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Did you know that the chicken wire statue who once rode behind the Cardiff Kook was retired to a ranch with poinsettias?
Did you know that the married couple who founded the Windsor Mountain School in Massachusetts had previously established a school in Germany?
Did you know that the wax flowers of eastern Australia are members of the citrus family, while those from the west are of the myrtle family?
Did you know that when first described, the extinct bird Cruschedula was thought to be a "dry-land" penguin?
Did you know that within four months footballer Barry Endean went from playing for an amateur team in a public park to lining up against Manchester United at Old Trafford?
Did you know that "You Are the Girl" was The Cars' only Top 40 hit after they regrouped from a three-year hiatus in 1987?
Did you know that Barbara Scherler of the Deutsche Oper Berlin recorded Bach's Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72 with Fritz Werner's Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn?
Did you know that England was invaded by the French in 1216?
Did you know that George E. Hearn was the first licensed industrial psychologist in his native Louisiana?
Did you know that Marilyn McAdams Sibley wrote histories of both the Port of Houston and The Methodist Hospital of Houston, Texas?
Did you know that Miriam Shapira-Luria, known for her beauty, taught Talmud to elite young men from behind a curtain so that they would not get distracted by her appearance?
Did you know that Okmulgee State Park in Oklahoma is one of only a few places in the world where the fossil coral Gymnophyllum wardi is found?
Did you know that Ralph T. Coe, described as "enormously significant in the growth of appreciation of Native American art in the 20th century", began his collection after seeing a totem pole in a Manhattan shop?
Did you know that Scotsman Walter Forrester, future bishop of Brechin, was rector of the University of Paris between October and December 1395?
Did you know that Sharon Cherop fell over at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon but got back up and ran the fastest marathon ever by a woman in Canada?
Did you know that Turkish Army's Güvercinlik Air Base was the first civil airport of Ankara that served as such from 1933 until 1955?
Did you know that William Blake's 1795 painting Pity reflects a time when Shakespeare's Macbeth had a revival, being performed nine times in English theatres?
Did you know that a mural in the Spring Valley, New York, post office, called Waiting for the Mail, shows how mail can reach even the most isolated person?
Did you know that after assaulting bishop of Brechin John de Crannach in his own cathedral, in 1435 the archdeacon of Brechin was excommunicated?
Did you know that attorney Jack Kershaw sculpted a monument to Confederate Army general and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1998, arguing that "somebody needs to say a good word for slavery"?
Did you know that bonnets may be orange, clustered, scarlet, frosty, mealy, ivory, nitrous, grooved, snapping, milking, bleeding, or bulbous?
Did you know that during World War II, Kalaymyo was an important regroup point for the British during their retreat from Burma in 1942?
Did you know that marathon events have been held at the Paralympic Games since 1984?
Did you know that sexologist James M. Cantor found that male pedophiles have significantly less white matter in their brains than do control subjects?
Did you know that the 2003 Twenty20 Cup included the first-ever Twenty20 cricket match, played between the Hampshire Hawks and the Sussex Sharks?
Did you know that the Aurora mine, located in Beaufort County, North Carolina, is the largest integrated phosphate mining and chemical plant in the world?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Valiant had to wait nearly five years after she was launched to receive her rifled muzzle-loading guns?
Did you know that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which is the Ivy League's predecessor, was founded by Basketball Hall of Famer Ralph Morgan?
Did you know that the Elias Abel House is the best-preserved historic I-house in Bloomington, Indiana?
Did you know that the German SMS Kronprinz was the only König-class battleship to escape damage at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916?
Did you know that the Miraj township of Wanlesswadi is named for William James Wanless, who founded the first missionary medical school in India?
Did you know that the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–1517 (map pictured) gave the Ottoman Empire control of Syria, Egypt and most of the Arabian Peninsula?
Did you know that the TLC reality television series Sister Wives follows a polygamist family of four wives and 16 children living in Lehi, Utah?
Did you know that the geography of New York includes the Adirondack Park, the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States?
Did you know that though the Spanish naval gunboat Ligera fired 10 shots and the American naval gunboat Foote fired 70 in the Action of 25 April 1898, Foote was heavily damaged but Ligera was hit only once?
Did you know that three months after being rushed from a game to the hospital with a brain aneurysm, Swedish ice hockey forward William Wallén was back on the ice, playing for the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors?
Did you know that "Jack" Jackson, who was called "the last slave in New Jersey", died and was buried at the Abel I. Smith Burial Ground in 1875?
Did you know that Bob Mann, the first black player for Detroit and Green Bay, claimed he was "railroaded" out of football when he objected to a pay cut after leading the NFL in receiving yards?
Did you know that Bubble Wrap, which was originally designed to be wallpaper, was invented when two men sealed shower curtains together?
Did you know that Deam Lake State Recreation Area is named for Charles C. Deam, who was the first state forester of Indiana and discovered 25 new plant species?
Did you know that Irving J. Moore directed the 1980 episode "Who shot J.R.?" of the CBS soap opera Dallas?
Did you know that Jimi Heselden, owner of the company that makes the Segway personal transport system, died after a Segway he was riding fell off a cliff?
Did you know that Mexican cuisine chef Sue Torres' restaurant Sueños was listed in Vogue magazine as "Taster's choice" by critic Jeffrey Steingarten, describing it as "one of the lasting 4 monuments" of 2003?
Did you know that Montana Territorial Governor Benjamin F. White founded the city of Dillon?
Did you know that a Village Defence Party is organised on the basis of one platoon of men and one platoon of women for each village in Bangladesh?
Did you know that a flame fougasse can shoot a jet of flame 10 feet (3.0 m) wide and 30 yards (27 m) long?
Did you know that at the time of his death in 1995, former Gunsmoke director Robert Totten was scheduled to direct a television series based on Lonesome Dove?
Did you know that before joining the Ivy League, Princeton Tigers men's basketball won six Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League college basketball conference championships: 1922, 1925, 1932, 1950, 1952, 1955?
Did you know that in 2008, part of Carlton Hill—originally one of Brighton's poorest slums—became one of 34 conservation areas in the city?
Did you know that in 2009, the Seattle Mariners drafted Dustin Ackley, Kyle Seager, and Brian Moran, who were all teammates on the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team?
Did you know that individual cigarettes in Red Cross parcels in the Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp were valued at precisely 27 cents each?
Did you know that one critic called Scribe's second album Rhyme Book an "attempt to be considered the Aotearoa version of Kanye West"?
Did you know that shortly after its inauguration, part of the Gilgel Gibe II Power Station's 26 km (16 mi) tunnel, which was "considered one of the most difficult tunnel projects ever undertaken", collapsed?
Did you know that silent shorts featuring Fred Evans as "Pimple" rivalled those of Charlie Chaplin for popularity and have been described as "proto-Pythonesque"?
Did you know that the 2009 French comedy Neuilly sa mère ! revisits themes of social inequality that were explored in the 1988 French comedy Life is a Long Quiet River?
Did you know that the Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Park was launched in 2009 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Thailand?
Did you know that the Chesterfield Island, butterfly, and New Caledonian stingarees are all found off the Chesterfield Islands, the first two nowhere else?
Did you know that the Great Flood of 1862 inundated or swept away towns, mills, dams, flumes, houses, fences, and domestic animals in Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Sevastopol was the only battleship not salvaged by the Japanese at Port Arthur, following destruction of the Russian Fleet?
Did you know that the Wandsworth Shield has a repoussé design of two large birds with outstretched wings and trailing tail feathers, and is considered to be a masterpiece of British Celtic art?
Did you know that the apricot jelly fungus can be used raw in salads, pickled, candied, or fermented to produce wine?
Did you know that the first use of bronze doors on an Italian building is attributed to the Amalfi Cathedral, and they came from Constantinople?
Did you know that the people of the Pakuashipi settlement in Quebec, Canada, are considered the most traditional and conservative Innu band, both in terms of culture and language?
Did you know that the two claiming Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, were both consecrated on the same day, April 24, 1619, but in different places?
Did you know that , rather than paying property taxes on land it had clear-cut, the Jackson Lumber Company donated the land that is now Geneva State Forest to Alabama?
Did you know that Colonia Morelos in Mexico City is home to a 25-street tianguis market and two public sites to worship Santa Muerte?
Did you know that Elizabeth Turk was a Washington, D.C., lobbyist before she became a sculptor and was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow?
Did you know that George Ballis, whose photographs documented the efforts of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers, learned his craft from a class he took with Great Depression photojournalist Dorothea Lange?
Did you know that Gus Bevona resigned from local SEIU 32BJ in 1999, in the face of criticism for annual pay of US$531,529 in 1997, more than 17 times the salary of the janitors and building workers he represented?
Did you know that HMS Minotaur and her sisters were called "the dullest performers under canvas of the whole masted fleet of their day, and no ships ever carried so much dress to so little purpose"?
Did you know that Larry Bird's hometown team, the Indiana Pacers, did not draft him in the 1978 NBA Draft because they could not convince him to leave college early?
Did you know that Mässmogge, Swiss candies sold in Basel at the autumn fair, are filled with ground hazelnuts?
Did you know that Nazi and neo-Nazi sympathizer Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld translated numerous works into German, including Paul Rassinier's Holocaust-denying work The Drama of European Jews?
Did you know that Nicholas Benson is a third-generation stone carver and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow?
Did you know that Operation Trident was set up by the Metropolitan Police to investigate gun crime in London's black community?
Did you know that Peter Endrulat never played in the Fußball-Bundesliga again after conceding 12 goals for Borussia Mönchengladbach's record 12–0 league victory over Borussia Dortmund?
Did you know that The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (1795), by William Blake, represents the Feminine Will upon a patriarchal Christianity?
Did you know that Whitefriars, a Carmelite foundation in Bristol, England, was described by 16th-century antiquary John Leland as "the fairest friary in England"?
Did you know that chef Josh Capon was able to cook a three-course fish dinner for four on The Early Show Saturday Edition's "Chefs on a Shoestring" challenge while spending less than $10 per person?
Did you know that epidemiologist Joseph L. Melnick found that polio chiefly spread through fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the poliovirus could survive for extended periods in sewage?
Did you know that for centuries, the Roman marble Torlonia Vase was the largest in diameter of known antique vases?
Did you know that former Scientology official Mike Rinder was called a "whistleblower" for his appearance on the BBC Panorama documentary, The Secrets of Scientology?
Did you know that in addition to delivering 6,000 babies, obstetrician William Harrison performed 20,000 abortions, eventually becoming the only physician in Northwest Arkansas to perform the procedure?
Did you know that it was assumed Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz would succeed Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, as his mother and cousin were expected to give up their claims to the throne?
Did you know that out of a total of eight training venues for rugby sevens at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, seven are colleges of Delhi University?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Enterprise had a wooden hull and iron upperworks which made her the first ship of composite construction in the Royal Navy?
Did you know that the Kiruna Mine located in Kiruna, Sweden, is the largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world?
Did you know that the Ryan Premises, a national historic site in Newfoundland and Labrador, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's landing in Bonavista?
Did you know that the Throne of Weapons which has been exhibited in British schools is made from AK-47s?
Did you know that the captain of the Swedish river monitor HMS Garmer had to steer the ship as well as aim and fire her gun?
Did you know that the designers of Cabbage Patch Kids created Selchow and Righter's Scrabble People, the title characters of 1985's syndicated cartoon special A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense?
Did you know that the font in St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter, was constructed from the base of a former Roman column?
Did you know that the medieval Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Nikopol, north-central Bulgaria, belonged to a now-ruined monastery complex?
Did you know that the poisonous mushroom Inocybe cookei smells faintly of honey?
Did you know that Capricorn Silvereyes are not only socially, but also genetically, monogamous?
Did you know that Castle of Park, near Glenluce, Scotland, has "commodious closets"?
Did you know that Don Doll, the only player in NFL history to register 10 or more interceptions in 3 separate seasons, changed his surname to "Doll" after being discharged from the Marines?
Did you know that Gay Street is the setting for events described in literary works by James Agee, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, and George Washington Harris?
Did you know that Inez Haynes Gillmore's 1914 science fiction novel Angel Island has been called a "classic of early feminist literature"?
Did you know that Irish barrister and philatelist William Russell Lane-Joynt was a four-time Revolver Champion of Ireland and won a silver medal for Great Britain in shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that James Stovall created Nativity: A Life Story as an African American-themed annual musical Nativity play intended to rival the Radio City Christmas Spectacular?
Did you know that Princeton coach Franklin Cappon led the 1958–59 and 1959–60 teams to the Ivy League basketball championships, but a heart attack caused him to give up control of the champion 1960–61 team?
Did you know that Spring Canyon, Utah, the largest coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah, was abandoned in 1969 and nothing remains of the town except a railroad trestle?
Did you know that St Michael's Church, Michaelchurch, Herefordshire, is notable for its 13th-century wall paintings and the presence of a reconstructed Roman altar?
Did you know that Steve Munisteri, the chairman of the Texas Republican Party, met his former wife on a bus trip from Austin to Kansas City to attend the 1976 Republican National Convention?
Did you know that Sverre Iversen, Norway's first director of the Director of Labour, took voice classes in order to work himself up from being a mason?
Did you know that a poll once found that 99 percent of Somalis in the United Kingdom listen to the BBC Somali Service?
Did you know that architect Togo Murano designed the first class lounge and dining room for the luxury liner Argentina Maru that was sunk in World War II after being converted into an aircraft carrier?
Did you know that during motor-paced racing, cyclists can reach a speed of 100 km/h (62 mph)?
Did you know that gastric antral vascular ectasia is also called "watermelon stomach" because the streaky long red areas that are present in the stomach may resemble the markings on watermelon?
Did you know that in 2005 the Pearl River, New York, post office was officially renamed in memory of a local Marine whose remains were returned from Vietnam that year?
Did you know that in Holy Trinity Church, Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, is a memorial to the poet Thomas Randolph who died while visiting Blatherwyke Hall?
Did you know that molecular phylogenetics suggests that Pthirus gorillae jumped from gorillas to early humans about 3.3 million years ago and speciated into the present day pubic louse?
Did you know that one of the six buildings in the Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District is the oldest extant house in Genesee County, New York?
Did you know that the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies gives the annual Una Padel Award in memory of its former director?
Did you know that the Plymouth Congregational Church of Lawrence, Kansas, the first church to be established in Kansas Territory, lost members to the Lawrence Massacre of 1863?
Did you know that the St. James Theatre, Auckland underwent renovations in preparation for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II, who attended a film premiere there in 1953?
Did you know that the anime film xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream was released on DVD and Blu-ray alongside the film Tsubasa The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom?
Did you know that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata disease in Minamata, Japan, as a medical student?
Did you know that the pygmy locust lobster is too small for fishing?
Did you know that the spire of St Nicholas' Church, Gloucester suffered a direct hit by cannon fire in the Siege of Gloucester in 1643, and had to be reduced in size in 1783?
Did you know that tour guide/social activist Carlos Celdran was arrested for protesting Catholic Church interference in Philippine politics after he held a protest action that disrupted a mass in Manila Cathedral?
Did you know that Bill Henry was listed as Rice University's all-time greatest men's basketball player in the 2009 book ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game?
Did you know that HMS Avenger was the only aircraft carrier to take part in Convoy PQ 18, one of the Arctic convoys of World War II?
Did you know that Jean-Marc Boivin made the first paraglider descent of Mount Everest?
Did you know that Mekia Cox can be seen dancing with Michael Jackson to the song "The Way You Make Me Feel" in This Is It?
Did you know that Mike Martin won consecutive high school state championships in both wrestling and shot put and has been called "the Most Valuable Player Not Named Denard" on the 2010 Michigan football team?
Did you know that NATO nations periodically deploy fighter aircraft to Iceland under the Icelandic Air Policing mission as the country does not have an air force?
Did you know that Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, who renounced his claim to the duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1909, later claimed he had been forced to by being locked up in an insane asylum?
Did you know that Princeton Tigers men's basketball won or shared the Ivy League regular season championship in both of Pete Carril's first two years as head coach in 1968 and 1969?
Did you know that Rudolf Katz became a League of Nations envoy in Nanjing after he escaped from Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Sir Anand Satyanand, the first Governor-General of New Zealand of Indian descent, attended the 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Delhi, India?
Did you know that Sir Ronald Ross won the Nobel Prize mainly due to his experiments on malaria at the then Begumpet military hospital in Hyderabad?
Did you know that Ysrael Seinuk came to the United States with little more than "my slide rule and my diploma from the University of Havana" and became known as "Mr. New York"?
Did you know that according to legend, a group of Circassians attempting to destroy the roof of the medieval Church of St Nicholas in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria, fled in horror when one of them fell to his death?
Did you know that after playing basketball for the Chicago Stags, Gene Rock joined the Los Angeles Police Department and was eventually promoted to captain?
Did you know that between being replaced by a new church in 1877 and being restored over a century later, Old St Bartholomew's Church, Lower Sapey, Worcestershire was used as a farm building?
Did you know that despite breaking his left wrist, gymnast Sam Oldham managed to complete his floor routine to lead Great Britain to junior team gold at the 2008 European Championships?
Did you know that discards from commercial fishing ships are a major food source for black dogfish in the northwestern Atlantic?
Did you know that during his five seasons as head coach of Princeton Tigers men's basketball, Butch van Breda Kolff, who retired with the highest all-time career Ivy League winning percentage, led the team to four Ivy League championships: 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1967?
Did you know that in Bach's cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity, Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen, BWV 48, a trumpet plays a chorale in canon with two oboes?
Did you know that in a 2010 game against Notre Dame, Stanford football player Owen Marecic scored touchdowns on offense and defense—and did so within 13 game seconds?
Did you know that snooker player Stephen Maguire won his first ranking tournament at the 2004 European Open in Malta?
Did you know that stockbroker Fulham Davies managed to keep open the Merrill Lynch office in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the Great Depression?
Did you know that the 18th-century "Frenchman's Garden" in Maisland, New Jersey, was responsible for the spread of the non-native Lombardy poplar throughout the United States?
Did you know that the British central battery ironclad HMS Audacious grounded twice while she was transiting through the Suez Canal despite the presence of escorting tugs?
Did you know that the Holy Cross Church in Burley, Rutland, contains a memorial to Lady Charlotte Finch, governess to the children of George III?
Did you know that the Penicillium fungus in blue cheese is parasexual?
Did you know that the Spartan-V sports car has no headlights, indicators or other features required by law in most countries, so it cannot be used on public roads?
Did you know that the bracketed sic, while sometimes used to insinuate ignorance of a source, may also reflect upon the user's own ignorance of American and British English spelling differences?
Did you know that the town of Lice, Turkey, was rebuilt 2 km (1.2 mi) south of its original location after the earthquake in 1975, with houses, shops, a school, a bakery and a mosque completed only 54 days later?
Did you know that the village of Codiponte in Tuscany, Italy, has a 17th-century campanile and a pieve dating to the 12th century or earlier?
Did you know that California State University announced that students who use NoteUtopia, a website founded by a CSU alumnus and dedicated to the buying and selling of academic material, are at risk of expulsion?
Did you know that John Albert Taylor chose to be executed by firing squad to embarrass the state of Utah?
Did you know that Katrin Zytomierska is one of the most-read bloggers in Sweden?