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Did you know that the community of Old Glory in Texas used to be known as "New Brandenburg" until residents petitioned the U.S. Postal Service for a name change in 1918 due to anti-German sentiment?
Did you know that tight end Dennis Pitta put his college football career on hold for two years to serve in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints mission in the Dominican Republic?
Did you know that when Ireland bowler Peter Connell took a hat-trick on his debut in first-class cricket, he was the first player to do so in an international match?
Did you know that Clayton Hill, who played the "sweater zombie" in the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead, was described by a member of the film's crew as "one of the most convincing zombies of the bunch"?
Did you know that Filipino basketball player Gec Chia's walk-off buzzer beater in the 2002 UAAP semifinals brought his coach Joel Banal to his knees, and he later described the shot as "a miracle"?
Did you know that Irwin Uteritz, "one of the lightest 'big time' quarterbacks in American football history" at 140 pounds, led Michigan to two undefeated seasons and a national championship?
Did you know that Miles Davis owed Bob Weinstock of Prestige Records four albums, so Davis recorded in two days of sessions the music for the 1956 albums Cookin', Relaxin', Workin' and Steamin'?
Did you know that Three-Mile Hog Ranch was a center for prostitution for soldiers at Fort Laramie?
Did you know that apart from the Basilica of Guadalupe, the Sanctuary of Chalma in Malinalco is the most visited shrine in Mexico?
Did you know that burning money can provide for behavior modification, political notoriety, and a warm fireplace?
Did you know that in 1804 The Siege of Gibraltar, an aqua drama at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, used 117 floating model ships capable of firing their own guns?
Did you know that in December 1998 the host of The Gay Byrne Show, a favourite of Kenmare housewives, was greeted by a surprise audience which included the President and Taoiseach?
Did you know that on Africa’s coast, Guachanche barracuda are normally found from Senegal to Angola (including Cape Verde), but can also be found much further north off the Canary islands?
Did you know that recruiting analysts thought Da'Rel Scott was too small for a college running back, but in 2008 he ran for more than 1,000 yards and led his conference in rushing for most of the season?
Did you know that secretions from the placenta prevent the maternal immune system from recognizing the fetus as a foreign object, partly explaining immune tolerance in pregnancy?
Did you know that the 2002 documentary Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death, alleging U.S. involvement in the Dasht-i-Leili massacre, was viewed by the European Parliament, but received no coverage in U.S. media?
Did you know that the Dallas Hilton, built in 1925 for Conrad Hilton in Downtown Dallas, Texas, was the first highrise hotel to be branded a "Hilton"?
Did you know that the US Army's Signal Corps built the MOBIDIC semi-trailer mounted computer to route battlefield information, but put it to good use as a logistics system instead?
Did you know that the Watergate complex's buildings were designed to emulate the proposed Inner Loop Expressway and the shape of the Kennedy Center, whose original design was curvilinear?
Did you know that the coldest temperature in south-west England on record was −16.1 °C (3.0 °F) at Yeovilton, Somerset, in January 1982?
Did you know that the director of the documentary Who the Hell is Juliette? intentionally misspelled the name of the film's title character in the credits?
Did you know that Film & Kino, which organizes municipal-owned cinemas in Norway, also co-organizes the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund?
Did you know that Renée Asherson made her first stage appearance in John Gielgud's 1935 production of Romeo and Juliet?
Did you know that U2 released a film titled Linear as a companion to their latest studio album, to enhance the album's listening experience with visuals?
Did you know that Yishan Yining, a Zen master who pioneered Gozan Bungaku literature in 14th-century Japan, was originally a Buddhist monk on a diplomatic mission from China?
Did you know that a key differentiator between rotors and propellers is disk loading?
Did you know that as of 1981, New York City's Toy Center was the site of 95% of the toy business transacted in the United States?
Did you know that during the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), aquaculture in China of the common carp was banned because the Chinese word for common carp sounded like the family name, Li (李), of the emperor?
Did you know that fish diseases and parasites can result in mass fish die offs, particularly if the ambush predator Pfiesteria piscicida is involved?
Did you know that in 1747, Aulay Macaulay, the last chief of Clan MacAulay, invented a system of shorthand in an unsuccessful attempt revive his clan's fortune?
Did you know that professional wrestler Olímpico's ring name was inspired by the 1992 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that renalase is an enzyme that breaks down stress hormones and decreases blood pressure?
Did you know that studio executive Steven Rothenberg designed and oversaw the film distribution strategy for the indie horror film The Blair Witch Project?
Did you know that the John Pearson Soda Works was built in front of an idle mining shaft so there would be ample room to store ice?
Did you know that the Mexican Green Party has run an advertising campaign to promote the restoration of capital punishment in Mexico?
Did you know that the Mexican government offers rewards of 30 million pesos for information leading to the arrest of the leaders of various drug trafficking cartels, such as the Beltrán-Leyva brothers?
Did you know that the Urban Transportation Development Corporation was formed to build a version of the Transrapid maglev train, but instead designed a completely new system known today as the Bombardier ART?
Did you know that the largest water slide in the U.S. state of Oregon is Thrill-Ville USA in the city of Turner?
Did you know that the settlers who built Old St. Raymond's Church in Dublin, California, were unable to afford a full-time priest, so one rode in monthly from Oakland to hold Mass?
Did you know that the title of Robbie Williams' upcoming album Reality Killed the Video Star is a reference to 1979's The Buggles hit Video Killed the Radio Star?
Did you know that the two German Scharnhorst-class armored cruisers were both sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914?
Did you know that the work of Pelagius of Oviedo as a historian is generally reliable, but he is known as the "prince of falsifiers" for various altered documents emanating from his office in the 12th century?
Did you know that two county attorneys were sued for not reporting the plot by a jealous ophthalmologist to murder another ophthalmologist, who later lost his eyesight in prison?
Did you know that when George Booth built Booth Mansion in Chester, Cheshire, England, he angled the building to make it more visible from Chester Cross, but was fined £10 for encroaching into the street?
Did you know that with 125 Scottish clans in attendance, The Gathering was the world's largest clan meeting and Highland games?
Did you know that Acintya is the Supreme God according to Balinese Hinduism?
Did you know that Albrecht von Wallenstein's series of victories was ended by the Scots Alexander Seaton and Alexander Leslie in the Battle of Stralsund (1628)?
Did you know that English writer and historian Mercia MacDermott, who has authored five books on the ethnography and history of Bulgaria, learned Mandarin Chinese while living in Weihai as a child?
Did you know that Gladys Bustamante became a leading Jamaican trade unionist after she took a job as a secretary for her future husband, Sir Alexander Bustamante?
Did you know that Infinity Broadcasting, sold for nearly $4 billion in 1996, was started in 1972 when co-founder Michael A. Wiener bought FM station KOME with $5,000 from the sale of his father's stamp collection?
Did you know that Japanese pink film/sexploitation producer-director Kan Mukai gave Academy-Award winner Yōjirō Takita his first work in the film industry?
Did you know that Joe Maddock was one of the biggest ground gainers, and played four positions, for Michigan's 1903 "Point-a-Minute" football team?
Did you know that Lynn Pressman, while president of the Pressman Toy Corporation, promised not to create "any of the dreadful weapons that can destroy life as playthings for children"?
Did you know that Robert Cushman expanded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' photo archives through donations from United Artists' studios and Katharine Hepburn?
Did you know that The Raw Sessions is Ireland's first ever rockumentary series?
Did you know that a square metre patch of Phylactolaemata, a freshwater  class of Bryozoa, can produce 800,000 statoblasts, "survival pods" withstanding freezing and drying that get carried long distances?
Did you know that after crashing in the same event in 1992, John Kah was the reserve in the short track relay and watched on as teammates Steven Bradbury, Richard Nizielski, Kieran Hansen and Andrew Murtha won Australia's first ever medal at the Winter Olympics?
Did you know that award-winning romance novelist Jeffrey McClanahan has written under three distinct pen names: "Dixie Cash", "Anna Jeffrey", and "Sadie Callahan"?
Did you know that construction of the Natron Cutoff was delayed for 11 years while the U.S. Department of Justice decided whether to allow the Southern Pacific Company to remain in control of its owner, the Central Pacific Railway?
Did you know that in 1939, Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Umansky was the youngest Ambassador in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that producer Ozzie Cadena's first session at Savoy Records was for trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding, the first in a long collaboration by the duo?
Did you know that the 15th-century mosque Atala Masjid, Jaunpur, India exists at the site of the Atala Devi Hindu temple?
Did you know that the 1937 peasant strike in Poland was the largest anti-government demonstration in the Second Polish Republic?
Did you know that the 1987 Hipercor bombing was Basque paramilitary group ETA's deadliest attack?
Did you know that the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions allowed the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck in New York, which lasted for over two centuries?
Did you know that the French captured HMS Castor in 1794, only to have her retaken 20 days later by HMS Carysfort?
Did you know that the Limitation Act 1963 was described by Lord Reid as having "a strong claim to the distinction of being the worst drafted Act on the statute book"?
Did you know that the Ninth Circuit ruled in Alperin v. Vatican Bank that property claims by Holocaust survivors did not constitute a political question, while human rights and international law claims did?
Did you know that the first of four bridges on the current Taipei Bridge location was designed for rail traffic, but the railway was removed after only ten years?
Did you know that the show There Goes the Neighborhood built a 20 feet (6.1 m) tall wall around a Kennesaw, Georgia, neighborhood for its filming?
Did you know that the website Like.com allows users to highlight a part of a product image and search for similar-looking products based on the pattern, shape, and color of the highlighted part?
Did you know that when the New Redmond Hotel opened, it was billed as Oregon's finest hotel east of the Cascade Mountains with rooms from $1 per day?
Did you know that while Prime Minister of Jordan, Sulayman al-Nabulsi was accused of involvement in a coup against King Hussein, resulting in his house imprisonment for over four years?
Did you know that Britney Spears' guest appearance in the Will & Grace episode "Buy, Buy Baby" was her first acting performance on prime-time television?
Did you know that Captain Charles Lydiard died in the wreck of his ship when he became exhausted after trying to ensure that as many of his crew as possible were saved?
Did you know that General Jakob von Washington, a distant relative and contemporary of US President George Washington, became a Baron of the Kingdom of Bavaria?
Did you know that King Sigismund I the Old built a castle for his Italian wife Bona Sforza in the Lithuanian town Maišiagala during the Jagiellon dynasty?
Did you know that Lyman Hall established the first textile engineering school in the Southern United States in 1899 while president of the Georgia Institute of Technology?
Did you know that Pakistan Hindu Party's flag, which bears two ancient Hindu symbols, Om and Trishool, was designed by the party's founder, Rana Chandra Singh?
Did you know that Panapasa Balekana co-wrote God Save Our Solomon Islands, the national anthem, as a prayer for the country after receiving inspiration in a dream?
Did you know that President Truman's own pastor came out publicly against his appointment of General Mark Wayne Clark as ambassador to Pope Pius XII?
Did you know that President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted to Europe from New Jersey's New Brunswick Marconi Station in 1918?
Did you know that Ras Ibn Hani, a small cape located 8 km north of Latakia, Syria, was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times?
Did you know that TV personality Brian Belo descends from Nigerian royalty?
Did you know that a visit by Che Guevara sparked 50 years of ties between Cuba and Sri Lanka?
Did you know that according to the legend of the Parson and Clerk (site pictured), the devil turned a local priest and his clerk into stacks at Teignmouth, Devon?
Did you know that between 1992 and 2002, more than 60 million people became obese in China?
Did you know that current NFL player Terrance Knighton received only two scholarship offers coming out of high school?
Did you know that despite significantly reforming the law relating to indictments, the Indictments Act 1915 does not actually define what an indictment is?
Did you know that following her service in the Mexican–American War, laundress and madam Sarah Bowman was breveted an honorary colonel and buried with military honors?
Did you know that of three churches in Shoreham held by the Lord of Bramber in the 11th century, one partly collapsed in a storm, another is now part of a barn, and the other has carvings of King Stephen, his wife, and a cat?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Ameliella have been found in the Skibotn area in central Northern Norway, a hotspot of lichen species diversity?
Did you know that the Dexia Tower in Brussels has reduced its nightly light show to only 10 minutes an hour due to the recession?
Did you know that the Dutch intervention in Bali in 1906 caused a "fight to the death" by the Balinese, resulting in mass ritual suicide?
Did you know that the owner of KFMR, forced off the air for financial reasons, is selling the Utah radio station and New Mexico sister station KPSA-FM to his own father?
Did you know that the tallest building in Bucharest is the 110-metre (361 ft) Bucharest Tower Center located in Sector 1?
Did you know that , after noticing that white teenagers in his Cleveland, Ohio record store were increasingly listening to rhythm and blues records, Leo Mintz was one of the first to call the music "rock and roll"?
Did you know that Albert Levitt was involved in the drafting of the ERA, challenged the appointment of Justice Hugo Black, and ran against Nixon for Senate?
Did you know that Alfredo Figaro of the Detroit Tigers is the cousin of fellow Tigers pitcher Fernando Rodney?
Did you know that Confidence Hall in Placerville, California, was named after a fire truck?
Did you know that Crosbie Castle and the Fullarton estate was the home of William Wallace's uncle, and it was here that he set off on the day that ended in the burning of the Barns of Ayr as an act of revenge?
Did you know that Crypt Chambers, a department store in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built in 1858 above one of the best medieval crypts in the city?
Did you know that Diego von Bergen, who was the ambassador to the Holy See for the Kingdom of Prussia until 1918, continued to serve in this position for the Weimar Republic as well as Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Ernest Brooks was responsible for 4,400 of the 40,000 official British photographs made during the First World War? (example pictured)
Did you know that Irish multi-instrumentalist musician R.S.A.G. performs with a virtual band projected onto a screen in a style which has been likened to Gorillaz?
Did you know that Polish pilot Władysław Turowicz moved to Pakistan, became a citizen, and has since become known as the "Rocket-Missile Man of Pakistan"?
Did you know that Portuguese warrior and folk hero Gerald the Fearless led several Christian victories during the Reconquista, but later switched sides and served as governor of al-Sūs under the Almohad caliph Yusuf I?
Did you know that Prionochilus is one of the two genera that comprise the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae (Yellow-breasted Flowerpecker pictured)?
Did you know that Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie in France is home to a Brotherhood of the Sardine, of which French Prime Minister François Fillon is a special "sympathizer"?
Did you know that Shafiq al-Hout, former head of the Palestine Liberation Front, resigned from the PLO Executive Committee following Yasser Arafat's signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993?
Did you know that The Chapters entertained two hundred people on a train as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary celebrations of the DART?
Did you know that The Infomatics have been called "the loudest voice in Irish hip hop"?
Did you know that a group of seven singing postal workers from Richmond, Virginia, called The Spiritual Harmonizers, made it past the first round of the fourth season of America's Got Talent?
Did you know that one of Kam Chancellor's coaches called him possibly "the greatest safety in Virginia Tech history"?
Did you know that one of the first actions of India's Desai government was to formally end the state of emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Wynnea (W. americana, pictured) have asci that are capped by a hinged operculum?
Did you know that the Irish triad Cambrai Homily, which outlines three categories of martyrdom, each designated by a different colour, is the oldest single example of an extended prose passage in Old Irish?
Did you know that the literary works of Romanian teacher and defrocked Orthodox priest Ion Creangă range from primers to erotic stories?
Did you know that the melody of the title track of Neil Innes' album How Sweet To Be An Idiot was plagiarised by Oasis for their 1994 single "Whatever" and Innes now receives royalties and a co-writing credit?
Did you know that writer, suffragist, and feminist Emily Newell Blair has been described by Senator Carter Glass as "go[ing] down so smooth and easily but has an awful kick afterwords"?
Did you know that Benson, Britain's "biggest and best-loved" common carp, was known as "the people's fish"?
Did you know that Cyclone Orson is the fourth most intense cyclone on record in the Australian cyclone region?
Did you know that Ernesto Basile completed the reconstruction of the Palazzo Montecitorio, which is now the seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies?
Did you know that Joachim-Friedrich Huth lost a leg in World War I but served as a general in the Luftwaffe of both the World War II Wehrmacht and the West German Bundeswehr?
Did you know that John McClannahan Crockett was the second mayor of Dallas, and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1861 to 1863?
Did you know that Ken Major was considered a world authority on windmills, watermills, animal engines and other forms of industrial archaeology?
Did you know that Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President?
Did you know that Thomas N. Schroth worked for his father Frank D. Schroth as an editor at the Brooklyn Eagle and two decades later at The Ellsworth American under his father-in-law James Russell Wiggins?
Did you know that after Indian domino cockroaches copulate, a female does not permit males to approach, kicking them away with her hind legs?
Did you know that after Sweden entered the Thirty Years' War, Pomerania and France became her allies in the Treaty of Stettin (1630) and the Treaty of Bärwalde (1631)?
Did you know that after he lost the Battle of Wolgast, Christian IV of Denmark withdrew from the Thirty Years' War by concluding the Treaty of Lübeck?
Did you know that because the only approach to Badrinath, Uttarakhand, India, since early times was along a path through a forest of berries, the word "Badri" (berry) was suffixed to Sapta Badri temples?
Did you know that in 993, Seo Hui, a Korean diplomat in the Goryeo period, prevented an invasion by Khitan troops?
Did you know that in Chinese mythology, Wu Gang had to chop down a tree on the moon that always healed itself, forcing him to keep trying forever?
Did you know that metamaterials with a negative refractive index cause light to bend in unusual ways and offer the possibility of making an object undetectable to incident radiation (that is, invisible)?
Did you know that synthetic analogues of Viagra, such as thiomethisosildenafil, have been detected in some products sold as "herbal" aphrodisiacs?
Did you know that the BBC commissioned Carol Ann Duffy, the British Poet Laureate, to write Last Post to mark the deaths in July 2009 of First World War veterans Henry Allingham and Harry Patch?
Did you know that the House of Neville, one of the most powerful families in England during the Middle Ages, descended from the same line as the Scottish monarchy?
Did you know that the Uncle Sam diamond, the largest diamond ever discovered in the United States, bears the nickname of the man who found it?
Did you know that the copper roof of Hungary's Óbuda Synagogue was melted down to make weapons during World War I?
Did you know that the forces of the ancient state of Epirus invaded Latium, threatening Rome itself, during the Pyrrhic War in 280 B.C.?
Did you know that the history of medieval art (example pictured) can be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian and "barbarian" art?
Did you know that the singer of "Fuckin' 'Ell It's Fred Titmus" had never even met the cricketer, "let alone greeted him in such an overfamiliar way"?
Did you know that when it opened in 1933 the Merced Theatre had ventilators that produced "clouds" to float across its star-speckled ceiling?
Did you know that Alex Cusack, on his debut in first-class cricket, partnered with Andre Botha to break a 111 year record?
Did you know that Anthony Impreveduto lost his Secaucus, New Jersey Town Council seat to reform candidate Dennis Elwell, with both later resigning from political office following corruption charges?
Did you know that Beatrix Potter initially resisted the idea of colour illustrations for The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
Did you know that Bill Humble was a test pilot for Hawker Siddeley during the Second World War, and was the grandfather of British TV presenter Kate Humble?
Did you know that Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos created the Metropolitanate of Lithuania, which was later regarded as an "anomaly" by the Byzantine authorities?
Did you know that Ctenomorphodes chronus is an Australian stick insect that resembles a eucalyptus twig, and the female lays 3-mm elliptical eggs that resemble plant seeds?
Did you know that Holby City woman is a voter demographic in the United Kingdom considered influential to the outcome of the next United Kingdom general election?
Did you know that Kerry Hallam, an artist based in Nantucket, but trained in Chesterfield, has created an exhibition of nude ex-wives?
Did you know that Minnesota Vikings safety Colt Anderson recited a vulgar rhyme celebrating his hometown of Butte before each game while at the University of Montana?
Did you know that Paris currently has more than 360 working fountains, including one, the Fontaine des Innocents, in use since the 16th century?