark feeds on anchovies by swimming into their schools with its mouth open and waiting for them to accidentally enter?
Did you know that Branchinecta lynchi, a vulnerable species of fairy shrimp, can be found in vernal pools around Agate Lake?
Did you know that Japanese pop R&B singer-songwriter Mai Kuraki's 2009 album, Touch Me! became her first album in five years to top the Japanese album chart?
Did you know that John Durnford-Slater was the first British Commando?
Did you know that Justin Fashanu was the first professional association football player to come out as gay?
Did you know that Kingston City Hall was built on the former boundary between Kingston and Rondout, New York, to unify the two villages when they merged into one city?
Did you know that Ninoy Aquino Day is held to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr., husband of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino?
Did you know that No. 3 Commando was the first British commando unit raised during the Second World War?
Did you know that Schwartz Communications, the largest PR agency in Massachusetts, started by making campaigns for baby food before specializing on counseling pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies?
Did you know that Sockington, a cat on the microblogging site Twitter, now has over a million followers since starting there in 2007?
Did you know that Summer Wars was the first Japanese animated film to be included for competition at the Locarno International Film Festival?
Did you know that The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3-D! On Ice!, a documentary about The Simpsons, will most likely not be filmed in 3-D or take place on ice?
Did you know that Tokugawa coinage in Medieval Japan used a triple monetary standard, with gold, silver and bronze coins, each with their own denominations?
Did you know that a branch of Exeter City Supporters' Trust members helped finance James Norwood's contract at the football club, paying £19 per month?
Did you know that after English rugby international forward Denys Dobson was killed by a charging rhinoceros, he was reportedly said to always have had "a weak hand off"?
Did you know that in 1693 Sheikh Yusuf of Makassar, Indonesia, was exiled by the Dutch East India Company to South Africa, where he established the first Muslim community in the Cape?
Did you know that in 1960, country music artist Claude Gray bought the song "Family Bible" from Willie Nelson for $100?
Did you know that recovery of the oil in Spraberry Trend, an oil field ranked third in the U.S. by total proven reserves, is so difficult that the area was dubbed "the world's largest unrecoverable oil reserve"?
Did you know that the German 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun was featured in the main batteries of 16 of the 26 capital ships built by the Kaiserliche Marine before the First World War?
Did you know that the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Mesa Laboratory was I. M. Pei's first rural project?
Did you know that the rainforest plant Wilkiea huegeliana is most likely pollinated by a species of thrips?
Did you know that the second deepest spot in the world, the HMRG Deep, was discovered by a team of scientists from Hawaii even though it is located by Guam?
Did you know that Bonewaldesthorne's Tower in Chester city walls, Cheshire, England, is documented to 1249 and was used in the 19th–20th centuries as a museum with a camera obscura and an observatory?
Did you know that Chieftain's Salute, composed by Graham Waterhouse, is scored for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra?
Did you know that Hassard Short was born into the English landed gentry but moved to New York as an actor in 1901 and later became one of Broadway's greatest musical theatre directors and lighting designers?
Did you know that Jan Pol, a smock mill in Dalen, is the tallest remaining windmill in Drenthe?
Did you know that Ken Jennings received 11 of the 13 Jeopardy! single-day winnings of $50,000 or more?
Did you know that Le Van Duyet, the last viceroy of the Nguyen Dynasty's Cochinchina, was a eunuch?
Did you know that Mumbai has the world's second largest number of Art Deco buildings after Miami?
Did you know that Owl Island in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is an accurate depiction of the Island of St. Herbert in the center of Derwent Water?
Did you know that Perinpanayagam Sivaparan opposed the nomination of Selvarasa Pathmanathan to lead the Tamil Tigers?
Did you know that Preston Henn, owner of the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, won the 1983 24 Hours of Daytona sports car race and after retiring refused to discuss his racing career?
Did you know that Qaisar Bagh of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, was ordered demolished by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, but his queens' residence is still standing in Lucknow today?
Did you know that The Murderer Lives at Number 21 was director Henri-Georges Clouzot's first feature film for the Nazi-owned company Continental Films?
Did you know that Tiger Muskellunge were released into Curlew Lake in 1997 to control populations of squawfish?
Did you know that a U.S. Senate committee once claimed that Joseph Glimco ran "the nation's most corrupt union"?
Did you know that a scene in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", in which detectives convince a suspect that a copy machine is a lie detector, was based on real-life events within the Baltimore Police Department?
Did you know that according to Jewish customs, a yahrzeit candle is lit in memory of the dead on the anniversary of the death on the Hebrew calendar?
Did you know that according to LGBT interpretations, the Hindu fire god Agni's role in accepting sacrifices is paralleled by his accepting semen from other gods like Shiva and Soma?
Did you know that character actor Billy House once continued performing in a play immediately after suffering a heart attack?
Did you know that country music performer Roger Miller included his own recordings of two songs that he had written for Jim Reeves in the 1950s, on his 1966 album Words and Music?
Did you know that despite never obtaining a university degree, Taiwanese historian Ts'ao Yung-ho was made an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his scholarly work on Dutch Formosa?
Did you know that professional poker player Dan Harrington sometimes finds himself the victim of the poker strategies that he teaches in his Harrington on Hold 'em book series when playing poker tournaments?
Did you know that the Coyote Gold Mine in the remote Tanami Desert of Australia was opened in 2006 by the then Governor-General of Australia, Michael Jeffery?
Did you know that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Night of the Dead Living", takes place entirely within the set of the homicide detectives' squad room?
Did you know that the Large Mindoro Forest Mouse, first described as a distinct species in 1995, is known from only 16 individuals from a single mountain on the Island of Mindoro, Philippines?
Did you know that the Lewes Free Presbyterian Church, affiliated with Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, occupies a listed building that was formerly a Strict Baptist chapel?
Did you know that the Milton Odem House is one of the best examples of a Streamline Moderne style residence found in the state of Oregon?
Did you know that the Toi gold mine in Japan houses the world's largest pure gold bar, weighing 250 kilograms (550 lb)?
Did you know that the designers from the second season of Project Runway Philippines include a registered nurse, a call center agent, an accountant, and a Physical Education teacher?
Did you know that the first home versions of the Sega video game Jambo! Safari are set to be released, ten years after the game first appeared in arcades?
Did you know that the variety of places of worship in the district of Lewes, England, reflect its long tradition of Protestant Nonconformism?
Did you know that Air Vice Marshal Ellis Wackett, the RAAF's senior engineer from 1935 to 1959, was nicknamed "Punch" for his prominent chin and nose?
Did you know that Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon?
Did you know that Curious George made his literary debut in H.A. Rey's 1939 children's short story, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys?
Did you know that John Earls, the chief writer and editor of Teletext's Planet Sound music section, used to write reader music reviews during his teenage years for Blue Suede Views on ORACLE, the predecessor to Teletext?