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Did you know that Gerhard Schøning's historical research papers documented travel through Norway in 1773–1775, becoming a "minor travel classic?"
Did you know that Grammy-nominated CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards?
Did you know that Konstantin Danzas was arrested for his role as Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's second in his fatal duel  with d'Anthès and sentenced to hanging?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Wei Chun changed his name to Wei Guanzhi to observe a naming taboo for Emperor Xianzong, whose personal name was Li Chun?
Did you know that The New York Times said that trumpeter Stephen Burns "uses his instrument with the lightness and flexibility of a singer in operatic arias"?
Did you know that ballerina Jocelyn Vollmar danced as the Snow Queen in the first American production of The Nutcracker?
Did you know that during his study of the palm family, Harold E. Moore collected all but 18 of the approximately 200 genera of palms, and earned membership in The Explorers Club?
Did you know that each city council in the Philippines has a sectoral representative for women?
Did you know that footballer Chic Brodie's professional career ended when he collided with a dog on the playing field?
Did you know that future A.B.A. president Loyd Wright represented Mary Pickford in her divorce of Douglas Fairbanks and Jane Wyman against Ronald Reagan?
Did you know that in 1709,  Ninguta, an important center of commerce, provided government-sponsored ginseng-harvesting expeditions?
Did you know that in 1953, Christen Gran Bøgh administered the inaugural Bergen International Festival?
Did you know that phylogenetic relationships between the mushroom Bovista nigrescens and species of Lycoperdaceae were established based on ITS and LSU sequence data from north European taxa?
Did you know that the Chattri in Brighton, England, stands on the site of the ghat where Hindu and Sikh soldiers of the First World War were cremated after dying while being treated at the Royal Pavilion?
Did you know that the Galápagos hotspot, located in the east Pacific Ocean, is responsible for the creation of the Galápagos Islands?
Did you know that the Ludowy Theatre in Kraków gained countrywide notability in the People's Republic of Poland by staging performances evoking death camp experiences of Auschwitz?
Did you know that the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show (1956–1957) featured Virginia Gregg as Mary Surratt, the woman hanged for conspiracy stemming from the Lincoln assassination?
Did you know that the PlayStation Portable video game Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem had a shorter development cycle than the film it was based on?
Did you know that the Ricky Hatton vs. Manny Pacquiao boxing match was confirmed only because Manny Pacquiao's friend drank three bottles of beer?
Did you know that the community of Weed Heights, Nevada, was built to support the open pit mining operation at the Anaconda Copper Mine?
Did you know that the hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe naematoliformis was first discovered in a tropical rain forest in the Uxpanapa Region of Veracruz, in southeastern Mexico?
Did you know that the property  of Sjøholmen in Bærum, Norway, started out as a farm, was suburbanized and is now, in part, an alternative school  where children are taught to be mariners?
Did you know that the roughtail stingray is the largest stingray in the Atlantic Ocean, at up to 2.2 metres (7.2 ft) across and weighing 300 kilograms (660 lb)?
Did you know that the willow-leaved cotoneaster, Cotoneaster salicifolius, is a woody plant which is native to Western China, with over 30 cultivars which range from tiny groundcovers to large shrubs?
Did you know that Ælfhelm, ealdorman of York, was the grandfather of Harold Harefoot, king of England?
Did you know that Adam de Stratton was arrested for the possession of toenail clippings (example pictured)?
Did you know that Caviar, Chardonnay, and Hot Cocoa compete for the love of Ray J?
Did you know that Gordon Brown and Kim Jong-Il are both known for their athletic abilities?
Did you know that HBO television network broadcast midgets racing for prizes in a chili bowl?
Did you know that Lewis Hamilton's first name was "Sasbeck"?
Did you know that New England used to be part of the Roman Empire, and China is still part of Japan?
Did you know that Peter Jackson medaled in table tennis for New Zealand?
Did you know that Sonia Chang-Díaz won a seat in the Massachusetts Senate after her opponent was accused of stuffing her bra?
Did you know that Theodore Majocci claimed the Princess of Wales slept with her butler?
Did you know that Time magazine selected Billy C. Clark's autobiography A Long Row to Hoe as one of its Best Books of 1960, describing it "as authentically American as Huckleberry Finn"?
Did you know that Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only known survivor of the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II?
Did you know that Wikipedia now has an article about everything?
Did you know that a 1631 Bible (frontispiece pictured) commanded readers to commit adultery?
Did you know that a rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo, held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas, led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women?
Did you know that a team of archaeologists discovered a fossilized Han Solo in the rocks of China?
Did you know that after Wild West outlaw Big Nose George was hanged by a lynch mob, he was made into a pair of shoes?
Did you know that baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby had his first plate appearance against King Lear?
Did you know that both Egypt and the Holy Land were originally settled by Germans?
Did you know that if you go to a local store three weeks from today, you can probably find Asher Roth asleep in the bread aisle?
Did you know that in 1825, the Court of Exchequer declared all contracts  by hobbits illegal and void in England?
Did you know that in Disney's animated film The Story of Menstruation, the flow is snow white?
Did you know that it took two German submarines, UB-6 and UB-16, to dispatch two World War I Royal Navy recruits?
Did you know that the cap of the thimble fungus, Verpa conica, resembles a thimble?
Did you know that the idea of a two hooded coat to keep your date dry in the rain is genius?
Did you know that the stations Mortensrud on the Østensjø Line, Forskningsparken on the Sognsvann Line, Nydalen, Storo and Sinsen on the Ring Line and Husebybakken have opened after the Oslo T-bane was declared completed with the reopening of Stortinget in 1987?
Did you know that three members of the Croatian bobsleigh team at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Dejan Vojnović, Jurica Grabušić and Slaven Krajačić, had all previously competed as track athletes at the Summer Olympics?
Did you know that track and field star Bob Backus, who set world records in the hammer throw, wore ballet slippers while competing?
Did you know that two monkeys are employed as waiters at the Japanese Kayabukiya Tavern?
Did you know that Australian flying ace Raymond Brownell was awarded the Military Cross for shooting down six enemy aircraft over a three month period in the First World War?
Did you know that British beer authorities have declared that women prefer beer made from bananas?
Did you know that Elwood Haynes invented stellite, built one of the first gasoline driven automobiles, and made advances in natural gas technology that later resulted in refrigeration?
Did you know that German seamen forced a lesbian to go down during the First World War, and the French did the same during  the Second World War?
Did you know that Johns Hopkins and Maryland, which compete in what has often been called the greatest rivalry in men's college lacrosse, actually first played football three years earlier in 1892?
Did you know that Knut Østby, a 1948 Olympic silver medallist in sprint canoeing, competed at the 1953 World Championships in whitewater slalom despite no whitewater experience?
Did you know that Lithuanians initially viewed Nazi Germany's invasion in June 1941 as a liberation from Soviet rule, but soon began to resist, forming the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania?
Did you know that Lust Control is frowned upon by many Christian groups?
Did you know that Old Southeast Church, north of Brewster, New York, is the oldest house of worship in Putnam County?
Did you know that Oregon attorney Parish L. Willis was sued for fraud over his investment in the Hot Lake Sanatorium Company, now listed as a historic place?
Did you know that Phil Lynott was featured in a lunar ecliptic children's fairy tale which has been criticised by internet trolls?
Did you know that at the 2008 centennial of the Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos, only 10% of the original railway system was open?
Did you know that before William Rehnquist was sworn in as U.S. Chief Justice, John Roberts financed the Woodstock Festival?
Did you know that cheese trees grow in New South Wales and Queensland?
Did you know that insects such as Calliphora livida, Oiceoptoma noveboracense, Cynomya cadaverina, Protophormia terraenovae and various species in the genus Hydrotaea can be used by forensic entomologists to determine the post-mortem interval of corpses?
Did you know that most of the U.S. Navy's Amphitrite class monitors, hastily ordered in the wake of the Virginius war scare with Spain, were not ready for service for another 20 years?
Did you know that on her way to Peyton Place, Hope Lange was seen wearing a Radio Hat?
Did you know that places of worship in Bangalore include over 1,000 temples, 400 mosques, 100 churches, 40 Jain mandirs, three Gurudwaras, two Buddha Viharas and one Parsi Agiari in a metropolitan area of 741 km2 (286 sq mi)?
Did you know that the Hausstock is part of the nummulite formation of the high Glarus Alps and was a popular European mountaineering destination before becoming a ski resort and firing range?
Did you know that the Palacio de Cultura Banamex in Mexico City was the site where Agustín de Iturbide accepted the offer to become Mexico's first emperor after the war of independence from Spain?
Did you know that there are two Smithsonian Museums in New York City?
Did you know that there is a 15,000 ton ship which operates completely out of the water?
Did you know that 99% of Washington wine is grown in the eastern half of the state where a rain shadow effect created by the Cascades leaves the area dry and desert-like?
Did you know that Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll was one of the seven daughters of Agnes Leslie, Countess of Morton who were called the "pearls of Lochleven" for their beauty?
Did you know that Australian First World War soldier Percy Black was described by Australian war historian Charles Bean as "the greatest fighting soldier in the A.I.F."?
Did you know that Brian Statham shares his name with an England international cricketer and was himself a talented schoolboy cricketer, but opted to pursue a career in professional football?
Did you know that Front Range Community College is the largest community college in Colorado?
Did you know that Glenn D. Paige is the American political scientist known for developing the concept of nonkilling?
Did you know that Johan Wollebæk and Jens Bull led the Norwegian Legation in Stockholm during World War II, when there were more than 50,000 Norwegian refugees in Sweden?
Did you know that KZZR and sister station KQHC are the only two radio stations with Burns, Oregon, as their community of license?
Did you know that Mick Rathbone, now Everton F.C.'s head of sports medicine, was once simultaneously player, physiotherapist and assistant manager of Halifax Town A.F.C.?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan was propelled to stardom playing a double amputee in the 1942 film Kings Row?
Did you know that Russian assassin Sergey Degayev was the first mathematics professor at the University of South Dakota?
Did you know that Torolf Elster, former Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), was also an awarded crime writer?
Did you know that Verpa bohemica is a saprobic species of fungi distinguished from other species by its enormous spores?
Did you know that Vinny Castilla  has won three Silver Slugger Awards at third base in four years for the Colorado Rockies?
Did you know that after a recent re-analysis, a hurricane in 1924 was found to be the earliest known Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, as well as the strongest hurricane on record to strike Cuba?
Did you know that because of the permanent damage it can cause to living tissue, the old world screwworm fly is not suitable for maggot therapy?
Did you know that despite its name, the mangrove whipray does not usually inhabit mangroves?
Did you know that during the midst of the Cold War, Alan Shulman and Dmitri Shostakovich were invited to join a Soviet–American composers' symposium organised by Nicolas Slonimsky for NBC?
Did you know that eight years before being cast in I Dream of Jeannie, Barbara Eden portrayed the former Marilyn Monroe role of Loco Jones in the syndicated TV series How to Marry a Millionaire?
Did you know that part of a 700 kilometre long minefield is found in Svay Chek District, Cambodia?
Did you know that renal medullary carcinoma is found almost exclusively in individuals with sickle cell trait or sickle cell disease?
Did you know that the 13th century Sufi scholar Sayyid Abu Bakr Al-Aidarus was impressed with the stimulating effect of the coffee fruit and is credited with introducing it to the  Hadhramaut region?
Did you know that the Imperial German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz was nearly destroyed when a shell from HMS Lion penetrated a gun turret and caused a flash fire during the Battle of Dogger Bank?
Did you know that the Key thatch palm, which was long considered part of the genus Thrinax, was reclassified into its own genus, Leucothrinax, in 2008?
Did you know that the South Park episode "Margaritaville" portrays Kyle as a Jesus-like savior of the U.S. economy during the recession?
Did you know that with her thriller Nattdykk (1983), Kim Småge was the first  of "a new female wave in Norwegian crime fiction"?
Did you know that Brawn GP's one-two finish at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix made it the first Formula One team to do so on debut at a Grand Prix since 1954?
Did you know that Las fuerzas extrañas, Lugones' least successful work at the time, is now considered to be  key in the development of the science fiction and fantasy genres in Argentina?
Did you know that Lawrence "Chubby" Woodman is credited with inventing deep fried clams in 1916 at his clam shack that became Woodman's of Essex (sign pictured)?
Did you know that Nils Yngvar Ustvedt, physician and member of the Norwegian Parliament, advised his son Hans Jacob Ustvedt against becoming a politician?
Did you know that Ramsey's Draft Wilderness, a designated wilderness area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of Virginia, was established in 1984?
Did you know that Sion Record Bostick was one of the Texas Army scouts who captured Antonio López de Santa Anna following the Battle of San Jacinto?
Did you know that actors Brent Barrett, Sally Mayes, Richard Muenz, and Lynne Wintersteller all starred in the original production of Maltby and Shire's hit Off-Broadway musical Closer Than Ever in 1989?
Did you know that as much as a third of Niger's rural population travels as temporary labor during the seasonal migration in Niger between January and April, to avoid the Sahel dry season?
Did you know that downloads from the Microsoft Update Catalog are accelerated with Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service, a technology that attempts to use as little bandwidth as possible?
Did you know that in 1980, planktologist Grethe Rytter Hasle was the only female representative of natural sciences in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters?
Did you know that many of the remaining willows of the Willow Palisade were cut by the Russian and Japanese troops during the Russo-Japanese War?
Did you know that since 1947,  the city of Oslo has donated the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree to the city of London,  in gratitude for its support of Norway in WWII?
Did you know that the 1788 Old Brick Church in Fairfield County, South Carolina, is called the "mother church" of the ARP Church in the state?
Did you know that the Central Europe Pipeline System, or CEPS for short, consists of around 6000 km of pipeline to deliver fuel for military and civilian use?
Did you know that the Czapski Palace in Warsaw has been the home of Frederick Chopin, Zygmunt Krasiński and Cyprian Norwid?
Did you know that the Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters was a bunker designed to be used by Japanese Imperial General Headquarters to direct forces against the Allied invasion of Japan?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor/general Pei Du swore to Emperor Xianzong that he would not return to the capital Chang'an unless the warlord Wu Yuanji was destroyed?
Did you know that the Washington & Jefferson College football team played the heavily favored California Golden Bears to a 0–0 tie in the 1922 Rose Bowl?
Did you know that the first classes of Illinois Valley Community College were held in LaSalle-Peru High School?
Did you know that while there are over 1,300 Iron Age hill forts in England, Kelsborrow Castle is one of only seven in Cheshire?
Did you know that Australian fighter pilot Lieutenant (later Air Vice Marshal) Adrian Cole was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 for attacking six enemy aircraft threatening Allied cavalry?
Did you know that Billy Joel's hit song "I Go to Extremes" was originally written as an apology to his wife, Christie Brinkley, for his erratic behavior?
Did you know that Dorothy Liebes, known as "the mother of modern weaving", made fabrics out of feathers, bamboo, leather strips, plastic, and ticker tape?
Did you know that Geoffrey Cornish, a golf course architect, has designed a total 146 golf courses throughout his career?
Did you know that Happy99 was the first computer virus to spread rapidly by email?
Did you know that Pointe des Almadies is the westernmost point on the continent of Africa?
Did you know that SS Governor Cobb, built in 1906, was America's first turbine-powered steamship, and later, as USCGC Cobb, the world's first helicopter carrier?
Did you know that Tulsa's Art Deco landmark Boston Avenue Methodist Church was designed by architect Bruce Goff and Adah Robinson, his former art teacher at Tulsa's Central High School?
Did you know that Wallace Community College was the first comprehensive community college in Southern Alabama?
Did you know that a library commemorating Gerard Corley Smith at the Charles Darwin Research Station houses the most comprehensive collection of material about the Galápagos Islands?
Did you know that a track on the Soviettes' LP III was included on Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1?
Did you know that all of the Grand Cru vineyards of Chablis are located on a single, southwest facing slope overlooking the town?
Did you know that botanists Haaken H. Gran and Trygve Braarud began their academic careers as research assistants at Oslo's University Botanical Garden laboratory, founded by Nordal Wille in 1895?
Did you know that in 1863, Blackheath Proprietary School was one of the founder members of the Football Association?
Did you know that in high concentrations, the inorganic compound hydrogen disulfide can cause dizziness, disorientation and ultimately unconsciousness?
Did you know that in his 1963 speech "Message to the Grass Roots", Malcolm X described the historic March on Washington as a "circus"?
Did you know that the 12th-century temple of Banteay Chhmar in Thma Puok District, Cambodia, covers more than half-a-million square feet?
Did you know that the Kommissarische Reichsregierung is a label for multiple groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who assert that the German Empire continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders?
Did you know that the Norton Jubilee was the smallest capacity motorcycle ever made by Norton?
Did you know that the Raja of Perlis is the only hereditary Malay ruler in Malaysia accorded the title of "Raja"?
Did you know that the chupare stingray and the Pacific chupare are the closest marine relatives of the South American river stingrays?
Did you know that two of The Office protagonists quit Dunder Mifflin, the paper company they work for throughout the U.S. version of the series, in the episode "Two Weeks"?
Did you know that "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina, was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza?
Did you know that Alvin Powell was addicted to crack cocaine as a player in the National Football League, but later became a substance abuse counselor?
Did you know that Bulgarian conservative politician Grigor Nachovich served as minister of finance on six occasions?
Did you know that Cross Seamount,  a landform arising from the ocean floor southwest of Hawaii, is used by the NOAA to study tuna migratory patterns?
Did you know that FCC and ACLU head James Lawrence Fly's influence in opposing wiretapping led the FBI to start a file on him?
Did you know that Francis Bacon's painting Fragment of a Crucifixion shows two dying animals in a scene influenced by the biblical Crucifixion and Aeschylus' The Oresteia?
Did you know that Gustavo Brambila, portrayed  in the 2008 movie Bottle Shock,  was one of the first Latin Americans to graduate from the UC Davis wine program?
Did you know that Irish international rugby union captain Dolway Walkington sometimes played matches wearing a monocle, removing it only when he needed to make a tackle?
Did you know that Jodhpur Group - Malani Igneous Suite Contact, a National Geological Monument at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India, represents the last phase of igneous activity of Precambrian age?
Did you know that KCKX, known as "Ondas de Gozo", is the first Spanish-language Christian radio station in the state of Oregon?
Did you know that Kamal Naji, the PLO's deputy representative in Lebanon, was killed in a roadside bomb attack outside Mieh Mieh by unknown perpetrators?
Did you know that Louis Lomax was the first African-American television journalist?
Did you know that Phillips Community College's Pillow-Thompson House is noted for its Queen Anne Style architecture?
Did you know that actor Eli Mintz portrayed Uncle David in the television series The Goldbergs?
Did you know that after being covered with plywood and stored due to their sexual content, Michael Spafford's murals, the Twelve Labors of Hercules, were transferred to Centralia College?
Did you know that an Australian violist Richard Goldner founded Musica Viva Australia in 1945, the world's largest entrepreneurial chamber music  organization?
Did you know that as a Jordanian tribal Shaikh, Barjas al-Hadid has been responsible for mediating blood feuds between tribe members in Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia?
Did you know that at the age of 29, Bernice Cronkhite became the dean of Radcliffe College, making her the youngest person to become a dean in the United States?
Did you know that former Maryland lacrosse coach Dick Edell retired in 2001 after seventeen NCAA Division I tournament appearances, the second-most of any head coach?
Did you know that former professional footballer Don Rossiter served as mayor of Rochester, Kent, during the 1980s?
Did you know that in 1922, Washington & Jefferson College's Charlie "Pruner" West became the first African American to play quarterback in the Rose Bowl?
Did you know that in 1993 United States representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Maria Cantwell, and Blanche Lincoln became the first women to play in the  starting lineup of  the Congressional Baseball Game?
Did you know that in the Vyadha Gita, a part of the epic Mahabharata, a vyadha (butcher) imparts teachings to a sannyasin (monk) on dharma and the importance of work?
Did you know that public hangings used to take place near the site of the Municipal Corporation Building, Mumbai, India?
Did you know that soprano Margaret Lloyd portrayed the role of Lightfoot McClendon in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree at the Houston Grand Opera in 2000?