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Did you know that Audrey Withers, who edited the British Vogue for twenty years, lacked a personal interest in fashion and joined the London Fire Brigade?
Did you know that Australian softballer Melinda Weaver missed the 2008 Beijing Games and a year later played professional softball in Italy?
Did you know that British World War II fighter ace Noel Agazarian was rejected by Trinity College, Oxford, allegedly because its President objected to his ethnicity?
Did you know that Henry Hallowell Farquhar, the leading scorer on the first Michigan Wolverines basketball team in 1909, became a professor at Harvard Business School?
Did you know that Kieran Govers, Simon Orchard, Robert Hammond, Nathan Burgers, Matthew Butturini, Kiel Brown, Joel Carroll, Mark Knowles, Fergus Kavanagh, Glenn Turner, Jason Wilson and Russell Ford are in training with the Australian field hockey team for the 2012 Olympics?
Did you know that The Who's bassist John Entwistle kept skeletons in the bedroom of his Victorian mansion Quarwood to frighten guests?
Did you know that according to one critic, "Farewell" is a "shameless rewrite" of Adele's song "Someone like You"?
Did you know that at the Romanian Communist Party congress of November 1989, Emil Bobu countered delegates' flagging enthusiasm by shouting slogans and applauding vigorously, even interrupting leader Nicolae Ceauşescu?
Did you know that many things related to Rhodesia, both physical and immaterial (examples pictured), can be considered Rhodesiana?
Did you know that naval architect William K. MacCurdy developed the Hydra-Cushion rail coupling at SRI International, significantly changing freight transportation?
Did you know that on the southern slopes of Maja e Thatë lies the Cave of Haxhia, a Nature Monument of Albania, explored by Polish speleologists?
Did you know that over 16 million years ago, four species of parrot in the genus Nelepsittacus made their home in subtropical rainforest in what is now Otago, New Zealand?
Did you know that the 1834 Epsom Oaks was won by a filly named Pussy?
Did you know that the composite hull of the Beacon-class gunvessels was described by Admiral G. A. Ballard as built "along the lines of an extremely elongated packing crate"?
Did you know that the historiography of Juan Manuel de Rosas influenced much of the whole historiography of Argentina?
Did you know that the steamer R. J. Hackett is recognized as the first Lake freighter?
Did you know that Argentine celebrity Calu Rivero was the first actress from Catamarca Province to appear in national television, thus being named Illustrious Citizen of Recreo, her hometown?
Did you know that Kyeong Kang was the first South Korean to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer William M. Gallagher once commandeered a police helicopter to cover a story?
Did you know that Queensland softball catcher Kym Tollenaere narrowly missed out on the 2004 Summer Olympics and is trying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championships?
Did you know that former National Hockey League player Joel Otto credited Battle of Alberta rival Mark Messier as being the reason he made the Calgary Flames?
Did you know that former churches in Chichester, West Sussex, have been converted into a doll museum, a betting shop and a Chinese takeaway, among other things?
Did you know that the Gabonese Socialist Union, initially an opposition party founded by formerly exiled student activists, aligned itself with the then incumbent president Omar Bongo?
Did you know that the General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible was not written by John Wycliffe?
Did you know that the Presbyterian Church of Victoria was formed in 1859 as a union of Church of Scotland, Free Presbyterian and United Presbyterian congregations?
Did you know that the comb star (Astropecten polyacanthus) contains a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin?
Did you know that the statue of Shaka at Birth at Tōdai-ji is the largest example of a type of statue anointed with sweet hydrangea tea on April 8 in celebration of Buddha's Birthday?
Did you know that upon release of Rihanna's Talk That Talk, "We All Want Love" was the album's lowest charting song on the UK Singles Chart, at number 188?
Did you know that while Chinese emperors had stone tortoises guard their tombs, some of their subjects in Fujian were laid to rest under plaster tortoises (example pictured)?
Did you know that with the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Alexandru Bârlădeanu went from house arrest to Senate President within a few months?
Did you know that Japanese comedian Neko Hiroshi was nominated by the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia to compete for Cambodia at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Osgood Castle, in Redstone, Colorado, was the first real property seized by the Internal Revenue Service to be auctioned online?
Did you know that TTAADC member Sridam Pal was one of the 13 victims killed in the 1988 Birchandramanu massacre in South Tripura?
Did you know that baseball player Josh Edgin won the Pennsylvania state championship in wrestling, finishing fourth in the national championship?
Did you know that eggs en cocotte are cooked by breaking eggs into ramekins and then baking them in a water bath?
Did you know that if an Abbott's Booby (juvenile pictured) falls to the ground, it will starve unless it can catch the wind and take off again?
Did you know that last name of Peter Spani, one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, is derived from the Greek word spanos (Greek: σπανός) which means beardless?
Did you know that prolific food writer and reality TV judge Mary Berry's first job was to visit consumers' homes to show them how to use their own electric cookers?
Did you know that the MV-1 is the first purpose-built taxicab to be approved for use as a New York City yellow cab since the iconic Checker Marathon?
Did you know that the New York Giants and Cincinnati Reds raided Joe McGinnity, Joe Kelley, Cy Seymour, Dan McGann, Jack Cronin, and others from the Baltimore Orioles during the 1902 season?
Did you know that the fathers of Australian national team field hockey players Jonathon Charlesworth and Brent Dancer, both coached the men's national team?
Did you know that the new Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, houses a pack of the writer's Pall Malls as well as his Purple Heart?
Did you know that the newly elected President of Senegal Macky Sall appointed the technocrat and banker Abdoul Mbaye as prime minister?
Did you know that the woodland at Dizzard Point in Cornwall, which is part of the Boscastle to Widemouth SSSI, is of international importance for its lichen communities?
Did you know that Bear Bryant played in the game against Tennessee with a broken leg as a member of the 1935 Alabama Crimson Tide football team?
Did you know that Henry MacLauchlan recommended to the British parliament that Ordnance Survey maps should not use contour lines?
Did you know that India won only 9 medals in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, comparing with 76 medals in the previous edition of the Games?
Did you know that Lady Llangattock, the mother of Charles Rolls, commemorated the centenary of Nelson's death at the Kymin?
Did you know that Ratna Sarumpaet's singing of the Indonesian national anthem was called "proof" of a crime?
Did you know that Shakespeare scholars used Ford's Hospital, Coventry, to understand Elizabethan doorways while planning the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre?
Did you know that between 1800 and 1890, some 25,000 to 50,000 slaves were captured in present-day Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi and forced to work on plantations in Somalia?
Did you know that it is customary for Viktor Tsoi's fans to leave a broken lighted cigarette in the special ash plate at the Tsoi Wall?
Did you know that poet William Wordsworth said of the site of Holy Trinity Church, Brathay, "there is no situation out of the Alps, nor among them, more beautiful than that where this building is placed"?
Did you know that the 1933 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the first Southeastern Conference football championship?
Did you know that the College of Southern Nevada's baseball team was forced to forfeit 37 games in 2006 when Craig Heyer was ruled ineligible?
Did you know that the animated short film Sex Life of Robots, showing sexual activity among robots, is described as "art-porn"?
Did you know that the extinct witchalder Fothergilla malloryi is the oldest confirmed member of the genus Fothergilla?
Did you know that the video for Radiohead's "Lotus Flower", which features Thom Yorke's "spastic" dancing, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video?
Did you know that 100 English foxhounds narrowly avoided being among the animals aboard the RMS Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage?
Did you know that Abasse Ndione's first novel, La Vie en spirale, discusses the use and trafficking of "yamba" (marijuana) as a social metaphor?
Did you know that Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia Men Sam An served as chairwoman of the Kampuchean Federation of Trade Unions?
Did you know that John de Rantau co-directed a film that presents a fictionalised version of Barack Obama's childhood years in Indonesia?
Did you know that Peter Feldmann is the first politician of the Jewish faith to be elected mayor of Frankfurt since World War II?
Did you know that RMS Titanic survivor Margaret Bechstein Hays not only saved her Pomeranian dog from the wreck, she also looked after the "Titanic Orphans"?
Did you know that Walter Lord's 1955 book A Night to Remember has been described as a "defining moment" in the creation of the myth of the RMS Titanic?
Did you know that baseball outfielder Adam Eaton received USD $120,000 meant for the retired pitcher of the same name?
Did you know that despite signing it in 1986, President Ronald Reagan objected to parts of the RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Act?
Did you know that following the 1973 Toulouse congress of PSOE a group of veteran Spanish socialists organized the "Historical" UGT, claiming to represent the original UGT trade union?
Did you know that in 570 Jassem served as a seat of the Monophysite church during Ghassanid rule in Syria?
Did you know that over 10% of Slovenia's population participated in each of the volunteer cleanups organized by the Ecologists Without Borders association, the Let's Clean Slovenia in One Day! in 2010 and this year's Let's Clean Slovenia 2012?
Did you know that seven men died when LV-117, the Nantucket lightship, was rammed and sunk on 14 May 1934 by RMS Olympic, sister ship of the lost Titanic?
Did you know that the Glover Prize, though limited to depictions of Tasmania, is the richest art award for landscape painting in Australia?
Did you know that the Titanic Memorial in Belfast depicts a personification of Death holding a wreath above the head of a drowned sailor who is borne above the waves by mermaids?
Did you know that the extinct species Cornus piggae has fruits smaller than any other species in the dogwood subgenus of Cornus?
Did you know that the first captain of Titanic was Captain Haddock?
Did you know that "Roc Me Out" was described as a combination of Rihanna's "Umbrella" and a slowed down version of Pendulum's "Slam"?
Did you know that Adinegoro's 1927 novel Young Blood was one of few Indonesian works from the period in which the main characters succeeded at love?
Did you know that Rigby & Peller provides undergarments to Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that Saved from the Titanic, starring Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson (shown in poster), was the first film made about the sinking of the Titanic and was released only 29 days after the disaster?
Did you know that a police officer in Indonesia was sued for dumping blood to appease the Goddess of the South Sea while investigating the murder of Udin?
Did you know that a sample of the First Class experience aboard the RMS Titanic and Olympic can be found at the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick?
Did you know that after escaping Nazi-occupied Europe, the Belzer Rebbe held his first tish in Jerusalem at the Zion Blumenthal Orphanage?
Did you know that on January 19, 1977, snow fell in south Florida and the Bahamas, and the Florida citrus industry was "nearly wiped out"?
Did you know that the 1934 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won a second consecutive Southeastern Conference championship and claimed a share of the 1934 national championship?
Did you know that the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, founded by Saulius Sondeckis, has been described as among "the three most masterly orchestras of the world"?
Did you know that the Long Branch Cubans were the first baseball team composed almost entirely of Cubans to play in the U.S. minor leagues?
Did you know that the Royal Navy's Frolic-class gunvessels were used to suppress the slave trade between East Africa and the Persian Gulf in the 1870s and 1880s?
Did you know that the United States Navy used Old Faithful to prepare enemy beaches for amphibious assault?
Did you know that the late Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard portrayed a doctor of his hockey team in the 1971 film Face-Off?
Did you know that the propellers of the Short No.1 biplane rotated in the same direction because their designer wished to avoid patent infringement?
Did you know that there are more plants of Alloxylon flammeum in cultivation than there are in the wild in its native Queensland?
Did you know that unbeknownst to him, Danish explorer Vitus Bering was not in fact the first European to sail through the strait that now bears his name?
Did you know that German conductor Martin Lutz developed the Schiersteiner Kantorei from a suburban church choir at the Christophoruskirche into one of the largest choirs in Hesse?
Did you know that Mathew Richmond was the first Chairman of Committees of the New Zealand Legislative Council?
Did you know that Oregon's Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center (Hillsboro clinic pictured) started in a garage and now has over US$20 million in annual revenue?
Did you know that Radič was the second most powerful person in Serbia, after Despot Đurađ?
Did you know that Walter Rea, the leading scorer for the 1919–20 Michigan Wolverines basketball team, later became the university's spokesman on "panty raids"?
Did you know that although later writers claimed William the Conqueror's victory in the 1057 Battle of Varaville was a massacre, contemporary writers barely noticed it?
Did you know that both the Bromley War Memorial and the Bromley Parish Church Memorial were the work of British sculptor Sydney March?
Did you know that in ancient Mesoamerica, mirrors were fashioned from stone and were regarded as portals to a supernatural realm?
Did you know that prior to winning 323 games as a college football head coach, Bear Bryant's first regular season coaching position was on the staff of the 1936 Alabama Crimson Tide football team?
Did you know that the Arcade Fire song "No Cars Go" originally appeared on their self-titled extended play and was reworked for their second album, Neon Bible?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Taylor v. Illinois that defendants do not have an absolute right to obtain witnesses in their favor?
Did you know that the memoirs of life in the Lvov Ghetto during the Holocaust written by Maurycy Allerhand were unknown for over 20 years and first published only after the Revolutions of 1989?
Did you know that the protein Concanavalin A cuts itself in two and then reassembles in a circularly permuted order?
Did you know that the royal catchfly is pollinated by the ruby-throated hummingbird?
Did you know that to run for U.S. president in 1896, William Jennings Bryan traveled to 27 of the 45 states and gave some 600 speeches on a whistle-stop tour?
Did you know that while researching his debut novel, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi, Dutch author Arthur Japin discovered the head of the Ghanaian prince Badu Bonsu II?
Did you know that "Hill Street Station", the first episode of Hill Street Blues, suffered "confusion and conflict in its marketing" to the point that it was considered a surprise the show survived to be aired?
Did you know that A. Teeuw, despite resorting to guesswork, still encountered indecipherable data in his successful dissertation on a Kakawin?
Did you know that John N. Shive not only invented the phototransistor but also the Shive wave machine?
Did you know that King Arthur's Cave is in The Doward?
Did you know that Lucile Petry Leone's successful establishment of the Cadet Nurse Corps in 1943 made it unnecessary to draft US nurses for WWII?
Did you know that Maya Angelou uses themes in her autobiographies to connect all six of them organically, beginning in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Did you know that Thamudarit, who according to legend reigned over the Pagan Kingdom from 107 to 152 CE, was only proclaimed the founder of this kingdom in 1829?
Did you know that a dog named Gabi fought a jaguar, preventing the big cat's escape from the Belgrade Zoo onto the streets of Belgrade?
Did you know that a male and female pair of sand stars, Archaster typicus, engage in pseudocopulation so that when they spawn, some two months later, they will do so simultaneously?
Did you know that despite the expulsion of softball from the Olympic programme, Belinda White wants to represent Australia at the 2020 Games?
Did you know that in Romania, journalist Constantin Al. Ionescu-Caion became a symbol of yellow journalism?
Did you know that minors were barred from digitally purchasing "Drips", a track from South Korean singer Seven's mini-album Digital Bounce?
Did you know that the National Treasure statue of Dainichi Nyorai, made in 1175–76 by Unkei from Japanese cypress with lacquer and gold leaf, employs a "tranquil" style?
Did you know that the black sea rod coral contains large quantities of a lipid, prostaglandin A, which deters predatory fish from feeding on it by making them vomit?
Did you know that the rice stink bug, a major pest of rice kernels, can safely be ignored when found on standing corn?
Did you know that when Petoski won the 1985 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, his trainer received a personal phone call from the Queen?
Did you know that Andrew Freedman, owner of the National League's New York Giants, bought the American League's Baltimore Orioles from John Mahon to raid Baltimore's best players?
Did you know that Anthony Alexander Forrest played two senior games of Australian rules football for the Perth Football Club before dying at age 16 in the Second Boer War?
Did you know that Bach created an "operatic scene" in his cantata Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67, with Jesus serenely repeating "Peace be with you" against the raging of the enemies?
Did you know that Christopher Szwernicki was titled "Apostle of Siberia" by Pope Leo XIII?
Did you know that Jessica Alba got a temporary tattoo of a bow on her tailbone for her role in A.C.O.D.?
Did you know that John Merton Aldrich donated 45,000 flies to the United States National Museum?
Did you know that Sebald Heyden has been speculated to be the world's first musicologist?
Did you know that Theo Randall has been called the "unsung hero" of The River Café in London, and was head chef when it won its Michelin star?
Did you know that Truro Cathedral School existed long before Truro Cathedral?
Did you know that during the 1567 Siege of Inabayama Castle, Kinoshita Tōkichirō and a small team climbed a mountain, infiltrated the castle, and opened the gates to let in the army of Oda Nobunaga?
Did you know that five people died at the Shimonoseki Station in Japan when a man drove a car onto the platform in a deliberate attack?
Did you know that the Easter egg tree in Saalfeld, Thuringia, was decorated with 10,000 Easter eggs in 2012?
Did you know that the Japanese squid fishing vessel Ryou-Un Maru was sunk by gunfire from a United States Coast Guard cutter?
Did you know that the center of Santa Barbara, California, is built in a homogeneous style because of a 1925 earthquake?
Did you know that two guide dogs, Salty and Roselle, were awarded the Dickin Medal for gallantry after leading their blind owners out of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that "color markings", considered rare among fossil crabs, have been found on Avitelmessus?
Did you know that Cherimoya's unanticipated victory at the 1911 Epsom Oaks, the only start of her career, left "the spectators too dumbfounded to cheer"?
Did you know that French sporting pioneer Camille du Gast was falsely accused of having posed nude for La Femme au Masque, but did not win the legal action she filed against her accuser?
Did you know that Indonesian literary critic Muhammad Balfas' unfinished manuscript Si Gomar has been described as his most interesting?
Did you know that Jodie Stevenson is attempting to make the Australia women's national softball team to compete in the 2012 ISF Women's World Championship, a competition Australia only won in 1965, when they hosted the event?
Did you know that Léopold Sédar Senghor chaired the 1955 congress of the Youth Council of the French Union in Madagascar?
Did you know that Thomas Dolby's 1981 single "Europa and the Pirate Twins" features a harmonica solo by XTC's Andy Partridge?
Did you know that William Bell photographed the wounds (example pictured) and diseases of American Civil War soldiers for the Army Medical Museum?
Did you know that a 14th-century ivory casket in Baltimore has a scene of "Gawain on the perilous bed"?
Did you know that an amendment to Slovakia's Citizenship Act, which states that any national who takes another citizenship loses their Slovak citizenship, was enacted in reaction to Hungary's nationality law?
Did you know that in the early 1970s, President Félix Houphouët-Boigny of the Ivory Coast persuaded his protegé, Omar Bongo, to give a Donguila plantation to Bob Denard?
Did you know that the 1920s film The Virgin with the Hot Pants was the first known pornographic film to use animation?
Did you know that the 2012 Preston Passion featured thousands of Preston residents and included Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs from Handel's Messiah?
Did you know that the Krrish series is regarded as the first science fiction / superhero film series of Indian cinema?
Did you know that the vice-president of the Bahrain Teachers' Association, Jalila al-Salman, was sentenced to three years in prison for her involvement in the 2011–2012 uprising?
Did you know that the yellowhead wrasse changes both colour and sex during its life?
Did you know that "Goodbye Mr. Fish" is an episode of The Cosby Show about a family funeral for a goldfish?
Did you know that Angela Byron, an open source software developer, was the first woman to be featured on the cover of Linux Journal?
Did you know that Eucalyptus robusta is planted to drain swamps in Uganda?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez's song "One Love" contains indirect references to her previous high-profile relationships?
Did you know that Sydney and Elsie March and their siblings completed the National War Memorial of Canada after their brother Vernon died?
Did you know that Welsh boxer Fred Dyer would entertain spectators by singing and playing the ukulele after a boxing match?
Did you know that apartments in Jerusalem's Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood, near the street of the same name, have triple-thick concrete walls, roofs with gunner positions, and courtyards for mass troop call-ups?
Did you know that on the day the factory of Aspioti-ELKA in Corfu obtained permission to move its equipment to Athens, it got bombed?
Did you know that swarms of Japanese soldier crabs of the species Mictyris guinotae, named after French biologist Danièle Guinot, can be used in place of the billiard balls in billiard-ball computers?
Did you know that the Temple of the Tooth, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sri Lanka that houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha, was attacked twice, first in 1989 and then in 1998?
Did you know that the flowers of the bumpy satinash often grow on its trunk?
Did you know that the idea for the Steven Curtis Chapman song "Miracle of the Moment" came from a song, "Find Me", that Chapman did not release?