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Did you know that Mary Shelley's edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound was delayed 19 years because Percy's father, Timothy Shelley, refused to allow any of his son's poetry to be published?
Did you know that Robert Steinberg and John Scharffenberger experimented with the original varieties of Scharffen Berger brand chocolate in Steinberg's home kitchen?
Did you know that a scripted argument at Royal Rumble 1995 set up a wrestling match between wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and American football player Lawrence Taylor?
Did you know that after 19 years broadcasting from an antenna atop the 42-story DuMont Building in Midtown Manhattan, WKCR-FM became the first station to broadcast from the mast on top of the World Trade Center?
Did you know that boy soprano Andrew Johnston's debut album, One Voice, features a duet with Britain's Got Talent contestant Faryl Smith?
Did you know that canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley, the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution?
Did you know that drag racer Bruce Larson hired sprint car racer Maynard Yingst (sprint car pictured) as his crew chief for his 1989 NHRA Funny Car championship season?
Did you know that during World War II, the SS-run Haidari concentration camp near Athens was so infamous that it became known as the "Bastille of Greece"?
Did you know that former California State Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge was the 1962 Republican congressional candidate for California's 12th district, but died suddenly during the campaign?
Did you know that former Regimental Sergeant Major Harry Lapwood was known as having the loudest voice in the New Zealand House of Representatives?
Did you know that in 1951, Bulgarian politician and exile G. M. Dimitrov helped found the first Bulgarian NATO company?
Did you know that it took Peter Steinfeld six weeks to write the opening eleven pages of his first screenplay, Drowning Mona?
Did you know that the 1923 Tour de France winner Henri Pélissier was shot by his lover using the gun with which his wife had shot herself some years earlier?
Did you know that the 1931 Workers Olympiad held in Vienna, organized by the Socialist Workers' Sport International, was larger than the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics both in number of participants and spectators?
Did you know that the 1971 book Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee chronicles environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies?
Did you know that the Arizona Diamondbacks won the World Series in just their fourth season of Major League Baseball?
Did you know that the BTR-90, an armoured personnel carrier in service with Russian Internal Troops, is fitted with a gun turret identical to the one used on the BMP-2?
Did you know that the Niue Star, founded in 1993, is Niue's only printed newspaper?
Did you know that the book Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers was written by a former commander of the homicide branch of the Indianapolis Police Department?
Did you know that the construction of the Storm King Highway took 22 miles (35 km) off the drive between Newburgh and West Point, New York, two cities only 10 miles (16 km) apart?
Did you know that the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry" (listen) was the most popular number from the first successful Broadway show to have an all African-American cast?
Did you know that the trouvère Andrieu Contredit d'Arras joined a Crusade in 1239 as a knight and minstrel?
Did you know that while growing up in Kentucky, aerobatics pilot Gene Soucy would wash and refuel airplanes at a local airport in exchange for flight time?
Did you know that Artus de Lionne, who went to China for missionary work in 1689, played a role against Jesuits in the Chinese Rites controversy?
Did you know that Don Ultang co-won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for images of the Johnny Bright Incident, showing a violent hit by an Oklahoma A&M player on Drake University's Johnny Bright that broke Bright's jaw?
Did you know that Dravidian parties rose to power in Tamil Nadu after the 1967 general election in India, in which they won all the seats they competed for?
Did you know that Iceland and India established diplomatic relations in 1972?
Did you know that John T. David, a small-town Louisiana mayor, was elected to his parish governing council in 1956, less than a year after resigning as mayor because of two bootlegging convictions?
Did you know that Ochna serrulata is called "Mickey Mouse Plant" because the plant's bright-red sepals resemble the face of Mickey Mouse?
Did you know that Roger Vanderfield, an Australian doctor, rugby union referee and administrator, was instrumental in establishing the first Rugby World Cup?
Did you know that San Marino debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with "Complice", a song performed by Miodio?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty general Li Zhongchen, whose emperor-bestowed name meant "faithful subject," later betrayed Emperor Dezong of Tang and served the rebel Zhu Ci?
Did you know that The Independent Journal, a New York newspaper and journal edited and published by John McLean, was the first newspaper to publish the first of the eighty-five Federalist Papers?
Did you know that The New York Times published an article mentioning that MLB player Jeff Johnson had been bothered because of rumors he had heard about the New York Yankees pursuing different pitchers?
Did you know that William T. Kane, a physicist with Corning Incorporated, held three patents in crystallography important to the development of fiber optics?
Did you know that a jeogori is a Korean basic upper garment of traditional hanbok having been worn by both men and women?
Did you know that after witnessing first hand the carnage of the First World War, English artist David Bomberg lost his faith in modernism and Russian Ballet was his last work in a vorticist idiom?
Did you know that an island purchased by Lloyd Mathews for use as a prison is now a conservation area for giant tortoises?
Did you know that former Chief Justice of Queensland Neal Macrossan's brother and nephew were also Chief Justice as well?
Did you know that painter Karp Zolotaryov created a handmade Zodiac calendar for teaching then-seven-year-old Peter I of Russia?
Did you know that publisher Irvin J. Borowsky created TV Digest, America's first television program listing, which was sold to Walter Annenberg and became part of TV Guide?
Did you know that suggestions for rejuvenating the Big Orange, near Berri, South Australia, include turning it into a big golf ball?
Did you know that the Bangladesh Police inherits much of its structure from the police of British India and contributes to U.N. peace-keeping missions?
Did you know that the HMS Inconstant, a Royal Navy frigate, captured three French warships during the French Revolutionary Wars?
Did you know that the Stockbridge Militia was the first Native American unit in the Continental Army?
Did you know that the Umikaze class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the first large destroyers designed for open ocean service to be built in Japan?
Did you know that the band Green Day (lead vocalist pictured) has been nominated for 10 American Music Awards, 13 Grammy Awards, and 25 MTV Music Video Awards?
Did you know that the gilt-copper Reliquary Shrine of Saint Eleutherius in the cathedral of Tournai is considered the most sumptuous surviving mid-13th century reliquary?
Did you know that the press box at the University of Wyoming is named for Larry Birleffi, who announced all Wyoming Cowboys football and basketball games from 1947–1986?
Did you know that "Back 2 You / Still Grey" was simultaneously the first single by drum and bass band Pendulum to feature either a guest vocalist, or a guest instrumentalist?
Did you know that Bangladesh Police plan to recruit 3,000 women to expand the newly-created Special Women Police Contingent across Bangladesh?
Did you know that Dutch Arts and Crafts designer Peter Waals was the nephew of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist?
Did you know that Los Angeles police were sent to guard the remains of the 1000-year-old Encino Oak Tree, a victim of "slime flux", after it was felled by an El Niño storm in 1998?
Did you know that Rohitha Bogollagama represented Sri Lanka at peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at Geneva in 2006?
Did you know that Steve Souchock was possibly going to be first baseman for the New York Yankees, but instead served military service during World War II, eventually earning five battle stars and one Bronze Star?
Did you know that Zamosc Fortress, one of the biggest fortresses of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was besieged six times by various armies?
Did you know that a Rotarian and an active sponsor of sports Joakim Puhk was one of the richest men in pre-WWII Estonia?
Did you know that as a result of Janina San Miguel's response to a question in the 2008 Binibining Pilipinas World pageant, the Philippine government proposed English courses for beauty pageant contestants?
Did you know that in 1992, when Oddny Aleksandersen was appointed Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Labour, no male had yet held this position?
Did you know that in July 1530, Clan Forbes attacked Aberdeen?
Did you know that in addition to being a government aide during the Vietnam Conflict, Michael Forrestal was also a mediator in international disputes between the USSR and the US?
Did you know that musician Bruce Conforth was the first curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio?
Did you know that the 1944 Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, later celebrated for showing that DNA is the genetic material, challenged the prevailing wisdom that genes were made of protein?
Did you know that the Church of Our Lady of Light in Chennai, India was built in 1516 by Portuguese missionaries?
Did you know that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police first inducted female officers in 1978?
Did you know that the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial commemorates the 1951 protests started by 16-year-old Barbara Johns which helped bring about school desegregation in Virginia?
Did you know that the ancient opencast iron ore workings known as scowles in the Forest of Dean, England, are believed to have been an inspiration for settings in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings?
Did you know that the first public Swedish orienteering competition, held in 1901, had two churches, Spånga and Bromma kyrka as control points?
Did you know that the recent series of "I'm a PC" advertisements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system were created using Apple Macintosh computers?
Did you know that two summits of Potter Fell in the Lake District are mentioned in Alfred Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland?
Did you know that Aerosteon, a 9-metre (30 ft) long bipedal carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 84 million years ago, had air-sacs in its bones similar to those in the respiratory systems of modern birds?
Did you know that Anastasiu di Iaci wrote Vinuta di lu re Iapicu in Catania shortly after 1287, making it one of the earliest narrative sources for the War of the Vespers?
Did you know that Bogdan Saltanov, the court artist of Tsar Alexis I of Russia, was born in Persia and granted Russian nobility eight years after arrival to Moscow?
Did you know that Cress Williams portrayed a Jem'Hadar leader in the Star Trek series, in the Deep Space Nine episode "The Jem'Hadar"?
Did you know that Drinkstone Post Mill is the oldest surviving windmill in Suffolk, England, having been built in 1689?
Did you know that George Orwell interpreted the lyrics of "Ain't We Got Fun?" (listen) as representative of post-World War I working class unrest?
Did you know that Irving Berlin stuffed towels into a piano while he was composing "That International Rag" (listen) to muffle the sound because other hotel guests made noise complaints?
Did you know that Korean composer and violinist Hong Nan-pa is best known for his song Bongseonhwa written in 1919 which was widely sung during the Japanese occupation of Korea?
Did you know that Nakamura Yoshikoto, director of the South Manchurian Railway, sponsored his childhood friend, the famed author Natsume Sōseki on a publicity jaunt to Manchuria?
Did you know that Oregon State Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson is a first cousin of The Simpsons creator Matt Groening?
Did you know that Quentin Tarantino, a longtime fan of Australian cinema, helped put together 2008 documentary film Not Quite Hollywood, examining the "Ozploitation" B movies of the 1970s–'80s Australian New Wave?
Did you know that Reuben Noble-Lazarus became the youngest footballer in the Football League when he came on as a substitute in Barnsley's 3–0 defeat to Ipswich Town in 2008?
Did you know that Tove Strand, Norwegian government minister in 1986–1989 and 1990–1992, was formerly married to fellow Labour Party politician Rune Gerhardsen?
Did you know that according to John Foxe and Raphael Holinshed, the fate of Lady Jane Grey drove Richard Morgan insane?
Did you know that after Li Xilie, who had rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, grew ill after eating beef, his general Chen Xianqi induced his physician to poison him to death?
Did you know that comedian and actor Asi Cohen performed in Mesudarim, an Israeli television show purchased by the Fox Entertainment Group?
Did you know that in 1947, Thelma Dewitty became not just the first African American hired to teach in the Seattle Public Schools, but one of the first married women as well?
Did you know that southern African vine Acetosa sagittata is a weed in Australia and New Zealand, and may smother vegetation it grows upon?
Did you know that the Great Mosque of Aleppo, built by the Umayyads in 717, is the oldest mosque in Aleppo, Syria?
Did you know that the LoPresti Fury sports plane was built based on the design of aeronautical engineer Roy LoPresti?
Did you know that the Obando Fertility Rites are held annually at the Obando Church of Bulacan in the Philippines during the month of May?
Did you know that the colorful kkachi durumagi evokes the good fortune associated with the magpie in Korean folklore?
Did you know that the distinctive rustic porch trim of the Fish and Fur Club in Nelsonville, New York, which earned it a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, has since been replaced?
Did you know that the historic monuments in the Los Angeles Harbor area include a Civil War Powder Magazine, a World War I coastal artillery battery, and the bridge of a World War II heavy cruiser?
Did you know that the opening theme of the eighth season of the Bleach anime, "After Dark", was provided by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation?
Did you know that while his father-in-law, brother and son were national politicians, Wincentz Thurmann Ihlen concentrated on entrepreneurship, establishing the railway car factory Strømmens Værksted?
Did you know that writer-director Brian Dannelly was expelled from the first grade for hitting a nun at his Catholic elementary school?
Did you know that 1970 Italian crime thriller film Città violenta was only picked up for distribution in the United States after the success of Death Wish established star Charles Bronson as a leading man?
Did you know that Bob Miller, signed as a "bonus baby" by the Detroit Tigers, was the youngest of three 17-year-olds to play in Major League Baseball in the 1953 season?
Did you know that Eelam, a Tamil name for Sri Lanka, could also mean toddy, spurge, or gold?
Did you know that Hannikel, today a character of the Swabian-Alemannic carnival, was a 18th-century robber and murderer in Württemberg, Southern Germany?
Did you know that Martin Luther compared images of the Virgin of Mercy (example pictured) to "a hen with her chicks"?
Did you know that Matthew T. Mason, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, developed the first origami-folding robot in 2004?
Did you know that Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War, before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum?
Did you know that Typhoon Jangmi was upgraded to a category five super typhoon by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center?
Did you know that after Milt Davis was rejected by the Detroit Lions because they did not have a black roommate for him, Davis won two championships in four seasons with the Baltimore Colts?
Did you know that architect Stiff Leadbetter's house Elvills was the first completely new house of the Georgian Gothic revival in England?
Did you know that during the Catalonian Civil War, three different pretenders were proclaimed against John II of Aragon?
Did you know that in addition to teaching underprivileged youth, Giovanni Buscaglione designed such architectural works as Colombia's Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora del Carmen?
Did you know that noise rock band Jucifer's L'Autrichienne is a concept album about Marie Antoinette?
Did you know that the Campbell's Covered Bridge, built in 1909, is the last remaining covered bridge in South Carolina?
Did you know that the St. John's Lodge in Portsmouth, New Hampshire is one of the oldest continuously operating Masonic Lodges in the Americas?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Yan had, as a child, impressed Emperor Xuanzong of Tang by writing a song dedicated to his sacrifices at Mount Tai?
Did you know that the United States Academic Decathlon National Championships have featured teams from Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Northern Ireland and Brazil?
Did you know that the butterfly Argynnis hyperbius has been threatened in New South Wales by the draining of swamps containing its natural foodplant Viola betonicifolia?
Did you know that the song "Steal My Sunshine" by Len was almost not released because its master recording was hidden under the producer's bed?
Did you know that upcoming film The Marc Pease Experience has been dubbed "the next Rushmore" as the two films share both similar character traits and Jason Schwartzman in the lead role?
Did you know that British activist Emmeline Pankhurst once slapped a police officer so she would get arrested to raise awareness about the need for women's suffrage?
Did you know that Krishnammal Jagannathan, one of this year's winners of the Right Livelihood Award, began her struggle for the rights of the landless after an incident in which 44 people were burnt alive by landlords?
Did you know that Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin, Oregon, was built when the city had only 750 residents?
Did you know that Meralco's John F. Cotton Corporate Wellness Center was the first implementation of a corporate wellness program in the Philippines?
Did you know that Mexico's largest pawnbroker, Nacional Monte de Piedad, is legally recognized as a charity?
Did you know that Minthorn Hall in Newberg, Oregon, is the oldest building on the campus of George Fox University?
Did you know that Nic Waal, who rescued Jewish children in Norway from the Holocaust, started her own institute for pediatric psychiatry when turned down for a job because her appearance was too messy?
Did you know that Nintendo plans to release a revised model of the Nintendo DS Lite handheld game console called the Nintendo DSi, with two built-in cameras?
Did you know that a 1989 Samsung commercial began the late South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil's path to stardom?
Did you know that according to Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson's poem "Hay and Hell and Booligal", the town of Booligal, New South Wales is regarded as being worse than Hell?
Did you know that although Carl Emil Krarup was originally a civil engineer, he was responsible for the first ever continuously loaded submarine telecommunication cable?
Did you know that at Henry Parkyns Hoppner's court martial, he received "no blame whatever" for his actions while commanding the HMS Fury, ice-damaged and left on Somerset Island in 1825?
Did you know that in 1967, Ray Miller, a Houston news director, hired future U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as the first female television journalist in Texas?
Did you know that one of John Romney's etchings which sold well was of The Chester and Holyhead Railway Bridge Accident which occurred in 1847?
Did you know that some hermaphrodite snails and slugs pierce each other with love darts during mating?
Did you know that the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has 11 universities, including the University of King's College, the oldest university in British North America?
Did you know that the Egyptian Geological Museum, established in Cairo in 1904, was the first of its kind in Africa?
Did you know that the website Techmeme, created by Gabe Rivera, searches for the most popular technology-related news on the Internet and orders them based on an algorithm that determines popularity?
Did you know that Adobe Systems made its largest acquisition ever by purchasing rival company Macromedia for over US$3.5 billion?
Did you know that BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme The Media Show, which looks at the current state of the media, is seen as a replacement to The Message, a similar programme axed by the BBC earlier in 2008?
Did you know that Charles Frederick Holder invented the sport of big-game fishing and was also a founder of  Pasadena's Tournament of Roses?
Did you know that General William C. Chase was awarded the Bronze Star for his successful defense against Japanese counterattacks during the Admiralty Islands campaign in World War II?
Did you know that Hans Prydz came to Nittedal as a physician, but eventually served as mayor of that municipality as well as representing the district in the Norwegian Parliament?
Did you know that Hurricane Rosa caused 100-year floods at 19 locations in Texas?
Did you know that Irving Berlin wrote the song "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" while serving in the United States Army during World War I?
Did you know that Modernisme architect Enrique Nieto not only designed the main synagogue in Melilla, but also the Central Mosque and several Catholic church buildings?
Did you know that Nonghyup, the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of South Korea, provides 48 percent of the country's rural food marketing?
Did you know that Norwegian Parliament member and priest Søren Georg Abel was the father of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel?
Did you know that Tate gallery director Sir Norman Reid was the son of a shoemaker?
Did you know that a retired teacher Simon Vega operates the "Little Graceland" museum in Los Fresnos near Brownsville, Texas as a tribute to his Army buddy Elvis Presley?
Did you know that after six years as Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Mary Schiavo wrote Flying Blind, Flying Safe, a book critical of air safety practices at the Federal Aviation Administration?
Did you know that alpine Lake Wakatipu has a unit of the Royal New Zealand Coastguard?
Did you know that evidence indicates that the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin may be more closely related to the Atlantic Spotted Dolphin than to the Common Bottlenose Dolphin?
Did you know that marine loading arms are used to safely and efficiently move liquids between tankships and cargo terminals?
Did you know that only twelve examples survive of the Bosom of Abraham Trinity, a uniquely English subject in late medieval religious art?
Did you know that the House character Detective Michael Tritter has been compared to Inspector Javert in Les Misérables?
Did you know that the upcoming film Sherlock Holmes revolves around Holmes and Watson, played by Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, stopping a conspiracy to destroy Britain?
Did you know that Bümpliz-Oberbottigen, a district of Berne, Switzerland, contains rural hamlets, Baroque estates and modernist highrise satellite towns?
Did you know that Clarence D. Wiley, already a 40-year public official in Louisiana, was to have joined his parish governing council when he died in 1976 of a sudden stroke?
Did you know that Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work on Facebook full-time?
Did you know that Jack Womack's 2000 alternate history novel Going, Going, Gone is set in two converging parallel versions of New York?