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Did you know that Pittsburgh steel magnate John Walker's personal library, including all of the original furnishings, was donated to Washington & Jefferson College and installed in the Thompson Library exactly as he had left it?
Did you know that President Barack Obama called to congratulate baseball pitcher Mark Buehrle after his perfect game?
Did you know that S.R. Nathan was the first President of Singapore to exercise the constitutional power to use the nation's past reserves to fund government schemes during the financial downturn?
Did you know that St Leonard's Church, Spernall, Warwickshire, now redundant, is the only church to have been owned by the Ancient Monuments Society?
Did you know that Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman was a top contender for the lead role in Thor, based on the Thor of Norse mythology, because the filmmakers "wanted someone with a Scandinavian touch"?
Did you know that The Periodic Table of Videos, hosted by Martyn Poliakoff, is one of the most popular sets of chemistry videos on YouTube?
Did you know that University of Maryland athletic director Dick Dull, who resigned after the death of Len Bias, hired a "no name" head football coach: Bobby Ross?
Did you know that indigenous Bolivian politician Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi led a 2002 protest march, which resulted in an accord with the government enabling the formation of the Constituent Assembly?
Did you know that seeds of the extinct Paleocene pine Pinus peregrinus are most similar to those of the modern red pine and tropical pine?
Did you know that shartegosuchid crocodyliforms made up an endemic Central Asian Mesozoic fauna that existed after the breakup of Pangaea?
Did you know that some of the money for the repair of the tower of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Boveney, Buckinghamshire was raised from the proceeds of choir concerts at nearby Eton College?
Did you know that the 1985 Doug E. Fresh single "The Show" inspired a diss track from the duo who later became Salt-n-Pepa?
Did you know that the Australian kerrawang, which is a shrub, should not be confused with the kurrajong, a tree, or the currawong, a sombre-plumaged bird resembling a crow?
Did you know that the National Hockey League rejected a bid for an expansion team in Norfolk, Virginia, even after more than 5,000 season tickets were sold?
Did you know that the Thornbury Hoard was discovered in a back garden in South Gloucestershire, England, by a man digging a pond, and that it took two people to carry it to the local museum?
Did you know that the first known arch dam was the Glanum Dam, built by the Romans in modern-day France during the 1st century BC?
Did you know that the giant maidenhair fern of eastern Australia may reach 2 m high, rather than the 10 to 45 cm height of the commonly cultivated maidenhair?
Did you know that two of the three French La Galissonnière-class ironclads participated in the Sino-French War of 1884–85?
Did you know that Ángel Daniel Vassallo is Virginia Tech's all-time leader in successful three-point field goals?
Did you know that , in 1925, Doug Turnbull became the first college lacrosse player to earn first-team All-America honors four times, and to date only three other players have matched that feat?
Did you know that Clinton L. Riggs got along so poorly with most of his comrades in the Spanish–American War that he resigned upon returning stateside, only to later take command of the same unit?
Did you know that Max Desfor's image Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea was taken during the longest retreat in the military history of the United States?
Did you know that Nevada Governor John Henry Kinkead was the first United States official to hold office in Alaska?
Did you know that Radmilla Cody sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Navajo at the Kennedy Space Center in 2002?
Did you know that Sauganash Hotel, located at Wolf Point, was Chicago's first hotel, first theater and the site where the newly formed town elected its first town trustees?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Hardmead, Buckinghamshire, contains a memorial to Robert Shedden, who died in 1849 after an unsuccessful expedition to find Sir John Franklin?
Did you know that during the Herero and Nama uprising of 1904/05, the settlement of Seeis in central Namibia was the location of two clashes between imperial Germany and the Herero?
Did you know that five-fingered jack and the tender brake are actually species of fern?
Did you know that former South African national rugby union team player Popeye Strydom also played baseball for Orange Free State?
Did you know that in 1944, while visiting the Albany Pine Bush, Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita) discovered the Karner Blue butterfly?
Did you know that journalist David Twersky broke the news stories that prevented both Johnnetta B. Cole and Lani Guinier from serving in Bill Clinton's presidential administration?
Did you know that one of the peaks in Antarctica is called The Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Friendship?
Did you know that silver phosphate, which was used in early photography as a light-sensitive agent, has recently been found to function as a photocatalyst for the splitting of water?
Did you know that the Byzantine megas doux John Doukas was taken hostage as a child, took captive a Serbian king, led a fleet against Chaka Bey and recovered much of western Anatolia from the Seljuks?
Did you know that the Ethiopian Garima Gospels was redated by radiocarbon testing to between 330 and 650, making it one of the oldest illuminated Christian manuscripts in the world?
Did you know that the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum building, in which the Nobel Prize winner was born, was deliberately destroyed during WWII?
Did you know that the Suludnon are an indigenous people who reside in the Capiz-Lambunao mountainous area of the island of Panay in the Visayas?
Did you know that the chamber choir RIAS Kammerchor performed Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, 400 years after its premiere, at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Did you know that the soccer club Tornado Måløy FK has two home fields?
Did you know that the stone "lions" seen at the gates of Shinto shrines are actually Korean dogs?
Did you know that the timothy plant bug causes "sticky dough"?
Did you know that tired of taking measurements by hand, Seymour London created the first automatic sphygmomanometer using an old blood pressure cuff, a column of mercury, a pump from a fish tank and a microphone?
Did you know that , despite its location in the Arctic, one could conceivably grow lettuce at Tanquary Fiord?
Did you know that , on July 19, 2010, Rich Cho became the first Asian American general manager in NBA history when he was hired by the Portland Trail Blazers?
Did you know that American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley devised three categories for his paintings (example pictured): "Hunches", "Geometrics", and "Organics"?
Did you know that General Mai Huu Xuan presided over the capture of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem after a successful coup, which Do Mau helped organise?
Did you know that Hungarian National Defence Day falls on 21 May, the anniversary of the climax of the Battle of Buda (1849)?
Did you know that John Joseph Woods won ten guineas for composing the national anthem of New Zealand?
Did you know that Joseph Mabry's death in a shootout with another businessman was chronicled by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi?
Did you know that Monroe Jay Lustbader of New Jersey's 21st Legislative District proposed stiffening penalties for juvenile car thieves, as those "old enough to steal cars are old enough to face severe consequences"?
Did you know that New Jersey General Assemblyman Peter J. Genova sponsored a bill that would make English the state's official language, stating that "Spanish has just grown too prominent in New Jersey"?
Did you know that Roy Vernon Scott, a professor emeritus at Mississippi State University, co-authored a history of Sam Walton and the Wal-Mart merchandising enterprise?
Did you know that Therdchai Jivacate has designed and built prosthetic limbs for elephants injured by landmines?
Did you know that as a result of his success during the Cambodian Campaign, Army of the Republic of Vietnam General Do Cao Tri was dubbed the "Patton of the Parrot's Beak"?
Did you know that before the 19th century, the Kuban River flowed into both the Black Sea and the Azov Sea?
Did you know that college football coach Billy Laval modified his team's jerseys to help a color-blind quarterback find his receivers?
Did you know that commercial fishing of Sockeye salmon from the Chilkoot Lake in Haines Borough, Alaska, is worth about US$1 million annually?
Did you know that less than six weeks after being fired from his 20-year career as the University of Wisconsin's football coach and athletic director, Ivy Williamson died from falling down a staircase?
Did you know that over several million years, the insectivorous Melithreptus have diversified into foliage browsers like the Black-headed and Western White-naped, and bark foragers such as the Black-chinned and Brown-headed Honeyeater?
Did you know that the 15th-century monastery of Saint Paraskevi, in Epirus, northwestern Greece, is situated on the edge of the Vikos Gorge?
Did you know that the 16th-century 140–142 Hospital Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, may stand on the site of the 11th-century Hospital of St Nicholas, which gives the street its name?
Did you know that the Ascension Island parsley fern was considered extinct until four plants were recently discovered on Ascension Island?
Did you know that the PWS-4, a Polish sports aircraft built in 1928, was not developed beyond a single prototype?
Did you know that the foundations of the redundant church of St Andrew, Woodwalton, Cambridgeshire, are moving and it is closed to visitors?
Did you know that the report "Top Secret America" by The Washington Post revealed that over 850,000 people in the U.S. intelligence community have top-secret clearance?
Did you know that the restaurant in the Hacienda El Lucero in San Miguel Acatlán, Mexico, serves crocodile ceviche?
Did you know that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Senator George Runner's Ronald Reagan Day bill and the state will begin celebrating it on Reagan's 100th birthday?
Did you know that Emil Spjøtvoll was the first rector of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, whose creation he originally opposed?
Did you know that Kalulu, an African boy who died in 1877, was modelled in Madame Tussauds and attended Dr. Livingstone's funeral in London?
Did you know that Olga Lepeshinskaya's theories on the origins of cells won her a Stalin prize, but were dismissed by her husband as "rubbish"?
Did you know that South Vietnamese General Ngo Quang Truong, known for his incorruptibility, refused to give his nephew a desk job, and the nephew was then killed on the front line?
Did you know that Stanley Fay, captain and quarterback of the undefeated national champion 1933 Michigan football team, later became Ford Motor Company's personnel director?
Did you know that The Hepworth Wakefield, a new art gallery opening in 2011 by the River Calder, takes its name from Wakefield-born artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth?
Did you know that The Undertaker, a professional wrestler, was momentarily engulfed in flames due to a pyrotechnics accident at WWE Elimination Chamber?
Did you know that Under the Window, published in 1879, launched Kate Greenaway's career as a prominent Victorian children's book illustrator?
Did you know that actor Zac Efron is set to star in and produce the American remake of the successful Swedish thriller film Snabba Cash?
Did you know that in 1950, L.A. Daily News publisher Manchester Boddy ran in both Senate primaries, with the paper first to call Democrat Helen Douglas "the pink lady" and Republican Richard Nixon "Tricky Dick"?
Did you know that light front holographic methods were originally found by mapping the spatial quark distribution in a proton to a higher dimensional warped space (example pictured)?
Did you know that shipping magnate Samuel Garner Wilder started in the business by sailing guano from Jarvis Island to New York?
Did you know that ships from the Royal Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Polish Navy participated in the British Commando raid Operation Anklet?
Did you know that the "Mad Raft Race" is an event held on the Chilkoot River as part of Fourth of July festivities observed in Haines, Alaska?
Did you know that the Borda House in Mexico City originally covered an entire city block?
Did you know that the Mikó Citadel of Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania, once used for defensive purposes, now houses an ethnographic museum and a library?
Did you know that the Old Whaler's Church in Sag Harbor, New York, is used by Jews on Saturday and Christians on Sunday?
Did you know that the Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, founded 1758, is the third-oldest Dutch newspaper still being published?
Did you know that the Soulé Live Steam Festival is held annually in downtown Meridian, Mississippi, at the Soulé Steam Feed Works complex, a former steam engine factory incorporated in 1893?
Did you know that the Wickham Market Hoard of Iron age coins was not the first hoard found near the village of Wickham Market?
Did you know that the main town and mission of the Ibi, a Timucua tribe, were evidently destroyed by the government of Spanish Florida as a result of the Timucua Rebellion of 1656?
Did you know that the name of Temperance River in northern Minnesota is allegedly an early explorer's pun on the river's lack of a sandbar?
Did you know that while the Sadd-el-Kafara Dam was under construction in the 3rd century BC to control floods, it was destroyed by one?
Did you know that "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore was transferred to the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac aboard the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, also known as Con Air?
Did you know that , in 1885, Augustus Voelcker calculated that the annual value of excrement per adult was nine shillings (worth £36 in 2010)?
Did you know that Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto and Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford?
Did you know that Bach had an excellent flauto traverso player at hand for Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94, the cantata for the ninth Sunday after Trinity of 1724?
Did you know that Bill Borgman was a lineman for the undefeated national champion 1932 and 1933 Michigan football teams and a line-mate of Gerald R. Ford on the 1934 team?
Did you know that District of Alaska Governor Lyman Enos Knapp enjoyed donning his military uniform and watching the local militia parade before him?
Did you know that Marie-Josephte Corriveau, whose story inspired many books, songs, plays and even ballet over the centuries since her execution in Quebec, was gibbeted for mariticide in 1763?
Did you know that Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy American satellite USA-193?
Did you know that Sir Arthur Ingram became the most extensive estate owner in Yorkshire?
Did you know that St John the Baptist's Church, Papworth St Agnes, Cambridgeshire, is constructed in alternating blocks of limestone and fieldstones, forming a chequerboard pattern?
Did you know that Tomm Murstad, who featured in show performances on skis and started a summer camp for youths, used the moniker "Onkel Tomm" (Uncle Tom) on himself?
Did you know that as the first American to play Henry Higgins on Broadway in My Fair Lady, Larry Keith said he doubted if he could get away with his English accent in England, "but I think I can in New York"?
Did you know that for hundreds of years the Buddha was represented by symbols such as his footprint before images like the Seated Buddha from Gandhara were carved in Pakistan?
Did you know that former Miami University head football coach  Arthur H. Parmelee  later studied pediatric medicine with Dr. Clemens von Pirquet in Vienna, Austria?
Did you know that four players from the 1976 NBA Draft, Adrian Dantley, Robert Parish, Alex English and Dennis Johnson, have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that millipedes in the order Sphaerotheriida roll up into balls the size of a cherry, a golf ball, or even a baseball when disturbed?
Did you know that retigabine is the first anticonvulsant to work by activating the Kv7 family of voltage-gated potassium channels?
Did you know that the Italian Etna-class protected cruisers had a belt of cork at their waterline, which was intended to seal holes by swelling through water absorption after being hit?
Did you know that the Wonoboyo hoard (examples pictured) is a collection of 9th century golden artifacts from the Medang Kingdom that were discovered in a paddy field in Central Java during irrigation work?
Did you know that the exile of the popular General Nguyen Chanh Thi by junta head Nguyen Cao Ky under false pretense of an overseas surgery trip sparked the Buddhist Uprising in South Vietnam?
Did you know that the nave of St Mary's Church, Mundon, Essex, is constructed in stone, the chancel in brick, the aisle is timber-framed, the belfry is weatherboarded, and the roofs are tiled?
Did you know that the triadic pyramid complex was an early Maya architectural form based on the Maya creation myth?
Did you know that when Albanian scholar Hasan Tahsini taught his students about vacuum by killing a pigeon in a bell jar, he was accused of witchcraft?
Did you know that CenSeam is an initiative to biologically sample seamounts (underwater volcanoes), of which about 100,000 exist and only 350 have received attention?
Did you know that David Warren, creator of the first flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, was buried in a casket bearing the label "Flight Recorder Inventor; Do Not Open"?
Did you know that José de la Borda went from being the richest man of Taxco to near-bankruptcy to being the richest man in Zacatecas?
Did you know that Koji Gyotoku is the coach of the Bhutan national football team?
Did you know that Maureen Ogden of New Jersey's 22nd Legislative District sponsored a bill making original birth certificates available to adoptees, saying "basic rights of the little babies were not being considered"?
Did you know that Nikolaus Pevsner stated that the crocketed and canopied stoup in the porch of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Caldecote, Hertfordshire, is unique?
Did you know that Rasta Thomas, at 16 became the youngest dancer ever to win the USA International Ballet Competition in the senior division?
Did you know that Ray Courtright, once considered Oklahoma's greatest halfback, pitched a no-hitter for the Sooners and coached the Nevada basketball and Michigan golf and wrestling teams to championships?
Did you know that Rensselaer Lake, created in 1851, was Albany, New York's first municipal water supply?
Did you know that Searsville Dam, built in 1892, currently provides no drinking water, flood control, nor hydropower, but rather it irrigates Stanford University's golf course?
Did you know that Skulptur, a 1921 book by Joseph Chaikov, was the first book on sculpture written in Yiddish?
Did you know that a 1960s-era church in Brighton, England, was demolished after just 20 years because it had been built with dangerous high-alumina cement?
Did you know that archaeologists have detected what they believe is a wooden henge underground near to Stonehenge?
Did you know that dolphins are often sighted in the estuary of the Great Wicomico River in Virginia?
Did you know that former fighter pilot Robert V. Whitlow, although trying to secure an NFL franchise for Phoenix, said the Philadelphia Eagles' plans to relocate to Arizona did not "seem very wise"?
Did you know that in the 1976 miniseries Dickens of London, British actor Roy Dotrice played both Charles Dickens and his father John Dickens?
Did you know that the Deer Rock, a heritage monument of the Tlingits in Haines Borough, Alaska, US, was witness to a peaceful settlement of conflicts between Chilkoot and Chilkat clans?
Did you know that the Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Warsaw, Poland, preserves cells in which Nazis tortured and killed Polish resistance fighters?
Did you know that the Revolutionary Left Front had the highest percentage of female candidates in the 1991 municipal elections in the major cities of Bolivia?
Did you know that the fossil butterfly Prodryas persephone (engraving pictured) is so well preserved that individual wing scales can be seen?
Did you know that the most distant planet known in 2002 was discovered by Dimitar Sasselov's team?
Did you know that the new building of the Warsaw University Library in Warsaw, Poland, was consecrated on 11 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II?
Did you know that the ornate Jacobean Revival-style 39 Welsh Row in Nantwich, Cheshire, was built as a humble savings bank?
Did you know that thousands of Muslims from Myanmar and Thailand who have migrated to Taiwan were descendants of nationalist soldiers that fled Yunnan when the communists took over mainland China?
Did you know that Óscar Zamora Medinaceli, a communist student activist and leader of a Maoist insurgency in the 1970s, would become a senator, mayor, ambassador, prefect and minister of Bolivia?
Did you know that Adolfo Kaminsky made forged IDs for Jewish refugees, South American leftists and North American draft dodgers?
Did you know that Antonello da Messina's altarpiece for San Cassiano in Venice disappeared from the church during the 17th century, only to be found later in the private collection of Archduke Leopold William?
Did you know that Black Issues Book Review was named one of the ten best new magazines of 1998 by Library Journal?
Did you know that Chief Justice of California nominee Tani Cantil-Sakauye worked as a blackjack dealer in Reno, Nevada, after graduating from UC Davis School of Law?
Did you know that Gofraid Donn was blinded and castrated by a follower of his uncle, and later jointly ruled the Kingdom of Man and the Isles with his uncle?
Did you know that Ireland recently experienced its highest number of fatalities in a single traffic collision?
Did you know that Minuscule 759 contains only the beginning of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:2) and lacks the major part of it?
Did you know that Mount Albion Cemetery in Albion, New York, has one of the rare butternut trees in the region?
Did you know that Neunggasa, a Buddhist temple in South Korea, was originally established in 419, destroyed in 1592 and rebuilt again in 1644?
Did you know that The New Christy Minstrels' 1962 debut album won a Grammy Award and sat in the Billboard charts for two years?
Did you know that World War II flying ace Hiromichi Shinohara once scored as many as 11 victories on a single day, setting a record in the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service?
Did you know that art collector Rolf Stenersen donated his home, the functionalist Villa Stenersen designed by Arne Korsmo, to the State of Norway as a home for the Prime Minister?
Did you know that in 1893 Jefferson Davis lay in state at the Louisiana Historical Association's Memorial Hall in New Orleans prior to being re-interred in Richmond, Virginia?
Did you know that in 1958, Trudy Späth-Schweizer became the first woman to hold a political office in Switzerland?
Did you know that sports writer Vic Ziegel co-wrote The Non-Runner's Book, which satirized the sport of marathon running?
Did you know that studio executive Simon Kornblit, who oversaw the release of Jurassic Park for Universal Pictures, became an actor after his retirement?
Did you know that the Ain Sakhri lovers, the oldest representation of two people making love, was found near Bethlehem?
Did you know that the American Quarter Horse stallion Zan Parr Bar was a three-time World Champion in halter as well as excelling at steer roping?
Did you know that the Lead Mosque of Shkodër, Albania, received its name from once having cupolas covered in lead?
Did you know that the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory (resident butterfly pictured) imports up to 3,000 butterflies a month from around the world?
Did you know that the extinct Lotus Nelumbo aureavallis is known from Eocene rocks in western North Dakota?