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Did you know that the Central Branch designated by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 had a hanging end at Waterville, Kansas when the Eastern Division was rerouted to serve Denver?
Did you know that the Harris Theater opened to serve small performance groups such as the Luna Negra Dance Theater?
Did you know that the International Francophone Press Union, the world's oldest Francophone organisation, has more than 3,000 members in 110 countries?
Did you know that the Lester Apartments in Seattle, originally intended to be the world's largest brothel, were destroyed when a B-50 Superfortress crashed into it in 1951?
Did you know that the Phillips Mansion, described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900?
Did you know that the longest debate in the Australian Senate was over laws to change the Wik decision?
Did you know that the resignation of Filipino national police chief Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr. was one of the demands of the Oakwood mutiny?
Did you know that the title of the 1999 film One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a play on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
Did you know that , to mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death, RTÉ and the History Channel created the multipart documentary Cromwell in Ireland?
Did you know that Charles William Bardeen, who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association, was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen?
Did you know that Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee?
Did you know that Elizabethan soldier and MP Sir Edward Hoby of Queenborough Castle published Protestant theological works, one under the pseudonym "Nick-Groome of the Hobie-Stable Reginoburgi"?
Did you know that France-Burma relations started as early as the 18th century?
Did you know that Frederick Hollyer was an English photographer known for his platinotypes of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and for portraits of literary and artistic figures?
Did you know that I. M. Pei's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture?
Did you know that Marie Ficarra is the first Coalition party woman to have been both a member of the upper and lower houses of the New South Wales Parliament?
Did you know that Vernon Erskine-Crum was appointed General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971, during the Troubles, but was relieved within a month after suffering a heart attack?
Did you know that although not a member of Nasjonal Samling, Kjeld Stub Irgens was asked by Vidkun Quisling in 1940 to persuade Haakon VII of Norway to abdicate and name Quisling Prime Minister?
Did you know that in 1482, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja proposed a new musical temperament that achieved more consonant thirds and sixths?
Did you know that in 1929, the American cargo ship SS West Alsek became the first steamship powered solely by pulverized coal-fired boilers to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that in 2002, theft was the most common crime in Saudi Arabia, accounting for 47% of the nation's crime?
Did you know that in the 1980s, over 35,000 Vietnamese people worked in Bulgaria?
Did you know that the Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914 was a major labor strike action affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan?
Did you know that the Hunterian Psalter, of about 1170, is the oldest English illuminated manuscript to have miniatures with backgrounds of incised gold leaf?
Did you know that the Pomona City Stables, which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in California?
Did you know that the two attacks on Nauru Island during December 1940 were the greatest success achieved by German auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific Ocean during World War II?
Did you know that visitors to the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky's historic district included King Louis-Philippe of France and Queen Marie of Romania?
Did you know that , according to legend, each of the 66 men who laid the tile of the South Dakota State Capitol placed a blue stone in the floor as a personal signature?
Did you know that Adamson House, called the "Taj Mahal of Tile", has an elaborately tiled dog bath?
Did you know that Hong Kong has the second highest life expectancy in the world?
Did you know that Les Whitt, director of the Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana, won the Dunbar Civil Service Award for his innovation and success in expanding the zoo?
Did you know that Martin of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had served as clerk to the previous Chief Justice, and that Pattishall's clerk in turn rose to this position?
Did you know that Ossie Brown, a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge, composed his high school alma mater?
Did you know that Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969?
Did you know that Rich Schroeppel, the inventor of the Hasty Pudding cipher, offers a bottle of Dom Pérignon for research on the cipher?
Did you know that Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, an architect from Shrewsbury, England, designed the first iron bridge in the world?
Did you know that a parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center, commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?
Did you know that after Yuri Titov had received nine Olympic medals in artistic gymnastics from three Olympics, he served 20 years as president of the International Gymnastics Federation?
Did you know that in Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna, the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to the legality of a contract must be heard by an arbitrator if the contract has an arbitration clause?
Did you know that the Detroit Tigers gave the Williamsport Tigers not only their name, but also grandstand seats taken from Briggs Field in Detroit for their minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant?
Did you know that the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia in Monrovia is the only law school in the nation of Liberia?
Did you know that the National Council of Women of Canada helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Children's Aid Society, and played a vital role in declaring that women were persons?
Did you know that the city hall Hamburg Rathaus, constructed from 1886 to 1897, has 647 rooms, six rooms more than Buckingham Palace, and still functions as the seat of the government of Hamburg?
Did you know that the name of Lithuania was mentioned for the first time in the Annals of Quedlinburg?
Did you know that the village of Rezovo on the Bulgarian Black Sea is the most southeastern point of the European Union mainland?
Did you know that Alliance for Open Society International, operator of drug rehabilitation programs for heroin addicts in Central Asia, sued the U.S. Government over the anti-prostitution pledge?
Did you know that Australia's second largest gold mine is located in Telfer, Western Australia?
Did you know that Dante Alighieri shared a five-part poetic correspondence, called the duol d'amore, with Dante da Maiano?
Did you know that Dick Woodson was the first baseball player to invoke the free agency clause?
Did you know that Gibraltar's St. Michael's Cave, prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II, at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year?
Did you know that Gilbert of Preston, despite serving as a royal justice since 1240, was not given a regular salary until 1253?
Did you know that Google Chrome, a new web browser developed by Google, was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud?
Did you know that La Princesse, a giant mechanical spider, roamed the streets of Liverpool, England as part of the 2008 European City of Culture celebrations?
Did you know that Russian philologist Mikhail Gasparov was also a poet, but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?
Did you know that Simon of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas between 1190 and 1217, had two sons, both of whom became royal administrators themselves?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Lin was removed from office due to the political machinations of the Emperor's wife and the eunuch Li Fuguo?
Did you know that composer William Turner was kicked out of the Chapel Royal choir when his voice broke?
Did you know that despite total defeat of the Polish forces in the Mongol invasion of Poland, the Mongols did not occupy the country?
Did you know that the 1964 Liberty Bowl was played in the Atlantic City Convention Hall, making it the first indoor game telecast nationwide in the U.S.?
Did you know that the German Renaissance Little Masters specialized in very small engravings (example pictured), often treated erotically?
Did you know that the Gothic Collegiate church in Wislica, Poland, was built in 1350 on foundations of two earlier Romanesque churches?
Did you know that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Gao, prior to his civil service career, would attend feasts held by officials just for the purpose of getting drunk?
Did you know that the new antiretroviral drug apricitabine was invented at a Canadian drug manufacturer, which was bought by the British company Shire plc, who sold the drug's development rights to an Australian company?
Did you know that the vulnerable Queensland shrub Grevillea venusta is an easily-grown garden plant and parent of cultivars G. 'Fire Sprite' and G. 'Orange Marmalade'?
Did you know that there are stories of Metacomet, sachem of the Wampanoag Indians, meeting with allies near Bear's Den Falls to plan attacks on Massachusetts towns during King Philip's War?
Did you know that two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville] used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state?
Did you know that when one of the rare recordings of "Stormy Weather" by The Five Sharps, a 78 rpm record, was broken, the blame was placed on a pet raccoon that supposedly sat on it?
Did you know that American writer and former Montague Bookmill proprietor David Lovelace published a 2008 memoir titled Scattershot: My Bipolar Family, about his family's battles with bipolar disorder?
Did you know that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company's Chief Designer for 25 years of his 44-year career?
Did you know that Bronco Lane presented his severed toes to the National Army Museum?
Did you know that CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary founded the International Francophone Press Union?
Did you know that Hawaiian cultural advocate Bob Worthington served as the honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States?
Did you know that Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games?
Did you know that Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Minister of State for the Republic of the Congo, is also an acknowledged poet?
Did you know that La púrpura de la rosa is the first known opera to be written in and performed in the Americas?
Did you know that Norwegian television presenter Dan Børge Akerø started his career as a research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo?
Did you know that Sylvester O'Halloran suggested in a 1793 book on external injuries to the head that Irish fights were often caused by drinking too much whiskey?
Did you know that The Bostonian Society was formed in 1881 to prevent the Old State House, site of the Boston Massacre, from being moved to Chicago?
Did you know that The Portraitist is a 2005 Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, the famous "photographer of Auschwitz"?
Did you know that although the mushroom Russula delica is technically edible, its smell of fish or bugs and acrid taste make it fairly poor fare?
Did you know that carved Romanesque stone heads were added to the walls of Temple Cronan in Ireland as decoration during renovation in the 12th century?
Did you know that despite having immigrated from Poland, Dahn Ben-Amotz was often considered the epitome of the concept of the Israeli native "Sabra"?
Did you know that in 1998, English writer Joyce Dunbar cycled across Cuba to raise funds for the National Deaf Children's Society, on behalf of a people with hearing impairment?
Did you know that in the 1890s, Moloundou, Cameroon was considered "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa"?
Did you know that incidents of violent crime against foreign citizens are rare in Kuwait?
Did you know that the 12th-century St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean is one of only two extant churches in England with that dedication?
Did you know that the Masked Rider mascot (statue pictured), one of the Texas Tech University traditions, was the first mascot in major college sports featuring a live horse?
Did you know that the Voith Corporate Group claims that its own Voith Maxima 40CC locomotive is the world's most powerful diesel-hydraulic locomotive?
Did you know that the massacre of the Acqui Division provided the historical context for the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which later became a Hollywood film?
Did you know that the monkey "Marcel" on the TV sitcom Friends was a White-headed Capuchin?
Did you know that Afro-Brazilian Culture is prominent in regions like Bahia, Brazil, where over 80 percent of people are of African descent?
Did you know that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company's Chief Designer during his 44-year career?
Did you know that Brooke Miller, a racing cyclist and the  US national criterium and road race champion, has a Ph.D in evolutionary biology?
Did you know that Captain Benjamin Hallowell gave his friend Lord Nelson a coffin made from the French flagship destroyed at the Battle of the Nile?
Did you know that Daniel Kievsky was the first Russian travel-writer?
Did you know that Erkki Nghimtina, Minister of Mines and Energy of Namibia, was only reprimanded for firing a gun shot near a relative after the teenager joined the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress?
Did you know that Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo is the first military/civilian hospital in the United States?
Did you know that Hindu deity Chinnamasta and Buddhist deity Vajrayogini are often depicted as drinking blood from the kapala?
Did you know that James Lingan, officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland for defending the freedom of the press?
Did you know that Julius Caesar is believed to have taken a nap under the Caesarsboom yew in West Flanders?
Did you know that Lonar Lake was created by the only hypervelocity meteoritic impact crater on basalt rock?
Did you know that Samuel Johnson's London, his first major work, contains the beginnings of his views on literature, politics and ethics?
Did you know that Timothy Creasey, a British Army officer, was commander of the Sultan of Oman's Forces for three years before serving in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that a Mantled Howler's calls can be heard for several kilometers?
Did you know that in 1902, Isabel Gonzalez, a single Puerto Rican mother, challenged the United States government and helped pave the way for all Puerto Ricans to be recognized as U.S. citizens?
Did you know that prehistoric Orkney has provided so many ancient ruins that one of the islands in the archipelago has been described as "the Egypt of the North"?
Did you know that the 2007 film The Pool was directed by Milwaukee-based Chris Smith in Hindi, a language alien to him?
Did you know that the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, Louisiana, honors 16 musicians of the Mississippi delta?
Did you know that the Gloster Grouse biplane, developed in 1922, never saw active service in the Royal Air Force?
Did you know that the beoseon are socks worn with hanbok, Korean traditional clothing?
Did you know that the molybdenum mines in Knaben, Norway, were the target of a massive B-17 bombing raid in 1943?
Did you know that the planetary nebula Abell 39 is unusually spherical, yet its central star is offset from the center?
Did you know that , because Li Xian would not flatter him, the Tang Dynasty chancellor Yang Guozhong blamed torrential rains near the capital Chang'an on divine displeasure with Li Xian?
Did you know that Admiral Sir Francis Geary was a noted bellringer at St Bride's Church,   London?
Did you know that Allied aircraft, including the one that located the Bismarck, were permitted to fly across neutral Irish territory using the Donegal Corridor?
Did you know that Andong jjimdak is a Korean steamed dish originated in the city of Andong?
Did you know that Daily Mail journalist Rodney Hallworth was questioned during the 1956 police investigation of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams for leaking information to two MPs?
Did you know that Giovanni Soro was likely the Western world's first great cryptanalyst?
Did you know that Mike Francesa of Mike'd Up, who co-hosted his last sports radio program, said he wouldn't have a co-host on this one?
Did you know that Mohan Krishna Indraganti's 2008 Telugu film Ashta Chamma was inspired by Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest?
Did you know that Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure featured Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuinness in "strange but quintessentially British sporting events", such as cheese rolling and bog snorkelling?
Did you know that Roy Staiger played for both New York Major League Baseball teams, the Mets and Yankees, but for no other Major League teams?
Did you know that after the Battle of Chmielnik, a major victory for the Mongols during their invasion of Poland, inhabitants of Kraków abandoned their city?
Did you know that although Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard's musical tracks for Little Women won the Richard Rodgers Award in 1998, those tracks did not make it to Broadway?
Did you know that although Mackerel scad are found from Nova Scotia to Rio de Janeiro, they do not seem common in the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you know that author-illustrator Polly Dunbar has been selected by The Times as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008?
Did you know that gejang is a variety of jeotgal, fermented seafood in Korean cuisine, which is made by marinating fresh raw crabs in soy sauce?
Did you know that in Norse mythology, Valhalla is an enormous hall located in Asgard where those that die in combat go upon death?
Did you know that on January 13, 1964, a B-52 bomber containing two 24-megaton nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland?
Did you know that the Far Hills Races has hosted the Breeders' Cup Grade 1 Steeplechase, which has been called "steeplechasing's richest race"?
Did you know that the Footprints of Eve are the oldest known footprints of an anatomically modern human?
Did you know that the Jewish community dates its presence in Eišiškės, Lithuania, back to the year 1097 or 1171?
Did you know that the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department (jacket pictured), which responded to the Flight 93 crash during the September 11 attacks, received a memorial made of steel from the World Trade Center?
Did you know that the Statesman Journal is the second oldest newspaper in Oregon?
Did you know that the construction of the Untertorbrücke, the first bridge in Berne, Switzerland, triggered a war?
Did you know that the marriage of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson took place at Château de Candé?
Did you know that the village of Anasartha, located in Western Syria and today known as Khanasser, derived its water supply until 1975 from a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) long Byzantine-era qanat?
Did you know that "Spirit in the Night" was the first of three songs from Bruce Springsteen's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. that was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band?
Did you know that "Woolwick" was a fictional name for Kent, Ohio in the writing of Lucien Price?
Did you know that All Saints' Chapel, now a public library in Rosendale, New York, is faced in locally-produced Rosendale cement?
Did you know that Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheese maker in Seattle, Washington that is known for mixing combinations of cheese cultures?
Did you know that British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing?
Did you know that Charles II of England attended the 1667 premiere of the tragicomedy The Maiden Queen?
Did you know that Greg Urwin was the first Australian and first non-Pacific Islander to become Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum?
Did you know that John C. Ostlund, a Wyoming state senator and 1978 gubernatorial nominee, lost his eyesight to diabetes and penned his autobiography to benefit the training of seeing-eye dogs?
Did you know that King Rother is the earliest known Spielmannsdichtung heroic epic of wandering minstrels?
Did you know that MV Westward was modeled after a salmon cannery tender?
Did you know that Parithimar Kalaignar is best remembered for his sustained efforts to establish Tamil as a classical language?
Did you know that Ralph Sandwich served as the justice at the 1305 trial of William Wallace?
Did you know that Singaporean Paralympian Theresa Goh, who is paraplegic, won six gold medals in swimming at the 2003 ISMWSF World Wheelchair Games in 2003?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Kui had once referred to future chancellor Yuan Zai as the son of a water deer or a rodent, drawing Yuan's eventual retaliation?
Did you know that Washington State Route 339 is actually a ferry route?
Did you know that accountant Jack Liebowitz was not only joint owner of All-American Publications that created Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, but his companies also distributed Mad and Playboy?
Did you know that among the effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas was severe damage to the Baylor College of Medicine, including the loss of 60,000 tumor samples?
Did you know that architect Albert C. Martin successfully defended his design of the 28-story Los Angeles City Hall against those who argued the city government could fit into the first four floors?
Did you know that comics artist Ham Fisher worked as a salesman for the McNaught Syndicate before they started distributing his comic strip Joe Palooka?
Did you know that landscape painter George Arnald's most successful painting was his only known work of maritime art?
Did you know that poet David Wagoner's novel The Escape Artist was made into a film by executive producer Francis Ford Coppola?
Did you know that roughly 300 fish species, three of which are not named, swim in the rivers of Cameroon's Boumba Bek National Park?
Did you know that the Arafura Swamp in Australia, the filming location for Ten Canoes, is an important breeding site for crocodiles?
Did you know that the Dublin Virginal Manuscript represents an important step in the development of secular English keyboard music?
Did you know that the Marsala Ship is the first warship known from archeological evidence?
Did you know that the National Cartoon Museum wandered between four homes before its acquisition by Ohio State University?
Did you know that the Wawer massacre around Christmas 1939 in occupied Poland is considered one of the first large massacres of Polish civilians by Nazi Germany?
Did you know that the city of Chuncheon, Korea is famous for dak galbi, which is made by stir-frying marinated chicken, vegetables, and rice cake in chili pepper paste?
Did you know that the science-based panel game The What in the World? Quiz guest stars appearances from The Naked Scientists?
Did you know that there are more than 1,200 historical markers in Ohio?