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Did you know that W. G. Grace was the first cricketer to score a century of first-class centuries?
Did you know that West Shore, a magazine published from 1875 to 1891 in Portland, Oregon, was well known for its illustrations of scenery, architecture, and commerce of the Pacific Northwest?
Did you know that Yin Yin Nwe, a Burmese geologist, was appointed UNICEF Representative to China on December 1, 2006?
Did you know that a few years after the ecological restoration of Hyderabad's Saroornagar Lake in 2003, migratory birds returned to the lake in large numbers?
Did you know that a match at the World Wrestling Federation's No Mercy (2000) event resulted from one wrestler hitting another with a car to protest racism?
Did you know that a rainstorm that disrupted the First Test in the 1950–51 Ashes series was blamed on the American atomic bomb experiments carried out on Bikini Atoll?
Did you know that after beating the highly touted prospect Francisco "Massaranduba" Drinaldo via armbar, Yuri Alcantara was signed by World Extreme Cagefighting to appear on their last ever event?
Did you know that after being wounded at the capture of Martinique, Lt-Gen. James Murray had to sleep sitting up for the rest of his life?
Did you know that all four football venues at the 1968 Summer Olympics would be used as FIFA World Cup stadia when Mexico hosted the Cup in 1970 and 1986?
Did you know that gifts to monasteries in medieval Normandy were often rerecorded on pancartes?
Did you know that outfielder Harl Maggert was on pace to win a batting title when he was permanently suspended from professional baseball for throwing games?
Did you know that the 2009 single "I've Got Nothing" was written entirely through crowdsourcing in 10 weeks?
Did you know that the 27-million-year-old Cobb Seamount is so heavily encrusted in sea life that no bare rock surface has been found in dives?
Did you know that the British National Grid saw a record 2800 MW increase in demand due to the boiling of kettles and the opening of fridge doors after the 1990 FIFA World Cup Semi-Final between England and West Germany?
Did you know that the Charles A. Miller House was built for the oldest funeral director in Cincinnati, Ohio?
Did you know that the artifacts on display at the Alderney Society Museum are as diverse as 1940 census papers, cinerary urns, dulcie cups, and curry powder bottles?
Did you know that the cookbook I Love Bacon! has a recipe by Cat Cora for "Pig Candy Ice Cream," which contains chopped bacon?
Did you know that the proposed North Bothnia Line will allow high-speed trains to travel from Stockholm to Luleå Central Station?
Did you know that the ratepayer protest led by New Zealand lawyer William Wynn-Williams nearly bankrupted Christchurch City Council?
Did you know that there is an upcoming animated series starring Spider-Man based on the Ultimate Spider-Man storyline that will air on Disney XD?
Did you know that to promote Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes, two human-sized tomatoes picketed Super Bowl XVII?
Did you know that "Crumblin' Down" was John Cougar Mellencamp's first single released with his real last name?
Did you know that Belvedere, one of the historical centres of sugar production in the United States Virgin Islands, contains a villa hotel which has been converted from an old sugar mill?
Did you know that British Army soldier Matthew Kilroy was found guilty of manslaughter in the Boston Massacre?
Did you know that Disney Channel veteran Selena Gomez sings the theme song for the new Disney series, Shake It Up?
Did you know that Höfn, an Icelandic fishing town, has an entire museum devoted to glaciers?
Did you know that Johanna Bugge Olsen was convicted of treason for having printed some "un-national" material in Arbeidet during WWII?
Did you know that Leopold II's mistress Caroline Delacroix was so loathed by the Belgian public that on one occasion, her carriage was stoned in Brussels?
Did you know that Palo y hueso was Nicolás Sarquís' first feature-length movie, shot in 1968 and costing just $15,715 to make?
Did you know that Robbie "The Flame" Olivier's last fight was stopped after a fan riot made it impossible to continue?
Did you know that St Swithun's Church, Worcester, is described as "one of the best preserved examples of an early Georgian church in England"?
Did you know that Wadjemup Lighthouse was Australia's first rotating beam lighthouse?
Did you know that a milestone found near Milecastle 17 on Hadrian's Wall is the only known contemporary record of the name of Gaius Julius Marcus, Roman Governor of Britain?
Did you know that an overactive thyroid gland can cause attacks of paralysis, particularly in young men of Chinese and Japanese origin?
Did you know that boxer Lefty Satan Flynn was born Selvin Campbell and was nicknamed His Satanic Majesty?
Did you know that during World War II, when a new model of the Mitsubishi 'Zero' received its American code name, the prominent general it was named after was not very amused?
Did you know that in United States v. Carmack in 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal government's power under the Condemnation Act to exercise eminent domain over land owned by a state?
Did you know that in the 16th century people convicted of sedition had their ears nailed to the pillory in Norwich Market, and when their pillory time was completed their ears were cut off?
Did you know that on 21 June 2001, on the Mount Newman railway, a BHP Billiton iron ore train consisting of 682 cars broke the world record for the heaviest train, weighing 99,734 tons and being 7.3 kilometres long?
Did you know that on November 14, 1942, black gospel quartet The Jubalaires had a hit with "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition", a response to the attack on Pearl Harbor the previous year?
Did you know that presenter Natasha Fatah said she broke down in tears in response to her interviewees' stories about being a refugee during the recording of the CBC Radio One program Promised Land?
Did you know that since the 1890s, a warmer climate has caused Breiðamerkurjökull, an outlet glacier of the larger glacier of Vatnajökull, to rapidly retreat?
Did you know that the "strange, flat-bottomed boat" in which Beatrix Potter rowed on Moss Eccles Tarn is now housed in the Windermere Steamboat Museum?
Did you know that the Andhra Pradesh Housing Board, which was conceived by Nizam Osman Ali Khan in 1911, enhanced the look of Hyderabad with civic amenities long before many other Indian cities?
Did you know that the French Battalion's bayonet charges at the Battle of Wonju impressed General Ridgway to encourage all American units to conduct bayonet fighting during the Korean War?
Did you know that the Okomu and Cross River national parks in Nigeria, both home to many rare species including chimpanzees, are both increasingly threatened by illegal forestry?
Did you know that the entire 2009 NBA Development League Expansion Draft took place via teleconference?
Did you know that the eponymous extended play by The Shadows, The Shadows to the Fore, Spotlight on The Shadows and The Boys all were number-one EPs in the UK?
Did you know that the sod-surfaced Larson Brothers Airport was described as the "finest airport in the state" of Wisconsin in 1932?
Did you know that Ayame Koike was one of three recipients of the Judges' Special Acting Award from the Japan Movie Critics Awards in recognition of their performance in Always Zoku Sanchōme no Yūhi?
Did you know that Captain Luis Daoiz de Torres refused orders to hand over his barracks to French troops during the Dos de Mayo Uprising, and was killed in the ensuing attack?
Did you know that Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World, written by ornithologist James Greenway, was an inspiration for the IUCN Red List?
Did you know that John Frullo, a new Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, is active in an organization which promotes the restoration of bighorn sheep to Texas?
Did you know that Louis Ayres designed the chapel at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France?
Did you know that Mikhail Beketov, a Russian journalist who opposed construction of the Moscow – Saint Petersburg motorway, was beaten up by unknown assailants in November 2008, leaving him wheelchair-bound?
Did you know that Walter Goodfellow obtained the type specimen of the Mikado Pheasant, comprising two long black tail feathers, from one of his porters who was wearing them in his head-dress?
Did you know that a 25 km (16 mi) stretch of the German Autobahn near Munich served as the venue for the cycling road team time trial event at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that a 3,000 ft (910 m) breakwater built by the British to protect its Navy in the 19th century shelters the Braye Harbour?
Did you know that a boat made of seal skin dated to the Stone Age, as well as the world's oldest beer bottles, can be found in the Åland Museum in Mariehamn, Åland?
Did you know that a series of diplomatic struggles between the major Mediterranean powers of the 15th century culminated in newly crowned Mehmed II ordering his first invasion of Albania?
Did you know that after reading articles by Julian Huxley on the disappearance of Africa's wildlife, Victor Stolan wrote to him with "the germ of the idea" that led to the World Wildlife Fund?
Did you know that historian Paul H. Carlson co-authored a revisionist study of the 1860 capture of Cynthia Ann Parker, seized by the Comanche in 1836, when she was a young girl?
Did you know that in 1962 the England cricket captain Ted Dexter hit a ball out of the 120,000 seat Melbourne Cricket Ground, a feat previously thought impossible?
Did you know that in 2005, the Leeuwin Estate winery showcased musician Sting as part of its annual concert series, raising over A$4 million for Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami relief efforts?
Did you know that records of christenings, marriages, and burials in the former parish of Fisherton Delamere, Wiltshire, England are preserved back to the 1560s?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Fernando Osorio wrote the last song recorded by Cuban performer Celia Cruz?
Did you know that the Metro Manila radio station NU 107's program In the Raw was created as response to President Corazon Aquino's executive order of at least three Original Pilipino Music tracks per hour?
Did you know that the Mount Whaleback mine at Newman, Western Australia, is the biggest single-pit open-cut iron ore mine in the world?
Did you know that the Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus was a ministry of the California Jesuits?
Did you know that the Secunderabad Clock Tower, which was inaugurated in 1897, was erected in honour of the progress made by the British officers posted at the Secunderabad Cantonment?
Did you know that the aisles of St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, (tower pictured) were destroyed when stored ammunition was ignited by cannon fire in the Civil War in 1646?
Did you know that the curator of the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum in Washington studied ballet under Russian prima ballerina Alexandra Danilova?
Did you know that the rare Fitzgerald Woollybush is found along with the barrel cone bush, claw flower, and dwarf sheoak in the Fitzgerald River National Park?
Did you know that the word maelstrom was brought into the English language by Edgar Allan Poe describing the Moskenstraumen (illustrated) located at Moskenesøya island in the Norwegian Sea?
Did you know that the writings of Czech national poet Karel Hynek Mácha, born 200 years ago today, include the poem Máj, novel Cikáni, diary of Journey to Italy and the Diary of 1835 which deals with his relationship with his fiancée Lori?
Did you know that when Andriza Mircovich chose to be executed by shooting, prison officials were unable to find five men willing to participate in the firing squad and had to build a shooting machine?
Did you know that ACI Club is the single largest marina chain in the Mediterranean?
Did you know that Edorian McCullough twice won the Texas high school 100 meter championship and later played for the Frankfurt Galaxy in World Bowl XV?
Did you know that FBI informant Angela Calomiris donated US$50 of government money to the legal defense fund for CPUSA leaders before testifying against them in court?
Did you know that Ketchaoua Mosque in Algiers is a "mosque-turned-cathedral-turned-mosque"?
Did you know that Modi Alon scored the Israeli Air Force's first aerial victories on 3 June 1948 while flying an Avia S-199, a derivative of the German Messerschmitt Bf 109?
Did you know that Saint Maximilian Kolbe was called the "Apostle of Consecration to Mary"?
Did you know that U Ba Nyan, a prominent Burmese painter, met George V of the United Kingdom in person, after he had saved one of the king's relatives from drowning?
Did you know that Usher's song "Love in This Club, Part II", which features Beyoncé and Lil Wayne, was originally planned to have guest appearances from Mariah Carey and Plies?
Did you know that William Dennison Clark, whose "wretched blunder" in 1905 ended Michigan's 56-game unbeaten streak in football, killed himself 27 years later, reportedly expressing the hope to atone for his error?
Did you know that a Chinese police officer's son, convinced that he would avoid facing criminal consequences after hitting a pedestrian, yelled "My dad is Li Gang!"?
Did you know that a builder of St Mark's Church in Hadlow Down, East Sussex, was sacked for deliberately placing its weather vane upside down?
Did you know that in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the guard stations where military police controlled access to atomic facilities are now listed historic properties used for meetings and education?
Did you know that it was suggested for The Hives to rename their 2004 hit to "too dumb, and Dutch and broken bones"?
Did you know that parts of the shield volcano Fumarole Butte were once covered by Lake Bonneville?
Did you know that philanthropist Lloyd Morain read palms in Hollywood before a career as a utilities executive, and, uniquely, served two terms as president of the American Humanist Association?
Did you know that prior to the 1933 Cincinnati Reds season, a newspaper reported that Jo-Jo Morrissey "developed amazingly", yet he finished fifth in the league in errors and batted .230?
Did you know that since 1952, the Austrian Consulate General in New York City is located in the former townhouse of the paper manufacturer Augustus G. Paine, Jr.?
Did you know that the California Voting Rights Act makes it easier for minority groups in California to prove that their votes are being diluted in "at-large" elections?
Did you know that the Luftwaffe command bunker and tower, and the German naval tactical headquarters were located in Saint Anne, Alderney during World War II?
Did you know that the exterior of St Mary Magdalene's Church in Croome D'Abitot was designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in Gothic Revival style, but the interior by Robert Adam is Georgian?
Did you know that the murder of worshipers in Kysylyn during the massacres of Poles in Volhynia became the subject of a 2009 historical documentary film for Telewizja Polska?
Did you know that the newly named extinct prawn Aciculopoda is the third unambiguous fossil decapod from before the Mesozoic?
Did you know that the staircases in the 1891 Monadnock Building in Chicago were the first use of aluminum in a building?
Did you know that the upcoming film My Idiot Brother went into production unusually quickly for an independent film, with a first cut to be completed less than a year after the script was picked up?
Did you know that there is an unconfirmed tradition that William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in All Saints Church, Billesley, Warwickshire?
Did you know that until the end of the 19th century, the bulk of the salt used in the United States came from salt producers in Syracuse, New York?
Did you know that Åland Maritime Museum in Mariehamn, Åland, features the museum ship Pommern, formerly one of the fastest windjammers in the grain trade in the 1930s?
Did you know that Aoraki / Mount Cook is one of many places in New Zealand officially given dual names through treaty settlements between the government and Māori iwi?
Did you know that British soap operas Coronation Street and EastEnders will cross over for the first time today in the Children in Need 2010 special "East Street"?
Did you know that Carol Burnett will play a Nazi hunter on an upcoming episode of Glee?
Did you know that Edward Spurway, two of his sons Michael and Francis, and his brother Robert, all played first-class cricket for Somerset?
Did you know that Falta was the first Special Economic Zone in India?
Did you know that Kalin Lucas repeated as preseason conference player of the year prior to the 2010–11 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season?
Did you know that Knoxville's Lindbergh Forest neighborhood has two Lustron houses built with prefabricated enameled steel?
Did you know that Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" is the most recent of 103 million-selling singles in the UK?
Did you know that Linda Bean, heiress to part of the L.L. Bean company, twice ran for the United States Congress?
Did you know that Mad in America was a 2002 critique of psychiatry written by American journalist Robert Whitaker?
Did you know that New York City Opera percussionist Howard Van Hyning bought a set of 13 gongs made specially for use in performances of Puccini's opera Turandot?
Did you know that Stanley Tanger not only founded Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, but he has also been credited with inventing the concept of the outlet mall itself?
Did you know that William Austin Burt was the first to invent a workable typewriter in America, as well as a workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and an equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea?
Did you know that World War II canteen assistant Tommy Brown and two sailors boarded U-559 in order to retrieve documents which would later help break the Enigma code?
Did you know that a spheromak is a stable ring of hot plasma that's been described as the electrical equivalent of a smoke ring?
Did you know that before the Battle of North Borneo, No. 77 Wing RAAF surgically attacked targets at Labuan as few as 100 m (330 ft) from Allied demolition teams laying charges on the invasion beach?
Did you know that former President Jimmy Carter credited his White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz with offering insights that led to the signing of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel?
Did you know that in 1994, after The Cruel Sea won four ARIA Music Awards for their album, The Honeymoon Is Over, two of the ARIA trophies were stolen that same night?
Did you know that in Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards' memoir Life, Richards makes unflattering claims about Mick Jagger, but adds "I love the man dearly; I'm still his mate"?
Did you know that some stony corals, such as the aptly named boulder brain corals, resemble over-sized cerebra?
Did you know that the Great Mosque of Algiers is the oldest mosque in Algiers and is said to be the second oldest mosque in Algeria?
Did you know that the armor of the Fusō-class battleships was incapable of stopping their own shells?
Did you know that the font in St Peter's Church, Adderley, Shropshire, has an inscription in Latin which translates as "Here wickedly the first man enjoyed the apple with his wife"?
Did you know that when part of Norway's Jæren Line was upgraded to double track in 2009, the Jæren Commuter Rail received four new stations: Paradis, Mariero, Jåttåvågen and Gausel?
Did you know that Gift of the Wind, a large scale kinetic sculpture by Susumu Shingu in  Cambridge, Massachusetts, is considered by some to be "Cambridge's most visible landmark"?
Did you know that James "Hub" Hart was captain of the Georgetown University football team and then played three years in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Peter Frederik Suhm was one of the founders of the Trondheim Society, then the northernmost scientific society in the world?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage's 1961 short film Thigh Line Lyre Triangular documents the birth of his third child?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage's 1967 short film Eye Myth took about a year to produce, despite a running time of only nine seconds?
Did you know that Stephen Fry, Dawn French and Catherine Tate reenact events from their childhoods in the BBC comedy TV series Little Crackers?
Did you know that controversy over copyright infringement by Cooks Source made the phrase "but honestly Monica" into an internet meme?
Did you know that despite the construction of modern office and apartment buildings and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, Colonia Roma still contains 1,100 of the mansions built there in the early 20th century?
Did you know that in 1972, Denver voters approved a bond issue to build a performance hall for the Denver Symphony Orchestra, which played in theaters and auditoriums for its first 44 years?
Did you know that in the 1930s, poet Siegfried Sassoon lived at Teffont Magna?
Did you know that measuring 15 feet by 40 feet, Bigger Trees Near Warter is the largest painting by David Hockney?
Did you know that on 6 April 1945, B-25 Mitchells of No. 79 Wing RAAF bombed the Japanese cruiser Isuzu, claiming two hits without loss despite anti-aircraft fire and frontal attacks by enemy fighters?
Did you know that production of the Naval Aircraft Factory TDN, a World War II assault drone, was subcontracted to a company better known for making bowling balls and billiard tables?
Did you know that the 11th Duke of Somerset renamed 40 Park Lane as Somerset House, despite the existence of another?
Did you know that the 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team (game program pictured), which had its season shortened by a global flu pandemic, was recognized decades later as a co-national champion?
Did you know that the Amur class minelayers were the first purpose-built, ocean-going minelayers when they were laid down in 1898 for the Imperial Russian Navy?
Did you know that the Arlanda Line — a high-speed airport rail link to Sweden's largest airport — and its three stations, Arlanda North, Arlanda Central and Arlanda South, were partly financed by giving the Arlanda Express a 40-year monopoly?
Did you know that the Cross River Rail planned for Brisbane will be the largest transport project ever built in Queensland?
Did you know that the Culver Aircraft Company built over 3,000 target drones (PQ-14 pictured) for the United States military during World War II?
Did you know that the German architect Johannes Krahn designed the Bienenkorbhaus (Beehive House) in Frankfurt and St. Martin in Idstein?
Did you know that the Makushin Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes of Alaska?
Did you know that the Roman Cirencester Amphitheatre in Gloucestershire was once used for the sport of bull-baiting?
Did you know that the discovery of chemical elements curium and americium (americium compound pictured) was first announced on a radio show for children in 1945?
Did you know that two teams from the NBA Development League's Western Conference played each other in the 2010 Finals to determine the champion?
Did you know that "So It Goes" by Nick Lowe was the first record released on Stiff Records?
Did you know that Bach's chorale cantata Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116 contains a vocal trio, rare in his cantatas?
Did you know that Charles Albert Watts edited the secularist Literary Guide without a break for over 60 years, having taken over a publishing business set up by his father, atheist writer Charles Watts?
Did you know that Crash actress Arlene Tur played professional beach volleyball during her time at Florida International University?
Did you know that Edmonton civic leaders turned down a sizable grant from philantropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie while constructing the Old Strathcona Branch?
Did you know that John Keir, who commanded a British Army corps in the First World War, was sacked after he complained about Edmund Allenby's bullying of subordinates?
Did you know that Kjeld Rimberg, who was CEO of the Norwegian State Railways, earlier had worked as a ski instructor in Davos?