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Did you know that as the full-sized clay mock-up of the original new Mini Hatch was missing an exhaust pipe, chief designer Frank Stephenson, had to make one out of an empty beer can?
Did you know that before he began shaping sculptures of the American West, Grant Speed of Utah had been a ranch-hand, horse breaker, and rodeo performer?
Did you know that svið, a traditional Icelandic dish, consists of a sheep's head that has been cut in half, singed and boiled with the brain removed?
Did you know that the Redstone Test Stand was built in Alabama by Wernher von Braun's rocketry team for just $25,000 out of concrete and salvaged materials?
Did you know that the Talent, a multiple unit passenger train in the rail system of Germany, Austria and Norway, was developed by Waggonfabrik Talbot in Aachen?
Did you know that the Tzeltal people (Tzeltal child pictured) of the Mexican state of Chiapas are descended from the Maya?
Did you know that the U.S. commanders at the Battle of La Flor and Battle of Las Cruces were each awarded the Navy Cross for their actions against the Sandinistas in the Banana Wars?
Did you know that the fee-for-service model encourages overutilization, which is a major factor behind the high cost of U.S. health care?
Did you know that the pabasa is a chanting marathon practised during Holy Week in the Philippines?
Did you know that the penis of the Lesser Water Boatman Micronecta scholtzi creates mating calls of 99.2 decibels, making it the loudest animal on earth, scaled for its size?
Did you know that Air Commodore Peter Raw had joined the Royal Australian Air Force after being rejected by the Royal Australian Navy?
Did you know that Arkansas State Representative Robert W. Glover of Sheridan introduced the resolution in 1909 which led to the establishment of the future Arkansas State University in Jonesboro?
Did you know that Carl Legien organized a massive general strike in Germany to counter the right-wing Kapp-Putsch of March 1920?
Did you know that Collins H. Johnston, halfback on the first Michigan football team in 1879, later published papers on eclampsia, tuberculosis, cardiac murmurs, and pulmonary abscess?
Did you know that Mona Vale in Christchurch, New Zealand, was turned into a public park, following the threat of subdivision of the property and demolition of the homestead in the 1960s?
Did you know that Sir Peter Lely's series of portraits, the Flagmen of Lowestoft (example pictured), commemorates English naval commanders who fought at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665?
Did you know that The Cenotaph, Whitehall replaced a wood-and-plaster cenotaph erected in 1919 for the Allied Victory Parade?
Did you know that Winston Churchill's funeral train carried the headcode of a breakdown train?
Did you know that according to violinist Gidon Kremer, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria philosophically resembles the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, US?
Did you know that one sickly lion, two Swedish kings, and 128 cannons were involved in the history of the orangery of Uppsala's Botanical Garden?
Did you know that the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act freed slaves in Washington, D.C. almost nine months before the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Did you know that the Livingstone Museum, opened in 1934, is the oldest and largest museum in Zambia?
Did you know that the bushy-tailed olingo can produce a foul-smelling liquid from its anal scent glands when alarmed, despite being more closely related to a raccoon than a skunk?
Did you know that the man behind the courteous baritone "Mind the gap" announcements in the Delhi Metro is Shammi Narang?
Did you know that the only loss of life recorded in the 70-year history of the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia was as a result of the sinking of the steamship Cheslakee?
Did you know that unlike most hotels from the same period, the Eagle Hotel, built in 1826 in Waterford, Pennsylvania, has quoining?
Did you know that when Jeff Mellinger, the last active-duty draftee in the U.S. Army from the Vietnam War era, received his draft papers, he thought that they were written to him by then-President Richard Nixon?
Did you know that Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment beat Leonardo DiCaprio's production company in a bidding war for the rights to produce World War Z, an upcoming post-apocalyptic horror film?
Did you know that George Rowe, the High Bailiff of the Manor of Cheltenham, left England to become an Australian gold prospector, but instead found success creating watercolour paintings?
Did you know that Goman was an ex-slave leader who led a peasant revolt in Southern Grand'Anse, Haiti between 1807 and 1820?
Did you know that Leroy Petry is receiving the U.S. Medal of Honor today, marking only the second time that the award has been bestowed upon a living soldier for actions after the end of the Vietnam War?
Did you know that after the Siege of Retz, the Kingdom of Hungary occupied the city, leading to the growth of its wine industry?
Did you know that during Sotir Kolea's term as director of the National Library of Albania the number of books there was tripled?
Did you know that in 1929 Thomas Ford Chipp found Bidens chippii in the Imatong Mountains?
Did you know that in 1953, the Jacksonville Braves became one of the first two racially integrated baseball teams in the South Atlantic League by fielding players including Hank Aaron and Félix Mantilla?
Did you know that of Chris Moorman's twelve World Series of Poker in the money finishes, three have been in $10,000 Championship events and five in six-handed events?
Did you know that the 16th century painting Virgin and Child with Four Angels by Gerard David is a modified copy of Jan van Eyck's 15th century painting Virgin with Child at a Fountain?
Did you know that the 2011 royal tour of Canada featured the first Canadian citizenship ceremony to include a member of Canada's royal family?
Did you know that the Austrian Church of St. Nikolaus in Lockenhaus includes an organ with 2400 pipes, as well as an unusual black Madonna on the altar of the crypt?
Did you know that the Punchiná Dam is part of the largest power station in Colombia?
Did you know that the Quiet Birdmen were noisy?
Did you know that the colonial city of Batavia (today Jakarta) was founded after the previous city, governed by the Sultanate of Banten, was completely eradicated by the Dutch colonists?
Did you know that the fungus Tremella encephala was officially described in 1801, but it was not known until 1961 that its central core is actually the remains of its host Stereum sanguinolentum?
Did you know that the man who bought Sterne's Captive (detail pictured) had John Raphael Smith's engraving plate broken after only 20 prints had been made?
Did you know that the mining settlement of Bwana Mkubwa received thousands of Polish refugees who arrived in Northern Rhodesia during World War II?
Did you know that Elizabeth Báthory, known as the "Blood Countess" because of her reign of terror, torturing and murdering hundreds of women, once resided at the Burg Lockenhaus?
Did you know that Jean Thurel was a soldier in the French Régiment de Touraine for more than 90 years?
Did you know that Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior, grandson of Quincy Adams Shaw and a member of an influential Boston Brahmin family, was co-inventor of the iron lung?
Did you know that Martin Luther's chorale Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (From deep affliction I cry out to you) was sung at his own funeral?
Did you know that Picasso said he discovered "what painting was all about" after seeing African art in the Paris Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro?
Did you know that Rami Levi introduced supermarket price wars to Israel?
Did you know that Sam Stein won his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2011 World Series of Poker but his largest single-event prize was a $1 million result at the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure?
Did you know that all five of Owais Ahmed's in the money finishes at the 2011 World Series of Poker were in Mixed poker games?
Did you know that conversation in a Paris café inspired the Surrealist sculpture Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), consisting of a fur-covered teacup, saucer and spoon?
Did you know that costume designer Sandy Powell earned her third Academy Award for the 2009 film The Young Victoria?
Did you know that detailed drawings by French explorer Louis Delaporte guided the reconstruction of Pha That Luang, a major Buddhist temple in Laos?
Did you know that during the Swedish campaign against Norway in 1814 commander Andreas Samuel Krebs successfully led his troops to victory both in the Battle of Lier and in the Battle of Matrand?
Did you know that the 1987 baseball film Long Gone, starring William Petersen, has been described as "three parts Bull Durham, two parts Slap Shot, add a dose of Bingo Long and a pinch of The Longest Yard"?
Did you know that the 2001 BMW F650CS motorcycle's offbeat, "iMac-inspired" styling was meant to attract non-motorcyclists of the extreme sports generation?
Did you know that the Gray-crowned Rosy Finch may breed at a higher altitude than any other breeding bird in North America?
Did you know that the Japanese government once put a bounty on the head of photojournalist H. S. Wong?
Did you know that the figure of Józef Tusk, grandfather of current Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, was in the center of the "Wehrmacht affair" of the 2005 Polish presidential election?
Did you know that the main temple at the Plaza of the Seven Temples in the Maya city of Tikal, in modern Guatemala, was decorated with a skull and crossbones?
Did you know that the vocals in the music of Nier are sung in versions of French, English, and Japanese after 1000 years of language drift?
Did you know that the world has been divided into 11 constituencies for French residents overseas to vote in the 2012 legislative election?
Did you know that triple Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna cited Terry Fullerton, his teammate in their karting days, as the driver he felt most satisfied racing against throughout his career?
Did you know that Badi Uzzaman was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom after acting in a film hostile to the government of Pakistani General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq?
Did you know that Easwaran's God Makes the Rivers to Flow claims that we are like a sculptor releasing a trapped elephant when we seek god- or self-realization by meditating on a sacred text?
Did you know that Frederik Wilhelm Stabell's merits at the Battle of Trangen and other battles of the Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 earned him the Order of Dannebrog?
Did you know that HMCS Galt, a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy, escorted trade convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic?
Did you know that a small fetus is preserved in the holotype fossil of the extinct stingray Asterotrygon?
Did you know that art dealer Jacques Seligmann & Company sold Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to the Museum of Modern Art for $24,000 in 1937?
Did you know that bass voice and trombone carry the cantus firmus of a famous chorale melody in the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135?
Did you know that despite overseeing the construction of the crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz, what specifically shocked SS-Obersturmführer Robert Mulka at the camp was his colleagues' dress sense?
Did you know that despite the customary practice of Catholic bishops tendering their resignations when they turn 75, Andrew Pataki's retirement was not accepted by the Pope until after he turned 80?
Did you know that enrollment at the University of Louisiana at Monroe grew nearly fivefold between 1958 and 1976 during the tenure of its president, George T. Walker?
Did you know that fish ponds at the Great Budbridge Manor on the Isle of Wight appear to be medieval?
Did you know that in 2007 politician Mary Deros of Montreal helped prevent an historic city avenue from being renamed after Robert Bourassa, a former Quebec premier?
Did you know that on 20 June 2011, the hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec announced they were joining forces for Operation Anti-Security?
Did you know that some ant species on Sebuku island may be descended from survivors of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa?
Did you know that tennis player Scott Lipsky, winner of the 2011 French Open Mixed Doubles Championship, was ranked #1 in the U.S. Juniors in both singles and doubles in 1995?
Did you know that the Oregon white truffle is a major component of the diet of Northern flying squirrels?
Did you know that the only extant octagonal pagoda in Japan is located at Anraku-ji?
Did you know that the writer of Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, lived as a child at Church Cottage, Tutshill, a Grade II listed building constructed in about 1852 in the Victorian Gothic style?
Did you know that American painter Robert Beauchamp originally attended Cranbrook Academy of Art to make money by learning pottery ... and for the love of a girl?
Did you know that John Donne's poem "The Good-Morrow" references seven sleeping children, cordiform maps and Paul the Apostle?
Did you know that Lee Corner in Alexandria, Virginia, includes the homes of U.S. Revolutionary War Officer Light Horse Harry Lee, U.S. Attorney General Charles Lee, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
Did you know that Lee Felsenstein designed the Pennywhistle modem to replace a commercial design used on Community Memory, the first bulletin board system?
Did you know that Pierrepont School, Frensham, occupied a listed English country house designed by Richard Norman Shaw?
Did you know that automatic AK-47 rifles were used in 42% of killings in Ikotos County, South Sudan, in 2009?
Did you know that bicycle racing champion William Van Wagoner founded a namesake automobile manufacturing company?
Did you know that during the Hesperian, Mars changed from a wet, warm world to today's dry, cold, and dusty planet?
Did you know that even after Muhammad ordered the demolition of the pagan idol, Dhul Khalasa, it was resurrected and worshipped until 1815, when members of the Wahabbi movement demolished it with gunfire?
Did you know that in its natural habitat, the Sand Live Oak often grows on white sand?
Did you know that paling in 't groen is a Flemish dish of eel in a green herb sauce?
Did you know that the hasty marriage of Thomas Thynne of Longleat may have helped to inspire Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
Did you know that the nonconformist liturgy of the Octagon Chapel in Liverpool, UK, was criticized by Job Orton: "Grieved I am ... to see such an almost deistical composition"?
Did you know that Aduston Hall is built like a mid-20th century California ranch house despite being a mid-19th century plantation house in Gainesville, Alabama?
Did you know that John Michael Kudrick, the current bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, holds master's degrees in mathematics and computer and information science?
Did you know that SS-Oberscharführer Peter Voss was the first commander of the Auschwitz crematoria and gas chambers, buildings used to kill 900,000 people?
Did you know that The New York Times referred to the Feathers Hotel in Ludlow, Shropshire, as "the most handsome inn in the world"?
Did you know that Theodore Dalrymple's book Our Culture, What's Left of It describes British culture as a "moral swamp"?
Did you know that football club ASK Voitsberg changed both its name and team colours during the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany?
Did you know that in the Macedonian Siege of Pelium, Alexander the Great managed to secure his line of retreat without a single reported death?
Did you know that representational momentum refers to a slight error in our perception of moving objects?
Did you know that the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City has been ranked as having the highest standard of living in Mexico?
Did you know that the Living Willow Theatre, an open air theatre constructed of living willow trees, is located near the village of Llanwrthwl and occasionally holds outdoor performances of Shakespeare?
Did you know that the name of Metro, Lampung, derives from the Javanese word for "friend"?
Did you know that the rare and endangered Lewton's polygala produces three kinds of flowers, including one that remains underground?
Did you know that BICA, ICAG and ICAJ are ICAC members, but as of 2008 CISPA was not?
Did you know that Evel Knievel's preferred stunt bike, the Harley-Davidson XR-750, has won the most AMA Races?
Did you know that Haigh Hall, which replaced the ancient manor house of Haigh, was built between 1827 and 1840 by James Lindsay, 7th Earl of Balcarres?
Did you know that Handel's oratorio Messiah is structured in three parts, with a libretto about the Christian Messiah drawn from Bible verses, mostly taken from the Old Testament?
Did you know that Ireland's Wicklow Way was originally proposed by J. B. Malone in a series of articles in the Evening Herald newspaper?
Did you know that Theresa Two Bulls was the first American Indian woman elected to the South Dakota Legislature and the second woman elected as president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation?
Did you know that Tuscan admiral Jacopo Inghirami was Governor of Leghorn?
Did you know that after several odd incidents during the recording for Megadeth's TH1RT3EN, guitarist-vocalist Dave Mustaine speculated about a connection with the unlucky number 13?
Did you know that former policeman Ian Oliver is the father of Craig Oliver, a special adviser in David Cameron's government?
Did you know that the Britannia Coco-nut Dancers bang their nuts together each Easter in Bacup?
Did you know that the Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767) ended the four-century-old Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1767 but the Burmese were forced to withdraw within the year of their victory by the Chinese invasions of Burma?
Did you know that the Javanese eat cat rice?
Did you know that the Trigg Hound, bred for hunting in Kentucky, was called "best" for big game hunting in Africa?
Did you know that the campus of Mount Ida College is situated on land that once was the estate of Robert Gould Shaw II, a cousin of Robert Gould Shaw?
Did you know that the storehouse at Alpine Plantation in Alpine, Alabama, was torn down so its timber could be used to build a carport?
Did you know that 1964 CDC 6600 is considered as the first supercomputer in the world?
Did you know that Adrian van Kaam brought food to Jews and others in hiding during Holland's "hunger winter" of 1944?
Did you know that Antiguan politician Molwyn Joseph, dismissed from the government after allegations of impropriety, was reappointed to the Cabinet after less than two years?
Did you know that Operation Slapstick, part of the Allied invasion of Italy, was only planned after the Italians had offered to let them land unopposed?
Did you know that Ramsdell Hall in Cheshire, England, has been described by architectural writers as a "curious" and "appealingly quirky" house?
Did you know that World Bicycle Relief has distributed more than 70,000 bicycles, mostly in Africa, and nearly 70 percent of them went to women and girls?
Did you know that a door at Otterburn Tower still contains the initials of Jacobite rebel Mad Jack Hall, while nearby Otterburn Hall's land was recompense to the descendant of Lord Douglas who died at the Battle of Otterburn?
Did you know that columns at the Roman Macellum of Pozzuoli remained upright over centuries while the site sank below sea level, then re-emerged?
Did you know that environmental activist Pete Gray once threw his shoes at former Australian Prime Minister John Howard?
Did you know that the Berlin Sugar Museum features a 1903 painting of Franz Carl Achard presenting King Frederick William III of Prussia with a loaf of beet sugar?
Did you know that the Soviet Union's Yakovlev AIR-3 aircraft was designed by a student?
Did you know that the breed club of the Treeing Tennessee Brindle was founded in Illinois?
Did you know that the first Columbian mammoth (artist's restoration pictured) found at the Snowmastodon site, an Ice Age fossil dig near Denver, was initially dug out by a construction worker using a bulldozer?
Did you know that the reverse of the Common Security and Defence Policy Service Medal contains the Latin phrase Pro Pace Unum, meaning "United for Peace"?
Did you know that "Dad" Moulton, a participant in Sherman's March to the Sea, was the U.S. sprint champion in the 1870s, and trained the "world's fastest human" in the 1880s?
Did you know that Arreton Manor on the Isle of Wight can be traced to AD 872 to the time of Alfred the Great and was owned by William the Conqueror, as mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086?
Did you know that Australian climate scientist Will Steffen helped initiate an international debate on planetary boundaries and has promoted the concept of the Anthropocene?
Did you know that Dick Campbell, as a theater producer and director, helped launch the careers of several black theater artists, including Ossie Davis, Frederick O'Neal, and Helen Martin?
Did you know that Douglas Mawson was the sole survivor of the Far Eastern Party, enduring a month alone in the Antarctic and walking about 100 miles (160 km) to safety?
Did you know that Jane Baker, a former cooking show host and community organizer, became the first female Mayor of San Mateo, California?
Did you know that Linnaeus wanted seeds of old-fashioned bleeding heart but was sent instead seeds of Corydalis nobilis, a flower then unknown to science?
Did you know that Russian broadside ironclad Ne Tron Menia was named after the biblical verse John 20:17?
Did you know that Shotwick Hall in Cheshire, England, was built in 1662, replacing an earlier manor house on a nearby moated site?
Did you know that environmentalists fear that the mine on Sebuku Island could sink it?
Did you know that for many years, the Russian Soviet Republic did not have its own Communist Party?
Did you know that in his only full season in Major League Baseball, Jeriome Robertson won 15 games and finished seventh in Rookie of the Year voting?
Did you know that the 19th-century Shrigley Hall in Cheshire, England, originally a country house, was later a Salesian school with a chapel added in 1936, and now is a hotel and country club?
Did you know that the reputedly haunted Pioneer Park is the only intact Second Empire house in Aspen, Colorado?
Did you know that the sea anemone Epiactis prolifera, starts life as a female and later becomes a hermaphrodite?
Did you know that the severed head of Julia Martha Thomas, murdered, boiled and dismembered by her maid in 1879, was found next door to Sir David Attenborough's house in 2010?
Did you know that the song "Indonesia Maharddhika", from the critically acclaimed album Guruh Gipsy, has the names of the contributors hidden in its lyrics?
Did you know that the steepest roller coaster in the world, with a drop angle of 121°, is Takabisha at the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Japan?
Did you know that Bobby Parks' son chose Manila's National University over Georgia Tech but was almost not cleared to play in the 74th UAAP basketball season due to eligibility issues?
Did you know that Keren Leibovitch, Israeli four-time gold medal winning Paralympic swimmer, is paralyzed from the waist down because of an injury she incurred during her service with the Israeli Defense Forces?
Did you know that Louisiana State Representative John E. Guinn, a father of ten children, earns his livelihood as an auctioneer?
Did you know that Vice Admiral Sir John Inglis was the head of British Naval Intelligence and attempted to cover up the "Buster Crabb affair" in 1956?
Did you know that a ruptured fuel pipeline leaked 1.5 million liters of jet fuel into the Zin Stream in southern Israel in June 2011?
Did you know that although William FitzOsbern had given All Saints' Church of Newchurch, Isle of Wight, to an abbey in Normandy, Henry VIII later gave it to the See of Bristol?
Did you know that although elk had disappeared from the Table Mountain Wilderness, they were reintroduced in 1979 and are now one of the largest herds in Nevada?
Did you know that even after he was forced off two different crippled warships during the Battle of Copenhagen, the wounded Danish commodore Olfert Fischer still refused to concede defeat to Lord Horatio Nelson?