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Did you know that Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, the French Jesuit Father who revealed to Europe in 1712 the manufacturing secrets of Chinese porcelain, has been described as an early "industrial spy"?
Did you know that Garry Mallett, the former President of ACT New Zealand, is an owner-operator of a branch of a Les Mills International fitness studio?
Did you know that Jack Faber received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, where he also served as the school's Department of Microbiology head, football coach, and men's lacrosse coach?
Did you know that Jack Sinagra sponsored a bill passed by the New Jersey Senate to ban the practice of double dipping, in which elected officials served in more than one elected position simultaneously?
Did you know that Leslie Buck designed the Grecian-themed Anthora coffee cup, a cultural icon of New York City, to appeal to the city's Greek American restaurant owners?
Did you know that Operation Big Bird was an attempt to recover hidden assets of ex-President Ferdinand Marcos?
Did you know that Peter Bennett appeared in more than 200 films and television productions?
Did you know that Roger Tory Peterson suggested that Louis and Lois Darling illustrate the first edition of the environmental book Silent Spring?
Did you know that Somerset cricketer Frederic John Poynton was a pioneer of the bacteriology of acute rheumatism?
Did you know that Texas industrialist Ross Perot spent $60 million of his own money to fund his 1992 U.S. presidential campaign?
Did you know that a dissenting minister from Atherton, James Wood, earned the title "the General" at the Battle of Preston in 1715?
Did you know that in 1910, pioneer aviator Edwin Moon made the first flight from fields which were later to become Southampton International Airport?
Did you know that in 2008 the Goldstrike mine yielded 30% of the gold production in Nevada?
Did you know that ispolini, ancient giants of Bulgarian mythology, perceived blackberry bushes as a great danger and offered sacrifices to them?
Did you know that journalist Charles E. Maple ended his career as an administrator of the Texas State Railroad, a heritage railroad between Palestine and Rusk, Texas?
Did you know that rifting in the Gulf of Suez initiated due to anticlockwise rotation of the Arabian Plate away from the African Plate, but stopped when the Dead Sea Transform developed?
Did you know that the Australian olive is found from Pakistan and Yunnan through southern Asia and eastern Australia to Lord Howe Island, Vanuatu and New Caledonia?
Did you know that the French battleship  St Louis accidentally sank the submarine Vendémiaire?
Did you know that the Mahabaleshwar Temple in Gokarna is one of the seven sacred Muktikshetras (places of salvation) in India and is said to bestow immense blessings upon devotees who even glimpse it?
Did you know that the interior of St. Sebastian's Catholic Church in Sebastian, Ohio is distinguished by its Gothic Revival reredos?
Did you know that the main house at the Dakin-Coleman Farm outside Millerton, New York, was at one point legally subdivided between two heirs?
Did you know that 40 limited edition sets of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing's debut album Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1 came with wax cylinder recordings?
Did you know that American chemist Robert L. McNeil, Jr. was responsible for the commercial development of Tylenol, for which he coined the generic name "acetaminophen"?
Did you know that Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom, the oldest Orthodox Jewish congregation on Long Island, once fired its rabbi after he was alleged to have been caught eating ham in a saloon?
Did you know that Edward Lampert became the first hedge fund manager to earn more than US$1 billion in a single year, when the investments owned by his firm, ESL Investments, rose in value by 69% in 2004?
Did you know that Frederic Shoberl was the editor of Forget-Me-Not, the first English language literary annual, published in 1823?
Did you know that Idaho's Heyburn State Park is the oldest state park in the Pacific Northwest?
Did you know that Jes Staley was a founding member of J.P. Morgan's equities business?
Did you know that Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum planned a bayfront along Corpus Christi Bay that included a 32 foot statue of Jesus Christ, but was rejected by the city of Corpus Christi?
Did you know that New Zealand rower Rob Hamill has also stood as a political candidate, and his brother was a victim of the Khmer Rouge?
Did you know that Percy Christopherson, his father Derman Christopherson, and nine brothers played a cricket match against Blackheath on a team named 'The Christophersons'?
Did you know that Saint Subber produced seven Neil Simon plays on Broadway, five of which were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play?
Did you know that The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a BBC drama film based on the life of a 19th-century lesbian industrialist?
Did you know that Zeke Zechella, who was instrumental in the building of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, was unable to complete a single floating nuclear power plant during his nearly nine years as president of Offshore Power Systems?
Did you know that actor and mime artist Jack Birkett, who was often billed as "The Incredible Orlando", continued to perform on stage and in films after becoming totally blind?
Did you know that after receiving scant interest from college basketball scouts as a high school senior, Jason Conley would go on to become the first (and only) freshman to win the NCAA Division I scoring title?
Did you know that among New Jersey's state symbols, the slogan "Come See For Yourself" was chosen in 2006 after an earlier proposal "We'll Win You Over" was deemed to be too negative?
Did you know that in Codex Tischendorfianus III Gospels of Matthew and Mark are written in minuscule, Gospels of Luke and John in uncial script?
Did you know that it has been said that the flesh of the mushroom Macrolepiota excoriata tastes like hazelnut?
Did you know that one of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's  Commuter Rail stations is located in Rhode Island?
Did you know that the Minoan Bull-leaper is the only known complete sculpture depicting Minoan bull leaping?
Did you know that the Temi Tea Garden is the only tea garden in Sikkim?
Did you know that the name of mineral scrutinyite reflects the efforts spent to distinguish it from plattnerite – another form of lead dioxide?
Did you know that the painting Landscape, Branchville was owned by J. Alden Weir, who said "I would sooner lose my right arm than sell one of Johnnie Twachtman's paintings"?
Did you know that the scientific name of the Peacock carpenter bee (Xylocopa bombylans) means "bumblebee-like wood-cutter"?
Did you know that the unusual batten-plank structural system of frame houses in the Trapps Mountain Hamlet (remaining cellar pictured) on New York's Shawangunk Ridge suggests Lenape architectural influence?
Did you know that "So Close", a 1990 song by Hall & Oates, was the duo's 29th and final U.S. Top 40 single to date?
Did you know that Arline Friscia sponsored a bill making New Jersey the first U.S. state to require businesses with 50+ employees to rehire a worker at the same or comparable position after taking a family leave?
Did you know that Downfall, the upcoming American television game show series, features contestants who must answer trivia questions correctly before their cash and prizes fall from the top of a 10-story building?
Did you know that Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States was a court case in which the Supreme Court held the Court of Claims jurisdiction was not increased by Congressional reference resolutions?
Did you know that Ireland rugby union international player Thomas Ranken Lyle was commemorated on a set of postage stamps for his pioneering work on X-rays?
Did you know that Irish rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll has scored more tries against France than any other country?
Did you know that Irwin Rosten's 1975 documentary Man: The Incredible Machine, which included some of the first pictures taken inside the human body to be presented on film, became the most-watched program in PBS history?
Did you know that Samuel Huggins' objections to the "so called restoration" of Chester Cathedral helped found the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings?
Did you know that St Matthew's Church in Silverhill, East Sussex, was meant to have a large tower with a tall spire, but when money ran out only a small flèche was built?
Did you know that St Michael's Church in Guiting Power, Gloucestershire, was formerly in the middle of the village but, due to demolition of buildings, it now stands at its southern end?
Did you know that a pioneer of the pre-war Czechoslovak swing music Jiří Traxler lives in Canada?
Did you know that after colonizing Antarctica, the Lobodontine seals rapidly diversified to include the only seal that feeds primarily on krill and the only seal that feeds primarily on the krill-eating seals?
Did you know that in response to Pakistan banning Facebook after the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy MillatFacebook was founded to cater primarily to Muslims?
Did you know that in the auction sale of Augustin Blondel de Gagny's renowned collection of paintings and furniture (Paris, 1776) there was a Stradivarius violin?
Did you know that the Saltburn Cliff Lift is the oldest remaining water balance funicular cliff lift and railway in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the knife known as the Seax of Beagnoth has the only known complete inscription of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet?
Did you know that the present-day location of Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, was the result of a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States?
Did you know that the spiny lobster Panulirus homarus is one of the main prey items for the Cape Clawless Otter?
Did you know that there was only one survivor when I P Suhr capsized and sank off Sandhammaren, Sweden, in 1950?
Did you know that using techniques of underwater camouflage and mimicry, the Leafscorpion fish not only resembles a dead leaf, but also behaves as one?
Did you know that when Kamie Ethridge played basketball for the University of Texas, the arena where she played was dubbed "the best little scorehouse in Texas"?
Did you know that American painter of the Old American West J. K. Ralston was awarded a Gold Medal by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Buffalo Bill Cody once owned part of Buffalo Bill State Park in Wyoming?
Did you know that Dorsey Dixon's song "Babies in the Mill" is about the Southern United States textile industry's exploitation of child labor in the early 20th century?
Did you know that Jack Siedlecki led Yale, Amherst and Worcester to conference championships in 21 years as a head football coach?
Did you know that LeRoy J. Jones, Jr. proposed a ban on the sale of box cutters to teenagers in New Jersey, saying that they had become "the weapon of choice" for gang members?
Did you know that Nidal Malik Hasan and Jihad Jane were said to have started out as a "jihobbyists", also known as "eHadis"?
Did you know that Norman Bethune Sanson climbed Canadian mountains with King George VI of the United Kingdom and King Prajadhipok of Siam?
Did you know that a children's book about a toy owl, written by Finn Havrevold in 1957, was made into a film by Ivo Caprino?
Did you know that a dipper well, a perpetual-flow sink used for cleaning ice cream scoops, uses an average of 260,000 gallons (984,000 liters) of water yearly?
Did you know that after she was torpedoed by E boats during Operation Pedestal, Almeria Lykes was scuttled to prevent her falling into enemy hands?
Did you know that although the Welsh church of St Pabo, Llanbabo has a 14th-century monument to Pabo Post Prydain, its supposed 5th-century founder, there is no strong evidence that he founded the church?
Did you know that cherry-sized soldier crabs of the species Mictyris longicarpus have been described as "cheerful bohemians"?
Did you know that despite their plan to settle farther west, Timothy and Rachel Sheldon were so impressed with their camping spot on the Chicago Road that they bought land nearby and built the Sheldon Inn?
Did you know that handcrafted textiles in Mexico (samples pictured) are still made using techniques that date back to the pre-Hispanic period?
Did you know that in the United States there is a math–verbal achievement gap on both the SAT and the ACT, because students do much better on the math portion?
Did you know that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat?
Did you know that sack tapping can lead to amputation and is posted on YouTube?
Did you know that the Coocumbac Island Nature Reserve in the Manning River is an example of a large fig–giant stinger tree association ecological community?
Did you know that the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal near Montreal attracts 181,000 visitors and 23,000 boaters, making it the second busiest canal and locks in Quebec?
Did you know that the Stone of the Pregnant Woman weighs an estimated 1,000 tonnes?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press that Henry Kissinger did not have to release phone transcripts that were made while he was Secretary of State?
Did you know that the abandoned O & W Railroad Station at Port Ben, New York, is so well-preserved that coal remains in its bin more than 50 years after it closed?
Did you know that the endangered spiny gardenia has been threatened by the development of banana plantations and the Pacific Highway?
Did you know that the increasing overall divorce rate is primarily in elderly, long-married couples, a phenomenon dubbed "grey divorce"?
Did you know that the original Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral building was saved from burning during the American Civil War when the parish priest imitated General Banks's voice and ordered Union troops to spare the church?
Did you know that the record for the longest hitting streak in NCAA college baseball history is 60 games, held by Damian Costantino of Salve Regina University?
Did you know that the royal sites of Ireland served as centres for ceremonies including an inauguration ritual where a shoe was thrown over the future king's head?
Did you know that American athlete Marla Runyan, who is legally blind, won the national 5K road running title three consecutive times at the Freihofer's Run for Women?
Did you know that Craig Rundle, a college football head coach for 24 years, led Albion College to the 2001 MIAA championship with his sons playing at quarterback and tight end?
Did you know that Franz Liszt's piano playing inspired an outpouring of emotion in his fans called Lisztomania, which caused some fans to save his disposed cigar butts and coffee dregs as mementos?
Did you know that Ismael Urbain was a high-level official in mid-nineteenth century French Algeria and adviser to Napoleon III due to his strong knowledge of Islam?
Did you know that Jan Kobow sang the tenor part of Bach's chorale cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2, written for the second Sunday after Trinity of 1724, with Philippe Herreweghe?
Did you know that Pierre Buyoya became president of Burundi twice, following a military coup d'état in 1987, and another in 1996?
Did you know that Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony received a Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album for his third studio album titled Contra La Corriente?
Did you know that Rudy Garcia resigned his post as mayor of Union City, New Jersey, in the wake of a recall election petition that had gathered 6,700 signatures?
Did you know that Stanley Ott helped lay to rest a convicted murderer near the graves of bishops?
Did you know that Teruji Kogake set a world record in the triple jump at the Japanese Olympic Trials but only managed eighth in the finals at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics?
Did you know that The Brahmin and the Mongoose, an Indian folktale about the rash killing of a loyal animal, travelled the world and inspired shrines to the dogs Saint Guinefort in France and Gelert in Wales?
Did you know that The Jack Pine, painted c. 1916–17 by Tom Thomson, is considered an iconic image of the Canadian landscape?
Did you know that U-111's first patrol took place in the North Atlantic and her second patrol took place in the South Atlantic?
Did you know that Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, an American Jew, opened the first U.S. museum dedicated to the Kurdish people?
Did you know that a ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle made by Thomas Earnshaw is now in the British Museum?
Did you know that as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs, referred to as subfossil lemurs, that weighed between 10 and 200 kg (22 and 441 lb)?
Did you know that celebrities who have worn Jonathan Saunders' designs include Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Sienna Miller, and Michelle Obama?
Did you know that in 2008, a member of the Dallas County, Texas, county commission claimed that the term black hole, as used in astronomy, was racist?
Did you know that of the 22 players selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1980 NBA Expansion Draft, only two played more than one season for the team?
Did you know that scenes from the 1955 film, The Kentuckian starring Burt Lancaster, were filmed at Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park?
Did you know that the 1999 Grenadian general election was called 18 months early after the foreign minister defected from the governing New National Party?
Did you know that the Bloom Festival in Dublin's Phoenix Park is twice as large as the UK's Chelsea Flower Show?
Did you know that the Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum bears the inscription "This is a thorn from the crown Of Our Lord Jesus Christ"?
Did you know that the Rangit Dam project in Sikkim in northeastern India cost more than $109 million?
Did you know that the baritone Andreas Schmidt created the part of Ryuji in Hans Werner Henze's opera Das verratene Meer in 1990 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin?
Did you know that the crypt of St. Paulinskirche in Trier allegedly contains the remains of approximately one dozen of the martyred soldiers of the legendary Theban Legion?
Did you know that the first dog to be named the best at Crufts was Ch. Wishaw Leader in 1906?
Did you know that video game composer, director, and producer Junichi Masuda named a character in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire after his daughter Kiri?
Did you know that British judo expert Trevor Leggett's adherence to Japanese culture extended even to wearing traditional Japanese underwear?
Did you know that Conrad Susa's opera Transformations is based on Grimm's Fairy Tales as retold by American poet, Anne Sexton?
Did you know that D. John Markey complained of the Democratic Party's 82-year grip on Maryland after the close and controversial 1946 Senate race against Governor Herbert O'Conor?
Did you know that Dante and Beatrice is considered to be Henry Holiday's most important painting?
Did you know that Endiandra introrsa, commonly known as Dorrigo Plum or Red Walnut, is neither a plum nor a walnut but a member of the laurel family?
Did you know that Lodge Park in Gloucestershire is England's only surviving 17th-century deer course and grandstand?
Did you know that Orville Nave compiled his best-known work, Nave's Topical Bible, while serving as a chaplain in the United States Army?
Did you know that Pararistolochia praevenosa is the food vine of the Richmond Birdwing butterfly?
Did you know that Pelé and Mia Hamm are featured in cartoon form as the masters of a magical soccer academy in the video game Academy of Champions: Soccer?
Did you know that Polish scholars have suggested that the model for The Polish Rider was in fact Rembrandt's son Titus?
Did you know that Vietnamese coffee producer Trung Nguyên's Legendee brand coffee is a simulated Kopi Luwak product?
Did you know that during his performance in the Reduta Theatre at age 11, Mozart was dissatisfied with the sound of the trumpets?
Did you know that in 1910, the public library in Dragon, Utah, arranged for the Uintah Railway to deliver borrowed books for free?
Did you know that looters at the Maya archaeological site of Holtun in Guatemala uncovered a series of large stucco masks flanking the main stairway of the principal pyramid?
Did you know that publicist Stephen Rivers arranged Jane Fonda's 1987 trip to Poland, where she went to express her support for Lech Wałęsa, leader of the then-banned Solidarity movement?
Did you know that retired professional baseball player Joe Campbell missed most of spring training in 1967 with the Chicago Cubs due to obligations he had in the United States Marine Corps?
Did you know that since the superstructure of Johnstown's Cathedral of St. John Gualbert was laid using nearly 590,000 pounds (270,000 kg) of steel, the roof was able to be completed before the foundation walls?
Did you know that the Terwilliger-Smith Farm in Kerhonkson, New York, has the only extant stand-alone slaughterhouse in Ulster County?
Did you know that the United Nations and Amnesty International have called for an investigation into the death of Congolese activist Floribert Chebeya?
Did you know that the colour printing process chromoxylography was mostly used to print book covers for penny dreadfuls, yellow-backs, and children's books during the mid to late 19th century?
Did you know that the lighthouse Rumeli Feneri was built in 1855 in order to provide safe navigation for the French and British war ships entering the Bosphorus from the Black Sea during the Crimean War?
Did you know that the publishers of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings insisted on adding the caveat "Music Inspired by" to the title of Bo Hansson's 1972 concept album Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings?
Did you know that the trophy for the Enterprise Cup, a Kenyan rugby union competition, was donated by sailors of the  HMS Enterprise who toured  East Africa in 1928?
Did you know that the “Treaty of Blood Brotherhood” was signed by the Tibetan King Khye Bumsa representing the Bhutias and the Lepcha Chief Thekong, at Kabi Lungchok (memorial stone pictured) near Gangtok in Sikkim?
Did you know that under the Vandalism Act of Singapore, a person convicted for the first time of vandalism by defacing property using an indelible substance such as paint must be sentenced to caning?
Did you know that visually impaired runner Said Gomez, three time Paralympic champion, is the only Panamanian to have won medals at the Paralympic Games?
Did you know that Ana River in south-central Oregon flows almost its entire 7 mile (11 km) course within the boundaries of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Summer Lake Wildlife Area?
Did you know that David C. Chapman, the man who was involved in the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, has a mountain named for him in the park?
Did you know that Don Cohan, the oldest sailor to win an Olympic bronze medal (at age 42), won a U.S. sailing championship at age 72?
Did you know that Fred Swanton, known as the P. T. Barnum of Santa Cruz, promoted everything from the Neptune Casino to ZaSu Pitts?
Did you know that Jerusalem's Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway, because it was originally built as one?
Did you know that John Mott-Smith was the first permanent dentist in the Kingdom of Hawaii and its last ambassador to the U.S.?
Did you know that Offshore Power Systems, a joint venture between Westinghouse Electric and Newport News Shipbuilding, spent more than $125 million during the 1970s but never built a floating nuclear power plant?
Did you know that Owen Aspinall, the 45th Governor of American Samoa, banned a Korean man from marrying a Samoan woman, despite the fact that he, a Colorado native, married a Samoan woman himself?
Did you know that Rhodesia was the only African country to compete at the first Paralympic Games?
Did you know that a big part of the collection of the Bibliothèque municipale de Besançon came from Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle and his son Antoine?