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Did you know that the merger between the Norwegian Labour Party-led Workers' Sport Federation and the Communist-led 'Red Sports' has been described as an early example of the popular front line?
Did you know that the rhubarb curculio beetle (eggs pictured) also lives inside sunflowers?
Did you know that the town of Marche, Arkansas, was founded by a Polish count who wanted to restore the agricultural environment familiar to most Poles before their arrival in America?
Did you know that Chris Coghlan, a first-round draft pick of the Florida Marlins in 2006, won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2009?
Did you know that Claude Aveline met Jean Vigo in a health clinic and 28 years later founded an award in his honor?
Did you know that Frankie Laine's song, "I Believe", spent eighteen weeks as a UK number-one single in the 1950s?
Did you know that Jim Neu's first dance theater production, Aerobia, told the story of six characters at a health club of the future where people come to exercise their "sociomuscularity"?
Did you know that Johannes Kringlebotn, who edited the newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad after the Nazis usurped it, had been among Norway's top-ten middle distance runners?
Did you know that Kåre Langvik-Johannessen and Albert L. Fliflet both worked with texts by Grillparzer and Vondel, but won prizes for translating other, different works?
Did you know that L. Martin Griffin, Jr., an environmentalist in California's Marin County, preserved the coastline by buying Audubon Canyon which was threatened by development?
Did you know that Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug enabled the first Hawaiʻi–Tahiti non-instrument sailing canoe voyage in more than 500 years by mentoring Nainoa Thompson?
Did you know that Odd Erling Melsom edited Nazi-affiliated newspapers both during and after WWII; Fritt Folk and Folk og Land?
Did you know that Olaf Gjerløw, grandfather of Socialist politician Tora Aasland, was a conservative editor of Morgenbladet?
Did you know that Spain's Aldeadávila Dam, completed in 1962, was featured in the 1965 David Lean film Doctor Zhivago?
Did you know that The Ecumenical Council is Salvador Dalí's vision of the meeting of heaven and earth, inspired by the first communication between the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 426 years?
Did you know that Tuxlith Chapel, a redundant church in Milland, West Sussex, was one of the first churches to be owned by the Friends of Friendless Churches?
Did you know that Willie Irvine was the English Football League First Division's top goalscorer in the 1965–66 season?
Did you know that a co-founder of Vietnam Veterans of America, Stuart F. Feldman, "single-handedly ... won billions of dollars for veterans programs" through his lobbying efforts?
Did you know that a substantial part of the Sami costume collection in the National Museum of Denmark's Ethnography Department was collected by Emilie Demant Hatt?
Did you know that after the death of Bolivian Christian Democratic politician Benjamín Miguel Harb in 2008, the Senate of Bolivia decided unanimously to grant him its highest decoration, the Banner of Gold?
Did you know that bear's ears grow on the ground in New South Wales?
Did you know that modern Pentecostalism and its offshoots developed from events in North Carolina and Tennessee during the late 19th century known as the Latter Rain Movement?
Did you know that the GO-Urban project in Ontario, Canada, planned to install maglev automated guideway transit systems in Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa, but was cancelled when the technology proved too expensive?
Did you know that the Union Obrera Democratica Filipina held a mass anti-imperialist rally on May 1, 1903, the first May Day rally in the Philippines, in spite of being denied permits by the United States' Taft administration?
Did you know that the William V. N. Barlow House has one of the few hand pumped water wells left in the village of Albion, New York, in its backyard?
Did you know that the World Chess Hall of Fame originally used cardboard plaques to honor past grandmasters, and was located in the basement of a New Windsor, New York, building?
Did you know that the fragmentary fossil jaw TNM 02067 may represent the only known mainland African member of the enigmatic Gondwanatheria?
Did you know that the historian and educator John Ardis Cawthon wrote about poor white settlers in the Louisiana hills, lonely cemeteries, ghost towns, and even his own ancestors?
Did you know that the leftist Collective Labor Movement was the largest trade union centre in the Philippines in the years just before World War II?
Did you know that the marine life of Wakatobi National Park in Indonesia is threatened by overfishing and blast fishing?
Did you know that there are five main types of front curtain used in modern theatres?
Did you know that Bailey's Dam saved part of the Union Navy's Mississippi River Squadron during the Civil War?
Did you know that Bill Gray appeared at every baseball position except pitcher during his professional career, including playing seven different positions during his debut season with the Philadelphia Phillies?
Did you know that Cas Myslinski worked in a foundry before attending high school, and turned down a scholarship offer from Columbia University in order to attend West Point?
Did you know that Father Charles Beirne, S.J., advised the United States on Latin American affairs while serving as vice president of Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador?
Did you know that Julie von Massow, a Prussian noblewoman, started a prayer movement in 1862 to reunite Lutheranism and Catholicism?
Did you know that Swedish director Lisa Siwe's feature-length film debut, Glowing Stars, earned her the Guldbagge Award for "Best Director"?
Did you know that a Soviet and former Russian Imperial and Azerbaijani military commander, combrig Jamshid Nakhichevanski, became a victim of the Great Purge and was executed in 1938 after his third arrest by NKVD?
Did you know that a wicket was first laid at the North Perrott Cricket Club Ground (pavilion pictured) soon after the Second World War?
Did you know that although the Albion, New York, post office is on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), it is not old enough to be a contributing property to the NRHP's Orleans County Courthouse Historic District?
Did you know that anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower fought for the British Army as a guerrilla with the Naga people during World War II?
Did you know that as superintendent of Mount Vernon starting in 1937, Charles Wall would ride on horseback to inspect the grounds, which he saw restored to the way they were in the days of George Washington?
Did you know that many sex positions derive their Sanskrit names from that of the Hindu goddess of sexual pleasure – Rati (pictured with her husband, the lovegod Kama)?
Did you know that people tend to see the world as a grey gloom when they are depressed?
Did you know that the Aberdeen Student Show has happened every single year since 1921, and has featured Flying Pigs?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Constantine Opos led the regiment of the Exkoubitoi, established in the 5th century, in its last battle at Dyrrhachium in 1081?
Did you know that the German Catholic magazine Hochland, founded by Carl Muth in 1903, published regular contributions by historians Theodor Schieffer and Heinrich Lützeler, and philosopher Peter Wust?
Did you know that the Japanese battleship Kirishima was sunk in the middle of the night by an unseen ship?
Did you know that the Lancashire textile merchant and politician Robert Needham Philips was the grandfather of the historian G. M. Trevelyan?
Did you know that the Norwegian multi-sports club Ski does not offer the sport of skiing?
Did you know that the Patroon Creek was listed in 1993 as one of the top 10 most polluted rivers in New York, and heavy metals such as depleted uranium were found in the creek in 2003?
Did you know that the Pons Neronianus ('Bridge of Nero') over the Tiber in Rome may actually have been built by Caligula?
Did you know that the Special Air Service used LVT Buffalos to cross the Rhine river during Operation Archway?
Did you know that the freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus transfers veterinarily important parasites, including the fluke Schistosoma spindale?
Did you know that the historian Jimmy G. Shoalmire specialized in Reconstruction in Red River Parish, Louisiana, ruled from 1868 to 1876 by carpetbagger State Senator Marshall Twitchell?
Did you know that the siblings of early Kona coffee merchant Henry Nicholas Greenwell included Canon William Greenwell and poet Dora Greenwell?
Did you know that the web content lifecycle can be so complex that most experts do not agree on descriptions of the number, name, or type of stages to include in the process?
Did you know that Dennis Fitzgerald won a gold medal in wrestling at the 1963 Pan American Games, and set the Michigan Wolverines football record with a 99-yard kickoff return?
Did you know that Eric Liu's 1998 book, The Accidental Asian, was praised by Time magazine for its balanced approach toward racial topics?
Did you know that Gerald Garson, a New York Supreme Court Justice who was later convicted of accepting bribes, assured the lawyer bribing him: “Justice is being done”?
Did you know that Hell is in Pinckney State Recreation Area?
Did you know that Motiejus Šumauskas, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic 1967–1975, was a partisan fighter during World War II?
Did you know that Samuel Gurney Cresswell was the first naval officer to cross the entire Northwest Passage?
Did you know that Space Chair holds the world record for the highest, high-definition TV commercial?
Did you know that Sportsklubben av 1909 was the first sports club in Norway explicitly for workers?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Derwen, Denbighshire, Wales, is listed Grade I because it possesses an exceptionally complete rood screen and loft and otherwise retains much of its medieval character?
Did you know that Wyandot chief Roundhead had his own brother executed for siding with the United States prior to the War of 1812?
Did you know that Władysław Wawrzyniak, one of the founders of the Republic of Ostrów, was among the victims of the Katyn massacre?
Did you know that almost none of Robert Streater's 17th-century architectural painting survives except the ceiling of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, which was restored in 2008?
Did you know that during The Trillion Dollar Campaign, The Zimbabwean newspaper put up billboards printed on genuine Zimbabwean banknotes?
Did you know that in Inuit lore the Adlet are mythical creatures, half-man and half-dog, but the term may also denote inland natives?
Did you know that in a survey study of the officials elected in the 1999 municipal election in Bolivia, the Communist Party had the highest percentage of indigenous councilors?
Did you know that many crew members began to cry while filming hospital scenes for the Swedish film Glowing Stars, because they thought the scenes were emotional?
Did you know that the 1303 Crete earthquake ruptured the eastern part of the Hellenic arc, and was one of the most powerful historical earthquakes in Greece?
Did you know that the Chicago Half Marathon begins and ends near the Museum of Science and Industry?
Did you know that the Louisiana historian Garnie W. McGinty's Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpetbag Rule, 1876–1880 is an enduring study of Reconstruction in McGinty's native state?
Did you know that the Mechanical Galleon was not only a model nef and a clock, but also had smoking cannons, bells, trumpets, a drum, and a Holy Roman Emperor?
Did you know that the National Academy of Mime and Acting, an old Swedish school, will merge with the university college Dramatiska Institutet in 2011?
Did you know that the Old Church of St Nicholas in Uphill, Somerset, England, which was built around 1080, is still used for services even though the nave has no roof?
Did you know that the Republic of Ostrów was a short-lived autonomous republic created in the aftermath of World War I?
Did you know that the Saw-shelled Turtle is one of the few native Australian animals which successfully prey on the introduced poisonous Cane Toad?
Did you know that the fossil mammalian tooth LACM 149371 shows resemblances with some ungulates, rodents, and multituberculates, but most likely belongs to the extinct Gondwanatheria?
Did you know that the inaugural Paris Marathon in 1896 was won by Len Hurst, an English brick-maker?
Did you know that the redundant church of St Ellyw, Llanelieu in Powys, Wales, is a venue for the annual Talgarth Festival?
Did you know that the solar panels on the Georgetown Intercultural Center were designed with rough glass to prevent interference with planes at Reagan National Airport?
Did you know that when Lemrick Nelson was tried in 1992 for the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum, a few of the largely African-American jury that acquitted him later attended a party that honored him as a "hero"?
Did you know that while most glaciers in the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska are receding, Margerie Glacier is said to be stable?
Did you know that American newspaper editor James McMaster changed his name to make it sound Irish?
Did you know that Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (of Hollywood film score fame) composed his first opera, Der Ring des Polykrates, when he was only seventeen years old?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen's song "Nebraska" was inspired by Springsteen seeing Terrence Malick's film Badlands on television?
Did you know that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sang in the Bach cantata Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102 for the tenth Sunday after Trinity, with conductor Benjamin Britten?
Did you know that Duane Earl Pope‎ turned himself in to law enforcement the day he first appeared on the FBI's 10 most wanted list?
Did you know that Harrison Howell Dodge, who served for 52 years as the resident superintendent of Mount Vernon, often slept in the house as a night guard?
Did you know that Norwegian architect Einar Oscar Schou is best known for his design of the Bergen theatre Den Nationale Scene?
Did you know that Polly Morgan is a London based British artist who uses taxidermy to create works of art?
Did you know that Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania was to have become a national park before budget issues and World War II ended that plan?
Did you know that St Cynhaearn's Church, Ynyscynhaearn, in Gwynedd, Wales, is located in an isolated position on a former island in a lake, and is approached by an ancient causeway?
Did you know that Tirana Park on the Artificial Lake once contained a memorial to Sadijé Toptani, the mother of King Zog I of Albania, but it was destroyed by the Communist regime?
Did you know that architects Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno designed all stations on Norway's first railway line, the Hoved Line between Christiania and Eidsvoll?
Did you know that artist Walter Tyndale painted landscapes and buildings in England that inspired Thomas Hardy's famous "Wessex" novels?
Did you know that authorities believe convicted fraudster Edward Porta escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia, apparently by walking out of its minimum security area?
Did you know that by the early 1900s, famine, civil war and sleeping sickness had reduced the population of the Baganda people to around a third of its size in the prior century?
Did you know that for the What's it going to take? advertising campaign, celebrities such as Anna Friel and Fern Britton were made up to appear to have been the victims of domestic abuse?
Did you know that in 2010, the Cotswold Air Show commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, featuring aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane?
Did you know that research by Gerson Goldhaber on supernovae provided evidence that the rate of the expansion of the universe was increasing due to what was termed "dark energy"?
Did you know that the Comet Hale-Bopp inspired Graham Waterhouse to compose Hale Bopp for string orchestra, which ends with a boy soprano singing How Brightly Shines the Morning Star?
Did you know that the Devil's Jumps, on the South Downs of West Sussex in southern England, are considered to be the best preserved Bronze Age barrow group in Sussex?
Did you know that the Little Pamir valley in Afghanistan supports populations of Marco Polo sheep, ibex, and other wild animals?
Did you know that the Thrangu Monastery, the first traditional Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Canada, with a 4 metre golden Buddha, was officially opened in Richmond, British Columbia, on 25 July 2010?
Did you know that the annual Pflasterspektakel ('pavement spectacle') in Linz, Austria, features over 400 international street artists and attracts some 200,000 visitors each year?
Did you know that the first episode of The Force, a 2009 documentary series, followed a murder investigation after the burnt corpse of a woman was found in a suitcase?
Did you know that the new Gaza Mall aims to "develop a marketing and leisure culture" in Gaza?
Did you know that the shell of the Macklintockia scabra snail has ghostly bars?
Did you know that the world's Christian population is growing slightly faster than the world's population?
Did you know that when the three Monarch-class battleships were commissioned, they were only half the size of other battleships in foreign navies?
Did you know that Cardiff School of Art & Design, established in 1865, is the oldest constituent part of University of Wales Institute, Cardiff?
Did you know that Indigenous Australian activist Robert Bropho won a case in the High Court of Australia challenging the redevelopment of Perth's Swan Brewery?
Did you know that Nathan Quinones felt so relieved after leaving his position as New York City School Chancellor, that he said he "felt like a little bird", singing to himself as he walked down the street?
Did you know that St Michael and All Angels Church, Llanfihangel Rogiet, in Monmouthshire, Wales, is approached through a working farm?
Did you know that Storyville, a nightclub housed in Boston Hotel Buckminster, hosted recording sessions by Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker?
Did you know that The Heart of a Woman, the fourth installment of Maya Angelou's six autobiographies, has been called her "most introspective"?
Did you know that Wireless Hill on Macquarie Island enabled the first radio link to Antarctica?
Did you know that a large number of gastropods remain to be discovered in Afghanistan?
Did you know that any act or statement which alleges bias, impropriety or any wrongdoing concerning a judge in the exercise of his judicial function falls within the offence of scandalizing the court in Singapore?
Did you know that before becoming a museum, Beit Beirut was a vantage point for sniping and a combat zone during the Lebanese Civil War?
Did you know that despite criticism in Channel 4's Dispatches for his work at UK firm Leonard Curtis, Keith Goodman went on to become President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association?
Did you know that nominations for the 2010 Carbuncle Cup, awarded annually to the worst new building in the UK, include the Strata tower block in London, and the redeveloped Burns Monument Centre in Kilmarnock?
Did you know that on a tanker, the person in charge monitors and controls cargo transfers from the cargo control room?
Did you know that ordering "half and half" at Big Spring Cafe in Huntsville, Alabama, gets you a bowl with equal portions of chili con carne and Brunswick stew?
Did you know that radio DJ and blues expert Mike Raven also worked at various times as an actor in horror films, a sculptor, a sheep farmer, a presenter of religious TV programmes, and a ballet dancer?
Did you know that scenes for the 2009 television advertisement The Life were filmed inside the cooling tower of an active nuclear power station?
Did you know that socialite Judith Peabody was known for clothes she wore from Bill Blass and Donald Brooks, as well as for legal aid to Lenny Bruce and her efforts at Gay Men's Health Crisis for people with AIDS?
Did you know that the Canadian television series Tabloid (1953–1960) regularly featured weatherman Percy Saltzman's flipping of a chalk?
Did you know that the Groruddalen BK football team finished third in their league in 2007 and had the league top scorer, but lost their coach and all players save two, facing relegation and liquidation in 2008?
Did you know that the Women's Professional Basketball League, which played its first game in 1978 in Milwaukee in front of 7,800 fans, collapsed after three seasons and an estimated US$14 million in total losses?
Did you know that the anime Black Rock Shooter was based on the song of the same name by Huke and Ryo of the Japanese music group Supercell?
Did you know that the last goal at the Stade Grimonprez-Jooris in Lille was scored in May 2004 by Matt Moussilou, before the stadium closed after serving as Lille OSC's home for almost 30 years?
Did you know that the location of the Silver King Mine was first discovered by a soldier building a road during the Apache Wars, who found black rocks that flattened when struck?
Did you know that the tablemount structure of Sedlo Seamount, a seamount (underwater volcano), indicates that it used to be above the water?
Did you know that tree-ring dating shows that the wood for the rood screen in St Brothen's Church, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales, came from trees felled between 1496 and 1506?
Did you know that unlike modern Sassafras, which are deciduous, the extinct species Sassafras hesperia (fossil pictured) may have been evergreen?
Did you know that world champion figure skater Sonja Henie and her husband founded a museum of contemporary art at Høvikodden in Bærum?
Did you know that "El Cariño Es Como Una Flor", performed by Venezuelan singer-songwriter Rudy La Scala, became his first best performing Latin single in 1990?
Did you know that Armajaro's hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading?
Did you know that Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker, who designed the Villa Isola, was assisted by former first President of Indonesia Sukarno during the renovation of the Hotel Preanger?
Did you know that Erna Berger sang the title role of Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie?
Did you know that Jean Sagbo, a real estate agent from Benin, is the first Black politician elected in Russia and has been called "Russia's Obama"?
Did you know that Ludovica Levy chaired the theatre Secondteatret in Kristiania from 1899 to 1901, along with her husband Dore Lavik?
Did you know that Minnesota's highest lake, Lake Abita, is only 12 miles away from its lowest lake, Lake Superior?
Did you know that Portal's music "has been compared to, among other things, a leaf blower, a vacuum cleaner and an aeronautics tunnel"?
Did you know that Saints Boris and Gleb Cathedral, the main and biggest Orthodox church in Latvia, can receive 5,000 visitors?
Did you know that South Chamorro Seamount, a submarine mud volcano near the Mariana Trench, is only the second such structure in the world to be sampled?
Did you know that affilins are proteins that can bind antigens just like antibodies, despite having quite a different structure?
Did you know that although the fossil mammal Veratalpa (astragalus) was described as a mole, it may instead be a rodent?
Did you know that in 1856 William Carpenter painted the last King of Delhi's eldest son, Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza, five months before the Prince died?
Did you know that in 2008 Naji Hakim composed variations for oboe and organ on Philipp Nicolai's chorale Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, published in 1599?
Did you know that musicologist Wye Jamison Allanbrook showed how compositions by Mozart were influenced by the social dances of his time?
Did you know that observations and samplings from Jasper Seamount show that it is very similar to Hawaiian volcanoes?
Did you know that of the 658 Members of Parliament elected at the United Kingdom general election in December 1832, 189 were returned without any vote being held?