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Did you know that Isaias W. Hellman, a co-founder of the University of Southern California, ran Wells Fargo Bank out of his house after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake leveled its headquarters?
Did you know that John G. Downey, Governor of California during the American Civil War, was the state's only foreign-born governor until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Did you know that New York Mets pitcher Chuck Estrada picked up the win in Tom Seaver's major league debut?
Did you know that Rastrelli's Monument to Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg includes a message by emperor Paul I that is a subtle mockery of Catherine the Great's inscription on the Bronze Horseman?
Did you know that Safaitic inscriptions, graffiti written by Bedouin in the Syrian Desert between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD, can be written boustrophedon - from left to right then vice versa?
Did you know that Salomón Ibarra Mayorga, the lyricist of the Nicaraguan national anthem, was exiled to Honduras for his political activities but was reburied in Nicaragua after his death?
Did you know that the  Thornapple River has 5 dams, including one in Ada bought from Consumers Power for a dollar by a river property owners association?
Did you know that the "Hymn" for tenor in the cantata, Hodie, by Ralph Vaughan Williams was composed because the originator of the part asked that he might be given more to sing?
Did you know that the 1931 murders of five Japanese people in Hong Kong during anti-Japanese riots were cited as a casus belli for the Shanghai War of 1932?
Did you know that the Polish 4th Rifle Division was the only Polish military unit that fought in the Russian Civil War and returned to Poland undefeated?
Did you know that the Power Transition theory is used in political science to predict future wars between great powers and a superpower as it states that war is a cyclic event and is inevitable?
Did you know that the original title of the Christmas carol "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" is "Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour"?
Did you know that the summer stock theater at Caledonia State Park in Pennsylvania regularly featured actress Jean Stapleton, well-known for her role as Edith Bunker on the 70's TV classic All in the Family?
Did you know that whipcracking, the art of using a whip to create a miniature sonic boom, is a competitive sport in Australia, where it was also elaborated into whipboxing?
Did you know that Donnie Young, the police officer whose murder sparked an international controversy, was a police medal of honor recipient?
Did you know that Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, a bomb-maker and member of Jemaah Islamiyah, was responsible for the Rizal Day bombings in the Philippines that killed 22 people in 2000?
Did you know that Gesta Tancredi, one of the most important contemporary histories of the First Crusade, was not translated into English until 2005?
Did you know that Lavastorm, a web design company during the dot-com bubble, split into two companies focusing on revenue assurance and mobile games?
Did you know that conductor and Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967?
Did you know that honolulu is a pocket billiards game which forbids straight-in shots, requiring all balls to be made indirectly, through banks, combinations, caroms or kick shots?
Did you know that the 25 species of Goodyera comprise just one of over 800 genera of orchids?
Did you know that the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna, holds the world record for the "greatest tree girth ever", and is also the largest and oldest known chestnut tree?
Did you know that the Great Synagogue in Danzig, one of the most impressive synagogues of its time, was demolished by the city council of the Free City of Danzig even before the German invasion of Poland began?
Did you know that the Moscow Water Dog, developed as a water rescue dog, preferred to bite drowning people instead of saving them?
Did you know that the first U.S. National Christmas Tree was lit up by President Calvin Coolidge on Christmas Eve in 1923?
Did you know that the two fundamental reference points in the rowing stroke are the catch where the oar blade is placed in the water, and the extraction (also known as the 'finish' or the 'release') where the oar blade is removed from the water?
Did you know that Andrew Truxal was president of Hood College and Anne Arundel Community College as well as an ordained minister of the Evangelical and Reformed Church?
Did you know that Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was a German monarchist who murdered Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner on a sidewalk in Munich in 1919?
Did you know that Hortus Malabaricus, the earliest printed treatise on the flora in Asia, contains the first instances of Malayalam types being used for printing?
Did you know that Macassan trepangers traded sea cucumbers with Indigenous Australians generations before the arrival of European people?
Did you know that Madeline La Framboise, a fur trader of mixed French and Native American descent, was Michigan's first successful businesswoman, and is buried beneath the altar of St. Anne's church on Mackinac Island?
Did you know that Prussian military bandmaster Franz von Eckert is credited with composing the harmony to the national anthems of both Japan and the Empire of Korea?
Did you know that Robert Cocking was the first person to die in a parachuting accident, after a parachute of his own design failed during a test at Vauxhall Gardens in 1837?
Did you know that Stegosaurus, one of the most distinctive dinosaurs, has been widely depicted in popular culture?
Did you know that an unknown quantity of Columbian Exposition half dollars were used as collateral against loans made to the Columbian exposition and when the exposition failed to repay the debits, the banks dumped the coins into circulation?
Did you know that it is a Georgia Tech tradition to steal the "T" from Tech Tower?
Did you know that the Annenschule high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia was transformed into a Soviet work school after the Russian Revolution, but now houses a lyceum?
Did you know that the Carron, a river in the Scottish Highlands only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?
Did you know that the German late Romantic composer Richard Wetz, in 1928, was appointed foreign member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts, alongside Igor Stravinsky?
Did you know that the See of Sardis, an episcopal see once held by Melito, continued to be held by titular archbishops for centuries after the Ottoman Turks conquered Sardis?
Did you know that the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält, awarded for valor in the field, was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915?
Did you know that the people of Assam comprise three major ethnic groups: Tibeto-Burman, Mon-Khmer, and Indo-Aryan?
Did you know that the remains of the Lviv High Castle in Lviv, Ukraine, was used as the foundation for a kurgan, constructed in memory of the 300-anniversary of the Union of Lublin?
Did you know that there are only two extant populations of the Tiburon Jewelflower, both on the Tiburon Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area?
Did you know that 45,000 Romanians living along the border with Yugoslavia were forcibly deported on June 18, 1951 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?
Did you know that Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny enrolled his entire Cossack army as students to prevent a Kievan school's conversion to a Jesuit Collegium?
Did you know that Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon ordered that the Living Museum of the Horse be built, believing he would be reincarnated as a horse?
Did you know that Madhavan Nair & Anor. v. Public Prosecutor held that the Constitution of Malaysia allows the Royal Malaysian Police to impose prior restraint when granting licences to speak in public?
Did you know that Money No Enough, which earned over S$5.8 million, is Singapore's highest-grossing film to date?
Did you know that Romanian leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej accused Miron Constantinescu of being a Stalinist only a few years after sidelining him for supporting de-Stalinization?
Did you know that Russian painter Konstantin Makovsky left the Imperial Academy of Arts without a formal diploma, after having refused to paint on a set topic in Scandinavian mythology?
Did you know that only one horse in the International Special horse races was born outside the United States?
Did you know that owing to its early dominance as a building style, Canadian Gothic Revival (example pictured) has been promoted as part of Canadian nationalism?
Did you know that the 1952 attack on the Sui-ho Dam knocked out electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War?
Did you know that the Elizalde was claimed to have the first Spanish automobile model with four-wheel brakes?
Did you know that the Filipino special court Sandiganbayan holds equivalent rank to the Philippine Court of Appeals?
Did you know that C. C. Too, a leading exponent of psychological warfare in Malaysia, crafted a campaign to turn public opinion against the communists during the Malayan Emergency?
Did you know that Cowans Gap State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of a key road in the French and Indian War, a pioneer farm, a charcoal operation, and a CCC Camp?
Did you know that Erin Bode performed with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for three seasons before starting her recording career as a singer?
Did you know that Italian mafioso Antonino Calderone was the first pentito to provide details on Mafia operations in Catania?
Did you know that Lake Chaubunagungamaug is often cited as the longest place name in the United States?
Did you know that Maltese Jews were forced to pay for the financial damages caused by their absence in the country, after they were expelled from Malta by the 1492 Alhambra decree?
Did you know that New Zealand historian John Dunmore published a cookbook composed from 18th-century ship's logs, including recipes for stewed rat and albatross?
Did you know that Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Guy Bush gave up Babe Ruth's last two career home runs on May 25, 1935, just five days before Ruth retired?
Did you know that Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was regarded as the "leading Hindu reformer of western India"?
Did you know that Tantiusques, a graphite mine which John Winthrop the Younger purchased from the Nipmuck tribes in 1644, became the basis for today's Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company?
Did you know that the canoe livery business is an important segment of the recreational goods rental industry?
Did you know that the house used in the 1983 film A Christmas Story was auctioned online for $150,000?
Did you know that when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened the first secular girls' school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages?
Did you know that German sailor Max Reichpietsch, who served on the battleship SMS Friedrich der Große, was executed by firing squad in 1917 for anti-war agitation in the German Navy?
Did you know that Sakati syndrome is classified under a group of rare genetic disorders known as Acrocephalopolysyndactyly?
Did you know that as one of the three original members of the Royal Philatelic Society's Expert Committee, Edward B. Evans edited most of the Society's early publications?
Did you know that during the reign of the English Commonwealth, worshippers at St. Stephen Coleman Street seeking Communion had to first be approved by a committee partly staffed by signatories of Charles I's death warrant?
Did you know that in 1967, Mac Hack became the first computer chess program to defeat a person in tournament play?
Did you know that in the Battle of Zhovti Vody the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced 1:10 odds for 18 days before its final defeat by the Cossack-Tatar alliance?
Did you know that the 1929 Chicago Cubs outfield composed of Riggs Stephenson, Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler was the only complete outfield in Major League Baseball history to each drive in over 100 runs in the same season?
Did you know that the Armenian oil magnate Alexander Mantashev handpicked 50 talented young Armenians and sent them to study at the best universities of continental Europe and Russia?
Did you know that the Parliament of Malaysia made a retroactive amendment to the Constitution to prevent the case of Loh Kooi Choon v. Government of Malaysia from being subject to Article 5(4) of the Constitution?
Did you know that the compound pterostilbene, which is found in blueberries and grapes, is thought to help prevent cancer, cognitive decline, and diabetes?
Did you know that the popular Soviet TV show Goluboy Ogonyok had as guests various prominent Soviet people, including Super workers, Heroes of Socialist Labor and cosmonauts?
Did you know that the purpose of the Assembly of Vizille was to discuss the events of the Day of the Tiles, one of the first revolts that preceded the French Revolution?
Did you know that "James Brown is Dead"  is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music?
Did you know that , after having spent much of her 8 years in Communist prisons in complete solitude, and willing herself to memorize events in daily succession, the Romanian artist Lena Constante published her recollections in a diary?
Did you know that Bryncelyn Brewery in Wales relates the names of all its beers in some way to Buddy Holly?
Did you know that Charles S. Joelson resigned from the United States House of Representatives on September 4, 1969 in order to become a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court?
Did you know that Gordon Canfield is remembered as the "Father of the United States Coast Guard Reserve" because he first introduced and spearheaded the legislation for the reserve component's creation in 1941?
Did you know that Grevillea 'Superb' is a cultivated garden plant which flowers during all twelve months of the year?
Did you know that Inuka, a polar bear who is the mascot of the Singapore Zoo, is the first and only polar bear born in the tropics?
Did you know that Robert Bristow, the British harbour engineer credited for the development of the Indian port of Kochi, also founded the first non white-exclusive club in the state?
Did you know that despite running for only 3 years, Aušra, the first national Lithuanian newspaper, gave its name to the period between 1883 and 1904 in the history of Lithuania?
Did you know that in Star Wars: Storm in the Glass, the Russian parody of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, a bottle of vodka resides on almost every table shown in the movie?
Did you know that the Great Trail created by Native Americans connected the Great Lakes region of Canada to New England and the mid-Atlantic and laid the foundation for modern highways?
Did you know that the citizens of Smyrna, Michigan withheld $25 from their deferred payment for Whites Bridge because they were upset that the builders used second hand lumber?
Did you know that 22-year-old Indian cricketer Vikram Singh, regarded by many as the fastest bowler in India, played only 5 matches for his state before being selected for the national squad against Sri Lanka?
Did you know that Gregoria de Jesus was the founder and vice-president of the woman chapter of the Katipunan partisan society during the Philippine Revolution?
Did you know that Indian chess player Umakant Sharma was banned from playing competitive chess for 10 years after being caught cheating with a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap?
Did you know that John Nyathi Pokela, having served 13 years in prison on Robben Island on charges of sabotage, assumed chairmanship of the Pan Africanist Congress after the previous chairman resigned to make way for him?
Did you know that Thomas Cole painted The Oxbow in 1836 after taking a break from working on his famous series of paintings The Course of Empire?
Did you know that Trdat the Architect reconstructed the dome of the Hagia Sophia in 989 and built the Cathedral of Ani?
Did you know that Virgin Unite, the independent charitable arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group founded in 2004, ran an ad campaign that juxtaposed the seven deadly sins with seven good deeds?
Did you know that after the death of New Jersey Representative George N. Seger, a Liberty ship used in World War II was commissioned in his honor?
Did you know that after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay (pictured: old school house) was abandoned by its residents in 1912?
Did you know that although Pueblo Revival Style architecture draws its inspiration from the Pueblos and the Spanish missions of New Mexico, it first appeared in California?
Did you know that in 1962, Peter Samson and fellow students at MIT built T-Square, an early drafting program and ancestor of CAD software?
Did you know that retired Spanish road bicycle racer Igor González de Galdeano holds the record for the fastest stage win in the Vuelta a España at an average of 55.17 kph, a feat which earned him the nickname Speedy González?
Did you know that surveying errors in New England created areas known as gores, which are not part of any towns, have few or no inhabitants, and have no self-government?
Did you know that the Barker Inlet in South Australia contains one of the southernmost mangrove forests in the world ?
Did you know that the Polish community is the only national (or ethnic) minority in the Czech Republic that is linked to a specific geographical area?
Did you know that the Roman Catholic prelature of Trondheim was founded in 1843 and based on the archbishop diocese abandoned in 1537 with the Reformation on the shrine of St. Olav, one of the most important pilgrim destinations in the Middle Ages?
Did you know that the Satversme is intended to hold together all other laws in Latvia?
Did you know that the site of SSAWS, once the world's largest indoor ski slope, now hosts Japan's first IKEA superstore?
Did you know that Bruce Campbell was removed from office as a Circuit Court Judge in the United Kingdom after being convicted of importing whisky and cigarettes without paying customs duty on them?
Did you know that David Gross and Alan Kotok built Expensive Tape Recorder, a digital audio program that ran on MIT's TX-0 computer circa 1960?
Did you know that Robert Satloff researched the involvement of Muslims and Arabs both as rescuers and perpetrators during the Holocaust in the course of the Axis occupation of North Africa?
Did you know that dust supplied by the Bodélé Depression in the Sahara Desert not only feeds some of the world's largest dust storms, but also supports the continued existence of the Amazon Rainforest?
Did you know that former New Jersey Representative Edward J. Patten was unanimously cleared by the House Ethics Committee of charges associated with the 1978 Koreagate scandal?
Did you know that former New Jersey Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr.,  co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, served as the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor?
Did you know that sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians?
Did you know that sonofabitch stew is a cowboy dish made with meats and organs from a freshly killed calf?
Did you know that the Pueblo Clowns were priests in the Kachina religion of the Pueblo Indians?
Did you know that the creator of the snack food Pirate's Booty was inspired by the ingredients of another brand's cheese puffs?
Did you know that the history of the carom billiards disciplines, balkline and straight rail (balkline table pictured), features a veritable billiards evolutionary arms race, in which each new rule implemented was interdicted by a shot developed to counter it?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Trevor Chappell was reprimanded by the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand when he rolled an underarm delivery to batsman Brian McKechnie to stop him from lofting the ball for six?
Did you know that Dave Burrell recorded Echo to honor an all-star group Archie Shepp asked him to be a part of during the 1969 Pan-African Music Festival in Algiers?
Did you know that Elizabeth Margaret Chandler introduced the famous abolitionist image of the kneeling female slave with the slogan "Am I not a Woman and a Sister"?
Did you know that Espiritismo is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life?
Did you know that Ira Goldstein, an advertisement campaign character for the ASB Bank in New Zealand, supposedly drives a metallic-brown 1979 Leyland Princess 2000 HL?
Did you know that Scottish language prodigy James Murdoch, after participating in a failed communist commune in Paraguay, was hired by the Australian Ministry of Defence as an expert on Japanese issues?
Did you know that despite Irish neutrality, weather reports from Met Éireann were used to plan the D-Day landings?
Did you know that former New Jersey Representative Henry Helstoski was charged with receiving bribes from illegal aliens in 1976?
Did you know that in Assa Singh v. Menteri Besar of Johore, the Federal Court of Malaysia found that an unconstitutional violation of a person's constitutional rights may be permitted through grandfathering of pre-independence laws?
Did you know that the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago collapsed in less than an hour in August 2005, setting a 66 km² (25 mi²) ice island adrift in the Arctic Ocean, but the collapse was only discovered during the recent analysis of satellite images captured by MODIS?
Did you know that the Brown truss (pictured: truss detail) was patented in 1857, enjoyed a brief spurt in popularity, was used in several covered bridges in Michigan in the mid 19th century, and was apparently never used again?
Did you know that the earliest fossil reef formations that show high biodiversity, containing the earliest corals, form the mid-Ordovician Chazy Formation, reaching from Tennessee to Labrador?
Did you know that 2-methylhexane and heptane are liquids with the same molecular formula but they have different density, freezing points and boiling points?
Did you know that British MP Will Owen was nicknamed "greedy bastard" by the Czechoslovak intelligence agency to whom he sold secrets?
Did you know that Ford Madox Brown painted most of The Last of England outdoors in bad weather?
Did you know that Haghpat Monastery in Armenia was placed on the World Heritage List over 1,000 years after it was founded?
Did you know that Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, was observed by the Gestapo during World War II?
Did you know that Millennium City, Hong Kong has skyscrapers numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5, possibly because 4 is considered unlucky?
Did you know that New York's Panther Mountain was the site of a prehistoric meteor crash?
Did you know that Randy Shilts was the first openly gay man in the mainstream U.S. media?
Did you know that Washburn University's mascot, "the Ichabod", is named after Ichabod Washburn,  an owner of the world's largest wire mill?
Did you know that a botánica is a Latin American store that sells religious goods, magical paraphernalia and brand name health care products?
Did you know that after Frank W. Towey, Jr. lost his House of Representatives re-election bid, he became assistant to the U.S. Attorney General?
Did you know that despite being a Soviet citizen and a confirmed NKVD agent, Alexandru Nicolschi served as head of Communist Romania's secret police?
Did you know that in Public Prosecutor v. Khong Teng Khen & Anor. it was held that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia can promulgate ordinances with the force of law?
Did you know that in his 1560s work the Zimmern Chronicle Count Froben Christoph von Zimmern tried to establish a lineage to the ancient tribe of Cimbri just because his name sounded similar?
Did you know that the Louvre describes Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle as the most beautiful ronde-bosse ivory carving ever made?