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Did you know that Jheryl Busby, once President and CEO of Motown Records, was a major shareholder of the first African-American-owned national bank in the U.S. along with Janet Jackson and Magic Johnson?
Did you know that Ludvík Čelanský was the founder and the first principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra?
Did you know that Nausicaä, the main character from the Hayao Miyazaki manga and film, is based on Nausicaa from the Odyssey and "The Princess Who Loved Insects", a Japanese folk hero?
Did you know that Pacific University's first building at its Health Professions Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, attained LEED gold status in 2007?
Did you know that Polish-Armenian Roman Catholic priest, Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski was ordered to be silent by the Krakow Curia because of his clergy lustration activities?
Did you know that Soviet defector Boris Bazhanov became the only assistant at Joseph Stalin's secretariat to ever turn against the Soviet regime?
Did you know that U.S. president-elect Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech from behind 2 inches (51 mm) of bulletproof glass?
Did you know that a digital time capsule "A Message From Earth" was transmitted to the planet Gliese 581c and included a message by actress Gillian Anderson consisting of images of George W. Bush and Barack Obama?
Did you know that at age 14, Jack Dorsey developed software that is still used to dispatch taxicabs and inspired him to create Twitter?
Did you know that during the history of San Diego State University some students joined the armed forces during World War II and assisted in the Doolittle Raid over Japan?
Did you know that historian Richard C. Lukas estimated that upwards of one million Poles were involved in the rescue of Jews by Polish communities during the Holocaust?
Did you know that in 784, due to wars and famine in the capital Chang'an region, Emperor Dezong of Tang sent the official Liu Zi to Nanchang to conduct imperial examinations for examinees from southern China?
Did you know that one of the international polls on the 2008 U.S. presidential election found 22 percent of German women would have an affair with Barack Obama?
Did you know that the Boy Scouts of America celebrated their fortieth anniversary in 1950 with the theme of Strengthen the Arm of Liberty (Lady Liberty statue pictured)?
Did you know that the curfew law associated with the curfew bell started by Alfred the Great was abolished by Henry I of England?
Did you know that when completed in 1988, the 52-storey BankWest Tower in Perth, Western Australia was the eighth tallest concrete skyscraper in the world?
Did you know that Bernard Courtois was the discoverer of iodine (crystal structure shown)?
Did you know that Dream Cinema is the last remaining single-screen movie theater in Seoul, Korea?
Did you know that Ernest Peixotto′s 1916 work Our Hispanic Southwest was the first appearance of the ethnic slur "spic" in writing?
Did you know that HMS Hinchinbrook was Horatio Nelson's second navy command, and his first as post-captain?
Did you know that Hitachi Zosen Corporation built the first oil tanker in Japan in 1908 per an order by Standard Oil Company?
Did you know that Tropical Depression One-C of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season caused minor flooding on the Island of Hawaii?
Did you know that actor David Morrissey gained 2 stone (28 lb; 13 kg) for his role as Gordon Brown in the 2003 film The Deal?
Did you know that athlete Al Hall won three Pan American Games gold medals in the hammer throw in three consecutive decades, with wins in 1959, 1963 and 1971?
Did you know that before becoming a full-time professional footballer at the age of 21, Mike Bickle worked as a milkman?
Did you know that editor Kenneth P. Johnson, who ran a story that led to the article subject's suicide as threatened, stated that "if a story is newsworthy and supported by the facts, it is our policy to publish"?
Did you know that in 2005, Shannon Sohn became the first helicopter news reporter to win a national Emmy Award, which she won for her coverage of the crash of the helicopter of a rival TV station?
Did you know that in November 1864, Camp Nelson′s Union soldiers forced 400 ex-slaves outside its shelter, resulting in 102 exposure deaths?
Did you know that lice from mummified guinea pigs and mites preserved in amber while feeding on spiders have provided evidence for researchers in the field of paleoparasitology?
Did you know that men from the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment were the first explorers to climb down the 800-foot (240 m) caldera wall to reach the shore of Crater Lake?
Did you know that of the over 4,000 U.S. chemical munitions found to be leaking chemical agents in 2002, more than 2,000 were Sarin-containing M55 rockets?
Did you know that only nine goaltenders have scored a goal in a National Hockey League game?
Did you know that quartic reciprocity was first conjectured by Swiss mathematician Euler in 1748–1750, but not proved until 1836–37 by Prussian mathematician Jacobi?
Did you know that the Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc, a gold ornament discovered at Cwmystwyth, is over 4,000 years old, making it the earliest gold artifact discovered in Wales?
Did you know that the Confederate Memorial in Fulton, Kentucky is the only one in the state with a statue atop an arch?
Did you know that the Ghost Town Trail in Western Pennsylvania utilizes 36 miles (58 km) of donated and abandoned railroad and features many abandoned mining ghost towns?
Did you know that the Little Pied Cormorant lays eggs that are covered in lime?
Did you know that the first platform scale was built in 1830 by Thaddeus Fairbanks to measure large loads accurately?
Did you know that the force-feeding of suffragette, arsonist and hunger-striker Lilian Lenton caused food to enter her lungs and led to public outrage?
Did you know that Almoloya del Río, a Mexican small town with the population of 7,992, hosts an international biker rally every year?
Did you know that Canadian-born Jim Koleff spent three decades in Europe as an ice hockey player, coach and manager after telling coach Dave Chambers that he would play in Italy for one year?
Did you know that Charles Taylor was the first of thirteen Welsh international rugby players to die in action during World War I?
Did you know that Finnish-born filmmaker Antero Alli shot his 1995 science fiction feature The Drivetime on a budget of U$5,000?
Did you know that Grace Church is one of few remaining structures from the once-thriving town of Ca Ira, Virginia?
Did you know that Hurricane Lisa of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season attained forward motion of over 58 mph (93 km/h) on October 9?
Did you know that Rear Admiral John Adams of the Royal Navy was the author of The Adventure of Charlie the Cone, based on stories about a traffic cone, that he made up for his children on long trips?
Did you know that The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers has been in charge of publishing Finland's ethical guidelines on engineering for over 40 years?
Did you know that Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere, Massachusetts features over 7 miles (11 km) of underground piping which heats the race track on cold and wet days?
Did you know that arcing horns are projecting conductors used to protect insulators on high voltage transmission systems from damage during flashover?
Did you know that because Fred Perrett switched from rugby union to rugby league he was often left out of lists of Wales players who died in action during World War I?
Did you know that despite having only 28 men to his opponent's 92, William Rogers not only defended his ship from a privateer, but boarded and captured her with just five men?
Did you know that eight Kaba class destroyers (destroyer pictured) of the Imperial Japanese Navy were based in Malta in World War I?
Did you know that plant collector Charles Curtis, who first introduced the Nepenthes northiana variety of pitcher plant to England, went on to become the first superintendent of the Penang Botanic Gardens?
Did you know that the Commission on Social Welfare, from 1983 to 1986, reviewed social welfare in Ireland?
Did you know that the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists?
Did you know that the Ropar Wetland, in addition to being home to several endangered and threatened species, was the site of the signing of an 1831 treaty between the English and the Sikhs?
Did you know that the first submarine boat and self-propelled torpedo, and the engines for the ironclad warship USS Monitor were all built at the foundry operated by Cornelius DeLameter?
Did you know that the insectivorous plant Heliamphora nutans was re-discovered in British Guiana in 1881 and successfully introduced to England by David Burke?
Did you know that the only significant Koreatown established by Koreans in Spain is in Las Palmas on the island of Gran Canaria?
Did you know that the sticky bomb was designed by Stuart Macrae at a laboratory known as "Winston Churchill's Toyshop"?
Did you know that with his appointment to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first African American to hold a U.S. Cabinet Secretaryship?
Did you know that Andreas Lauritz Thune, who took over the manufacturing company Thune at the age of 23, was among the founders of the Federation of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries in 1889?
Did you know that Beast vocalist Béatrice Bonifassi sang on Champion's album Chill'em All, and also provided the singing voices for Les Triplettes de Belleville?
Did you know that Beninese political figure Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin remained under house arrest from 1972 to 1981 after being overthrown in a coup d'état?
Did you know that Izzat Darwaza, the Arab nationalist leader of al-Fatat, was a principal organizer of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine?
Did you know that Jack Bruce's 1969 LP Songs for a Tailor was titled in tribute to the wardrobe designer for Bruce's former band, Cream?
Did you know that Japan and India signed a peace treaty and established diplomatic relations in April 1952, one of the first such treaties by Japan after World War II?
Did you know that Japanese admiral Ogasawara Naganari, close confidant and biographer of Fleet Admiral Togo Heihachiro, was tutor to Emperor Hirohito on naval matters?
Did you know that Joe Wendryhoski, an inaugural member of the New Orleans Saints, played every offensive snap as the starting center for the team's first two seasons?
Did you know that Lucy of Bolingbroke paid King Henry I of England 500 marks after the death of her third husband, Ranulf le Meschin, for the right not to remarry?
Did you know that Mike Tompkins, the Natural Law Party vice-presidential candidate in the 1992 and 1996 U.S. elections, is a direct descendant of U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams?
Did you know that Norwegian Constituent Assembly member Nicolai Wergeland was father of feminist writer Camilla Collett and poet Henrik Wergeland?
Did you know that Psilocybe montana, the type species of the well-known genus of hallucinogenic mushrooms, does not contain any psychedelic compounds?
Did you know that Rheinmetall's 120mm gun L/55 tank gun can attain muzzle velocities of up to 1,750 meters per second (5,700 ft/s) with new kinetic energy penetrators?
Did you know that SOE officer Joachim Rønneberg was a leader of the Norwegian team attempting to sabotage the German nuclear energy project during WWII?
Did you know that St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Troy, New York, was originally built as a replica of a Church in New Haven, Connecticut?
Did you know that Vânia Fernandes, who represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, was Portugal's first entrant to qualify for the Contest's final from its semi-final round?
Did you know that a large earthquake monitoring network was established in China's Yunnan Province 25  years after the 1970 Tonghai earthquake (location pictured)?
Did you know that after a federal jury in Portland, Oregon decided against the defendant in Byron v. Rajneesh Foundation International, an inner circle of Rajneesh followers plotted to murder the plaintiff?
Did you know that legend has it that Nainital Lake in Uttarakhand, India, was created when three pilgrims dug a hole which filled from the sacred Tibetan Lake Manasarovar?
Did you know that one poetic focus in William Wordsworth's early life, especially in the "Lucy" poems, the "Matthew" poems, We are Seven, and Lucy Gray, is man's relationship with death and nature?
Did you know that the Montigny mitrailleuse, an 1860s mobile volley gun, was very heavy at 2,000 pounds (910 kg)?
Did you know that the President of Colombia's administrative department has an annual budget of over COL$16 billion?
Did you know that the Royal Coachman, first made in 1878, may be the world's best-known fly?
Did you know that the Sheffield Iris newspaper's first editor fled the UK when troops tried to arrest him, and its second was imprisoned for six months on charges of malicious libel?
Did you know that the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its birthday on the anniversary of the day that the 2nd Continental Congress authorized the creation of the Continental Marines?
Did you know that the ataaba is a traditional Arabic music form in which oral folk poetry is melodically improvised by a solo vocalist?
Did you know that the football rivalry between ASV Herzogenaurach and FC Herzogenaurach can be traced back to the rivalry between the clubs' sponsors, Adidas and Puma?
Did you know that the growth of Astragalus brauntonii, a species of milkvetch, is spurred by fire?
Did you know that "Hindu Taliban" is a pejorative term used by some tolerant or "secular" Hindus to describe the supporters of the Hindutva movement?
Did you know that "There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama" is a folk song first performed in the village where Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born?
Did you know that Austro-Hungarian submarine SM U-16, which sank two ships and captured a third during World War I, was the only boat of the U-10-class to sink during the war?
Did you know that Bridgwater Bay is the location of the last mudhorse fisherman in England?
Did you know that Henry Cornelius Burnett is one of only five members in history to be expelled from the United States Congress?
Did you know that Henry Pitkin and his brother produced the first American-designed pocket watches with machine-made parts?
Did you know that Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico began in the 15th century and that Puerto Rico has the largest and richest Jewish community in the Caribbean?
Did you know that Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik Abel?
Did you know that Richard Maack was a Russian naturalist who led some of the first major scientific expeditions to remote Siberia and the Russian Far East?
Did you know that Thirumangai Alvar, considered one of the most learned Alvar saint-poets in Hinduism, was a robber before becoming a saint?
Did you know that U.S. federal judge Malcolm Marsh's father and uncle both served as presidents of the Oregon State Bar?
Did you know that a 30-metre (98 ft) tsunami was created when Broke Off Cliff fell into Western Brook Pond, which is a fjord in Canada?
Did you know that after endangering himself to control the imperial horse, Qi Ying was made an imperial attendant by Emperor Dezong of Tang?
Did you know that early childhood educator Barbara T. Bowman co-founded the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development, with the support of philanthropist Irving Harris?
Did you know that following In re Bilski, a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the legal validity of many business method patents is now uncertain?
Did you know that overseas revenues rose tenfold during the decade that Richard Rompala helped to lead the paint and coatings manufacturer Valspar?
Did you know that the Jadad scale is the world's most widely used means of assessing the methodological quality of clinical trials?
Did you know that the Mucking excavation,  one of the largest archaeological digs of its time in Europe, uncovered artifacts spanning a period of some 3,000 years?
Did you know that the bacterium Propionibacterium freudenreichii is responsible for forming the holes in Swiss cheese by releasing carbon dioxide?
Did you know that the final section of La Nouvelle branch, a canal in south-central France, was constructed in 1776 to link Narbonne to the Canal du Midi?
Did you know that the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. state of Illinois took place at approximately 11:02 a.m. on November 9 1968?
Did you know that the members of Montreal-based electronic music duo Beast first met while working for a video game company?
Did you know that the top of the 51-storey Central Park tower in Perth, Western Australia sways about 30 cm (12 in) in the wind?
Did you know that when Veronica Mars was cancelled after its third season, fans sent more than 10,000 Mars Bars to the CW television network, hoping to persuade it to renew the series?
Did you know that when the SS Mahratta ran aground on the Goodwin Sands in 1939, it settled on top of a ship that had sunk thirty years earlier and was also named Mahratta?
Did you know that Columbia Park in Torrance, California served as the home field for U.S. Women's soccer players Joy Fawcett and Carin Jennings-Gabarra?
Did you know that Eduard August von Regel, a 19th-century German botanist, named and described over 3,000 new plant species?
Did you know that English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton, while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London?
Did you know that Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election?
Did you know that Florence Wald, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, has been credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement"?
Did you know that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples?
Did you know that James-Younger Gang member "Dick" Liddil surrendered to authorities after killing Jesse James' cousin, reportedly out of fear of that James would seek revenge?
Did you know that Li Yong (pictured with Guido Mantega) was the first and second secretary to the United Nations Mission from China?
Did you know that Paul Callaway was so short a hydraulically-operated pedalboard was custom-made for the Washington National Cathedral's organ, so he could reach the pedals comfortably?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Minoru Ōta, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Okinawa, had earlier been earmarked to command Japanese landing forces at the Battle of Midway?
Did you know that Zeno Vendler's model of lexical aspect, first proposed in 1959, is still widely used in multiple areas of linguistic research today?
Did you know that after first taking the Fifth Amendment in 1951, director Robert Rossen named 57 people as Communists to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 to escape the Hollywood blacklist?
Did you know that anthropologist Richard Price was one of the first to show that Maroons, previously considered largely "without history," possessed rich and deep historical consciousness?
Did you know that author Tom De Haven attended Catholic school in Bayonne, New Jersey with fellow writer George R. R. Martin?
Did you know that despite being captured during the Battle of the Philippines, the Nurse Corps regiment known as the Angels of Bataan continued to serve as a nursing unit throughout their internment?
Did you know that millwrights from Canterbury, Kent, built Moses Montefiore Windmill in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1857?
Did you know that physician William Beierwaltes, a pioneer in nuclear medicine, was one of five attendees at the first course for doctors offered by the Atomic Energy Commission on the medical use of radioisotopes?
Did you know that the 1916 film Cenere contains the only cinematic performance by the Italian theater star Eleanora Duse?
Did you know that the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project led to Honolulu's 2008 mayoral elections being referred to as a "referendum on rail transit"?
Did you know that the Rolls-Royce LiftSystem was awarded the prestigious Collier trophy in 2001?
Did you know that the fungus Albatrellus subrubescens was first collected from Florida and Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that the term battery in baseball was first used by Henry Chadwick in reference to the firepower of a team's pitching staff, inspired by artillery batteries then in use in the American Civil War?
Did you know that the turnout in the 1997 Pakistani general election was the lowest ever in Pakistan?
Did you know that the walls of Peter the Great's first "palace" in the nascent St Petersburg, a 60 m2 (650 sq ft) log cabin, were painted to resemble brickwork?
Did you know that wine writer Malcolm Gluck  has been involved in a row with Salman Rushdie over who is the quicker book-signer?
Did you know that Anarchy Alive!, a 2007 book by Oxford-educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon, has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement?
Did you know that Frank Filchock, Jack Faulkner, Mac Speedie, Jerry Smith, John Ralston, and Red Miller have all spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos?
Did you know that George J. Seabury with Robert Wood Johnson I developed a medicated adhesive plaster with a rubber base as a precursor to the Johnson & Johnson Band-Aid?
Did you know that Glen Ord is the only remaining single malt scotch whisky distillery on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland?
Did you know that Joe Hyams' first celebrity interview, with Humphrey Bogart, came after a chance meeting with Bogart's press agent at the pool of The Beverly Hills Hotel?
Did you know that Leverett Candee became the first person in the world to manufacture rubber footwear?
Did you know that Loyola College in Maryland, a Jesuit college with "little athletic tradition,"  has had 13 first-team All American honorees from the men's lacrosse team?
Did you know that Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus?
Did you know that Operation Steel Box moved 100,000 American chemical weapons from Clausen, West Germany, to Johnston Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that Rob Epstein, Academy Award-winning director of The Times of Harvey Milk, also directed Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Symphony in C by Georges Bizet was a completely unknown piece until it was discovered at the Paris Conservatory library in 1933, nearly 60 years after Bizet's death?
Did you know that Terence Mitford, who spent his whole academic career as an archaeologist at the University of St Andrews, was a member of the Special Air Service during the Second World War?
Did you know that architect Harry Seidler described the skyscraper QV.1 in Perth, Western Australia, as the best building he had ever built?
Did you know that at the inauguration of the sixth Aztec Templo Mayor in 1487 (scale model pictured), thousands of prisoners of war were ritually sacrificed, bathing the steps of the pyramid in blood?
Did you know that in a baseball match held at the Capitoline Grounds on June 14, 1870, the Brooklyn Atlantics defeated the Cincinnati Red Stockings, ending their 84 game winning streak?
Did you know that prehistoric ridgeway trails, though often steep, were usually the firmest and safest cart tracks before the advent of paved roads in western Europe?
Did you know that the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, Kentucky, took sixteen years to fund, and was originally a statue of a Union soldier?
Did you know that the first railroad depot in Stanford, Kentucky, was built due to a compromise between Union general Ambrose Burnside and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad?