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Did you know that American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework?
Did you know that Catherine O'Flynn's mystery novel What Was Lost won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards?
Did you know that Cyclone Inigo caused more casualties before forming than after?
Did you know that Francisco de Quevedo's 1626 novel El Buscón, a major work of Spanish literature, was published without the permission of the author?
Did you know that Hermann Göring's chief art looter, Bruno Lohse, controlled a secret vault of looted paintings, discovered in Zurich in May 2007?
Did you know that Hugh Denis Macrossan was one of Queensland's shortest serving chief justices, a post also held by his brother and his nephew?
Did you know that Hurricane Greg caused one of Mexico's highest rainfall totals from a Pacific hurricane?
Did you know that Le chemin de fer, a piano composition by Charles-Valentin Alkan, is the first musical depiction of a railway?
Did you know that London's historic United University Club (1821-1972) is now occupied by the London Centre of the University of Notre Dame?
Did you know that Mike Trinh, an American attorney who represents a Guantanamo detainee on a pro bono basis, studied under Viet Dinh, author of the Patriot Act?
Did you know that New York City's General Motors Building sold for the record high price of $1.4 billion in 2003?
Did you know that Operation Camargue, one of the largest operations of the First Indochina War, failed to snare the Viet-Minh's Regiment 95?
Did you know that Pachycheilosuchus, an Early Cretaceous crocodile relative, was less than a meter (3.3 ft) long and had an armored neck?
Did you know that Polly Horvath's award-winning 2001 children's novel Everything on a Waffle tells the story of Primrose Squarp, an 11-year old girl whose parents are lost in a typhoon?
Did you know that R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wanted to produce Uncle Tupelo's album March 16–20, 1992 after seeing the band perform a cover version of the Louvin Brothers' "Great Atomic Power"?
Did you know that Robert Campbell Reeve, the founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways, set a new world record for the highest landing of a ski equipped aircraft at 8,750 feet (2,667 m) on Mount Lucania in 1937?
Did you know that The Expert at the Card Table, one of the most famous books on magic and card tricks, was written in 1902 by S. W. Erdnase, an author whose identity has been an enduring mystery for over 100 years?
Did you know that Think!, the Jeopardy! theme song by show creator Merv Griffin, has earned over $70 million in royalties since it debuted in 1964?
Did you know that Traffic in Towns, a 1963 report by the UK Department of Transport, warned of damage to town centres by car traffic, and offered solutions to the problem?
Did you know that Vereniging Basisinkomen is an organization that advocates granting all Dutch residents a guaranteed minimum income?
Did you know that William Hogarth's The Distrest Poet depicts a very poor family living in a squalid garret while the man of the family, who pursues a literary career in disregard of his family's poverty, attempts to write a poem entitled "Upon Riches"?
Did you know that William Melmoth's 1711 work The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd went through thirty editions and sold over 420,000 copies by the end of the century?
Did you know that as part of the redesign of the Grand Staircase in the Truman-era White House, architect Lorenzo Winslow developed a series of maquettes, detailed scale models showing the proposed designs?
Did you know that even as he embarked on a 24-year career in the U.S. Congress, William Alden Smith oversaw construction of the Grand Rapids, Kalkaska and Southeastern Railroad?
Did you know that in 1920, George Shima was dubbed "The Potato King" as he controlled 85% of California's potato market?
Did you know that the Frauenfriedenskirche at Frankfurt am Main (Germany) is an unusual expressionist church, decorated with monumental mosaics?
Did you know that the Hebrew term Illui, meaning genius, refers to Talmud scholars held in the highest regard?
Did you know that the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Istanbul features a cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth?
Did you know that the Nepalese Maoist Newar National Liberation Front sponsored the 'Miss Newa' beauty pageant despite having previously demonstrated against it?
Did you know that the Noric language is attested in only two inscriptions, one from Grafenstein, Austria, and the other from Ptuj, Slovenia?
Did you know that the Rural City of Marong, a local government in Victoria, Australia, voted itself out of existence in 1994?
Did you know that the captain of the steamboat Natchez would increase his boat's speed by putting bacon and hog fat in its engines, and giving his men whiskey?
Did you know that the current Australian prime minister and treasurer both attended Nambour State High School?
Did you know that the original land deed requires that a jail cell from the original Dutchess County courthouse be preserved in the current building?
Did you know that two new amphibious warfare ships of Australia to be added to the nation's fleet starting in 2012 will each be able to carry an entire infantry battalion and up to 16 helicopters?
Did you know that "Big" Alma Spreckels once successfully sued an ex-lover for "personal defloweration"?
Did you know that Alameda Street was built by Los Angeles County, California as a "truck boulevard" to the port?
Did you know that American lyric soprano Helen Jepson was first soprano on the original recording of Porgy and Bess?
Did you know that Blessed Veronica of Milan unsuccessfully tried to teach herself to read until an apparition of the Virgin told her that spiritual lessons were more important?
Did you know that Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany, is an unusual ensemble of expressionist architecture?
Did you know that Capitol Offense, the rock band of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, has opened for REO Speedwagon, Percy Sledge, Willie Nelson, and even Grand Funk Railroad?
Did you know that Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, which ran on CBS from 1956–1961, had five spin-off series, the most successful having been Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, which ran on ABC from 1958–1963?
Did you know that Hurricane Ava was the first Pacific hurricane flown into by NOAA aircraft?
Did you know that Hurricane Henri of 1979 was only one of four tropical cyclones in the 20th century to enter the Gulf of Mexico and not make landfall?
Did you know that Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's Grande Odalisque is thought to be painted with between two and five vertebrae "too many"?
Did you know that Jeffrey Miles, a chief justice in Australia, once heard a case in which a woman sought damages for losing the opportunity to work as a prostitute following a fall in a supermarket?
Did you know that Lorenzo Sawyer was the first judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
Did you know that Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes?
Did you know that Peter de Villiers was named coach of South Africa's national rugby union team, the Springboks, in January 2008, the first ever black coach of the team?
Did you know that Robert Peake the Elder worked in the Office of the Revels under Elizabeth I before being appointed "Serjeant Painter" to James I, a role in which he was responsible for portraits of Prince Henry?
Did you know that Towson (Md.) Methodist Church's membership split in two for 90 years after a dispute over the American Civil War?
Did you know that as well as being the only contemporary anthology of 17th century Scottish Gaelic verse, the Fernaig manuscript is written in a form of English orthography unique to the author?
Did you know that at age 13 Susy Clemens wrote a biography of her father Mark Twain that was included in his posthumously published work, Chapters from my Autobiography?
Did you know that one of the classifications used in proxemics is the classification of spaces into sociofugal or sociopetal spaces (the names being analogues of the words "centrifugal" and "centripetal")?
Did you know that since its original completion in 1972, the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Oberhof, Germany has undergone three separate renovations?
Did you know that the Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court heard the first Australian criminal prosecution of a bank for failing to protect its employees from armed holdups by improving safety at branches?
Did you know that the church of Hagia Thekla in Constantinople, now a mosque, was rebuilt by Emperor Isaac I Komnenos as thanks for surviving a hunting accident?
Did you know that the largest private home in the U.S. in 1790, Hampton Mansion, was occupied by the same family until 1948 and is the first national historic site selected by the U.S. National Park Service for architectural significance?
Did you know that the main house of the Thaddeus Hait Farm is built of wood and stone, an unusual combination in a Federal style building?
Did you know that the six episodes of the Japanese original video animation series FLCL were produced by the FLCL Production Committee, which included Gainax, Production I.G, and Starchild Records?
Did you know that three different Somali government organizations have sold rights for oil exploration in Puntland in the last three years?
Did you know that under the guidance of civil engineer Eugène Belgrand, Paris's sewer system expanded four-fold between 1852 and 1869?
Did you know that writer Ngaire Thomas was forced at the age of 15 to apologise in front of 600 members of her church congregation for "fornicating" with her cousin, when in fact she had only kissed him?
Did you know that years after Adolph Spreckels shot M. H. de Young, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (which he donated) and the De Young Museum merged to form the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco?
Did you know that Abani Mukherji, co-founder of the Communist Party of India, was executed by the Soviet Union as part of the Great Purge?
Did you know that Adelaide Johnson, sculptor of a memorial to women's suffrage in the US Capitol, was married in 1896 by a female minister, with two of her busts as bridesmaids?
Did you know that Chardonnay grapes are very neutral in flavor with many of the characteristics commonly associated with Chardonnay wine being derived from influences like terroir and the use of oak during winemaking?
Did you know that Charles Moir's first recruit as Roanoke College's basketball coach was Frankie Allen, who would eventually succeed Moir as head coach of Virginia Tech and become the school's first African American head coach?
Did you know that Cliff Friend co-wrote "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", the theme tune of the Looney Tunes cartoon series?
Did you know that Colorado state representative Joe Rice resigned from the Glendale city council in 2003 when called up to serve in the U.S. Army in Iraq, where he advised the Baghdad city council?
Did you know that French aristocrats saw Jean-François Millet's The Gleaners as an alarming glorification of the working classes?
Did you know that Karachi’s Lyari River is the major contributor to the annual discharge of 200 million gallons of sewage and Industrial waste into the Arabian Sea?
Did you know that London's St James's Club (1857–1978) was claimed to be the only gentlemen's club with a room devoted solely to backgammon?
Did you know that Mohammad Shukri played for the Malaysian Under-15 cricket team at the age of 18, and for the Under-19 team at the age of 20?
Did you know that Richard C. McCarty helped launch the "Decade of Behavior" campaign to bring attention to the importance of behavioral and social research?
Did you know that St John the Evangelist's Church, Weston, Runcorn, Cheshire is known as "The Choirboys' Church" because its choirboys wrote thousands of letters to raise money to build it?
Did you know that Stanfield Wells was the first of more than ten All-American football players from Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio?
Did you know that Sydney's Alexandra Canal is an artificial waterway originally planned to join Sydney Harbour to Botany Bay?
Did you know that Tommy Fleming was inducted into the American Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005, one of five soccer players unanimously selected to represent overlooked players from before the 1950s?
Did you know that a coal mining spoil heap at Writhlington, England was the site for the discovery of fossilised remains of the world's earliest known Damselfly?
Did you know that before Nielsen BookScan began tracking point of sale data at bookstores, nobody knew how many copies were being sold of literary works that were published by multiple publishers and had entered the public domain?
Did you know that graphic artist Rea Irvin's portrait of Eustace Tilly, a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, appeared on the debut issue of The New Yorker in 1925, and annually each February until 1994?
Did you know that investment banker John P. Clay pursued his interest in Sanskrit literature by endowing the Clay Sanskrit Library, a 100-volume series of Sanskrit works translated into English?
Did you know that it is expected to take 17 years to design and build the first of Australia's new submarines?
Did you know that on August 5, 1893, Cub Stricker of the Washington Senators baseball team was arrested after intentionally throwing a baseball into the crowd that broke the nose of a fan?
Did you know that surface weather observations play a key role in determining aircraft safety at airports?
Did you know that the Directa Decretal (385 AD) was a strongly-worded letter by Pope Siricius reminding priests of the perpetual celibacy required of them?
Did you know that the extinct Greenlandic Norse language is believed to have left loanwords in Kalaallisut?
Did you know that the landmark 1924 case Tournier v National Provincial and Union Bank of England clarified English law on the obligations that a bank has to protect the confidentiality of its customers?
Did you know that the supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar OJ287 has been measured to be 18 billion times the mass of the Sun, six times heavier than the previous record holder?
Did you know that the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky?
Did you know that the vote by Stanley Forman Reed to join the majority in Brown v. Board of Education made the ruling unanimous,  helping to win public acceptance for the decision?
Did you know that two teenage brothers from Poland escaped in 1985 to Sweden under a truck, and this event was presented in a 1989 film 300 Miles to Heaven?
Did you know that when Manolo Reyes created and hosted one of South Florida's first Spanish-language newscasts in 1960, the station received a number of complaints from non-Spanish speakers?
Did you know that when World War I aviator Stephen W. Thompson downed an Imperial German Army Air Service Albatros D.III on February 5, 1918, he became the first American to ever shoot down an enemy airplane?
Did you know that Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in Northern Canada, which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping seals?
Did you know that Italian explorer Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, sailed on behalf of Portugal and established trading relationships for that country with the Ming Dynasty in China in 1516?
Did you know that Kirill Eskov named a genus from the Linyphiidae spider family discovered by him in 1988 after Kikimora, a female spirit in Slavic mythology?
Did you know that Milwaukee Hawks player Don Boven fouled out of six consecutive NBA games in 1952—a record that still stands?
Did you know that Ong Kim Seng is the only Asian artist outside the USA to be admitted into the American Watercolor Society, having won six awards from the society?
Did you know that Ralph Heikkinen was the first All-American football player from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, being raised in the Finnish-American communities of the Gogebic Range?
Did you know that St Barnabas' Church, completed in Bromborough, England in 1864, has been called a "well-designed example of the work" of its architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott?
Did you know that Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space pays homage to Auguste Rodin's Walking Man?
Did you know that amphibious tanks which were used on D-Day were developed by Nicholas Straussler from Hungary?
Did you know that an Enoteca, from the Italian for wine library, is a shop that offers tourists and visitors the opportunity to sample local wines for a reasonable fee?
Did you know that the English historian Sir Raymond Carr was knighted for services to History in the New Year Honours List, 1987?
Did you know that the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau was created by Henri Matisse himself in 1952?
Did you know that the Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul disaster, which occurred in 1890 off Kushimoto, led to strengthening foreign relations between Turkey and Japan?
Did you know that the Two Ladies was a euphemism used for the Ancient Egyptian deities Wadjet and Nekhbet, represented on the royal crowns of the merged Upper and Lower Egypt as a cobra and a vulture, respectively?
Did you know that the new BBC Two sitcom Never Better has been unfavourably compared with other dark sitcoms such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Lead Balloon?
Did you know that the origins of Castle Lake in California date to the Pleistocene Era (more than 10,000 years ago) when a glacier carved a basin in the location of the current lake?
Did you know that the weedy scorpionfish can vary considerably in color as well as appendages depending on its environment?
Did you know that there is a belief that a dip in the waters of Papanasam Beach, one of the beaches in Kerala, washes away sins?
Did you know that 2005's Hurricane Kenneth brought heavy rainfall to Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii, enough for its name to be considered for retirement?
Did you know that Edwin Q. Cannon was sent by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a missionary to establish the first LDS churches in West Africa?
Did you know that FPT University, a college in Ho Chi Minh City specializing in information technology, became the first private university in Vietnam when it was established in 2006?
Did you know that Indian company Reliance Power attracted US$27.5 billion of bids on the first day of its initial public offering (IPO), equivalent to 10.5 times the stock on offer, thereby creating India's IPO record?
Did you know that Midford Castle was built in the shape of the ace of clubs (♣)?
Did you know that Sankey Valley Park, Warrington follows the course of the historical Sankey Canal, England's first canal?
Did you know that Scottish film actor Moultrie Kelsall played a pivotal role in saving the dilapidated Menstrie Castle in Clackmannanshire from demolition?
Did you know that Stubbins Ffirth drank vomit and smeared bodily fluids over himself in an attempt to prove that yellow fever was not contagious?
Did you know that after Comanche prophet Isa-tai promised a coalition of Native American warriors they would be invulnerable in battle and they lost, he blamed a Cheyenne killing a skunk for negating his magic?
Did you know that during the reign of Beorhtwulf of Mercia, London, the chief trading centre of Mercia, was attacked twice, in 842 and again in 851, by Viking armies?
Did you know that football manager Yvon Pouliquen led two clubs to victory in the French Cup Final and relegation from the top division in consecutive seasons?
Did you know that the 1956 My Fair Lady by Shelly Manne & His Friends was the first album ever made consisting entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single Broadway musical?
Did you know that the Japanese visual novel True Tears was adapted into an animated television series that is planned to consist of thirteen episodes?
Did you know that the One Child Policy of the People's Republic of China is based on Ma Yinchu's New Population Theory, which was criticized by the government after its publication in 1957?
Did you know that the death from disease in 951 of Gofraid mac Sitriuc, King of Dublin, was described as divine vengeance for his attack on the Abbey of Kells earlier in the year?
Did you know that the military operation against the dervish forces of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, commonly known as the "Mad Mullah", was described by a British politician as "the cheapest war in history"?
Did you know that the scientific name of the common Australian garden fungus Aseroë rubra means 'red disgusting juice'?
Did you know that the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky,  was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?
Did you know that 2002's Hurricane Elida was the first hurricane to be observed by the MERIS sensor aboard the ESA's satellite Envisat?
Did you know that British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
Did you know that Danish film director Pernille Fischer Christensen's first feature film, about the relationship between a beauty shop owner and a transvestite, won a Silver Bear prize at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival?
Did you know that London's Gresham Club (1843—1991) was named after Sir Thomas Gresham, an Elizabethan merchant?
Did you know that New York Giants quarterback Harry Newman threw the first touchdown pass in an NFL Championship Game 75 years ago in the 1933 NFL Championship Game against the Chicago Bears?
Did you know that Solomon Bibo was a Prussian-born Jew who became the equivalent of tribal chief of the Acoma Pueblo?
Did you know that Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada?
Did you know that Tommy Johnson holds the record for the most goals scored by a Manchester City player in a single season?
Did you know that because of Canada's controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow, 428 All Weather Fighter Squadron of the RCAF was disbanded on June 1, 1961?
Did you know that dhakis, traditional Bengali drummers, allegedly kill more than 40,000 egrets, pheasants, herons and open bill storks every year to decorate their instruments with feathers?
Did you know that less than two months after showing what would become the dress of the season for Spring 2006, Roland Mouret split from his backers and took a two-year hiatus from the fashion industry?
Did you know that only the shorter of the two Berks and Hants Railway lines actually entered Hants, the longer being entirely in the county of Berks?
Did you know that the Aboriginal Community Court is an Australian court which aims to reduce the overrepresentation of aboriginal criminal offenders in the justice system?
Did you know that the Cohocksink Creek was once the boundary between two Pennsylvania towns and now runs beneath the streets of the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties?
Did you know that the Pea Island Life-Saving Station on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was the first station of the United States Life-Saving Service to be staffed entirely by an African American crew?
Did you know that the Roman Temple of Évora in Portugal, was used as a butcher shop for nearly 500 years and thus survived destruction?
Did you know that the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway was San Francisco's first electric streetcar company?
Did you know that the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track constructed for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Austria, was the first permanent, combination artificially refrigerated track?
Did you know that the former chief architect of Yerevan, Arthur Meschian, was also one of the founders of Armenian rock?
Did you know that the passing lanes of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway, were paved in a different color to encourage drivers to stay in their lanes?