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Did you know that Bach's cantata Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85, begins with the bass as Jesus, the Good Shepherd, in "a mood of tranquil seriousness"?
Did you know that British writer Owen Hatherley introduces his 2010 book A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain as "an autopsy of the urban renaissance" promoted under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown?
Did you know that Czech top flight footballer ‪Pavel Hašek‬ is the son of former national team player and manager Ivan ‪Hašek‬?
Did you know that Grace Towns Hamilton was the first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly?
Did you know that Princeton is the terminus of the Dinky, the shortest commuter rail line in the United States?
Did you know that a bamboo grove marks the spot in Hōkoku-ji where the Zen master Butsujo wrote poetry?
Did you know that a naval battle was fought between British and Dutch frigate squadrons in the North Sea off Eigerøya in August 1795?
Did you know that after a crash involving plutonium and diamonds, the pilots of Swissair Flight 316 were charged with manslaughter?
Did you know that although Indonesian national hero Usman Janatin was born in Banyumas, Usman Janatin City Park was built in Purbalingga Regency?
Did you know that because the four founders of the Norwegian ISP PowerTech Information Systems were still minors, the father of one of them became the company's first chairman?
Did you know that occupants of Wenvoe Castle in south Wales have included a member of Cromwell's Upper House and a vice chamberlain to the Prince of Wales (later King George IV)?
Did you know that sex workers' rights activist Catherine Healy was the second New Zealander after David Lange to be invited at a debate at the University of Oxford?
Did you know that the Hotel Janzen in Marquette, Michigan, has served as a hotel and a shelter for the potentially homeless?
Did you know that the coastal goldenrod grows well after a hurricane has blown down the trees surrounding it?
Did you know that two scenes of the Friends episode "The One Where Rachel Smokes" appear only in the DVD version?
Did you know that until 1951, when the Seward Highway was finished, in order for travelers to drive on the Hope Highway, they had to transport their cars on the Alaska Railroad?
Did you know that Alexandre Chemetoff, winner of the Grand Prix de l'urbanisme, created a bamboo garden in Paris' Parc de la Villette?
Did you know that George W. Jenkins, who founded Publix supermarkets in 1930, learned the business at Piggly Wiggly?
Did you know that P&G promoted their self care website BeingGirl by partnering with Sony BMG and Cathy's Book?
Did you know that Samuel Glazer, the co-developer of Mr. Coffee, gifted so many coffeemakers to Johnny Carson that the television host told him to stop?
Did you know that St George's Church in Eastergate, West Sussex, is reached by walking through a farm whose "magnificent" Elizabethan granary is also used by the church?
Did you know that Wilhelm Sauer built the Berlin Cathedral organ?
Did you know that all four Lyon-class battleships were cancelled on account of World War I?
Did you know that as a result of the North Carolina Sullivan Acts, Asheville is the only city in the state that cannot charge a higher water rate for consumers outside city limits?
Did you know that in 2007 and 2008, two American satellites were hacked using commands sent via the Svalbard Satellite Station?
Did you know that not long after it first appeared in 1631, the book Janua linguarum reserata by Comenius was published in translation in twelve European languages plus several Asian languages?
Did you know that sculptor Vernon March, designer of the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, was the youngest exhibitor at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts?
Did you know that the Grand Veymont in France is the highest point of the Massif du Vercors and the Vercors Regional Natural Park, with a prominence of 1,165 metres (3,822 ft)?
Did you know that the Whitefish Bay National Forest Scenic Byway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan follows the shore of Whitefish Bay and provides access to the Point Iroquois Lighthouse?
Did you know that the medieval church of the Kremikovtsi Monastery near Sofia, Bulgaria, includes a fresco of Saint George using a dragon as a footrest?
Did you know that the region of Central Croatia comprises one third of the territory of Croatia, while generating more than half of the nation's GDP?
Did you know that Chakal was once inspired by the Living Dead?
Did you know that Chinese politicians have engaged in debate over economic development using a metaphor for baking a cake?
Did you know that First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton was instrumental in passing the Foster Care Independence Act, which funds independent living skills for youth in foster care?
Did you know that Pavlo Kurtik had a little of Pavlo-Kurtik?
Did you know that Salomon Schweigger published the first German language translation of the Qur'an?
Did you know that a private company wants to pay for the construction of County Road 595 in Marquette County, Michigan, to connect its nickel mine to its processing mill?
Did you know that after the 1989 Revolution, Romanian communist politician Paul Niculescu-Mizil briefly led the National Salvation Front before being arrested and sent to prison?
Did you know that ice XI, one of the fifteen known phases of ice, may be present on Pluto and Charon?
Did you know that patrons used social media to contribute to the design of the new library in Surrey, British Columbia?
Did you know that professional softball player Clare Warwick is one of three national team players from Australian Capital Territory vying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championship?
Did you know that soon after Jim Umbricht's death from melanoma in 1964, his brother flew above the Astrodome construction site and scattered his ashes throughout the grounds?
Did you know that the Carrara marble baptismal font of the church of Augustenborg Palace was a gift from Tsar Alexander I of Russia?
Did you know that the Marlowe Academy, among "the worst schools in England", but now showing satisfactory progress, has a radio station on the Isle of Thanet?
Did you know that the survival of descendants of the Banker horses used by Mounted Boy Scout Troop 290 of Ocracoke, North Carolina, relies upon one testicle?
Did you know that the undefeated 1910 Michigan football team featured three All-Americans in Albert Benbrook, Stanfield Wells and Joe Magidsohn?
Did you know that three bombs exploded in Jammu's Maulana Azad Stadium during the Governor General's 1995 Republic Day Parade speech, killing eight people?
Did you know that while Mauritius has a senior women's national football team, they have not played in a single FIFA sanctioned game?
Did you know that "Saturday Night Glee-ver" is Glee's tribute to the Bee Gees and Saturday Night Fever?
Did you know that Australian Aboriginal South Australian softball player Vanessa Stokes is vying for a roster spot on the Australian team going to the 2012 World Championships?
Did you know that Chicago Tribune war correspondent Floyd Gibbons dubbed John Herbert Hedley "The Luckiest Man Alive"?
Did you know that Filipino fashion designer and Project Runway Philippines judge Rajo Laurel has held exhibitions in New York City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Sydney, and Bali?
Did you know that Glasgow has the ninth oldest golf club in the world?
Did you know that Puppigerus, an extinct sea turtle, had a specialized jaw structure which kept it from accidentally inhaling water?
Did you know that U.S. Route 6 in Ohio crosses the Black River on the Charles Berry Bridge, the second-largest bascule bridge in the world?
Did you know that WWI British flying ace Bruce Digby-Worsley scored the majority of his aerial victories against the Fokker D.VII?
Did you know that a Soviet merchant vessel was named after Danish communist leader Knud Jespersen?
Did you know that during World War II, the government occupied Parsi Gymkhana and Islam Gymkhana in Bombay, leading Hindu Gymkhana to offer membership to Muslims and Parsis as an "emergency measure"?
Did you know that most of the length of the Seward Highway, which connects Anchorage and Seward, Alaska, is within Chugach National Forest?
Did you know that the cute cat theory of digital activism draws a connection between Internet censorship and lolcats?
Did you know that the hitchhiking anemone is often attached to shells occupied by the hermit crabs Dardanus venosus and Clibanarius vittatus?
Did you know that war memorials in Monmouth include one that commemorates 16 admirals and Britain's victories in the French Revolutionary Wars?
Did you know that while the Rwanda women's national football team has not played a FIFA-recognised match, a professional women's league in the country has attracted women from Uganda?
Did you know that California governor Henry Gage publicly denied there was a San Francisco plague of 1900–1904?
Did you know that Duncan Barrett, co-author of The Sugar Girls, once directed Joe Thomas of The Inbetweeners in a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?
Did you know that Forrest Hall played for Princeton's 1893 national championship football team, coached Auburn to a 94–0 victory over Georgia Tech in 1894, and set a shot put record at Michigan in 1895?
Did you know that George Hubert Kemp, a flying ace from World War I, was fatally wounded on his last sortie, having shot down twelve enemy aircraft in the previous three weeks?
Did you know that Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, Holocaust survivor and one of the Schindlerjuden, appeared in a documentary with the daughter of Amon Goeth, her Nazi tormentor?
Did you know that Indonesian journalist Marco Kartodikromo was arrested several times by the Dutch colonial government and ultimately died in exile?
Did you know that Jason Krizan set a National Collegiate Athletic Association record for doubles?
Did you know that RNAD Coulport in Argyll, Scotland, is the storage and loading facility for the United Kingdom's stock of Trident nuclear warheads?
Did you know that Robert B. Cohen opened the first Hudson News, the world's largest airport newsstand retailer, in LaGuardia Airport in 1987?
Did you know that Winston Churchill's father once owned "Abscess on the Jaw"?
Did you know that according to one reviewer, the reggae drum fill in "Watch n' Learn" originates from Bob Marley's 1983 single "Buffalo Soldier"?
Did you know that although a Spanish treasure convoy was captured at the Action of 26 April 1797, the cargo had already been smuggled to safety aboard a fishing boat?
Did you know that the 1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the SEC championship after Hayward Sanford kicked a fourth quarter, game-winning field goal against Vanderbilt?
Did you know that the Shute Park Aquatic & Recreation Center in Hillsboro, Oregon, was built for $2.5 million but remodeled and expanded at a cost of $9 million?
Did you know that the author of The Undying Flame, who wrote the novel when he was 22, felt it resounded with teenage sentimentality?
Did you know that the concert choir Schiersteiner Kantorei, founded 50 years ago in Wiesbaden-Schierstein, performed Bach's St Matthew Passion in the Marktkirche?
Did you know that thieves have recently stolen the memorial plaques from the Livesey Hall War Memorial?
Did you know that when Thomas M. Messer retired in 1988, after 27 years as director of the Guggenheim Foundation, he had served longer than any other major museum director in New York City?
Did you know that "Drunk on Love" contains a sample of The xx's song "Intro", with Jamie Smith being credited as co-writer?
Did you know that "Snail" was the first woman to compete in an international motor race?
Did you know that Istanbul University Professor Semavi Eyice is regarded as the pioneer of Byzantine studies in Turkey?
Did you know that Jacobus Deketh was a captain of a 36-gun frigate in the Frisian Admiralty?
Did you know that Matt Barnes and Michael Roth were named college baseball First Team NCAA Division I All-Americans in 2011?
Did you know that Osbaston's hydropower station can produce 670 MWh of electricity each year and allows salmon to travel upstream?
Did you know that U.S. Route 287 Business passes the Fort Worth Stockyards?
Did you know that U.S. state governors Blagojevich, Blanton, Edwards, Hall, Kerner, Mandel, Moore, Rowland, Ryan, and Siegelman have been convicted of federal public corruption crimes?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War, when Lt. Col. Byron P. Howlett heard that one of the medivac helicopters under his command had crashed, he personally oversaw and piloted the Rescue of Dustoff 65?
Did you know that former Elitserien and National Hockey League player Håkan Loob was one of the first members of the Triple Gold Club, winning the Stanley Cup, World Championship and Olympic gold?
Did you know that the Glass Palace Chronicle in 1829 proclaimed Abhiyaza as the founder of the Burmese monarchy in contradiction to the prevailing pre-Buddhist origin myth?
Did you know that the Syrian town of al-Harra was owned by Beirut-based landowner Selim Freige?
Did you know that the bailiff John Knibb also built the turret clock for St John's College, Oxford?
Did you know that the male tropical rockmaster can be distinguished from the male sapphire rockmaster by the size of the blue spots on the underside of its abdomen?
Did you know that the mangrove tunicate produces an anti-tumour drug, trabectedin, which becomes concentrated in the tiger flatworm when it feeds on the tunicate?
Did you know that the number of ways to place n diagonally symmetric rooks on an n × n chessboard in such a way that no two rooks attack each other is a telephone number?
Did you know that "A House Divided" was the Dallas television series episode that led to the eight-month Who shot J. R.? hysteria?
Did you know that Mutilator was described as an excellent case study in DIY ethics?
Did you know that NASCAR powerhouse team Richard Childress Racing sold one of its race teams to Virginia car dealer Joe Falk?
Did you know that Wallace Neff's Bubble Houses in Litchfield Park, Arizona, were built in a community planned and owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company?
Did you know that a Spencer, Browning & Rust sextant is one of the oldest items in the collection of the United States Geological Survey Museum?
Did you know that after Kentucky Senator Humphrey Marshall voted to ratify the Jay Treaty, his constituents stoned him and tried to throw him into the Kentucky River?
Did you know that despite being over 4000 years old, Sperris Quoit near Zennor, Cornwall, was only rediscovered in 1954?
Did you know that inventor John Browning provided the first electric lights in London, for the occasion of the visit of the Shah of Persia to Queen Victoria?
Did you know that over fifty women were assaulted during the Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks?
Did you know that the 1939 Alabama Crimson Tide football team played against Fordham in the second ever televised college football game?
Did you know that the British scholar Percy Brown was one of the earliest pioneers who wrote on Indian and Buddhist architecture?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force's F/A-18 Hornet fighters have been deployed as far afield as Qatar and Alaska?
Did you know that the golden mussel can make good use of a discarded plastic bottle?
Did you know that the privileges of Polish nobility were unprecedented in Europe, giving the nobles the right to control most legislation, foreign relations, taxation, elect a king and rebel against him?
Did you know that the song "Ode to Mel Bay", popularized by Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins, has lyrics by Shel Silverstein about a missing page 23 in Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords?
Did you know that when "Tanzania's most popular film star" died, his mourners included his country's Vice President, First Lady and 20,000 other people?
Did you know that "These Arms of Mine" was Otis Redding's first hit single?
Did you know that "gay penguins" Roy and Silo raised a chick at New York's Central Park Zoo, which when fully grown, entered into a same-sex relationship of its own?
Did you know that An Evening in Paris was the first lesbian-themed Indonesian short story collection?
Did you know that Edward Griffin Beckwith was engaged in the Pacific Railroad Survey from 1853 to 1857, and that the First Transcontinental Railroad followed his recommended route?
Did you know that Philip Humber's April 21, 2012, perfect game was only the 21st in Major League Baseball history dating back to 1869?
Did you know that Senhora das Dores Church in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, has six chapels?
Did you know that extra Hen Houses were built at the Balkhash and Mishelevka Radar Stations in the late 1960s, while another was located at Olenegorsk?
Did you know that hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant Sam Wo had the world's rudest waiter and was closed in 2012 for rat feces after 100 years of operating in San Francisco's Chinatown?
Did you know that in the 1714 Bach cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12, the first choral section was described as a "tombeau ... most impressive and deeply affecting"?
Did you know that pioneer of rescue archeology John Bailey Shelton was awarded the RSPCA's Queen Victoria Medal for saving his horses during the Coventry Blitz?
Did you know that the Fleet class USVs are the first unmanned vessels to receive U.S. Navy hull numbers?
Did you know that the Kowmung River in New South Wales gained its name from the local aboriginal word for "sore eyes", possibly trachoma?
Did you know that the deepest lake dammed by sand dunes along the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon is Woahink Lake?
Did you know that the freeway sections of M-5, a state highway in Michigan, were originally planned as parts of two different Interstate Highways?
Did you know that the mangrove jingle shell has two different colour varieties, but pale specimens normally found on mangrove leaves can darken when moved to the tree's bark?
Did you know that the popularity of Canadian author David Gilmour's memoir The Film Club helped him become Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Toronto?
Did you know that Barry Klarberg manages celebrities including Charlie Sheen, Justin Timberlake and Anna Kournikova?
Did you know that Czech international footballer Jan Suchopárek dislocated his shoulder while attempting a bicycle kick?
Did you know that John Montgomery Traherne, a notable antiquarian, son of Llewelyn, was reverend of the church in St Hilary, Vale of Glamorgan?
Did you know that Lachie Neale and Alex Forster, who were both selected by Fremantle in the 2011 Australian Football League Draft, both grew up in Kybybolite, a very small town in south-eastern South Australia?
Did you know that Looking for Madonna, meant to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in Papua, used shots of a green bra to symbolise sex?
Did you know that Megitza, the vocalist and bass player, got the highest score at a Polish National IQ contest held in 2004?
Did you know that Seattle's Jack Block Park was built on a Superfund site?
Did you know that Shlomo Moussaieff owns rare gemstones worth millions of dollars, including a flawless blue diamond and the world's largest known red diamond?
Did you know that Teguh Karya's film Mother, which won nine Citra Awards, did not turn a profit?
Did you know that numismatist and historian Don Taxay walked away from his career to become a Rajneeshee?
Did you know that the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup Final player of the match Nicky Shaw only played in the final because a teammate suffered an injury during the warm-up?
Did you know that the Flaming Lips plan to include blood samples from their collaborators in the vinyl edition of their album The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends?
Did you know that the Newspaper Libel and Registration Act 1881 (though partially repealed in 1888) still requires dozens of newspapers published in the United Kingdom to be centrally registered?
Did you know that the flags hoisted by the Finnish icebreaker Tarmo on 3 March 1918 included a large white tablecloth?
Did you know that the partitioning of the state of Jin, during the reign of Duke Chu, is often considered the start of China's Warring States period?
Did you know that the tradition in Franconian Switzerland of decorating public fountains with Easter eggs, Osterbrunnen, has spread beyond Franconia?
Did you know that while FIFA inquired about the creation of a Sudanese women's national football team, the Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa forbidding it?
Did you know that Baudry's painting The Pearl and the Wave was bought by French Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo for 20,000 francs?
Did you know that Frank Graham called Dave Bancroft "the greatest shortstop the Giants ever had and one of the greatest that ever lived"?
Did you know that Jack Zeller, who was credited with building the Detroit Tigers' farm system, proposed a draft that would have ended the use of farm systems in baseball?
Did you know that Lake Manassas, a reservoir operated by the City Council of Manassas, Virginia, to provide drinking water to the city, is not located in Manassas?
Did you know that Oakland Medical Center was the first health maintenance organization (HMO) hospital?
Did you know that Reckless Roy Hall beat Big Bill France to win the first racing event held at Seminole Speedway?
Did you know that Yvonne van Mentz scored South Africa's first century in Women's Test cricket?
Did you know that although the Sudanese Anti-Imperialist Front had opposed a union with Egypt, it sent volunteers to help the Egyptian side in the 1956 Suez Crisis?
Did you know that casino operator Full House Resorts has been led by a horse breeder, a rock star, and Lee Iacocca?
Did you know that for the film Monster Mutt, the "mutt" was a larger-than-life animatronic puppet requiring five persons to operate?
Did you know that in 1943, White Vision became one of the first pigeons to be awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be "the animals' Victoria Cross"?
Did you know that larvae of the Ouachita creekshell attach themselves to fish hosts as part of their life cycle?
Did you know that the English association football league, the Premier League, will give awards to mark the league's 20 seasons anniversary?
Did you know that the Toklu Dede Mosque, a former Byzantine church in Istanbul, was destroyed with its frescoes by its owner in 1929?
Did you know that the endangered shrub Hakea dohertyi has a range of only 18 square kilometres within Australia's Kanangra-Boyd National Park?
Did you know that the only team Guinea-Bissau women's national football team has played a FIFA-recognised match against is Guinea?
Did you know that the planned Timna Airport near Eilat, Israel, will be named after Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in the Columbia disaster, and his son Assaf, who died in a flight training accident?
Did you know that the rulers of the ancient state of Jin include Duke Jing and Duke Jing, while a third Duke Jing is disputed?
Did you know that 2007 Monte Carlo Rally was based in Valence, Drôme, and it only visited Monte Carlo for the final Special Stage of the event?
Did you know that Benji documents the life and 1984 death of Ben Wilson, who was at the time considered the best U.S. high school basketball player?
Did you know that Fedor Kelling twice pulled out of elections for the New Zealand Parliament in the Suburbs of Nelson electorate?
Did you know that Gouffier of Lastours tried to bring home a lion after the First Crusade?
Did you know that James Bond creator Ian Fleming named his villain in The Man with the Golden Gun after the first cousin of WWI flying ace James Scaramanga?
Did you know that Madonna's song "Gang Bang" was inspired by the films of director Quentin Tarantino?
Did you know that Queen Tin Hinan, the legendary "mother" of the Tuareg people, was excavated in Algeria in 1925 by the adventurer Byron Khun de Prorok?
Did you know that Rocher Rond, France, is the highpoint of the Vercors Regional Park, despite not being a part of the Vercors?
Did you know that The Poznań was copied by Manchester City football fans after their team played Polish team Lech Poznań?