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Did you know that the 1836 painting Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers by Delaroche was thought lost in the Blitz of London of 1941, but was found in 2009?
Did you know that the American Detroit blues musician Washboard Willie, derived his backing group's name, the Super Suds of Rhythm, from his job as a car washer?
Did you know that the Arlington Club, a private club organized by business and banking leaders in Portland, Oregon, excluded women from membership for 123 years before admitting them in 1990?
Did you know that the Lefschetz theorem on (1,1)-classes proves the only case of the Hodge conjecture, a Clay Mathematics Institute million-dollar Millennium Prize Problem, which is known to be true on all Kähler manifolds?
Did you know that the recently discovered extrasolar planet HIP 79431 b is regarded as one of the most massive planets around M dwarf stars?
Did you know that the silent comedy Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford was playing at Washington, D.C.'s Knickerbocker Theatre when it collapsed under the weight of snow from a blizzard in 1922, killing 98 people?
Did you know that American Zen Buddhist monk Claude AnShin Thomas  has walked 19,000 miles (31,000 km) on peace pilgrimages?
Did you know that Continental Navy Captain William Pickles' ship, the Morris, was destroyed by a hurricane and replaced shortly before the 1779 Battle of Lake Pontchartrain?
Did you know that Crystal  Taliefero, percussionist with the Billy Joel Band,  also narrates children's audiobooks?
Did you know that Erin Carmody's curling team twice won the Prince Edward Island provincial junior championships  with an undefeated record?
Did you know that Henry A. Peirce arranged the first state visit of a ruling monarch to the U.S. for King Kalākaua and Ulysses S. Grant in 1874?
Did you know that Janet Vida Watson's first job involved researching the growth of chickens, but that she went on to become the first woman  president of the Geological Society of London?
Did you know that Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient Arved Crüger was married to the actress Carola Höhn?
Did you know that Manuel Pinho was forced to resign as Portugal's Minister of Economy and Innovation after making a gesture towards an opposition member during a session of parliament?
Did you know that Marchwood Military Port in Southampton supported war efforts in both the Normandy landings and the Falklands war?
Did you know that Nanoraphidia electroburmica, known from a fossil in amber, is the smallest known snakefly species, living or extinct?
Did you know that Portuguese soldiers used Elephanta Caves – now a World Heritage Site – sculptures for target practice, sparing only the Trimurti?
Did you know that University of  Michigan freshman Devin Gardner compiled 3,287 yards of total offense  as a high school junior and was ranked as the top quarterback prospect in the United States in  2009?
Did you know that West Indians Viv Richards and Hallam Moseley top the batting and bowling charts  in List A cricket  for Somerset  County Cricket Club?
Did you know that efforts to remove street vendors in the Tlaxcoaque  area of Mexico City  have resulted in threats to public officials?
Did you know that indoor plumbing was not installed in a former lock tender's cottage  on the Delaware and Hudson Canal at High Falls, New York, until the 1960s, over a century after it was built?
Did you know that sibling alpine skiers Ornella and Manfred Oettl Reyes are members of Peru's first team at the Winter Olympics, despite being born and living their entire lives in Germany?
Did you know that the Amalgamated Sugar Company, the second-largest polluter of sulfur dioxide in Oregon in 1995, marketed its White Satin sugar as "Oregon's Own and Only Sugar"?
Did you know that the American Piedmont blues guitarist Baby Tate  worked with a Blind Boy and a Peg Leg during his five-decade-long  career?
Did you know that the bloater, which inhabits the depths of the Great Lakes, swells when brought to the surface?
Did you know that the renovated Russian embassy has been described as the most  magnificent embassy in Luxembourg?
Did you know that Amy Williams, gold medal winner in skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics, was accused of getting an unfair advantage from ridges in her helmet?
Did you know that Camp Na'aleh, which was established in 1932 with help from Golda Meir, the future Prime Minister of Israel, is the oldest Habonim Dror summer camp in North America?
Did you know that Chinese Buddhist monk Song Yun and companions traveled to northwest India at the request of Empress Hu during the Northern Wei dynasty?
Did you know that Francisco Goya's Witches' Sabbath was a protest against superstitious beliefs encouraged by leaders of the Spanish Inquisition?
Did you know that French athlete Jason Lamy-Chappuis, who beat American Johnny Spillane in the final stretch of the individual normal hill/10 km Nordic combined event at the 2010 Olympics, was born in Montana?
Did you know that Harold Bell co-created Woodsy Owl, mascot of the United States Forest Service, on the set of the television series Lassie?
Did you know that Joseph Gutnick, chairman of Great Central Mines, was advised by the Rebbe Menachem Schneerson to go back to the Australian desert and search for "gold and diamonds"?
Did you know that Oswald Watt became the first Australian citizen to gain his Royal Aero Club pilot's certificate, before joining the French Foreign Legion on the outbreak of World War I?
Did you know that R&B singer Barrence Whitfield changed his name from Barry White, to avoid confusion with the other Barry White, who had changed his name from Barrence?
Did you know that West Indian cricketer Brian Lara has made the highest individual score and only quadruple century in Test cricket?
Did you know that after nearly two centuries of active use, the Royal Tobacco Factory in Seville, Spain, was converted into the seat of the rectorate of the University of Seville?
Did you know that between its 1960 closing and its current use as a museum, District School No. 14 in Pine Hill, New York, was a coat factory and a furniture repair shop?
Did you know that cartoonist Ken Emerson wrote the second-longest running comic strip in Australia?
Did you know that college basketball point guard Demetri McCamey and Big Ten Conference foe Evan Turner were once teammates at Isiah Thomas' former high school?
Did you know that for most of his European Parliamentary term, Gerhard Hager was a member of the Freedom Party of Austria, before leaving the party just over one year before the end of his second term?
Did you know that in order to convince defensive end Jody Schulz to sign a letter-of-intent, former East Carolina Pirates football coach Ed Emory took a plane to Kent Island during a snowstorm?
Did you know that literary historian Rolf Nyboe Nettum, one of Norway's central Knut Hamsun researchers, grew up as a neighbour of polar explorer Otto Sverdrup?
Did you know that over 100 Florida Black Bears are killed on Florida roadways each year?
Did you know that pre-colonial sexual customs in the Philippines involved equating the size of a woman's breasts and the wideness of her hips with the price of the dowry?
Did you know that the Batillus class supertankers Pierre Guillaumat, Prairial, Bellamya and Batillus were four of the five biggest ships ever built?
Did you know that the Old Harbor Light in Savannah, Georgia, also known as the Savannah Harbor Rear Range Light, resembles a giant streetlight?
Did you know that the ancient Amber Road passed through the Postojna Gate to reach the Mediterranean?
Did you know that the arrest of the Ghassanid ruler Al-Mundhir ibn al-Harith in 581 provoked a two-year revolt by his sons against the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that the mushroom Cortinarius archeri is featured on the cover of the book Fungi of Southern Australia?
Did you know that Alhaji Grunshi  was the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the First World War?
Did you know that Bloom Energy was awarded a patent in 2009 for a power device that utilizes yttria-stabilized zirconia?
Did you know that Cao Văn Viên was one of only two four-star generals in the history of South Vietnam?
Did you know that Chicago-born record producer Lou Reizner conceived and produced the orchestral version of The Who's rock opera Tommy?
Did you know that David Wilson was Nelson F.C.'s first manager in the Football League?
Did you know that Edwin C. Burt's shoe company issued a series of trade cards, one of which featured children sitting in a sailboat-shaped shoe?
Did you know that Fox Brothers,  established in 1772, has provided cloth to Bob Hope, Winston  Churchill, the Duke of Windsor  and Cary Grant?
Did you know that Gandhi biographer Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, a student of Eisenstein, is considered to be one of the pioneers of documentary film making in India?
Did you know that Norman Doidge, author of popular science book The Brain That Changes Itself, presented his research into psychotherapy at the White House in 1993?
Did you know that Perica Vlašić  won Diamonds at Henley, even though he turned up the day before the regatta without a boat?
Did you know that Tony Award-winning producer Richard Barr took part in the infamous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds?
Did you know that Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda, a Declared Monument in Hong Kong, was built in 1486 to improve the local fung shui?
Did you know that copies of a forthcoming Kraken Opus  book about Diego Maradona  will be sold with samples of his blood and hair?
Did you know that despite winning the first land victory against Japan in World War II at the Battle  of Milne Bay, Major General Cyril Clowes was relieved of his command for showing insufficient "vigour"?
Did you know that in 1955, former Belgian Member of the European Parliament Jean-Maurice Dehousse studied in Beverly Hills, California?
Did you know that squire Richard Cooke shot dead two tax collectors as he claimed that they were poachers?
Did you know that the Humboldt Fault Zone, which produced the 1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquake, still poses a formidable threat to the state of Kansas?
Did you know that the Vĩnh Tế Canal, built during the Nguyễn Dynasty in southern Vietnam, was a symbol of mistreatment of the Khmer people and later used by the Khmer Rouge in anti-Vietnamese propaganda?
Did you know that the catfish Pimelodus pictus has extremely long barbels, or whiskers, that can extend past the fish's tail fin?
Did you know that the late Louisiana State Rep. Shady Wall once pulled a pistol on colleague Carl Gunter, Jr., when Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's telephone?
Did you know that the oldest surviving translation of the Gospels into English was made at St Mary and St Cuthbert, Chester-le-Street, England?
Did you know that the title story from Shakespeare's Memory by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare?
Did you know that the trial mode from Moto Racer 3 requires the player to maneuver an obstacle course on a motorcycle?
Did you know that the whitefin, Cook's, Australian reticulate, spotted, leopard-spotted, painted, flagtail, speckled, saddled, and narrowbar swellsharks were all scientifically described in 2008, more than doubling the number of species in the genus Cephaloscyllium (example pictured)?
Did you know that Alf Whist, Minister of Industry and Shipping in the Quisling regime, had no political experience prior to joining the Fascist party during Nazi Germany's occupation in the 1940s?
Did you know that Andrea Fay Friedman's first voice-acting role was portraying Ellen, a young woman with Down Syndrome, on the "Extra Large Medium" episode of Family Guy?
Did you know that Australian triathlete Mirinda Carfrae in her first attempt at the Ironman distance broke the women's marathon course record at the 2009 World Championships?
Did you know that Egyptian diplomat Amr Bey picked up squash  while posted in the United Kingdom  and went on to win six consecutive British Open Squash Championships in the 1930s?
Did you know that KV35YL, a mummy that was discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb KV35 in 1898 and thought to be male at the time, was recently determined by DNA testing to be King Tut's mother?
Did you know that King Farouk I of Egypt secretly communicated with representatives of Nazi Germany during World War II through his father-in-law Youssef Zulficar Pasha, Egypt's first ambassador to Iran?
Did you know that Louis Robertshaw flew combat missions in World War II and Korea and flew an F-4D Phantom fighter in Vietnam as commanding general of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing?
Did you know that Norwegian journalist Audhild Gregoriusdotter Rotevatn is known for her unusual name and consistent use of Nynorsk?
Did you know that Ororaphidia and Styporaphidia are the oldest snakeflies known from China, dating from the Middle Jurassic?
Did you know that Robert C. Janiszewski, longtime County Executive of Hudson County, New Jersey, was the highest-ranking elected official in state history ever to work undercover for the FBI?
Did you know that Thai director Yongyoot Thongkongtoon's debut film was The Iron Ladies, a fact-based sports comedy about a volleyball team of gay and transgender men?
Did you know that a humongous fungus (example pictured) caused a media stir after it was reported to cover an area of 37 acres (15 ha), weigh at least 21,000 pounds (10,000 kg), and be 1,500 years old?
Did you know that during the Convention of Aguascalientes the Zapatista Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama  said that the Mexican flag symbolized "triumph of clerical reaction" and was then threatened by other attendees?
Did you know that in 1871, Lars Havstad became one of the first two deaf people to pass the final examination in secondary  schools in Norway?
Did you know that in the Treaty of Bromberg, Poland-Lithuania accepted Hohenzollern sovereignty in the Duchy of Prussia in turn for an "eternal alliance"?
Did you know that the Alexandria Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana, US, started mostly with discarded pets when it opened in 1926?
Did you know that the American Pie franchise, consisting of a trilogy and spin-off spiritual successor series of four more films, spawned from the 1999 film American Pie?
Did you know that the Battle of Mingtiao marked the beginning of the Shang dynasty?
Did you know that the Church of the East, originally the Christian church of Sassanid Persia, eventually established churches throughout Asia, including in Mesopotamia, India, Central Asia, and China?
Did you know that the brightly coloured Hildebrandt's Starling nests in abandoned woodpecker burrows and holes in telegraph poles and fenceposts?
Did you know that the female sweetpotato bug is very protective of her young?
Did you know that the spinnenkopmolen Arkens, Franeker, is the only windmill in the Netherlands fitted with Vlinderwieken (English: Butterfly sails)?
Did you know that Fulcran Vigouroux was the first secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission?
Did you know that Tom Walley  managed Watford's  1982 FA Youth Cup  winning team, which included John Barnes,  Nigel Gibbs  and Neil Price?
Did you know that after her European Parliamentary career, Anne André-Léonard  served as the Assistant Commissioner for Belgium at the World Expo in Zaragoza from 2006 to 2008?
Did you know that eclectic and non-traditional Quartet San Francisco  has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards, most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck, the first all-Dave Brubeck string quartet  recording?
Did you know that for The Kinks' 1968 album Live at Kelvin Hall, sessions were held to "sweeten" the original live recording?
Did you know that former Scotland  international rugby union player Andrew Balfour  led a health initiative that reduced malaria deaths in Khartoum, Sudan, by 90%?
Did you know that in 1988, the Major League Baseball ERA title was decided by a margin of less than 1⁄100 of a run between Allan Anderson and Teddy Higuera?
Did you know that some modern K'iche' Maya revere rival syncretised forms of the pre-Columbian Moon goddess Awilix that are said to be the lovers of St. James?
Did you know that surviving works by Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman include the Herman Behr Mansion, Eagle Warehouse, Brooklyn Union Gas Company Headquarters, Villa Maria and Crescent Athletic Club House?
Did you know that the Catskills' Esopus Creek (pictured, near Shandaken) is one of the most productive trout streams in the Northeast?
Did you know that the English pirate Peter Love set up a base of operation in the Outer Hebrides, but was betrayed by an associate outlaw and executed by the Scottish Government in 1610?
Did you know that the Israeli politician and diplomat Adin Talbar  was the national 800 meter  dash champion in 1942?
Did you know that the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway is the only NASCAR-sanctioned asphalt track in Wisconsin?
Did you know that the broad whitefish is eaten by brown bears when they cannot find salmon?
Did you know that the inaugural inductees into the University of  Connecticut Huskies of Honor included 23 basketball players and four head coaches, including Hall of Fame  coaches Jim Calhoun  and Geno Auriemma?
Did you know that the tyranny of  small decisions is a concept developed by the  American economist Alfred E. Kahn  in 1966, and has been applied to market failures, environmental  degradation and  health outcomes?
Did you know that Archiinocellia is the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada?
Did you know that David Hockney took two weeks to paint a moment that lasted two seconds in his 1967 painting A Bigger Splash?
Did you know that George Meredith's book The Adventures of Harry Richmond first appeared in Cornhill Magazine between September 1870 and November 1871, with illustrations by George du Maurier?
Did you know that John Pittenger, former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education, was the first legislator to regularly employ high school seniors as legislative pages in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives?
Did you know that Memories Off 5: Encore's PlayStation Portable port includes a built-in screen capture feature to download images onto a memory stick?
Did you know that Pocheon, a South Korean city located between Seoul and Gangwon province is famous for makgeolli (unfiltered rice wine) and galbi (marinated short beef ribs)?
Did you know that ambulanceman Stanley Skinner was awarded the British Empire Medal for his actions in the aftermath of the train crash at Marden, Kent in 1969?
Did you know that designated heritage designs by the early 20th-century Canadian architect Neil R. Darrach can be found in both St. Thomas, Ontario, and Regina, Saskatchewan?
Did you know that former football official Lencie Fred was the first Vanuatuan to be included on the FIFA list of referees?
Did you know that former professional footballer Tony Larkin helped to establish Britain's first football academy for visually impaired players?
Did you know that fossils of the temnospondyl amphibian Kourerpeton   were notoriously discovered in the window of a barber's shop in Arizona?
Did you know that in Das Erbe, a Nazi propaganda movie, a friendly professor shows a young blonde woman how animals pursue "racial policy"?
Did you know that infragravity  waves  generated along the Pacific   coast of North America   propagate across the oceans and contribute to the breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf   in Antarctica?
Did you know that many works by "Brooklyn's greatest architect", Frank Freeman, have been destroyed, including the Hotel Margaret, Germania Club House, Brooklyn Waterworks, Bushwick Democratic Club House, Brooklyn Savings Bank and Thomas Jefferson Building?
Did you know that the Patrick Henry Brittan House in Montgomery, Alabama, was built in 1858 by the 10th Secretary of State of Alabama?
Did you know that the Philippine edition of Playboy magazine does not display frontal nudity or human genitalia in order not to go against Filipino values?
Did you know that the Three Parishes pilgrimage churches in the Slovenian village Rosalnice contain a 15th-century Gothic sanctuary with wall paintings depicting the crucifixion and Saint Christopher?
Did you know that the deadly skullcap may cause gastrointestinal bleeding, a coma, kidney failure, or even death within seven days after eating?
Did you know that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus, were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs?
Did you know that the position of Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford was endowed by John Ireland, who was Dean of Westminster for more than 25 years?
Did you know that when Francis Close retired as Dean of Carlisle Cathedral in 1881, he was the oldest dean in the Church of England?
Did you know that Amelia Goes to the Ball is an opera buffa in one act composed by Gian Carlo Menotti?
Did you know that Bio-Blend Fuels produce a biodiesel made from pig fat that smells of bacon?
Did you know that Henry Bracy  was one of the most popular comic tenors of the Victorian era?
Did you know that John Singer Sargent's c. 1882 painting Street in Venice shows the influence of Venetian photographers?
Did you know that Lennard Stokes, a 19th-century rugby union international who captained England on five occasions, also played first-class cricket for Kent and later worked as a surgeon?
Did you know that Robert Downey Jr.'s costume in the 2008 film Iron Man was made by special effects artist Shane Mahan?
Did you know that Rwandan cuisine includes urwagwa, a local beer made from fermented bananas?
Did you know that Sir Henry Bate Dudley not only chronicled the life of Gainsborough but also wrote the comic opera The Flitch of Bacon?
Did you know that The BLT Cookbook was highly recommended by the National Pork Board?
Did you know that Tošo Dabac worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Zagreb as their press officer for Southeast Europe before becoming internationally renowned for his street photography?
Did you know that former gold medalist in short track speed skating Lee Seung-Hoon converted in 2009 to long track to earn a spot in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that in 2005 composer Krzysztof Penderecki added a Ciaccona for strings to his Polish Requiem, begun in 1980?
Did you know that in Đại Việt sử lược, it was recorded that Khúc Hạo, not his father Khúc Thừa Dụ, was the first of the Khúc family to be the Jiedushi of Tĩnh Hải quân?
Did you know that the 1906 College Football All-America Team included Princeton quarterback Eddie Dillon, Harvard guard Francis Burr, Yale end Bob Forbes, Cornell center Bill Newman, a midshipman who was the strongest man in the U.S. Naval Academy, and a guard who was described as "one of the largest men who ever played on a college gridiron"?
Did you know that the 1983 Queensland election was triggered when Terry White, Angus Innes, and various MLAs of the "Ginger Group" crossed the floor in the Australian state's Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that the Battles of the Separation Corridor saw the first use of tanks by the Israel Defense Forces against the Egyptian army?
Did you know that the Fyrby Runestone claims two brothers were the most skilled in runes in Middle Earth?
Did you know that the area around La Merced Market, Mexico City, is considered to be a "tolerance zone" for prostitution?
Did you know that the banded archerfish is able to hit targets up to three metres away by shooting jets of water from its mouth?
Did you know that the contemporary artist Walenty Pytel was commissioned to create four 45-meter steel eagles for Portuguese football club Benfica?
Did you know that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
Did you know that the figures in Ilya Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga are based on real characters, including a former priest, a former soldier and a painter?
Did you know that the forest area of the Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary helps in arresting desertification and advancement of the Thar desert?
Did you know that the recently demolished Francis M. Drexel School in Philadelphia was named for a financier whose family founded several educational institutions, including Drexel University?