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Did you know that The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, a merger of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, plans on redirecting Newsweek.com to The Daily Beast, despite the fact that the former website has higher web traffic?
Did you know that Wolfgang Schäfer, who succeeded Helmuth Rilling as professor of choral conducting for the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, is also part of the musical comedy trio BosArt?
Did you know that a Rans S-6 Coyote II (example pictured), a type of homebuilt aircraft, has flown across the Atlantic Ocean twice?
Did you know that although the Black Carts Turret Roman fortification is connected to Hadrian's Wall, it was probably built before the wall itself?
Did you know that because of his birth and marriage to a Russian princess, Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg was Russia's candidate to succeed Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria?
Did you know that commando-style forces under Raymond Westerling, a Dutch army captain who led a counter-insurgency offensive in the Indonesian National Revolution, killed at least 5,000 Indonesians?
Did you know that during World War II, the U.S. Navy planned to equip eighteen squadrons of assault drones with a thousand Interstate TDR and Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft?
Did you know that five of the seven men killed when the St Ives Lifeboat was wrecked in January 1939 were survivors of a previous lifeboat wreck in January 1938?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the unsuccessful January Uprising, Polish insurgent Zygmunt Padlewski was captured and executed by the Russian authorities?
Did you know that it took 340 days to prepare 22 milligrams of berkelium for the synthesis of 6 atoms of element 117, which took another 150 days?
Did you know that the 72-metre (236 ft) tall Laboe Naval Memorial by the architect Gustav August Munzer was confiscated by the British Army after World War II?
Did you know that the Battle of Coral-Balmoral (12 May – 6 June 1968) was the largest unit-level action of the Vietnam War fought by the 1st Australian Task Force?
Did you know that the Cambridge Modern History, launched in 1902, went on to cover the history of the world up to 1910?
Did you know that the ironclad HNLMS Koning der Nederlanden was the largest ship built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during the 19th century?
Did you know that the openly gay street scene in Mexico City's Zona Rosa has drawn comparisons with Barrio de Chueca in Madrid and the Castro District in San Francisco?
Did you know that the totem pole which welcomes visitors to the British Museum was documented for the museum by Rev. John Henry Keen years before it was purchased?
Did you know that Bach wrote in Weimar the opening chorus of his cantata for the First Sunday of Advent Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61, as a French overture?
Did you know that Harold I. Cammer represented his legal partner, Nathan Witt, before HUAC in 1950 when his former legal partner, Lee Pressman, accused Witt of being a communist?
Did you know that Howard Lester bought Williams-Sonoma in 1976 when it had four stores and sales of US$4 million and grew the company to annual sales of US$3.4 billion at 600 stores, including the Pottery Barn chain?
Did you know that Ingeborg Borgerud, former jurist for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, was lambasted by these unions some years later for a report about working environment?
Did you know that Milton Mausoleum in Nottinghamshire served as a family mausoleum, but the nave was also used as a parish church until it closed in the 1950s?
Did you know that NASA scientists have described Lake Untersee in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, as one of the most unusual lakes on Earth with a pH like that of strong Clorox?
Did you know that National Labor Relations Board Chief Economist David J. Saposs was accused of being a Communist, and Congress defunded his position and division in October 1940?
Did you know that Oscar Wilde liked to stay at the Gilsey House Hotel in New York City?
Did you know that Pete Cimino once scored 114 points in a high school basketball game and then became a pitcher in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that an ancient quarry discovered near Jericho in 2009 by Israeli archaeologists may be depicted on the Byzantine era Madaba Map?
Did you know that at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, every so often the sand recedes enough to allow the 19th century shipwreck of the King Philip clipper ship to become visible?
Did you know that in the 1960s and 1970s, Margrethe Munthe's popular children's songs were criticized for being too moralizing?
Did you know that physicist Gunnar Nordström's early death may have been caused by his passion for radioactivity and consequent use of water containing radioactive matter for sauna baths?
Did you know that stingless bees put the slimy spore mass of the fungus Staheliomyces cinctus into their pollen baskets?
Did you know that talent agent Martin Baum "packaged" together three of his clients – actor Sidney Poitier, director Ralph Nelson and screenwriter James Poe – who collaborated on the 1963 film Lilies of the Field?
Did you know that the 19th-century antidisestablishmentarianist politician Sampson Lloyd married the daughter of a general in the Prussian Army?
Did you know that the Chinese city of Yanji has two official languages, Chinese and Korean?
Did you know that the Roman Villa Borg in Saarland, Germany, has recently been almost fully reconstructed, a century after its discovery?
Did you know that the format of the children's TV show Sesame Street was changed due to the success and popularity of the segment "Elmo's World"?
Did you know that three crew members were each given 50 "lashes with nine tails" after HMS Whiting was lost on the dangerous Doom Bar?
Did you know that when Pennsylvania judge Cathy Bissoon was four years old, her father was stabbed to death near the family's home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn?
Did you know that A Jewish Girl in Shanghai, an animated film set in and around the Shanghai Ghetto, has been described as "China’s first homegrown Jewish film"?
Did you know that Bill Krieg, Emil Frisk, and Joe Riggert won a combined seven batting titles and are considered to be the best minor league baseball players of their respective eras?
Did you know that Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and his brother Prince Leopold caused a national scandal when Charles suggested that Leopold marry a commoner?
Did you know that Jack Ness had a 49-game baseball hitting streak that stood as a league record until it was broken by Joe DiMaggio?
Did you know that Major-General Thomas Marden was knighted for helping to defuse the Chanak Crisis, a confrontation between the British Army and Turkish revolutionaries in 1922?
Did you know that Mort Senter, Michigan's 1896 football captain, became involved in a diplomatic incident after Colombian soldiers seized property from his home in 1902?
Did you know that Nathan Witt, U.S. National Labor Relations Board Secretary from 1937 to 1940, drove a taxicab for two years so he could earn enough money to attend Harvard Law School?
Did you know that West Indian batsman Brian Lara came out of retirement to play in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series, a Twenty20 cricket tournament in Zimbabwe?
Did you know that after the collapse of American cotton exports in the 1860s, Azerbaijan became a large-scale cotton producer, often planting it rather than food crops?
Did you know that during one of his campaigns, the troops of Umayyad general Sulayman ibn Hisham suffered so much due to disease and famine that many defected to the Byzantines and converted to Christianity?
Did you know that fortune telling fraud is a confidence game that involves persuading victims that they suffer from a curse?
Did you know that freedom of religion in Singapore, which is guaranteed by Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore, may be restricted by a general law relating to public order, public health or morality?
Did you know that medieval Mramorje necropolis in Serbia once contained about 200 tombstones, while most of them are now dislocated, or have been swept away by the Drina river?
Did you know that more than 500,000 Jewish Americans served in the United States armed services during World War II (one soldier's grave pictured), and roughly 52,000 received military awards?
Did you know that the Temagami greenstone belt in Ontario was the site of the largest deposit of nearly pure chalcopyrite ever discovered in Canada?
Did you know that the University of Florida's Lady Gators golf team has won eight SEC team championships, eight SEC individual championships, and sent almost twenty players to the LPGA?
Did you know that the comedic poetry album Tim Key. With a String Quartet. On a Boat. was made available only as a digital download and 1,000 vinyl records?
Did you know that the exterior decoration of the medieval Church of Christ Pantocrator in Nesebar on the Bulgarian coast prominently features swastikas?
Did you know that the first hybrid electric double-decker to be built was operated in London on route 141?
Did you know that the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan, Nasr ibn Sayyar, hoped to ease resentment among local Muslims by streamlining the province's tax system?
Did you know that the pilot episode for South of Nowhere, which is set in a high school, was actually filmed in a prison?
Did you know that there are only around 100 Western Ground Parrots left?
Did you know that when Central Methodist Church in Eastbourne was completed, some worshippers were hauled to the top of the spire in a box to eat a celebratory breakfast?
Did you know that with the money his aunt paid him not to attend university, which she considered a den of vice, Thomas Coke travelled to Italy, where the wife of Bonnie Prince Charles fell in love with him?
Did you know that 3 million square feet of perforated steel plates were assembled in 1942 on Umnak Island, Alaska, to build an aircraft landing strip?
Did you know that Aquila bullockensis, an extinct species of bird, is the oldest known true eagle from Australia?
Did you know that Hudson's Bay Company officials learned of the 1709 Franco-Indian attack on their company's trading post at Fort Albany from uninvolved Mohawks who were visiting London?
Did you know that Louisiana Tech University sociologist Robert O. Trout was his state's delegate to the 1961 White House Conference on Aging?
Did you know that Major-General Robert Fanshawe was sacked after his successful defence in the 1918 Battle of Asiago, because his commander objected to his use of a defence in depth strategy?
Did you know that Speedway Motorsports president Marcus G. Smith started working by picking up trash at Charlotte Motor Speedway?
Did you know that Tom the Great Sebastian, founded in 1950, was one of the first Jamaican sound systems?
Did you know that William J. Olcott, captain of the 1882 and 1883 Michigan Wolverines football teams, became the president of a railroad and a mining company?
Did you know that a spring in the town of Tedef al-Yahud, Syria, is said to have been used by Ezra the Scribe 2,400 years ago?
Did you know that all but one of the 1984 Winter Olympic venues were damaged during the Bosnian War and the Siege of Sarajevo?
Did you know that despite being less than 1 mile (1.6 km) long, Washington State Route 433 is considered a Highway of Statewide Significance by the Washington State Department of Transportation?
Did you know that due to the Scottish football referee strike, foreign officials from Israel, Luxembourg and Malta were used as replacements?
Did you know that former Palauan Senate President Peter Sugiyama's wife Akiko Sugiyama was the first woman ever elected to the Palau National Congress?
Did you know that pitcher Danny McDevitt shutout the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 24, 1957, in the final game the Dodgers played in Brooklyn before owner Walter O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles?
Did you know that racing wins by the American racehorse Luke McLuke, including the Belmont Stakes, made owner John Schorr the leading owner for 1914 and his son, J.F. Schorr, the leading trainer?
Did you know that schoolteacher Justus H. Rathbone developed the idea for founding the Knights of Pythias while reading the play, "Damon and Pythias" in the Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse?
Did you know that the Armadillo, an armoured fighting vehicle extemporised by the British in 1940, used a layer of gravel to protect its crew?
Did you know that the British Member of Parliament Percy Jewson was chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association?
Did you know that the Kriegsmarine attributed the sinking of U-168 in the Java Sea to the presence of the crew's Indonesian girlfriends on board for a party?
Did you know that the asteroid 1536 Pielinen is named after Pielinen Lake in Finland?
Did you know that the eleven Hindu deities, the Rudras, are associated with the ten vital energies of the body and the soul, and their departure is said to cause death and tears?
Did you know that the sea slug Aiteng ater feeds on insects?
Did you know that the second single by French punk rock band Marie et les Garçons was produced in New York by John Cale, formerly of the Velvet Underground?
Did you know that three of the four largest power stations in the world are in South America?
Did you know that while staying at their estate near the Black Sea, George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg and his family witnessed the 1905 battleship Potemkin revolt?
Did you know that with a death toll of 247 people, the Heppner Flood of 1903 remains the deadliest natural disaster in Oregon, and the third deadliest flash flood in the entire United States?
Did you know that Baku's Maiden Tower was showcased on many Azerbaijani banknotes for 14 years?
Did you know that Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach, in their 1951 book Patterns of Sexual Behavior, concluded that there is a "basic mammalian capacity" for homosexuality?
Did you know that German footballer Willy Tröger began his career as a goalkeeper, but converted into a successful forward after losing his hand in World War II?
Did you know that Jim Matheson and his father Jack are both sports journalists in Canada, but are members of halls of fame in different sports?
Did you know that Thaddeus P. Mott, a 19th-century adventurer and soldier of fortune, recruited ex-Union and Confederate veterans for service in the Egyptian Army?
Did you know that Zimbabwean cricketer Ryan Butterworth's performances in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series saw him named as player of the series?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Roy Hitt, a member of the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame, was nicknamed "Rhino" because his shape reminded people of a rhinoceros?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Russ Christopher's only All-Star appearance was canceled due to World War II?
Did you know that during the Western Bulldogs' 2010 season, Australian rules footballer Andrew Hooper was described by the Herald Sun as a "cult figure"?
Did you know that plans to convert the tomb of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi on the Mount of Olives, Israel, into a church sparked strong protests?
Did you know that the 1919 demolition of "one of the most costly religious edifices" in New York City, the 1906 Madison Square Presbyterian Church, was called "a distinct architectural loss"?
Did you know that the 2002 Sumatra earthquake is considered to be a foreshock of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake?
Did you know that the decomposing skeleton of a right whale was found on the underwater volcano Patton Seamount?
Did you know that the first All-Star Game in National Hockey League history was played in 1934 to benefit Toronto's Ace Bailey, who was nearly killed by a violent on-ice hit earlier in the season?
Did you know that 17 species of slime mould (myxomycetes) have been isolated from the bark of the tree Banksia attenuata?
Did you know that British spies helped sink some German minesweepers of the Sperrbrecher type, through determining how to adjust the fuses on magnetic mines?
Did you know that Greg Koubek was the first men's basketball player to play in four NCAA Tournament Final Fours?
Did you know that John Keble, founding member of the Oxford Movement, was curate to St Michael and St Martin's Church, Eastleach Martin, Gloucestershire, and a bridge nearby was named after him?
Did you know that Nelly's first five studio albums all reached the top three of the Billboard 200?
Did you know that Provino Mosca, the founder of the Louisiana Creole Italian restaurant Mosca's, was reportedly a chef for Al Capone?
Did you know that Punjabi revolutionary Baba Bujha Singh predicted the disintegration of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Second World War search and rescue dog Rip is credited with saving over a hundred lives during 1940 and 1941?
Did you know that The New York Times called the U.S. Supreme Court's Ontario v. Quon decision "almost aggressively unhelpful" to lawyers and judges in electronic privacy cases?
Did you know that Thomas Tropenell built the Manor House at Great Chalfield?
Did you know that a Welshman, Dai Davies, is the only person to have appeared in both the rugby league Challenge Cup final and the association football FA Cup Final?
Did you know that a good contact-connection between undamaged plain waveguide flanges can outperform a choke-connection, but a bad one can cause arcing?
Did you know that actor Antonio Te Maioha of the television drama Spartacus: Blood and Sand publicly promotes the recycling organization Xtreme Waste, but resists being called an environmentalist?
Did you know that hairy aspen is from the citrus family?
Did you know that holders of the position that would become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council have included Eleanor Roosevelt and Geraldine Ferraro?
Did you know that in 1947, baseball player Buck Frierson led the Big State League with 58 home runs and 197 runs batted in?
Did you know that the English historian Walter Alison Phillips was the first Lecky professor in the University of Dublin?
Did you know that the Madison Square Presbyterian Church building completed in 1854 was knocked down to become the site of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, then the world's tallest building?
Did you know that the election of William Steward as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives was the first time that this position was contested?
Did you know that when choosing Suillus pungens mushrooms for the table, one should pick young specimens to avoid "fat, agitated maggots"?
Did you know that Bill Naito, who abruptly left Portland, Oregon, at age 16 to avoid Japanese-American internment during World War II, later became one of the city's most esteemed business and civic leaders?
Did you know that Diethard Hellmann reconstructed the music of the lost Bach cantata for the Third Sunday in Advent, Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a?
Did you know that Eugenios Voulgaris, scholar and first director of the Maroutsaia School in Ioannina, Greece, insisted that the Greek intellectual revival should remain theologically and socially conservative?
Did you know that Joe Raposo, first musical director of the children's show Sesame Street, won four Grammys for writing much of the show's music?
Did you know that Michael Stroukoff, a Russian emigrant from Kiev, designed the largest glider ever built in the United States, as well as its first jet-powered transport?
Did you know that Nels Johnson built Century tower clocks, designed to last 100 years?
Did you know that Norwegian neo-impressionist painter Ludvig Karsten is represented at the National Gallery of Norway with several paintings, including The blue Kitchen from 1913?
Did you know that Oliver Dyer established the first American periodical devoted to shorthand?
Did you know that as recently as the 1980s there were up to a thousand native speakers of a unique French dialect around Old Mines, Missouri, descendants of French colonists from the early 1700s?
Did you know that bent edge was created as a counter-movement to straight edge and was a sign of a rising tide of anti-Dischord sentiment in the DC punk scene?
Did you know that in 1985, Carmelita Vigil-Schimmenti became the first Hispanic female to attain the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force?
Did you know that in 1996 Chaturanan Mishra became one of the two first communist cabinet members in India?
Did you know that it was so cold during the 1962 NFL Championship Game that television crews used bonfires to thaw out their cameras, and one cameraman suffered frostbite?
Did you know that only two new permanent venues were constructed for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?
Did you know that several days after Nicholas II's abdication, his relative Alexander, Duke of Leuchtenberg warned the British ambassador the tsar was in "the gravest danger"?
Did you know that the 2009–10 Stanbic Bank 20 Series was heralded as a success by Zimbabwe Cricket, after the crowd for the final was described as "the biggest for a domestic match in living memory"?
Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's East Rutherford Operations Center has a state-of-the art automated 1 million cubic foot vault for storing US currency?
Did you know that the Michigan Federation of Labor in 1906 wrote that perhaps no individual had done more to "promote the interests of wage-earners than William W. Hannan, the real estate hustler"?
Did you know that the NBC television series The Ford Show referred to the sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, rather than the star, Tennessee Ernie Ford?
Did you know that the National Docks Secondary freight rail line uses a short tunnel that took eight years to build at twice the originally estimated cost because of a frog war with the Pennsylvania Railroad?
Did you know that the first Australian baseball player to sign a professional contract with a Major League Baseball organisation, after the dead-ball era, was Neil Page, who signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 1966?
Did you know that the first no-hitter by an Oakland Athletics pitcher after the Major League Baseball club relocated to Oakland, California, was a perfect game by Catfish Hunter in 1968?
Did you know that the wings of the Rans S-11 Pursuit provide only 20% of the aircraft's lift?
Did you know that when Prohibition forced the Kentucky-based Bavarian Brewing Company to stop producing beer, it continued to produce soft drinks as The William Riedlin Beverage Company?
Did you know that when the Queensbury mill-owner William Henry Foster died in 1908, a special train brought the Lord Mayor of Bradford to his funeral near Hornby Castle?
Did you know that 1973 comedy film Bad Charleston Charlie was loosely based on gangster Charles Birger, the last man to be executed in Illinois by public hanging?
Did you know that American lawyer Lloyd K. Garrison was chairman of the "first" National Labor Relations Board, the National War Labor Board, and the New York City Board of Education?
Did you know that Clarence Brown's 1925 silent film Smouldering Fires starring Pauline Frederick is considered a cautionary tale?
Did you know that German lawyer Rainer Rene Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, founder of the Federation of German mercenaries, was the subject of a question in the German Parliament in regards to organ donor laws?
Did you know that James Gross considers NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., NLRB v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co., and NLRB v. Sands Mfg.Co. the most significant Supreme Court rulings on the National Labor Relations Act since the Court upheld the Act?
Did you know that Moss Airport, Rygge is the first airport in Europe to replace all the runway and taxiway lights with light emitting diodes?
Did you know that Olivia Shakespear, mother-in-law to Ezra Pound, was indirectly responsible for supporting struggling modernist writers such as T. S. Eliot and James Joyce?
Did you know that Yanar Dag is a natural fire that burns "eternally" on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan?
Did you know that by 1962 the communist-led Indonesian forest workers union Sarbuksi claimed to have a quarter of a million members?
Did you know that by the time Jeannie Carson joined Hey, Jeannie! she had become the second highest paid entertainer in the UK, behind Vivien Leigh?