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Did you know that The City Sun, a black-owned newspaper, told David Dinkins, New York City's first African American mayor, that he was "beginning to look like a wimp"?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Gilma was, in terms of wind speed, the weakest named storm of the 2006 Pacific hurricane season?
Did you know that Vihar Lake, the largest in Mumbai, was created in 1860?
Did you know that according to recent research, the shadow trevally is one of the first fish to move in after a ship is scuttled?
Did you know that as well as being an Olympic competitor and World Championship bronze medallist in the multi-discipline sport of modern pentathlon, Katy Livingston also played netball at county level?
Did you know that new Manchester City F.C. chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak was also the man who negotiated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix's inclusion in the 2009 Formula One season?
Did you know that reforms enacted by Eleftherios Venizelos, after the 1909 Goudi coup helped bring him to power, largely forestalled the development of strong socialist and agrarian movements then seen elsewhere in the Balkans?
Did you know that socialite Hazel Crane's posthumous memoirs revealed her secret criminal career, including smuggling emeralds out of South Africa in her beehive hairdo and her baby's nappy?
Did you know that the Cadillac Gage Peacekeeper II armoured vehicle has a 0.5-inch (13 mm) thick armour that can provide protection against 7.62mm armour piercing ammunition?
Did you know that the Instructions of Shuruppak, first attested in a tablet from Abu Salabikh, has been called "the most significant piece of wisdom literature in Sumerian"?
Did you know that the Lombard duke Euin had to twice defend the Duchy of Trent from the Franks, in 584 by battle and in 591 by diplomacy?
Did you know that the papal election in 1159 that followed the death of Pope Adrian IV resulted in a papal schism, which lasted until 1178?
Did you know that the young Lord Byron (1813 portrait pictured) shared his mother's violent temper and, during one fit of anger, bit into a saucer?
Did you know that two weeks before the 1964 bombings of the United States Embassy in Libreville, Gabon, the country had undergone an abortive coup d'etat which overthrew its president, Leon M'ba?
Did you know that when a mutiny broke out in the absence of Tang Dynasty general Cui Ning, his concubine Lady Ren suppressed it with soldiers she had hired herself?
Did you know that "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" became a famous description for Singapore following the 1993 publication of William Gibson's article of the same name?
Did you know that Baghdad was under siege for more than a year during a civil war in the 9th century between Al-Amin and his brother Al-Ma'mun for the Abbasid Caliphate?
Did you know that Bill Laxton was the winning pitcher in the first game ever won by the Seattle Mariners, a come-from-behind, 7–6 win over the California Angels?
Did you know that Bob Brenly led his team to the 2001 World Series and won in his first season as the Arizona Diamondbacks manager?
Did you know that Elena Paparizou, the second choice to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, ended up winning the contest with "My Number One"?
Did you know that Hyman Golden was co-founder and chairman of Snapple, which got its name from one of its early products, a carbonated apple juice that had a "snapply apple taste"?
Did you know that James W. Cannon co-wrote a paper suggesting that the "negatively curved" nature of microscopic growth patterns of bio-organisms is responsible for the highly folded structure of the brain tissue?
Did you know that Louis Timothee was the first public librarian in the United States?
Did you know that SS Empire Simba, a British cargo ship, was severely damaged in port by a land mine dropped by a German bomber during the World War II?
Did you know that Schools Plus, an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, was boycotted by 15 schools?
Did you know that Sir Michael Sachs was the first English solicitor to become a High Court judge, appointed in 1993?
Did you know that Sydney Deane, who narrowly missed representing Australia in cricket, was the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood film?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Zhu Ci, angry that he was removed from command due to his brother Zhu Tao's rebellion, later tried to become emperor of his own state of Qin?
Did you know that Theresa Elmendorf was the first woman president of the American Library Association?
Did you know that flatwater canoer Vladas Česiūnas was forcibly returned by the KGB to the Soviet Union out of fear that he would publish a book on doping in the Soviet Union prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that six hours after it had been forecast to become a tropical storm, Hurricane Joyce unexpectedly dissipated?
Did you know that the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy has been called a major political accomplishment of the post-Cold War era?
Did you know that the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka, Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua,  Amada, and Derr were all dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere, to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser created by the Aswan Dam?
Did you know that the current National Palace of Mexico, despite having been destroyed and rebuilt several times, still contains building blocks from the original palace of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II?
Did you know that "Where do you want to go today?", launched in November 1994, was the title of Microsoft's first global image advertising campaign?
Did you know that Cameroonian politician Louis-Paul Aujoulat's thesis was named best in his faculty at the Catholic University?
Did you know that George Odgers was the last living member of the 14 historians who wrote the official history of Australia's involvement in World War II, Australia in the War of 1939–1945?
Did you know that Label Fandango was created by Andy Macleod and Simon Williams, the man behind debut singles from Coldplay and Keane?
Did you know that Latvian basketball player Ieva Tāre suffered a serious arm injury during the qualification for 2008 Summer Olympics, but recovered in time for the actual Olympics?
Did you know that Reverend Edmund Nelson's most famous son, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, was born 250 years ago today?
Did you know that Richard Wesley first won critical acclaim for his 1971 play Black Terror and financial success for his screenplays for the Cosby/Poitier vehicles Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again?
Did you know that San Giorgio a Cremano is so named because the residents called on their patron saint Saint George for protection from the fiery eruptions of Mount Vesuvius?
Did you know that The Mock Tempest was a 1674 parody of Dryden and Davenant's adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest?
Did you know that a jobawi is a Korean traditional winter cap with ear-flaps which was worn by women during the late Joseon Dynasty?
Did you know that after filing to run for a seat on the Oregon Supreme Court, judge Jason Lee had two cases decided against his interests in the same court before withdrawing?
Did you know that during the 2008–2009 television season, the actress Shenae Grimes has starring roles in both the eighth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation, and the first season of 90210?
Did you know that during the Siege of Paris, French inventor and photographer René Dagron used carrier pigeons carrying microfilms to send messages across German lines?
Did you know that during the murder trial of Dr Thomas Lodwig, he claimed that he had used the poison potassium chloride to enhance the effect of painkillers rather than to kill his patient?
Did you know that from 1996 to 2001, racers driving the Riley & Scott Mk III sports prototype won a total of eight Drivers Championships in four different sports car racing series?
Did you know that in the Toronto Blue Jays seasons, they have had seven different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day?
Did you know that strong waves from Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 washed thousands of tires, part of an artificial reef, ashore in North Carolina?
Did you know that the 108.1-kilometre (67.2 mi) Canal de l'Ourcq provides over half of the 380,000 cubic metres (500,000 cu yd) of water used daily by the city of Paris for cleaning public works?
Did you know that the 17th-century gardeners of the Izmaylovo Estate managed to grow figs, coconuts and melons but failed to breed silk worms?
Did you know that the C. Burton Hotel may be the only Greek Revival building in Sullivan County, New York, with a recessed porch and columns?
Did you know that the Chicago Cubs have a tradition of raising a Cubs Win flag on the flagpole atop the scoreboard at Wrigley Field after every Cubs home victory?
Did you know that the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton, a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics, has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School?
Did you know that the cause of the Svenskehuset Tragedy, where 17 men died on Svalbard in the winter of 1872–73, was until recently a mystery?
Did you know that unlike most other Jewish communities in the Catskills, the congregants of Ulster Heights Synagogue were farmers rather than resort operators?
Did you know that , at 248.1 metres (814 ft), Midtown Tower is the tallest building in Tokyo, Japan?
Did you know that English footballer Fred Geary scored the first goal at the opening of Everton's new Goodison Park stadium in August 1892?
Did you know that George Washington called Dismal Swamp a "glorious paradise" and now part of it is a North Carolina state park?
Did you know that Greenbank Gardens near Glasgow, Scotland were built by Robert Allason, a slave trader?
Did you know that International Gothic art is so called because very similar styles existed in centres as far apart as France, Bohemia, Italy and Burgundy?
Did you know that Mike Berniker produced Barbra Streisand's first three albums, which were described by The New York Times as "among the most expressively uninhibited" of her career?
Did you know that Rage Software were forced to use fictitious footballer names on the PC game Microsoft International Soccer 2000 because they did not acquire a license from FIFA?
Did you know that Sir Francis Gawdy, his father and his two older half-brothers were all baptised Thomas Gawdy, although Francis had his name changed at his confirmation?
Did you know that William Fox was awarded a scholarship to drama school, but only on the condition that he passed the money on to another student?
Did you know that a tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets, described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body", is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument?
Did you know that after Chief Justice of the King's Bench Robert Tresilian was executed for treason in 1388, his wife married a pirate?
Did you know that despite its leaders being deported to remote parts of the country, the Gabonese opposition garnered 46% of the vote in a 1964 legislative election?
Did you know that during testing, M247 Sergeant York locked onto an exhaust fan, shot into the ground instead of its target, and threatened to fire on the high-ranking review panel in nearby stands?
Did you know that in 1715, Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov, the largest Russian landowner after the tsar, owned territories larger than modern Bulgaria or Iceland?
Did you know that in August 2007, millionaire businessman Anwar Rashid and his family left Clifton Hall, their £3.6M home in Nottingham, because they thought it was haunted?
Did you know that oysters deposit pseudofeces in such amounts that they can clean up an entire estuary?
Did you know that the 15th-century figure Sir John Juyn served simultaneously as Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, only relinquishing the positions when he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench?
Did you know that the 2006 film Strawberry Fields is a documentary about Palestinian farmers in Gaza facing hardships caused by the Israel–Hamas military conflict?
Did you know that the Angel Island Chuckwalla, an Iguanidae species, was considered such an important food item to the Seri people that they translocated the species to islands within the Sea of Cortés?
Did you know that the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Constanţa, Romania, which twice served as a parish church and twice as a cathedral, was made a monastery as well in 2001?
Did you know that the Dome of the Prophet was built by the Ottomans on the spot where some believe Islamic prophet Muhammad prayed on the night of Isra and Mi'raj?
Did you know that the Sołtan argument as outlined in 1982 suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy was once a quasar?
Did you know that the name of Cabonga Reservoir in central Quebec is derived from the Algonquin kakibonga, meaning "completely blocked by sand"?
Did you know that two sculptors from Vest-Telemark, Dyre Vaa and Anne Grimdalen, both contributed to the decoration of Oslo City Hall?
Did you know that , after the rebellious Tang Dynasty general Zhu Tao was defeated by Wang Wujun and Li Baozhen, he immediately executed two subordinates who had suggested that he battle Wang and Li?
Did you know that Betty Furness, a Hollywood film actress turned consumer advocate, was appointed by Nelson Rockefeller as the first chairman and executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board?
Did you know that Cleckheaton railway station was stolen in August 1971?
Did you know that David Bowie was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the 2007 Webby Awards?
Did you know that Double Falshood is a 1727 play by Lewis Theobald based on the "Cardenio" episode in Don Quixote?
Did you know that Dustin the Turkey, a puppet, represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008?
Did you know that Gary D. McCaleb, a former mayor of Abilene, once recruited the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan to speak to a community gathering in his West Texas city?
Did you know that Morris Sullivan's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland, to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry?
Did you know that Richard Kessel, a consumer advocate who opposed the US$5.5 billion Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, purchased the facility for one dollar as head of the Long Island Power Authority?
Did you know that Supreme National Tribunal, a war crime tribunal active in Poland from 1946 to 1948, presided over seven high-profile cases, including the First Auschwitz Trial?
Did you know that according to writings by missionary Ivan Popov, an 18th-century settlement on Uliaga Island was destroyed by a Russian settler at the request of natives on nearby Umnak Island?
Did you know that although Iván DeJesús, Jr. was selected to play in the 2008 Southern League All-star game, he instead played in the 2008 All-Star Futures Game?
Did you know that in 2004, Ouaga-Saga was one of two or three films the Burkina Faso government produces in a year?
Did you know that the United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi?
Did you know that the followers of the Socialist Workers Party in Palestine, the precursor of the Communist Party of Israel, were known as mopsim?
Did you know that the magazine Electrician and Mechanic (cover pictured) changed its title six times in two years before acquiring its current title, Popular Science?
Did you know that the song "Another Planet" by drum and bass band Pendulum uses samples from Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds?
Did you know that when Giurgiu Cathedral in Romania was inaugurated in 2006, it received a box with the relics of Saint George, but this was stolen the following year?
Did you know that 29 out of 40 prepared songs were excluded from the final track list of Brandon Heath's album What If We?
Did you know that A.U. Fuimaono was the first Delegate from American Samoa to the United States House of Representatives?
Did you know that Else Højgaard was a prima ballerina who was awarded knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog?
Did you know that Gliricidia sepium is used as firewood, live fencing, fodder, coffee shade, green manure and rat poison?
Did you know that Hapoel Tayibe was the first ever Arab football club to play in the top division in Israel?
Did you know that M3 Amphibious Rig, a self-propelled amphibious bridging vehicle, was originally developed by the German firm Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern?
Did you know that Nora Kimball co-starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in David Gordon's Made in U.S.A.?
Did you know that Prussian-born American surveyor and city planner Julius Pitzman was directly responsible for the development of the private place in St. Louis, Missouri around the turn of the 20th century?
Did you know that Warren A. Morton, a Speaker of the Wyoming House, was the father of a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the son-in-law of a U.S. representative from Pennsylvania?
Did you know that according to Hansard, Northern Irish boxer Paddy Maguire once sparred with Conservative politician Colin Moynihan in a London pub?
Did you know that at the funeral of Sir Anthony Browne, friends were given mourning rings engraved on the outside with 'Wee dye'?
Did you know that following the purchase of British Energy by Electricité de France, plans for a new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station have been announced?
Did you know that in August 1936, the Matson Navigation Company cargo ship SS Mauna Loa came to the aid of a windjammer that was crewed by Sea Scouts and had been missing for two weeks?
Did you know that in Mexico City's Zócalo, 18,000 Mexicans stripped naked for the artist Spencer Tunick?
Did you know that more than 100,000 Heinkel Tourist scooters  were sold despite being heavier and more expensive than Vespas and Lambrettas?
Did you know that on April 17, 1964, Tim Harkness of the New York Mets became the first Met player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium?
Did you know that rains from Tropical Storm Lester triggered a mudslide that temporarily buried a man in Mexico?
Did you know that the 1871 Battle of Blanco Canyon marked the first time a foreign military force had penetrated to the heart of the Comancheria since the Comanche rose to power on the Great Plains?
Did you know that the Goodpasture Covered Bridge spanning the McKenzie River near Vida, Oregon is decorated for the Christmas season?
Did you know that the Holgate School in Nottinghamshire, England had a Khatchkar installed in thanks by the Armenian Government for UK-funded Lord Byron School in Gyumri?
Did you know that the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law was named after its founder Sir Elihu Lauterpacht and his father Sir Hersch Lauterpacht?
Did you know that the Norwegian river Lysakerelven, an ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the Oslofjord?
Did you know that the Oxford Music Hall, opened in 1861, burned down twice within its first dozen years of operation?
Did you know that the first work of Texas literature in English was the 1833 book Texas by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin?
Did you know that the weroance of the Appomattoc tribe, Perecute, personally led Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam on an expedition in 1671 to become the first Europeans to set foot within what is now West Virginia?
Did you know that "Frog Legs Rag" (listen) was the second highest selling ragtime song after "Maple Leaf Rag" in publisher John Stillwell Stark's catalog?
Did you know that "The Nose" is a 1916 Japanese short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a Buddhist priest who is obsessed with his ungainly nose?
Did you know that American film producer Sandy Stern's producing partner is R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe?
Did you know that British architect Rodney Gordon considered running for Parliament, but could not decide which party he wanted to be in?
Did you know that Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs Holmdel Complex was called the "The Biggest Mirror Ever" because of its unique exterior?
Did you know that Henry Bohlen, an American Civil War Union Brigadier General who was born in Germany in 1810, was the first foreign-born Union general in the Civil War?
Did you know that Jacopo I da Carrara, signore of Padua, Italy, voluntarily stepped down in 1319 to save the city from Cangrande I della Scala?
Did you know that Japanese rock band Abingdon Boys School provided one of the two opening theme tunes for the first season of the D.Gray-man anime?
Did you know that Loughborough University's Pilkington Library is cooled by an on campus combined heat and power plant which provides electricity to the rest of the university?
Did you know that Sadamu Shimomura, the last Army Minister of the Imperial Japanese Army, was appointed after the surrender of Japan?
Did you know that after the resignation of Roman Abramovic, Roman Kopin was unanimously confirmed by local legislators to be the next governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug?
Did you know that art historian George Zarnecki worked with a Soviet spy for almost 30 years at the Courtauld Institute of Art?
Did you know that biochemist Rollin Hotchkiss, a pioneer in bacterial transformation and molecular genetics, helped to popularize the term "genetic engineering"?
Did you know that by 1937, the Warsaw branch of the Bundist Morgnshtern was the largest sporting organisation in Poland?
Did you know that computer criminal Jeanson James Ancheta was the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets?
Did you know that conductor gallop, the wind-induced 1 Hz oscillation of overhead transmission lines, is also known as "dancing"?
Did you know that deadpan comedian Kevin Wu was one of three Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube's all time most subscribed in 2008?
Did you know that the Bandra Fair in Mumbai, India was established to commemorate finding a statue of Mary in the Arabian Sea?
Did you know that the Dome of the Chain, a free-standing dome functioning as a prayer house on the Temple Mount, was possibly used as a building model for the adjacent Dome of the Rock?
Did you know that the Flagellation of Christ first appears in art (example pictured) in the 9th century?
Did you know that the High Arctic relocation of 87 Inuit people in the Cold War was called "one of the worst human rights violations in the history of Canada" by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?
Did you know that the September 2008 attacks on Christians in Mangalore started in response to the allegations by Bajrang Dal that the New Life Fellowship Church was indulging in forcible conversion of Hindus?
Did you know that the Willamette Law Review offices are housed in a former Carnegie library re-dedicated in a ceremony featuring U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Did you know that the threadfin jack has been found at a number of archaeological sites in Central America, indicating this species has been caught by humans for food for at least three millennia?
Did you know that Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. was one of the foremost authorities in early telephone engineering, and received the IEEE Edison Medal for his work on electrical communication?
Did you know that Croatian composer Alfi Kabiljo's plays have been produced over 2,000 times?
Did you know that Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick published a short book of favorite songs titled Louisiana Let's Sing in honor of her husband Claude's unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in 1963?
Did you know that Henry Jolles, who had played Schubert's complete piano music in Heidelberg in 1928, escaped Nazi persecution in 1942 by fleeing from France to Brazil with the assistance of American Varian Fry?
Did you know that Imperial Japanese Army general Takaji Wachi attempted to create a collaborationist state in Guangxi, China in the mid 1930s?
Did you know that MS European Stars, built in 2002, was the last new cruise ship delivered to Festival Cruises before their bankruptcy in 2004?