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Did you know that during the Battle of New Haven, the fort the Confederate howitzer aimed at was not damaged, but the town's only hotel and bar were?
Did you know that in 1923, Charles Scott Haley conducted California's first statewide comprehensive study of tertiary fluvial placers, dredge fields, and dry placers?
Did you know that in a 1967 television interview, David Frost compared Welsh nationalist activist Dennis Coslett to Israeli general Moshe Dayan, because both wore eyepatches?
Did you know that intercepted by a larger French force on 6 November 1794, Captain Richard Bligh of HMS Alexander chose to stay and fight, allowing his companion ship, HMS Canada, to safely retreat?
Did you know that one year after delivery, six of eleven NSB Class 93 trains (example pictured) were out of service due to technical problems?
Did you know that out of 281 T-26 tanks supplied to the Popular Front (example pictured), the Nationalists were able to capture 178 during the war, putting at least 50 into service against their former users?
Did you know that professional wrestler Susan Green legally changed her name to Susan Tex Green to differentiate herself from another woman named Susan Green who was writing bad checks?
Did you know that the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster designed by artist Shepard Fairey was based on a photograph from before Obama officially launched his presidential campaign?
Did you know that the Chennai Book Fair is an annual event in Chennai, India, which takes place between the last week of December and the third week of January?
Did you know that the T2000 stock of the Oslo T-bane, Norway, is equipped with both a pantograph and a third rail shoe so they can operate both east and west of the city center?
Did you know that the day when Exxon canceled its Colony Shale Oil Project in Colorado is known by locals as "Black Sunday"?
Did you know that the first steamship in the Mediterranean Sea basin, Real Ferdiando I, was launched on September 27, 1818, from the Port of Naples?
Did you know that the mushroom Lactarius glyciosmus smells strongly of coconuts?
Did you know that the olive cultivar Bosana makes up more than half the olive production of Sardinia?
Did you know that the whorl snail Nesopupa turtoni, previously known only as a fossil, was discovered alive in 2003 in the Prosperous Bay Plain area of Saint Helena?
Did you know that when Muhammad Ali won the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century Award he received more votes than the other candidates put together?
Did you know that , in 2008, college football quarterback Rodney Landers of James Madison became the first player from an FCS school to win the Dudley Award for most outstanding player in Virginia since 1998?
Did you know that , shortly after breaking Donn Lewin's nose during a professional wrestling match, Danny McShain was introduced to Lewin's sister, who he later married?
Did you know that Air and Simple Gifts, performed at the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, was the first classical music quartet ever performed at a United States presidential inauguration?
Did you know that German rugby club SC 1880 Frankfurt adopted a red and black strip after a set of friendlies in 1894 against the English club Blackheath F.C., who also played in those colours?
Did you know that Hans Jørgen and Worm Hirsch Darre-Jenssen, sons of industrialist Lauritz Jenssen, both served as Norwegian Minister of Labour?
Did you know that Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, the Dominican priest and Bible scholar, is a cousin of Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster?
Did you know that Marcus Schrenker, after committing pseudocide, may face charges from the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as Indiana, Alabama, and Florida law enforcement?
Did you know that Marra Farm is one of only two historic agricultural parcels inside Seattle, Washington, city limits that retains an agricultural use today?
Did you know that Philip De Witt Ginder won the Distinguished Service Cross for actions in Germany during World War II and became the youngest American general to command a combat division in the Korean War?
Did you know that William K. Jones, awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star for valor at Tarawa and Saipan, was the youngest commander of a U.S. Marine Corps battalion during World War II?
Did you know that a "lively controversy" occurred at the 1902 International Congress of Americanists over the word "Amerind"?
Did you know that at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 165 pounds, Howard Stevens was one of the smallest players ever in the National Football League?
Did you know that because the Indo-Pacific sea urchin Diadema setosum has been found in Turkish waters, it is the first invasive echinoid in the Mediterranean?
Did you know that between 20,000 and 80,000 Filipinos live illegally in Italy?
Did you know that following TV3's axing of Night Shift the presenter, model Michelle Doherty, was said to have been left feeling "completely bewildered, and absolutely gutted"?
Did you know that in 1901, the steamboat City of Erie beat the steamboat Tashmoo in a 94-mile (151 km) long race, from Cleveland, Ohio, to Erie, Pennsylvania, by 45 seconds?
Did you know that in light of the Nazi Germany attempt to destroy Polish culture, the Secret Teaching Organization created an underground education system with over a million students?
Did you know that in the 1894 case Schillinger v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that a patent infringement suit can't be pursued against the U.S. because it held sovereign immunity for intentional torts?
Did you know that thanks to its fluorescence, α-parinaric acid has been used to analyze the stability of beer foam?
Did you know that the "scarlet elf cup", fungal species Sarcoscypha coccinea, has been used medicinally by the Oneida First Nations people?
Did you know that the Ames-Florida House is one of a few houses in Minnesota built with timber framing before balloon framing and dimensional lumber were well-known in that U.S. state?
Did you know that the Carnegie Library in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building?
Did you know that the Classic Period Maya archaeological site of Quiriguá in Guatemala has what is possibly the largest free-standing worked monolith in the New World?
Did you know that the Lipari Landfill in New Jersey, where nearly 3 million gallons and 12 thousand tons of hazardous waste were dumped, was called the worst toxic dump in the United States?
Did you know that the Los Carneros AVA, located in both Napa and Sonoma counties, was the first wine region in California to be defined by its climate characteristics instead of political boundaries?
Did you know that until recent XMM-Newton images, the supernova remnant G350.1-0.3 was mistakenly thought to be a distant galaxy?
Did you know that while in the service of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I, Polish Legionnaires decided to mutiny, fighting their former master at the Battle of Rarańcza?
Did you know that , according to theories by Dennis MacDonald, the earliest books of the New Testament are responses to the Homeric Epics, thus "nearly everything written on early Christian narrative is flawed"?
Did you know that ACLU director Aryeh Neier, a refugee from Nazi Germany, supported the Neo-Nazi National Socialist Party of America in its efforts to march in Skokie, Illinois, an area with many Holocaust survivors?
Did you know that American soldiers and sailors did not have access to dental service until Confederate Surgeon General Samuel P. Moore brought in the first dentists at military hospitals during the Civil War?
Did you know that Edmund W. Wells, a delegate to Arizona's constitutional convention, refused to sign the final document due to its radical features?
Did you know that Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz, webmasters for Harry Potter fansites, were the only Americans invited to Edinburgh to interview J.K. Rowling the day after the Half-Blood Prince was released?
Did you know that Teedyuscung, known as the King of the Delawares, lost much of his territory to colonial Pennsylvania in the Walking Purchase and later sought retribution for the massive land loss?
Did you know that Thomas D. Brock discovered Thermus aquaticus, an extremophile living at greater than 70 °C in hot springs at Yellowstone which became the source of the enzyme used in PCR?
Did you know that University of Michigan athletic director Philip Bartelme hired Branch Rickey as a baseball coach in 1910, and the two later worked together for the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers?
Did you know that according to legend, Anandibai led to the assassination of the 13-year-old king Narayanrao Peshwa by changing one letter dha to ma, thus changing the order "capture him" to "kill him"?
Did you know that after Kent Williams was elected speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, his party expelled him from its caucus?
Did you know that child actor Laura Ann Kesling, who made her film debut in Adam Sandler's 2008 film Bedtime Stories, is the daughter of LPGA golfer Danielle Ammaccapane?
Did you know that college football cornerback Kevin Barnes of Maryland delivered a tackle hard enough to cause Heisman Trophy prospect Jahvid Best to vomit on the field, footage of which became a viral video?
Did you know that college football tailback Mikell Simpson of Virginia ran for a 96-yard touchdown in the 2008 Gator Bowl, which is the longest rush by a running back in an NCAA bowl game?
Did you know that in July 1905, during the Theriso revolt, three insurgent leaders met the consuls of the European Great Powers at a monastery surrounded by rebels, and that martial law was declared after the talks failed?
Did you know that the 450 aircraft that conducted the opening aerial bombardment during the Battle of Aachen failed to hit a single German pillbox?
Did you know that the Bank of Issue in Poland, created by the Nazis to support the Nazi economy, was penetrated by the Polish resistance which used it as a source of falsified documents?
Did you know that the Meråker Line railway of Norway branches off from the Nordland Line at Hell?
Did you know that the controversial sculpture Entropa, unveiled in Brussels on January 13, 2009, depicts Bulgaria as a series of squat toilets (example pictured)?
Did you know that the extinct fish Santanichthys is the oldest known member of Order Characiformes, which includes the tetras and the piranha?
Did you know that the film All About Eve (1950) gained Barbara McLean a record seventh nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing, and that this record remains unbroken?
Did you know that the first World Series of Poker Champion did not win by defeating his opponents?
Did you know that the popular Calypso Carol was written by an Englishman, Michael Perry, while still a student, and only became famous by accident?
Did you know that the proposed Rampart Dam on the Yukon River in Alaska would have created a man-made reservoir larger than Lake Erie?
Did you know that when an upgraded part of the Østfold Line opened in 1996, it was the first railway in Norway built for speeds of 200 km/h (120 mph)?
Did you know that "Girls on Film" by Duran Duran served as the opening theme for the Japanese anime Speed Grapher though FUNimation was unable to obtain its license for US release?
Did you know that , in his 2000 book The Ingenuity Gap, Thomas Homer-Dixon argues the nature of problems faced by our society are becoming more complex and that our ability to implement solutions is not keeping pace?
Did you know that , upon being hired by the WWF, professional wrestler Lanny Kean was told to base his persona on Jethro Bodine from The Beverly Hillbillies?
Did you know that British actor Norman Lumsden, who played J. R. Hartley in the popular 1983 Yellow Pages Fly Fishing advert, was originally an opera singer who created roles for Benjamin Britten?
Did you know that Francis Mallison was elected to the New York State Assembly after being held as a Union prisoner of war during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Frank Vandiver received his high school diploma while serving as Acting President of Rice University?
Did you know that Keene Fitzpatrick invented modern pole-vaulting technique, coached five Olympic gold medalists, and trained the University of Michigan's "Point-a-Minute" football teams from 1901 to 1905?
Did you know that Magnolia Park was the first park in Hillsboro, Oregon, to include a recreational water fountain?
Did you know that Rose Byrne said that filming the opening scene of Damages episode "Get Me a Lawyer" on a winter's morning in only underwear and a coat was "very traumatic"?
Did you know that Shire Brook in Sheffield, England, was part of the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire for 900 years?
Did you know that The New York Times credited the success of promoter Gary Kurfirst's 1968 New York Rock Festival featuring Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Doors as inspiring the 1969 Woodstock Festival?
Did you know that Thomas Robbins, the Connecticut Historical Society's first librarian, owned the 385 volume Journal des sçavans, the earliest published scholarly periodical?
Did you know that Trondhjems Omnibus Aktieselskab started the first scheduled coach route in Trondheim, Norway, in 1893?
Did you know that amateur photographer George Caddy's 70-year-old lost negatives that surfaced in 2007 are the only documents of an historic Bondi beach acrobatic troupe?
Did you know that before entering politics, Guro Fjellanger studied to be a goldsmith?
Did you know that consuming the elfin saddle mushroom would result in the harmful formation of monomethylhydrazine, a component of rocket fuel, in your body?
Did you know that in 1865, a party led by Captain Franklin B. Sprague of the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry descended an 800-foot (240 m) caldera wall to become the first explorers to reach the shore of Crater Lake?
Did you know that radio station WLIQ (now WMOB) broadcast from the historic Battle House Hotel in Mobile, Alabama, from 1964 to 1971?
Did you know that the Port of Thessaloniki in Greece will double its container terminal capacity after an investment of US$600 million made by the Hutchison Port Holdings company based in Hong Kong?
Did you know that the earliest Roman glass found in China comes from a 1st-century-BC tomb in Guangzhou, dated to the Han Dynasty?
Did you know that the equestrian statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish American hero of independence, which was erected around 1920 at the Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland, has a duplicate in Detroit, Michigan?
Did you know that the interactive fiction Lost Pig won four XYZZY awards and took first place in the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition?
Did you know that the white coral fungus Clavulina cristata contains the conjugated fatty acid α-parinaric acid?
Did you know that to defend Indiana during the War of 1812, Governor Harrison had to recruit militia from Kentucky as those from Indiana would not join the army?
Did you know that when NBC pulled "Steve Burdick", an AIDS-themed episode of the medical drama Lifestories, gay and AIDS activists accused the network of fearing advertiser backlash?
Did you know that world motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood won the 1965 Hutchinson 100 Production race at Silverstone on a BSA Lightning Clubman?
Did you know that wrestling manager Lou Albano's part in a Cyndi Lauper music video inspired storylines for World Wrestling Federation shows The Brawl to End it All and The War to Settle the Score?
Did you know that Australian photographer Olive Cotton captured her childhood friend, photographer Max Dupain, in Fashion shot, Cronulla Sandhills, and married him in 1937?
Did you know that Barnet Burns toured England from 1835, exhibited his Māori tattoos and recounted his adventures in New Zealand?
Did you know that Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio, USA, is home to both Little Beaver Creek, a National Scenic River, and a restored 1837 mill?
Did you know that Catch My Soul, a rock musical adapation of Othello set in a late 1960s commune in New Mexico, USA, was the only film directed by the late Patrick McGoohan?
Did you know that Hedda and Ingrid Berntsen became the first siblings in Norway to compete in different events at the same Olympic Games?
Did you know that Joseph Yuill and his wife Margaret operated Ontario's first travelling dairy?
Did you know that Kentucky's Great Saltpetre Cave, which produced saltpetre for the War of 1812, was later used to film part of the 1997 Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below?
Did you know that Mark Donaldson became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, for his gallant actions under enemy fire in Afghanistan in September 2008?
Did you know that Robert Millar has been credited for establishing modern marketing in Norway?
Did you know that Said al-Shawa was the first mayor of Gaza, appointed in 1906?
Did you know that Sam, an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, posthumously received the Dickin Medal in 2003 for holding off armed rioters in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Did you know that Thomas Eakins' wife is credited with painting him into The Agnew Clinic?
Did you know that Tricholoma ustaloides, generally considered an inedible species of mushroom, is consumed by inhabitants of some Mexican communities?
Did you know that Wisconsin Highway 131 crosses nine bridges in 7.3 miles (11.7 km) between the communities of Rockton and Ontario?
Did you know that a BSA Lightning fitted with a working missile launching system featured in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball?
Did you know that according to De primo Saxonum adventu, Osulf of Bamburgh was the first English "earl" of Northumbria?
Did you know that at different times Phnom Voar (Vine Mountain) in southern Cambodia was a B-52 target, a rebel base, a killing field, a kidnapping site, and finally a peaceful mountain?
Did you know that before John Parker became Archbishop of Tuam and of Dublin, he had been imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell's forces as a suspected Royalist spy?
Did you know that composer Jonathan Battishill once performed several airs from Samuel Arnold's oratorio The Prodigal Son without the sheet music, and after not hearing the work for more than 20 years?
Did you know that in June 1991, a gasoline tanker attempting to exit from Interstate 68 at Cumberland, Maryland, overturned and set eight houses on fire, causing US$250,000 in damages?
Did you know that in addition to her academic career, German-Norwegian political scientist Helga Hernes has been a State Secretary as well as an ambassador to several European countries?
Did you know that in its heyday, the historic Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, hosted U.S. Presidents Lincoln, Grant, and Buchanan?
Did you know that instead of abducting people, Francesco Paolo Varsallona, who became an outlaw in 1893, introduced tribute payments for guaranteed safety and was credited with modernizing brigandage in Sicily?
Did you know that poppy seed, harvested from the opium poppy seed head, has had its use dated back to the Sumerians?
Did you know that the Madhu church shelling affected the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu, the holiest Roman Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that the Polhemus Memorial Clinic in Brooklyn, New York, is considered to be the first skyscraper hospital ever built?
Did you know that the Pysähdy ajoissa - Stanna i tid ("Stop in time") traffic campaign was the result of the public response to a road death of a nine-year-old girl in Finland?
Did you know that the Sunday Magazine Editors Association gives out journalism awards recognizing work in writing, investigative journalism, and design in Sunday newspaper magazines?
Did you know that the extinct coral Coelosimilia is the first known example of a scleractinian coral to have a skeleton not composed of the mineral aragonite?
Did you know that the first Filipinos to settle in the Netherlands arrived in 1947?
Did you know that the lush canyon Ein Avdat and its surroundings have been experiencing continuous human activity for some 80,000–90,000 years?
Did you know that the orange webcap mushroom can bioaccumulate the toxic element mercury?
Did you know that the private railroad car Georgia 300 has been used by United States Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, as well as presidential candidate John Kerry?
Did you know that though students spend their entire high school career at Tech Valley High School in New York's Capital District, their diploma comes from their home school district?
Did you know that Bryan Trottier, Denis Potvin, Mike Bossy, and Bryan Berard all won the Calder Memorial Trophy while playing for the New York Islanders?
Did you know that Cheshire landowner Rowland Egerton-Warburton arranged for his house, Arley Hall, to be designed in Tudor style while the chapel was designed in Gothic style?
Did you know that Cosmos 1818, which has an inactive nuclear reactor, was fractured by either a collision or thermal stresses, generating radioactive debris in a high earth orbit?
Did you know that Elliott Woods, who was Architect of the Capitol from 1902 to 1923, oversaw the construction of the Cannon House Office Building and the Russell Senate Office Building?
Did you know that Eugène Delacroix's efforts to produce The Barque of Dante in time for the Paris Salon of 1822 left him weak and in need of recuperation?
Did you know that IBM's Automatic Language Translator machines used by the US Air Force had optical disks that stored thousands of Russian-to-English translations?
Did you know that Malaysian royalty's immunity from legal prosecution was removed after a 1992 assault incident, involving Tunku Majid of Johor, sparked a constitutional crisis?
Did you know that Steve Farrell, called "the greatest professional foot-racer" in America, raced against horses for several years in the 1890s and reportedly only lost a half dozen times?
Did you know that after being saved from the scrapyard by a U.S. delegation, two Japanese warships of the Amagi and Tosa classes, Akagi and Kaga, were converted to aircraft carriers and took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that after being sent to the GULAG, Ukrainian writer Hryhorii Epik continued to write and sent one of his works to the NKVD in Moscow before his execution during the Great Purge in 1937?
Did you know that during the captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam, 30,000 of the captured 60,000 Christians were forcibly converted to Islam by Tipu Sultan?
Did you know that microbiologist Hans Knöll defended the historic center of Jena, which was threatened by the construction of the Jen-Tower?
Did you know that people have had to be taken to hospital due to drug overdoses at dance parties?
Did you know that protozoologist Leonard Goodwin claimed to have started the use of hamsters as pets in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that species from Cookeina, a genus of cup fungi, are used in Peninsular Malaysia as fish bait?
Did you know that sprint champion Charles Hoyt, who lost a chance for an Olympic medal when the 1916 games were cancelled due to World War I, later coached Eddie Tolan to two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics?
Did you know that the "London Cage," a World War II prisoner of war facility commanded by Lt. Col. Alexander Scotland, was beset by allegations of torture?
Did you know that the 1983 song "Everyday I Write the Book" was Elvis Costello's first hit single in the United States?
Did you know that the Temple of Human Passions, first building of Art Nouveau's architect Victor Horta, was closed three days after its inauguration under the pressure of the puritanic Belgian public in 1899?
Did you know that the US Air Force's cold-weather testing facility was moved from Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska, to a refrigerated hangar, the McKinley Climatic Laboratory, at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida?
Did you know that the United States Navy has trained Common Bottlenose Dolphins to locate sea mines?
Did you know that the first egg laid in a clutch by Crested penguins of the genus Eudyptes is as little as 60% of the size of the second egg?