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Did you know that painter Mathias Stoltenberg, who died in poverty in 1871, was rediscovered following the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania?
Did you know that swimmer Joseph Roebuck missed out on qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics by a quarter of a second, but is set to compete in three events for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named "Turn on the News" by Hüsker Dü one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll?
Did you know that while bultfonteinite was discovered as early as 1903, the mineral wasn't described until 1932?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Carli Renzi represented Australia in wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
Did you know that 2012 women's eights Olympic rowers Renee Chatterton, Tess Gerrand, Alexandra Hagan, Sally Kehoe, Elizabeth Patrick, Phoebe Stanley, and Hannah Vermeersch are part of a team nicknamed the "Motley Crew"?
Did you know that Agneta Matthes and her husband, who ran factories in Delft producing yeast, perfume, and margarine, developed a workers' housing area in garden city style, Agneta Park?
Did you know that Annie Lush and sisters Kate and Lucy MacGregor, the Elliott 6m crew for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, are known as the "Match Race Girls"?
Did you know that Beaminster Tunnel, one of the earliest road tunnels built in the United Kingdom, partially collapsed in July 2012, killing two people?
Did you know that Frank Chee Willeto, a Navajo code talker with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, became the Vice President of the Navajo Nation in 1998?
Did you know that Japanese fighter pilot Isamu Kashiide shook the hand of a crewmember of one of the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses that he shot down?
Did you know that John Garcia Thompson and Steve Grotowski are the first male beach volleyball players selected to compete for Great Britain at an Olympic Games?
Did you know that Ole Hannibal Sommerfelt succeeded his brother Christian Sommerfeldt as County Governor of Christians Amt?
Did you know that She Has a Name is a Canadian play about child prostitution in Thailand?
Did you know that Sheffield's Supertram system runs on a route initially selected for the Minitram automated guideway transit system?
Did you know that a fatal shooting on July 22 was the sixth shooting incident in less than a year involving Anaheim, California, police officers?
Did you know that after winning the silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics, Finn Yrjö Saarela won the gold medal in heavyweight wrestling at the 1912 Games?
Did you know that the BBC likened Chasing After Ghosts, the debut album by The Crookes, to Morrissey, The Housemartins and Aztec Camera?
Did you know that the Drang-Drung Glacier in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is the source of the Stod River and is likely the largest glacier in Ladakh outside of the Karakoram Range?
Did you know that the Madrid Codex, one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books, contains almanacs and horoscopes that were used to assist Maya priests in their ceremonies?
Did you know that the independent bookstore Politics and Prose has had Barack Obama, J. K. Rowling, and Bill Clinton as readers at its author events?
Did you know that "Survival", a single by the English rock band Muse, is the official song of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Dominique Allen, daughter of Birmingham Bullets "legend" Clive Allen, has been called up to the senior British basketball team for the first time at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Latvian-born Sanita Pušpure is the only rower to compete for Ireland at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Lucinda Whitty, Olivia Price and Nina Curtis became a team in 2011 when they heard the Elliott 6m boat would be required for an Olympic sailing event?
Did you know that Norman Sas invented electric football?
Did you know that a University of Michigan gymnast dubbed the "Golden Syque" won the first gold medal in international competition for Bangladesh and was chosen to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
Did you know that a near mid-air collision occurred near Olympic Dam Airport in 2007?
Did you know that after Irishman Con O'Kelly won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics, he was paraded through Hull on the back of a fire engine?
Did you know that although fishing for stocked trout is allowed in Oregon's Antelope Reservoir, eating the catch is not advisable?
Did you know that ichirizuka (pictured in a woodblock print by Hiroshige) marked the distance to Nihonbashi in Edo?
Did you know that projects of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities include the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, classical inscriptions (IG, CIL), and dictionaries of Ancient Egyptian and German?
Did you know that the Charolais horse was one of the types used to create the Selle Français, a successful sport horse breed?
Did you know that the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland recovers and restores Jewish synagogues that had been nationalized under totalitarian rule?
Did you know that the eggs and young of the Pheasant Coucal are predominantly cared for by the male parents?
Did you know that the illuminated French 13th-century Histoire ancienne (detail of illustration pictured) told the history of the world in prose with moralizing verse?
Did you know that while the Gibraltar Aerobeacon does not strictly meet its criteria for a lighthouse, The Lighthouse Directory indicates that it merits an exception?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic track cyclist Josie Tomic is engaged to fellow Olympic cyclist Jack Bobridge?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic canoeists Lisa Carrington and Teneale Hatton were the first New Zealanders ever to qualify for an A final at the Sprint World Championships?
Did you know that 57-year-old Australian equestrian dressage competitor Mary Hanna has qualified to compete in her fourth Olympics?
Did you know that Birmingham's bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics was to have had the venues centered around the National Exhibition Centre?
Did you know that Charles Singleton wrote the lyrics for "Strangers in the Night", a song Frank Sinatra initially called "a piece of shit"?
Did you know that Johnny Evers alerted an umpire to Merkle's Boner?
Did you know that Justus Jonas wrote the hymn on which Bach's chorale cantata Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178, is based, paraphrasing Psalm 124?
Did you know that Whitley Castle is the only lozenge-shaped Roman fort?
Did you know that a restaurateur purchased a ghost town so that he could re-name it to Bikinis, Texas?
Did you know that extracts of pringamoza have shown antiviral activity against herpes simplex?
Did you know that in 1817 Bernardo O'Higgins established the Legion of Merit of Chile as the senior order of the new Chilean honours system?
Did you know that of the three hillforts in Cambridge's Gog Magog Hills, Wandlebury was the most important?
Did you know that the Astoria Riverfront Trolley, which runs along the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon, uses a 1913 trolley car acquired from an art museum in Texas?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Salhab is identified with "Bezeq" in the Book of Samuel where Saul gathered his army to defend Jabesh-Gilead?
Did you know that the precursor of the Dnestr radar, TsSO-P, took part in the Soviet Operation K tests to examine the effects of nuclear explosions on anti-ballistic missile hardware?
Did you know that the rum ration was abolished because the Royal Navy's leadership was concerned that it made sailors less capable?
Did you know that Lauren Boden, a 2012 Olympian, has been mistaken for fellow Australian hurdler Jana Pittman?
Did you know that Liz Halliday said that her ambitions were to be the first woman to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and to make the United States Equestrian Team?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian professor and ACPRA co-founder Mohammad al-Qahtani expects a "snowball" loss of control by the Saudi government?
Did you know that St Oswald's Church, Grasmere, Cumbria, is notable for its associations with William Wordsworth and its annual ceremony of rushbearing?
Did you know that a majority of German-Swedish forces in the Battle of Czarne mutinied, capitulated and then joined the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Army?
Did you know that after the US Olympic Trials swimmer Davis Tarwater announced his retirement and headed home before realizing he had qualified for the 2012 Olympics?
Did you know that although four people testified that he did not murder Thomas Bates, Oswald Grey was the last person hanged at Winson Green Prison?
Did you know that at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Tilly Fleischer became the first German woman to win a gold medal?
Did you know that during World War II, Brazilians fought Germans at Collecchio in Italy?
Did you know that much of what we know of lost plays on Philoctetes by Aeschylus and Euripedes is based on Dio Chrysostom comparing them to Sophocles' extant version?
Did you know that the last song to reach number one on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart of 2011 was Wale's collaboration featuring Miguel, "Lotus Flower Bomb"?
Did you know that "perhaps one of the most beautiful and enigmatic places to be found in Machu Picchu" is its Intihuatana, a solar clock stone?
Did you know that 2012 British Olympic heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson missed most of the 2010 season with jumper's knee?
Did you know that 2012 British Olympic shooter Jonathan Hammond is the most successful athlete ever for Scotland at a Commonwealth Games, having won four medals in 2010?
Did you know that 2012 Olympian Temi Fagbenle was born in the United States to Nigerian parents but plays basketball internationally for Great Britain?
Did you know that American weightlifter Sarah Robles, who has been called "the strongest woman in America", lived on less than USD$400 a month while training for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Australian 1500 metre runner Zoe Buckman is one of ten University of Oregon alumni selected to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Helene Wildbrunn, a celebrated Wagnerian soprano at the Vienna State Opera and La Scala, began her career in 1907 as a contralto at the Stadttheater Dortmund?
Did you know that Kaila McKnight, a 1500 metres runner for Australia at the 2012 Olympics, spent three months competing overseas before the Olympic qualifiers?
Did you know that Millennium's "The Pest House" has been compared to the 1996 film Scream?
Did you know that Rambhadracharya has received awards from several personalities, including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Somnath Chatterjee and Indira Gandhi?
Did you know that Steve Hogan, the Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado, was the Democratic congressional candidate who ran against Republican and Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert?
Did you know that cricketer Brad Hodge has the highest batting average and the best bowling average among Kochi Tuskers Kerala players?
Did you know that devilled kidneys, a breakfast dish from the 19th century, are now being served as street food?
Did you know that the Connecticut Supreme Court found that giving the finger was offensive, but not obscene?
Did you know that the Kanō school dominated Japanese painting for four centuries (17th-century painting illustrated), headed by members of the same family?
Did you know that the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party came to power in the 8th of March Revolution?
Did you know that the upcoming Wild West-themed Doctor Who episode, "A Town Called Mercy", was mainly filmed around Almería, Spain, the same location used for many Westerns, including A Fistful of Dollars?
Did you know that while manganese-bearing vesuvianite has been studied since 1883, manganvesuvianite was not described until 2002?
Did you know that Australian Olympian Robyn van Nus took up her sport of shooting to help deal with chronic fatigue syndrome?
Did you know that Masaharu Matsushita, president of Panasonic from 1961 to 1977, married the daughter of Panasonic's founder and adopted his family name before joining the company?
Did you know that Morley Street, a two-time American Champion Steeplechase Horse, was named after a street in London?
Did you know that Richard Hart, a Jamaican historian and politician, was expelled from the People's National Party in 1954 for his alleged communist views despite co-founding the party in 1938?
Did you know that Roberto Janet, who is representing Cuba at the 2012 Olympics, is a two-time hammer throw champion at both the Ibero-American and the Central American and Caribbean Championships?
Did you know that Stuart R. Schram, biographer of Chairman Mao, started his career as a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project?
Did you know that racewalker Emerson Esnal Hernández, who is set to represent El Salvador at the 2012 Olympic Games, started competing in athletics after accompanying a shy friend to tryouts?
Did you know that screenwriter Chris Carter spent 13 years working for Surfing Magazine before creating The X-Files and Millennium?
Did you know that seed of the African teak tree is largely dispersed by fruit bats?
Did you know that the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sa'd al-Dawla, was denied entry to his own capital for much of his early reign?
Did you know that the Queenston Formation (outcrop pictured) is used by the ceramic industry in the Canadian province of Ontario and for natural gas production in the U.S. state of New York?
Did you know that the Vienna "pocket opera" Wiener Taschenoper took children to John Cage's A House Full of Music and adults on Stockhausen's Michael's Journey Around the Earth?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Gyroporus cyanescens quickly turns dark blue if it is injured?
Did you know that to deprive his body of oxygen in the five months before the Olympic trials, Olympic steeplechaser Donald Cabral spent over 10 hours a day in a high-altitude tent he bought on Craigslist?
Did you know that track cyclist Philip Hindes was born in Germany and did not take up cycling until 2008, but has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that video game Cannon Fodder, intended as an anti-war satire, drew controversy for juxtaposing violence and humour, as well for iconography resembling the remembrance poppy?
Did you know that "Conquistador" was one of the few Procol Harum songs in which the music was written before the lyrics?
Did you know that 2012 Antiguan Olympic sprinter Afia Charles is the daughter of Ruperta Charles, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Flaubert wrote of Raphael's mistress-model, "Fornarina. She was a beautiful woman. That is all you need to know"?
Did you know that Scott Brash plans to compete in show jumping at the 2012 Olympics on the back of a horse that cost an estimated two million euros?
Did you know that Ukrainian-born wrestler Olga Butkevych is to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, despite only gaining British citizenship in May this year?
Did you know that Union Colonel James Cameron, killed at the American Civil War First Battle of Bull Run, was a brother of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron?
Did you know that a purported portrait of Anne Hathaway, dated 1708, may be the only surviving depiction of her?
Did you know that in addition to competing as a duet team in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics, Mary Killman and Mariya Koroleva are roommates?
Did you know that scientists at the  Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology won the 2010 European Inventor Award for their work on the development of liquid wood?
Did you know that the 1848 discovery of Neanderthal remains in Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar, was the second in history, but its significance was not realised for another sixteen years?
Did you know that the Schleswig horse is on the Food and Agriculture Organization's list of endangered domestic animal breeds, having reached a low of only 5 stallions and 35 mares in 1976?
Did you know that the diverse architecture of Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal includes Romanesque art, notable contemporary architecture and fishermen's houses that have been described as "Eskimo burrows"?
Did you know that the first consumer treadmill for home use was developed in the late 1960s by aerospace engineer William Staub?
Did you know that the song "I Protest" by MC Kash became a protest anthem in Jammu and Kashmir during the 2010 unrest?
Did you know that trilingual Olia Burtaev and South African-born Jenny-Lyn Anderson were selected to represent Australia in synchronized swimming at the 2012 Olympics?
Did you know that two-thirds of the population of the town of Qir in Iran were killed by an earthquake in 1972?
Did you know that 136 villages have been completely submerged in the backwaters of the reservoirs constructed as a part of the Upper Krishna Project?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Naomi Flood was the 2009 overall winner for the Ironwoman Series?
Did you know that 2012 British Olympic steeplechaser Eilish McColgan is coached by her mother, Liz, a former world 10,000 metres champion?
Did you know that Birgitte Grimstad's song repertoire has included a medieval ballad, songs by Bach, Grieg and Mortensen's Til Ungdommen, and an adaptation of an Elvis Presley hit?
Did you know that Japanese archaeologists restored Hotu-iti's Ahu Tongariki site after a 1960 tsunami reached Easter Island?
Did you know that Mohammad Hatta was vice president, prime minister, and minister of defence during his first cabinet?
Did you know that Ridi Viharaya, a Buddhist cave temple in Sri Lanka, was built by Dutthagamani of Anuradhapura in gratitude that the cave's silver helped him achieve one of his dreams?
Did you know that Scottish botanist John Fraser was a plant collector for Catherine, Czar of Russia?
Did you know that Tarren Otte, the oldest member of Australia's 2012 Olympic synchronized swimming contingent, has struggled to stay involved in the sport because of the financial costs of competing?
Did you know that a brigadier general commission for Confederate Colonel Francis Marion Walker arrived at his headquarters the day after he was killed at the Battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War?
Did you know that although Rachel Lovell retired from canoeing prior to Great Britain's trials for its 2008 Olympics team, she immigrated to Australia and became a 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist?
Did you know that anarchist industrial music group Missing Foundation helped instigate the Tompkins Square Park Riot in August 1988?
Did you know that artistic gymnast Elizabeth Price, a 2012 Olympics alternate, was not picked for the five-member U.S. team even though she finished fourth at the Olympic Trials?
Did you know that in 1904 Le Petit Journal reported that Aster (automobile pictured) monopolised the mass manufacture of engines in France?
Did you know that in the Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, naturalist Charles Darwin presents one of the earliest accounts of the process of magmatic differentiation?
Did you know that the BBC nature documentary series Ocean Giants includes episodes about whale songs and the cognitive abilities of dolphins?
Did you know that the Sugababes' first greatest hits album, Overloaded: The Singles Collection, sold half a million copies in the United Kingdom in less than a year after its release?
Did you know that "Miky", a bomb-sniffing police dog that only responds to commands in Hebrew, helped to revitalize the Jewish community in Helena, Montana, that built Temple Emanu-El?
Did you know that "Pink Turns to Blue" was named one of the 500 best songs since punk rock began?
Did you know that "Sweet Life", the third single in Frank Ocean's debut album Channel Orange, was released a few days after he came out as a bisexual?
Did you know that Andrew Still wanted to portray the stabbing of his character Joel Dexter realistically because stabbings had often occurred in Glasgow?
Did you know that Brett Morse, slated to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, was the first Welshman to win the discus at the UK Championships?
Did you know that C. Ferris White designed more than 1,100 buildings in the U.S. state of Washington (example pictured) and over 300 more in the company town of Potlatch, Idaho?
Did you know that Ettore Petrolini is considered one of the most important figures of avanspettacolo, vaudeville, and revue?
Did you know that Gervais Street Bridge was the only bridge across the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, from 1928 until 1953?
Did you know that Heather Stanning's gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics was predicted in her school yearbook?
Did you know that Lonesome Glory, the first American steeplechaser to win more than US$1 million in prize money, was also the first American-trained horse to win a National Hunt race in Britain?
Did you know that Lucy Hall and Stuart Hayes were selected for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Olympics ahead of higher-ranked triathletes because of their ability to act as domestiques?
Did you know that crime reporter Byron Christopher says he has been subject to more search warrants "than the average drug dealer in Detroit"?
Did you know that in Liechtenstein, although there are exemptions, religious education is mandatory?
Did you know that in addition to being a competitive discus thrower, 2012 British Olympian Abdul Buhari works two days a week for investment bank Credit Suisse?
Did you know that prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics, Annie Martin was the only active Canadian beach volleyballer who had competed at an Olympic Games?
Did you know that the Pakistan Army established the Sabawoon Rehabilitation Center for brainwashed militants after a military operation in Swat?
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nouakchott is located in Mauritania, even though census figures indicate that nearly 100% of the country's citizens are adherents of Islam?
Did you know that "Oh Love", the first single from Green Day's album, ¡Uno!, is the third-ever song to make its debut at number one on the US Rock Songs chart?
Did you know that Brittany Borman improved her personal best javelin throw by nearly 7 feet (more than 2 meters) en route to making the 2012 U.S. Olympic team?
Did you know that George Larner is the only gold medallist in the history of the Olympic Games in the men's 3,500 metres and 10 miles walk?
Did you know that Mount Billy Mitchell was named for "Billy" Mitchell, who is often referred to as the "father of the United States Air Force"?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II made the German trumpeter and conductor Ludwig Güttler an officer of the OBE, in recognition of his efforts to reconstruct the Frauenkirche in Dresden?
Did you know that Russian space complex Moment analyses spacecraft by examining their radio transmissions?
Did you know that Vicky Holland, who competed in triathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, only took up the sport in her second year of university?
Did you know that about 17 square miles (4,400 ha) of marine protected areas are located beneath the waters in and around California's Carmel Bay?
Did you know that an egg of the extinct elephant bird given to David Attenborough in 1960 inspired the making of his 2011 documentary Attenborough and the Giant Egg?
Did you know that before she achieved the fourth longest long jump in the world this year during the U.S. Olympic Trials, Chelsea Hayes was described as "unheralded and unknown"?
Did you know that construction of the South Mole, a breakwater in the harbour of Gibraltar, was begun by the Spanish in 1620?
Did you know that in 1965, British diplomacy proved helpless to stop Rhodesia's Lisbon Appointment?
Did you know that the Fantômas album The Director's Cut features a thrash metal cover of Nino Rota's theme from The Godfather?
Did you know that the U.S. third party presidential campaign of former Congressman and current Constitution Party nominee Virgil Goode is polling at nine percent in the swing state of Virginia?
Did you know that the extinct snakefly Amarantoraphidia ventolina is named for air beings of the Cantabrian mythologies?
Did you know that when Eddy Rodríguez defected from Cuba, his boat nearly capsized and he had to eat ground coffee beans to survive?