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Did you know that Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?
Did you know that Lu Chen's magic show was the second-most popular performance in China's 2009 CCTV Spring Festival special?
Did you know that Major League Baseball catcher Nelson Santovenia caught Vince Coleman stealing on July 28, 1989, ending Coleman's streak of 50 consecutive stolen bases?
Did you know that The Go-Getter's theatrical run in the U.S. lasted only three days in June 2008?
Did you know that Tuva or Bust!, a book about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's efforts to visit Tannu Tuva, was inspired by Feynman's childhood memories of seeing postage stamps from Tannu Tuva?
Did you know that University of Michigan gymnast Beth Wymer won three consecutive NCAA championships in the uneven bars and was a first-team All-American in the all-around and balance beam?
Did you know that William Agar Adamson, who was the personal chaplain to Lord Sydenham, the first Governor of the Province of Canada, also wrote a book on salmon fishing?
Did you know that Xochipala-style figurines are considered some of the earliest and most naturalistic in Mesoamerica?
Did you know that according to Second World War general "Jumbo" Wilson, Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly "outmanoeuvred every general in the Middle East" in her efforts to remain in the theatre of war?
Did you know that after the cult comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000 was cancelled, the writing staff created an animated comedy/fantasy miniseries for the Sci Fi Channel website called Edward the Less?
Did you know that in Gretchen, a play by W. S. Gilbert based on Goethe's Faust, Faustus hopes to be purified by loving Gretchen, but instead his influence corrupts and eventually kills her?
Did you know that in the second season of Burn Notice, the main character offers asides on topics such as how to burglar-proof a house or break out of prison?
Did you know that more than 900 different Great Western Railway telegraphic codes were in use to make the GWR's telegraph messages more efficient?
Did you know that only 33 Portuguese soldiers survived the 1638 Battle of Gannoruwa, fought between the occupying Portuguese forces and the Sinhalese army?
Did you know that passenger pigeons, eskimo curlews, buffaloes, and gophers were Saskatchewan wildlife of great population which diminished due to massive over-hunting and natural habitat change?
Did you know that the 500-year-old title Yeonguijeong was created in 1400 CE during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, and given to the Chief State Councilor as the highest government position of "Uijeongbu"?
Did you know that the Giannini sextuplets, the second set of sextuplets in the world to live past infancy, were born in Italy six years to the date after the first set of surviving sextuplets?
Did you know that the Gulag ship Indigirka was shipwrecked trying to enter the La Perouse Strait with a loss of 741 lives?
Did you know that the Perek Shirah, an ancient Jewish text, contains 84 songs of various elements of creation, ranging from the heavens to dogs, based upon Biblical and Talmudic verses?
Did you know that the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas is the largest seaport in Mexico, handling 20,860,647 tonnes of cargo in 2008?
Did you know that the well-preserved Khan al-Umdan, located in Acre, is the largest caravanserai in Israel?
Did you know that while Auguste Achintre was traveling to New York City as Haiti's ambassador to the United States, the Haitian government was overthrown, revoking his role as ambassador?
Did you know that Conrad Wilhelm Eger was an associate of Norwegian industrialist Sam Eyde, serving as CEO of Elkem from 1912 to 1950?
Did you know that Dag Berggrav, whose father and grandfather both were bishops, served as the vice president of the International Ski Federation from 1979 to 1983?
Did you know that Grady Nutt, known as "The Prime Minister of Humor" for his humorous sketches of Protestant culture in the Southern United States, was a licensed Baptist minister at age thirteen?
Did you know that Joan Bright Astley is believed to be one of the women on whom novelist Ian Fleming based the James Bond series character Miss Moneypenny?
Did you know that Rabbi Leon Klenicki called the We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah significant in establishing that "the deniers of the Holocaust in Europe now have to deal with the Vatican"?
Did you know that Ray Edwin Powell was the president of Alcan, a Canadian aluminum company, before becoming the 10th Chancellor of McGill University in 1957?
Did you know that Rideau was the first Canadian company to be granted its own coat of arms by The Heraldic Authority?
Did you know that Steve Carson, the producer/director husband of RTÉ host Miriam O'Callaghan, has been named as the channel's Director of Television?
Did you know that Sydney Dickens, the son of novelist Charles Dickens, accumulated so much debt that his father refused to see him?
Did you know that about 600 ships have been wrecked on the Doom Bar at the estuary of the River Camel on Cornwall's north coast in the past 200 years?
Did you know that according to indigenous chronicles, the Chajomá kingdom was one of the three principal kingdoms in highland Guatemala before the Spanish Conquest?
Did you know that actor Peter Falk, the affable detective in the long-running TV series Columbo, was propelled to stardom by portraying a vicious killer in the 1960 film Murder, Inc.?
Did you know that although it is now endemic to Fiji, fossils attributed to the Fiji Goshawk have been found in ʻEua, Tonga?
Did you know that dessert bars are considered one of two essentials for potlucks in Minnesota, the other being hotdish?
Did you know that effects of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 on museums have included the National Academy of Design's controversial sale of Frederic Edwin Church's Scene on the Magdalene?
Did you know that in 1938, Time magazine stated that Carleton Beals is "now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America"?
Did you know that in medieval England the regalian right was an important, if irregular, source of income for the kings?
Did you know that informed consent for Icos's experimental drug rovelizumab (LeukArrest) was waived during clinical trials if the patient was unconscious and had a high chance of dying?
Did you know that on 28 May 1931, a Bellanca CH-300, fitted with a Packard DR-980 diesel engine, set a 55-year record for staying aloft for 84 hours and 32 minutes without being refueled?
Did you know that the 2007 French science fiction film Eden Log, created by first-time director Franck Vestiel, was shot using only hand-held cameras?
Did you know that the Cambridge CAP was the first successful experimental computer that demonstrated the use of capabilities, both in hardware and software?
Did you know that the Jaffa Clock Tower in Israel was built to celebrate the silver jubilee of the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abd al-Hamid II?
Did you know that the Mechanics Bank based in Richmond, California, declined a 60 million dollar government bailout?
Did you know that when the pre-dreadnought battleship Connecticut ran aground in 1907, the U.S. Navy tried to cover it up, prompting Congress to consider an official inquiry?
Did you know that 22 Australians have been decorated with the George Cross, the highest civil decoration for heroism in the British Empire?
Did you know that Academy Award winner Glen Hansard was a regular visitor to Dublin's Road Records store before its closure in January 2009?
Did you know that Bridgemere Garden World in Bridgemere, Cheshire, now one of the largest garden centres in Europe, started as "a little garden shed in a small field" in 1961?
Did you know that Britain's Dacres family produced an Admiral and First Naval Lord, Sydney, three vice-admirals, James Richard, Richard and James Richard, a naval Captain, Barrington, and a field marshal, Richard James?
Did you know that Fredrik Kayser volunteered for the Winter War, served in the Norwegian Campaign, and helped sabotage the Nazi nuclear programme?
Did you know that Georgette Leblanc portrayed the role of Ariane in the original 1899 play Ariane et Barbe-bleue by Maurice Maeterlinck and in the 1907 opera adaptation by Paul Dukas?
Did you know that Natural Arch, Tirumala hills, located in Andhra Pradesh,  is a  naturally formed geological wonder in quartzites with estimated geological age of 1600 to 570 Ma?
Did you know that St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Walden, New York, was not consecrated for nine years as it took that long to pay off the construction debt?
Did you know that Teddy Air was the first airline to win a public service obligation in Norway?
Did you know that before he flew the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh's first choice of aircraft was the Ryan M-2?
Did you know that before his inauguration, President Barack Obama read The Defining Moment, planning to apply some of Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategies outlined in the book into his own administration?
Did you know that former Romanian boxer Gogea Mitu is listed by the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest professional boxer?
Did you know that former West Indian cricketer John Maynard gained his nickname The Dentist after knocking out an opponent's teeth with one of his fast deliveries?
Did you know that in c. 990, Nagavarma I authored the earliest available work on the science of prosody in the Kannada language?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed three economic agreements: in 1939, in 1940 and in 1941?
Did you know that in the middle of building Fagernes Airport, Leirin, the authorities changed their minds and gave the airport more than twice the runway length?
Did you know that the American band Scissor Sisters won all three international categories at the 2005 BRIT Awards for their debut album?
Did you know that the Hudson's Bay Company's Joseph Adams oversaw the creation of a trading post from which Ontario's first English settlement originated?
Did you know that the Nintendo DS video game, Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero, requires that players catch "elebits", which are small beings that pulse with electricity?
Did you know that the Rudge Ulster racing motorcycle was named after Graham Walker's 1928 race win in the Ulster Grand Prix, the first time a road race had been won at over 80 mph?
Did you know that the Valhalla structure on Jupiter's moon Callisto is the largest multi-ring basin in the Solar System?
Did you know that the first dinosaur to be discovered in Antarctica was unearthed in 1986 from the Santa Marta Formation?
Did you know that the grandfather of Barack Obama's new Cabinet Secretary, Chris Lu, was attorney general for the Republic of China?
Did you know that the operation of the Adria oil pipeline was stopped in 1991 because of the conflict in Croatia?
Did you know that the slipper lobster Scyllarus arctus is less common around Great Britain than the giant squid Architeuthis dux?
Did you know that the white Piedmont wine grape Arneis is known as "white Barolo" because it was traditionally blended with Nebbiolo to soften that grape's harsh tannins?
Did you know that "The Peanut Vendor", composed by Cuban orchestra leader Moisés Simons, has been recorded by over 160 bands?
Did you know that 467 mass graves containing 32,690 victims were found in the grounds of a pagoda in Kang Meas District in Cambodia?
Did you know that American football player "Aqua" Allmendinger, once described as "a young giant in perfect physical condition," acquired his nickname after working as a waterboy for railroad building crews?
Did you know that Cambodia’s current First Lady, Bun Rany, was once in charge of a Khmer Rouge hospital in Krouch Chhmar District?
Did you know that Emperor Shunzong of Tang's close associate Wang Pi was described by historians as ugly, lacking ambition, and speaking in Wu Chinese?
Did you know that Golar Spirit is the world's first floating storage and regasification vessel converted from a LNG carrier?
Did you know that Los Angeles-based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100?
Did you know that Memot District in eastern Cambodia is home to several huge prehistoric villages that date to the first millennium BCE?
Did you know that Naomi Klein's second book, Fences and Windows, is a collection of newspaper articles about the anti-globalization movement which she wrote while promoting her first book, No Logo?
Did you know that Neil Snow, ranked by Grantland Rice as one of the three greatest all-around athletes ever turned out in college sports, died of heart failure at age 34 after a game of squash?
Did you know that Oslo District Court accounted in 2007 for 50% of the usage of interpreters in courts in Norway, being used in 23% of cases?
Did you know that Wang Yongmin, developer of the Wubi method, brought the first case for protection of intellectual property rights in the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that a park in Seattle is named after Terry Pettus, a onetime Communist whose conviction for conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government was overturned by the Supreme Court?
Did you know that after John Rich of Big & Rich released his single "Shuttin' Detroit Down", Detroit radio station WDTW began playing the song hourly?
Did you know that chocolataires, popular around the late 19th century, were thrown as a novel alternative to tea parties—once even for a kindergarten fundraiser in Indiana, USA?
Did you know that cycling world champion Wilhelm Henie was his daughter Sonja Henie's guide and manager in her figure skating career?
Did you know that gungnyeo is a generic Korean term referring to court ladies who waited on the king and royalty during the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea?
Did you know that in the 15th century, cutting down a Nebbiolo grapevine in the Piedmont region of La Morra was punishable by a heavy fine, hanging, or having your right hand cut off?
Did you know that in the Wii video game Neighborhood Games, when playing with more than one person, player characters can taunt opposing players to break their concentration?
Did you know that male field crickets of the species Gryllus veletis attract sexually receptive mates by acoustic signals, and one changes his "courtship song" when a female enters his territory?
Did you know that one episode of Ireland's Project Ha Ha was criticised for featuring mainly Australian and American accents?
Did you know that opera singers Johann Nepomuk Beck, Marie Wilt, and Hans von Rokitansky all performed in the world premiere of Karl Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba on 10 March 1875?
Did you know that the Church of St Porphyrius, a Greek Orthodox church at the site where St Porphyrius of Gaza was buried, is the oldest active church in Gaza City?
Did you know that the restoration of Ifield Water Mill in West Sussex, England, was carried out almost entirely by volunteers?
Did you know that the schooner and research vessel Vema was initially a luxury yacht built for E.F. Hutton?
Did you know that when Prince Philip first saw the stumpery at Highgrove House he asked his son, Charles, "when are you going to set fire to this lot?"?
Did you know that A Cat in the Brain is based on the reactions of its writer and director, Lucio Fulci, to real-life murders in Rome?
Did you know that All-American football player Art Walker played in 479 of 540 minutes in the Michigan Wolverines' 1954 season and later played seven years for the Edmonton Eskimos?
Did you know that Boss Weeks was quarterback of Fielding H. Yost's "Point-a-Minute" University of Michigan football teams in 1901–1902 that outscored opponents 1,211 to 12?
Did you know that British singer Adele was nominated for four 2009 Grammy Awards for "Chasing Pavements", winning in the Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance categories?
Did you know that Buck Creek State Park in Ohio contains a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam and reservoir, an early 19th-century homestead, and patches of original prairie?
Did you know that Butch Hartman, the first rookie to lead a Daytona 500, later won five championships in a rival stock car racing series?
Did you know that Franz Anton Bustelli, who worked at Nymphenburg near Munich, is widely regarded as the finest modeller of porcelain in the Rococo style (example pictured)?
Did you know that Hall of Famer Steve Carlton started 14 Opening Day games for the Philadelphia Phillies?
Did you know that Hungarian long jumper and triple jumper Gyula Pálóczi has been called "the most successful jumper Hungary has ever produced" by the European Athletic Association?
Did you know that Knightsville, Utah, a company town owned and operated by Mormon entrepreneur Jesse Knight, was known as "the only mining camp in the United States without a saloon"?
Did you know that Michael Homer created Netscape's business plan and developed marketing campaigns for its web browser at a time when few had heard of the Internet?
Did you know that Michael Jackson narrated E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the soundtrack of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film?
Did you know that Palaemon serratus is the British Isles' largest native shrimp?
Did you know that Tamil devotional song "Kurai Onrum Illai" was composed by Indian statesman and Governor-General, C. Rajagopalachari?
Did you know that Vicente González Lizondo, then President of the Valencian regional parliament, died a few days after collapsing from a fatal heart attack during a parliamentary session in 1996?
Did you know that a sermon by St Asterius, a 4th-century Bishop of Amasia, was cited twice at the Second Council of Nicaea, an ecumenical council in 787, as evidence supporting the veneration of religious icons?
Did you know that after an alpine skiing career with modest results, Tomáš Kraus switched to competing in skicross, and became a double world champion?
Did you know that as CEO of The Hertz Corporation, Robert L. Stone chose O. J. Simpson for a series of car rental ads that featured O.J. running through airports?
Did you know that as of 2007, Romania has an installed wind power capacity of only seven megawatts?
Did you know that besides causing anemia and reducing weight gains in sheep, the blood-feeding fly Melophagus ovinus can also stain the wool and devalue it?
Did you know that between 1903 and 1924 Rover produced more than 10,000 motorcycles?
Did you know that college mathematics professor David Bressoud chose to major in mathematics because that was the quickest way to complete his degree and get away from college and academia?
Did you know that comedian Freddie Roman eulogized Milton Parker, who bought the famed New York City deli with Leo Steiner, saying that "Carnegie Deli caused more heartburn to the Jewish world than anything I've ever heard of"?
Did you know that headache is a symptom commonly described by patients suffering from lupus, but the existence of lupus headache as a specific disorder is contested?
Did you know that in his later years, Indian journalist C. Karunakara Menon was detested by the extremists of the Indian independence movement as well as the Government of British India?
Did you know that in the Battle of Loyew in 1649, dismounted Polish hussars took a Cossack wagon fort?
Did you know that inmates at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton, Oregon, manufacture Prison Blues brand jeans and other denim garments that are sold throughout the United States?
Did you know that singer Ray LaMontagne was nominated for five 2005 Boston Music Awards, including Best Act, Best Male Vocalist, Best Male Singer/Songwriter, Best Song for "Trouble", and Best Album for his debut CD?
Did you know that students hoping to increase their brainpower before exams made offerings of incense to the body of a two-headed calf in Koh Sotin District, Cambodia?
Did you know that the 1988–1992 Irish television comedy Nighthawks was documented in the first episode of the 2008 Irish television show Boom! Boom! The Explosion of Irish Comedy?
Did you know that the Visna virus, a retrovirus that causes encephalitis and chronic pneumonitis in sheep, is used as a model system for HIV infection?
Did you know that the cobalt crust fungus was selected as the German Mycological Society's fungus of the year in 2009?
Did you know that the fifth album by Missouri-based reggae band Jah Roots featured former Bob Marley & The Wailers lead guitarist Junior Marvin?
Did you know that the married couple Jerzy and Irena Krępeć, Polish Righteous among the Nations, saved over 30 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust?
Did you know that travellers in southern Cambodia must stop to pay their respects to the spirit of Yeay Mao?
Did you know that when Romanian diplomat Mihail Fărcăşanu published in the newspaper a translation of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the communist press called Fărcăşanu a fascist?
Did you know that Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral in Boston is the principal church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton which encompasses the entire United States?
Did you know that Charles Darwin joined the Plinian Society student naturalists' club at Edinburgh University?
Did you know that Hodgenville, Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln Statue was built to celebrate the centennial of Lincoln's birth a few miles away?
Did you know that Irish singer Lisa Hannigan did the needlework for the cover of her debut album, Sea Sew?
Did you know that Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial marks where Abraham Lincoln lived in Indiana, and where his sister and birth mother died?
Did you know that Lincoln Homestead State Park contains the house in which Abraham Lincoln's father Thomas proposed to his mother Nancy?
Did you know that Mordecai Lincoln House in Washington County is the only home of a member of Abraham Lincoln's family that still stands in Kentucky?
Did you know that Mykhailo Krychevsky, a respected military commander, switched sides during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, joining the Cossacks, and died soon afterwards in the Battle of Loyew?
Did you know that Nagavarma II, a Kannada language grammarian of the 11th century, authored important writings in prosody, rhetoric, poetics and vocabulary?
Did you know that Shane Hurlbut became the youngest cinematographer ever to have been nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers award for a debut film, for his work on The Rat Pack?
Did you know that Takalik Abaj, an archaeological site in lowland Guatemala, has one of the greatest concentrations of Olmec-style sculpture outside of the Gulf of Mexico coast?
Did you know that The Great Snow of 1717 lasted nine days and caused snowdrifts more than 20 feet (6 m) high in New England, USA?
Did you know that William A. F. Browne, a radical student who proposed Charles Darwin for the Plinian Society, became a psychiatrist and pioneered art therapy?
Did you know that because it is difficult to approach, the nymphalid butterfly Euptoieta claudia was given a genus name which means "easily scared" in Greek?
Did you know that hikers can take a commuter train from Grand Central Terminal in New York City to two request stops near trailheads in Hudson Highlands State Park?
Did you know that illustrator Blair Lent and author Arlene Mosel collaborated on Tikki Tikki Tembo, called one of the 50 best children's books of the preceding 50 years by The New York Times in 1997?
Did you know that in Fertilisation of Orchids, Charles Darwin showed how beautiful orchids (example pictured) evolved through natural selection for insect pollination?
Did you know that in his 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, Linus Pauling explains primates' inability to synthesize vitamin C as a result of evolution?
Did you know that some historians argue that Urse d'Abetot (d. 1108) was one of the first barons of the Exchequer?
Did you know that sources indicate that Cedric "Pat" Smith, who later worked at Ford's Rouge plant, was either the second or third leading scorer in the NFL during its first season in 1920?