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Did you know that Sverre Krogh was replaced as chair of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities after his political party's coalition partners supported another candidate, Jakob Eng?
Did you know that bandmates of Beverley O'Sullivan, recently killed in India, found out the true extent of her hearing difficulties when she developed a sore ear during a Westlife performance?
Did you know that both spans of Washington, D.C.'s 11th Street Bridges are considered "fracture critical", which means if one girder in a span fails the entire bridge is likely to collapse?
Did you know that early Christian writers Jerome and Orosius believed that Philip the Arab, not Constantine the Great, was the first Christian Roman emperor?
Did you know that in late 1921 a series of arrests of its activists led to the break-up of the Japanese Enlightened People's Communist Party?
Did you know that on November 15, 1992, members of the Colombian National Police gunned down nine members of a church youth group in Medellín?
Did you know that potato doughnuts are made with either mashed potatoes or potato starch?
Did you know that romidepsin, a new treatment for T-cell lymphomas, was discovered in a culture of bacteria obtained from a soil sample collected in Yamagata Prefecture?
Did you know that the 1911 United Kingdom heat wave set a July temperature record of 36 °C (97 °F) that was not broken until 79 years later?
Did you know that the Colombian actress and beauty queen Liliana Lozano was shot to death two days after the murder of her boyfriend, the drug lord Leonidas Vargas?
Did you know that the Korean painter of the Joseon period, Byeon Sang-byeok, was referred to as "Byeon Cat" because of his dedication to cat paintings such as Myojakdo?
Did you know that the church cemetery of San Andrés Mixquic glows with thousands of lighted candles and burning incense on the night of 2 November for for its Day of the Dead commemorations?
Did you know that the first Volkswagen ever built outside Germany was assembled in Ireland?
Did you know that the popular Chinese TV talent show contestant Lou Jing, dubbed the "Black Pearl", is of Chinese and African American heritage?
Did you know that the style of Ancient Greek black-figure pottery had its origins in Corinth, Greece?
Did you know that twenty dragoons were needed to seal off North Bridge, Halifax from exuberant crowds so that an opening ceremony could  be held?
Did you know that unlike other other Siricid Wood wasps, Xeris spectrum does not have symbiotic fungi to aid its larvae as they burrow in the wood of fir and other conifer trees?
Did you know that when the six separate British colonies in Australia federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, they all had their own armies fighting in the Second Boer War?
Did you know that Ascension Island was annexed in 1815 by the British crew of HMS Peruvian and HMS Zenobia so as to deny the French from using it as a base to rescue Napoleon from Saint Helena?
Did you know that Iolas Melitus Huffman reportedly played in every quarter of every Ohio State football game except one from 1918 to 1921 and later played for the Cleveland Indians of the NFL?
Did you know that Oregon pioneer Joseph Hamilton Lambert developed the Lambert cherry?
Did you know that P.J. Mills, a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, is a descendant of Robert Mills, the architect who designed the Washington Monument?
Did you know that PS Monarch, currently operating cruises along River Medina on the Isle of Wight, is the world's smallest commercially operated paddle steamer?
Did you know that Polish media mogul Jan Wejchert, founder of the TVN television network, also converted a ruined papermill into a shopping center?
Did you know that Spanish airline Spantax was the world's largest operator of Convair 990 planes, one of which was involved in a mid-air collision?
Did you know that a T1000 Oslo Metro train (example pictured) ran more than 2.9 million km (1.8 M mi) before becoming a heritage train?
Did you know that a Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense Canadair CL-44 crashed in the Soviet Union in 1981, after smuggling arms from Israel to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair?
Did you know that although Kristijonas Donelaitis wrote the poem The Seasons in Lithuanian, it was first published in its German translation in 1818?
Did you know that as a Louisiana state senator, Tom Schedler teamed with later U.S. Senator David Vitter to repeal the Louisiana inheritance tax, effective in 2004?
Did you know that because of the Albanian Muslim concept of Besa, Albanians saved about 2000 Jews from the Holocaust during World War II?
Did you know that before he died in battle, John Baskeyfield VC had trained as a butcher?
Did you know that before he was a Louisiana state senator from Slidell, Gerry E. Hinton worked to obtain licensing of chiropractors in his state, the last to recognize the profession?
Did you know that for scenes in the Phineas and Ferb episode "Jerk De Soleil" where the character Candace had a deep voice, co-creator Dan Povenmire had to step in for the normal voice actress?
Did you know that in 1883, Ludwig Knorr discovered the first commercially successful synthetic painkiller Phenazone?
Did you know that sea lice flourishing on salmon farms can spread to nearby wild salmon and devastate their stocks?
Did you know that the Alexanderplatz demonstration was one of the largest demonstrations in East German history?
Did you know that the Archaeological Museum of Eretria in Greece  contains a 10th century B.C. terracotta centaur from Lefkandi which was discovered broken in two parts, each placed in a different grave?
Did you know that the Portuguese dogfish is the deepest-living shark known, found as far down as 3,675 m (2.284 mi)?
Did you know that the books produced by the Dun Emer Press were written or selected by W. B. Yeats?
Did you know that the historic Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery, which played a critical role in the preservation of the Golden trout, California's state fish, was badly damaged by a mudslide on July 12, 2008?
Did you know that the land gastropod Schizoglossa novoseelandica is predatory and also cannibalistic?
Did you know that the unsuccessful siege of Hlukhiv and the following retreat of the Polish army became the worst defeats in the Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667?
Did you know that "Blood and the Moon" is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1928 in response to the 1927 assassination of Kevin O'Higgins, the Vice President of the Executive Council of the Free State?
Did you know that Americana group Or, The Whale formed through the website Craigslist, where the two founding members of the group posted an advertisement titled "Wanna Form a Sweet Country Rock Band"?
Did you know that Lutheran priest Henrik Lund wrote Greenland's nation anthem, Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit, in the indigenous Greenlandic language?
Did you know that Maesyronnen Chapel in Powys, Wales, was one of the earliest Nonconformist chapels to be built in the country, and that it is still in use as a chapel?
Did you know that Pat Brister, first woman state chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party, was ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women from 2006 to 2008?
Did you know that Sherza Darwaza in Bidar Fort, India, depicts two images of tigers carved on its fascia, which according to Shia belief, denotes Ali's assured protection of the fort from enemy attack?
Did you know that Stenkjær og Namsos Automobilselskap started Norway's first post-carrying bus route in 1908?
Did you know that in 1799, Louis-Nicolas Robert patented the first machine to produce paper in continuous sheets?
Did you know that the Chiflik system of land management under the Ottoman Empire was one of the reasons the Greek peasants supported the Greek War of Independence?
Did you know that the Niger stingray and the pincushion ray are the only two freshwater stingrays found in Africa?
Did you know that the Orang National Park in Assam, India, is the only stronghold of rhinoceros on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river?
Did you know that the Sunda megathrust was responsible for the great earthquakes of 1797 and  1861?
Did you know that the farmhouse at Big Bottom Farm in rural Allegany County, Maryland, is recognized for its architecture inspired by the Greek revival style?
Did you know that Cliff Sparks, hailed in 1916 as "eel-like," a "whirlwind" and "the greatest quarterback Michigan ever has had," punted by forcefully throwing the ball at his uprising foot?
Did you know that Earache Records released Gama Bomb's third studio album Tales from the Grave in Space via free RapidShare downloads?
Did you know that Fort Harney, a United States Army outpost in eastern Oregon, was officially designated as a fort in 1879 and then abandoned in 1880?
Did you know that J. A. Adande called a joke from the episode "The Problem Solvers" his "favorite 30 Rock gag"?
Did you know that John Messmer was captain of the University of Wisconsin's football and swim teams, set a U.S. high school record in the discus and was the first Badger to win nine varsity letters in major sports?
Did you know that London-born actress Sarah Badel made her acting debut in India?
Did you know that Meryl Dorey, president of the Australian Vaccination Network, has said that the Australian government is spending too much money on swine flu vaccination efforts?
Did you know that Michael Jackson blamed his record label, Sony Music, for the failed release of his charity song "What More Can I Give", and branded the label's CEO "racist" and "very, very, very devilish"?
Did you know that Mountain, a 2003 advertisement for the PlayStation 2 video game console, was nominated for more than 40 awards?
Did you know that Richard R. Burt, who was the chief American negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, was a correspondent for The New York Times in the late 1970s?
Did you know that St Thomas Church, located at Palayoor, Kerala, was established in 52 AD by St. Thomas, one of the twelve close disciples of Jesus Christ?
Did you know that Władysław Oporowski, archbishop and primate of Poland, was a chief political rival of cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki?
Did you know that at 21 years old, Joe Cada is the youngest person to win the World Series of Poker main event?
Did you know that because of shoddy workmanship, the magazine of the Gorgon-class monitor HMS Glatton exploded only a week after the ship was commissioned?
Did you know that mifamurtide is a drug used against osteosarcoma, a kind of bone cancer diagnosed in only 1,000 persons per year in Europe and the US?
Did you know that one purpose of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review is to correct the U.S. State Department's problem of not knowing whether it has enough resources?
Did you know that the Japanese documentary filmmaker Fumio Kamei had films banned by both Japan's militarist wartime government and the democratizing Allied Occupation?
Did you know that the Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno fight was the first time that two British-born boxers had fought for the world heavyweight title?
Did you know that the Røa Line has been extended eight times, more than any other line of the Oslo Metro?
Did you know that the Soviet Minister for the Aviation Industry set up a commission in 1946 to investigate why the I-250 production was delayed, but refused to accept its findings and had the factory director arrested for sabotage?
Did you know that the Star Stories parody Being Tom Cruise spoofs the actor's association with Scientology?
Did you know that the aftershocks of the 1868 Hawaii earthquake, the largest in the island's history, continue to the present day?
Did you know that the archaeologists that named Howieson’s Poort Shelter, the site that gave its name to the Howiesons Poort period in the Middle Stone Age, did so by misspelling "Howison"?
Did you know that the assumption of modern historians that Elisabeth of Greater Poland is a daughter of Elisabeth of Hungary is based on them sharing the same name and coming from Hungary?
Did you know that the most recent jet blast deflector (example pictured) developed for the USS George H.W. Bush is covered with heat-dissipating ceramic tiles similar to those used on the Space Shuttle?
Did you know that the motorized recliner a man was caught driving while under the influence was not, as widely reported, a La-Z-Boy?
Did you know that English jazz musician Eddie Freeman's custom four-string guitar was adopted for manufacture by Selmer?
Did you know that François Martin de Vitré was the first Frenchman to publish an account of his travels to the Far East?
Did you know that Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart was the first United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?
Did you know that Gordon Olley was the first pilot to fly more than one million miles?
Did you know that Grammy-winning musician  Fred "Too Slim" LaBour's 1969 satiric review of Abbey Road in the Michigan Daily is regarded as the single most important factor in the spread of the "Paul is dead" rumor?
Did you know that Greek singer Kostas Martakis' second album Pio Konta was partly recorded and produced in Sweden by the duo Holter/Erixson?
Did you know that Hannah Böge was the first German merchant ship captured at sea by Britain in the Second World War?
Did you know that John S. Treen, the choice of the Republican leadership, lost the 1989 special election which sent David Duke to the Louisiana House of Representatives?
Did you know that Max Beerbohm's 1894 satire on Oscar Wilde A Peep into the Past was not published until 1923?
Did you know that Roger Villere, chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party since 2004, was among the candidates who lost a state House race in 1989 to David Duke?
Did you know that a propeller operated at such a high rpm that it cuts more than it pushes, is sometimes known as a blade grinder?
Did you know that after being told he was too small for professional wrestling, Sam DeCero increased his weight from 75 to 90 kg (165 to 200 lbs) within three months?
Did you know that despite being running mates in Manila's upcoming local elections, Alfredo Lim and Isko Moreno support different candidates in the presidential election?
Did you know that in 1649, Thomas Andrewes attended the execution of King Charles I, was responsible for proclaiming the abolition of the English monarchy, and was appointed to be the Lord Mayor of London?
Did you know that since 1998 All Nippon Airways has operated Pokémon Jets?
Did you know that the Fort Washington Avenue Armory in Manhattan was used as a homeless shelter before becoming the permanent home of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the Gullfisk trams were so named because they had tails that made them look like goldfish?
Did you know that the Indefatigable-class battlecruiser HMAS Australia was the first flagship of the Royal Australian Navy?
Did you know that the Monro Muffler and Brake franchise was founded by a former Midas Muffler franchisee, Charles August?
Did you know that the Monsoon Palace in Udaipur, Rajasthan, was used as a major location for the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy?
Did you know that the Polikarpov VIT-1 prototype was the first Soviet aircraft with metal-skinned control surfaces?
Did you know that the bluespotted ribbontail ray is the most commonly found stingray in the home aquarium trade, even though it seldom thrives in captivity?
Did you know that the first railway in Estonia, connecting the cities  Paldiski, Tallinn and Narva with Gatchina, Russia, opened in 1870?
Did you know that the video game Metal Walker combines elements of the Pokémon series with billiards?
Did you know that when Sabi, a detection dog of the Australian Special Forces, was found after 14 months missing in action in Afghanistan, a journalist joked that she may have been on a spying mission?
Did you know that 14 Prince's Gate, London, has been the residence of eight American ambassadors to the United Kingdom, and is now the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners?
Did you know that 16 children died during a stampede at a public hall in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, in 1908?
Did you know that American Lion won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography?
Did you know that Amerigo Vespucci may have seen the extinct rodent Noronhomys, otherwise known only from bone remains, on a voyage to the islands of Fernando de Noronha in 1503?
Did you know that Gunnar Isachsen, topographer on Otto Sverdrup's Fram expedition, later became Director of the Norwegian Maritime Museum?
Did you know that Ivan Ostromislensky was a pioneer of the production of synthetic rubber?
Did you know that John Ingram was so afraid of being bugged as North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance that he held meetings in parking garages?
Did you know that Pico Blanco Scout Reservation, built on 1445 acres of virgin Redwood forest donated by William Randolph Hearst, is the oldest Boy Scout camp on California's Central Coast?
Did you know that Robert Stewart Hyer was the first president of Southern Methodist University?
Did you know that Titan, a Great Dane, is currently recognised as the world's tallest dog, standing 107.3 cm (42.25 in) high at the shoulders?
Did you know that Young-Chang Cho was still in his twenties when appointed professor for violoncello at the Folkwang Hochschule?
Did you know that before its scientific description in 2004, the groovebelly stingray had been misidentified as either the bluntnose stingray or the common stingray?
Did you know that brick has been the main building material for churches in the architecture of Denmark (1170 church pictured) since the mid-12th century?
Did you know that cheerleader Desiree Jennings says she developed dystonia from a flu shot?
Did you know that in the 18th and 19th centuries, Native American warriors used gunstock war clubs, shaped like wooden rifle stocks but embedded with blades?
Did you know that music business executive Wayne Bickerton played early in his career as bassist with former Beatle Pete Best, and later co-wrote and produced several hits for The Rubettes?
Did you know that the 1994 season of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club has been described as the most remarkable by any side in the history of county cricket?
Did you know that the Ladakh Ecological Development and Environmental Group has been responsible for solar energy development in Ladakh in northern India?
Did you know that the Netherlands' proposal in 1913 for nine dreadnoughts was part of a ƒ595,000,000 rearmament plan?
Did you know that the Pledge of Allegiance was first published in 1892 in the popular magazine that gave its name to the Youth's Companion Building?
Did you know that the Rosario class was the last class of wooden sloops constructed for the Royal Navy?
Did you know that the Scots American War Memorial (detail pictured) has a poetic line by Ewart Mackintosh who was killed while observing fighting at Cambrai?
Did you know that the mediaeval wall paintings in the church of St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, Oxfordshire, are considered to be "of a nature seldom found in a parish church" and include the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket?
Did you know that the organ of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide ironically conceals a stained glass window dedicated to Saint Cecilia, patron saint of church music?
Did you know that while a district court judge in Metairie, Louisiana, Charles Cusimano was instrumental in revamping the criminal justice computer system?
Did you know that Alfred Seale Haslam, Mayor of Derby, became rich from keeping meat cool on its way from the British colonies?
Did you know that Bård Mikkelsen, chief executive officer of Widerøe, the Ulstein Group and Statkraft, has skydived over Antarctica?
Did you know that Hristo Gruev Danov founded Bulgaria's first publishing house?
Did you know that Jack Grayburn was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross after the Battle of Arnhem?
Did you know that Maryland politician William S. James served in all three branches of state government, as a trial magistrate, Senate President, and State Treasurer?
Did you know that Rouffach's Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Church was built between the 11th and the 19th century, but is still unfinished?
Did you know that San Antonio's Sporting District, one of the largest red-light districts in the U.S. in the early 1900s, was so large that a tourist guide was published for visitors?
Did you know that Trillium reliquum is an endangered species that exists at only 21 sites in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina?
Did you know that actor Greg Kinnear fills in for Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper in the Parks and Recreation episode, "The Camel"?
Did you know that after World War II, US General Douglas MacArthur placed Sankichi Takahashi on the list of the 59 most wanted Japanese?
Did you know that an Agorapocalypse was created using software from hell?
Did you know that fighter ace Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent served as the prototype for two comic strip characters after his wife sent photographs to cartoonist Milton Caniff?
Did you know that in spite of the Canadian telecommunications industry being gripped by "Telidon fever" in 1982, most attempts to commercialize the videotex system had ended by 1985?
Did you know that over 9,000 suspects have been investigated in relation to trials in Chongqing, China, including 14 high-ranking officials?
Did you know that restoration projects of the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust include Wilton Windmill?
Did you know that the Gulbarga Fort was the capital of the Bahmani Kingdom in southern India between 1347 and 1424?
Did you know that the Joint Professional Military Education was established following greater awareness during WWII of a need for effective cooperation between the branches of the United States armed forces?
Did you know that the campus of Saint-Cyr, Gravure 1690, a French military academy founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, used to be a boarding school for girls, Maison royale de Saint-Louis, during the reign of Louis XIV?
Did you know that the concept of a national personal autonomy was strongly opposed by the Bolsheviks, and criticized by Lenin and Stalin?
Did you know that the death of Indian mafioso Manya Surve at the hands of the Mumbai Police in 1982 was the city's first recorded encounter killing?
Did you know that the defunct Hill Military Academy in Portland, Oregon, was a party to the U.S. Supreme Court case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters?
Did you know that the first integrated prom in Charleston is the subject of the 2009 documentary film Prom Night in Mississippi?
Did you know that the proposed new internationalized country code top-level domain in the Cyrillic alphabet for Ukraine is .укр?
Did you know that Achille Casanova was the first official spokesman of the Swiss Federal Council?
Did you know that Alfred "Centennial" Johnson landed at Abercastle in 1876 sailing from Gloucester, Massachusetts, and becoming the first person to make the single-handed Atlantic crossing?
Did you know that American flying ace John C. "Pappy" Herbst painted a swastika on his P-51B Mustang to indicate an aerial victory he said he earned while flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force?
Did you know that Ben Graf Henneke, who later became president of the University of Tulsa, wrote the school's fight song as a student there?
Did you know that Brazil has recently opened a commercial fishery targeting the Colares stingray, for export to Europe?
Did you know that France is the only former colonial power still to maintain territory in North America?
Did you know that Jean McNaughton was the first South African to take a five-wicket haul in Women's Test cricket?
Did you know that La Amelia, a small Maya archaeological site in Guatemala, features hieroglyphic panels describing the ritual sacrifice of a bound captive who is rolled into a ball and thrown to his death?
Did you know that Minnesota's Pudge Wyman scored the first kickoff return for a touchdown, the first blocked punt returned for a touchdown, and the first passing touchdown in the history of the NFL?
Did you know that Parker's Buildings, built in Chester, England, for the Duke of Westminster, are still standing after 120 years despite former complaints about their 'poor materials and workmanship'?