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Did you know that the four-part A&E documentary series The Greatest Pharaohs is being used in many college and university courses on anthropology and archaeology?
Did you know that undercover apartheid agent Fabio Barraclough used a cover identity as an anti-apartheid campaigner?
Did you know that , in 2008, college football player Russell Wilson of North Carolina State became the first freshman quarterback to ever be named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team?
Did you know that Australian forces were deployed as a part of the North Russian Expeditionary Force and North Russia Relief Force during the Russian Civil War?
Did you know that C. Natesa Mudaliar was responsible for bringing bitter rivals Theagaroya Chetty and Dr. T. M. Nair together and is remembered as one of the founders of India's Justice Party?
Did you know that Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the captain of US Airways Flight 1549, also runs an aviation safety consultant company and has worked as an accident investigator for the USAF, NTSB, and FAA?
Did you know that Empire Athelstan was the first merchant ship built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow in Furness after the Second World War?
Did you know that Jagannatha Dasa is one of the widely known 18th-century saint-poets of the Kannada language?
Did you know that Leonard Andrews created The New York Standard, the largest alternative paper printed during the 114-day 1962 New York City newspaper strike, with a peak circulation over 400,000 in its 67 issues?
Did you know that Mike Murphy trained heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan, was the first Michigan Wolverines football coach, and has been called the "the father of American track athletics"?
Did you know that Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova regarded Osip Mandelstam's poem on Russian poetess Mariya Petrovykh as the "best love poem of the twentieth century"?
Did you know that Stephen Etnier, an American realist painter, commanded the United States Navy ship USS Mizpah during World War II?
Did you know that after escaping from German forces in World War II, Peter Lewis hid in a safe house in Modena for almost two months in late 1943?
Did you know that college football player Bob Ward is the only player to have been selected by the Associated Press as a first-team All-American in both an offensive and defensive position?
Did you know that development of the Namsos Line was halted both in 1908, when final plans for the Nordland Line used another route via Snåsa, and in 1927, when the Norwegian Minister of Labour stopped construction?
Did you know that entrepreneur Ralph D. Foster and his partner started Missouri radio station KGBX (now KSGF) in 1926 to advertise their Firestone Tires dealership?
Did you know that following Andrew Jackson's inauguration in 1829, a drunken mob inside the White House was only dispersed once bowls of punch and liquor were placed on the front lawn?
Did you know that the Citizen's Briefing Book is a compilation work of citizen recommendations to Barack Obama, to be presented to him after his inauguration as President of the United States?
Did you know that the Indiana Rangers inspired the creation of the more famous Texas Rangers?
Did you know that the Little Wattlebird lacks the wattles which characterise the wattlebirds?
Did you know that the MV Domala was the first ship of the British-India Steam Navigation Company that was powered by diesel engines?
Did you know that the Moss, Norway-based corporation Peterson started as a general store in 1801, later expanding into packaging and paper industry via timber trade and shipping?
Did you know that the Singsaker Line was the first part of the Trondheim Tramway, Norway, to be closed?
Did you know that the Thomas Paine Cottage is where the Revolutionary War hero and author of Common Sense lived from 1802 to 1806, was buried in 1809, and was disinterred in 1819 by William Cobbett?
Did you know that the U.S. Olympic Committee awarded medals to Sam Stoller and Marty Glickman 62 years after the only two Jews on the U.S. track team were pulled from the 400-meter relay team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
Did you know that the UNIO High School in Satu Mare, Romania, was established only to train and promote skilled workers for the UNIO Company?
Did you know that the Weberian apparatus, a set of modified bones that link the swim bladder and inner ear of some fishes, is a distinguishing characteristic of the superorder Ostariophysi?
Did you know that the antimicrobial protein hydramacin-1 was extracted and isolated in 2008 by German scientists from Hydra, a freshwater relative of corals and jellyfish?
Did you know that the biennial world chef championship Bocuse d'Or, named for Paul Bocuse, is one of the world's most prestigious cooking competitions?
Did you know that the birth place of Tipu Sultan, also known as the Tiger of Mysore, is located 150 metres (490 ft) south-west of Devanahalli Fort in Karnataka, India?
Did you know that the title for Peter Benchley's best-selling 1974 novel Jaws was not agreed until 20 minutes before it went into production?
Did you know that the unusual layout of bays in the aisles of St Luke's Church, Brighton, was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "curious" and "disturbing"?
Did you know that , being a descendant of Pliohippus, Astrohippus is not considered to be an ancestor to modern horses?
Did you know that Brett Queener, an American goalkeeper in professional field lacrosse, plays an offensive position in professional indoor lacrosse?
Did you know that Captain Charles Powell Hamilton was present at both the loss of HMS Alexander in the Action of 6 November 1794, and her recapture at the Battle of Groix?
Did you know that East Wallabi Island has the highest number of plant species on any island of the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago in the Indian Ocean?
Did you know that Grand Duchess Sophie Caroline of East Friesland instructed Danish royal architect Lauritz de Thurah to demolish Sorgenfri Palace in 1756 to make way for a new palace?
Did you know that Maraimalai Adigal, a Saivite and considered the father of the Pure Tamil movement, disagreed with the atheistic beliefs of Periyar's Self-Respect Movement?
Did you know that Murder on a Sunday Morning, a French film about the 2000 Brenton Butler murder case in Jacksonville, Florida, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2001?
Did you know that NBC's 2009 reality television program Superstars of Dance is hosted by "Lord of the Dance" Michael Flatley?
Did you know that New York City's Ramaz School, with 1,100 students in 2007, was named for Rabbi Moses Margolies and founded by his grandson Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, whose son was in the opening class of six in 1937?
Did you know that Nijaguna Shivayogi, a petty chieftain in 15th-century Karnataka, India, was a visionary writer and poet in the Kannada language?
Did you know that Oslac, the first ealdorman of southern Northumbria, is said to have escorted the Scottish king Cináed mac Maíl Coluim to the court of the English king Edgar the Peaceful?
Did you know that Ron Rothstein was the first head coach of the Miami Heat, an American professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida?
Did you know that Sedgeley, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1799 and built in Philadelphia, was the first Gothic revival-style house in the U.S.?
Did you know that Steven Hoefflin grafted skin to Michael Jackson’s scalp after the singer was burnt during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in 1984?
Did you know that a 2009 Pennsylvania court case ruled that poker is a game of skill, thus not subject to the state laws related to gambling?
Did you know that during the Battle of Tipton's Island, Colonel Tipton punished a talkative soldier under his command by tying him to a tree?
Did you know that in 1952, three BSA A7 motorcycles won the Maudes Trophy and the International Six Days Enduro, achieving 4,500 miles (7,200 km) without any problems?
Did you know that in 1975, Tivi Etok, a Quebec artist, was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released?
Did you know that in 2005, Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a bill making Oregon the first U.S. state to require prescriptions for cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient used to make methamphetamine?
Did you know that remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters on West Wallabi Island, constructed by survivors of the 1629 Batavia shipwreck, are the oldest known European-built structures in Australia?
Did you know that tab shows—cut-down versions of Broadway and other musicals, with portable scenery—often shared the bill with early 20th-century vaudeville and burlesque shows in the USA?
Did you know that the Norwegian Minister of the Interior and President of the Storting, Johan Henrik Paasche Thorne, was a business partner of Theodor Peterson before entering politics?
Did you know that the Polish resistance in World War II designed and produced hundreds of flamethrowers, most of them of the K pattern model?
Did you know that the Trondheim Tramway of Norway could not sell their used Class 8 trams because they had the unique combination of 260 cm (100 in) width and meter gauge?
Did you know that the Wolf Popper Synagogue in Kraków, Poland, was founded in 1620 by one of the richest European traders in saltpetre, used for the making of gunpowder?
Did you know that this year's Tour of California will cross the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time?
Did you know that Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the "father of the abortion pill", first described the concept of neurosteroids?
Did you know that Al-Maquar, which contains the royal residence of Jordan, was built on the camp-site for the armies of the Arab Revolt, who captured Amman in 1918?
Did you know that Alexander Ross was Engineer-in-Chief of the Breydon Viaduct?
Did you know that Captain John Maitland's decisive quashing of an attempted mutiny was termed 'Doctor Maitland's recipe' by Admiral John Jervis?
Did you know that Chicago's Fountain of Time by Lorado Taft is considered the earliest outdoor concrete sculpture?
Did you know that Château de Cayx is a royal residence of the Danish monarch in France?
Did you know that Corethrellidae, a family of parasitic midges belonging to the same order as the common housefly, have been found to spread the disease-causing protozoan Trypanosoma among their host frog populations?
Did you know that Count Hans von Schack of South Jutland was given Schackenborg Castle as a token of Frederick III of Denmark's gratitude for his military achievements in the Northern Wars?
Did you know that Holly Coors, wife of beer magnate Joseph Coors, stated while planning to run for Governor of Colorado that the way to help women was "not the Equal Rights Amendment but through free enterprise"?
Did you know that Major League Baseball manager Billy Martin served five separate terms as manager of the New York Yankees?
Did you know that Marcia P. Sward, who created the children's environmental education program GreenKids, started her career as a mathematician?
Did you know that President George W. Bush appointed three Cabinet members who had been born outside of the United States, the most of any U.S. president?
Did you know that Providence Newberg Medical Center in Oregon was the first hospital in the United States to earn a Gold LEED certification?
Did you know that Star Trek: Countdown, a comic book prequel to the 2009 film Star Trek, is also a sequel to the 2002 film Star Trek Nemesis?
Did you know that Typhoon Wayne, which roamed the South China Sea and Formosa Strait for over three weeks in 1986, remains the longest lived tropical cyclone on record in the western Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that Vladas Jurgutis is considered to be the "father of the Lithuanian litas"?
Did you know that after surviving 1945's Battle of Manila, the Avenue Theater along Rizal Avenue was demolished in 2006 in order to turn it into a parking lot?
Did you know that because of differences in the demands for a separate nation called Dravida Nadu, India's DMK party split in 1962 and a short-lived Tamil National Party was formed?
Did you know that child actor Asa Butterfield appeared on the cover of Patrick Skene Catling's autobiography Better Than Working?
Did you know that controversy erupted when Virginia Tech was selected to play in the 2002 Gator Bowl college football game instead of Syracuse, which had more wins in the regular season?
Did you know that designer Shigeo Fukuda's poster "Victory 1945" of a projectile heading straight at the opening of a cannon barrel was described as a "bitingly satirical commentary on the senselessness of war"?
Did you know that ever since the Griffin v. California case in the U.S. Supreme Court, judges and prosecutors are forbidden from mentioning that a defendant has refused to testify?
Did you know that rapper T.I. is starring in T.I.'s Road To Redemption, an upcoming reality television show?
Did you know that symbiotic moss animals live on the bristles of the crab known as the Mud-Runner?
Did you know that the Light-mantled Albatross does not start breeding, on average, until 12 years old?
Did you know that the color scheme for Israel Railways' new Siemens Viaggio Light trains was chosen by the general public in a poll?
Did you know that the invitations to the inauguration of Barack Obama were produced in an environmentally friendly manner by companies certified by the Forest Stewardship Council?
Did you know that the legend of Sumbha and Nisumbha, demons from Hindu mythology, is used as a warning against the dangers of seduction in Shashi Tharoor's novel The Great Indian Novel?
Did you know that there was public outcry when the Sea Alarm—formerly one of Britain's WWII Empire ships—was scrapped after the closure of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum?
Did you know that when Jean-Jacques Démafouth, in exile from the Central African Republic, agreed to lead the APRD rebel group in March 2008, he stipulated they must negotiate a peace deal?
Did you know that 52 of Sholto Johnstone Douglas's paintings of First World War "dazzle ships" (dazzle camouflage pictured) are in the Imperial War Museum?
Did you know that Haskel Lookstein, who succeeded his father Joseph Lookstein as Rabbi of New York City's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in 1979, was Newsweek magazine's second-ranked U.S. pulpit rabbi in 2008?
Did you know that Isaac Albéniz's opera Pepita Jiménez has been adapted several times by numerous people into different constructs and languages?
Did you know that Lucques, Aglandau, Salonenque, Picholine, Olivière, Tanche, Bouteillan, Cailletier, Grossane, Germaine, Cayon and Sabine are some of about a hundred French olive cultivars?
Did you know that Michael Christian Festing was Thomas Arne's mentor and it is through his influence that Arne was able to pursue a music career?
Did you know that Niepołomice Forest in Poland incorporates the most protected nature reserve inhabited by European bison called wisent, the heaviest surviving land animal in Europe?
Did you know that Pernessa C. Seele, the founder of the Harlem Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS, is an immunologist and one of Time magazine's Top 100 Americans in 2006?
Did you know that Ratchanya Yatreegam, magnum opus of Indian poet Henry Alfred Krishnapillai written in Tamil, was based on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?
Did you know that Sega changed a dainty, big-eyed female character into a Vallejo-like golden bikini-clad female barbarian, to market the video game Alisia Dragoon to the Western market?
Did you know that St. Mary's Islands, Karnataka, known for the distinctive geological formation of columnar basaltic lava, are a set of four small islands in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Malpe?
Did you know that Trailanga Swami, an Indian yogi, is reputed to have lived nearly 300 years and reportedly "read people’s minds like books"?
Did you know that University of Pennsylvania track coach Ken Doherty removed Bruce Dern from the track team in 1957 after his Elvis-like sideburns caused a commotion while running the two-mile relay?
Did you know that Vilhelm Andreas Wexelsen, who had two tenures as Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs, became a bishop after his political career?
Did you know that a split in India's Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in 1988 resulted in a split in the Congress party in Tamil Nadu, leading to the birth of the new party Thamizhaga Munnetra Munnani?
Did you know that after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, Joseph Alexander Cooper was enlisted to suppress Ku Klux Klan disturbances in Tennessee?
Did you know that although Katharine Hepburn wrote most of the filmed script for Travels with My Aunt, she was denied screen credit because she was not a member of the Screen Writers Guild?
Did you know that around 80 percent of El Salvador's forests are associated with shade coffee plantations?
Did you know that both Charles Langbridge Morgan, a civil engineer, and his son Charles Langbridge Morgan, a playwright and novelist, served in the British Armed Forces during the First World War?
Did you know that in Tanta, Egypt, some restaurants sell an "al-Tourbini sandwich", named after a serial child killer?
Did you know that no one knows the age of the Greaser Petroglyphs located in eastern Lake County, Oregon, USA, but they could be up to 12,000 years old?
Did you know that the Diamond darter, discovered in 2008, lives only in the Elk River of West Virginia, USA?
Did you know that the Hawthorn Farm rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon, has a piece of art that indicates the wind's direction by using lights and sounds?
Did you know that the Kay Moor coal mine near Fayetteville, West Virginia, was first worked with mule-drawn railcars?
Did you know that the first container ship arrived in the Port of Tokyo's Shinagawa terminal in 1967?
Did you know that the village of Worsley is centred around the coal mines that helped kickstart the industrial revolution in nearby Manchester?
Did you know that wolf lichen, fungal species Letharia vulpina, was used historically as a wolf poison by combining it with powdered glass and meat?
Did you know that Anacletus II is regarded as an antipope although he had received the majority of the votes in the Papal election of 1130?
Did you know that Andrew Ritchie named his Brompton folding bicycle company after the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary?
Did you know that British poisoner Frederick Seddon made a secret Masonic signal to his trial judge, prominent Freemason Thomas Townsend Bucknill, in an attempt to overturn the jury's guilty verdict?
Did you know that Fred Shaw Mayer was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for breeding Birds of Paradise?
Did you know that Halle Jørn Hanssen was Norway's first television correspondent stationed in an African country?
Did you know that Harmon Northrop Morse was awarded the Avogadro Medal in 1916 for his extensive report on osmotic pressure and semipermeable membranes (concept pictured)?
Did you know that Johann Phillip Fabricius, a German Christian missionary, completed the first translation of the Bible to Tamil?
Did you know that Robert Dallek researched JFK for five years by tapping National Security Archives, oral histories, White House tapes, and medical records to write An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963?
Did you know that Sri Ponna, the classical Kannada language poet of c. 950, is considered one of the "three gems of Kannada literature?
Did you know that The Hunters of Kentucky, which commemorated the Battle of New Orleans, was used as Andrew Jackson's 1828 campaign song?
Did you know that during the Angolan Civil War, the surrounding area of Luanda's Palácio de Ferro, believed to be designed by Gustave Eiffel, was once used as a parking lot?
Did you know that economist John Kenneth Galbraith called The Go-Go Years, a book by John Brooks about Wall Street's speculative bubble in the 1960s, "a small classic in the history of financial insanity"?
Did you know that female impersonator T. C. Jones played murderous transvestites in both a 1965 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and a 1967 episode of The Wild Wild West?
Did you know that historian P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar believed that Kanchipuram was the southernmost outpost of Sanskrit culture during the pre-Pallava period?
Did you know that in December 1955, India became the first country outside the Eastern bloc to establish diplomatic relations with Mongolia?
Did you know that one-time Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Charles B. Moores' uncle, father, and grandfather all served in the Oregon Legislature, while his son served in the Washington Legislature?
Did you know that radio stations WMFC and WMFC-FM originally broadcast from a Quonset hut in the heart of Monroeville, Alabama?
Did you know that the Bradley Airport Connector, a freeway in the U.S. state of Connecticut, was renamed the "82nd Airborne Memorial Highway" in 1999 to honor the 82nd Airborne Division?
Did you know that the Streamline Moderne building of the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library is a former Dodge automobile dealership?
Did you know that the remnants of 2005's Tropical Depression Ten partially contributed to the formation of Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that the specific name of mushroom Lactarius theiogalus comes from the Greek for "brimstone" and "milk"?
Did you know that the worshippers of Xipe Totec, the Aztec god of renewal, wore the flayed skins of their sacrificial victims?
Did you know that Bob Foster’s win on a New Imperial in the 1936 Isle of Man TT was the last time that Great Britain won a Lightweight TT?
Did you know that British economist Gilbert Slater suggested in the Madras Legislative Council that a committee be appointed to investigate the introduction of a common script for the Madras Presidency?
Did you know that Callianassa subterranea is a burrowing shrimp that ingests sediment particles and digests their  organic coating?
Did you know that Eddie Tolan, the first African-American to be the "world's fastest human" after winning double gold at the 1932 Olympics, returned home jobless and appeared in vaudeville with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson?
Did you know that General Motors's pioneering CAD system, DAC-1, could digitize hand-drawn diagrams, turn them into 3D models, and then build models of them on milling machines?
Did you know that Hungarian ballerina Nora Kovach's 1953 defection to the West was the first highly publicized Cold War-era defection of individuals in the field of dance?
Did you know that James Brady, who wrote a celebrity profile for nearly 25 years in Parade magazine, won the Bronze Star Medal for his Korean War service and wrote a Pulitzer Prize-finalist book about his war experiences?
Did you know that Maurice Maeterlinck threatened legal action and physical violence against Claude Debussy after he did not cast  Maeterlinck's lover, Georgette Leblanc, in the title role of their opera Pelléas et Mélisande?
Did you know that Salvia fruticosa or Greek sage was depicted on a 1400-BCE Minoan fresco on the island of Crete, and is still grown and used widely today?
Did you know that Stephen Neill, former bishop of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, suffered from insomnia which helped him to author his magnum opus, History of Christianity in India?
Did you know that celebrated Azerbaijani activist of the French Resistance Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov was persecuted by the NKVD upon his return to the USSR?
Did you know that during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson reportedly stopped discussing important matters at Cabinet meetings because of the indiscretions of Interior Secretary Franklin Knight Lane?
Did you know that in Cheney v. United States District Court, Supreme Court Justice Scalia was alleged to have had a conflict of interest because he had recently hunted ducks with Dick Cheney, a party to the case?
Did you know that in addition to his academic work, Norwegian history professor Øystein Sørensen is considered an expert on the Donald Duck universe?
Did you know that landscape architecture firm West 8 designed the so-called "Reptile Bridge" between Leidsche Rijn and Utrecht in the Netherlands?
Did you know that ruins from Bradenstoke Abbey in Wiltshire, England, were bought by William Randolph Hearst and used in alterations to St Donat's Castle in Wales?