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Did you know that the final results of the 1940 elections to the People's Parliaments in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were published in London before the voting booths closed?
Did you know that the first official airmail stamp issued for an airmail flight was in May 1917 when Poste italiane overprinted their existing special delivery stamps?
Did you know that the flag of New Mexico is designed after the Zia tribe's symbol?
Did you know that when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigns on July 26, 2009, Craig Campbell will become the new Lieutenant Governor of Alaska?
Did you know that Johnny Sylvester received a promise from baseball player Babe Ruth while suffering from a life-threatening illness that he would hit a home run for him during the 1926 World Series?
Did you know that Nancy Cartwright received a Primetime Emmy Award in the  Outstanding Voice-Over Performance category for her performance as Bart Simpson in the Simpsons episode "Separate Vocations"?
Did you know that P. Chr. Andersen, a Norwegian sports journalist, official and radio commentator, also refereed football matches at the 1924 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Parke H. Davis, who retroactively named the American college football national champions between 1869 and 1933, was the only historian to select college champions based on research?
Did you know that Per Jacobsen, a Norwegian resistance member who died in Natzweiler, was twice national champion in figure skating in the interwar period?
Did you know that Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian was given command of the largest troop convoy to leave England, but twice had it forced back to port by severe gales?
Did you know that Robert Keable's 1921 novel Simon Called Peter propelled him to prominence when it sold 600,000 copies, was cited in a double murder trial, and referenced in The Great Gatsby?
Did you know that U.S. President John Quincy Adams said U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Condy Raguet's "rashness and intemperance" nearly "brought this country and Brazil to the very verge of war"?
Did you know that Winnetka School District 36 was the subject of a 1919 educational experiment?
Did you know that a new porch at St Matthew's Church, Buckley in Flintshire, Wales, was paid for by the vicar's wife with money made from publishing letters to her from John Ruskin?
Did you know that after withstanding three years of siege by the Crusaders on the Acrocorinth, Leo Sgouros committed suicide by jumping off a cliff on horseback?
Did you know that country music singer Colt Ford is a former professional golfer?
Did you know that grunting in tennis has been labelled as cheating by former player Martina Navratilova?
Did you know that holocaust denier David Irving accidentally referred to the judge as 'Mein Führer' in his libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt?
Did you know that in 1944, the Greek Socialist Party leader Professor Alexandros Svolos became President in the Greek resistance government?
Did you know that in 2005 Georgian ambassador to Israel Lasha Zhvania asked Hebrew speakers to stop calling his country Gruziya?
Did you know that the  Cheltenham Synagogue still has a prayer for the health of Queen Victoria and her family on its wall?
Did you know that the California-based donut shop Psycho Donuts has generated controversy for its mental health-themed products, such as the "Manic Malt" and "Bipolar"?
Did you know that the artillery of France in the Middle Ages had a key role in the French victory in the Hundred Years War?
Did you know that the fire at Lakanal House, Camberwell, London was described as "one of the most significant fires in some time in terms of lives lost" by the Assistant Commissioner of the local Fire Brigade?
Did you know that the interrogation of Saddam Hussein revealed that as a fugitive, he took refuge in the same place in 1959 and 2003?
Did you know that theater impresarios Shelly Gross and Lee Guber, creators of the Valley Forge Music Fair and Westbury Music Fair, met after being seated in alphabetical order next to each other in high school?
Did you know that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists?
Did you know that Jonathan Stokes was an English physician and botanist, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis?
Did you know that Julius Caesar speculated his name Caesar to have been derived from the elephant, reportedly called caesai in the "Moorish", probably Punic language?
Did you know that Nikolai Schei survived an assassination attempt while serving as Director of Provisioning and Rationing in Norway?
Did you know that Pope Pius XII's retention of Cesare Orsenigo (pictured left, with Hitler and von Ribbentrop) as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany is a "chief point of criticism" of his response to the Holocaust?
Did you know that Rani Padmini in 1433 AD and Rani Karnavati in 1537 AD led the jauhar or self-immolation ritual by over 13,000 ladies of Rajput warriors who died in battles at Chittorgarh Fort?
Did you know that Sir Albert Napier was described as the "midwife to civil legal aid"?
Did you know that The Naked Ladies of Twickenham were covered with grey sludge during World War II to hide them from the Luftwaffe?
Did you know that Thomas Patch, who painted men on their Grand Tours, had to leave Rome after a homosexual act?
Did you know that a lake scene in the Skins episode "Naomi" had to be shortened when one of the actors was suspected to have hypothermia?
Did you know that in 1958, female professional wrestlers Kay Noble, Lorraine Johnson, Penny Banner, and Laura Martinez were charged with inciting a riot when they began fighting outside of the ring, but pleaded not guilty in court?
Did you know that incoming Romanian Member of the European Parliament Norica Nicolai was the first woman to preside over a session of the Romanian Senate?
Did you know that the  Merthyr Synagogue may be the only synagogue in the world with a dragon on its gable?
Did you know that the Classic Maya archaeological site of Yaxchilan, on the Mexican border with Guatemala, is known for its preserved sculpted lintels (example pictured) detailing the dynastic history of the city?
Did you know that the Cremation of Care ceremony is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove?
Did you know that the Jewish mother of former German Federal Minister of Justice Gerhard Jahn died at Auschwitz?
Did you know that the MCW Heavyweight Championship was won by Jerry "The King" Lawler, who has held over 200 professional wrestling championships throughout his career?
Did you know that the Metropolitan Opera House is a movie theatre in Iowa Falls, Iowa?
Did you know that the campus of Columbia University occupies a former lunatic asylum?
Did you know that the ecosystem contained in Myanmar's N'Mai River watershed contains some of the most diverse flora of its type in the world, yet it is threatened with destruction through damming?
Did you know that the flamboyant TV appearances of British rock and roll singer Wee Willie Harris led to concerns about the BBC's role in promoting teenage decadence?
Did you know that the Środa treasure, one of the most valuable archeological finds in 20th-century Europe, was originally lost during the Black Plague?
Did you know that Alfred Henningsen, three-term member of the Storting, has referred to the Norwegian Parliament as "the loony bin"?
Did you know that Irish playwright Hamilton Deane introduced the tuxedo and high-collar to the costume of Count Dracula to facilitate him vanishing off-stage through the floor in the 1920s stage production of the novel?
Did you know that KATR-FM was honored by the Colorado Broadcasters Association for giving away an "ugly" pickup truck?
Did you know that London's old Artillery Church was used by five different kinds of Protestants before becoming the Sandys Row Synagogue?
Did you know that Maggie Cogan was the first female horse and buggy driver in New York City's Central Park?
Did you know that Mickey Stanley is the only Gold Glove-winning outfielder to have posted more than one errorless season, amassing a fielding percentage of 1.000 in 1968 and 1970?
Did you know that Peter J. Bowler said that he was interviewed under false pretenses for The Voyage that Shook the World, a creationist documentary about the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage on the Beagle?
Did you know that Roy McCardell was the first hired film screenwriter, and the first to start a Sunday paper comics supplement in color?
Did you know that Sugarland's 2009 single "Joey" was co-written by Bill Anderson?
Did you know that The 1940s House is a British historical reality television program about a modern family that tries to live as a typical middle-class family in London during The Blitz?
Did you know that a 1977 memo by Robert Derzon, overseer of U.S. Medicaid/Medicare programs, supported federal abortion funding for poor women, citing $1,000 in annual welfare savings on each unwanted child?
Did you know that convergence of the iterative proportional fitting procedure for estimating cell values of a contingency table was rigorously proved using differential geometry?
Did you know that in 1926, Odd Gleditsch, Sr. founded the company Jotun Kemiske Fabrik, since 1972 named Jotun?
Did you know that in 2005, researchers at the Spanish National Research Council wrote the first ten lines of Don Quixote on a few square microns of silicon, using local oxidation nanolithography (process pictured)?
Did you know that much of the recorded rowdyism in New York of the 1820s took place at the short-lived Lafayette Circus?
Did you know that of the 81 Canadian casualties during Hurricane Hazel, 35 lived on Raymore Drive in Weston, Toronto, Ontario?
Did you know that so many Chinese actresses have gained recognition from starring with Stephen "Sing Yeh" Chow, they are collectively known as Sing girls?
Did you know that the 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender by Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin was made as a tribute to guru Sri Chinmoy?
Did you know that the Wołów bank robbery was the biggest bank robbery in the history of the People's Republic of Poland?
Did you know that the family of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, Polish Righteous among the Nations from Markowa, was summarily executed for rescuing their Jewish countrymen during the Holocaust?
Did you know that the fungal genus Hericium includes the monkey's head fungus, used in  Traditional Chinese medicine?
Did you know that the rust fungus Puccinia jaceae var. solstitialis is the first plant pathogen approved by the United States Department of Agriculture as a biological control agent?
Did you know that the stained glass windows of Alois Plum, found in many German churches in Germany, integrate the architecture of the church's space with the liturgy?
Did you know that 27 years after Barbara George's hit "I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)" was released, a cover by Marisela peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart?
Did you know that Albert Sharpe participated in football, basketball, baseball, gymnastics, rowing, and track and field, and was called "the greatest living all round athlete" in 1915?
Did you know that American football halfback Franklin Morse was the model for a drawing, prints of which reportedly "hung in most college rooms throughout the country" during the 1890s?
Did you know that Australian jazz singer Grace Knight, ex-Eurogliders, organised a nude protest of 750 women against the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
Did you know that Davidson Ditch was inspected by engineers working on problems faced by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline?
Did you know that De Schoolmeester, a smock mill at Westzaan, Noord Holland, is the only wind powered paper mill in the world?
Did you know that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's only novel, Hyperion, was partly based on his attempts to woo Frances Appleton who later became his wife despite disapproving of her depiction in the book?
Did you know that Howard Reiter has been credited by some with developing the overhand spiral forward pass while playing for the Philadelphia Athletics of the original National Football League (1902)?
Did you know that Mary Lou Forbes, whose reporting on school integration in Virginia won a 1959 Pulitzer Prize, had been hired as a copy girl by the Washington Star after the accounting spot she wanted was filled?
Did you know that Princeton All-American Dudley Riggs was the son of a wealthy banking family that lent $16 million to the United States to fund the Mexican-American War?
Did you know that SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser built by the German Imperial Navy?
Did you know that Saturn Award winning costume designer Marilyn Vance once produced films with E! Entertainment founder Alan Mruvka?
Did you know that U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey entered the 1968 presidential race too late to participate in the Democratic primaries, and had to use "favorite son" candidates as stand-ins for his campaign?
Did you know that a priest refused quarter and perished in his burning church during the 1759 St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers?
Did you know that according to Big Bang cosmology, neutrinos, a type of elementary particle, ceased to interact significantly with the other constituents of the Universe about one second after the Big Bang?
Did you know that after the destructive Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, the treasury of the Byzantine Empire contained "nothing but the atoms of Epicurus"?
Did you know that although Balao halfbeaks are mainly used as baitfish for sailfishes and marlins, they are also utilized as a food source in the West Indies?
Did you know that at least eleven of the twenty electors of the papal conclave, 1362 were from the Limousin province of France?
Did you know that during the early 20th century, the depopulated Palestinian village Sarafand al-Amar was the site of the largest British Army base in the Middle East?
Did you know that in 1901, Emir of Kuwait Mubarak Al-Sabah asked the Russian Empire for protection, only two years after his country became a British protectorate?
Did you know that in 2008, the United States produced 5,778 million bearing balls?
Did you know that the Montefiore Synagogue in Ramsgate, built in 1833 for Sir Moses Montefiore using a design by David Mocatta, was the first synagogue built in England by a Jewish architect?
Did you know that the eruption of Amak Volcano in about 2550 BCE was confirmed by tephrochronology?
Did you know that the pump station built to supply Hudson River water to Albany, New York, is now home to a brewpub, planetarium and the city's visitor center?
Did you know that the spread of red palm mite is the biggest mite explosion ever observed in the Americas?
Did you know that Bob Dylan's song "Joey" is a sympathetic portrayal of real-life gangster Joey Gallo?
Did you know that Diorhabda carinata, D. sublineata and D. elongata, three species of leaf beetle in Eurasia and North Africa, are used as biological pest control agents against invasive tamarisk trees in North America?
Did you know that Fernand, Alain and Hakeem Kashama have all played for the Calgary Stampeders?
Did you know that Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping?
Did you know that Grambling State running back Walter Dean was nicknamed "American Express" in reference to the credit card company?
Did you know that Hiltgunt Zassenhaus was the only person from Germany decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav for her activities during World War II?
Did you know that Jimi Hendrix originally wanted to cover Bob Dylan's "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" from the John Wesley Harding album, but covered "All Along the Watchtower" from the same album instead?
Did you know that Lee Child took inspiration for his novel Echo Burning from the grave of "the gentlemen gunfighter" Clay Allison?
Did you know that Marxist sociology, despite Marxist influences on the Russian Revolution, has been suppressed in the Soviet Bloc, while flourishing in the West?
Did you know that after affixing blame for the death of Empress Xiao Xian on Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Yang Guangxian took his place as head of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy?
Did you know that former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Isaac Blackford described the court's decisions in an eight-volume work that earned him the nickname "Indiana Blackstone"?
Did you know that in 1937, members of a boy's club in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, demolished their own hut to allow St Richard's Church to be built on the site?
Did you know that in 2004, there were 1.8 million traditional fishing boats, such as dugouts and coracles?
Did you know that in designing a new analogue filter, Sidney Darlington found tables of the exact elliptic functions required in an 1829 Latin paper by Carl Jacobi in the New York City Library?
Did you know that nobody knows what happened to the bishopric of Hexham after Tidfrith?
Did you know that obesity in Australia was made a "national health priority" by the government in 2008, officially elevating awareness to the same level as other health risks like cancer, heart disease and diabetes?
Did you know that the Clinton Avenue Historic District has the greatest concentration of 19th-century rowhouses anywhere in Albany, New York?
Did you know that the Ducati 98, called the racy motorcycle brand's "first true sporting model," was a hit in the Italian la passeggiata (street cruising scene) of the 1950s?
Did you know that the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is responsible for the Abel Prize and the Kavli Prize?
Did you know that the Shanhua Temple in Datong, China, contains a hall that is over 900 years old?
Did you know that the South Dakota-class battleships are considered to be the best "treaty battleship" ever built?
Did you know that the wild zebrafish is the first vertebrate to have its entire genome sequenced in India, a task carried out by the scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology?
Did you know that Annie M. G. Schmidt, the "queen of Dutch children's literature," euthanized herself a day after her 84th birthday?
Did you know that Anthony Haswell, Postmaster General of the Vermont Republic, was later convicted of seditious libel under the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Did you know that Charles Boit's enamel group portrait of the family of Emperor Leopold I cracked after one of the Imperial princes accidentally sat down on it?
Did you know that J. Curtis Counts, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service director in the Nixon Administration, first met the future president when their respective girlfriends were roommates?
Did you know that Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, who died in 2009 during Operation Panther's Claw in Afghanistan, is the highest-ranking British officer to be killed in action since Lt Col 'H'. Jones in the Falklands War?
Did you know that President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona was ridiculed by Soviet propaganda for fleeing the country across the shallow Liepona rivulet in the aftermath of a Soviet ultimatum?
Did you know that Richard Ravitch was appointed Lt. Governor of New York on July 8, 2009, in a move that New York's attorney general claimed was unconstitutional?
Did you know that Toys in the Attic, a semi-autobiographical play by American playwright Lillian Hellman, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1960?
Did you know that an 11-time NFL Pro-Bowler's mother was the first African-American woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court?
Did you know that composer David Braham began playing the violin because he could not fit his harp on a stagecoach?
Did you know that despite being excommunicated by Pope Eugene IV, Prospero Colonna was the leading candidate to be Eugene's successor as Pope?
Did you know that every major street in New York's Downtown Albany Historic District (17th-century map pictured) has a major building as a focal point?
Did you know that genderbending Chinese spy Shi Pei Pu, inspiration for M. Butterfly, had a sexual relationship with a French diplomatic worker who believed that he was a she and had given birth to their "son"?
Did you know that on July 1, 2009, Nils Ušakovs became the first Russian mayor of Riga since Latvia's restoration of sovereignty in 1991?
Did you know that the 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall, grammar school, museum and armoury before becoming a masonic hall?
Did you know that the 1972 Rose Bowl was the last football game that Stanford University played using "Indians" as their nickname?
Did you know that the Moneymaker Effect is the name of poker's sudden growth in popularity after amateur Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event and claimed the US$2.5 million first prize?
Did you know that the NYU University Village is a former Mitchell-Lama housing complex that hosts a Pablo Picasso sculpture?
Did you know that the edible fungus Polyozellus multiplex has attracted research interest as a possible chemopreventative agent against stomach cancer?
Did you know that the geology of the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland includes many Devonian era Old Red Sandstone rock formations, such as the Old Man of Hoy?
Did you know that those villages defeated by the Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa signalled their surrender by sending small betel nut trees to their conquerors?
Did you know that threats of war between England and France and English antagonism to French dancers led to riots in 1755 with the first London production of Noverre's Les Fêtes Chinoises completely destroyed?
Did you know that while perinatal mortality of twins that share the same placenta is fairly low, the survival rate of twins that share the same amniotic sac (example pictured) within their mother's uterus is less than 60%?
Did you know that All-American fullback John Baird was forced to withdraw from Princeton in 1898 after playing a football game on a wet field while recovering from tonsilitis?
Did you know that Bemus Pierce, a guard for the Carlisle Indians football team, ran back three kickoffs for touchdowns in an 1896 game against the University of Illinois?
Did you know that France: An Ode, by Samuel Coleridge, describes his support of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror but not the invasion of Switzerland?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon-based RadiSys was founded by former employees of Intel and 20 years later purchased a division of Intel?
Did you know that Robert Southey's contributions in The Fall of Robespierre praise Robespierre as a liberator of mankind and a destroyer of despotism?
Did you know that William Blake's The French Revolution calls for the destruction of the Bastille and sees the revolution in apocalyptic terms?
Did you know that Zhou Youguang is credited as the "father of pinyin", the official romanization in the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that Zigzag district office was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and is one of nineteen historic buildings at the Zigzag Ranger Station in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest?
Did you know that after his company struck oil, William Walkley stopped traffic in the middle of Sydney, Australia, wearing a red ten gallon hat?
Did you know that although Florida-based slave holder and trader Zephaniah Kingsley wrote pamphlets defending slavery, he freed dozens of his own and married four of them?
Did you know that although neodymium(III) chloride itself does not have strong luminescence, it serves as a source of Nd3+ ions for Nd:YAG lasers?
Did you know that despite being an All-American running back with the University of Evansville, Sean Bennett played fullback at Northwestern?
Did you know that in 1925, journalist and historian J. Marvin Hunter published a posthumous autobiography of John Wesley Hardin, an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West?
Did you know that in 1973, composer Richard Bunger Evans wrote The Well-Prepared Piano, a classic work describing prepared piano technique?
Did you know that radio and TV announcer Ken Roberts voiced the skit Love of Chair on the PBS show Electric Company, spoofing his decades-long run as announcer of the soap opera Love of Life?