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Did you know that the first and only President of London's Oriental Club was the Duke of Wellington?
Did you know that the radio station of North Community High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the official broadcaster for traffic reports in the area?
Did you know that women in Rome were forbidden to drink wine, under penalty of death or divorce?
Did you know that Association Footballer Billy Mosforth was a leading exponent of the screw shot, which allows players to bend the ball's trajectory?
Did you know that Indianapolis' Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory in the United States?
Did you know that Jacob Piatt Dunn in 1886 wrote the first scholarly history concerning the Indian Wars?
Did you know that John B. Harman, father of the current deputy leader of the British Labour Party, was the defence's main witness in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams?
Did you know that La Mojarra Stela 1, a 4-ton artifact of the Epi-Olmec culture, features a Mesoamerican ruler and appears to record his ritual bloodletting and a "dripping sacrifice"?
Did you know that Marlon Brando's disinherited Tahitian grandson Tuki Brando became famous as a model for Italian men's Vogue at 16 and the face of Versace in 2007?
Did you know that Omaha pioneer real estate agent Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century, with a collection currently valued at almost $8,000,000?
Did you know that Oregon U.S. District Court Judge William G. East ordered Robert F. Kennedy to explain why the U.S. government should not pay fees to a private attorney who was ordered to defend a criminal defendant?
Did you know that U.S. Route 50 in California was the route traveled by many '49ers and the Pony Express, and later became California's first state highway and a branch of the Lincoln Highway?
Did you know that William Revelli, director of the University of Michigan Marching Band for 36 years, was the first to synchronize music and movement, in place of traditional rigid military-style formations?
Did you know that because Fr. Joseph Strub believed the Irish were not seen to be as hard-working as Germans, he specifically requested that Fr. William Power not be selected as the first rector of the Pittsburgh Catholic College?
Did you know that despite being unfinished, the Lazaro Cardenas Dam successfully protected the Mexican towns of Gómez Palacio and Torreón from possible flooding triggered by Hurricane Naomi in 1968?
Did you know that herring scad (Alepes vari) from the Red Sea has high levels of luminescent bacteria living symbiotically with the fish as part of the fish's gut flora?
Did you know that in 1968, French astronomer Agop Terzan discovered Terzan 7, an unusually young 7.5 billion year old globular cluster of the  Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy?
Did you know that in recent years the alcoholic beverage ouzo has been subject of intense scientific study?
Did you know that over Edouard Deville’s  lifetime, his method of photogrammetry was used to map mountainous regions in Canada roughly the size of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that production of Lost: Missing Pieces (short mobisodes/webisodes spun-off from the TV series Lost) was delayed several times due to contractual issues with the actors, writers and directors guilds?
Did you know that screening and treatment with antibiotics are recommended for asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy?
Did you know that the Mansfield, Coldwater and Lake Michigan Rail Road owned two non-contiguous railway lines, each in a different U.S. state, and each leased by a different company?
Did you know that the Pensacola Convoy, which in 1941 carried the first United States soldiers to be based in Australia, was planned initially to reinforce Allied forces defending the Philippines?
Did you know that the USS Cortland (APA-75) was the object of a failed Nazi sabotage attempt in World War II?
Did you know that the bronze L'Âme de la France lay face-down on the ground from 1948 to 1968 after it fell from its pedestal during a tropical cyclone?
Did you know that Abraham Gancwajch was one of the most prominent Jewish Nazi collaborators and criminals in the Warsaw Ghetto?
Did you know that American luger Tony Benshoof set the fastest recorded luge speed at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track used for the 2002 Winter Olympics when he reached 86.6 mph (139.5 km/h) in October 2001?
Did you know that Dzhigit is a reference to a skillful and brave equestrian in the Caucasus, and the derived term "Dzhigitovka" means the special style of trick riding, which originated in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and is also popular with Russian Cossacks?
Did you know that George Nicol organized the 42-day book auction which inspired the influential Roxburghe Club?
Did you know that George Schlatter was the manager of the comedy club where Dan Rowan and Dick Martin performed before going on to produce their Emmy Award winning TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In?
Did you know that Group 13 was a notorious group of Jewish Nazi collaborators within the Warsaw Ghetto, known as the Jewish Gestapo?
Did you know that Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
Did you know that Lewis Call developed an account of post-anarchism based on the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunks such as William Gibson?
Did you know that Marian Gołębiewski, a clerk and elementary school teacher, would become one of the elite Polish commandos during WWII and later, a member of the anti-communist resistance in Poland?
Did you know that Polish duke Władysław the White gained a nickname of King Lancelot due to his adventurous life?
Did you know that Ralph Barton created a number of group caricatures (image map pictured), including one of 139 faces?
Did you know that Samuel Johnson wrote a satirical verse on the 21st birthday of his protégé Sir John Lade that, aside from correctly predicting his future career, partly inspired A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad?
Did you know that Scottish music publisher Robert Bremner disagreed with Francesco Geminiani's opinion on vibrato, and removed a passage advocating its use from a reissue of one of Geminiani's publications?
Did you know that Timoteo Viti was probably responsible for part of the training of  Raphael in Urbino, and many years later worked under his direction in Rome?
Did you know that after spending fifteen years building the largest telescope in the world, scientists in the Soviet Union were dismayed to find that BTA-6 performed much worse than the Hale telescope it was designed to beat?
Did you know that epidemiologist Brian MacMahon showed for the first time that women who give birth early in life have a lower risk of breast cancer?
Did you know that in the late 1860s, the soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa and her husband Carl Rosa founded the Parepa-Rosa English Opera Company, which introduced opera to places in the United States that had never staged it before?
Did you know that local boyars protested against the Russian annexation of Bessarabia after the Russo-Turkish War in 1812, arguing that the Ottoman Empire had no right to cede a Moldavian territory?
Did you know that publishing an illustrated edition of David Hume's The History of England was a financial disaster for Robert Bowyer?
Did you know that residents of Indianapolis came to the aid of Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton, providing food, clothing, and nursing?
Did you know that sixteen ships of the US Navy's Gilliam class, including Banner, Carteret, Dawson, Gasconade and Geneva, were expended as atomic bomb targets after barely two years of service?
Did you know that the German four-mast sailing ship Herzogin Cecilie, under Finnish flag after 1920, won the "grain race" from Australia around Cape Horn to Europe four times from 1926 to 1936?
Did you know that the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver,  the second named for an African American, was sponsored by singer Lena Horne and constructed in 42 days from start to delivery?
Did you know that the Matsés language of Peru has undergone some mixing with other indigenous languages because the Matsés people previously had the custom of capturing women from neighboring tribes?
Did you know that the Petit Pont in Paris, France has been destroyed at least 13 times since its construction in the Roman era?
Did you know that the USS Garrard (APA-84), like other ships in her class, had an active service life of less than two years?
Did you know that the easternmost part of California State Route 20 follows a branch of the historic California Trail, parts of which have been preserved as a National Recreation Trail?
Did you know that the name of Whangaroa Harbour, an inlet on the northern coast of the Northland Region of North Island, New Zealand, comes from the Māori lament "Whaingaroa" or "What a long wait" of a woman whose warrior husband had left for a foray to the south?
Did you know that 3–5.5 million OST-Arbeiters, slave laborers from Eastern Europe, worked in Nazi Germany during WWII?
Did you know that British Columbia's Creston Valley, the province's first Wildlife Management Area, is a Ramsar wetland of international importance and a global Important Bird Area?
Did you know that Cape Leeuwin, the most south-westerly point of the Australian continent, is named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin?
Did you know that Connecticut Route 136 is one of only two state highways in Connecticut that has a gap in state maintenance?
Did you know that Dick Kimball, University of Michigan diving coach 1958–2002, won national championships both as a springboard diver and trampoliner?
Did you know that Joseph Farington kept a diary almost daily from 13 July 1793 until 30 December 1821 that has provided historians with insight into the London art world as well as first-hand accounts of important political events of the day?
Did you know that Multinational Division Central-South, part of the Multinational Force Iraq, has been under the Polish command since its creation in 2003?
Did you know that Tiggy Legge-Bourke was the nanny of Prince William of Wales and his brother Prince Harry?
Did you know that University of Michigan All-American softball player Jenny Allard has led Harvard University to its first four Ivy League softball championships since taking over as coach in 1995?
Did you know that Votan, a legendary figure from Mesoamerica, has been erroneously identified with the Norse god Odin and the Mayan ruler Pacal the Great, among others, despite a lack of evidence?
Did you know that a discontinued 1980s hockey helmet by sporting goods manufacturer Cooper Canada Ltd. is today used in making a particular puppet?
Did you know that despite denouncing Fidel Castro's 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, politician Carlos Rafael Rodríguez became one of Castro's most trusted allies after the 1959 revolution and served as Vice President?
Did you know that due to the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, English letter writers often used two dates on their letters, a practice known as dual dating?
Did you know that in the early 1950s Air Marshal Donald Hardman transformed the Royal Australian Air Force's command structure from one based on geographical area to one based on operational function?
Did you know that the Grey-faced Sengi is the first living species of elephant shrew to be described in over a century?
Did you know that the indigenous Nambikwara language of Brazil has a special implosive consonant used only by elderly people?
Did you know that the redside dace is the only species of minnow to routinely feed on flying insects by leaping from water?
Did you know that the strength of the Ukrainian People's Army fell from 300,000 to just 15,000 after five months of war with Soviet Russia?
Did you know that the wetlands of the Hudson Plains are "notorious for their large populations of biting insects"?
Did you know that tradition has it that Warren Hastings hunted with elephants in the jungle in Chowringhee, now a business district in Kolkata, India?
Did you know that when Jean-Paul Sartre's classic first novel Nausea appeared in 1938, it was reviewed by Albert Camus, still a journalist in Algeria  working on his own later-classic first novel, The Stranger?
Did you know that Khwaja Ahsanullah and his son Khwaja Salimullah clashed over the latter's Islamic fundamentalism?
Did you know that Kimberly Crest House and Gardens, a Victorian mansion and California historic landmark donated to the city of Redlands for a botanical park, is a mirror image of the Magic Castle?
Did you know that Panagbenga Festival was not only created to celebrate Baguio's flowers and culture but also to prove that the city has recovered from the 1990 Luzon earthquake?
Did you know that Vermont coppers were the currency used in Vermont before it became a U.S. state in 1791?
Did you know that although clansmen or clanswomen of a Scottish clan may wear a Scottish crest badge, the actual crest and motto within the badge are the sole property of their chief?
Did you know that famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley would regularly supply the children of the Lockerbie Square with candy on his walks?
Did you know that in the Ukrainian-Soviet War (1917-1922) the Ukrainians fought for their independence first from the Russian Empire, and then the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the 1973 Rose Bowl holds the attendance record in American college football bowl games at 106,869?
Did you know that the Black jack, Caranx lugubris, was first described in 1860 by Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey in his two-volume work Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba, or "Natural History of the Island of Cuba"?
Did you know that the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty was concluded between private citizens and the Comanche, then recognized by the United States, and opened 3,000,000 acres (12,140 km²) to settlers?
Did you know that the Soviet Leningrad Front was subject to a 28 month long blockade in World War II?
Did you know that the Xa Loi Pagoda, which boasts Vietnam's tallest bell tower, was raided and vandalised by the special forces of President Ngo Dinh Diem?
Did you know that Arsenio Lacson was the first person to be elected to three terms as mayor of Manila?
Did you know that Barton Academy in Mobile was the first public school in the U.S. state of Alabama?
Did you know that Canadian biochemist Archibald Macallum used measurements of ionic concentrations in blood sera to argue for the ancient marine origin of all vertebrates?
Did you know that Czar Peter I of Russia not only stayed as a blacksmith's personal houseguest at what is now called the Czar Peter House in Zaandam, but also paid a widow boarding there to move out so there would be room for him?
Did you know that Gregorio Perfecto High School is named after the politician, Gregorio Perfecto, who signed the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines with his own blood?
Did you know that Leonard McEwan, in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan, where he had earlier practiced law?
Did you know that Leonard Skierski was one of fourteen Polish generals to be murdered by the NKVD in the Katyn massacre of 1940?
Did you know that Pandora Jewelry's charm bracelets feature a patented thread system that allows beads to be evenly spaced across the band?
Did you know that Thomas Masterman Hardy's first command was HMS Mutine, a ship he had himself captured at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife?
Did you know that director Li Yu's Fish and Elephant is often considered the first lesbian-themed film to come out of mainland China?
Did you know that model Anna Loginova founded a women bodyguard firm in Russia because male bodyguards are sometimes made to wait outside restaurants while the client is inside?
Did you know that the 18th-century artist William Peters regretted the erotic works he had painted (example pictured) when he became an Anglican minister later in his life?
Did you know that the Gough Map, housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain and is believed to date from sometime between 1355 and 1366?
Did you know that the Sumter-class attack transports USS Warren (APA-53) and USS Wayne (APA-54) collectively earned 11 battle stars for WWII service and were both converted postwar into container ships?
Did you know that the construction of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home was paid for by the owner's contract to supply hardtack to Union troops in the American Civil War?
Did you know that the disappearance of jellyfish from Kāne'ohe Bay has generated concerns about maintenance of the local yellowtail scad population?
Did you know that the first Lutheran church in Omaha, Nebraska became the largest Lutheran congregation in the United States by the 1920s?
Did you know that the network of railways in Plymouth, England, once served 28 stations, but today just six stations remain in use?
Did you know that the sarcophagus of King Gustav I of Sweden and his consorts at Uppsala Cathedral had once been confiscated by authorities in Antwerp because the Flemish sculptor Willem Boy was in debt?
Did you know that visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie?
Did you know that when Canterbury Presbyterian Church closed in 2004, its congregants were absorbed by a nearby church that had split from Canterbury twice in its 178-year history?
Did you know that American Judge Herbert Jay Stern, who served on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, presided over a jury trial in the U.S. court for Berlin, Germany, which was the subject of the book and movie Judgment in Berlin?
Did you know that American film maker John Korty’s studio in Marin County inspired George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola to establish studios in the San Francisco Bay Area?
Did you know that Boletus pulcherrimus, a large red and brown pored mushroom from California and New Mexico, stains dark blue when cut or bruised?
Did you know that Jesse Lowe, the first mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, is credited with naming the city after the local Native American Omaha Tribe?
Did you know that Noble Ellington, a veteran member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Winnsboro in the northeastern portion of his state, is involved in legal action so that his wife may continue to serve as his legislative secretary?
Did you know that Omaha, Nebraska pioneer gambler Dan Allen was buried with his madam girlfriend under a concrete slab with columns resembling bedposts?
Did you know that Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll was the first British princess to marry a commoner in over five hundred years?
Did you know that Russian critics considered Armenian actor and poet Petros Adamian one of the best tragedians of the world for his interpretations of Hamlet and Othello?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Widnes has a wayside pulpit incorporated into its boundary wall?
Did you know that an engineer for the Michigan United Railways devised a special shoe which allowed the motorman to cut ice build-up on the third rail, in response to Michigan's harsh winters?
Did you know that award-winning financial analyst Dana Telsey was first hired at a mutual fund company after her mother met a former neighbor on the street and asked him "Can you give Dana a job?"
Did you know that in his Nuova Cronica (illustration pictured), the 14th century Florentine banker Giovanni Villani described the destruction of the original Ponte Vecchio bridge during the flood of November 4, 1333?
Did you know that leading Canadian human rights activist Kalmen Kaplansky died in 1997 on International Human Rights Day?
Did you know that sparkling wine was produced in the Languedoc wine region of Limoux long before it was produced in Champagne?
Did you know that the Athina B became a temporary tourist attraction after becoming beached at an English seaside town?
Did you know that the Santa Cruz sheep breed numbers less than 200 individual animals?
Did you know that the only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens?
Did you know that the tilted trees in Canada's Taiga Shield, caused by repeated freezing and thawing of the shallow soil's permafrost, have been likened to a "drunken forest"?
Did you know that two-time Olympic diving gold medalist Bob Webster won his first collegiate diving title for a junior college with no pool, training off a board in his coach's back-yard sand pit?
Did you know that voice announcer Bob LeMond, who announced on the original, lost pilot episode of I Love Lucy, had to re-record his original lines for the show once the episode was rediscovered in the early 2000s?
Did you know that Bion J. Arnold designed an experimental single-phase alternating current electric locomotive for the Lansing, St. Johns and St. Louis Railway, but a fire destroyed it before it could be tested?
Did you know that Donald Cameron ('Taillear Dubh na Tuaighe') ("Black Tailor of the Axe") got his nickname after killing the rival Scottish Highlands clan chief in battle with a Lochaber axe?
Did you know that Hofstra University named its business school after former NASDAQ director Frank G. Zarb?
Did you know that Japanese submarine I-17 was the first Axis ship to shell the United States mainland in World War II triggering an "invasion" scare along the West Coast?
Did you know that Prince Gabriel Konstantinovich was saved from execution during the Russian Revolution by the writer, Maxim Gorky?
Did you know that Seattle's Cascade neighborhood, declared "blighted" in the 1960s after it was cut off from nearby Capitol Hill by Interstate 5, nonetheless contains seven designated Seattle Landmarks?
Did you know that Skerryvore, off the west coast of Scotland, considered by some to be the world's most graceful lighthouse, was built by an uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson?
Did you know that Thomas E. Latimer, a one-term mayor of Minneapolis, also played a key role in the landmark freedom of the press case Near v. Minnesota?
Did you know that after being captured from the French, HMS Donegal went on to capture two French ships at the Battle of San Domingo?
Did you know that among the students of Polish pianist Aleksander Michałowski was Jerzy Żurawlew, who founded the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competitions in 1927?
Did you know that childless Emperor Lý Thái Tông built Hanoi's One Pillar Pagoda, which resembles a lotus in a pond, after dreaming that the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara handed him a baby son?
Did you know that in 1802 John Francis Rigaud published a translation of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting?
Did you know that just three years after it was founded, the Spanish labor union Solidaridad Obrera became the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo?
Did you know that outspoken British judge Melford Stevenson once described a case before him as a "pretty anaemic kind of rape" because the victim was the accused's ex-girlfriend?
Did you know that over nine percent of ballots were rejected for both questions in the British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991?
Did you know that publication of comics in Hungary largely stopped during World War II due to Nazi pressure?
Did you know that the fungus Boletus luridus may cause nausea and vomiting if consumed with alcohol, or if not thoroughly cooked?
Did you know that underneath Mount Parish, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, lies a network of World War II air raid precaution tunnels totalling 1.8 km (1.1 mi) in length?
Did you know that 1-methylcyclopropene, a synthetic plant hormone, is used to keep produce from ripening prematurely and to keep cut flowers from wilting?
Did you know that Caesars Indiana's The Glory of Rome is the largest riverboat in North America, and the largest riverboat casino in the world?
Did you know that Charlie Fonville broke a 14-year-old shot put world record by almost 12 inches (30 cm) at the 1948 Kansas Relays but was not allowed to stay with the other athletes because he was African-American?
Did you know that Emery Molyneux's 16th-century terrestrial and celestial globes were the first to be made in England and by an Englishman?