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Did you know that during the campaign for the 2007 Bermudan general election a bullet was mailed to the Premier of Bermuda, Ewart Brown?
Did you know that in 1453, John Norman was the first Lord Mayor of London to travel by water to swear his oath at Westminster, a tradition that continued until 1856?
Did you know that in the indie video game Clean Asia!,  the eyes of all humans leave their bodies, fly to the moon, develop weapons, and attack the human race, taking over several countries?
Did you know that research by Mark H. Beers on drug interactions in the elderly led to creating the eponymous Beers Criteria, listing prescription medications that may have negative side effects in older patients?
Did you know that the 14"/50 caliber railway guns, used in France during World War I, were created when the U.S. Navy mounted five spare battleship guns on specially-made railway cars?
Did you know that the Butler's frogfish can hold onto objects with its finger-like pectoral fin rays?
Did you know that the Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, Sigtrygg Silkbeard, established Ireland's first mint (coin of Sigtrygg pictured) in the 990s at Dublin?
Did you know that the Irish TV series Garda ar Lár focused on an incident which preceded Minister for Defence Paddy Donegan's "thundering disgrace" remarks and President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh's resignation?
Did you know that the TV documentary series On the Street Where You Live featured contributions from locals, historians and the Grand Marshall of the 2008 Saint Patrick's Day parade in Kilkenny, Ireland?
Did you know that the annual Skyfest fireworks display was held at the Rock of Cashel (pictured in 1986) in County Tipperary in 2008, the first time it was held outside Dublin?
Did you know that the small farming community of Laurelwood, Oregon, was the site of four execution-style murders in the 1970s ordered by the Hells Angels?
Did you know that though actors James Whitmore and Audra Lindley were divorced in 1979, the two starred in Tom Cole's 1990 production of About Time, as an elderly couple identified only as Old Man and Old Woman?
Did you know that 17th-century Hungarian painter Jakob Bogdani highlighted his paintings with exotic red-coloured birds such as the Scarlet Ibis, Red Avadavat and Northern Cardinal?
Did you know that Einar Sverdrup, CEO of a Svalbard-based coal mining company, died during World War II during an attempt to secure Svalbard?
Did you know that Ireland's 2008 Meteor Awards featured a duet between Sinéad O'Connor and Mick Pyro and a performance by Gary Lightbody and Lisa Hannigan of the song "Some Surprise", taken from the self-titled album of The Cake Sale which was organised by former Bell X1 member Brian Crosby?
Did you know that Kathryn Erbe, who had previously played a murderer in Oz, was cast as Det. Alex Eames in the first season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent because producers thought she "just looked like a real cop"?
Did you know that Romanus, the second Bishop of Rochester, drowned in the Mediterranean Sea?
Did you know that Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
Did you know that in 1952, after giving the Checkers Speech, Richard Nixon dictated a telegram resigning as Eisenhower's running mate, but his campaign manager Murray Chotiner ripped it up unsent?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Navy's Kanimbla class ships can carry two Australian Army LCM2000 Landing Craft Mechanised on their bow?
Did you know that the founder of the artists' group Les Nabis, Paul Sérusier, spent long visits painting in the Breton village of Châteauneuf-du-Faou?
Did you know that the operation of malthouses in the UK were once strictly regulated to comply with the malt tax?
Did you know that traditional performers, the Mulkerrin Brothers from the Aran Islands, won The All Ireland Talent Show two days ago?
Did you know that traffic light control and coordination systems include Pegasus crossings for horse riders?
Did you know that Adolph Diesterweg, a German educationist, is sometimes credited as originating the maxim "learn to do by doing"?
Did you know that American historian Constance McLaughlin Green won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878?
Did you know that Bengaluru Pete, established by Kempegowda I in 1537 with roads laid in cardinal directions with entrance gates at the end of each road, is an integral part of the present-day Bangalore, India?
Did you know that British heavy metal band Iron Maiden was nominated in the Best Live Return category at the 2008 Vodafone Awards, but disagreed with their nomination and asked to be withdrawn?
Did you know that Desiderius Erasmus knew three unrelated people called Jacob Faber?
Did you know that Galen T. Porter was a New York City police captain who led the defense of the NY Draft Office when it was attacked by angry firefighters and mobs during the 1863 New York Draft Riots?
Did you know that Moggy Hollow Natural Area was where Glacial Lake Passaic overflowed as the Wisconsin Glacier expanded in New Jersey?
Did you know that Operation Cockade, a series of Allied deceptive operations during World War II, was so unsuccessful that it was later described as being “at best a piece of harmless play acting”?
Did you know that Russian politician Vladimir Nikolayev became mayor of Vladivostok, Russia, after his opponent  was killed by a grenade left outside his office?
Did you know that Siward, the earl of Northumbria who defeated Macbeth in battle, was said to have been descended from a polar bear?
Did you know that anethole, cause of the ouzo effect in anise-flavored alcoholic beverages, yields a derivative drug that may be used in novel self-microemulsifying drug delivery systems?
Did you know that in Advanced Banter, the QI book of quotations, Alan Davies wrote the following proverb: "A small pie is soon eaten"?
Did you know that medievalist Knut Helle led the editorial committee of the ten-volume encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon?
Did you know that the "dancing doctor", pediatric toxicologist Michael Shannon, starred in a 2008 production of the Urban Nutcracker, his eighth year appearing in the annual performance?
Did you know that the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering awarded Raymond Damadian the 2009 Honorary Fellow Award for discovering the concept of MRI?
Did you know that the Atlantic stingrays living in St. Johns River, Florida, are the only permanent freshwater population of cartilaginous fish in North America?
Did you know that the Boulton and Watt steam engine preserved in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia, is the oldest surviving rotative steam engine?
Did you know that the British Council sponsored a "Rock the Referendum" concert for the 2005 Armenian constitutional referendum?
Did you know that the Cape Kumukahi Light was saved from destruction in the 1960 eruption of Kilauea when the lava flow parted and went to either side of it?
Did you know that the Secretary of State of Texas from 1870 to 1874, James Newcomb, was a scout for the longest desert trek by U.S. military?
Did you know that the album Ritual by Jape recently won the Choice Music Prize?
Did you know that the primarily western television actor Chris Alcaide came out of retirement in 1987 to appear as the Chief Justice in Charles Bronson's film Assassination?
Did you know that the recently discovered Cobbe portrait may be one of only two portraits of William Shakespeare done from life?
Did you know that triple quartets from Finland's oldest choir Akademiska Sångföreningen helped raise funds to build the Old Student House in Helsinki?
Did you know that university founder Andrew White prevented the Cornell Big Red football team from playing Michigan, saying "I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind"?
Did you know that Australian thriller Incident at Raven's Gate was an early film by director Rolf de Heer, who would go on to make the AFI Award-winning Ten Canoes?
Did you know that Barry Bonds has won 12 Silver Slugger Awards in his career as an outfielder in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs covered the Jape song "Floating", from the album The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me, without the band's permission?
Did you know that Groucho Marx wanted to play the title role of an embittered Holocaust survivor in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker?
Did you know that Hew Pike was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his "cool example and inspiring leadership" during a fierce battle in the 1982 Falklands War?
Did you know that Junkie XL's Booming Back at You was released by a joint venture between game developer EA and music company Nettwerk?
Did you know that Józef Turowski's groundbreaking book about the World War II massacres of Poles in Volhynia (map pictured) was published only after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Major General George F. Hopkinson was the only British airborne general to be killed during the Second World War?
Did you know that Sara Christian had the highest female finish in the history of NASCAR's top series at the 1949 Heidelberg Raceway event?
Did you know that Tecumseh's Confederation began as a nativist religious movement led by Tecumseh's brother Tenskwatawa, a Shawnee witch hunter?
Did you know that at 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m), Rex White (car pictured) is the smallest person to ever win a NASCAR championship?
Did you know that for the first four decades of its existence, the altar of the Reformed Dutch Church in Bloomingburg, New York, was on the same end as the main entrance?
Did you know that from 1963 to 1991, only four nations—Canada, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and the Soviet Union—won medals at the Ice Hockey World Championships?
Did you know that from the 1860s, the New Zealand government established a network of castaway depots (example pictured) on their sub-antarctic islands for the use of shipwreck survivors?
Did you know that in 1996, the Kinjo family sued Lori Padilla for ¥62 million (US$580,000) blood money after a car Padilla was driving killed three of their family members in Okinawa?
Did you know that over time, comets expel most of the volatile material from their nuclei and become extinct comets, small asteroid-like lumps of rubble?
Did you know that six idols from the Sivagurunathaswamy temple in Sivapuram, India,  were secretly smuggled out of the country in the 1950s?
Did you know that the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program searched Florida's Lake Crescent for the wreckage of Alligator, a paddle steamer used by archeologist Clarence Bloomfield Moore?
Did you know that the Performing Garage, an off-Broadway theater, was never actually a garage?
Did you know that the Saginaw Trail's name comes from the Ojibwe word for "where the Sauk were"?
Did you know that the Wild Rugby Academy, formed in 2007, aims to enable Germany to participate in the 2015 Rugby World Cup?
Did you know that the cult of Kukulkan, the Yucatec Maya feathered serpent deity, was the first Mesoamerican religion to transcend earlier linguistic and ethnic divisions?
Did you know that the three drunken Wierix brothers of Antwerp influenced Ethiopian iconography?
Did you know that the twenty-four Liebherr T282B trucks at Barrick Gold's Cortez Gold Mine account for 10% of that model's sales worldwide?
Did you know that when refused leave to go to London with the order that he could only travel as far on land as he could get in his barge, Captain Henry Paulet put the barge on a cart and went anyway?
Did you know that Danish mass murderer Peter Lundin got married twice while in prison?
Did you know that Jasper Cropsey may have helped design the Jacob Sloat House in Sloatsburg, New York, which combines the Greek Revival and Picturesque architectural styles?
Did you know that Julien's Auctions sold Star Trek star William Shatner's kidney stone for US$25,000?
Did you know that New Jersey's Pigeon Swamp State Park, named for 18th-century landowner Ann Pidgeon,  was a nesting place for passenger pigeons before they became extinct in the early 20th century?
Did you know that New York City rapper Coke La Rock is often credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop?
Did you know that R29, an R23X class airship, recorded the only success by any British wartime rigid airship when she took part in the sinking of German submarine UB-115 in 1918?
Did you know that Robert E. A. Lee was executive producer of A Time for Burning, a cinéma vérité documentary about efforts to bridge race relations among Lutherans in Omaha, Nebraska?
Did you know that Roy Rogers and Gene Autry  called the western entertainer Eddie Dean the best cowboy singer of all time?
Did you know that Royal Navy frigate HMS Castor was captured by the French in 1794, but was retaken just 20 days later?
Did you know that according to Sextius Niger the salamander was an aphrodisiac if served in honey, but its power to extinguish fires was a myth?
Did you know that because a car crashed through his store's window,  Steve Bernard's Cape Cod Potato Chips company survived a difficult winter, after which business boomed?
Did you know that due to widespread censorship and control of media in the Eastern Bloc, underground distribution of clandestine information became common?
Did you know that in 1934 State Representative Rupert Peyton of Shreveport ridiculed Huey P. Long by proposing a bill to grant the title "Your Majesty" to every adult in  Louisiana?
Did you know that in the Battle of Barnet, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick was fighting for Henry VI, whom he formerly deposed, and against Edward IV, whom he had helped to gain the throne?
Did you know that in the last 50 years, 17 championships have been retired by current professional wrestling company World Wrestling Entertainment?
Did you know that the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive is part of a series of "forgotten operations", almost completely ignored by Soviet archives and historiography?
Did you know that the German Grossdeutschland division, located 50 miles (80 km) east of Târgu Frumos, repelled three Soviet divisions and recaptured the town 48 hours after receiving its initial order?
Did you know that the Triumph Tiger Daytona motorcycle was named after Buddy Elmore's win in the 1966 Daytona 200, Triumph's first Daytona victory?
Did you know that the term Rock of Israel was the subject of controversy just hours before the promulgation of the Israeli Declaration of Independence?
Did you know that when footballer Morten Knutsen left Odd Grenland due to persistent injury problems, he joined FK Arendal, only to immediately sustain another injury?
Did you know that Ancistrochilus rothschildianus is a species of semi-terrestrial orchid endemic to the African tropics?
Did you know that British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton was instrumental in establishing an UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress?
Did you know that Charles S. Lieber's baboon testing showed that cirrhosis is caused by alcohol, not malnutrition?
Did you know that Dadabhai Naoroji Road in South Mumbai, starting in Crawford Market and leading to Flora Fountain at its south end, is studded with neoclassical- and Gothic-style buildings of the 19th century?
Did you know that Doris Abrahams started producing on Broadway as a teenager and  co-produced the Tony Award-winning Equus with Kermit Bloomgarden?
Did you know that George Frideric Handel's cantata Ero e Leandro was first published in 1999, 292 years after it was composed?
Did you know that John Dyneley Prince, who later served as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and Yugoslavia, learned the Romani language as a 12-year-old, which helped him when he ran away for three days to a gypsy camp?
Did you know that Lac de Monteynard Avignonet, a lake in the French Alps, has a 220-metre (720 ft) long, 85-metre (279 ft) high simple suspension bridge for non-motorized use?
Did you know that Lou Reed said "I knew I was in the presence of an angel" after hearing the Antony and the Johnsons song "Cripple and the Starfish"?
Did you know that Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald's 1936 recording of "Indian Love Call" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 72 years later?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Zheng Yin opposed issuance of commissions for eunuch commandants on hemp paper, saying it was reserved for commissions of imperial princes and chancellors?
Did you know that Tom Coughlin, head coach of the New York Giants, founded the Jay Fund charity to honor Jay McGillis, a player Coughlin coached at Boston College who died of leukemia?
Did you know that after losing the 1962 race for governor of California, Richard Nixon held what he called his "last press conference" promising the media that "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more"?
Did you know that during World War II, the Joshua Hendy Iron Works under the management of Charles E. Moore built one 137-ton Liberty ship engine every 40.8 hours?
Did you know that in the Philippines, double-dead meat refers to meat from pigs that died of disease, which is sold for human consumption?
Did you know that marks remain on the Sloat House in Sloatsburg, New York, from the accidental shooting death of John D. Sloat's father, who became the first burial in Old Sloatsburg Cemetery?
Did you know that record label manager TobyMac pulled his car over to the side of the road when he first heard Christian hip hop artist B. Reith's music?
Did you know that the 395th Infantry Regiment was the only unit during the Battle of the Bulge that did not retreat, earning the nickname Butler's Blue Battlin' Bastards?
Did you know that the Inuvialuit Settlement Region's only deepwater port is located in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada?
Did you know that the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary, known for annually returning egrets and herons, has not had any return since 2000?
Did you know that the pineapplefish is also known as the "port-and-starboard light fish", because the two luminescent organs on its head resemble ship navigation lights?
Did you know that , in the 1999 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament, the Loyola Greyhounds under head coach Dave Cottle became the only first-seeded team ever to be eliminated before the semifinals?
Did you know that Allah Bux Soomro, Premier of Sindh, renounced his OBE and the title of Khan Bahadur and resigned his membership in the National Defence Council of India during the Quit India Movement?
Did you know that Canadian actress Cara Duff-MacCormick won a Theatre World Award for her role in Moonchildren, a play about coming of age during the Vietnam War era?
Did you know that Darby Hinton, who played Fess Parker's son on NBC's Daniel Boone, as an infant lost his father in a plane crash but remains close to Parker nearly 40 years after the series ended?
Did you know that Mongolian Ninja miners are so named because the green bowls they carry on their backs for gold panning resemble the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Did you know that Nolan Bushnell, founder of both Atari, Inc and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters, was made a fellow of BAFTA at the 5th British Academy Video Games Awards?
Did you know that according to legend, clams casino, a dish that is popular with Italian-Americans, was first created in Narragansett, Rhode Island, in 1917?
Did you know that during the Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Republican Senator John Barrasso read a passage from The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression?
Did you know that even though the Mammoth Cave system has passages directly beneath Great Onyx Cave, they have never been connected?
Did you know that in 1029, the ransom of the Hiberno-Norse prince Amlaíb mac Sitriuc included over 1,200 cows, 60 ounces of gold and of silver, "the sword of Carlus", and a large number of Irish hostages?
Did you know that in the Battle of Lalakaon in 863 AD, three Byzantine armies, marching from different directions, converged on time to surround an Arab army?
Did you know that the 1916 children's novel Just David was the second in a series of four consecutive bestsellers in the United States for Eleanor H. Porter?
Did you know that the Association of Polish Artists and Designers was disbanded by the Polish military authorities for opposing the 1981 imposition of martial law in communist Poland?
Did you know that the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning was an inspiration for Bernard Osher's funding Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes for adults over age 50 at over 120 universities and colleges?
Did you know that the Gable Mansion is one of the last Victorian Italianate mansions of its style, size, and proportion in California?
Did you know that the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, which opened in 1991, was the first purpose-built mosque in New York City?
Did you know that the Kikuchi samurai clan was descended from the royal family of the Korean kingdom of Baekje?
Did you know that , despite wrestling alongside each other for years and holding a tag team championship together, brothers Mark Starr and Chris Champion used different last names?
Did you know that 17th-century baronet Sir Thomas Peniston received £50 per year as a member of the retinue of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, and that his wife, Martha, was the Earl's mistress?
Did you know that Armenian Byzantinist Hrach Bartikyan wrote the introductions and translated select writings of Procopius, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, and John Scylitzes from Greek into Armenian?
Did you know that Australian Made, a 1987 concert tour promoting "Good Times" and the mateship of nine local acts, was headlined by INXS and ended with two band managers coming to blows?
Did you know that Faith Lutheran College, Redlands was the first independent Christian school opened in the Redlands Shire, South East Queensland?
Did you know that Gears of War failed to win any prize at the 4th British Academy Video Games Awards, even though it was nominated for six?
Did you know that Henry Cronin won the Military Cross in the First World War for assaulting enemy positions and taking prisoners of war, despite being assigned to build field defences?
Did you know that Hudson Stuck, who was one of the first people to climb Mount McKinley's South Peak, thought Eagle Summit was one of the most difficult summits in Alaska?
Did you know that Hulda Garborg was co-founder of Det Norske Teatret in Oslo, which was established in 1912?
Did you know that India's S. Srinivasa Iyengar resigned as Advocate-General of Madras Presidency and returned his Order of the Indian Empire in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
Did you know that James Beach was selected to run for the Camden County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders after appearing at a candidate recruitment interview complaining and waving his tax bill?
Did you know that Janet Beaton, Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh, had five husbands and was immortalized as Sir Walter Scott's Wizard Lady of Branxholm in his poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"?
Did you know that Laurelwood Academy moved to Eugene, Oregon, after 103 years in Laurelwood, Oregon, but did not change its name?
Did you know that Native Americans occupied the Rogue River around the Rogue River Ranch over 9,000 years before European settlers arrived?
Did you know that Orion P. Howe was awarded the Medal of Honor for his childhood service as a Union Army drummer boy  during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Tanna japonensis, the Japanese cicada, makes a melancholy sound (example right) after sunset, when the temperature has dropped, or when it becomes cloudy?
Did you know that Tin Pan Alley song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" by Paul Dresser,  Indiana's state song, became its first official state symbol in 1913?
Did you know that after the Battle of Glenmama in the Wicklow Mountains in 999, Brian Boru's Munster forces occupied the city of Dublin for over a week?
Did you know that college basketball player Evan Turner was the only unanimous first-team All-Big Ten Conference choice by both the coaches and the media for the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season?