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Did you know that Fritz Crisler developed the platoon system of American football in which separate squads play offense and defense and designed the winged football helmet used by the Michigan Wolverines?
Did you know that Liverpool businessman Sir William Bower Forwood raised money for the building of the Liverpool Overhead Railway and Liverpool Cathedral?
Did you know that Temple Israel of Dayton, Ohio, was one of the founding members of the Union for Reform Judaism?
Did you know that Theobald Burke, son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley, was born at sea in 1567, shortly before his mother's fleet engaged in a battle with Barbary pirates?
Did you know that Ukrainian mathematician Samuil Shatunovsky developed axiomatic theory independently from David Hilbert?
Did you know that Woody Freeman, one of the Republicans defeated by Bill Clinton for governor of Arkansas, claimed he began a computer software business in 1985 with $3 in his account?
Did you know that as early as 1978 the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas, Lynn Lowe accused Bill Clinton of having been a draft dodger during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that during the inter-war period, Helge Krog was known as a member of the "radical triumvirate" in Norway, along with Øverland and Hoel?
Did you know that former Parliament of Norway member Inger Lise Husøy is currently the manager of the Norwegian Burma Committee?
Did you know that from 1999 to 2003 the Cal Golden Bears had five consecutive Pac-10 Conference swimmers of the year; Marylyn Chiang, Haley Cope, and three-time winner Natalie Coughlin?
Did you know that in 2008, Lund's former mayor Kjell Erfjord lost a vote to become board chairman of the Norwegian Missionary Society?
Did you know that the Battle of Maryang San is regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest victories of the Korean War?
Did you know that the Lower Saxon Mill Road is 2,800 kilometres long and links over 300 historic mills (example pictured) across North Germany?
Did you know that the Red Tail Project evolved after a United States Air Force P-51 Mustang flown by the Tuskegee Airmen was passed through several owners for over 40 years?
Did you know that the Royal Indian Navy auxiliary patrol vessel Jamnagar was originally built for HH The Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar?
Did you know that the crew of the Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr II refused to suppress the mutinous garrison of Fort Konstantin defending Kronstadt in August 1906?
Did you know that the existence of Outer Temple, a body that is thought to be one of the ten Inns of Chancery and was disestablished in the 16th century, was only confirmed in 2008?[dubious – discuss]
Did you know that the letters "IXL" in the IXL Historical Museum in Hermansville, Michigan, are a derivative of the words "I excel"?
Did you know that the pine trees for which the community of Pine Grove, Oregon, was named were cut down in 1957?
Did you know that the shores of Dal Lake in India contain Mughal gardens Shalimar Bagh and Nishat Bagh known as "the jewel of Kashmir valley"?
Did you know that when LeT militants barged into her home in Rajouri, Rukhsana Kausar started a counter-attack wielding an axe, and later drew praise from the President, Prime Minister and Home Minister of India?
Did you know that , although champion boxer Jack Dempsey refused a challenge from Billy Sandow to fight professional wrestler Ed "Strangler" Lewis, the Chicago Tribune predicted that Lewis would win in 38 minutes?
Did you know that 1930s NFL fullback "Iron Mike" Mikulak got his nickname because he wore a metal chest protector over his protuding sternum?
Did you know that 2004 Olympic gold medalist Rhi Jeffrey left competitive swimming just four months before the U.S. Olympic Trials for Beijing?
Did you know that Adolphe Clément, an orphan who had been apprenticed to a blacksmith, rose to become a leading French manufacturer of bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships (example pictured)?
Did you know that Bette Davis, Roy Rogers, Frankie Avalon, Humphrey Bogart, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Cary Grant and Tony Curtis all stayed at the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, Arizona?
Did you know that Greek professor Albert Pattengill played on Michigan's 1867 baseball team, nominated "azure-blue and maize" as the university's colors, and was one of the founders of the Big Ten Conference?
Did you know that Kevin Hopps, writer of the Spectacular Spider-Man episode "The Uncertainty Principle", kept in mind previous battle sequences in the series in order to "up the stakes"?
Did you know that Matford Vic, a two-time winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was purchased at one time for only £2?
Did you know that Norwegian Christian Aug. Thoring tried several times to become mayor of Rogaland County, but lost out to Beint Bentsen in 1975, John S. Tveit in 1979 and Lars Vaage in 1983?
Did you know that Rebbie Jackson felt that her brother Michael would "spin in his grave" if he thought that his children were going to appear in The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty?
Did you know that Red Tail Reborn, which chronicled the Red Tail Project's restoration of the P-51 Mustang, won regional Emmy Award recognition?
Did you know that Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is the most successful detective series produced by the ZDF?
Did you know that The Langley Schools Music Project inspired Karen O to incorporate an untrained children's choir into the song "All Is Love"?
Did you know that World War II German fighter ace Heinrich Hoffmann was the first non-commissioned officer and first posthumous recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves?
Did you know that a project aiming to lower the salinity of the Colorado River has triggered thousands of earthquakes in Colorado's Paradox Valley?
Did you know that actor Leonid Kharitonov's lyrical singing in the war film, The Soldier Ivan Brovkin, made him an all-Soviet heart-throb in 1955?
Did you know that although SS Elisabethville was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport during World War II, she did not become an Empire ship until 1947?
Did you know that between 1926 and 1938, HMS Arpha served as a steam yacht for W E Guinness?
Did you know that coloratura soprano Alice Verlet gave a 1922 opera and song recital at Carnegie Hall accompanied on violin by a young Xavier Cugat, who later achieved fame as the "rhumba king"?
Did you know that five houses with pilasters are preserved in the Manlius Village Historic District near Syracuse, New York?
Did you know that in 792 the Bulgarians captured the tent and treasury of the Byzantine emperor during a battle at the fortress of Markeli near modern Karnobat, Bulgaria?
Did you know that ten married couples were candidates in the 2004 Wyre Forest Council election in Worcestershire, England?
Did you know that the 1950 Salad Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona, drew nearly 20,000 fans, setting a new statewide attendance record for football?
Did you know that the Japanese Law for the Conservation of Cultural Properties provides for the existence of Living National Treasures?
Did you know that the Spanish Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park hosts at least 2170 plant species, 34 of them found nowhere else?
Did you know that the eight volcanoes of the President Jackson Seamounts are heavily pocketed by 29 calderas and pit craters?
Did you know that the infant massage of preterm babies has been shown to have many benefits, including the gaining of extra body weight?
Did you know that the underwater volcanoes of the Vance Seamounts are pocketed by multiple calderas, many of which have been almost erased by newer flows?
Did you know that two months after the final five Green Line stations on Washington, D.C.'s Metro opened, more than 30,600 riders per day boarded at the stations—three times as many as originally estimated?
Did you know that Frederick Brocklander became a Major League Baseball umpire during a 1979 strike and continued umpiring for 12 more years in the National League?
Did you know that Loren Singer's 1970 book The Parallax View, later made into the 1974 thriller starring Warren Beatty, allowed Singer to leave a job as a printing salesman?
Did you know that Norwegian musicologist Christian Leden was the first person to record film in the northern Arctic?
Did you know that Sir William Garrow, a barrister from the Regency England period whose work was largely forgotten for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, was recently cited in a 2006 Irish Court of Criminal Appeal case?
Did you know that Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in Minnesota has a clifftop lighthouse on the North Shore of Lake Superior built without roads?
Did you know that Ya'qub Bilbul, an Iraqi Jew who wrote in Arabic, is considered a pioneer of the Iraqi novel and short story?
Did you know that a previously undescribed species of coral called Pocillopora sp. was found off the coast of Puerto Ángel, Mexico?
Did you know that a skimmington, a custom in which victims were mocked and humiliated in a noisy public procession, occurred in England as late as 1917?
Did you know that disagreement over the relocation of a nursery during construction of the Washington Metro's Anacostia station required an Act of Congress to resolve?
Did you know that during the recording process of Stone Sour's second album Come What(ever) May drummer Joel Ekman decided to leave the band following the diagnosis of his son's brainstem glioma?
Did you know that extensive droughts have caused Washoe Lake at Washoe Lake State Park in Nevada to dry up, most recently in 1992, 1994, and 2004?
Did you know that five Fablok Luxtorpeda trains were constructed under the leadership of Klemens Stefan Sielecki?
Did you know that it took six weeks for developer Garry Kitchen to write and complete the iPhone and Nintendo DSi video game Arcade Hoops Basketball?
Did you know that screenwriter Brad Falchuk tried to stand out in high school by wearing a tie every day and declaring himself a Republican?
Did you know that sculptor Henry Kirke Brown's nephew, Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, created four works at Gettysburg Battlefield: a bust of Abraham Lincoln and statues of Generals Meade, Reynolds, and Sedgwick?
Did you know that the Comerica Bank New Year's Parade, originally held for the Cotton Bowl Classic, is still held annually in Dallas even though the Cotton Bowl has moved to Arlington, Texas?
Did you know that the Kukaniloko Birth Site was speculated to be a Hawaiian Stonehenge?
Did you know that the Norwegian ocean liner SS Bergensfjord was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport in 1940 and used as a troop ship throughout the Second World War?
Did you know that the Xian H-6K, which made its first flight in 2007, has been described as "China's first proper strategic bomber"?
Did you know that the bronze Gniezno Doors, of about 1175, are the only Romanesque doors in Europe decorated with scenes from the life of a saint (his murder pictured)?
Did you know that the floral clock in Frankfort, Kentucky, has a face that is 34 feet (10 m) in diameter and is composed of more than 10,000 individual flowers?
Did you know that the oil in the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, which killed upwards of 10,000 birds and numerous other creatures along the coast of California, U.S., came from the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field?
Did you know that the palm Aiphanes chiribogensis is considered to be vulnerable to extinction because none of the seven known populations lie within Ecuador's network of protected areas?
Did you know that upon the death of Louisiana newspaper publisher Sam Hanna, his state's press association in 2006 renamed its "Best Regular Column" award in his honor?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Sir Donald Bradman scored 12 double centuries during his Test career, the highest number by any batsman?
Did you know that Barack Obama nominated former United Mine Workers official Joe Main to serve as the head of Mine Safety and Health Administration?
Did you know that Clay Buchholz, a first-round draft pick of the Boston Red Sox, threw a no-hitter in only his second major league start?
Did you know that Icelandic modernist Einar Bragi, one of the original Atom Poets, translated poetry from all major European languages?
Did you know that Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, who founded and edited many of post-revolutionary Iran's independent newspapers, was arrested at his Tehran home in the aftermath of the 2009 Ashura protests?
Did you know that Obie Award-winning actor John Douglas Thompson only took up acting after being laid off from his job as a traveling computer salesman?
Did you know that Princess Alice of the United Kingdom was married to Prince Louis of Hesse in an atmosphere described by Queen Victoria as "more of a funeral than a wedding"?
Did you know that Royal Marine Francis Harvey, the mortally wounded commander of HMS Lion's 'Q' turret, was awarded the Victoria Cross for ordering the magazine flooded, which saved the ship during the Battle of Jutland?
Did you know that Sarraounia is an award-winning film that depicts a real-life battle between French Colonial Forces and an African queen?
Did you know that The Candidate was an 2009 Afghan reality TV show that pitted youth against each other in a mock presidential election?
Did you know that Time magazine described Aake Anker Ording, who initiated the international fundraiser United Nations Appeal for Children, as "Norway's tall, blue-eyed, idealistic U.N. Staffer"?
Did you know that Uniontown, Washington, D.C.'s first "suburban" community, is part of the Anacostia Historic District?
Did you know that William L. Reilly's twelve-year tenure as president of Le Moyne College was the longest in the Jesuit school's history?
Did you know that as a result of the Scarman report into the 1981 Brixton riots, the independent Police Complaints Authority was established in 1985?
Did you know that in 1122 Suero Vermúdez donated his private monastery at Cornellana to the Abbey of Cluny, but in 1128 gave it instead to the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, sparking a centuries-long dispute?
Did you know that in June 2005, Intel threatened photo printing company FotoInsight with legal action over their use of the name "The 'INSIDE' format" saying it infringed their trademark "Intel Inside"?
Did you know that prior to the 10th century in Western art, no attempt was made to portray God the Father in terms of a human form?
Did you know that same-sex marriage under United States tribal jurisdictions has been allowed in the Coquille Tribe of Oregon despite the state's defense of marriage amendment?
Did you know that semi-professional footballer Dean Clark made over one hundred appearances for Northwood F.C.?
Did you know that the 1833 territorial division of Spain (map shown) into provinces has persisted with only small changes down to the present day?
Did you know that the Goose Creek Oil Field in Galveston Bay had the first offshore oil wells in Texas, U.S., and the removal of oil led to subsidence of the overlying terrain?
Did you know that the High Court of Andalusia is the highest court of not only Andalusia, but also the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla?
Did you know that the Jakarta History Museum was formerly used as the administrative headquarters of the Dutch East India Company?
Did you know that the Louisiana sheriff Elliot D. Coleman was one of the police bodyguards on duty at the time of the 1935 assassination of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, Jr.?
Did you know that the Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial, the last of the great memorials to the missing of World War I, was unveiled just over a year before World War II broke out?
Did you know that the archaeological finds from Steeple Langford include a Bronze Age palstave and a Romano-British painted pebble?
Did you know that the episodes of the anime series Baccano!  do not tell the events in chronological order?
Did you know that while Stan Benjamin was a scout, the Houston Astros used his evaluation of Jeff Bagwell as the basis to make a trade for him on August 30, 1990?
Did you know that Andrew Cowper was awarded the Military Cross three times in the First World War for his efforts in destroying 19 German aircraft?
Did you know that Blind Willie Johnson's gospel-blues song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" was included on the Voyager Golden Record to represent human loneliness to extraterrestrial life?
Did you know that Claude d'Abbeville was a Franciscan missionary who wrote in 1614 about the dispatch of Brazilian Tupinambá Indians to the French king Louis XIII?
Did you know that De Cornwerdermolen, Cornwerd is the most westerly windmill in Friesland?
Did you know that Flight of the Red Tail chronicles the second restoration of a P-51 Mustang bomber escort for the Allied Forces in the European Theatre of World War II?
Did you know that Lykke Friis, the current Danish Minister for Climate and Energy, was not a member of the party Venstre before becoming a minister?
Did you know that Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson and The Beatles have all received the Chopard Diamond award?
Did you know that Thomas Humber was apprenticed as a blacksmith and went on to found the Humber bicycle company in 1869 which evolved into Humber automobiles?
Did you know that after turning down an invitation to play with the Americans, Brandon Kozun scored the shootout winning goal for Canada to defeat the United States during round robin play at the 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships?
Did you know that approximately 6,000 years ago in central Oregon, Lava Butte exploded, and eventually created Benham Falls?
Did you know that artifacts uncovered in Kafr Misr, an Arab village located to the south of Mount Tabor, Israel, attest to Jewish, Christian and Muslim habitation over the centuries?
Did you know that as a child, Jerry Kennedy, who later produced for legendary musicians such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, recorded several songs with Chet Atkins for RCA Records?
Did you know that at the 1949 congress of the government-sponsored Iranian trade union centre ESKI, only two out of 36 delegates were workers?
Did you know that in 1974, Rudolf Jaenisch and Beatrice Mintz created the first transgenic mouse by injecting DNA from Simian virus 40?
Did you know that old Atlantic ghost crabs may dig burrows in the sand up to 400 metres from the sea?
Did you know that the Wayang Museum in Jakarta contains the tombstone of Jan Pieterszoon Coen?
Did you know that the civil flag of Monaco utilizes the heraldic colors of the House of Grimaldi?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Hygrophorus agathosmus smells like almonds?
Did you know that the employers' organization in French Equatorial Africa, COLPAEF, was significantly weaker than its West African counterparts, as employers in Equatorial Africa were highly individualistic?
Did you know that the prototype Tracked Hovercraft high-speed train (remains pictured) was expected to reach 300 mph on its test track north of London, but had only broken 100 mph on a short portion before the program was cancelled in 1973?
Did you know that the top half of the Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light was part of another tower originally used at the Vidal Shoals near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan?
Did you know that while filming The Restorers, director Adam White stumbled upon the Red Tail Project, which led to the production of Red Tail Reborn?
Did you know that Ange Diawara, the leader of the Congolese rebel group M 22, sought inspiration from Che Guevara and the Cameroonian UPC?
Did you know that Billfrith, the Northumbrian saint whose name appears in the Durham Liber Vitae, is credited with providing the original gold, silver and jewel ornamentation for the Lindisfarne Gospels?
Did you know that Clayton, West Virginia, was named after a balloonist from Cincinnati who landed in the community after a record-setting 300-mile (480 km) flight in 1835?
Did you know that France-Americas relations (map pictured) were initiated in 1524 with the explorations of Giovanni da Verrazzano in the service of Francis I of France?
Did you know that Glamorgan County Cricket Club's 1921 promotion to first-class status was strongly aided by early fund-raisers organised by Vernon Hill?
Did you know that John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge-Ernle-Erle-Drax raised and supported the East Kent militia during the 1830 Swing Riots?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin imposed a tax on childlessness, which forced bachelors and childless families to pay an additional 6% income tax until the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Laumeier Sculpture Park in Sunset Hills, Missouri, does not have any recreational facilities because its founder wanted a passive park?
Did you know that State Representative Lanny Johnson was inducted in 1982 into the Louisiana Basketball Hall of Fame for the 1958–1962 seasons at the University of Louisiana at Monroe?
Did you know that Swedish painter Hugo Birger's most famous work is Frukosten hos Ledoyen, which depicts several famous Nordic painters having breakfast together on the day of the Paris Salon's opening?
Did you know that after his ship was torpedoed, Captain Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice was picked up from the water, apparently with his monocle still firmly in place?
Did you know that after ten years of service in the Royal Navy, the brig-sloop HMS Curlew became involved in the drug trade, and sold £330,000 worth of opium in China in 1833?
Did you know that although little is known of the episcopate of William de Blois, Bishop of Lincoln from 1203 to 1206, he was still remembered as a learned man in the 14th century?
Did you know that at the 2010 Olympics, 20-year-old Drew Doughty is to become the youngest ice hockey player since Eric Lindros in 1991 to represent Canada in a major best-on-best tournament?
Did you know that between 2000 and 2009, ten singles sold more than 1 million copies in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that in 1831 John D. Defrees founded the first newspaper in Northern Indiana?
Did you know that in 1992, the Greece men's national junior ice hockey team lost 1–47 to Latvia?
Did you know that it is unclear who designed the Majestic Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, due to conflicting records on the building's plans and permits?
Did you know that no member of the U. S. Congress has been appointed to the United States Supreme Court since the 1949 nomination of Sherman Minton?
Did you know that the 90-ton Mingun Bell in Mingun, Myanmar, was the world's heaviest hanging bell until 2000, when the 116-ton Bell of Good Luck was erected in Pingdingshan, China?
Did you know that the Armenian Iranian communist leader Ardeshir Ovanessian spent eleven years in Qasr prison?
Did you know that the Colombian palm Aiphanes leiostachys is an endangered species, while two other Colombian endemics in the same genus, Aiphanes duquei and Aiphanes lindeniana, are vulnerable to extinction?
Did you know that the Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion is the administrative organisation responsible for monitoring the accounts of professional football clubs in France?
Did you know that the Gulf Snapping Turtle was described as "Australia's first living fossil freshwater turtle, an extant population of a Pleistocene taxon"?
Did you know that the Sony CDP-101 was the world's first commercially available CD player?
Did you know that the Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship Sovetskaya Belorussiya was cancelled on 19 October 1940 after it was discovered that 70,000 rivets used in her hull plating were of inferior quality?
Did you know that the anonymous composer of the 15th-century carol "I syng of a mayden" used traditional imagery deriving from Old Testament texts to celebrate the Annunciation of Jesus?
Did you know that the cellar of 23 Northgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, England, contains the remains of columns from the principia of the Roman fortress that previously stood on the site?
Did you know that there are more than 80 geysers (example pictured) at the southwest end of Shoshone Lake in Wyoming, US, one of the highest concentrations of geysers in the world?
Did you know that while recording their album Fight the Tide, Sanctus Real's guitarist tried putting nail polish on his fingertips because they were raw from continuous playing?