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Did you know that according to the Catholic religious scholar John A. Saliba, new religious movements often serve as a temporary haven for young people, enabling them to stabilise their lives?
Did you know that although Chris Young was voted Tu'i Manu'a Elisala by several chiefs in American Samoa, Governor Edward Stanley Kellogg denied him the title, claiming it was incompatible with the United States Constitution?
Did you know that aside from the Brigham House, none of Frank Lloyd Wright's built designs of "A Fireproof House for $5000" were constructed of the specified fire-resistant concrete?
Did you know that following his return to Chile in 1880, the newspaper editor Recaredo Santos Tornero established the country's first paper mill?
Did you know that in 1943 all the British Commandos involved in Operation Checkmate were captured and sent to concentration camps?
Did you know that several forts at Fort Morris Historic Site in Georgia protected the Medway River and its settlements during the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812?
Did you know that the 5th century Yemeni King Tub'a Abu Kariba As'ad is widely believed to have been a convert to Judaism?
Did you know that the Alsace-Lorraine Regional Party, founded in 1903, was the first Catholic political organization in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine?
Did you know that the Simmons & Wright Company building, built in far eastern Mississippi in 1884, was filmed for the movie Due Date?
Did you know that the Wairau, Awatere, Clarence and Hope faults, are the main active faults of the Marlborough Fault System, and carry most of the displacement on the Australian-Pacific plate boundary in northern South Island?
Did you know that the dam at Red Hills State Park was damaged by the 2008 Illinois earthquake?
Did you know that the historian Robert W. Mondy's Jesse Mercer: A Study in Frontier Religion, is a biography of the founder of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia?
Did you know that the rare American Walking Fern can be found in Wildcat Mountain State Park, a Wisconsin state park in the Driftless Area?
Did you know that the villagers of the Romanian village of Bigar largely speak Czech rather than Romanian?
Did you know that there are over 300 trails in the Boy Scouts of America's Historic Trails Award program and that there is at least one in every US state?
Did you know that while interned in a Japanese POW camp, the Dutch mycologist Marinus Anton Donk cultured yeast to ferment rice, producing much-needed vitamins for fellow prisoners?
Did you know that , during Meridian City Hall's renovation, 1,643 terracotta tiles had to be replaced with exact replicas, which only two companies in the world could manufacture?
Did you know that , in 2009, Somerset County Cricket Club were boosted by the batting of Marcus Trescothick, who scored 1,817 runs?
Did you know that Alan M. Kriegsman won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for his work at The Washington Post, the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for reporting as a dance critic?
Did you know that Catherine Pollard was the first female Scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts of America?
Did you know that Coanwood Friends Meeting House in Northumberland has not been modified since it was built in 1760, other than replacing its thatched roof with slates?
Did you know that HootSuite, which helps users organize their online identities, is used by the Obama administration and Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, among 400,000 other people?
Did you know that Larissa Riquelme, who gained international fame as a spectator at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is Paraguay's highest-paid model?
Did you know that Malcolm Shabazz is the first male descendant of Malcolm X?
Did you know that Melvin Bernhardt made his London directing debut with a production of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds?
Did you know that Nueces Bay in Texas was once referred to as papelote or Wastepaper Bay?
Did you know that Sisimiut is the second-largest town in Greenland?
Did you know that Somerset cricketer Bill Hyman hit 62 runs from two overs of lob bowling by W G Grace's older brother?
Did you know that William Robert Ming helped obtain an acquittal on perjury charges for Martin Luther King, Jr. from an all-white jury in 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama?
Did you know that although it has been said that she had enough money to buy the city of Hoboken, the "Witch of Wall Street" Hetty Green chose to rent a small, cheap apartment in the Yellow Flats for $19 a month?
Did you know that depictions of the Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art (example pictured) in the Eastern Church never depict the actual moment of resurrection?
Did you know that during the Byzantine Iconoclasm, Michael Lachanodrakon allegedly forced monks and nuns to marry, abolished monasteries, tortured and executed iconophiles and set fire to relics and scriptures?
Did you know that during the early Middle Ages the Gothic rulers in Western Europe established their own (Arian) churches alongside the Roman churches of their subjects?
Did you know that professional baseball player Hank Erickson was nicknamed "Popeye" due to his supposed resemblance to the comic strip character?
Did you know that the Holbrooke Hotel includes a restaurant whose chef gets mushrooms and wild lettuce from local State Park Rangers?
Did you know that the Third Battle of Seoul was the British 29th Infantry Brigade's first action during the Korean War?
Did you know that the U.S. Army created the "Combat Infantry Band" in World War II specifically to play Frank Loesser's song, "The Ballad of Rodger Young" (listen)ⓘ?
Did you know that the Ural economic region, Ural Federal District and Ural geographical region are all different regions located around the Ural Mountains and Ural River?
Did you know that the bay of Fort-Liberté (fort pictured) was the site of the Caribbean's largest sisal plantation until nylon was invented?
Did you know that the former Smith Tavern in Armonk, New York, has been a militia headquarters, stagecoach stop, post office, parsonage, farmhouse and museum in over 200 years of existence?
Did you know that the many descendants of merchant ship captain Joseph Oliver Carter included diplomat Henry A. P. Carter, Parker Ranch manager Alfred W. Carter, and Hawaii Governor George R. Carter?
Did you know that the prisoner rehabilitation Second Chance Program, based on works of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, was criticized during the 2010 United States Senate elections in Nevada?
Did you know that the walls of the Catholic church in Cassella, Ohio, which burned in an 1888 fire, remained unrepaired for nearly thirty years?
Did you know that the Ślężanie were a tribe of West Slavs of the Polish group, inhabiting territories of Silesia, which is named after them, near Ślęża mountain and river, up to the area of modern city of Wrocław?
Did you know that , two years after winning the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Indian Wars, George W. Thompson deserted the U.S. Army?
Did you know that Australia's native broom is a pea?
Did you know that Erysiphe alphitoides, which causes powdery mildew on oak trees, is one of the most common diseases in European forests today, but may have originated in the tropics?
Did you know that Frankliniella tritici, known as Eastern flower thrips, is an insect that damages crops in the United States of America, including strawberries, grapes, beans and asparagus?
Did you know that Gunsa Airport started operations on 1 July 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport in Tibet, providing easy access for pilgrims to Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarovar?
Did you know that Herb Gardiner, nicknamed "the ironman of hockey", won the Hart Trophy as most valuable player after being said to have played every minute of every game for the Montreal Canadiens in 1926–27?
Did you know that Mexican bandit Chucho el Roto has been compared to Robin Hood?
Did you know that a Catholic church in the Lithuanian town of Valkininkai claims to have the body of Saint Boniface of Tarsus, a 4th-century martyr?
Did you know that although St Benet's Chapel, Netherton, Liverpool, was built in 1793, when Catholics were free to worship openly, it was concealed behind the presbytery?
Did you know that although it cost just £500,000 to make, on its opening day Morris: A Life with Bells On had a higher take per screen than the studio-backed big budget film The Soloist?
Did you know that deuterium burning acts as a thermostat in newly forming stars?
Did you know that in 1962, biophysicist Jerome Wolken proposed sending cockroaches into space as part of an effort to detect signs of extraterrestrial life?
Did you know that in June 1940 the Royal Air Force supplied the boats for Operation Collar, the first British raid on occupied France?
Did you know that in neutral Sweden during World War II, the communist newspapers Ny Dag and Sydsvenska Kuriren were banned from being carried on trains and public buses?
Did you know that most people orient their toilet paper with the loose end hanging over the top and away from the wall?
Did you know that six-year-old Elena Desserich left hundreds of notes, which were published in Notes Left Behind, for her parents to find after her death?
Did you know that the 1957 election in Zanzibar was the first election to be held in East Africa?
Did you know that the Frome Hoard was found by a metal detectorist just 35 cm (14 in) below ground in Somerset and contained 52,503 Roman coins (coin pictured)?
Did you know that the Koebel House was the first commission for the father-and-son firm of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, and included a built-in electrical and sound system controlled from the master bedroom?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Ioann Zlatoust was named for Saint John Chrysostom?
Did you know that the extent of damage to buildings in the 1978 Miyagi earthquake caused revisions to both the Japanese Building Standards act and the Earthquake Insurance System?
Did you know that the first ever boycott to be given that name was organised by the Irish Land League against Captain Charles Boycott?
Did you know that the identity of the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was ascertained based on notes written in 1503 by Florentine clerk Agostino Vespucci?
Did you know that the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss researched the 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary?
Did you know that woodworkers from the Vietnamese village of Kim Bồng (sample art pictured) created not only detail work for Huế's Imperial City, but also an entire warship for the Spanish navy?
Did you know that "Quién Como Tú" is the third number-one single on the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart for Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel?
Did you know that Alex "Action" Mann wears a parka, a wetsuit, and a space suit in Action Man: Search for Base X?
Did you know that Bach composed Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a in 1719 as a congratulatory cantata for the court of Anhalt-Köthen?
Did you know that Camilla Tilling was the soprano soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony in the opening concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival 2010, conducted by Paavo Järvi?
Did you know that Danny Valencia, who after being drafted only 576th in baseball's 2006 draft said: "It does not matter where you start, but where you finish", debuted in the majors in 2010?
Did you know that Eagle Butte Mine in Gillette, Wyoming, is an open-pit "truck and shovel" mine that has produced over 500 million short tons of coal since 1978?
Did you know that Egon Schiele's 1912 Portrait of Wally was seized by the United States Customs Service which alleged that the painting was Nazi plunder?
Did you know that Holy Spirit College in Atlanta, Georgia, will admit its first class of full-time undergraduate students later this year?
Did you know that Irish Socialist Republican Party co-founder Robert Dorman became the first Labour Party member of the Senate of Northern Ireland?
Did you know that Janusz Krupski, who died in the 2010 Polish air force crash in Smolensk, was kidnapped in 1983 by the communist-era secret police and burned with acid, but that his thick sweater saved his life?
Did you know that Jean-Joseph Marcel was first to realize that the middle text of the Rosetta Stone was Egyptian demotic script, and not Syriac?
Did you know that Wayman Tisdale became the first college basketball player selected to the Associated Press All American first team as a freshman, sophomore and junior with the 1982–83, 1983–84, and 1984–85 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball teams?
Did you know that after being ambushed by the Tonto Apaches, U.S. Calvaryman Bernard Taylor carried his wounded commanding officer half a mile back to their encampment under heavy fire?
Did you know that after the broadcast of images of nude paintings of Brian Cowen on RTÉ, Cathal Goan was asked to "consider his position" as Director-General of RTÉ?
Did you know that for its first two years, the Norwegian newspaper Telemarksavisa was not published out of Telemark, but from Larvik and Drammen?
Did you know that in 1772, Lieutenant Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn claimed sovereignty over Western Australia on behalf of France?
Did you know that in 1997, Blue Öyster Cult guitarist Richie Castellano persuaded Paul McCartney to sing with the CHS Guitar Ensemble at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?
Did you know that six Israeli soldiers may face disciplinary action for filming a viral dance video called IDF Tick Tock?
Did you know that the 1920s cost of US$30,000-per-mile ($658,000-per-mile in 2010 dollars) was a major deterrent to the completion of U.S. Route 30 in Iowa?
Did you know that the Snellen eye chart developed by Hermann Snellen in 1862 is the top-selling poster in U.S. history?
Did you know that the easy-to-grow swamp orchid Phaius australis of eastern Australia is endangered with extinction?
Did you know that the first Spinka Rebbe, Joseph Meir Weiss, was buried in Romania in 1909, but reinterred in Petah Tikva, Israel in 1972?
Did you know that the weeping willow planted by John Parke Custis on his Abingdon plantation is known as the progenitor of all weeping willows in the United States?
Did you know that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the population decline of the Pink-headed Warbler?
Did you know that 650,000 cubic yards (500,000 m3) of sediment were taken from Kingman Lake in Washington, D.C., and replaced with twice as much fill to build approach ramps to the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge?
Did you know that American schoolteacher Rita Abrams and the fourth-grade class in her school recorded an album which featured a Billboard Hot 100 hit and saw her being nominated for a Grammy?
Did you know that Blount Island in the St. Johns River is home to both the United States Marine Corps' Maritime Prepositioning ship program and the largest container facility at the Port of Jacksonville?
Did you know that Consolidated Edison distributed dry ice to its customers who lost power during the July 2010 Canada/United States heatwave?
Did you know that Frank Tolan was one of 22 American soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor for volunteering to carry water to comrades wounded in the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Did you know that Fujiyama was the tallest roller coaster in the world from 1996 until 2000?
Did you know that George Otlowski resigned after 14 years as mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, describing the job as "like fighting some kind of dragon"?
Did you know that Knobbed porgies are born female, but become males over their lifetimes?
Did you know that Liberal Democratic Party member Akihiko Kumashiro, a four-termer in Japan's House of Representatives, dropped out of a race for re-election when his party fielded another candidate against him?
Did you know that a chasse is a medieval box shaped like a house or church, and usually a reliquary?
Did you know that after earning the Medal of Honor in 1890, U.S. Cavalryman Frederick E. Toy went on to serve as an orderly to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
Did you know that although Princess Louise of Prussia was noble-born, her daughter Elisabeth Radziwill was considered an unsuitable marriage prospect for future emperor Wilhelm I?
Did you know that by the time of his death in 1847, Vice-Admiral William Young had spent 70 years serving in the Royal Navy?
Did you know that in 1577 German Reformation theologian Lucas Maius helped develop a philosophical conundrum known as the 'Devil's Cross' that was said to have turned numerous parishioners away from the devil?
Did you know that in 1725, Louis Congo received freedom from slavery in exchange for becoming the public executioner of Louisiana?
Did you know that one of the professors hired by Beck University, David Barton, was described by founder Glenn Beck as "the Library of Congress in shoes"?
Did you know that only 1,404 people died in the 1930 Irpinia earthquake, despite 70% of houses being destroyed near the epicenter, as most villagers were sleeping in the fields during the wheat harvest?
Did you know that research by Clement Finch showed that bloodletting could be an effective treatment for hemochromatosis?
Did you know that the 1987–88 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team, which was led by three future NBA Draft first round selections, defeated every ranked opponent they faced and averaged 102.5 points per game?
Did you know that the Bukit Timah Monkey Man is a cryptid said to roam around the city-state of Singapore?
Did you know that the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine is the largest current producer of gold in Colorado?
Did you know that the Shandaken Tunnel reaches its 2,215-foot (675 m) maximum depth below the surface at Deep Notch in Lexington, New York?
Did you know that the experimental fiction project The Mongoliad, led by speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson, is to be released via smartphones as a serialized novel to which readers can contribute?
Did you know that the honorary president of Bendinat, Majorca's exclusive golf club, is King Juan Carlos of Spain?
Did you know that the rauisuchian Tsylmosuchus is known from strata found in Russia that are early Olenekian in age, making it one of the earliest archosaurs?
Did you know that when the Chicago Junction Railway stopped regularly maintaining the Kenwood branch, the Chicago Rapid Transit Company refused to pay rent on the line?
Did you know that 23 U.S. cavalrymen, including Jacob Trautman and Paul H. Weinert, were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890?
Did you know that Admiral Sir William Young's clashes with Lord Cochrane led to Frederick Marryat including Young in a novel as 'Sir Hurricane Humbug'?
Did you know that Antonio Liozzi, an 18th-century Italian artist, trained under the tutelage of Marco Benefial?
Did you know that Bethesda Methodist Chapel in Hanley, Staffordshire, now redundant, has been known as the "Cathedral of the Potteries"?
Did you know that Creole slaves under the leadership of Oude Ram Afrikaner were among the first to call themselves Africans, and that Afrikaans got its name from this appellation?
Did you know that Mary Virginia Terhune, mother of famed novelist Albert Payson Terhune, was a prolific writer who published over 50 novels and non-fiction works during her lifetime?
Did you know that Mississippian stone statuary (examples pictured), artifacts made by members of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE), are figurines made of polished stone in the shape of humans?
Did you know that Sashes Island was the site of a Roman crossing of the River Thames and a Saxon defensive burh?
Did you know that Thorvaldsen's equestrian statue of a Polish military hero spent 80 years in the country estate of a Russian Field Marshal but was destroyed within 20 years after its return to Warsaw?
Did you know that Tiny Gooch, placed third in the discus at the NCAA track championships, won the Southwest Conference heavyweight wrestling championship and was acknowledged as "the tallest attorney in Texas" until 1950?
Did you know that Vidyadharas, semi-gods of Hindu mythology, milked Mother Earth, who had assumed the form of a cow, to collect mystic powers and the art of flying as her milk?
Did you know that Wally Johansen, a starting guard on the first-ever NCAA men's basketball championship team in 1939, later became president of the Oregon State Bar?
Did you know that after leading African-American troops in the American Civil War, Alfred Stedman Hartwell became a supreme court judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii?
Did you know that despite being Watford's top scorer as they won the Southern League in 1914–15, professional footballer George Edmonds continued working as a printer?
Did you know that despite losing Belgium to the Allies, Nazi Germany declared Flanders a reichsgau in 1944?
Did you know that during the week of the release of his fifth studio album Loso's Way, Fabolous decided to contribute to Trey Songz's single "Say Aah"?
Did you know that geologist Amund Helland published pioneering works on glacial erosion and the role of glaciers in the formation of valleys, fjords and lakes in the mid 1870s?
Did you know that having taken a single dance class at Dartmouth College, Jonathan Wolken co-founded Pilobolus, which The New York Times called "one of the most popular modern-dance companies in the world"?
Did you know that the Banta-Coe House in Teaneck, New Jersey, is one of the oldest existing homes in the Garden State?
Did you know that the J.H.C. Petersen's Sons' Store building was the flagship Von Maur department store?
Did you know that the Shepherdsville train wreck, which caused about fifty deaths when two trains collided in December 1917, is the deadliest train wreck in the history of Kentucky?
Did you know that the United States Army sends Military History Detachments to war zones to collect historical documents, such as oral histories, for writing histories?
Did you know that the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus in Albany, New York, has an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack and assure continuation of the New York State Government?
Did you know that the central monument in Bubanj Memorial Park in Niš, Serbia, is shaped like three huge raised hands with clenched fists?
Did you know that the music venue Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, was originally built in 1914 for the Ancient Order of Hibernians?
Did you know that the part of state highway Arkansas Highway 29 that goes through Hope, Arkansas, is referred to as "Bill Clinton Drive"?
Did you know that the unsuccessful 1960 Ethiopian coup was the most serious threat to Emperor Haile Selassie's rule between his return to Ethiopia in 1941 and his deposition in 1974?
Did you know that upon reading Marshall S. Cornwell's poem "Success," American writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote Cornwell "your gift seems genuine and far above that indicated in verse"?
Did you know that , in his first two and a half years as CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, Mark Cutifani led a program that reduced the number of fatalities within the company by 70%?
Did you know that Alberta's Big-4 hockey league collapsed in 1921 following repeated accusations its teams were using ineligible players?
Did you know that Andy Williams' album Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes stayed on the Billboard 200 list for over 176 weeks?
Did you know that Codex Vaticanus 2061, a double palimpsest, contains some parts of the New Testament, homilies of several authors, and Strabon's Geographica?
Did you know that Don Dodge, a former start-up evangelist for Microsoft, switched from using a Windows-based computer to a Mac-based one after he moved to Google?
Did you know that Henry R. Tilton risked his life protecting wounded soldiers at the Battle of Bear Paw but wasn't awarded the Medal of Honor until almost 20 years after the act?
Did you know that Moscow Oblast hosts the Russian Mission Control Centers for spacecraft and military satellites?
Did you know that Ramón Estévez, who played a sycophantic, "spineless corporal" in Cadence, wore glasses and "his hat most of the time" to keep from being recognized as Charlie Sheen's brother?
Did you know that Steven C. Krane, who was at age 44 the youngest president of the New York State Bar Association, died in June 2010 at the age of 53?