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Did you know that John Ordronaux, an American Civil War army surgeon, went on to become a professor at Columbia Law School and an expert on medical jurisprudence and U.S. constitutional law?
Did you know that Mosby Tavern, a private residence, has served as the courthouse and jail for both Cumberland County and Powhatan County, Virginia?
Did you know that Robin Buckston, High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1960, was previously the captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club?
Did you know that St.GIGA was a satellite radio company that used to broadcast gaiden-versions of Nintendo's most popular franchises?
Did you know that Stan Smyl was the longest-tenured Vancouver Canucks captain?
Did you know that Syrian Orthodox bishop Michael Jarweh with a large number of his faithfuls revitalized the Syrian Catholic Church?
Did you know that Thai students pay respect to their teachers in the wai khru ceremony near the beginning of every school year?
Did you know that a Khmer Rouge dam has now become a refuge for an endangered crane?
Did you know that a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko in the uniform of a Brigadier General of the American Revolutionary Army is featured at the Polish American Museum in Port Washington, New York?
Did you know that although John Thompson Productions' pornographic films have won several awards, they have been banned in several countries, including Canada and Switzerland?
Did you know that although the Jersey Act of 1913 limited the registration of American-bred Thoroughbreds in the British General Stud Book, it wasn't actually a law?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Walter Johnson made 14 Opening Day starts for the Washington Senators between 1910 and 1926?
Did you know that former professional footballer Charlie Sillett was one of two Royal Navy gunners killed when the Norwegian steamship SS Corvus was sunk by a torpedo launched from the German U-boat U-1018?
Did you know that if its congestion pricing proposal is approved, San Francisco will be the first U.S. city to implement this method of reducing traffic congestion?
Did you know that in the first Gulf Art Fair in 2007, the Pékin Fine Arts gallery exhibited a Mini Cooper car painted with coloured spots by Damien Hirst?
Did you know that male Western Bowerbirds attract potential mates with bowers decorated with fruits, shells, and bones, as well as man-made objects like bullet casings and glass?
Did you know that the Gloster Survey, a 1920s British photo-survey biplane,  had only two prototype models made before production was discontinued?
Did you know that the Inner Hebridean crannóg of Dùn Anlaimh may be the remains of a fortified island dating back to the late Middle Ages?
Did you know that the White-capped Albatross breeds in New Zealand's subantarctic possessions but nonbreeding birds may range to the southwestern South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands?
Did you know that the archaeological site of Topoxte has the best surviving example of Postclassic Maya architecture in the Petén region of Guatemala?
Did you know that the deaths of Phillip Esposito and Louis Allen  were one instance of only two publicly known cases of alleged fraggings involving United States military forces during the Iraq War?
Did you know that the grey knight  is a small, edible mushroom that is often confused with the larger and poisonous dirty trich?
Did you know that with eight world titles, the UAE's Victory Team is one of the most successful in the sport of offshore powerboat racing?
Did you know that , during a television interview, Romanian politician Elena Udrea made reference to the "President of Norway", apparently unaware that the country is a monarchy?
Did you know that American historian Fred Albert Shannon won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for History for his two-volume book The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865?
Did you know that Barbara Tuge-Erecińska, the Republic of Poland Ambassador to the United Kingdom, became Poland's first female Deputy Foreign Minister in 1999?
Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Hélène was recorded in 2008 after not being heard since 1919?
Did you know that Donizetti wrote the title role of his opera Adelia for Giuseppina Strepponi, the second wife of Giuseppe Verdi?
Did you know that Geoffroy's Spider Monkey is the only Central American monkey species that occurs in all seven Central American countries?
Did you know that Marcus Adam, who competed in three sprint events at the 1992 Summer Olympics, later shifted to bobsleigh and competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Peter N. Myhre was the first leader of the Youth of the Progress Party in Norway, from 1978 to 1984?
Did you know that Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Battle of Omdurman for saving the lives of two war correspondents?
Did you know that according to a local legend, shoemaker Hans von Sagan heroically took the initiative and led the Teutonic Knights to victory in the Battle of Rudau?
Did you know that at #425 on the ATP Singles Rankings, Ivaylo Traykov is the second-highest ranked Bulgarian tennis player?
Did you know that in 1920 the publishers of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs invented the fictional town of Stotham, Massachusetts, as the purported home for several early New England structures?
Did you know that in the midst of battle, Joseph W. Revere, grandson of Paul Revere, apparently overwhelmed by news of his new command, rode to his men and yelled "Rearward!", causing him to be court-martialled?
Did you know that the Gloster Gannet aircraft, which was originally built solely to compete in the Lympne Trials, never flew at the event due to engine troubles?
Did you know that the Haudenosaunee women's lacrosse team will be the first team of women to represent the indigenous peoples of the Americas when they play in the 2009 World Cup?
Did you know that the author of the "'Gersony Report", the controversial conclusion by UN contractors that the new government in post-genocide Rwanda had carried out systematic killings of civilians, was instructed never to discuss his findings?
Did you know that the former Checkerboard Inn in Monroe, New York, got its name because an early owner supposedly painted it in a checkerboard pattern to attract travelers?
Did you know that the front cover of Rufus Wainwright's album Release the Stars is from the gigantomachy frieze at the Pergamon Altar?
Did you know that the oldest bell in St Michael's Church, East Peckham was cast in 1747?
Did you know that when NCAA Division I basketball head coach John Beilein's son was a high school recruit, Beilein was restricted by NCAA rules from talking to him at a basketball camp?
Did you know that Bangladesh's first Citizenship Order after it gained independence  was issued by the President of Bangladesh in 1972?
Did you know that Camille Saint-Saëns's 1911 opera Déjanire was originally a 1898 play accompanied by symphonic music, choruses and a ballet?
Did you know that Canada's first paper mill was built in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, in 1803?
Did you know that Claud Schuster served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department for a record 29 years under 10 different Lord Chancellors?
Did you know that George Frideric Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonatas (No. 3 here) were not originally intended to be a set, and were only designated such in 1948?
Did you know that Irishman Henry Nugent was created Count Valdesoto before he was appointed Governor of Gibraltar?
Did you know that Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility is a critique of Charlotte Turner Smith's novel of sensibility Celestina?
Did you know that Japanese video game designer Makoto Kanoh worked on the first three Metroid games, as well as 17 other games for Nintendo?
Did you know that Kjell Heggelund has translated poems by Mao Zedong, as well as the French surrealists Paul Éluard and Robert Desnos into the Norwegian language?
Did you know that Nordahl Rolfsen's readers for elementary school, Læsebog for folkeskolen (published 1892–1895), became the most widely used schoolbook in Norway?
Did you know that Rwandan film-maker Eric Kabera was inspired to start a career in film after losing 32 family members in the Rwandan Genocide?
Did you know that Scarlet Robins (male pictured) defend a territory not only from rivals of their own species but also from those of the related Flame Robins?
Did you know that Wilbert Tatum, editor of the New York Amsterdam News, ran front-page editorials from 1986 to 1989 critical of Mayor of New York Ed Koch with the title "Why Koch Should Resign"?
Did you know that according to the U.S. Supreme Court's Will v. Michigan Dept. of State Police ruling, state officials are not always people for legal purposes?
Did you know that in 1887, Norwegian Labour Party politician and physician Oscar Nissen claimed that only 10% of women had libido?
Did you know that operatic tenor Franz Ferenczy portrayed the role of Samson in the world premiere of Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila on 2 December 1877?
Did you know that the "Hilo Massacre" resulted in 50 casualties after Hawaiian police fired on 200 union protesters?
Did you know that the 2001 best seller Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War includes the case in which followers of Osho sprayed salmonella onto salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon?
Did you know that the Early Christian Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (c. 359) shows Pontius Pilate making a gesture to avert the evil eye (pictured, right) during his trial of Jesus?
Did you know that the Nassau-class battleships laid down in 1907 were the first class of German dreadnoughts built in response to the British HMS Dreadnought?
Did you know that the Rushmore Memorial Library in Highland Mills, New York, takes its name from Charles E. Rushmore, the same man Mount Rushmore is named for?
Did you know that the aquaculture industry in New Zealand aims to be a sustainable NZ$1 billion industry by 2025?
Did you know that the largest native land slug species in Australia is the red triangle slug, which can be yellow, cream, pink, red, grey or olive green?
Did you know that the non-ferrous smelter built for the Phoenix Mine in 1900 by the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company  was the largest in the British Empire?
Did you know that "Care", the first episode of Law & Order: UK, is a remake of an original Law & Order episode from 1992?
Did you know that Al-Firdaws Madrasa, established in 1236 under the patronage of Malik az-Zahir's wife, Dayfa Khatun, is the largest and best known of the Ayyubid madrasas in Aleppo?
Did you know that Australian flying ace Charles Scherf was credited with 14½ aerial victories from 38 operational sorties during the Second World War, with an additional nine aircraft destroyed on the ground?
Did you know that Canadian Elmer Lach retired as the National Hockey League's leading scorer in 1954?
Did you know that Captain Thomas Dundas's ship, HMS Naiad,   towed  the crippled HMS Belleisle through a  gale to safety after the Battle of Trafalgar?
Did you know that Don Chafin, the sheriff of Logan County, West Virginia, received bribes of at least $32,700 annually for preventing the unionization of coal miners?
Did you know that Gail Trimble, captain of the team which won BBC TV's University Challenge before being disqualified, has been called the "human Google" and the "Usain Bolt of general knowledge"?
Did you know that German bass Hans Herbert Fiedler sang the role of Moses in the original 1954 production of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron?
Did you know that Henry Fielding's  early plays before the 1733 Actor Rebellion include Love in Several Masques, Temple Beau, Author's Farce, Tom Thumb, Rape upon Rape, Tragedy of Tragedies, Letter Writers, Welsh Opera, Grub Street Opera, Lottery, Modern Husband, Old Debauchees, Covent Garden Tragedy, and Mock Doctor?
Did you know that Moissaye Olgin, a member of the communist Workers Party, translated several books including Jack London's Call of the Wild and Friedrich Engels’ The Peasant War in Germany into Yiddish?
Did you know that NBC's The Road West featured Andrew Prine and Brenda Scott in 1966 as brother and sister though the actors had been married to each other?
Did you know that Nonnie Moore, a woman who had been fashion editor at Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar, was hired by GQ in 1984 in a move that was called an "an odd choice, but... was actually the perfect choice"?
Did you know that Ross Memorial Park and Alexandre Stadium, Washington & Jefferson College's combined lacrosse, baseball, and soccer facility, is the largest continuous artificial playing surface in the world?
Did you know that after being destroyed by the Confederate Army, the Potomac Creek Bridge was rebuilt in just nine days?
Did you know that baritone Hans von Milde sang for nearly forty years at the Staatskapelle Weimar where he performed the role of the High Priest in the world premiere of Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila in 1877?
Did you know that big-game hunters, Douglas Hamilton and Victor Brooke, shot the largest elephant ever killed in South India?
Did you know that despite the office existing for 118 years, only nine individuals ever served as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office?
Did you know that in 1969, building work in the Southgate area of Crawley, England, uncovered evidence that northern Sussex was a pre-Roman industrial area?
Did you know that the Black-headed Spider Monkey, a New World monkey, is estimated to have declined by more than 80% over the past 45 years due to human encroachment on its habitat?
Did you know that the extinct Pliocene dolphin Australodelphis from the Vestfold Hills of Antarctica has been described as an example of convergent evolution with whales?
Did you know that "You Are Everything", 2008's most-played song on contemporary Christian radio,  was recorded after singer Matthew West's surgery for vocal fold hemorrhaging?
Did you know that 1972 is seen as a pivotal year for Christian music due to the Explo '72 Christian music festival?
Did you know that CBS's Harts of the West featured Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, in a comedy/western set at the fictitious Flying Tumbleweed Dude Ranch in Nevada?
Did you know that Centruroides limbatus and Centruroides bicolor are Central American bark scorpions belonging to the same species group?
Did you know that Eric Blau, co-creator of the Off Broadway show Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, looked so much like Groucho Marx that he would be approached by fans of the comedian?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Paul Herman Buck was the first Provost of Harvard University?
Did you know that Utah Governor Stephen S. Harding used his home in Milan, Indiana, to help slaves escape through the Underground Railroad in Indiana?
Did you know that Viper's Creed, a Mecha action anime series, takes place after the Earth's cities are underwater due to global warming and a third world war has caused calamity and turmoil?
Did you know that a Jones reductor can be used to prepare solutions of ions, such as chromium(II), Cr2+, which are immediately oxidized on contact with air?
Did you know that answering service operator Mary Printz, who served New York's theater and business elite, was the inspiration for the 1956 Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing and the 1960 film of the same name?
Did you know that film critic Stephen Holden of The New York Times called the 2004 documentary film The 3 Rooms of Melancholia  "one of the saddest films ever made"?
Did you know that images of 243 Ida returned from the space probe Galileo, and processed on 17 February 1994, provided the first confirmation of a moon orbiting an asteroid?
Did you know that monastic historian David Knowles wrote that Dominic of Evesham (who died before 1145)  authored the deathbed account of the  Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham in the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham?
Did you know that the Triumph Bonneville T140 Jubilee model of 1977 was launched as a limited edition of 1,000 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that the brick walls in the historic Balch Hotel in Dufur, Oregon, are 18 inches (460 mm) thick and keep the hotel's interior rooms cool during the hot summer months?
Did you know that the original cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation will appear in "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven", a seventh season episode of Family Guy?
Did you know that when Will Sessoms ran for mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 2008 he had a US$321,000–$5,600 fundraising edge over the incumbent mayor, Meyera E. Oberndorf?
Did you know that , due to a pressing error, the first shipment of Faryl Smith's debut album Faryl instead contained the music from The Fall's album Imperial Wax Solvent?
Did you know that American film director Keith Gordon decided to adapt the novel of obsessive passion, Waking the Dead, into a movie before he finished reading it?
Did you know that Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) Henry Wrigley piloted the first trans-Australia flight, from Melbourne to Darwin, in 1919?
Did you know that Force India's 2009 Formula One car, the VJM02, is painted in the colours of the Indian flag, but the team is based in England and neither of the drivers is Indian?
Did you know that French Pass has the fastest tidal flows in New Zealand, reaching nearly nine knots and capable of stunning fish?
Did you know that George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England?
Did you know that Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, is best remembered for his role in the execution of a favourite of Edward II?
Did you know that No. 40 Wing RAF (DH.9 aircraft pictured) was credited with destroying the bulk of the Turkish Seventh Army during the Battle of Armageddon in 1918?
Did you know that Peter of Aigueblanche, a medieval Bishop of Hereford, was once besieged in the city of Hereford?
Did you know that Sir Allan Quartermaine, a former member of the British Royal Fine Art Commission, was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in the First World War?
Did you know that William G. Hare, his father William D. Hare, and his son John all served in the Oregon State Senate?
Did you know that although it is considered a gamefish, the flat needlefish is seldom eaten because of its green-colored flesh?
Did you know that at the Tiananmen Square protests, Cui Jian gained notoriety for performing "Nothing To My Name" while wearing a red blindfold?
Did you know that before becoming Governor of Pennsylvania, John K. Tener was a Major League Baseball player who once explained the game to the future King Edward VII?
Did you know that former FedEx Office CEO Ken May was elected the March of Dimes' board of trustees chairman in 2007?
Did you know that in a Spanish language scene of the Dexter episode "Return to Sender", actor David Zayas learned all of his dialogue in English and translated each line mentally during each take?
Did you know that many voters in the 2005 Mongolian presidential election voted in traditional Mongolian dress?
Did you know that syndicalist trade unionist Frank Hodges once played a game of golf with George VI of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the  Overland Trail was the first road to reach  the  Klondike gold fields in Canada's Yukon?
Did you know that the 17th-century Knights of the Royal Oak received silver medals that displayed the Royal Oak where Charles II of England hid after the Battle of Worcester?
Did you know that the Alpirod, a defunct 1,000-kilometre (620 mi) European sled dog race, was the longest competition of its kind outside of North America?
Did you know that the Jurassic crocodile relative Phyllodontosuchus had two types of teeth; one type resembled those of some herbivorous dinosaurs, indicating it may not have been a strict carnivore?
Did you know that the city of East Layton, Utah, now a part of Layton, was incorporated in 1936 to qualify for funding from the Works Progress Administration for a municipal water system?
Did you know that the western yellowjacket, an invasive species in Hawaii, can be baited with poisoned catfood?
Did you know that until U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt named him to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Edgar E. Clark had served for 16 years as Grand Chief Conductor of the Order of Railway Conductors?
Did you know that writer-director Bruce A. Evans described directing his first film in 15 years, Mr. Brooks, as "like riding a bicycle"?
Did you know that Alan Landers, who was featured in Winston cigarette ads, became an anti-smoking advocate calling himself the "Winston Man" and died of laryngeal cancer after a longtime 2½-pack-per-day habit?
Did you know that Boris Eikhenbaum was a key member of the Society for the Study of Poetic Language (OPOJAZ)?
Did you know that Jean Desbouvrie persuaded the government of France to test swallows as an alternative to carrier pigeons?
Did you know that King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) granted Regenbald, a royal clerk, the status of a bishop without the actual office?
Did you know that Mantis in Lace is a 1968 sexploitation film about a topless go-go dancer who becomes a serial killer after ingesting LSD?
Did you know that Robert Bruce, a former wrestler, played a small role in the 1971 science fiction film A Clockwork Orange?
Did you know that Samuel Brand, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany, was officially the first immigrant to enter Israel after its creation?
Did you know that Sheldon Manor, a Grade I listed building, is Wiltshire's longest continuously inhabited manor house?
Did you know that Yakub Hasan Sait, who served as the Minister of Public Works for the Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939, was a native of Nagpur and a former member of the All India Muslim League?
Did you know that after being kidnapped by Shawnees and adopted by a Mingo chief, Jonathan Alder became the first white settler of Madison County, Ohio?
Did you know that although La princesse jaune is the third opera that Saint-Saëns’ composed, it was his first opera to actually be mounted on the stage?
Did you know that attempts to reintroduce a species of thick-billed parrot into Arizona have so far failed?
Did you know that bishop David of Basra was one of the first Christian missionaries to India, circa 300 CE?
Did you know that doctor and politician Orlando Plummer had the first telephone in Portland, Oregon, installed at his drug store?
Did you know that election monitors described the behaviour of the people of Suriname during the 2005 Surinamese legislative election as a good example to the Caribbean?
Did you know that film director Arie Posin's father did not allow him to watch television as a child despite being a professional filmmaker himself?
Did you know that in 1999,  Somalian Mahmood Hussein Mattan was the first person to have his case overturned by the UK's Criminal Cases Review Commission, 45 years after his execution?
Did you know that in 2006, a descendant of the 17th century Hebridean chieftain who once fortified himself in Stac Dhòmhnaill Chaim, scaled the stack and found a piece of possibly Neolithic pottery?
Did you know that prior to the creation of the Winter Olympics, an ice hockey tournament (winning team pictured) was held at the 1920 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the Peninsular Gneiss rock exposure in the Lalbagh botanical gardens in Bangalore, India, is a National Geological Monument?
Did you know that the Showtime television series Dexter has won two Primetime Emmy Awards?
Did you know that the librettists for Saint-Saëns's Le timbre d’argent, Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, also wrote the librettos for Gounod’s Faust and Offenbach’s Les contes d'Hoffmann?
Did you know that the tough skin of the cowtail stingray is used to polish wood?
Did you know that Indian freedom fighter T. S. S. Rajan practised as a doctor in Burma and England before being appointed as the Minister for Health and Religious Endowments of the Madras Presidency?
Did you know that Josh Billings was the Tigers Opening Day starting pitcher in 1928, despite being only 20 years old and having only won five Major League baseball games prior to the season?