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Did you know that Akaitcho, Chief of the Yellowknives, was John Franklin's Coppermine Expedition guide?
Did you know that Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul launched the world's largest dredger in June 2008 with the 46,000m³ capacity Cristobal Colon?
Did you know that City View was the first charter school in Hillsboro, Oregon, when it opened in 2004?
Did you know that Harvey Locke conceived the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, with the goal to create a continuous wilderness corridor from Yellowstone National Park in the United States to the Yukon in Canada?
Did you know that Hayden Bridge, a covered bridge on the National Register of Historic Places, had to be repaired in 2006 after a logging truck crashed into it?
Did you know that James A. Kowalski, dean of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, had a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother, but they joined the Episcopal Church when they started a family?
Did you know that James Aubrey, who appeared in the 1963 film version of Lord of the Flies, made his professional acting debut in Isle of Children?
Did you know that Romanian actress Ecaterina Nazare appeared in a theatrical version of Shakespeare's sonnets, produced and staged by the National Theatre Bucharest?
Did you know that a car-driving collie recently auditioned for the second series of The All Ireland Talent Show?
Did you know that collectors of engraved gems (example pictured) include Julius Caesar, Pope Paul II, Rubens, Christina of Sweden and Catherine the Great?
Did you know that prior to writing the book Twisted Scriptures, Mary Alice Chrnalogar had belonged to the religious group Church Universal and Triumphant?
Did you know that the 1919 BSA Model E British motorcycle was the first of a long line of popular V twins?
Did you know that the AIDS activist group ACT UP twice shut down production of the Midnight Caller episode "After It Happened", believing that it would encourage vigilantism against people with AIDS?
Did you know that the Azores Noctule is the only species of bat that primarily hunts during the day?
Did you know that the Brandenburg-Pomeranian conflict involved the houses of Ascania, Hohenzollern, Luxembourg, Pomerania, Sweden and Wittelsbach?
Did you know that the French conquest of Senegal started in 1659 with the establishment of a trading post in Saint-Louis?
Did you know that the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, asked residents to donate their used Christmas trees for planting at Turner Creek Park?
Did you know that the co-founder of the New England Institute of Religious Research was a court-appointed guardian of 13 children removed from a religious sect in Attleboro, Massachusetts?
Did you know that the mineral processing plant at the Kittilä mine includes a bomb shelter, as required by a 1917 law?
Did you know that the rheology of food affects how pleasant a food feels in the mouth and therefore how desirable it is to the consumer?
Did you know that the southern African frilled shark preys mainly on smaller sharks, which it swallows whole with its greatly distensible mouth?
Did you know that two windmills in Burdaard, the Netherlands, are named after the elephant and the swallow, and that both mills are Rijksmonuments?
Did you know that when artist Sérvulo Gutiérrez sold a nude portrait of his lover Doris Gibson, Gibson stole it from the buyer, telling him "I don't want to be nude in your house"?
Did you know that while serving in the California Assembly, Republican Michael D. Duvall was described as having "blasted" attempts to legalize gay marriage?
Did you know that Alfred Gottschalk performed the 1972 rabbinic ordination of Sally Priesand, the second woman to be formally ordained in the history of Judaism?
Did you know that Andrew Berg, a Finnish immigrant to the U.S. state of Alaska, became the Territory's first licensed hunting guide?
Did you know that IOC organizers proposed to demonstrate American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics as a match-up between the defending national champions at USC and East Coast powerhouse Yale University?
Did you know that Nikolay Karamzin compared the architectural projects of Vasili Bazhenov to Plato's Republic and Thomas More's Utopia?
Did you know that Sylvan Friedman, a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from 1944 to 1972, was part of a small but influential Jewish community in Natchitoches Parish?
Did you know that Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling saw the reunions of both Tekno Team 2000 and the father and son team of Dusty and Dustin Rhodes?
Did you know that a pyramid (artist's impression pictured) that contained the grave of Queen Amanishakheto was located in Wad ban Naqa and her stone stela was discovered in Naqa, both of which are in modern-day Sudan?
Did you know that after seeing Zero Hour, a play about the life of actor Zero Mostel, Theodore Bikel wrote to the playwright, "Thank you for bringing back a volcano that we thought was long extinct"?
Did you know that botanist Thomas Frederic Cheeseman had a wide range of interests including Māori ethnology?
Did you know that in October 1945, shortly after unexpectedly entering a cloud, National Airlines Flight 16 crashed into a lake in Lakeland, Florida, drowning two passengers?
Did you know that in Zoroastrian tradition (Faravahar pictured), Zoroaster was met with hostility when he arrived at the court of his future patron Vishtaspa?
Did you know that in the 1985 hijacking of Braathens SAFE Flight 139, the hijacker exchanged his gun for beer?
Did you know that more than 90 percent of the night sharks caught off northeastern Brazil contain mercury concentrations higher than that considered safe by the local government?
Did you know that one of Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Deasy's last acts before dying led to a record number of applicants for organ donor cards?
Did you know that the Sunday Independent claimed Ireland's Taoiseach Brian Cowen was upset following his "mugging" on The Late Late Show?
Did you know that the West African trade union centre CGTA, a splinter-group of the French CGT, rejected the notion of class struggle, stating that there were no antagonistic classes in Africa?
Did you know that the artist who made a stone relief of the Menorah in Israel's Migdal Synagogue in 50 BCE – 100 CE may have seen the original Menorah in the Second Temple before its destruction in 70 CE?
Did you know that the city of Schenectady bought and demolished several other hotels to ensure the success of the Hotel Van Curler, now Schenectady County Community College's Elston Hall?
Did you know that the depiction of Eros and Psyche on the Marlborough gem, a carved onyx cameo from as early as the first century CE, was copied or reproduced by Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Wedgwood and Flaxman?
Did you know that the first African American to see the Great Falls of the Missouri River was York, a slave who participated in the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Did you know that though he has won six nonconsecutive elections to the Louisiana State Senate, Joe McPherson of Rapides Parish has twice failed in bids for his state's Public Service Commission?
Did you know that two foiled attacks by N.D.F.L.O.A.G. guerrillas in June 1970 sparked a conspiracy to overthrow the Sultan of Oman?
Did you know that ABC aired the Marcus Welby, M.D. episode "The Outrage" despite having been zapped for the earlier episode "The Other Martin Loring"?
Did you know that Captain Isaac Coffin rescued a man from drowning while commanding HMS Alligator, but injured himself in doing so?
Did you know that Columbia College acting dean Henry S. Coleman, held hostage in the Columbia University protests of 1968, later wrote law school recommendation letters for some of his student captors?
Did you know that Czech ice-hockey goaltender Josef Mikoláš' career injuries included eight lost teeth, a broken cheekbone, a double fracture of his lower jaw and 35 head sutures?
Did you know that Frank Coghlan said "damn" in Gone with the Wind, but is best known for saying "Shazam" in Captain Marvel, the first big screen depiction of a comic book superhero?
Did you know that Gordon Faber, as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, once carried an ax while wearing an executioner's hood to an employee's performance review?
Did you know that Kir Ianulea, a 1909 novella by Romanian author Ion Luca Caragiale, relocated Niccolò Machiavelli's Belfagor arcidiavolo into Phanariote-era Bucharest?
Did you know that Metallica's management company told The Quietus magazine to remove published reviews of early track versions from the band's 2008 album Death Magnetic?
Did you know that Yreka phlox, an endangered flowering plant that grows in serpentine soil, is the official city flower of Yreka, California?
Did you know that a casket discovered by Anant Sadashiv Altekar near Vaishali, on display at the Patna Museum, is said to contain the remains of the Buddha?
Did you know that after events of the Gulf War in February 1991, the highway which connects Kuwait City to Al Jahra became known as the Highway of Death (demolished vehicles on the highway pictured)?
Did you know that after the merger of UNITE and HERE in 2004, the merged union UNITE HERE owned the Amalgamated Bank of Chicago?
Did you know that in writing the 1973 song "Hypnotized", Bob Welch drew upon his perception of the Benifold mansion in Hampshire that Fleetwood Mac were inhabiting at the time, and where the song was recorded?
Did you know that the Pedersen bicycle with its unusual cantilever frame, though never hugely popular since its introduction in the 1890s, is still produced today?
Did you know that the Scottish Rite Cathedral, covered in some 250 tons of ornamental terra cotta, was among the first eight structures designated as a Long Beach Historic Landmark?
Did you know that the Tutte 12-cage (example pictured) is a 3-regular graph with 126 vertices and 189 edges?
Did you know that the largely residential community of Dockton on Maury Island, Washington, was once an industrial center?
Did you know that the prewar AVA Radio Company, in Warsaw, built all the electro-mechanical equipment used by Poland's Cipher Bureau to break German Enigma ciphers?
Did you know that 50 years ago today, on an Iowa farm, farmer and hybrid corn salesman Roswell Garst hosted Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev?
Did you know that Arnold Laven directed feature films about a psychotic gardener/serial killer, an army of giant mollusks and George Armstrong Custer, and episodes of The A-Team?
Did you know that Clayton W. Williams, Sr., an oilman and rancher from Fort Stockton, Texas, was part of the group that formed the American Legion in Paris in 1919?
Did you know that Japanese manga Red Colored Elegy has an eponymous single performed by Morio Agata, which ranked seventh in Japan's Oricon charts in 1972?
Did you know that Mirosław Iringh, a leader of Slovak Platoon 535, wore a white-blue-red armband made out of a French military decoration once bestowed upon a fellow insurrectionist by Marshal Foch?
Did you know that Palms Depot was known as the "Grasshopper Stop" because "grasshoppers were present in veritable clouds" when it opened?
Did you know that Son of Ingagi was the first film with an all-black cast in the science fiction-horror film genre?
Did you know that despite its name, the edibility of the rhubarb bolete is unknown?
Did you know that of Japanese band Supercell's eleven members, only one of them makes the music and the rest are illustrators and designers?
Did you know that the 1999 anime series Digimon Adventure was first seen as an imitation of Nintendo's Pokémon franchise when its episodes first aired in North America?
Did you know that the Binford & Mort publishing company in Hillsboro, Oregon, was once the largest book publisher in the Northwestern United States?
Did you know that the Seinfeld episode "The Revenge" was based on an experience by screenwriter Larry David, who once quit his job at Saturday Night Live and returned the following morning as if nothing had happened?
Did you know that the land for 53rd Avenue Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, was purchased from exercise equipment maker Soloflex?
Did you know that the machine shop in the Dry Dock Engine Works-Detroit Dry Dock Company Complex was built with a then-novel load-bearing steel frame, but has curtain walls of traditional brick construction?
Did you know that the tomb of Pope John V was destroyed in the Sack of Rome in 846 AD, centuries before nearly all of the remainder of the papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica were demolished?
Did you know that visually impaired chess player Reginald Bonham founded the International Braille Chess Association?
Did you know that when describing his time fighting jihad in Afghanistan, Mohamad Elzahabi said "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"?
Did you know that while in the lead of the last relay leg of the 2009 World Orienteering Championships, Martin Johansson was injured by a wooden stick penetrating 12 centimetres (5 in) into his leg?
Did you know that Arthur's Day benefit concerts—celebrating the 250th anniversary of Guinness—will be held today in locations as diverse as Dublin, New York, Kuala Lumpur and Yaoundé?
Did you know that Carl Rubin made significant modifications to Meir Dizengoff's house changing it into an art museum, which would later become Israel's Independence Hall?
Did you know that Gary Ablett, Jr. won the 2009 Brownlow Medal, an award that his father, Australian Football Hall of Fame member Gary Ablett, Sr., never won?
Did you know that Mubarak Shah, founder of the lost city of Mubarakabad, was buried in Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur Complex in 1434?
Did you know that Oregon Republican state senator Jeannette Hamby made several trips to Nicaragua and supported the socialist Sandinistas?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II was taught constitutional history by Henry Marten?
Did you know that Rafael Trujillo's daughter presided as Queen Angelita I over the Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World in the Dominican Republic?
Did you know that Rancho Las Mariposas, unwanted by John C. Frémont until gold was discovered in September 1849, turned out to be the richest rancho in California?
Did you know that Romania's ruling Social Democratic–Democratic Liberal coalition was divided over Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu's intervention in the appointment of school directors?
Did you know that actor Bret Harrison's first role was in Our Town at the Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre in Hillsboro, Oregon?
Did you know that although the 1954 Guinean by-poll was marred with irregularities, only the communists and the African Democratic Rally voted against validating the results in the French National Assembly?
Did you know that although the Coronation grape has been described as having "an odd, off taste", it is the most-planted seedless table grape variety in southern Ontario?
Did you know that application of iron salts will turn a white coral green?
Did you know that pulque (jar pictured) was a popular Mexican alcoholic drink made from sap of the maguey plant?
Did you know that some houses on Union Street in Schenectady, New York, were built with a veranda-width setback to allow views of the Union College campus by those approaching it from downtown?
Did you know that the Long Beach Post Office has been called "Post-Quake Moderne" due to the local prevalence of the style after the Long Beach earthquake of 1933?
Did you know that the chicken tax led to Ford importing light trucks to the United States from Turkey and immediately shredding portions of their interiors in Baltimore?
Did you know that the coronation ceremonies of Russian Tsars Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I were decorated by Italian theatre set designer Pietro Gonzaga?
Did you know that the extinct New Zealand Little Bittern was described as always being found alone and standing for hours in one place?
Did you know that the site of Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural work was Mexico City's Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters?
Did you know that violence in the 1970 Koza riot against US military presence in Okinawa was directed specifically against white servicemen, while care was taken to avoid attacking black MPs?
Did you know that when Cooper Arms opened in Long Beach, California, it boasted the latest amenities, including "disappearing beds" and "dustless roller screens"?
Did you know that Arbois is the only grape variety besides Chenin blanc permitted in the Loire Valley wine of Vouvray?
Did you know that Green Day's Grammy Award winning concept album American Idiot has been adapted for the stage by the band members and two Tony Award winners?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon, based Norm Thompson Outfitters was started with an ad in Field & Stream magazine?
Did you know that Kompani Linge's Oslo Detachment, a subgroup of the Special Operations Executive, was the dominant sabotage group in occupied Oslo between May and September 1944?
Did you know that Leon Feiner, a leader of the Bund and of Żegota, wrote many communiques to the Western Allies describing the Holocaust in Poland?
Did you know that Makiko Esumi won the 1995 Rookie of the Year Award at both the 19th Annual Japan Academy Prize ceremonies and at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards for her debut acting role in the 1995 film Maborosi?
Did you know that Robert Searcy, who served with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, was employed after the war by United Airlines cleaning aircraft?
Did you know that Schenectady's Stockade Historic District (statue of Lawrence the Indian pictured) was the first one created by a local government in New York?
Did you know that South Gate Assembly, opened in 1936, was the first General Motors plant west of the Mississippi River and the first to build more than one car line?
Did you know that The Book of est compares Werner Erhard's est training to The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda?
Did you know that Viola Tree, her father Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and her son David Tree all performed in premieres of play or film versions of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion?
Did you know that among the Taíno people of the Caribbean, a zemi is a spirit or a sculpture representing the spirit?
Did you know that before the 2008 International Bowl, American football linebacker Jamaal Westerman was asked questions about the weather in Toronto, because he had lived there?
Did you know that gridiron football quarterback Mike Quinn was the final member of the Houston Texans' first signings left on the team?
Did you know that in the 1977 pink film Fairy in a Cage, according to actress Naomi Tani, her upside-down torture scenes were not faked with suspension braces, in order to show tension in her thigh muscles?
Did you know that professional wrestler Kerry Brown won a tag team championship with his real-life uncle, Bob Brown?
Did you know that the Senate of France has an Administrative Meeting, instead of a full fledged Group, for Senators who are Independents or from small parties?
Did you know that the South African film Jerusalema is based on the real-life case of an organized crime figure taking over real estate in Johannesburg's Hillbrow neighborhood?
Did you know that the first engineering analysis of a manned mission to Mars (artist's conception pictured) was made by Wernher von Braun in 1948, which included ten ships with seventy crewmembers?
Did you know that the mushrooms Boletus zelleri, B. mirabilis, Suillus americanus, S. brevipes, S. lakei, and Leccinum manzanitae are all examples of edible boletes?
Did you know that "a whole entertainment ecosystem" involving donkeys and sheepdogs emerged from Alice O'Sullivan's victory in the 1959 Rose of Tralee pageant?
Did you know that Einar Sissener acted in the first Norwegian sound film, Den store barnedåpen from 1931, playing the same character as he did in the stage production six years earlier?
Did you know that Sankey Tank in Bangalore is named after Sir Richard Hieram Sankey, an officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in British India?
Did you know that Tennessee politician Tommy Burnett easily won re-election to the state legislature while he was in U.S. federal prison?
Did you know that Trimön, a Tibetan conservative politician and governor was one of the officials involved in the search and recognition of the reincarnated 14th Dalai Lama in 1935?
Did you know that Union College in Schenectady, New York, has the first comprehensively planned college campus and had the longest-serving college or university president in the United States?
Did you know that according to Manichaean tradition Mar Ammo brought Manichaeanism east into Sogdiana, and was viewed as the founder of a Manichaean sect after the death of Mani?
Did you know that after the release of The Beatles' "Lady Madonna" in March 1968, radio personality Larry Josephson liked the song so much that he broadcast it over and over for two hours?
Did you know that historians have cited an article in the May 31, 1921, Tulsa Tribune as a cause of the Tulsa race riot, but all copies of that page of the newspaper have apparently disappeared?
Did you know that many of the freighters built by Skinner & Eddy for World War I service—including Edenton, West Cressey, West Elcajon, West Gotomska, West Hosokie, West Loquassuck, West Mahomet and Western Front—were quickly commissioned into the United States Navy on completion?
Did you know that one of the two tjaskers at Zeijen, Drenthe is listed as a Rijksmonument?
Did you know that the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California contains an ancient seabed with fossils of various marine lifeforms, such as sand dollars and bivalves?
Did you know that the Carolina Liar single "Show Me What I'm Looking For" was described as "rock music for anyone who finds Snow Patrol a bit too giddy sometimes"?
Did you know that the Chief Kno–Tah statue in Hillsboro, Oregon, was designed to incorporate features of Chief Joseph?
Did you know that the Italian comune of Acerno in the Province of Salerno was founded by refugees from Picentia, destroyed by the Romans after the Second Punic War?
Did you know that the Peeters directive describes French-speaking residents of Flanders, Belgium, having the right to use French to deal with the government as being "exceptional" and "temporary"?
Did you know that the adult and juvenile specimens of the Red-capped Parrot were so different that its discoverer Heinrich Kuhl gave it the specific name spurius, meaning "illegitimate"?
Did you know that the history of Bulgarians in Italy dates to the 7th century, when groups of Bulgars settled in several regions of the Italian Peninsula?
Did you know that "Gossip", the sixth season premiere of The Office, saw an 18 percent Nielsen Ratings drop compared to the fifth season premiere, "Weight Loss"?
Did you know that Du Jun was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in Hong Kong's biggest insider trading case?
Did you know that Jesse Sublett was a pioneer of the Austin, Texas, punk rock scene, authored a series of mystery novels, and wrote a history of the Texas Turnpike Authority?
Did you know that John T. Elson, who famously asked, "Is God Dead?" in 1966, is dead at age 78?
Did you know that Ras Alula Engida was called "the Garibaldi of Abyssinia"?
Did you know that Studio Wall, an oil painting by the German artist Adolph Menzel, is considered one of the "masterpieces of Menzel's maturity"?
Did you know that U.S. Independence Day is celebrated every 4th of July in Rebild National Park in Himmerland, Denmark?
Did you know that frogfish can suck prey into their mouths in just 6 milliseconds, too fast for other animals to see?
Did you know that in modern India, the ethos of the old religious order is retained by worship of computers during the Ayudha Puja, as practised in the past for other implements?
Did you know that just behind the Agave Garden on the Plaza Garibaldi, a museum of tequila is being built, complete with a large tasting room?
Did you know that only about 200 fragments and 15 complete objects of early Roman cameo glass survive, including the Portland Vase?
Did you know that some geologists say the Great Falls Tectonic Zone is a shear, while others argue it is a suture?
Did you know that the Benham Plateau is located in the West Philippine Basin and its basement is probably a micro-continent?